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Post by Trumpy's Magic Snout on Apr 29, 2008 17:50:50 GMT -5
Well, I wouldn't go as far as to call them dumb. I've met some articulate people who even hold the Friday the 13th series to high esteem. I, myself, have a certian fondness for Chucky the killer doll. But I think a 7.7 on IMDB is really pushing it. It's just that whenever this movie is brought into conversation...I feel like Randal from Clerks II ripping on the Lord of the Rings movies, and movies like the original King Kong ond Gojira being my original Star Wars trilogy that I stand so defiantly next to. Then along comes Kaiju for Dummies and it's instantly praised as the best monster movie ever...sigh. Makes me sad. Don't know why, just ARGH! Damn you JJ Abrams! You better not f' up the next Star Trek movie, then I'll really be pissed! Still, I enjoyed that Ifukube-esque track entitled ROAR! that was playing during the end credits. That was pretty cool. The end credits music was great! Me and my mates stayed for it because of the thing at the end that was rubbish. The only other people in the theatre by that point was a group of Catholic school girls who had been taken to see it on a school trip (I'm not kidding). The credits lasted so long we ended up riffing on it, at first suggesting what the music was trying to say and by the end we had a whole scenario involving the Cloverfield monster being out on his stag do, getting tipsy and wrecking half of New York while Godzilla and king kong stand by the wayside trying to pretend they don't know him. My favourite part of the movie in all honesty!
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Post by dangfish on Apr 29, 2008 20:44:48 GMT -5
I just watched this unriffed. Wanted to check it out before I watched the riffed version.
I really enjoyed it. I thought the whole Blair Witch/video camera angle made it more personal and really brought you into it, as opposed to most other monster movies where you are on the outside looking in. Also, as someone else already mentioned (either here or on the rifftrax boards) it was refreshing to FINALLY see a 'Big monster destroys the city' movie that wasn't from the perspective of the military. I think the whole thing was well done and I'm also looking forward to seeing the rifftrax.
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Post by biflight on Apr 29, 2008 22:41:01 GMT -5
Me and my mates stayed for it because of the thing at the end that was rubbish. Actually, that's not gibberish. It's the phrase "It's still alive" recorded and played backward. A nice little Easter Egg that kind of ties in with the idea that someone is watching this footage as historical documentation. Heck it makes me think of one of the few good lines in "Monster Zero," an incredibly cheesy Godzilla movie: "We have tried every weapon known to us. We can't kill him." Kind of sums up the overall feel of dai-kaiju cinema, if you ask me.
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Post by Trumpy's Magic Snout on Apr 30, 2008 9:41:32 GMT -5
Oh I knew what it said it was just rubbish that after about 20 minutes of credits that was all.
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Post by Rowsdower on Jun 15, 2008 20:27:10 GMT -5
Just watched the RiffTrax. I still can't get over how lame this movie is. How it became popular based upon gimmick with lack of ideas I'll never understand. But if there was one movie out there that was perfect for RiffTrax, it was this one. I laughed until I cried. The shortness of the movie, the stupid looking monster, the "do it yourself kit" characters...everything about this movie reminded me of the movies they used to do on MST. And the riffing was beautiful. They need to do more giant monster flicks. The guys need to do some Godzilla, be it Japanese or Emmerich. It'll be a hoot. I agree. Watching this again I was reminded of how terrificly weak this film was on so many levels. The opening party sequence goes five minutes too long and develops nothing at all except a loathing of every underwear model major character. Of sorry, the word "character" might lead one to believe that they actually possessed characters. There are about five minutes of film, starting with the sound of the crash outside/seeing the initial news on television concerning the overturned tanker in the harbor, to their descent to the street and their fleeing the shattered dust-caked street where people were reportedly eaten, where a bit of suspense is had, but that is it. After that the obnoxious characters, dreadful acting, hammy script and wall-to-wall cliches make for an excruciating/hilariously silly final hour. Even that initial five minutes where the creature is merely an object of your imaginiation, the spell is broken by the cornball decapitation of the Statue of Liberty. Anyway, the Rifftrax was fun, but this sort of film is certainly not riff-friendly. Derision-friendly, for sure, but you can only make so many jokes about shakey cameras, darkness and "dude!" The final riff is actually worth the price of admission.
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