Post by abraxas on Oct 7, 2010 15:47:37 GMT -5
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster is a 1964 science fiction film, and is the 5th film in Toho's Godzilla series. It is the first film to feature King Ghidorah, the main antagonist of the Godzilla series, second film to feature Rodan, and the third film to feature Mothra. It was directed by Ishiro Honda with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya.
A meteor crashes to the earth and a group of scientists are sent to examine it, the meteor turns out to be highly magnetic, eventually it is learned that the meteor is really an egg. Out of this egg comes one of the most deadly monsters of the entire Godzilla series, his name is King Ghidorah.
His strength is even greater then Godzilla's and therefore it takes two monsters or more to fight him. Ghidorah apparently travels the universe destroying every civilization that he comes across.
The humans want Godzilla and Rodan to join forces and fight the three headed monster and they send Mothra (still in her larval stage) to plead their case, but both Godzilla and Rodan refuse, they rather fight one another. Mothra then goes on to fight Ghidorah alone, Godzilla and Rodan are impressed with her bravery and they eventually join in the battle.
The Godzilla Films which featured Ghidorah are some of my favorite installments, I'm a Godzilla kind of guy obviously, but I also really like Ghidorah, he is pretty cool looking, his lightning breath is very cool too, he is the ultimate Godzilla antagonist.
Godzilla's reason for refusing to help at first was that the humans are always bullying him, he views their attacks on him to be unprovoked, he hates humans because they hate him, which would mean that he was not really a bad guy after all, simply misunderstood.
Godzilla never uses his atomic ray breath on his enemies in this film. King Ghidorah had rainbowish wings in the first draft of the film and instead of gravity beams he could breath fire. In another draft of the film Ghidorah had the body of a horse, and no wings.
This movie has a really good fight scene between Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra and King Ghidorah, there is very little humor in this one, except a really weird scene involving a Japanese television show. The two 4 inch twins are guests on the show, there is also a subplot about a princess being assassinated, and her body being inhabited by aliens from Venus. The US version changes this too Mars.
Mothra is referred to as being male and their is only one creature, whereas in the previous film two creatures hatched from the egg.
The English version runs 85 minutes, seven minutes shorter than the original Japanese version.
5 out of 5 roars
A meteor crashes to the earth and a group of scientists are sent to examine it, the meteor turns out to be highly magnetic, eventually it is learned that the meteor is really an egg. Out of this egg comes one of the most deadly monsters of the entire Godzilla series, his name is King Ghidorah.
His strength is even greater then Godzilla's and therefore it takes two monsters or more to fight him. Ghidorah apparently travels the universe destroying every civilization that he comes across.
The humans want Godzilla and Rodan to join forces and fight the three headed monster and they send Mothra (still in her larval stage) to plead their case, but both Godzilla and Rodan refuse, they rather fight one another. Mothra then goes on to fight Ghidorah alone, Godzilla and Rodan are impressed with her bravery and they eventually join in the battle.
The Godzilla Films which featured Ghidorah are some of my favorite installments, I'm a Godzilla kind of guy obviously, but I also really like Ghidorah, he is pretty cool looking, his lightning breath is very cool too, he is the ultimate Godzilla antagonist.
Godzilla's reason for refusing to help at first was that the humans are always bullying him, he views their attacks on him to be unprovoked, he hates humans because they hate him, which would mean that he was not really a bad guy after all, simply misunderstood.
Godzilla never uses his atomic ray breath on his enemies in this film. King Ghidorah had rainbowish wings in the first draft of the film and instead of gravity beams he could breath fire. In another draft of the film Ghidorah had the body of a horse, and no wings.
This movie has a really good fight scene between Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra and King Ghidorah, there is very little humor in this one, except a really weird scene involving a Japanese television show. The two 4 inch twins are guests on the show, there is also a subplot about a princess being assassinated, and her body being inhabited by aliens from Venus. The US version changes this too Mars.
Mothra is referred to as being male and their is only one creature, whereas in the previous film two creatures hatched from the egg.
The English version runs 85 minutes, seven minutes shorter than the original Japanese version.
5 out of 5 roars
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