Well, on a nearby Shore, his brother Goro. And his brothers very, very good friend roshi. It's just gonna leave, dude. Definitely not boyfriends. Hello everyone and welcome to Castle Bravo. A Godzilla versus retrospective. I'm Derek and I'm Charlotte and we're two siblings here to examine the history of the Godzilla franchise one movie at a time. We're joined this week by podcasting, virtuoso Matt storm. Matt, how you doing bud? Oh good. Thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here.
I have to say that intro is weird for me because I'm used to listening to you all at like 1.5 to 2 times speed goes much faster when I'm listening Right. I am so excited because you are one of the first people that we actually booked as a guest. We're like I knew if I'm doing this big, big project, if we're going to get a bunch of guests. Like obviously I want the other sddc crew involved like I had I had to get Stormy in and this
movie. We picked like very specifically and I'm glad that my memory served because I think this was a good match. Perfect. I and also one that I think I've seen like way back. And to like a lot of it seemed very familiar. So, yeah, like y'all have talked about like, my Godzilla history is like a like weird psychedelic Haze of subtitles and not subtitles and like dub and not dub. And I couldn't tell you which was what, until y'all start describing the plots of some of these films.
Like, oh, I've seen some of these, I think. Yeah, well in like, you know, again many of these movies Charlotte hasn't seen most of them I have seen. Most of them. It's been so long that there. Very fresh to me, especially when we're watching them in, you know, much better format, right widescreen. Like original aspect ratio original Cuts, even a lot of the
ones that are dubbed. Like, I think you watched today's movie on HBO Max which was the light Criterion version and it was in English dub but it's a new English dub, like an international dub that's way. Less awful than a lot of the like the versions We saw on VHS is a kid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Charlotte yeah. Charlotte. Yeah. Okay. There you are. I said, yeah. And it picked up in one thing. They didn't pick up over here. That's interesting.
Well, this Court's being a but today, how are you doing today? I'm good. Just good. Yeah, always just good. Yeah, you know, I'll take it. Things things not grayed out there, so if you can be good, that's, that's better. I have chosen to largely ignore it because if I don't I will go into an anxiety spiral, it's fine. If somebody comes for my trans homies I'm just gonna We go. I have to censor that in the Minecraft. Minecraft Minecraft right in
Fortnight so hoof. Let's talk about where we are. In Castle Bravo, it has been an interesting shift into the second half of season 2 here. We had this long build-up of Godzilla as this increasingly like solid franchise. Is all these movies kind of became Consolidated under Godzilla and it was hit after hit after hit. And even the, like bad ones were pretty good.
In the grand scheme of things. Destroy All Monsters was a wonderful cap off to the franchise but it made too damn much money and Touhou desperately wanted more of that Dosh. So we got the very very cheap cheaply. Produced all monsters attack which is the It's very stock footage. Laden, like, children's anti-bullying story from original director. Ishiro Honda, we got the collapse of the Japanese film industry.
The death of eiji tsuburaya, Honda leaving Touhou Touhou dramatically downsizing bad times for everyone, you got Godzilla vs. Hedorah which was a incredibly cheaply produced made in like a month by a mostly untouched. Tested crew and it kind of shows even if there's parts of that movie that I think are, I do still like and it is full of heart. But then last week we got Godzilla vs. Guy again. June Phuket is back and it was like, oh man, it almost felt like we had Honda back. You sure?
A Honda back with a proper budget. Even we got a great weird alien. Invasion story with some fun, Aesop's at it. And Really cool set of enemy monsters. Now, Jun fukuyama is back with Godzilla versus Megalon and this is kind of an Infamous movie in the franchise. It's one of those ones that was available on VHS and a lot of video stores. So a lot of people in our generation probably have
memories of seeing this on tape. This also very famously is one of the most popular episodes of Mystery Science. Theater 3000 was covering this movie. So a lot of people Have memories of seeing this movie on TV through mst3k. And there's, there's a good reason for that. Well, yeah. Without further Ado, Charlotte why don't you kind of recap Godzilla versus Megalon for us. Okay, so the year is 1970 Acts. And on a small Aleutian Island. I don't know what that is.
