1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,720 And the kids are like. Why not just show them the 2 00:00:02,760 --> 00:00:06,800 robots? The kids are like, man, this is 3 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:07,920 lame. I. 4 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:09,440 Thought this was a slight of hand. 5 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:11,480 Trick. And this motherfucker only has 6 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:26,220 tiny robots. Hello everyone, and welcome to 7 00:00:26,220 --> 00:00:28,300 Castle Bravo, a Godzilla versus retrospective. 8 00:00:28,420 --> 00:00:30,140 I'm Derek. And I'm Charlotte. 9 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:32,720 And we're two siblings here to examine the history of the 10 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:34,920 Godzilla franchise one movie at a time. 11 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:38,080 We're joined today by journalist and editor at The Gamer, Eric 12 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:40,160 Switzer. Eric, how you doing today, bud? 13 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,040 Hello Castle. Bravo. 14 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:44,280 Thank you very much for having me. 15 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:46,920 I'm so excited. I loved this movie. 16 00:00:49,160 --> 00:00:53,400 I, I got to say I, I, I do love this movie that we're going to 17 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:57,840 talk about today for a wide variety of reasons, yes. 18 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:02,760 Yes, it confounded me. It entertained me. 19 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:07,200 I've got a lot to say about it. I got to say, so 1st guest of 20 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:11,840 Season 4, this is going to be really fun because everybody, 21 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:15,960 every guest just about that we've had we lined up back when 22 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:18,720 we were in the planning stages before we even fully started the 23 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:21,840 show. So that's like what years ago 24 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:24,400 that we talked about having you on. 25 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:27,600 So I'm sure at a certain point you were probably like, did 26 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:32,240 these fuckers forget about me? I never forgot about it. 27 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:35,840 I was waiting for my day. I, I literally have like a 28 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:38,400 spreadsheet document where I'm just going through episode by 29 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:41,680 episode. You know, again, we'd have we'd 30 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:47,720 have been on this like easily, like nine months ago if if it 31 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:52,000 were not for just like the horrors of 2024 that were 32 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:56,440 inflicted upon me. But yeah, it's it's fun. 33 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:59,320 We are here now. We have a a truly ridiculous 34 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:01,120 movie to talk about. I think we're going to have a a 35 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,000 fantastic time. Charlotte. 36 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:04,840 Yeah. How you doing today? 37 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:10,520 I'm all right, I have a sinus infection but I have mini drugs 38 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:12,240 in my system so I sound pretty normal. 39 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:16,360 Hell yeah drugs. We are pro drugs on Castle 40 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:22,120 Bravo. Other than that, I mean, yeah, 41 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:24,440 things are good. Castle Bravo is brought to you 42 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:29,760 by Purdue Pharmaceuticals. Probably. 43 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:31,560 Now that you mention it, I'm also on drugs. 44 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:38,160 I probably have to believe that, even if just for comedy's sake. 45 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:43,440 Yeah. God, this has been a really 46 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:46,160 weird. Like, I'm just going to put it 47 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:47,800 out. This has been a really weird 48 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:51,960 holiday season for me. We recorded the Godzilla 2000 49 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:55,200 episode the previous episode a couple weeks ago, Right, 50 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:56,560 Charlotte? Or has it been? 51 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:58,280 It's been. Longer than that because the 52 00:02:58,280 --> 00:02:59,880 last two weeks were both holiday weeks. 53 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:02,080 Yeah, that's right. So it's been, it's been close to 54 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:03,720 a month. Yeah, it would. 55 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:06,360 Have had to have been four weeks because the week after we 56 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,520 recorded the last ones when we planned this one and then two 57 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:11,280 additional weeks out. So yeah, it's been 4 weeks. 58 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:13,920 Yeah, yeah. OK, well, that's fun. 59 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:18,000 But yeah, like, holidays have been insane. 60 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,120 I don't think anyone had a truly good holiday season this year, 61 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:24,320 this last year. I think we all just kind of went 62 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:27,360 through it a little bit and we all collectively crashed out a 63 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:29,400 little bit. And now we're all putting our 64 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:32,840 clothes back on and, you know, wiping the the paint off our 65 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:34,520 faces and pretending we're back to normal. 66 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:38,960 There's certainly some dread going into 2025. 67 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:41,320 For a. Variety of reasons. 68 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:44,880 I'm I'm afraid to go. Everyone's like, Derek, this 69 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:46,640 will be your year. Don't say that. 70 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:51,200 Don't say that. I don't want to jinx it. 71 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:56,400 They keep not being my year. I but I know you mean it was a 72 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:04,720 slightly spooky holiday season. I I think it'll be my year. 73 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,560 I think my year can only be a year that's like otherwise 74 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:09,440 horrible. You've got some good shit coming 75 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:13,160 up which you you you will reveal more of as it happens if you 76 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:14,720 feel like or not. Whatever. 77 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:16,320 Keeping the mysteries part of it. 78 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,839 Yeah, I think I, I will reveal that after it's happened. 79 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,880 Yeah. For good call. 80 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:29,160 Good call. So folks, let's talk about where 81 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:34,720 we are at in Godzilla history. So all through season 3 we 82 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:39,920 covered the hey say era of Godzilla up to the infamous 98 83 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:43,160 Tristar Godzilla. So for some sicko that decided 84 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:47,600 to start here and hasn't been listening up to this point, the 85 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:51,440 80s and 90s had this really fantastic rebooted run of 86 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:55,480 Godzilla movies and going into it, we were like pretty sure we 87 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:57,240 were going to get a little that like 90s edge. 88 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:01,400 The 90s was infamously fondly remembered for geek culture, but 89 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:04,760 actually a terrible time for most of the franchises we love 90 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:08,160 that had a 90s phase that didn't end up being true for Godzilla. 91 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:13,760 The 90s run of Godzilla's so fucking good up until, you know, 92 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:17,320 the Tristar movie. And the Tristar movie was so bad 93 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:23,640 and, and so poorly received that Toho rushed out Godzilla 2000 so 94 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:27,280 they could get like Japanese Godzilla movies going again in 95 00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:31,240 under a year. And you know me and you had some 96 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:33,360 thoughts on that movie. It's a little messy, but it's a 97 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:38,280 very fun time. So the original plan, because 98 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:41,840 Godzilla 2000 did pretty good in Japan, it did OK in America, but 99 00:05:41,840 --> 00:05:44,560 the marketing push on it was so big that they just didn't recoup 100 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:48,320 those costs 'cause it turns out, you know, you, you do a very 101 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:52,560 expensive relocalization, a pretty expensive redub and 102 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:56,320 marketing campaign to release it in a pretty wide theatrical run 103 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:59,760 that costs a lot of money. And not a ton of people went to 104 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:01,800 see a Japanese Godzilla movie in theaters. 105 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:08,240 This was not -1 So the original plan was Toho wanted to make a 106 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:11,160 sequel to Godzilla 2000. You know, this was going to be 107 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,720 just like the 80s and 90s era. This is our new start to a new 108 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:18,560 series. And like spoiler alert, there's 109 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:22,840 not a ton of behind the scenes information on today's movie 110 00:06:22,840 --> 00:06:27,840 Godzilla versus Megagiris. What little we know is that at 111 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:31,640 some point, and it seems like it might have been pretty late in 112 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:35,560 pre production, the idea of this being a sequel to Godzilla 2000 113 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:38,120 was scrapped and it was made another full reboot. 114 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:41,760 I actually think there's some elements of this being a 115 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:44,200 Godzilla 2000 sequel that still snuck in. 116 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:46,400 I'll bring those up as they're relevant. 117 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:52,600 So we have a new director in the director's chair, Masaki Tezeka. 118 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:56,000 Tezeka, a deed on a bunch of hey say movies. 119 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,920 This is like the move for Toho, right? 120 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,280 When they can't get back the director they've been using, 121 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:04,240 they go to the last AD they could get their hands on. 122 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:08,200 And it's worked out to varying degrees of success so far. 123 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:13,080 In the writer's chair, Watari Mimara and Hiroshi Kashiwabara 124 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:15,800 both return. So they both worked on Godzilla 125 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:17,440 2000 together. Remember? 126 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:22,360 If I remember correctly, Mimara worked on the Heisei Godzilla 127 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:26,120 versus Mecca Godzilla, which we thought was dumb but fun. 128 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:30,840 And Kashiwabara has an extensive list of credits including like a 129 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:35,440 bunch of Lupon the third. But then on Godzilla, Wise 130 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:39,600 worked on Godzilla versus Space Godzilla, which was a mess, and 131 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:42,960 Godzilla 2000 on the writing standpoint was nothing to write 132 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:46,800 home about. So don't know how this duo was 133 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:50,360 doing other than just the fact that they showed up to work that 134 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:53,200 day. We'll find out. 135 00:07:56,880 --> 00:08:01,720 No, He chuckles in the special effects chair. 136 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:05,520 Kenji Suzuki returns from working on Godzilla 2000 and I 137 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:09,080 believe at least one of the rebirth of Motha movies before 138 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:11,680 it. So and and I think like special 139 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:17,240 effects wise, you know, it mostly holds up with some 140 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:21,000 notable exceptions that once again we will get to and and 141 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,760 I'll be kind of curious to break down why that may have happened. 142 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:27,680 The one really fun thing in terms of of people in in the 143 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:32,240 creative chairs for this movie was our new composer is Michiru 144 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:36,679 Oshima, who long list of credits, but you may know for 145 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:39,880 composing the soundtrack to a little show called a fucking 146 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:42,600 full metal alchemist. Maybe you've heard of it. 147 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:46,840 That makes so much sense. Yeah, you can hear that shit 148 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:48,600 now, can't you? Yeah. 149 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:52,480 Yeah. And like, I do think that this 150 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:55,520 movie ends up having very much its own sound that's very 151 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:58,400 different from a lot of previous, well, almost any 152 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,760 previous Godzilla movie. It's kind of like when we had 153 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:04,560 the the Nadeshiko composer in for Godzilla versus Space 154 00:09:04,560 --> 00:09:06,920 Godzilla. It was like, OK, OK, you brought 155 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:11,040 something that's not just poorly recreating Akira Yifukuba score. 156 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:14,880 It's the thing that stands out the most in this whole. 157 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:19,960 I would say so, yeah. So we've got a pretty 158 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:23,120 straightforward idea, right? We, we Godzilla 2000 did OK, 159 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:25,720 We're rebooting, you know, we're going to make a sequel. 160 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:29,040 Except, oops, no, we're not. We've brought back most of the 161 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:31,360 same creative people. The the main switch around 162 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,960 really is the composer, which you know, is, is important for 163 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:38,360 changing up the texture, but shouldn't change too much 164 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:43,840 creatively about the movie. So, Charlotte. 165 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:46,160 Yeah. Why don't you tell us what 166 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:48,880 happens in Godzilla versus Megagiris? 167 00:09:49,560 --> 00:09:56,120 OK, so breaking news, Godzilla raids Tokyo in 1954 again. 168 00:09:57,400 --> 00:09:59,800 But like, it's a really good looking recap. 169 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:01,800 Like I liked this part, I thought it looked really nice. 170 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,720 It's really interesting that they did. 171 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:07,120 I don't know if that was just like straight up footage from 172 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:11,520 the original movie or or recreations, but then they've 173 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:17,160 got like the modern Godzilla in the 19, which is so weird to see 174 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:22,040 because up till this point we've only ever seen crusty old 1954 175 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:25,640 Godzilla, which is a design I love in these old flashbacks. 