Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
6.2
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The giant monster Godzilla battles another colossal, prehistoric beast known as Anguirus, inflicting...
Gigantis the Fire Monster Godzilla's Counterattack Kaiju Tokusatsu Gojira Shōwa
Ultraman
Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi
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Decades ago, a being known as the Giant of Light joined Shin Hayata of the Scientific Special Search...
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Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi
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Decades ago, a being known as the Giant of Light joined together with Shin Hayata of the Science...
Movie Critics (823 KP) rated Kong: Skull Island (2017) in Movies
Apr 14, 2017
Original Score: 3 out of 5
Excerpt:
Two films in to the MonsterVerse and it’s been a mixed start — both Godzilla and Kong: Skull Island fumbling the human characters, but nailing the kaiju. There’s potential, it’s just yet to be fully realised.
Full review: http://www.empireonline.com/movies/kong-skull-island/review/
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
6.0
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King Kong is captured from a small island and brought to Japan in order to attract publicity for a...
Kingu Kongu Tai Gojira Kaiju Tokusatsu Shōwa Crossover films
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
6.8
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The three-headed extraterrestrial dragon known as King Ghidorah hatches from a fallen meteorite,...
Sandai Kaijū: Chikyū Saidai no Kessen Three Giant Monsters: Earth's Greatest Battle Ghidrah Kaiju Tokusatsu Gojira
Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) in Movies
Sep 25, 2019
After having rewatched the first offering from this franchise I was fully up to date with my rip off Transformers. For those of you who don’t remember the first one, they’re man operated robots that think they’re a combination of your favourite superheroes with almost power poses, and almost hero landings.
You don’t have to worry about not having seen the first one. It's very accommodating to show you what you missed... World was bad. World had a war. World won! There are bits that would benefit from the original knowledge, but you can glean what happened from what's going on.
There's certainly entertaining action, and a few moments where they seem to have a little laugh at themselves. It will pass the time relatively easily... as long as you ignore the very out of place montage in the middle.
I'm glad they brought new elements in and it didn't end up just being a resurgence of the Kaiju and "oh no, let's get the band back together".
Shin Godzilla (2016)
8.2
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The Japanese government struggles to maintain order when a giant mutating creature begins to wreak...
Kaiju Daikaiju Monster movie Gojira Godzilla: Resurgence
Jesters_folly (230 KP) rated Cloverfield (2008) in Movies
Oct 5, 2020
I knew some one who absolutely hated this film for the very fact that the monster is rarely seen, although he clamed that you never actually saw the monster, which isn't true so I don't think he watched all the way to the end. He had a point though, if you want to watch a film where monsters fight it out amongst themselves then this probably won't be for you.
The monster is really nothing more than a plot device and the fact that it is only revealed in parts and not fully seen until the end helps to keep the film centred on the people and helps add a touch of reality to the film, after all if you lived in Japan during a Kaiju attack you would be more interested in saving your own life than weather you were about to be eaten by Godzilla or Ghidorah.
Being a found footage film, Cloverfield suffers slightly from the usual shaky camera work and occasional low sound but these are kept to a minimum. The film also manages to avoid relying on night vision or infra red so the footage is, for the most part, much clearer than other films of this style and doesn't keep switching formats which make the film less distracting than others.
Over all Cloverfield is a good monster/survival film which leaves some questions to be answered in the sequels (or not )
LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) in Movies
Nov 20, 2019 (Updated Jan 31, 2020)
The first PR film is dumb silly fun - the movie equivalent of a kid getting his toys out and smashing them together.
Uprising is more or less the same, but a bit more on the boring side, with characters that aren't very likeable.
John Boyega heads up the cast, and he's ok enough, everyone surrounding him is a gallery of bland characters, I honestly can't remember any of their names, and I saw it earlier today!
There's no sense of urgency this time around. Del Toros first movie was silly for sure, but had a high stakes feeling to it.
Uprising feels like it was geared more towards children this time out, and it shows.
The plot is Hollywood sci-fi nonsense - something about the guy from Always Sunny being possessed by a Kaiju and infecting drones to attack the world and unleash a mega Kaiju - honestly, my attention wobbled more than once as you can probably tell. I could probably do with watching it again but I really don't want to.
Some of the action scenes were pretty fun soooo, yay, I guess?
Pacific Rim: Uprising is a film about monsters and robots kicking the crap out of each other - it shouldn't be this boring and forgettable, but here we are.