I'm be honest with you, but it's a small island near Japan. They were performing another nuclear test and this nuclear test affected Monster Island, including Monsters like Godzilla and Anguirus, and Rodan that. Last one will not be showing up again in the movie. But Rodin was flapping its wings up style of didn't like I love how in this scene where they're showing all the There's like kind of disappear or something happened. My boy ain't Garris.
One of my favorites. Just kind of B it into the pit, like, yeah, he's gonna Rob into the Earth. It's gone forever. And then title crawl, right. And then explosions because that's the kind of movie this. Yeah, we need to get you hyped up. So here's, here's some Kabooms. That's right. I did love the sequence of the, the bomb tests on the island sinking, like, crumbling the Allen Department sinking into the ocean. Yeah. Really good. Miniature work.
Yeah, so the version of the movie that I saw, I did click through the corrected one. Mhm. But the version that I do, unfortunately, got a call Clear. The head like a bad denoising filter on it. So everything was kind of hazy everything look. Like one of those like have you seen those things where they put a filter over everything and everything tries to make like, an animal face? Oh yeah, yeah, everything. That wasn't a person look like that in the movie.
It was like this. I was going to say it's kind of like playing a Super Nintendo game with the with the super-ego filter on like I've never done that. I never will no, well good don't. so, A boy. His name is rokuro. His peddling. A fish bike through the water. And you can't tell me, you don't want this dolphin, but I want that. I want this. You want to join a battle on it. I thought he was riding like a little like dolphin monster light. Like this felt like kids movie
father. Like I thought he was actually riding a creature at first and then they got in closers like oh no it's just a badass, dolphin submersible. I want water bike. Yeah. Yeah this II saw this. And for the rest of my childhood, I wanted like a water bike thing to take out on a lake and it never happened. It's really sad. Yeah, that is so sad. I mean, I grew up, I grew up in a city. We didn't have any lakes too
drunk to ride those ends. So wouldn't have even thought to be an option to me, well, on a nearby Shore. His brother Goro and his brothers very very good friend Hiroshi. It's just definitely not boyfriends. They're they're watching. They are too well dressed. And handsome, too. Not be dating. I'm sorry. Yeah. And they just, yeah, is to grown like Dapper men out on a picnic by the lake together in their, in their lovely little suits IDM stormy. I was like, they should be holding hands.
Yeah, that's that's really what the whole thing is. Missing is just them holding hands. Like it's just cute. Yeah, so they're watching rokuro from the shore and An earthquake starts and like a Whirlpool forms and there's glowing light from the water and rokuro is
trying as hard as he can. The pedal away from it, but it ends up with a garrote Hiroshi, has like, pull him to shore with a rope and fire a rope out at him and yeah, he's peddling in their polling, but for a bit there, he's just getting slowly sucked into the center of the vortex and I was like, oh, they're gonna kill a child early for that. Yeah, But they managed to get him ashore and they shake it
off. They start driving home and you know the radio is talking about this new Ravine that's formed were a lake once was and turns out it was the aftershocks from those nuclear tests causing those cracks. And just as an aside that the boys are talking about hypothetical continents, you know, mu lemuria yeah Mariah just wow, if we keep doing this this nuclear testing stuff will Up like these other undersea kingdoms.
Yeah, no. But that's not important that surely come back up and salute Lee now. So they get home and hero, she is like, well yeah. Goro I hope the be earthquakes didn't affect your robot. My friend friend. My good buddy, my good buddy. It pal, my roommate. They were roommates. So they go towards the Door and they find the doors already open and they get attacked by, like, some Confederate looking men. I got my God, this is the first of so many fights option, but
it's accurate. It is so accurate. I texted Eric. I was like, my favorite thing about this movie is either the music rips or it's non-existent and like in the fight scenes, there is never any music. It's just the grunts of people taking hits and like she found a tweaking on the floor and just so funny. Make It Stop seems like it's weird. Also fights are barely fights their scrapes at best.