176 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:29,720 So yeah. This he is crusty, I mean. 177 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:32,600 Yeah, let me, let me ask you guys about the timeline here 178 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:35,160 because this gets reiterated throughout the movie a bunch of 179 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:38,400 times. And in this timeline, it's the 180 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:40,880 original Godzilla. And then. 181 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:45,360 And then no other movie. And then nothing until attacking 182 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:48,680 Osaka in 1996. Yeah, it seems kind of like 183 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,560 according to what this movie is establishing, which is weird 184 00:10:52,560 --> 00:10:56,400 because I think everybody coming in is expecting a sequel to 185 00:10:56,400 --> 00:11:00,080 Godzilla 2000 and instead they're like, let's re establish 186 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:01,440 that only original movies happened. 187 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:05,160 But also we have this very specific couple of like 188 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:08,040 alternate history things that have happened as a result of 189 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:11,800 Godzilla's existence because they talk about like moving the 190 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:17,440 capital of Japan, which is not a thing that happened famously. 191 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:20,360 And shutting down all nuclear power. 192 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:23,520 Yeah. And then developing plasma 193 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:26,200 energy and then also shutting that down. 194 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:28,400 Yeah. I don't want to jump ahead too 195 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:31,320 much, but I do want to talk to you guys about heavy hydrogen 196 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:34,960 plasma derived electricity. Maybe, maybe we can, we can wait 197 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:36,040 till we get there. But what? 198 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:36,880 What? What is that? 199 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:38,840 Are you are you are? I was going to say, are you 200 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,360 secretly like a fucking electrical engineer or 201 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:44,000 something? Because we had, we had a guy on 202 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:47,080 for Godzilla versus Bayonte who turned out to be a geneticist 203 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:51,000 for his real job. And I didn't know. 204 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:53,680 I just knew him from writing about video game shit. 205 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:56,960 So. Yeah, no, I I play Super Mario. 206 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:05,080 OK, well, here, I'll keep going. And then I actually have a spot 207 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:07,680 right after the plasma energy thing where it's just empty for 208 00:12:07,680 --> 00:12:08,360 a second. OK, perfect. 209 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:11,520 Look, Japan moved its capital to Osaka. 210 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:15,000 I think that has never happened before, like you said, and they 211 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,920 rebuilt it. Godzilla returns in 1966, 212 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:19,440 destroys the first nuclear plant. 213 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,040 And they're like, you know, maybe nuclear is not not the not 214 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:24,360 the move here. Maybe maybe we don't do that. 215 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:28,680 And they're they're trying every kind of power, but they can't 216 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:33,240 find anything that's efficient until we get to 1996 where they 217 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:36,000 are searching for replacement energy and they managed to 218 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,360 create plasma generated electricity. 219 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:42,120 What does that mean? I don't. 220 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:46,960 Like I have, I talk about discovering plasma energy, but I 221 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:50,320 as far as I know plasma is fire, right? 222 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:53,800 Plasma is a state of matter. I thought right and it like a 223 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:58,560 fourth. I look, man, I am not this guy, 224 00:12:58,680 --> 00:13:01,920 right? But I'm pretty sure plasma is 225 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:07,440 like a fourth state of yeah, it's a state of matter. 226 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:10,120 So it's like you solids, liquids, gases, plasmas. 227 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:12,200 So it's the thing that's above gas. 228 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:15,400 So it's. But it's highly ionized. 229 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:19,000 Yeah. Well I mean I think that could 230 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:23,840 be true. Don't quiz me on this. 231 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:27,000 Plasma is a weapon type in video games. 232 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:32,960 And is is the implication that they couldn't make this black 233 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:36,680 hole weapon until they discovered plasma driven 234 00:13:36,680 --> 00:13:40,200 electricity? Well, I think the the black hole 235 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:44,640 like that the the movie famously revolves around, you know, 236 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:50,000 actually they don't. Those aren't really connected at 237 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,960 all, right? I mean, they no, Yeah, because 238 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:56,880 we're going to have to, we're going to have to put I, I just 239 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:59,320 realized why that can't be true, but I can't talk about it 240 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:01,680 because we're talking about a thing that happens very late in 241 00:14:01,680 --> 00:14:04,400 the movie. So I'm going to, I'm going to 242 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:06,800 put a pin in this. To make a black hole, don't you 243 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,680 have to like generate so much power in one spot or something? 244 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:12,840 No, it's his mass. A black hole is is simply 245 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:16,800 enough. OK so this I actually this is 246 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:20,200 physics shit. I do know because a black hole 247 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:24,320 is when you have so much mass condensed into so small an 248 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:27,320 amount of space that the gravitational pull eventually 249 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,160 become so strong that even light cannot escape. 250 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:31,800 That's the event horizon in a black hole. 251 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:35,440 Black holes are generated because stars go through nuclear 252 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:37,240 fusion. That's how they generate energy, 253 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:39,320 right? So they are continually fusing 254 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:44,080 the matter in the star into denser and heavier atoms. 255 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:46,880 Elements, right? Like things off the table of 256 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:50,520 elements that we have. And eventually those become so 257 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:54,560 neutron dense that the amount of matter packed into such a tight 258 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:57,720 space basically collapses in on itself into a pinpoint. 259 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:02,280 There's still some astrophysicist who's going to 260 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:04,400 correct me on some small part of that, but that's actually a 261 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:06,480 pretty accurate description of what a black hole is. 262 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:09,320 You can't just turn a machine on that makes a black hole. 263 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:11,520 And fire it like a big bullet, yeah. 264 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:15,320 Like it's a fucking Duke in space. 265 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:19,640 I will. I want to say though, about this 266 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:23,240 intro. I do really like this idea that 267 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:28,240 they they started by trying to live with Godzilla. 268 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:31,320 They were like, we have to get rid of nuclear so that Godzilla 269 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:34,240 isn't tempted. It wasn't immediately like, how 270 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:36,360 do we kill this big fucker, right? 271 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:40,360 It was it was how do we keep keep ourselves safe from him? 272 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:44,320 And I feel like in America, American interpretation of 273 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:47,840 Godzilla, it's immediately go straight to what's the biggest 274 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:49,680 weapon we can make. Well, what's interesting is is a 275 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:51,720 lot of the Japanese movies have done that too. 276 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:54,440 But I really think this is an interesting approach 277 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:59,880 philosophically because it does put Godzilla more in line with 278 00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:04,560 being something like a natural disaster rather than like an 279 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:08,480 enemy to defeat, which is an attitude that the the franchise 280 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:12,600 has frequently kind of tried to go towards, right? 281 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,760 It it goes back and forth on the sliding scale between Godzilla 282 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:18,680 as a demon versus Godzilla as a hurricane. 283 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:21,360 Yeah, yeah. And that and that's great, 284 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:23,760 right? Like when, you know, I live in 285 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:26,760 California and we had a crazy earthquake in the 90s and then 286 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:30,240 we started building, making buildings a different way, you 287 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:31,560 know, so this is sort of the same thing. 288 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:36,200 Like we have to find a new way to to safely produce energy 289 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:39,240 because of this natural threat of Godzilla. 290 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:40,160 Yeah, I thought that was pretty cool. 291 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:43,720 So it's really interesting that this movie starts with a very 292 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:47,560 committed to the idea of Godzilla as a hurricane, but 293 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:49,760 then we come to find out that actually that is the. 294 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:52,720 Wrong approach for this Godzilla because this Godzilla is a 295 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:54,480 demon. Yes. 296 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:59,520 So yeah, 'cause they pretty early on say, like, Godzilla is 297 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:05,760 not actually just drawn to nuclear energy as if he's, you 298 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:09,079 know, feeding on it, he comes and fucks up the plasma energy 299 00:17:09,079 --> 00:17:12,599 generators too, kind of just to fuck up our day. 300 00:17:12,599 --> 00:17:14,599 And then Moon walks back into the sea. 301 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:17,400 Yeah. Basically, which is 302 00:17:17,599 --> 00:17:20,640 characteristically the thing that was kind of unique about 303 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:26,200 Godzilla 2000, that Godzilla 2000 was explicitly kind of 304 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:29,760 malicious towards humanity and just showed up to wreck our day 305 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:32,040 every so often because he thought we deserved it. 306 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:36,000 Yeah, yeah, I one of the most interesting things about 307 00:17:36,120 --> 00:17:40,040 Godzilla to me is sort of just trying to interpret his will, 308 00:17:40,360 --> 00:17:42,800 you know, like, what is it that he wants? 309 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:45,480 Why is he doing what he does? Yeah, like what level of sapiens 310 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:47,560 even is there on any given incarnation? 311 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:48,960 Like. Exactly. 312 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:50,920 Yeah. And it is fun to think like, 313 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:54,840 obviously he wants to destroy our power, but is that just to 314 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:58,560 hurt us maliciously? Is that to protect himself from 315 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:00,160 what we might do with that power? 316 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:02,920 And I think that's always an interesting element, yeah. 317 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:11,080 Yeah, so Godzilla's in Osaka. Military's trying to kill it, I 318 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:13,960 wrote in my notes here. Flying flaming car. 319 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:16,440 So good. Yeah. 320 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:19,440 The car do we fly because. It was, yeah. 321 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:22,080 Yeah. The so the military keeps trying 322 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:23,680 and failing to do damage to Godzilla. 323 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:29,600 They move in, you know, they they fire on him only to, for to 324 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:34,280 to be sent away multiple times. Suji Mori, which is our our girl 325 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:38,520 in the military here at the beginning, she stands ready near 326 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:40,880 near this factory to fire her rocket launcher at it. 327 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:44,240 And she does score a direct hit, but it does nothing, just like 328 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:46,800 everything else does. And she's like, no, no, I 329 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:48,280 really, I have to kill this thing. 330 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:51,120 And she wants to fire again, but she gets ordered to retreat. 331 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:55,560 Godzilla attacks like a nearby building, and that building 332 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:59,800 falls on her commanding officer. She grips his dog tag and 333 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:03,920 screams and fires again. And that is her motivation for 334 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:05,280 the rest of this movie, basically. 335 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:10,680 Then there's a title drop, Godzilla versus Megagiris. 336 00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:16,120 So then we jump to 2001 and we're in Akihabara. 337 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:22,080 There's, there's some guy and he, he's kind of a doofus and 338 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,640 he's teaching kids a magic trick using some food. 339 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:29,200 Some, some folks walk in and they have hats that say G 340 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:31,120 grasper. And I was like, there's no way 341 00:19:31,120 --> 00:19:32,600 that there's something called G grasper this. 342 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:35,480 Is. I love, by the way, his magic 343 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:38,640 trick is like he puts like a couple grains of like uncooked 344 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:40,800 rice. It like a couple little tiny 345 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:44,240 like dabs of ingredients down and puts a bowl on top. 346 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,360 And then when he lifts the bowl a moment later, he has like a 347 00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:49,000 little, little tiny spat of Curry. 348 00:19:50,120 --> 00:19:52,040 Yeah. And he's like telling the kids. 349 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:56,120 Man. Yeah, yeah, the lady's like he's 350 00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:57,440 lying. It's not magic. 351 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:02,360 He actually has fucking micro machines inside the bowl that do 352 00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:05,920 the the cooking and mixing in in seconds. 