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Post by GL on Jul 19, 2012 10:21:31 GMT -5
 So, with this one being released recently, what's the difference between it and the version released in the Godzilla 6-movie Box Set? If I have that one, do I need to upgrade to this version? |
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Post by Clathian Salvator on Jul 21, 2012 21:06:48 GMT -5
What special features are on it
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Post by stinger on Jul 21, 2012 21:51:01 GMT -5
This is what it says on amazon, but I think some of it has to do with Blu-ray.
New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Audio commentary by David Kalat (A Critical History and Filmography of Toho’s Godzilla Series)
New high-definition digital restoration of Godzilla: King of the Monsters!, Terry Morse’s 1956 reworking of the original, starring Raymond Burr
Audio commentary for Godzilla: King of the Monsters! by Kalat
New interviews with actor Akira Takarada (Hideto Ogata), Godzilla performer Haruo Nakajima, and effects technicians Yoshio Irie and Eizo Kaimai Interview with legendary Godzilla score composer Akira Ifukube
Featurette detailing Godzilla’s photographic effects
New interview with Japanese-film critic Tadao Sato
The Unluckiest Dragon, an illustrated audio essay featuring historian Greg Pflugfelder describing the tragic fate of the fishing vessel Daigo fukuryu maru, a real-life event that inspired Godzilla
Theatrical trailers
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic J. Hoberman
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Post by Clathian Salvator on Jul 21, 2012 23:40:11 GMT -5
Oh, duh, thats the one I have  Get that, it is awesome. No, all those features are on the dvd as well. |
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Post by GL on Jul 23, 2012 10:46:28 GMT -5
So, everything listed there is on the DVD? If so, maybe I will pick it up, because it's more than what's on my Classic Media version.
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Post by Clathian Salvator on Jul 24, 2012 7:21:21 GMT -5
Yeah I looked on the back of mine
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Post by HNT on Jul 24, 2012 11:33:44 GMT -5
Why in God's name would they release a criterion Godzilla? IT is the definitive and best looking print of a movie that features a guy in a rubber lizard suit. This isn't exactly typical Criterion material.
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Post by GL on Jul 25, 2012 10:26:51 GMT -5
The original is much, much more than just a guy in a rubber lizard suit. It's built of polyurethane, and based on a Dinosaur-ian design that combines state-of-the-art accurate 50's-era paleontological viewpoints of a Tyrannosaurus and a Stegosaurus. It's much more involved than just a simplistic monster movie, it's instead about the effects of nuclear testing and activity coming back to haunt those that created it, as Godzilla is portrayed as the living embodiment of nuclear weapons itself. His ability to breathe fire is symbolic of the fire emitted through the bomb's detonation blast, his footsteps are the encroaching Air Force firebomb raids on Tokyo during WWII personified, and the simplistic manner of his rampage through the city earmarked with specific callbacks to both that firebombing of the city as well as the bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. His 'sea of flames' and the numerous blasts of his breath recalling the first part while the shots of the smoldering ruins and smoking cityscape the next day underscore the nuclear bombing. Even without taking the monster into effect, the entire film is a plea for the banishment of nuclear testing and the dissolving of atomic weaponry with entire scenes devoted to the withholding of knowledge about his radioactivity count away from the public for fear of outrage, the numerous discussions about the creature's appearance leading directly from the bombing itself and even short, specific shots regarding why the people were cursed to suffer through this yet again. You don't get those kind of statements from 'The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms,' 'THEM!' or even a much closer relative in 'Gorgo.' Even to this day, the film is considered one of the top two or three best movies ever to be made in the country, nearly 60 years later. It's the exact same as saying 'The Shawshank Redemption' is just a prison movie or 'The Godfather' is a gangster movie.
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Post by CT on Jul 25, 2012 10:41:24 GMT -5
Why in God's name would they release a criterion Godzilla? IT is the definitive and best looking print of a movie that features a guy in a rubber lizard suit. This isn't exactly typical Criterion material.  |
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Post by HNT on Jul 25, 2012 10:46:42 GMT -5
The original is much, much more than just a guy in a rubber lizard suit. It's built of polyurethane, and based on a Dinosaur-ian design that combines state-of-the-art accurate 50's-era paleontological viewpoints of a Tyrannosaurus and a Stegosaurus. It's much more involved than just a simplistic monster movie, it's instead about the effects of nuclear testing and activity coming back to haunt those that created it, as Godzilla is portrayed as the living embodiment of nuclear weapons itself. His ability to breathe fire is symbolic of the fire emitted through the bomb's detonation blast, his footsteps are the encroaching Air Force firebomb raids on Tokyo during WWII personified, and the simplistic manner of his rampage through the city earmarked with specific callbacks to both that firebombing of the city as well as the bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. His 'sea of flames' and the numerous blasts of his breath recalling the first part while the shots of the smoldering ruins and smoking cityscape the next day underscore the nuclear bombing. Even without taking the monster into effect, the entire film is a plea for the banishment of nuclear testing and the dissolving of atomic weaponry with entire scenes devoted to the withholding of knowledge about his radioactivity count away from the public for fear of outrage, the numerous discussions about the creature's appearance leading directly from the bombing itself and even short, specific shots regarding why the people were cursed to suffer through this yet again. You don't get those kind of statements from 'The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms,' 'THEM!' or even a much closer relative in 'Gorgo.' Even to this day, the film is considered one of the top two or three best movies ever to be made in the country, nearly 60 years later. It's the exact same as saying 'The Shawshank Redemption' is just a prison movie or 'The Godfather' is a gangster movie. Hey, now. Comparing Godzilla to The Godfather is a bit out there. Who would ever classify it as one of the three best movies ever made in Japan? Somebody who never heard of Akira Kurosawa would be my guess. |
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Post by GL on Jul 26, 2012 10:19:58 GMT -5
Well, yeah of course you're right. 'The Seven Samurai' is number one, 'Gojira' is number two.
Remember, it's not the version with Raymond Burr that they're using to base that on, it's the version released in Japan in 1954. 'Gojira' and 'Godzilla: King of the Monsters' are two different films utilizing much of the same footage but with new scenes added. Don't think of 'Godzilla' in that context, it's 'Gojira.'
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