tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post4231960710998304987..comments2023-11-05T02:01:53.847-06:00Comments on Antagony & Ecstasy: REVIEW ALL MONSTERS! - THE WORDS GET STUCK IN MY THROATTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09491952893581644049noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post-50304038820967722802014-02-23T22:06:30.331-06:002014-02-23T22:06:30.331-06:00Director Tim Burton clames this is among his favor...Director Tim Burton clames this is among his favorite movies of all times. Must check it out one day...Pan Miluśhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01364446151493198587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post-6485538918432097922013-12-06T16:39:25.020-06:002013-12-06T16:39:25.020-06:00It's like I said back in your "Mothra&quo...It's like I said back in your "Mothra" review: this is seriously one of the best of Toho's non-"Godzilla" Kaiju films, and ABSOLUTELY the best of the ones that wound up having no real connection to the "Godzilla" series proper, in contrast to how Rodan and Mothra were ultimately absorbed into it (excepting the Maser Cannons, those most iconic of Toho's fictional anti-Kaiju weapons, the designs for which had been evolving for several years before this point, but which received its final look and official name with this film. It is also the subject of the single best track from Ifukube's exceptional score, "Attack Gaira", better known these days as the Mesa March: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF9u52K_4JY).<br /><br />It's as you say: the plot is a garbled mess, and we spend probably more time than can be justified on the go-nowhere Scientist Stuff. But like "Ghidrah the Three-Headed Monster", the Kaiju action is just so damned GOOD that it's hard to be that bothered by it. The greater range of motion and expression granted to Sanda and Gaira by their all-but-human designs (with a touch of Sasquatch to them to make them more visually memorable than their predecessor, Frankenstein) really gives the Monster scenes a degree of excitement and personality unique and distinct from the rest of Toho's canon; the real sense of anger and anguish that fuels Sanda when he finally realizes Gaira has, in fact, been gobbling people up behind his back is particularly striking. <br />It's so compellingly bizarre and so unmistakably memorable that I am more than willing to forgive the hysterically odious Musical Number. Unlike Gaira.Sssonichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08540745505361960873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post-57676231848619453232013-12-06T12:11:27.974-06:002013-12-06T12:11:27.974-06:00There really could have been no other title for th...There really could have been no other title for this post.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01394301713731842718noreply@blogger.com