353 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:08,440 And also the bowl is a is an oven. 354 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:11,560 And the kids are like, yeah. Why not just show them the 355 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:16,360 robots the. Kids are like man, this is lame. 356 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:18,280 I. Thought this was a slight hand 357 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:20,320 trick. And this motherfucker only has 358 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:24,960 tiny robots. See, and I was sitting here 359 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:27,720 because I was, I was like messaging Derek about this movie 360 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:29,880 while I was watching it. And I was like, all right, so we 361 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:32,440 can make multiple assumptions from the scenes, such as 362 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:36,040 technology like this is mundane to children, so it must just be 363 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:40,440 everywhere. No, actually, but those kids are 364 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:43,600 just hard to impress. And it's so funny from a Western 365 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:45,360 perspective, too. You're like, is that what it's 366 00:20:45,360 --> 00:20:48,680 like in Japan? You know, these children are 367 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:52,360 bored by incredible microbots. Like, yeah, I've got one of 368 00:20:52,360 --> 00:20:55,080 those. This is This is the first of 369 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:59,000 many moments where I stopped and wondered if maybe anyone 370 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,360 involved with making this movie had ever met a human being, 371 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,360 because there's a lot that happens in this movie that feels 372 00:21:07,360 --> 00:21:10,760 real, like we asked aliens to make a human movie. 373 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:14,960 Yeah. Yeah, we asked aliens to name 374 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:22,400 our special units. Yeah, they have G Casper on 375 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,360 their hats and and they revealed that the trick is done by these 376 00:21:25,360 --> 00:21:30,240 tiny machines and after a little conversation he agrees to go 377 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:32,360 with them to the the counter Godzilla 'cause they're. 378 00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:35,200 Like your ability to make technology very small will be 379 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:38,760 very helpful to us. Yeah, like so specifically they 380 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,720 want that. What is this guy's deal? 381 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:45,560 Is he supposed to be a dork or is he supposed? 382 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:49,000 To be suave because. Yeah, they can't decide. 383 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:50,840 Yeah. He does. 384 00:21:51,120 --> 00:21:53,720 He does act like he's packing 9 inches. 385 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:59,320 At the same time, everyone does treat him like the biggest dweeb 386 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:02,200 in the world, like no one wants him there. 387 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:07,080 Yeah, at times, but then other times he's like, well, we'll get 388 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:12,560 to it, yeah. So their plan is to kill 389 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:16,400 Godzilla and they have like 3 sections, Section 1 seeking 390 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:20,080 Godzilla, Section 2 studying it, Section 3 simulating an 391 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:23,120 evacuation of Osaka because they know that's going to happen. 392 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:29,400 And our doofus boy, his name is Kudo, and he meets with the rest 393 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:32,080 of the G Grasper team. And then another named 394 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:36,840 character, Miss Yoshizawa walks in and she taught him physics in 395 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:40,000 university because he's not only a dork, he's a dork. 396 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:44,960 That that was like physics and how to how to, you know, make 397 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:46,840 tiny little robots to do anything you want. 398 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:48,760 Professor ladies and this is kind of weird, huh? 399 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:54,840 Yeah, this scene is where the score really starts to stand 400 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:56,800 out. It's it's almost like John 401 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,280 Williams esque. Sort of. 402 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:02,760 Sweeps through as they're like exploring this facility. 403 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,360 John Williams, a great call, actually, yeah. 404 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:12,040 Yeah, so she tells Kudo like, hey, we want you to join us. 405 00:23:12,120 --> 00:23:13,880 You can do things other people can't do. 406 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:16,680 And he scoffs at first. He's like, what? 407 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:17,920 Why? So I can get killed like 408 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:22,800 everyone else that helps you. And then so she's always like, 409 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:27,440 well, look, right. I mean, I don't blame him, but 410 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:33,240 she's like, hey, look, we're creating a micro black hole. 411 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:39,120 OK, In my notes it does say they make it with plasma energy to to 412 00:23:39,120 --> 00:23:42,120 just delete Godzilla. They they just want to make 413 00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:44,840 Godzilla not there anymore. So kudos. 414 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:46,800 Pretty impressed. I mean, it's the first man made 415 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,880 black hole and they're like, not only is it the first man made 416 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:53,040 black hole, it's being fired from a satellite in space. 417 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:56,080 And also we want the device to be two meters wide. 418 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,600 Why? They other than them saying we 419 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:04,520 have to fire it from space to keep Earth safe, there is 420 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:08,680 unbelievably little regard for the dangers. 421 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:12,560 Of creating a black hole. Like, nobody really even brings 422 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:16,720 up, Yeah, it's really not a concern for Ed. 423 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:20,280 Down at the fucking ground. I don't know if you've thought 424 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:24,560 about this. There's really no one even has a 425 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:26,960 throwaway line like, Are you sure this is safe? 426 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,320 There are just like, Yup, this is the plan and we're doing it. 427 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,520 What if it goes like 50 feet further than you intended it to 428 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,080 like? What if it doesn't stop? 429 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:42,280 Yeah, so suddenly an alarm blares and Godzilla has appeared 430 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:43,760 for the first time in three years. 431 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:46,160 Then there's a three month time skip. 432 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:51,000 We, we go now to A, to a family who's getting ready to move and 433 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:55,160 their son, whose name I did not decide to remember, is rushing 434 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,640 some bug samples to his friend. He runs into this little 435 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:03,480 military roadblock and he's he sneaks around and he realizes 436 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,280 that the school nearby has been taken over by the military. 437 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:10,520 The head of the The Counter Godzilla Force appears, and 438 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,720 Yoshizawa says that once they kill Godzilla, they're going to 439 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:15,840 dispose of this black hole technology. 440 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,360 But what they're doing with the school right now is they're 441 00:25:18,360 --> 00:25:20,800 testing the black hole weapon on this school. 442 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,560 Why is this family in this movie? 443 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:28,360 They they needed a reason for the egg to be moved. 444 00:25:28,360 --> 00:25:29,400 No, they don't. And that's it. 445 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:34,080 But the egg, they don't. Hatch this I know but someone 446 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,440 thought they did cause. The egg could just have been in 447 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,520 the place it needed to be to begin with. 448 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:41,880 Yeah, they could have been laid anywhere. 449 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,600 They didn't have to get laid in a in an inconvenient place that 450 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:49,080 only a child would find. Yeah, and his whole role in this 451 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:53,600 movie is done at after one more scene, he will continue to 452 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,960 appear. And have literally 0 impact on 453 00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:58,200 anything. Nothing. 454 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,800 Yeah. I think genuinely it was just 455 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:02,840 that they knew kids would see this movie and there needed to 456 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:04,920 be a kid on the screen that's. Got to be it. 457 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:08,440 That's my question. Is there a lot of like a child's 458 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,400 perspective? And throughout the series 459 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,800 there's. Off and on, yeah. 460 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:20,000 Yeah, off and on, I would say definitely a lot of the like the 461 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:21,960 80s and 90s didn't do this really. 462 00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:25,880 But then again, they were aimed a little older, I think. 463 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:28,200 I think this is the thing that started to become common in like 464 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,200 the late 60s into the 70s where they were like, dude, we got to 465 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,520 get kids in there and it's because they were being aimed 466 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,520 like at kids. So he's. 467 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:41,560 Also like he's also connected to which we're about to get to this 468 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:47,800 like very loose gender politics theme that the movie has. 469 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,600 Oh yeah, fucking welcome to Japan. 470 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:55,480 Gender is here, Yeah. Yeah, we're almost there. 471 00:26:55,880 --> 00:27:01,320 I got a whole thing on that, but so that there was also a stint 472 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,120 in the past where Godzilla was basically just, he was just 473 00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:07,160 Godzilla, defender of children, like very specifically. 474 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:11,120 So I think there's just there's some DNA in here for that. 475 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,400 So the school's gone because there is a black hole now. 476 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,440 This was cool. It was very cool. 477 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:20,320 It looked. Good. 478 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:24,360 Yeah, a lot of a lot of the special effects do not look 479 00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:25,920 good, and I thought this one was pretty cool. 480 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:30,720 Yeah, so the the black hole leaves a, like a special 481 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,560 distortion behind temporarily, and no one questions it. 482 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:35,520 They're just like, oh, OK, yeah, black holes do that. 483 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:38,840 So some soldiers catch the boy in the forest. 484 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,880 And having seen the experiment, you know, they have to come talk 485 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:43,920 to him and be like, don't tell your parents about this. 486 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:50,040 But during that conversation, the boy is like, hey, why are 487 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:51,760 you here? You're a woman. 488 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:54,520 Yeah, yeah. You're a woman, why are you 489 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:56,440 fighting Godzilla? Yeah. 490 00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,120 What's that? What why? 491 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:01,440 Why would he? Why does he say that? 492 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,200 Because when? Because she ignores it, right? 493 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,280 She's just like, get out of here, little guy. 494 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:13,280 And then later she does bring it back up, but doesn't confront it 495 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,720 at all. She just goes, well, you should 496 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:18,720 fight the things you're afraid of, right? 497 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:23,120 Like why does he say this? We're cancelling this child 498 00:28:23,120 --> 00:28:27,760 today. It's there. 499 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,800 So there's a lot of women in positions of power in this 500 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,040 movie. In in this series, right, this 501 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:37,680 series is not afraid of of women characters like it's so and I 502 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,120 mean again, like the the kid bringing it up is not because 503 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,720 the movie thinks the kid is right, like the kid is supposed 504 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:46,520 to be like it's supposed to be like a dumb chot like thing that 505 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,000 A and maybe that's what it is, is they thought like this is a 506 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,160 wrong thing that a child could say, but like. 507 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,080 Why? But when does he learn the 508 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,160 lesson that it's wrong? Yeah, like what? 509 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,840 Where does this come from? How does it get corrected? 510 00:28:57,840 --> 00:28:59,880 What would that mean for the movie there? 511 00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:05,200 Needed to be him witnessing her heroic sacrifice at the end. 512 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,360 You, you know what I mean there Needed it. 513 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,560 Needed a circle back around. But in because it doesn't. 514 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,920 It's just a kid being sexist. Yeah, it. 515 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,080 It it almost ends up reading more like we know that a bunch 516 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,840 of our audience is going to think this, So what if we had 517 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:23,640 someone say it so that we could we could just acknowledge that 518 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:27,760 people are thinking that. But that's an insane thing too. 519 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,120 He is, and he's just a cute little kid. 520 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,360 It's not like he's like a little prick or something, like, you 521 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,960 know what I mean? He's not villainous, Yeah. 522 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:40,880 He does. He does move a prehistoric 523 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:46,680 dragonfly egg. But, well, we'll, we'll let 524 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:51,000 Charlotte get to it. Well, so she does. 525 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:52,520 She doesn't really respond to this. 526 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:54,520 She hands him his bugs and leaves. 