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Spoiler II		#41	[-]
Jan 23 08 2:48 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I have a Jet Jaguar tattoo,so my shame is pretty much non existent. GODZILLA VS MEGALON was one of the first Godzilla films i saw as a kid and also the second videocassette i bought with my own money back in the mid 80s. It was an atrocious looking budget tape i got at K Mart for like $5 at the time. It was a grimy print,cut and on EP but i still watched that thing constantly. Critics love to sharpen the knives whenever this title is mentioned but who needs them,the final monster battle delivers the goods. I still keep waiting for Jet Jaguar and Megalon to reappear in a newer film but so far,no luck.
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CAPTAINCOMPANY		#42	[-]
Jan 23 08 12:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hey guys! "Megalon" is by no means a "good entry", but I LOVE IT anyway!!!(and definitely over Gigan) It was the only Showa era film that I was able to see theatrically (back in 1976), so it will always have its place in my heart. "Smog Monster", on the other hand, is my favorite 70's Godzilla film, and one of my favorite in the Showa era, PERIOD. (for many of the reasons stated by Spoiler: the animation, the trippy psychedelic sequences and embracing of the "hippie" counterculture, the gruesome aftermath of Hedorah's rampage) And Spoiler, I too was most "covetous" of those incredible Godzilla toys!!! Bryan
Hollywood Gothique		#43	[-]
Jan 23 08 2:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	SMOG MONSTER didn't really embrace they hipie cultuer, did it? It portrayed the young adults as a bunch of idiots who want to party while the world goes to hell - and then they get slimed. Cinefantastique Online: The Review of Horror, Fantasy, & Science Fiction Films
Hachigatsu		#44	[-]
Jan 23 08 3:25 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	You're quite right. Additionally, when the "Go-Go of One Million" is happening at Mt. Fuji, there are a couple of shots of old folks, looking like specters, silently watching them -- implying (IMHO) that the elders can do nothing but watch the world come to an end. August Ragone Author EIJI TSUBURAYA: MASTER OF MONSTERS Blog THE GOOD, THE BAD AND GODZILLA
ArmandV101		#45	[-]
Jan 23 08 5:22 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hollywood Gothique wrote: SMOG MONSTER didn't really embrace they hipie cultuer, did it? It portrayed the young adults as a bunch of idiots who want to party while the world goes to hell - and then they get slimed. By the time the movie came out, the hippie culture was dying off anyway. Note the clothes people were wearing in the club. It appeared to be almost disco, except for the music. - A.
Hachigatsu		#46	[-]
Jan 23 08 9:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Americans always think that we're the center of the universe... the scenessters in the club and the young adults are dressed more in keeping with the late '60s/early '70s London's King's Road, than San Francisco's Haight/Ashbury (see DRACULA A.D. 1972). August Ragone Author EIJI TSUBURAYA: MASTER OF MONSTERS Blog THE GOOD, THE BAD AND GODZILLA
gfanikf		#47	[-]
Jan 23 08 10:11 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hachigatsu wrote: Americans always think that we're the center of the universe... the scenessters in the club and the young adults are dressed more in keeping with the late '60s/early '70s London's King's Road, than San Francisco's Haight/Ashbury (see DRACULA A.D. 1972). What are you implying? SMOG MONSTER didn't really embrace they hipie cultuer, did it? It portrayed the young adults as a bunch of idiots who want to party while the world goes to hell - and then they get slimed. How can't you love a movie with that ethos! It continues in (well I think he did the screenplay) Prophesies of Nostradamus. I have to say I think the film is a piece of pure genius (mad genius at times), but still genius. It will stay with you long after you've seen it. I think it is one of the best Godzilla films. HK AND CULT FILM NEWS Your source for all the latest Hong Kong and Cult Films DVD News and Reviews! I actually said he was da bomb but my main man Dennis didn't peep me right.- Tom "Big Daddy" Weaver.
Hollywood Gothique		#48	[-]
Jan 24 08 7:11 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Well, there is a certain contradiction in SMOG MONSTER's ethos. At the time, pollution was a concern among young adults - the group the film villifies. The silent spectres watching at Mt. Fuji represent an older generation - i.e., the ones actually responsible for polluting the planet and handing the mess over to the younger generation. This movie would make a great double bill with the Italian giallo thriller LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN, which has nothing but contempt for London youth culture of the late '60s/early '70s. There's nothing like watching some middle-aged film maker wag his finger at young! Cinefantastique Online: The Review of Horror, Fantasy, & Science Fiction Films
gfanikf		#49	[-]
Jan 24 08 9:22 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hollywood Gothique wrote: Well, there is a certain contradiction in SMOG MONSTER's ethos. At the time, pollution was a concern among young adults - the group the film villifies. The silent spectres watching at Mt. Fuji represent an older generation - i.e., the ones actually responsible for polluting the planet and handing the mess over to the younger generation. This movie would make a great double bill with the Italian giallo thriller LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN, which has nothing but contempt for London youth culture of the late '60s/early '70s. There's nothing like watching some middle-aged film maker wag his finger at young! Yeah, but hippies are far more useless. HK AND CULT FILM NEWS Your source for all the latest Hong Kong and Cult Films DVD News and Reviews! I actually said he was da bomb but my main man Dennis didn't peep me right.- Tom "Big Daddy" Weaver.
