My resistance to Netflix is at an end

Its time to bow to the inevitable: there is too much stuff on Netflix I want to watch. They've got that Voltron reboot by the Legend Of Korra folks; Stranger Things; Orange Is The New Black; and, it takes them forever to put their Marvel series out on DVD. The thing that finally broke me, though?

Yes, the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 revival is coming to Netflix in April. A decades later revival of a low budget comedy mocking even lower budget movies is what has inspired me to join the digital revolution and sign up for a streaming service.

That's just so me, isn't it?

(Maybe they'll finally do Night Of The Lepus this time round. Seriously, look it up, there are couple of uploads of the full movie on Youtube. Its a horror movie about giant rabbits featuring DeForest Kelley, it is both terrible and brilliant and by repute the original MST3K always had it on the docket but never got around to it. Trust me, you will not be disappointed.)

I'm also looking forward to seeing what the new cast are like, mainly because I don't know their work very well. I know Patton Oswalt (playing the gloriously named TV's Son Of TV's Frank) from Agents Of S.H.I.EL.D. but new captive Jonah Ray is a complete mystery to me. Hell, I may be the only passingly heterosexual man on the internet not familiar with Felicia Day's work outside of that Buffy character she played for a few episodes.

(Although, looking at her IMDB I have discovered there's a Chew animated series coming out next year where she's voicing Amelia Mintz. Something else to look forward to...)

So, classic format, new cast, new terrible movies and this Voltron thing to tide me over until they arrive. Fun times. 

Kaiju highlights

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.

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.