527 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,360 That evening, the boy sees the shadow of a giant dragonfly 528 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:01,680 Passover his. Window I'm I'm sorry one more 529 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:05,520 thing sorry don't tell your parents about the the fact that 530 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,240 what that we blew up the school and left a. 531 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:13,680 Crater, where are you going? On my paper, but they're. 532 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:21,000 Going to notice. Yeah, I think they might know. 533 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,440 They might know we're going. To build a new school overnight 534 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,040 and it'll be just as shitty as the old. 1. 535 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:35,600 Yeah, there's a there's a dragonfly shadow goes over his 536 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,160 window. He goes outside, finds finds 537 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:42,400 this egg that was laid by this dragonfly before it went back 538 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:47,320 into the black hole. The the boys finally moved. 539 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:50,000 Like he's in his new home with his mother and he's like, oh, 540 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:53,920 the egg is oozing now and then he just puts it in the sewer for 541 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:57,000 like, no reason. OK, here's my thing about the 542 00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:00,720 egg. Little little kid loves bugs, 543 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,040 finds a weird egg and takes it on. 544 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:07,000 That all makes sense, but this little boy lives in a world 545 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:12,240 where Godzilla exists, and I have to imagine that you, just 546 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:16,520 like you tell your children, don't get into any white vans 547 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:18,080 with strangers. Offering you candy. 548 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:22,040 You probably also would tell them, hey, don't pick up any 549 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:26,680 weird magical eggs, right? Like I feel like everybody knows 550 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,800 in a world where Godzilla exists, don't mess with things 551 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,200 that look like Godzilla. Don't mess with weird shit. 552 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:34,800 Don't mess with weird monster shit. 553 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:38,400 It's bad. Could it be is it like 10% 554 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,080 chance of weird monster shit? Don't, just don't. 555 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:46,880 And then he puts it down the sewer, which lucky for us, I 556 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:51,280 don't know why it's not the the thing he would do other than it 557 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:55,560 has to end up in the water because it's a dragonfly egg. 558 00:31:56,680 --> 00:32:02,000 So it's going to hatch into amphibious like first forms. 559 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:07,880 That's how dragonflies work. So I, I don't, I at least I 560 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:12,520 assume that's what the point is. They don't explicitly say that, 561 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:17,400 but that it is how dragonflies. Work, I guess, like he knew he 562 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:21,000 had to get it, get rid of it, but he didn't want to leave it 563 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:25,560 like in a dumpster by his house because then it might. 564 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:28,160 Come back, there's someone in the neighbor's yard. 565 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,560 Make it their problem. I would have just smashed it 566 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:34,800 with a hammer. I would have got your friends 567 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:37,080 together and fucking ET that motherfucker up, yeah. 568 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:41,240 He would have stopped it. You know what? 569 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:44,440 I'm just, I'm sitting here thinking now like it's been 570 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,760 ridiculous this whole time. Would you and your friends have 571 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:48,440 killed that egg with with hammers? 572 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:50,880 You were my friends, but you. Can't. 573 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,360 Yes, I. Don't I don't Yeah, I think we 574 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:58,160 we probably would have, but no, I'm thinking if he found it in a 575 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:00,440 pool in the forest, that pool would probably dry up. 576 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,200 And if he knows the life cycle, he'd probably be like, aw, this 577 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,920 egg won't survive here, so maybe it. 578 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:07,160 It almost. Makes sense. 579 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:08,920 See here's the thing, it almost would have worked better if he 580 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,120 did it on purpose because he thought the egg was cool and he 581 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:14,880 wanted to hatch the bug. Like then the whole lesson of 582 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,720 oops I did a bad would at least be something. 583 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:20,560 Yeah. Oh. 584 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:25,720 I agree. Well, now Suji Mori's working 585 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:27,320 out. You know, she's, she's just 586 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:31,640 pumping iron Kudo tries to start spark up some conversation about 587 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:35,360 this black hole, and he gives her a special bullet that she 588 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,440 can fire if she ever needs to be rescued. 589 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:39,440 Because this dude's like Qi don't know. 590 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,160 What is? What is this about? 591 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:46,240 Why? Because they needed some way to 592 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:47,760 call people later. That's just. 593 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,520 But that's the only reason I can think of half this stuff 594 00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:57,400 happening. I OK like his job, his job on 595 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:03,280 this black hole project is to make the tracking work right 596 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,560 like they need they need it to be very precise. 597 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:10,520 And so part of that is putting this tracker on Godzilla. 598 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,040 So I thought that's what he was giving her is like, hey, I've 599 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:18,320 finished this tracker. But he says if you ever are in 600 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:21,639 danger, just fire this and I'll come find you. 601 00:34:21,639 --> 00:34:27,800 And it's like, that's from what? Like danger from what? 602 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:31,840 Hobos. Very strange, very strange. 603 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:35,320 After he's like, after he's like, hey, why, why are you 604 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:38,159 working out your body? We we're going to black hole 605 00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:39,800 Godzilla. There's nothing to worry about. 606 00:34:40,679 --> 00:34:44,040 Why are you, as a woman, worried about working out? 607 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,280 Like, are you as a woman worried about being fit? 608 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,120 But yeah, she does tell him she's like, you know, you should 609 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,040 probably build up your body first. 610 00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,760 Like, things are going to happen, some stuff's going to go 611 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:03,920 down. But he he grabs her dog tag, 612 00:35:04,240 --> 00:35:05,840 like her her commander's dog tag. 613 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:10,160 And she like, gets mad and she basically lure dumps to him. 614 00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:13,560 And then she test fires the special bullet and like, OK, it 615 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:18,240 works great. The egg, meanwhile, is now in 616 00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:23,720 the ocean, and it's morphing, and water is starting to leak 617 00:35:23,720 --> 00:35:25,280 out of the ground beneath the city. 618 00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:28,200 Some workers come in. They're like OK A. 619 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,840 Feasible amount of water by. The way it is not like the 620 00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:35,280 offset amount of an egg, I don't know where it's coming from. 621 00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:39,520 Is the flood just something that happens? 622 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,520 The flood is like the flood is is is Me when? 623 00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:46,840 Me when? Me when? 624 00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:52,040 But that's like that has nothing to do with Godzilla or the 625 00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,600 Dragonfly's. That's just also Tokyo's 626 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:55,760 flooding. So the the. 627 00:35:56,120 --> 00:36:05,520 The only thing I can think of is that like the sheer amount of 628 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:11,680 biomass in the sewers is causing like the water to overflow as 629 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,680 the dragonflies like mass reproduce. 630 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:22,560 But that's still insane because Tokyo is suddenly so underwater. 631 00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:27,680 Yes, it's like, it's like it's like 80 feet underwater. 632 00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:31,200 They're driving boats. There's not that much water in 633 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:37,720 the sewers, guys. Well, the workers are coming to 634 00:36:37,720 --> 00:36:41,240 fix it, and there's a giant dragonfly looking down at them 635 00:36:41,240 --> 00:36:45,440 from above. The dragonfly, like, just starts 636 00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:46,560 eating people. Oh. 637 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:48,680 My God, it sure does take that dude. 638 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:53,520 There's like head crunch, Yeah, incredible head crunch. 639 00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:57,000 Yeah. Top tier practicals there. 640 00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:01,720 Yeah, like this one dragonfly eats, eats a couple out on the 641 00:37:01,720 --> 00:37:03,960 street and then just starts molting 'cause I guess it has 642 00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:08,360 enough meat now. The the boy sees the dragonfly 643 00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:12,160 swooping around outside and he finally tells someone what's 644 00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,120 going on. Like, hey, I had this egg. 645 00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:18,520 And Suji Mori like confronts him finally about everything and is 646 00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:21,720 just like, look, I, I fight Godzilla because my commanding 647 00:37:21,720 --> 00:37:24,200 officer fought Godzilla and you got to face what you're afraid 648 00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:29,840 of. And so like, I guess he accepts 649 00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:33,360 that, but then he he shows her that the dragonfly is a mega 650 00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:35,960 neulon, which is I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly. 651 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:39,320 You are. It can't fucking be. 652 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:41,680 But it can't be. Yeah. 653 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:43,520 Mega Neulon. This bothered me a lot. 654 00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:47,800 They're not that big. This bothered me so much because 655 00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:53,360 it because it came out of a. Portal So I think the idea is it 656 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,120 came from like the past, right? It's a prehistoric thing that 657 00:37:56,120 --> 00:38:00,000 like got like time jumped through a wormhole or something. 658 00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:04,800 But then it has like energy beam powers and like this is 659 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:06,800 obviously not a creature from Earth. 660 00:38:07,720 --> 00:38:09,280 Yeah, I don't know. So here's the thing. 661 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:11,760 A mega. So this this gets complicated. 662 00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:18,520 OK, so the Mega Neulons first showed up in the original Rodin 663 00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:22,760 back in 1950, what, 556, something like that. 664 00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:28,800 And what we said then is it's very likely that what they're 665 00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:32,560 actually saying is Mega Neura, right? 666 00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:36,720 Because the Mega Neura is a famous like foot long 667 00:38:36,720 --> 00:38:41,720 prehistoric dragonfly, an apex predator of the time for its 668 00:38:41,720 --> 00:38:44,400 class, very, very famous prehistoric insect. 669 00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,560 And of course in Japanese there is no distinction between the 670 00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:51,160 R&L sound. It's a singular sound in their 671 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,760 phonetic alphabet. So it's very likely that 672 00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:57,240 Meganeula is Meganeura. So here we are. 673 00:38:57,240 --> 00:38:59,720 We're bringing back this prehistoric dragonfly monster 674 00:38:59,960 --> 00:39:04,040 that was already oversized in Rodin. 675 00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:07,040 But at least it's maybe the idea was they were irradiated here. 676 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,640 But no, these things straight up come from a wormhole from the 677 00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:13,400 past and are also laser dragonflies. 678 00:39:14,240 --> 00:39:17,120 Yeah, they can suck the energy out of things with their 679 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:18,840 stingers. Like why? 680 00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,240 Why does this need to be? How? 681 00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:22,880 Do these go extinct? Yeah. 682 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,040 Very and and how do we know about them? 683 00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,520 Very strange. I don't know why, it could just 684 00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:32,720 be. You'd think it would have been a 685 00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:34,960 bigger deal if we were like, Also there were Godzilla 686 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:38,440 dragonflies back in the day. Right. 687 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,200 Yeah, I mean, it's got to be like a different dimension or 688 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:42,760 something. I. 689 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,880 Think if there were 10 foot dragonflies back in the day. 690 00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:48,200 It's the only thing anyone would ever talk about. 691 00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:51,120 We would never have invented sports. 692 00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,280 We'd just be talking about the dragonflies. 693 00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:59,960 Real. So back in headquarters, a light 694 00:39:59,960 --> 00:40:03,120 appears on the sensors and Godzilla is fighting with one of 695 00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:06,360 the dragonflies in the ocean. They launched this ship of the 696 00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,400 Griffin. They they then leave the Griffin 697 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:12,440 to go out in a boat and observe the the corpse of the dragonfly. 698 00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:16,920 And the score is going nuts. No, it's popping the fuck off. 699 00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:20,880 Yeah. Godzilla's right below them. 700 00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:26,040 Suji Mori helps the other guy back into the Griffin but she 701 00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:31,520 gets left in the boat near Godzilla and they they drop the 702 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:36,720 The Search Godzilla system is what it's called after she 703 00:40:36,720 --> 00:40:39,200 shoots her her special bullet and the Godzilla's high. 704 00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:40,680 That way they can track Godzilla. 