Monster of the Day

I can't say the monster isn't pretty Irwin Allen-y.

Looks like these guys should have teamed up with the Sea Devils. Although a giant octopus on a leash is better than the dolphins. I like the crazy diving suits, however. Giants were always grabbing the Seaview's sporty fins and rocking the ship around. Yet they never installed seatbelts in the chairs. Dummies.

The cover is neat, but the painting is beautiful.

Rather better than yesterday's snoozefest (admittedly the epitome of damning with faint praise) was this MTV (!) throwback that combined springbreak-style teen action with lovingly stop-animated monsters. It's kind of on the nose to have Adam West play a scientist named Ray Harryhausen, but it's that kind of movie. Still, if you ever wanted…

So the day before the Tri-Star Godzilla was released, Fox pulled a Corman and telecast Gargantua. It was a sad little wet fart of a movie, and basically Gorgo meets Free Willy, about dad Adam Baldwin reconnecting with his young son on a tropical island, as in a parallel plot (wow!), first big brother…

You wonder what Roland Emmerich thinks of the new Godzilla movie, which is basically already a hit. Emmerich's film made money, although given the HUGE advertising blitz Tri-Star put into it, not enough to inspire a sequel. This decision was probably made easier by the fact that pretty much nobody liked the movie. That…

Toho is notoriously stingy on giving up the rights to their properties. Hopefully they like the new movie enough to authorize / sell the rights to another of the classic monsters for the sequel. If nothing else, they would make a ton off the merchandise rights, so it's really in their interest.

I was well pleased.

A giant! Finally!!

A respite from giants, but a short-lived one. Still, I loves me some killer fish.