Yeah, well for the most part, there's one bit later in the movie that was like, oh God, that So after checking on the others to make sure they're okay, Hiroshi chases after these. These people, as they leave, dude, leaps into a car like an action hero. Yeah, it's so cool. The burglars like while he's out chasing them that the burglars didn't didn't steal anything the robots intact. The only thing they really left behind is like this weird sand and some of the files.
But eventually, the thieves like set a fire outside of her car and stopped roshi from from driving after them, normal way to do that. Yeah, sure. There's there wasn't any other way, they could have accomplished that. No, but so he can't pursue them anymore. So he goes back home to them and Hiroshi. Did during all that managed to grab a button off one of the suits and it's like the same colors, the sand they found and they run some tests on it and girl works on the robot a little more.
And we'll see the results of that in a moment. But rokuro has this small bike that he built. Like he he pulled a baby writer, he called it writable, it's the tiniest motorcycle I've ever fucking seen. And just yeah, my thing about this. This scene though, is that her oh she's just kind of like okay, have fun. Yeah. Oh my God roko leaves like There go go ride. These country roads on your tiny for mile, an hour motorcycle with no safety and supervision. This is like the opposite
experience to my overbearing. Jewish parent. Experience growing up, like, I couldn't go down the block without telling them who I was hanging out with where we were going. What time? I'd be home. This little kids, like, I'm gonna go cruising piece. Yeah. Yeah, you can't use the word cruising when talking about this movie, we can't Can't, we can't refer to the child as cruising in the gay Godzilla movie. So the sand, it turns out is
like, millions of years old. And it comes from like 3,000 km underwater near Easter Island, very specifically. And here we learned that Goro has named his his. Now completed robot Jet Jaguar, And you know, I'd only seen Jet Jaguar and video games before now, but he's really cool. I was so happy when I realized it was Jaguar because I was like, oh, I love Jet Jaguar. He's one of my favorites.
I forgot he was in this film. This is the one he's in and it's fantastic for that this wonderful Ultraman knockoff. So the, the weird Confederate men are listening in on their conversation and now they know that the robots been finished because they like bug the lab. And so they kidnap rokuro because he's outside with no supervision stop in front of him as he's like, biking along and opened the door, and it looks like he's going to smash hard into the car door.
But he stops just in time and they just take him. Yeah, they forced him to lead them into the lab and then the boys get knocked out by like gas from his Souls history. Shoot like knockout gas clouds, but first like they get rokuro to open the door and then they shoot him. And I wasn't aware that. Those were like, chloroform guns. I won't We are going to kill a
child this movie. This is the start of tons of incredible slapstick throughout this film that I don't think was meant to be funny, but it sure as hell is I don't, I don't know because like fuka de has a very slapstick sense of humor. And Honda had a very slapstick sense of humor and watching this movie and thinking back to stuff like the original Mothra for example, like really or, or like Decora Right was very like I
don't know, man. When these people want to be funny, they can they can go Looney Tunes and this is a Looney Tunes, a smoothie. Yeah, but it's hard to say. So the the men report to some place called see topia Of course they do. Yeah and they order them to make Jet Jaguar lead megalon to its attack targets and right after this happens. They I don't know if they're just doing a dance or if it's supposed to be a ritual to awaken megalon. I think it's supposed to be a ritual. Oh yeah.
Oh yeah. The bit with the only women who will appear in the entire movie. Yeah. And they are scantily clad dancing in circles are but there's like there's like Like here's the thing, I don't think once again, going by my reading of this movie, as very, definitely the gay one. I don't think they're intended to be sexy. They've done another Lady. Gaga shit, goin on there, for there, for the gate. Their hats. Yeah. Look at her hair. No, this was like, I've seen
this drag show before? Yeah, I love, they have to make sure because I'm sorry. There's, if you think about there's not a single female character in this movie, which is weird, because Jun, Again like fuqra and Honda both regularly, put like female characters in lead roles often, multiple, female characters. Like it's super weird to have the total absence of one. And I kind of think it's, because if there was a female character, you might get mistaken that she's the love interest.