705 00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,160 They then launch because. You don't want to miss with the 706 00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:51,840 black hole gun. Yeah, they launched the black 707 00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:57,920 hole device into space and they take a sample of the dragonfly 708 00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:01,760 corpse back and discuss that it's definitely a mega Nula. 709 00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:05,200 Right. Yeah. 710 00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:08,480 And they're like, it's a violent insect that makes clusters of 711 00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:10,880 eggs. And now they're like, well, 712 00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:14,840 Shibuya is completely flooded. I don't. 713 00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,480 I don't know if it's because of the clusters of eggs, but I 714 00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:22,080 guess it's got to be the. Water level here is makes no 715 00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:27,960 sense because like there's there's like establishing shots 716 00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:30,920 where skyscrapers are half underwater and then it cuts to 717 00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:34,400 people running like, OK, where they where are they running? 718 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,840 That's not underwater? And then it cut and then it cuts 719 00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:39,920 to a boat and then it cuts to people walking in the water and 720 00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:43,640 it's like knee deep. Like it's like I cannot get a 721 00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:48,160 grasp of how flooded the city. Was and later we're going to see 722 00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:51,640 a, a, a, a piece of the city that has at least like 200 feet 723 00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:55,240 of water. Yeah, like it's an amount of 724 00:41:55,240 --> 00:41:58,960 water that could never have been in that sewer system. 725 00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:03,240 Even if you clogged that son of a bitch from from tailpipe to 726 00:42:03,240 --> 00:42:06,560 tailpipe with dragonflies, you are not getting that much water 727 00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:10,680 out of those sewers displaced. The only thing that I was able 728 00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:14,320 to to think about at the time was like, it is an island 729 00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,680 nation. I don't know. 730 00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:19,520 They just thought it would look real cool to have most of this 731 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:22,560 be underwater. They played Sonic Adventure and 732 00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:25,040 they were all about it. You know, real. 733 00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,160 It is cool. It is a cool way to raise the 734 00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:28,760 stakes. Yeah. 735 00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,960 It's and and to tie imagery. Natural disaster, Yeah. 736 00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:35,920 Yeah, and if you want to do the whole, well, dragonfly larva are 737 00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:40,240 aquatic before they, you know, become their adult forms. 738 00:42:40,240 --> 00:42:47,240 Like it's it's again like a good idea, but the sewer's flooded 739 00:42:47,240 --> 00:42:49,320 because there's lots of dragonflies. 740 00:42:49,720 --> 00:42:51,040 Makes no sense. It ain't the way. 741 00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,480 Yeah, but like big dragonfly needs big water. 742 00:42:54,480 --> 00:43:01,280 I think it does work. Yeah, So Kudo makes a tiny 743 00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:04,880 search Godzilla system because, I mean, he can make anything 744 00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:05,600 tiny. I don't know. 745 00:43:06,240 --> 00:43:11,280 It has an infrared camera. So they they evacuate the city. 746 00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:12,960 Well, he's, well, he's getting this thing ready. 747 00:43:13,240 --> 00:43:16,320 And one thing of note that happens when they evacuate the 748 00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:19,440 city is that they have an entire boat of Yaru girls. 749 00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:26,360 Just love the shots. Love this shot as a certified as 750 00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:30,160 as a certified fucking Gonguro Disrespector. 751 00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:37,000 This is such a funny shot. Very extinct now, so. 752 00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:40,320 Thank God. Worst form of gyaru fashion? 753 00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:46,920 So they, they find the the AG cluster in Shibuya and then they 754 00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:49,960 managed to find Godzilla and they go, OK, we're going to use 755 00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,000 the dimension tide against it, which is. 756 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:57,240 The dimension a real good there's a real good like Level 3 757 00:43:57,240 --> 00:44:00,440 super attack in a fighting game move y'all so. 758 00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:03,880 Good. I really liked the like 759 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,760 underwater drone shot like going through the city to find that 760 00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:11,720 big cluster of eggs. I loved that imagery of like 761 00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:15,000 that metropolitan OH. Yeah, it was super. 762 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:18,200 I get the imagery rips. Yeah. 763 00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:22,920 And then, sorry, have we gotten to like the guys shooting at the 764 00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:25,600 building that's covered in all the dragonflies? 765 00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:28,920 I didn't make a particular note of that. 766 00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:31,840 But I do love it because nobody can aim. 767 00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:35,520 But yeah. Here's I think the dragonflies. 768 00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:39,840 Dragonflies like, grouped together like mayflies in a 769 00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:42,840 mating season, right? Just like covering this building 770 00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:45,600 and dudes are unloading automatic weapons at it. 771 00:44:45,720 --> 00:44:47,280 Nothing. You don't hit one. 772 00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:48,360 Yeah. Really. 773 00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:49,280 Nothing. Yeah. 774 00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:54,400 And this is where, like, I really appreciated this idea of 775 00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:58,720 the black hole gun because it is the perfect weapon for Godzilla. 776 00:44:58,720 --> 00:45:02,720 Like, let's just delete him. But would have no effect on a 777 00:45:02,720 --> 00:45:04,320 swarm of bugs. Yeah, right. 778 00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:07,600 Like, it's a weapon designed for one big dude. 779 00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:10,640 And any other monster they had put in this movie, you would 780 00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:12,760 have just been like, well, OK, They'll just. 781 00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:15,360 They'll just. Vaporize Godzilla and then 782 00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:16,920 they'll black hole this other big guy. 783 00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:19,680 But you can't do that to this giant swarm. 784 00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:24,200 I thought that was really cool. Yeah, yeah, my, my main note 785 00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:26,040 about that is that is that I wrote there are a lot of 786 00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:28,640 dragonflies in Shibuya and they all fan out and fly away. 787 00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:31,120 So I didn't mention that they were being shot at, but. 788 00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:35,280 Unfortunately, the swarm looks horrible. 789 00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:40,240 Yeah. This is such an awkward era for 790 00:45:40,240 --> 00:45:44,320 CGI. It just like some of the stuff 791 00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:48,200 works and some of it like anytime we saw a big swarm or 792 00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:51,040 them all on the building and it's all just like copy pasted 793 00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:54,520 the same bug. Yeah, it's that. 794 00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:57,400 But here's the problem too. Is that like some of the 795 00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:01,760 practical stuff is a bit messy too that we will eventually talk 796 00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:05,960 about so. Yeah, I, I, it's so interesting 797 00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:11,920 because Godzilla, like the, the thing it's most famous for is 798 00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:15,480 it's like practicals. It's miniatures, guys in suits 799 00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:19,560 and it's all considered like hokey and old timey. 800 00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:24,520 But then in this case, a lot of the practical stuff, even from 801 00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:26,560 the 60s, seventies, 80s or whatever. 802 00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:29,520 Actually holds up better than this 2000s era. 803 00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:32,360 Yeah. Well, so what's funny is like, I 804 00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:37,240 am a big believer that a lot of attitudes about the production 805 00:46:37,240 --> 00:46:40,840 design of of older Godzilla movies is basically just steeped 806 00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:43,360 in racism. Like, I'm not afraid to just use 807 00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:47,760 the artwork here because you go back and watch those and 808 00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:52,840 recognize how much work and craft went into that, how well 809 00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:57,000 these these, you know, directors and special effects designers 810 00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:03,000 knew how to light, how to shoot right, how to frame, you know, 811 00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:07,320 everything they were doing. Like it puts a lot of American 812 00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:11,760 sci-fi of the era to shame. And like, then we get to this 813 00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:13,480 movie, right? And Godzilla 2000 is kind of the 814 00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:17,040 same way where the Godzilla suit is great. 815 00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:19,800 A lot of the miniature work is really good. 816 00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:24,920 The compositing, the ways they interact, the awkward CG feels 817 00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:27,280 really out of place. Right. 818 00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:29,000 Yeah. Well, it's because it doesn't 819 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:31,040 have the lighting and the reflections. 820 00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:32,880 It doesn't have the depth. It all looks so flat. 821 00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:35,760 And that's just like sort of a symptom of the limits of the 822 00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:36,600 technology. Yeah. 823 00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:39,880 In a sad way that it doesn't. The 98 Tristar Godzilla looks so 824 00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:43,560 much better than anything in these in Godzilla 2000 or this 825 00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:46,600 movie. I hate that I just said 826 00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:48,240 something nice about Godzilla 98. 827 00:47:48,240 --> 00:47:54,240 I hate that. Well their plan is that they had 828 00:47:54,240 --> 00:47:56,480 to lower Godzilla on the land and then fire it. 829 00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:58,680 Which makes sense because if they fire it in the ocean that 830 00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:00,440 would be worse you. Just get rid of a bunch of 831 00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:03,080 ocean. Hey guys, we just lowered ocean 832 00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:07,680 levels by 37 feet. Hey, that'll be useful soon. 833 00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:10,600 Yeah, later. We got to save Miami. 834 00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:20,720 So they choose the island of Kikanjima to to do this and Kudo 835 00:48:20,720 --> 00:48:23,720 shows off his really cool cyber deck with like a custom OS and 836 00:48:23,720 --> 00:48:25,840 it reminded me that I really want to make a cyber deck you. 837 00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,600 Want to make a custom OS that runs off an anime made girl? 838 00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:32,320 It it's a nurse. Anime nurse girl. 839 00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:33,240 Excuse me. That's right. 840 00:48:33,240 --> 00:48:37,000 Yes, because she has the needle. Yeah, some very classic you 841 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:38,080 would. Prefer a made girl? 842 00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:40,280 Going on here. Of course I would. 843 00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:48,440 So Yoshi Zara, words are hard. Yoshi Zawa says that the weapon 844 00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:52,880 isn't ready to fire from space, but Chi and Chi and Kudo are 845 00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:55,760 just like they're blown off, like we have to do it. 846 00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:59,840 They fire weapons at Godzilla to try to draw it towards land, 847 00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:04,920 including a photon gun, and Godzilla retaliates with atomic 848 00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:10,720 breath, killing a few people. While they're doing this, T&T is 849 00:49:10,720 --> 00:49:14,160 being used to clear Shibuya of the eggs and this is where there 850 00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:17,360 are a bunch of dragonflies all over the the buildings and they 851 00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:18,880 fire at. Rudnake's making. 852 00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:21,680 Huge. Strides in getting rid of bugs. 853 00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:29,080 So they begin the firing sequence the But when this 854 00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:31,520 happens, the dragonfly swarm that just flew away from those 855 00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,400 people is flying like all over Godzilla. 856 00:49:34,720 --> 00:49:36,920 And because there's a bunch of dragonflies everywhere, the 857 00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:38,840 targeting system can't lock onto Godzilla. 858 00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:42,280 That was weird to me because I think there isn't. 859 00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:43,960 Aren't they tracking like the bullet thing? 860 00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:45,240 Yeah, that's right. It's. 861 00:49:45,240 --> 00:49:47,400 Not visual. It's also. 862 00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:50,000 A radio transmitter. It's not a visual. 863 00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:52,960 That's so, yeah, that's so funny. 864 00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:55,240 I thought it was clever, but you're right, that makes no 865 00:49:55,240 --> 00:49:58,080 sense. Yeah, and like it's supposed to 866 00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:02,000 be radio also. And the the last movie we 867 00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,880 watched before this was talking about what happens to radios 868 00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:06,680 when they're near things that are radioactive. 869 00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:08,920 Whatever. So I. 870 00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:09,960 Can't. It's almost like I can't. 871 00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:11,880 Believe the drivers. Almost like chaff. 872 00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:14,480 Yeah. Like they show us the point of 873 00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:16,600 view, like from the satellite. It's like, oh, I can't get a 874 00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:18,760 clear shot, but it's almost like CAPTCHA. 875 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:22,600 Yeah, yeah. It's like the bugs are like 876 00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:25,080 distort a distortion field. It's like chaff. 877 00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:28,280 Yeah. I don't know it it works for me. 878 00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:33,120 Yeah, fair enough. So they they bug Godzilla enough 879 00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:35,600 that Godzilla they start to atomic breath on them. 880 00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:37,840 Yeah, I wrote it that way on purpose. 