Monsterpal		#50	[-]
Jan 31 08 5:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Did your mommy and daddy tell you that?
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gfanikf		#51	[-]
Jan 31 08 6:09 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Monsterpal wrote: Did your mommy and daddy tell you that? Nope, personal observations. HK AND CULT FILM NEWS Your source for all the latest Hong Kong and Cult Films DVD News and Reviews! I actually said he was da bomb but my main man Dennis didn't peep me right.- Tom "Big Daddy" Weaver.
luisj40	Smog Monster	#52	[-]
Feb 1 08 2:29 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	As a kid I actually rooted for the Smog Monster because I thought he was from my home town of LA. Luis
Hollywood Gothique		#53	[-]
Feb 2 08 5:42 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Yeah, but hippies are far more useless. But the Smog Monster is a hippie! Note the practiced way he takes a hit off that bong - er, smokestack - his eyes rolling up in his head as the high kicks in. Cinefantastique Online: The Review of Horror, Fantasy, & Science Fiction Films
Monsterpal		#54	[-]
Feb 3 08 4:49 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	When this film was made, hippies were already pretty much a phenomenon of the past. I'm still trying to figure out how someone as young as Gfanikf knows hippies, unless he's a very old student or has a time machine.
Kaijubait		#55	[-]
Feb 4 08 9:52 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'm still trying to figure out how someone as young as Gfanikf knows hippies, unless he's a very old student or has a time machine. Hippies are perpetual, I'm afraid... you can still find 20 year old ones at Dave Matthews concerts... (not that you subject yourself to DM for any reason). I have to admit though, that I have a soft spot for the wild eyed/crazy variety of Roky Erikson/Hawkwind-type hippy - but that's almost a completely different animal.
Monsterpal		#56	[-]
Feb 4 08 1:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Neo-hippies? Not quite the same thing.
Hachigatsu		#57	[-]
Feb 4 08 2:14 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Monsterpal wrote: When this film was made, hippies were already pretty much a phenomenon of the past. By the late 1970s, most of the originals became Yippies (businesses owners) and moved to Marin Country (across the Golden Gate Bridge) and others moved to Oregon and Washington to live out their hippy lives on communes or whatever the hell they do in tribes. But, there was a big resurgence of young hippie types pouring into San Francisco in the 1990s, which hasn't quite been curbed (some of them have since mutated into "Gutter Punks," Punk Rock kids who live by the seats of their ripped pants). But, they never really went away. They just followed the Dead on the road, and circulated around the country, having hippy kids, or attracting others who were attracted to that "lifestyle" (or lack, thereof). Or they just keep breeding. Now, I've been working in the music industry a long time, and I see old and new hippies all of the time at various shows -- about 15 years ago I was working for Bill Graham Presents, and would work Jerry Garcia shows (both acoustic and electric), and they would back that place with hippies from near and far, young and ancient, incense burners and spinners, alike. It was the single most frustrating work environment, ever. Whenever they did anything wrong or inappropriate, and you would call them on it, you would immediately be accused of "hassling" them from doing their "thing." What's worse, most of them couldn't even articulate what that "thing" was. The '90s were a breeding ground of the neo-hippie movement, which not only attracts the new kids, but it attracts all of the old burn-outs, too. Bands Phish, Ozric Tentacles, Widespread Panic, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Rusted Root, String Cheese Incident, would play San Francisco, and the pachouli-dowsed would follow them like rats to the pied-piper. They still keep coming... Yonder Mountain String Band, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Disco Biscuits, Gov't Mule, Ekoostik Hookah, etc. IT JUST WON'T DIE! Don't get me started on Reggae shows... BTW, in my estimation, Roky Erickson is waaaaaaay beyond "Hippie"... he's just really out there. I mean, like in orbit, man. ("Night of the Vampire"? "Two-Headed Dog"?). Hell, Roky scares Hippies. August Ragone Author EIJI TSUBURAYA: MASTER OF MONSTERS Blog THE GOOD, THE BAD AND GODZILLA Last Edited By: Hachigatsu Feb 4 08 2:16 PM. Edited 1 times.
Spoiler II		#58	[-]
Feb 5 08 2:28 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I saw a photograph once of Roky Erickson with GG Allin and my mind almost snapped trying to imagine how that meeting transpired. From Hedorah to Roky Erickson's musical endeavors,you never quite know which way any thread will go sometimes. Its probably a short,succinct line from MATANGO to Hasil Adkins,if anyone is brave enough to unravel it haha.
Hachigatsu		#59	[-]
Feb 5 08 5:34 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	LOL! Or the Legendary Stardust Cowboy! August Ragone Author EIJI TSUBURAYA: MASTER OF MONSTERS Blog THE GOOD, THE BAD AND GODZILLA
Carl Eyesnheart		#60	[-]
Feb 5 08 12:52 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Spoiler II wrote: I saw a photograph once of Roky Erickson with GG Allin and my mind almost snapped trying to imagine how that meeting transpired. From Hedorah to Roky Erickson's musical endeavors,you never quite know which way any thread will go sometimes. Its probably a short,succinct line from MATANGO to Hasil Adkins,if anyone is brave enough to unravel it haha. The fact that those three names show up on a Horror film board shows me just how cool some of the folks posting here truely are!!! My fanzine all about Rock N Roll: www.sonicruin.com
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