I've
been getting into Mystery Science Theater 3000 recently, courtesy of
Youtube since most of the series can't be released on DVD for legal
reasons. Naturally, the first ones I watched were the Japanese
monster movies. They did a couple of Godzilla flicks and ones with a
sort of giant nuclear turtle called Gamera, who I hadn't previously
heard of.
I've
never been into kaiju films. The 90s Godzilla film did a very bad job
of relaunching the genre for my generation. I think I saw one
Godzilla movie at 3am during a sleepover when I was a teenager but I
don't remember any of the details.
Anyway,
the reason for today's post is to enthuse about my favourite kaiju so
far: Guiron.
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| He slices! He dices! |
Yes,
his nose is a knife. There's even a scene where he defeats another
kaiju called Gaos and proceeds to cut Gaos into (bloodless) slices
using his nose-knife. Naturally, Joel and the 'bots have a lot of fun
with that scene. I just l've the design: an iguana with a
head-mounted knife. Even better, that circle on his nose? That opens
to reveal shurikens that he can fling at other monsters!
Between
this and the ending to Godzilla vs. Megalon which devolves into, I
kid you not, kaiju tag team wrestling, I am beginning to think I
should look deeper into this genre.
2 comments:
Mystery Science Theatre 3000 is simply one of life's joys. My personal favorite is "The Brain that wouldn't Die"
I also like Mike better than Joel, and love Tom Servo.
But I have to admit, your movie looks fantastic!
My favourite so far (and I favour Joel over Mike but Pearl Forrester's Mads over Clayton Forrester and TV's Frank) is the completely incoherent The Killer Robot Versus The Aztec Mummy.
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