881 00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:44,880 The bug swarm Godzilla and it does not atomic pulse them. 882 00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:49,120 For some reason he just doesn't think to do that, but instead 883 00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:53,000 just struggles a lot while the the they drain energy from him. 884 00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:57,760 Once Godzilla's killed enough of them, they finally are able to 885 00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:02,480 fire the weapon, but it doesn't kill Godzilla because the shot 886 00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:09,400 missed and. Yeah, does it though, Because 887 00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:11,040 he's buried I. Think he just digs into the 888 00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:13,960 gravel sort of? Or is he just far enough away 889 00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:16,840 that he is covered in dirt? Also, that shouldn't matter, 890 00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:20,320 it's a black hole. It's a black hole, it's not a 891 00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:24,360 bomb. Well, that's right, right That I 892 00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:27,120 mean like their, their explanation's like, oh, we 893 00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:29,640 missed. But you know what? 894 00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:34,040 It should be really hard to miss with a fucking black hole. 895 00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:39,640 I don't think they did miss. Yeah, I don't. 896 00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:43,240 Godzilla just framed perfect. Parried it, Yeah. 897 00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:47,120 Yeah, something, something like that. 898 00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:52,480 Well they they miss with it I guess and it also takes an hour 899 00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:56,240 to cool the gun in space. Sure. 900 00:51:56,720 --> 00:51:59,840 Hey, how does Yeah, how does a black hole create heat? 901 00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:11,440 God I love this fucking movie. Well, anyway, they're convinced 902 00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:14,600 that Godzilla will come to Tokyo to destroy the Plasma project, 903 00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:18,240 because they kept the plasma project actually. 904 00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:23,400 But back in Shibuya, the Dragonfly swarm has gathered 905 00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:27,440 around this huge cocoon, and they're like any energy they've 906 00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:30,240 taken from Godzilla they put into the cocoon. 907 00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:34,800 Suji Mori tries to blame Kudo for things falling apart. 908 00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:37,080 Even though, like, Kudo was like, I told you it wasn't ready 909 00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:39,800 to fire. So, you know, whatever. 910 00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:45,560 Did my job, yeah. Yeah, Kudo's working on the on 911 00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:48,800 the mini SGS. Still, all the electronics in 912 00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:52,960 the area are having issues, and Kudo realizes it's because there 913 00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:54,760 must be something magnetic in the lake. 914 00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:58,880 And as they discuss this, Megagiris, the the biggest 915 00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:04,440 dragonfly, rises from the lake. And and the swarm dies. 916 00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:06,800 Yes, Swarm's gone now, basically. 917 00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:10,040 And thank God, that problem solved itself. 918 00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:12,960 Because. No one else was going to. 919 00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:16,680 Like honestly I think the swarm is more dangerous than the one 920 00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:20,560 big because like this is it. It ruins the black hole thing 921 00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:22,720 because now you'll just shoot that thing with the black hole. 922 00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:26,960 Yeah, yeah. But yeah, they just, they gave 923 00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:28,400 off their energy and they all just died. 924 00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:29,760 So good problem. Solved. 925 00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:35,200 Well Megagiras's wings start moving so quickly it creates a 926 00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:39,320 high pitched whine and then like jets off and destroys a bunch of 927 00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:41,400 buildings with the shockwave. Which that part was pretty cool. 928 00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:44,200 It looks so bad though. It looks. 929 00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:48,320 Here's the thing. So I got a lot to say about the 930 00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:53,400 reveal of Megagiras, right? The sequence of the dragonfly is 931 00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:57,560 all like cult like dive bombing the water and like struggling 932 00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:00,400 down to the cocoon and like giving all of their life force 933 00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:04,920 to it to like empower it and dying and then Mega Gear's being 934 00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:06,600 born. Great. 935 00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:13,360 Mega Gear is design not 100% working for me as insectoid, you 936 00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:15,760 know what I mean? It does have a crocodile mouth 937 00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:19,240 for some reason. And the biggest wings you've 938 00:54:19,240 --> 00:54:22,120 ever seen that do not move at all, correct? 939 00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:25,800 They don't move. It it flaps, it never looks like 940 00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:28,480 it's flying. It looks like a mistake. 941 00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:30,080 It looks like it's like a placeholder. 942 00:54:31,680 --> 00:54:34,920 You can see the strings in at least one shot, which is a thing 943 00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:41,200 that has not happened in I, I, I genuinely think maybe one of the 944 00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:47,440 early 60s movies maybe. Like we have not seen a string 945 00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:51,200 in a long time and we can see the strings in this made in 2000 946 00:54:51,200 --> 00:54:52,640 movie. Really depressing. 947 00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:58,080 And then the wings are at different angles, right? 948 00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:01,080 Like whenever it's flying, one of the wings is like out mostly 949 00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:04,320 to the side and moves up and down at like these angles. 950 00:55:04,720 --> 00:55:07,480 And then the other one's just like angled a little higher for 951 00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:10,600 no reason. So it just it's like 952 00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:15,400 asymmetrical wings. It's it's Oh my God, it's the 953 00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:17,280 effects work on mega gears. It's not a great. 954 00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:21,920 Puppet Yeah, I agree. I I mean, obviously a flying 955 00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:24,400 thing is hard, but it it just it. 956 00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:27,760 Never doing this shit great back in the 60s. 957 00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:31,280 Yeah, they were you. Know what's wild to Yeah, like 958 00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:35,360 the original Mothra in the 1950s looks so much better than this, 959 00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:38,400 and it's a shame because there's a lot of it. 960 00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:41,720 Mega Gear is that I should really love as a monster, right? 961 00:55:41,720 --> 00:55:45,600 As a queen of a swarm type scenario, it is kind of an 962 00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:48,120 objectively pretty cool design, even if it doesn't read 963 00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:51,880 Dragonfly. I love some of the gimmicks. 964 00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:55,800 I love the idea of a monster that is just stupid fast and 965 00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:59,200 like hypersonic, you know, and, and and vibrations and stuff. 966 00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:02,800 A lot of cool shit going on. This is a an almost kind of 967 00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:07,880 mundane monster. It just special effects wise is 968 00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:10,160 pulled off so poorly. Right. 969 00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:13,400 Yeah, it kind of looks like a mutilisk. 970 00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:16,560 Oh yeah. Oh yeah, that's a good call. 971 00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:23,600 I think, I think we passed this part already when when Kudo 972 00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:30,320 after they fail and like the the head of the anti Godzilla's is 973 00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:32,680 all pissed off at them and they're all blaming each other 974 00:56:33,240 --> 00:56:37,040 and Kudo tells him machines need fine adjustments by men. 975 00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:40,400 Did you catch that? Yeah, yeah. 976 00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:41,360 So. That's weird, right? 977 00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:50,760 Like it is only him, Like there is no scenario where a woman is 978 00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:51,960 going to be making the adjustments. 979 00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:54,720 Why is he saying this is a man's job? 980 00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:58,880 It's his job. It's his job like this. 981 00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:06,040 Movie is insane. Yeah, I don't know, Everyone's 982 00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:08,200 just like, needlessly sexist out of nowhere. 983 00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:13,920 Very strange. Yeah, well he is injured now and 984 00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:16,640 he he may be the only one left alive after all that. 985 00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:23,120 Godzilla heads towards Tokyo and they evacuate everyone and 986 00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:26,680 Godzilla hates clean energy so he's going straight for this 987 00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:30,600 plasma energy. They they try to lure Godzilla 988 00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:37,480 to a safer location but then Megagiris shows up and it took 989 00:57:37,480 --> 00:57:40,840 me a minute to understand that the weird choppy frames were 990 00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:43,200 supposed to be from Megagiris perspective. 991 00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:48,200 Yeah, yeah. But Even so, I don't fucking 992 00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:51,280 like it. Just do the bug eye thing where 993 00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:55,360 it's like a yeah, like put a put a stupid filter over it. 994 00:57:55,400 --> 00:58:00,920 This weird fucking PowerPoint slideshow is hideous. 995 00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:04,880 It feels so fucking lazy like. I think they're just trying to 996 00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:08,040 convey that Mega Gears is really fast so everything else is slow 997 00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:10,400 to hit but. But The thing is then they 998 00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:16,600 should have shot everything like they should have like crazy, 999 00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:22,400 overcranked the film and then just shot like slow MO, I guess. 1000 00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:24,040 I don't know. God, it doesn't. 1001 00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:32,560 Fuck, man. Yeah, Godzilla gets sidewinded 1002 00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:36,640 and knocked over and they finally start fighting and mega 1003 00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:39,360 gears like Revs up. Godzilla charges, they're 1004 00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:44,280 finally able to recharge the gun, Godzilla misses and 1005 00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:48,440 destroys a building and Megagiris tries to clamp through 1006 00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:52,400 Godzilla's neck. And like they say that Megagiris 1007 00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:58,000 frequency makes the weapon inoperable so they can't fire 1008 00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:04,760 it. OK so Megagiris stabs Godzilla 1009 00:59:05,040 --> 00:59:09,720 and starts draining energy like shoving shoving him around. 1010 00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:13,440 Godzilla falls underneath part of a building that Megagurus 1011 00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:17,000 collapse on top of it after doing like this weird evil face 1012 00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:22,680 warp they're like. Yeah it they make it smile by 1013 00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:25,400 doing like a stretch effect in Photoshop like. 1014 00:59:25,960 --> 00:59:32,640 Yeah, it was really weird. The the the structure of this 1015 00:59:32,640 --> 00:59:35,040 fight scene is like very typical. 1016 00:59:35,040 --> 00:59:40,280 It's like the the hero is Godzilla, he's getting trounced 1017 00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:44,040 and then he comes back in the second-half after learning his 1018 00:59:44,040 --> 00:59:47,360 enemies movements and wins the fight. 1019 00:59:47,600 --> 00:59:51,680 But in the first half of this, I'm thinking there is no way 1020 00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:55,560 Godzilla wins this fight 'cause this thing, first of all, it's 1021 00:59:55,560 --> 01:00:00,120 way faster than him, it's floor in him, it's it's stronger than 1022 01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:02,200 him. It picks him up and throws him. 1023 01:00:02,440 --> 01:00:07,800 It stamps him right in the FUPA. It stabs him in the FUPA and 1024 01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:12,000 drains his energy, taking away his biggest weapon, right? 1025 01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:15,280 Like. It it does everything better 1026 01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:16,920 than Godzilla. And I feel like in the 1027 01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:21,240 second-half it just like stops doing all of its cool moves. 1028 01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:25,200 Like it would have killed Godzilla if it had just kept 1029 01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:28,160 doing what it started doing in the first half of this fight. 1030 01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:30,440 But in the second-half, he's just like, I'm going to fly at 1031 01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:33,880 him straight on. Like here's my next move. 1032 01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:36,520 I'm going to fly straight at Godzilla's face a couple of 1033 01:00:36,520 --> 01:00:36,960 times. What? 1034 01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:43,080 Could go wrong. So they charged at each other 1035 01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:47,320 and they pass each other Godzilla's spine like cuts, one 1036 01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:51,160 of mega gurus claws, you know, and. 1037 01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:56,400 In in one of those in one of these fucking like like anime 1038 01:00:56,400 --> 01:01:00,320 ass like they clash and then they they like sit there for a 1039 01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:02,360 moment and then the claw falls off. 1040 01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:05,160 Right. Or like the slice on his cheek, 1041 01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:07,320 like the first drop of blood. Genuinely sick. 1042 01:01:07,400 --> 01:01:10,120 Yeah. It's like Graham, you killed it 1043 01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:16,280 today, Sir. Megagiras gets slammed like at 1044 01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:18,360 Sonic speed, like through a building. 1045 01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:25,680 Kudo shows up to fix the weapon and Godzilla's still throwing 1046 01:01:25,680 --> 01:01:30,480 himself at Megagiras. Kudo's operating system 1047 01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:34,040 eventually fixes the gun 'cause it's like a thing operating 1048 01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:37,160 systems do. And apparently he named the 1049 01:01:37,160 --> 01:01:40,080 little nurse girl after Suji Mori 'cause that's a very normal 1050 01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:42,600 thing you should do. Yeah, yeah. 1051 01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:47,080 Yeah. Before, before he fixes it. 1052 01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:53,560 Kudo, who we have been told has a fractured arm, rips his cast 1053 01:01:53,560 --> 01:01:56,880 off. He's been wearing this cast for 1054 01:01:57,080 --> 01:02:03,480 an hour, maybe rips off of his plaster cast so that he can type 1055 01:02:03,480 --> 01:02:06,400 faster. I fucking love this shit. 1056 01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:10,720 He's got to type faster so he can hack better. 