She's not one is, they want your boyfriend gay is possible. Yeah, yeah, so the the Seto Pian Emperor says that see taupe. Has been disturbed by the nuclear testing going on and they're going to retaliate now. Charlotte. Do you want, do you want the best news of your fucking life? Sure. Do you want to know who the Emperor of see Topia is? Yeah, that's Mark fucking Jackson baby. No idea what this is.
Our favorite Looney Tunes, motherfucker from Decora Mark, fucking Jackson with all of the superpowers of the unearned. Confidence of a white man in Japan. Yeah. I love how it like the whole crew of foreign Invaders are all white folk. Yeah, just yeah, always always a blast when well you're not going to have no melanin under the ground, right? Okay, but now now I think that it just is Mark Jackson. They never liked name him. You can't be sure.
What did, what did Mark Jackson do after he stopped being a diamond G-Man? A fc Topia. That's right. He went underground, is no way to know. So megalon launches up to the surface and Goro and rokuro, get tied up in a metal container. That the one of the Tito Pian men is paying these truck drivers to transport over the truck. Cab just has a giant poster of a naked women. Yeah. Tits out and everything nips and all on the back I'm like, this is Okay, that Harry censored in
the VHS version. Children's movie. I feel exactly the seat opens activate Jet Jaguar, Which flies towards megalon because supposed to lead it. Of course, Hiroshi, meanwhile is tied up back at the lab, so he can't do anything at the moment, but the brothers are being taken to see Topia, which is described, as having been made in a bubble when the morea sank, They they like have oxygen and they created an artificial sun. Somehow somehow what you do?
Yeah, so they're like technologically advanced down there. Hiroshi in one of the coolest fight scenes. I think, manages to fight this autopia in the lab like while tied to this chair. But he like shatters the chair and then like slowly is fighting with pieces of the chair. Yeah, like as it comes apart. And he Whines is this the game? Where he grabs the dudes head? It's just bashing into the floor. Yeah, at least he has like tell me what, you know, or I will
kill you and he's just slamming. He can't answer. You're giving him a concussion man. I love that. This is also like so much of this movie is paired with two, like two scenes ongoing, and it jumps back and forth. And like, yeah, the, the crate seen that we were just talking about. Like, this is the best part of physical comedy of like any of these movies. Ever. Because every time they slide to one end, there's our cartoonish Bonk that happens. And the only act in pain as
they're trying to get untied. Like they just slide back and forth and you just hear bunk every time. And every time I lost my shit, I just laughed my ass off. Fucking love this movie. It's such a good movie. Yeah. So right. Yeah. Hiroshi fights off. The guy, beats his skull another grounded to get answers and then As I wrote here, there's a 70s Chase sequence, down some stairs, and through some sheds. Yeah, I love that. Also, the answer that he gets. Is there on a truck?
Like, we don't, we don't know where we don't know which truck, even like the line in the trans Community Asset tracking. Like, it's just, like, they're on the back of a truck and he's like, I'm off, I'm gonna go find them. It's just probably every truck. I mean he probably would. It's true. What would you do to find your boyfriend? Exactly.
So megalon emerges on the surface and he's ordered to attack Tokyo. So he's being led there by Jet Jaguar and the news on the radio says that a monster has appeared. So the truck drivers are like we should probably not go towards Tokyo. There's a monster there but the Seto Pian holds them at gunpoint but they like one of the guys Taps the other On the arm and then there's like a hard turn. So, they fly onto the guy in the
seat and still is gone. And they end up taking his gun away, and they throw him down a cliff in my translation, the dubbed version. The Scream, he wasn't AA, as he comes flying out of truck, and then rolls, I lost it. I'm like, this is just like it was, I love voice actors, because good or bad, like, it's the Resident Evil effect, right? Like it doesn't matter it and like here. It's the And then just rolls down the man so good.
So the the truck drivers go to dump the container down into like an area below a damn with with the with the brother still in it, but they stopped when they hear Mega lot because Mega loans approaching the damn Hiroshi ins of driving up and the truck drivers warned him to get away. And then hijack, his car and leave. Yeah, like they're just that they're out of there. Mega Lon meanwhile is moving through the water like towards the dam and breaks through it, like, floods, the whole area.
