bobgray2000 wrote:
Uchujin65 wrote:
The Tezuka Mechagodzilla movies are very, very routine and dull. They're not that bad, but they're not that good either. They're like soap operas with good FX scenes.
  A lot of emotionally heavy conversations between very young, angsty and interchangeable teenage protagonists occasionally interspersed with some explosive battle sequences.  All of the male characters look really young and feminine and resemble male fashion models wearing military costumes.  Likewise, the male protagonist in Tokyo: SOS, http://www.jdorama.com/artiste.1656.htm href="http://www.jdorama.com/artiste.1656.htm" target=_blank>Chujo (played by http://www.jdorama.com/artiste.1656.htm href="http://www.jdorama.com/artiste.1656.htm" target=_blank>Noboru Kaneko), has a very feminine appearance and (if I remember correctly) he does a lot of angsty emoting throughout the film.  I suppose this "dullness" is merely the trend of contemporary Japanese teen pop culture.



Yeah, I'm also really tired of the pretty-boy drama-queen stuff. It's pretty sad when the reporters, scientists, doctors, and other civilians in the 60's Godzilla movies are more macho than the military men of the most recent movies.  The talky parts of Godzilla and other monster movies should be more to the point like they used to be- the science of  giant pest control. In real-life crisis or disaster situations, there's no time for "angsty emoting". It seems like current pop culture in Japan and surrounding areas is just getting too feminine- it seems to all be pandering to middle- school girls. 
The recent movie remakes of Kamen Rider and Kamen Rider V3 were ruined by this. MASKED RIDER-THE FIRST wasted way too much time with a soap opera subplot about the origin of 2 of the villains, while MR-THE NEXT was more like an imitation of  J-horror ghost stories like THE RING or THE GRUDGE than a superhero action film.