1057 01:02:11,720 --> 01:02:19,240 Yeah, Mega Garrus ends up shooting a fireball, and the 1058 01:02:19,240 --> 01:02:23,680 fight basically continues until Mega Garrus's Stinger gets 1059 01:02:23,680 --> 01:02:26,520 caught in Godzilla's mouth and Godzilla just bites it off. 1060 01:02:28,480 --> 01:02:32,040 Yeah, then after a couple blasts, it's basically over. 1061 01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:35,160 Yeah, mega gear. This is not built to take any 1062 01:02:35,160 --> 01:02:39,400 hits whatsoever. Yeah, and then is to say that 1063 01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:41,840 the fight is over. Godzilla just continues to 1064 01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:47,000 rampage through the city. The Griffin relaunches and heads 1065 01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:50,440 to Shibuya. The counter Godzilla leader 1066 01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:53,600 leaves because he's hiding something and meanwhile the 1067 01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:55,360 satellite starts falling out of the sky. 1068 01:02:55,360 --> 01:02:57,400 Like all this stuff just is just happening now. 1069 01:02:57,400 --> 01:02:59,960 Why is the satellite falling out of the sky? 1070 01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:03,160 Well, because the the wings vibrated too hard down on Earth. 1071 01:03:04,200 --> 01:03:05,840 Yeah. Is that, was that the 1072 01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:06,560 connection? Yeah. 1073 01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:11,560 Yeah, Mega Gear just did a thing and it caused the satellite to 1074 01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:14,480 fall. The satellite, That's that's a 1075 01:03:14,480 --> 01:03:17,520 thing that could happen. No, just that one. 1076 01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:20,800 Just that 10. Just that one. 1077 01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:27,560 So I think 1 contention this this movie has is you have to 1078 01:03:27,560 --> 01:03:29,320 assume that the atmosphere isn't real. 1079 01:03:30,480 --> 01:03:32,640 That's true. Because otherwise you can't 1080 01:03:32,640 --> 01:03:34,200 really fire things through it without. 1081 01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:36,720 Like if you're firing a black hole through the atmosphere, you 1082 01:03:36,720 --> 01:03:38,800 eat through the atmosphere first of all. 1083 01:03:39,600 --> 01:03:45,600 Yeah. But whenever everyone learns 1084 01:03:45,600 --> 01:03:48,440 that they that they had an additional plasma energy reactor 1085 01:03:48,440 --> 01:03:51,120 that was being kept in the Bureau of Science, which is the 1086 01:03:51,120 --> 01:03:54,080 reason Godzilla came back at all and that's why the leader left 1087 01:03:54,080 --> 01:03:56,240 because he was high well. He got he got the plans in a 1088 01:03:56,640 --> 01:04:04,360 fucking FOIA request. Right, the weapon can fire so 1089 01:04:04,360 --> 01:04:09,280 long as they can walk on to it. Suji Mori gets in the Griffin, 1090 01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:11,720 flies over to Godzilla and is like wait. 1091 01:04:11,760 --> 01:04:12,600 Wait, wait. I'm sorry. 1092 01:04:12,960 --> 01:04:15,720 Yeah, go ahead. But what is the contention with 1093 01:04:15,720 --> 01:04:18,400 the leader? He so this secret energy base? 1094 01:04:18,560 --> 01:04:21,600 So the idea was they weren't supposed to have any more plasma 1095 01:04:21,600 --> 01:04:25,840 energy, but he secretly built one because profits. 1096 01:04:26,320 --> 01:04:30,040 He built one because profits and he wanted to be like you know, 1097 01:04:30,160 --> 01:04:32,840 we'll have the secret in Japan will be a superpower we. 1098 01:04:32,920 --> 01:04:36,960 Also want to point out this is ostensibly like a very efficient 1099 01:04:36,960 --> 01:04:40,800 green energy source. So like, it is a solution to 1100 01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:44,600 like a lot of problems that the Godzilla franchise has heavily 1101 01:04:44,600 --> 01:04:48,560 cared about in the past. Yeah, but it sets him up as the 1102 01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:51,240 villain for. Doing you're a bad guy for 1103 01:04:51,240 --> 01:04:55,320 investing in clean energy because it makes Godzilla mad, 1104 01:04:56,040 --> 01:04:58,320 Yeah. And so that has. 1105 01:04:58,320 --> 01:05:02,960 A Republican donor. So when they are confronting him 1106 01:05:03,240 --> 01:05:06,240 and he's like, well, that's I put this team together to deal 1107 01:05:06,240 --> 01:05:08,120 with Godzilla, this wouldn't have been a problem. 1108 01:05:08,320 --> 01:05:09,640 But do you remember what he says? 1109 01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:13,040 He he calls them a gang of asses. 1110 01:05:13,040 --> 01:05:16,120 God, what a great, what a fantastic. 1111 01:05:16,680 --> 01:05:19,680 That's the only way I'm referring to NDGC from now on. 1112 01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:23,240 Just a gang of asses. Yeah, talking about video game. 1113 01:05:23,240 --> 01:05:26,320 Headlines. I love that so much. 1114 01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:34,160 Yeah, I'm, I'm keeping that one. So Suji Mori flies the Griffin 1115 01:05:34,160 --> 01:05:37,920 over Godzilla and it's like, OK, you can use the Griffin to 1116 01:05:37,920 --> 01:05:40,600 target Godzilla. I don't know why they couldn't 1117 01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:44,920 do literally anything else, but OK, so they do that. 1118 01:05:45,080 --> 01:05:46,960 She. I thought, yeah, I. 1119 01:05:46,960 --> 01:05:50,080 Thought the plane could get close enough to the satellite 1120 01:05:50,080 --> 01:05:54,000 that the satellite could target it better and then once they 1121 01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:55,880 targeted the plane then the plane would fly in. 1122 01:05:56,160 --> 01:05:58,640 That's how I took. Maybe. 1123 01:05:59,480 --> 01:06:01,960 Maybe. That's probably the best answer. 1124 01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:08,320 Any of us have it? Was it is a stretch for sure. 1125 01:06:09,720 --> 01:06:13,640 So they do that. She ejects just in time and 1126 01:06:14,560 --> 01:06:18,680 Godzilla's gone. Kudo goes goes back to his 1127 01:06:18,680 --> 01:06:21,680 little machines. Suji Mori comes in with 1128 01:06:21,680 --> 01:06:23,800 potential evidence that could Godzilla survive. 1129 01:06:23,800 --> 01:06:29,360 Because you can't kill Godzilla. It's not like we saw something 1130 01:06:29,360 --> 01:06:32,080 earlier in the movie where it appeared they hit Godzilla and 1131 01:06:32,080 --> 01:06:35,360 then he popped out from underground, right? 1132 01:06:35,400 --> 01:06:37,000 That wouldn't happen a second time. 1133 01:06:38,200 --> 01:06:42,320 And also also, they've now fired this thing three times. 1134 01:06:42,440 --> 01:06:46,240 The first time it created a little wormy hole to the, I 1135 01:06:46,240 --> 01:06:50,360 guess the. Fucking shadow realm, yeah. 1136 01:06:50,720 --> 01:06:54,640 The second and third time nothing like it's that's only 1137 01:06:54,640 --> 01:06:57,840 when you black hole in elementary school, yeah, is when 1138 01:06:57,840 --> 01:07:00,720 you get when you get the wormhole the you know the the. 1139 01:07:00,720 --> 01:07:03,560 Elementary school 2 times you fire flies is. 1140 01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:08,600 Of course. The the other two times you fire 1141 01:07:08,600 --> 01:07:11,160 it, no problem. Right. 1142 01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:14,840 Right. Well, they roll credits. 1143 01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:18,360 The boy finally gets his bug samples back where they're 1144 01:07:18,360 --> 01:07:22,320 supposed to be, and Godzilla didn't die. 1145 01:07:22,920 --> 01:07:23,520 The end. And then? 1146 01:07:23,840 --> 01:07:26,680 Presumably a child gets killed in the Godzilla attack. 1147 01:07:26,720 --> 01:07:32,960 I guess these nameless child. So before the post credits, so 1148 01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:36,760 like, kudos back at his, he's doing his little magic tricks 1149 01:07:36,760 --> 01:07:40,000 and his microbots, and she comes in and she invites him to come 1150 01:07:40,000 --> 01:07:41,520 back because Godzilla's not dead. 1151 01:07:41,520 --> 01:07:43,160 And he's like, Nah, I don't think so. 1152 01:07:43,760 --> 01:07:45,480 And he's like, oh, OK, I'm just kidding. 1153 01:07:46,360 --> 01:07:49,680 She punches him in the arm. He goes ow, my broken arm. 1154 01:07:49,680 --> 01:07:53,600 And she goes, oh, I'm so sorry. Freeze frame on her face rolled. 1155 01:07:53,640 --> 01:07:54,680 On it. Great. 1156 01:07:54,680 --> 01:07:58,760 Great fucking bizarre 70s sitcom. 1157 01:07:58,760 --> 01:08:01,480 End of an episode ass editing choice, yeah. 1158 01:08:02,320 --> 01:08:04,640 Utterly bizarre ending to this movie. 1159 01:08:05,720 --> 01:08:08,640 Oh sorry, freeze frame. They need to play like a happy 1160 01:08:08,640 --> 01:08:11,520 saxophone at that exact moment. Yeah. 1161 01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:18,680 Oh God, this movie's insane. It's bad. 1162 01:08:18,800 --> 01:08:21,640 Like, let's make this abundant. It's a bad movie. 1163 01:08:22,200 --> 01:08:25,200 It's pretty bad. This is bad in a super 1164 01:08:25,200 --> 01:08:29,840 entertaining way, unlike like Godzilla versus Space, 1165 01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:32,680 Godzilla's bad in a way that I just don't want to watch it 1166 01:08:33,160 --> 01:08:34,640 right. This is. 1167 01:08:34,640 --> 01:08:40,080 Hilarious it is so plot oriented. 1168 01:08:40,800 --> 01:08:46,040 And unlike a lot of the 70s Godzilla movies, like those were 1169 01:08:46,040 --> 01:08:50,040 funny because they were funny. This is funny because it's bad. 1170 01:08:50,040 --> 01:08:53,080 Like they did not set out to make a funny movie. 1171 01:08:53,279 --> 01:08:56,120 They tried to make sci-fi peek. They thought they were getting 1172 01:08:56,120 --> 01:08:58,520 Urubochi up in this bitch and they fucked it. 1173 01:08:59,359 --> 01:09:05,040 And it's so good as a result. The only thing that really drags 1174 01:09:05,040 --> 01:09:11,279 it down for me is like the bad CGI stuff is not funny, it's 1175 01:09:11,319 --> 01:09:16,160 just bad, you know? It's, it's not like a lot of low 1176 01:09:16,160 --> 01:09:19,319 budget sci-fi stuff where you can kind of laugh along with the 1177 01:09:19,319 --> 01:09:21,520 bad effects. It just doesn't work. 1178 01:09:21,520 --> 01:09:24,200 Well because the shitty mega gears effect is is great. 1179 01:09:24,560 --> 01:09:27,640 I love when that stupid thing has a has a fucking string 1180 01:09:27,640 --> 01:09:32,439 showing or they like stretch AJ peg sideways to make the mouth 1181 01:09:32,439 --> 01:09:36,720 move. Like I love that shit That's bad 1182 01:09:36,720 --> 01:09:42,040 and hilarious way. So you know, it's kind of talk 1183 01:09:42,040 --> 01:09:45,479 about the monsters really briefly, right, Because, you 1184 01:09:45,479 --> 01:09:47,600 know, we've talked about like a lot of the effects work being 1185 01:09:47,600 --> 01:09:50,960 very hit or miss. Let's start with Godzilla 1186 01:09:50,960 --> 01:09:55,280 himself. So this is just like a report of 1187 01:09:55,280 --> 01:09:57,680 the Godzilla 2000 suit, but I think colored slightly 1188 01:09:57,680 --> 01:10:02,440 differently. And I I got this is it's still 1189 01:10:02,440 --> 01:10:05,520 good. It still hits like a. 1190 01:10:05,920 --> 01:10:08,360 I. Love the Godzilla. 2000 So much 1191 01:10:08,360 --> 01:10:10,720 person. Yes, it's got the little cat 1192 01:10:10,720 --> 01:10:14,720 ears and the the the much more elongated crocodilian face, the 1193 01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:19,120 gigantic sharp spikes. This is the silhouette this in 1194 01:10:19,120 --> 01:10:23,440 Godzilla 2000 that we are using for Castle Bravo's logo. 1195 01:10:24,480 --> 01:10:27,720 It's just iconic to me, but like. 1196 01:10:28,000 --> 01:10:31,480 I love I love how much definition is in a silhouette. 1197 01:10:31,480 --> 01:10:35,400 Sometimes they make Godzilla just look like a big turd, you 1198 01:10:35,400 --> 01:10:38,080 know, just like a big boiled lump. 1199 01:10:38,880 --> 01:10:42,480 But I love how much how angular he is in this. 1200 01:10:42,480 --> 01:10:46,760 Yeah, yeah, Godzilla has a tendency to look like a very 1201 01:10:46,760 --> 01:10:53,360 wide Cellulite laden boy. And this is a very slick design 1202 01:10:53,360 --> 01:10:56,240 that works for this very aggressive era of Godzilla. 1203 01:10:57,920 --> 01:11:00,160 But like Godzilla doesn't do anything necessarily like super, 1204 01:11:00,160 --> 01:11:03,600 like the fact that it's just Godzilla 2000 again also means 1205 01:11:03,600 --> 01:11:07,840 that there's less to say. Meanwhile, then there's the the 1206 01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:09,680 giant dragonflies, the Meganulas. 1207 01:11:11,520 --> 01:11:18,240 And what a mixed bag, right? I kind of like the puppet like 1208 01:11:18,240 --> 01:11:21,200 peace thing that they use in a couple of scenes where it's like 1209 01:11:21,480 --> 01:11:23,840 hiding on a wall over somebody or something. 1210 01:11:24,800 --> 01:11:28,280 But so much of it's CG and like you said, it's not good. 1211 01:11:28,440 --> 01:11:32,560 It's not composited well, it's not lit, it's lit too flat. 1212 01:11:33,160 --> 01:11:36,680 You see copy paste model animations all over the place. 1213 01:11:36,680 --> 01:11:41,800 Like it's ambitious and I don't know what else I wouldn't have 1214 01:11:41,800 --> 01:11:44,640 told them to do for this concept because what are they going to 1215 01:11:44,640 --> 01:11:47,880 do? Make dozens of like prop 1216 01:11:47,880 --> 01:11:49,800 dragonflies? I don't think so. 1217 01:11:49,800 --> 01:11:53,520 Like. I I just think further away less 1218 01:11:53,520 --> 01:11:56,880 detail like represent them as this horde rather than like 1219 01:11:56,880 --> 01:12:00,120 individual creatures. You know 'cause when anytime you 1220 01:12:00,120 --> 01:12:02,320 can see detail, you can see how bad the detail is. 1221 01:12:02,320 --> 01:12:04,720 Well, and you'll get these shots of them swarming around 1222 01:12:04,720 --> 01:12:06,920 Godzilla, like you said, where it's a little bit more zoomed 1223 01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:10,080 out and like, you can almost squint your eyes and it's fine. 1224 01:12:10,240 --> 01:12:12,240 But then you'll cut to, like, a close up where there's just 1225 01:12:12,240 --> 01:12:17,240 three, like, hanging out like mosquitoes on him, and the 1226 01:12:17,240 --> 01:12:20,640 energy is completely lost. Right, Right. 1227 01:12:21,080 --> 01:12:23,480 Yeah. Whereas that first scene where 1228 01:12:23,480 --> 01:12:26,920 they they crunch those two people in that house where you 1229 01:12:26,920 --> 01:12:29,040 bear, you really don't glimpse on that much. 1230 01:12:29,040 --> 01:12:33,920 It's just like these intense, close, disgusting shots of like 1231 01:12:33,920 --> 01:12:35,800 bodies being ripped apart that rules. 1232 01:12:35,800 --> 01:12:39,240 That works so well, but you don't really get to see them 1233 01:12:39,240 --> 01:12:42,800 yet. Yeah, but of course, they're 1234 01:12:42,800 --> 01:12:45,800 really just there to fill time until Megagiris herself shows 1235 01:12:45,800 --> 01:12:49,200 up. And I mean, like I said, I'm, 1236 01:12:49,320 --> 01:12:52,080 I'm such mixed opinions because like, I do kind of like Mega 1237 01:12:52,080 --> 01:12:54,680 Gear's design. It's just the Batra color 1238 01:12:54,680 --> 01:12:59,640 scheme, which works very well. It's, it's, it's honestly very 1239 01:12:59,640 --> 01:13:04,000 Batra esque in terms of like we took a bug and made it very 1240 01:13:04,000 --> 01:13:08,560 covered in ridges and spikes. We made it. 1241 01:13:09,760 --> 01:13:12,280 We made a bug that's so sick and twisted. 1242 01:13:14,960 --> 01:13:16,680 Just a look into my evil wine. It's. 1243 01:13:16,680 --> 01:13:23,400 Like a normal bug to me. I liked those moments where it 1244 01:13:23,400 --> 01:13:26,960 leaned into horror, like I mentioned with the alley, and 1245 01:13:26,960 --> 01:13:31,720 then at the beginning of the the last fight where this thing's 1246 01:13:31,720 --> 01:13:33,560 zooming around, Godzilla can't find him. 1247 01:13:33,560 --> 01:13:37,800 There's a really fun like Godzilla POV shot, like a 1248 01:13:37,920 --> 01:13:41,680 Godzilla Vision where it's, it goes totally silent and he's 1249 01:13:41,680 --> 01:13:44,520 just looking in a circle around the empty sky and then all of a 1250 01:13:44,520 --> 01:13:48,800 sudden this thing is in his face super close up and it's such a 1251 01:13:48,800 --> 01:13:51,960 creepy looking thing. I think when they when they did 1252 01:13:51,960 --> 01:13:54,920 do those sort of like horror moments, it worked really well. 1253 01:13:55,840 --> 01:14:00,360 Yeah, I and and what's funny is that they can't figure out how 1254 01:14:00,360 --> 01:14:02,720 to keep their tone right, because you have that, but then 1255 01:14:02,720 --> 01:14:06,280 you have like anime ass moments in the fight. 1256 01:14:06,280 --> 01:14:09,880 You have Megagiras like flying up above that suspended pyramid 1257 01:14:10,160 --> 01:14:14,480 and doing like a fucking WWE like like showing off to the 1258 01:14:14,480 --> 01:14:16,160 crowd. Like, Anil, I'm about to have 1259 01:14:16,160 --> 01:14:21,320 smacked us down on this jabroni like before doing it like, well, 1260 01:14:21,320 --> 01:14:24,600 Godzilla just sits there like, Oh no, he's going to do it 1261 01:14:25,960 --> 01:14:28,200 right. And Godzilla does like a off the 1262 01:14:28,200 --> 01:14:32,000 top rope move too, right? Like does the full body slam 1263 01:14:32,000 --> 01:14:34,680 It's. It like it can't figure out what 1264 01:14:34,680 --> 01:14:39,800 it wants to be and I wish it had pick a tone and stuck with it 1265 01:14:40,480 --> 01:14:44,280 more of the movie was batshit insane on purpose. 1266 01:14:44,280 --> 01:14:46,880 The way that the most of the fight is. 1267 01:14:47,800 --> 01:14:50,760 Like I almost would have leaned into that more right? 1268 01:14:51,360 --> 01:14:54,400 Alternatively, if they had just stuck with the more horror tone, 1269 01:14:54,920 --> 01:14:58,480 I think this would white Godzilla 2000 be messy but 1270 01:14:58,480 --> 01:15:03,520 interesting in what it was trying to do and it it just 1271 01:15:03,520 --> 01:15:06,000 can't pick a lane. Yeah, yeah. 1272 01:15:07,000 --> 01:15:13,480 So I did tell you all up front there is a shot like I do as 1273 01:15:13,480 --> 01:15:17,600 much research as I can into what happened with these movies. 1274 01:15:17,720 --> 01:15:20,040 What what is the context that they are put in? 1275 01:15:20,040 --> 01:15:22,840 What caused certain decisions to be made? 1276 01:15:23,320 --> 01:15:31,040 There is so little about this movie out there, I think as a 1277 01:15:31,040 --> 01:15:35,600 lot of that has to do maybe with a lack of interest in this movie 1278 01:15:35,600 --> 01:15:40,880 in general in the West and well, in Japan too, right? 1279 01:15:40,880 --> 01:15:46,560 I mean, it, it, it comes in between Godzilla 2000, which is 1280 01:15:46,640 --> 01:15:51,400 a a very notable movie, right? In terms of like everything that 1281 01:15:51,400 --> 01:15:54,920 it stands for as this attempt to like claw back Godzilla's 1282 01:15:54,920 --> 01:16:00,640 relevance after the 98 Tristar movie, but then the next movie 1283 01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:05,120 to come along. Spoiler alert, GMK is one of the 1284 01:16:05,120 --> 01:16:07,840 most highly regarded and memorable Godzilla movies in the 1285 01:16:07,840 --> 01:16:11,000 franchise. And then you have this weird one 1286 01:16:11,000 --> 01:16:15,040 in between where it's just like we made another Godzilla 2000, 1287 01:16:15,040 --> 01:16:17,920 but it wasn't as good. And I think it took forever to 1288 01:16:17,920 --> 01:16:23,320 come to the West too. So I I struggled to find out 1289 01:16:23,520 --> 01:16:26,480 what all happened that made this movie this way. 1290 01:16:26,480 --> 01:16:30,160 I can't figure out why, if it was like, a budgetary problem 1291 01:16:30,360 --> 01:16:33,040 that caused so much, the effects work to be so rough because 1292 01:16:33,200 --> 01:16:35,680 Suzuki's done better than this, right? 1293 01:16:35,680 --> 01:16:40,440 I mean, obviously the CGI was rough, but like, Megagiris did 1294 01:16:40,440 --> 01:16:44,360 not have to be so badly puppeted, you know? 1295 01:16:44,640 --> 01:16:46,080 Yeah. Yeah. 1296 01:16:47,080 --> 01:16:49,560 I don't know. I will. 1297 01:16:49,560 --> 01:16:53,560 I will tell you this, these folks don't come back for the 1298 01:16:53,560 --> 01:16:59,800 next movie to my knowledge. Just I, I think every single 1299 01:16:59,960 --> 01:17:04,200 seat we talked about in the beginning of this episode is 1300 01:17:04,200 --> 01:17:08,640 swapped out for the next movie. So I don't know, I try not to 1301 01:17:08,640 --> 01:17:10,360 look ahead for if these people are going to return in the 1302 01:17:10,360 --> 01:17:14,720 future, but I'll tell you they ain't back for the next 1 so. 1303 01:17:15,240 --> 01:17:17,000 So this movie really doesn't matter. 1304 01:17:17,040 --> 01:17:19,920 Yeah, pretty much. Like in every conceivable way. 1305 01:17:19,920 --> 01:17:22,280 I mean, I think it doesn't even get to be a sequel to Godzilla 1306 01:17:22,280 --> 01:17:24,360 2000, right? Which would have made it maybe 1307 01:17:24,360 --> 01:17:30,000 more relevant. Instead it's like so completely 1308 01:17:30,040 --> 01:17:35,200 its own thing with very little to speak for that's super 1309 01:17:35,200 --> 01:17:39,920 original other than just the fact that it's insane and it's 1310 01:17:39,920 --> 01:17:43,400 primary lasting impact really is it for better or worse like this 1311 01:17:43,400 --> 01:17:46,680 defined the Millennium era as one of stand alone movies. 1312 01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:51,360 You know, Godzilla 2000 was a reboot and instead of following 1313 01:17:51,360 --> 01:17:55,960 that up with a sequel and making sequel after sequel after sequel 1314 01:17:55,960 --> 01:17:58,600 for a while, they went, well, this one will be a reboot too. 1315 01:17:59,280 --> 01:18:01,600 And then the next movie's going to be a reboot and the one after 1316 01:18:01,600 --> 01:18:05,840 that's going to be a reboot. Like all through the 2000s, they 1317 01:18:05,840 --> 01:18:10,400 just, and kind of even today, the Japanese Godzilla has never 1318 01:18:10,400 --> 01:18:13,040 really gone back to a serialized story format. 1319 01:18:14,480 --> 01:18:19,280 And this is kind of where that serialization finally fully 1320 01:18:19,280 --> 01:18:24,920 breaks at Toho. So, you know, good or bad, we'll 1321 01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:29,200 find out. But that's maybe its primary 1322 01:18:29,200 --> 01:18:31,040 impact on the franchise at this point. 1323 01:18:31,040 --> 01:18:33,000 Cause Megagiras hasn't come back. 1324 01:18:33,800 --> 01:18:37,600 You know, it did. Give us a motherfucker name. 1325 01:18:37,600 --> 01:18:42,080 The dimension tide Dimension Final Fantasy final boss 1326 01:18:42,080 --> 01:18:46,200 soundtrack attack. Yeah, yeah. 1327 01:18:46,200 --> 01:18:48,480 Great score, great weapon. Yeah. 1328 01:18:48,960 --> 01:18:49,880 Black hole gun. Black. 1329 01:18:49,960 --> 01:18:52,360 Hole, gun sick. Stupid, but sick. 1330 01:18:54,200 --> 01:18:57,120 I'm going to toss this first to Charlotte because Charlotte, you 1331 01:18:57,120 --> 01:19:01,640 are usually the best at managing to snatch some form of meaning 1332 01:19:02,280 --> 01:19:05,320 from the ass crack of emptiness that is some of these movies. 1333 01:19:06,560 --> 01:19:08,640 Charlotte, do you think this movie had any interesting 1334 01:19:08,640 --> 01:19:10,800 thematic elements it was trying to get at? 1335 01:19:11,720 --> 01:19:13,240 What are the politics of this movie? 1336 01:19:14,160 --> 01:19:16,760 Do you think Margaret Thatcher was giving off girlboss energy? 1337 01:19:16,760 --> 01:19:22,200 When? You'll note from the fact that I 1338 01:19:22,200 --> 01:19:24,480 didn't immediately start talking that I don't have as good of an 1339 01:19:24,480 --> 01:19:26,080 answer for this one as I normally would. 1340 01:19:28,600 --> 01:19:32,280 It's, it's, it's trying to say something about sexism. 1341 01:19:32,680 --> 01:19:34,960 I, I don't think it actually finishes its sentence about 1342 01:19:34,960 --> 01:19:39,720 that. And it I think it's also trying 1343 01:19:39,720 --> 01:19:43,360 to do something with like, you know, facing your demons, that 1344 01:19:43,360 --> 01:19:46,160 sort of thing. It, it doesn't seem like it has 1345 01:19:46,160 --> 01:19:48,480 a lot to say. Like it just it's a big 1346 01:19:48,480 --> 01:19:50,360 dragonfly. Eric, I want to toss if, if 1347 01:19:50,360 --> 01:19:52,800 there's anything, I've got something, but it's not an 1348 01:19:52,800 --> 01:19:57,520 intentional thing, but it it's of note, but I'm curious if 1349 01:19:57,520 --> 01:20:00,040 you've got anything to throw at, throw at the wall and see if it 1350 01:20:00,040 --> 01:20:03,960 sticks. Yeah, I mean, I always start 1351 01:20:03,960 --> 01:20:08,960 with our protagonist and what what their arc is. 1352 01:20:09,480 --> 01:20:13,120 And here it's about, I guess, redemption. 1353 01:20:14,560 --> 01:20:18,680 Her someone that was very important to her was killed by 1354 01:20:18,680 --> 01:20:22,280 Godzilla and so she needs to kill Godzilla and she sort of 1355 01:20:22,280 --> 01:20:24,720 does that at the end, but then she doesn't because Godzilla 1356 01:20:24,720 --> 01:20:31,680 can't die. So yeah, I just, it's not so 1357 01:20:31,680 --> 01:20:34,680 much that it the themes don't land. 1358 01:20:34,680 --> 01:20:37,960 It's it's almost like it doesn't really even try to have any. 1359 01:20:38,080 --> 01:20:41,640 Yeah, I think, I think I agree with you all that like, I don't 1360 01:20:41,640 --> 01:20:43,960 think it's actually trying for much. 1361 01:20:45,440 --> 01:20:50,080 What I think it accidentally ends up on, weirdly enough, is 1362 01:20:50,080 --> 01:20:55,920 like climate doomerism. And bear with me here, it's 1363 01:20:55,960 --> 01:20:58,720 really interesting that the movie starts by treating 1364 01:20:58,720 --> 01:21:03,440 Godzilla as as openly and compassionately as as it 1365 01:21:03,440 --> 01:21:05,440 possibly can. That humanity standpoint is a 1366 01:21:05,440 --> 01:21:07,600 Godzilla is a natural disaster, right? 1367 01:21:07,720 --> 01:21:11,240 That we have to learn to manage around and live with. 1368 01:21:12,040 --> 01:21:17,640 And it is first nuclear energy, which is one of our best paths 1369 01:21:17,640 --> 01:21:20,280 out of climate change at this point, like one of the best 1370 01:21:20,280 --> 01:21:23,640 green energy sources we have, despite cultural fears around it 1371 01:21:24,120 --> 01:21:29,400 that that is continues to make Godzilla like a problem, right. 1372 01:21:29,600 --> 01:21:32,960 OK, well, this series has always had a contentious relationship 1373 01:21:32,960 --> 01:21:36,200 with radio or with radiation. I mean, dating back to the fact 1374 01:21:36,200 --> 01:21:38,000 that this comes from bombs, right? 1375 01:21:39,280 --> 01:21:41,800 But then plasma energy, they're like, OK, we found a new green 1376 01:21:41,800 --> 01:21:42,960 energy. Plasma energy. 1377 01:21:42,960 --> 01:21:45,200 It's better. Even this is great is no 1378 01:21:45,200 --> 01:21:49,320 drawbacks to this other than it makes Godzilla kill us more. 1379 01:21:50,160 --> 01:21:52,120 So we've got to give up on green energy. 1380 01:21:52,320 --> 01:21:56,520 The the one guy is of is framed as a villain for continuing to 1381 01:21:56,520 --> 01:22:00,160 develop into green energy because it's what's best for 1382 01:22:00,160 --> 01:22:05,360 humanity because he's going to keep drawing Godzilla even 1383 01:22:05,360 --> 01:22:09,720 though he also tried to set up anti Godzilla like 1384 01:22:10,720 --> 01:22:14,760 countermeasures so that they could continue to develop into 1385 01:22:14,760 --> 01:22:17,560 green energy. Like this movie kind of 1386 01:22:17,560 --> 01:22:20,480 accidentally makes the people trying to solve our biggest 1387 01:22:20,480 --> 01:22:22,640 problems the bad guys for trying. 1388 01:22:23,680 --> 01:22:25,400 It does. Yeah, it it. 1389 01:22:25,680 --> 01:22:28,640 You're absolutely right. It has a commentary about 1390 01:22:28,840 --> 01:22:32,360 alternate energy, and that commentary is it's just as 1391 01:22:32,360 --> 01:22:36,360 dangerous, which is bizarre, like there's no other way to 1392 01:22:36,360 --> 01:22:39,360 read it. And I, I, I don't, I don't think 1393 01:22:39,360 --> 01:22:43,600 that they thought this through that much, but like, that's what 1394 01:22:43,600 --> 01:22:48,600 you accidentally wrote. So that's, it's very 1395 01:22:48,600 --> 01:22:51,520 interesting. We have our first like truly 1396 01:22:51,520 --> 01:22:55,400 conservative Godzilla movie. It's very fucking wild. 1397 01:22:55,520 --> 01:22:59,880 I know right? Which which makes the fact that 1398 01:22:59,880 --> 01:23:02,760 it's so stupid and insane so funny. 1399 01:23:04,440 --> 01:23:07,840 It would be so much worse if this was like a, a, a real a 1400 01:23:07,840 --> 01:23:10,280 movie with like really dark conservative themes that was 1401 01:23:10,280 --> 01:23:14,520 also really well made and extremely popular and and maybe 1402 01:23:14,520 --> 01:23:16,600 had the involvement of like Hideyakiano. 1403 01:23:19,960 --> 01:23:24,360 I am going to get killed by someone for our Shin Godzilla 1404 01:23:24,360 --> 01:23:27,480 episode. I wish. 1405 01:23:27,880 --> 01:23:33,080 I wish it would have ended with a resolution for. 1406 01:23:33,080 --> 01:23:34,320 Energy. Because the whole point of 1407 01:23:34,320 --> 01:23:36,480 getting rid of Godzilla was so you could go back to clean 1408 01:23:36,480 --> 01:23:38,120 energy. And they just go, well, we got 1409 01:23:38,120 --> 01:23:39,760 rid of them, maybe time to keep looking. 1410 01:23:39,760 --> 01:23:42,040 Yeah. What about what about green 1411 01:23:42,040 --> 01:23:46,000 energy? What about the everything? 1412 01:23:47,280 --> 01:23:49,320 Right. Like what are we going to build 1413 01:23:49,320 --> 01:23:50,800 next? Like what are we going to go 1414 01:23:50,800 --> 01:23:53,000 back to? Is it back to nuclear like what 1415 01:23:53,080 --> 01:23:55,680 it like? You altered history like because 1416 01:23:55,680 --> 01:23:58,680 it was so important that our green energy rush was like the 1417 01:23:58,680 --> 01:24:02,120 center of technological development and then you gave up 1418 01:24:02,120 --> 01:24:04,160 on it as soon as the barrier was gone. 1419 01:24:08,160 --> 01:24:15,760 This movie was also made in like entire year, so which not 1420 01:24:15,880 --> 01:24:19,360 horribly uncommon with these Godzilla movies, but I do think 1421 01:24:19,640 --> 01:24:23,160 a lot of them at least start. I'll, I'll give you this, a lot 1422 01:24:23,160 --> 01:24:28,040 of these movies start pre production much earlier, right? 1423 01:24:28,120 --> 01:24:30,160 Like through the 90s, especially. 1424 01:24:30,160 --> 01:24:32,400 What we were seeing a lot of, even though these movies were 1425 01:24:32,400 --> 01:24:35,760 coming out every year, is they were dusting off a script that 1426 01:24:35,760 --> 01:24:39,040 it had four or five passes on it already and was put on a shelf 1427 01:24:39,480 --> 01:24:42,840 and going what if we work off of this and do like one more pass 1428 01:24:42,840 --> 01:24:46,120 at it? So a lot of times some of the 1429 01:24:46,120 --> 01:24:49,520 heaviest work of pre production in terms of writing is already 1430 01:24:49,520 --> 01:24:55,160 done before they start like working on a move. 1431 01:24:55,160 --> 01:24:58,800 So like that plus the fact that, you know, yeah, you could pump 1432 01:24:58,880 --> 01:25:00,280 pump these out in a shorter time frame. 1433 01:25:00,280 --> 01:25:04,320 But this is the same team just got done miraculously turning 1434 01:25:04,320 --> 01:25:07,840 around Godzilla 2000 in under a year, and then immediately get 1435 01:25:07,840 --> 01:25:09,760 to work on Godzilla versus Megagiris. 1436 01:25:09,760 --> 01:25:13,240 Like, you know, they didn't have fucking time. 1437 01:25:13,560 --> 01:25:15,840 Yeah, so I'm gonna give them that too. 1438 01:25:17,360 --> 01:25:20,680 I do think you calling it like conservative because of that 1439 01:25:21,280 --> 01:25:24,440 accidental energy message and the pair that with the sexism, 1440 01:25:25,840 --> 01:25:29,400 it makes it very funny. I don't like that. 1441 01:25:32,560 --> 01:25:38,520 Yeah, take it back. We don't condone this movie. 1442 01:25:39,640 --> 01:25:41,720 Guys, I think I fucking love this movie. 1443 01:25:43,880 --> 01:25:47,520 Oh. God, So I guess like as what 1444 01:25:47,520 --> 01:25:50,000 about this movie? What is the thing that you're 1445 01:25:50,000 --> 01:25:51,880 you're going to if somebody brings this movie up and it's 1446 01:25:51,880 --> 01:25:55,280 like Godzilla versus Mega Gears? Oh, that's the one with blank. 1447 01:25:55,280 --> 01:25:58,840 Like what's the blank for you? What's the defining thing about 1448 01:25:58,840 --> 01:26:00,880 this movie? Oh, it's the. 1449 01:26:01,120 --> 01:26:01,440 It's the. It's. 1450 01:26:01,440 --> 01:26:03,240 Got to be the black more than the dragonflies. 1451 01:26:03,240 --> 01:26:06,480 It's the black hole gun. Yeah, yeah, Satellite that 1452 01:26:06,480 --> 01:26:09,360 shooting. A black hole satellite for some 1453 01:26:09,400 --> 01:26:11,960 reason. This is Godzilla versus Black 1454 01:26:11,960 --> 01:26:17,080 Hole baby. Yeah, yeah, that's such a fun 1455 01:26:17,080 --> 01:26:22,000 idea because like, we don't know what a black hole does, and they 1456 01:26:22,000 --> 01:26:23,000 don't either. And they don't. 1457 01:26:23,520 --> 01:26:26,840 They know a lot it. Makes things go away, they. 1458 01:26:26,880 --> 01:26:30,600 Don't know what a black hole is in a very different way than I 1459 01:26:30,600 --> 01:26:36,560 don't know what a black hole is. And I I love that they figured 1460 01:26:36,560 --> 01:26:39,720 out how to use it and are not concerned at all about what. 1461 01:26:39,720 --> 01:26:41,160 He does. Fuck it, we'll just see what 1462 01:26:41,160 --> 01:26:43,520 happens. It's like it will make Godzilla 1463 01:26:43,520 --> 01:26:45,400 go away. We'll deal with whatever 1464 01:26:45,400 --> 01:26:46,360 problems we've. Created. 1465 01:26:46,360 --> 01:26:49,520 We're going to bring in the gorillas to fight the snakes. 1466 01:26:52,600 --> 01:26:55,440 Oh, any other final thoughts y'all? 1467 01:26:58,280 --> 01:27:02,120 I want that G graspers hat really really bad. 1468 01:27:02,120 --> 01:27:09,400 Probably not in any merch store. Yeah, that's all I got. 1469 01:27:09,600 --> 01:27:10,040 Yeah. Fun. 1470 01:27:10,040 --> 01:27:14,120 Bloody. Yeah, couldn't. 1471 01:27:14,120 --> 01:27:17,360 If they could contain a black hole, can't they use that for 1472 01:27:17,360 --> 01:27:19,320 power? It has infinite pole I. 1473 01:27:20,160 --> 01:27:22,080 Think you're right. I think that's how it should 1474 01:27:23,160 --> 01:27:25,080 have it. It should have been Black Hole 1475 01:27:25,200 --> 01:27:27,280 guys. It makes as much sense as 1476 01:27:27,280 --> 01:27:28,680 anything else in this fucking movie. 1477 01:27:29,840 --> 01:27:33,040 Because like it didn't work the first time. 1478 01:27:33,040 --> 01:27:36,120 So they like, so they were like, we'll recalibrate, we'll find 1479 01:27:36,120 --> 01:27:39,560 Godzilla, we'll do it again. It didn't work the second time. 1480 01:27:39,720 --> 01:27:42,760 So why wouldn't you just say, well, we'll recalibrate it and 1481 01:27:42,760 --> 01:27:44,560 we'll find him and we'll do it again. 1482 01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:47,120 But we never see the black hole gun again. 1483 01:27:47,480 --> 01:27:49,440 So they could have very easily been like. 1484 01:27:49,560 --> 01:27:51,120 Crash. The weapon we needed. 1485 01:27:52,440 --> 01:27:53,920 Yeah, I guess it. Yeah. 1486 01:27:54,040 --> 01:27:56,760 I don't know. We'll, we'll rebuild it and 1487 01:27:56,760 --> 01:28:02,640 we'll use this as our energy and we'll create energy in orbit. 1488 01:28:02,640 --> 01:28:05,480 And Godzilla won't bother us because he can't get to the 1489 01:28:05,480 --> 01:28:07,280 satellite. You know, there could have been 1490 01:28:07,280 --> 01:28:10,480 something to be like, oh, we'll use this technology as you. 1491 01:28:10,480 --> 01:28:12,640 Know how sick it would have been if Godzilla beamed that 1492 01:28:12,640 --> 01:28:16,720 satellite out of orbit and Godzilla, like they fired at him 1493 01:28:16,720 --> 01:28:19,880 and missed and he like looked up and just fucking shot the panel 1494 01:28:19,880 --> 01:28:21,960 off that thing and that's what sent it careening to Earth? 1495 01:28:22,200 --> 01:28:24,880 Guys, hire me to write these movies. 1496 01:28:25,480 --> 01:28:28,040 Yeah, fuck, I wish that's what would have knocked it out. 1497 01:28:28,040 --> 01:28:29,400 I didn't understand what knocked it. 1498 01:28:29,640 --> 01:28:32,560 Out Honestly, I still think the mega gears thing is a like this 1499 01:28:32,560 --> 01:28:35,000 movie does it just it just was crashing suddenly. 1500 01:28:35,000 --> 01:28:40,040 I and I didn't care enough to rewind to find out why I could 1501 01:28:40,040 --> 01:28:44,520 have I just didn't want to. Oh God. 1502 01:28:44,520 --> 01:28:48,840 Yeah, so pretty much yeah. G Graspers and gang of asses. 1503 01:28:48,840 --> 01:28:50,960 Those are my main table. This is the movie with the gang 1504 01:28:50,960 --> 01:28:57,080 of asses. Well, folks, that is a wrap on 1505 01:28:57,080 --> 01:28:59,360 this episode. Thank you all so much for 1506 01:28:59,360 --> 01:29:01,080 joining us on our journey so far. 1507 01:29:01,280 --> 01:29:04,080 Eric, where can people find you and do you have anything to 1508 01:29:04,080 --> 01:29:09,280 plug? I'm not the gamer thegamer.com, 1509 01:29:09,280 --> 01:29:11,680 that's my site and I'm very proud of it. 1510 01:29:11,680 --> 01:29:13,400 So please check out articles there. 1511 01:29:13,400 --> 01:29:16,840 And if you want to get in touch with me, I'm on Twitter and Blue 1512 01:29:16,840 --> 01:29:19,440 Sky at Epic Switzer all. 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