And this part was funny to me because megalon just like floating in the water down, he gets like washed away because he was not Mega, one's not very smart. No, and yeah, was not prepared. It's funny to see a giant monster in these movies. Fuck up. Yeah, absent. If somebody else's intervention, he just fucks up the dam and then get swept away in it
because As whoops. Yeah, I also love how here while a rescue is in suing, I don't think megalon actually meant to fling the cargo container but he sure does. Oh my God, I fucking guts catapulted. They were going through the air and I was like, oh they're dead. Then like you're right. Your meat sauce. When that lands I don't, right? Yeah, her.
Oh, she starts driving away and they Sure does like starts Falling Towards megalon and megalon like spikes it like Perry's in the are basically and like it goes flying in the brothers just kind of fall out. They're fine no death third attempt at killing a child still unsuccessful. So Hiroshi ends up getting to the brothers you know gets in the wake up and Goro reveals that he has a backup device for controlling Jet Jaguar. And basically, all it needs is
like line of sight. Which was It was kind of his honestly nice for this to happen because usually they'll be like, oh no, someone took the computer, I can't control it anymore. It's over in these movies or in movies in general, but he had a backup.
So, Goro suggest, you know, maybe we should get Jack Jaguar to get Godzilla for us. So that's what they're going to do. Megalon ends up coming across like some military defensive emplacements, and Just destroys them with like it's lightning powers that it has. Yep. Goro goes and tells the the military commander that he can control a jaguar and they should go get Godzilla's help. Meanwhile, megalodons like skipping through the planes behind jaguar in the scene.
I don't, I don't know what is awesome. I love it. The bounce, the joyful bounce like I want to say at this point and we're not even At the tip of the iceberg. The special effects in this film are phenomenal. They hold up so well, like from the toy army vehicles to his bouncing around, the lightning. Like all of it is just chefs kiss but like doing like he has wings, do we know why he bounces like this? It's never explained. It's funny. Megalon mesh was just wild because.
Yeah, he can fly. He does it in a couple of sequences but he just he do be bouncing. In a lot, he bounces and he skips and he's very frantic and frenetic in his movements. A lot of times, especially liked the bit where he loses Jet Jaguar and is flipping all over the place and they're like, what's going on? It's like he doesn't have any guidance, so he's just kind of
throwing a tantrum, I guess. Yeah, so the military flies Goro up in a helicopter and he's able to get control of Jaguar again. The in what something I did not expect. Because I hadn't seen this movie did not look up the monster list or anything. This utopian Emperor says they should contact the space Hunter, like nebula em, and get a guide to help fucking aliens on speed, dial for some reason, and I commenced on chicken from the last film.
Yeah. Like I, when you asked me to do this film, The only pre-fit preface was, it's the gayest one and I was on I was in and like, as I watch it, I'm starting to remember having seen this but like I was like oh this is the actually, the Jet Jaguar move because let's be real Godzilla's in the last 20 minutes like yes, a Jet Jaguar movie that happens to have Godzilla at the end and like but then when they come they call in Gigan, I'm like wait I can't miss.
Yeah, I thought that was the last one, what happened. And I I thought like for the longest time my thought was, oh, well yeah, they threw guy going in because they had the suit on hand and they You know, needed another monster and that explains why they, you know, through in this bullshit line of calling the aliens for guy God, just because it was an enemy monster suit, they had on hand, and that's not true, but we'll
get to that later. Yeah, so now megalodons like smacking down the military's planes and while all this is going on Hiroshi and broke Road, just like go to a store and grab a model. Lane. I was like, where is this going? Y-yeah, you cannot possibly guess where this is going. Like, I just, I was like, what are they looking for? Like, I had assumed they were going to go back to the house but like I was like, what. And why are they here at a shutdown model toy shop?
Yeah, Jet Jaguar. Manages to make it to Monster Island and ask Godzilla for help basically just by big like hey yeah. And then pointing behind you just you just want to call does A combination of sign language and semaphore like yeah. God, we haven't even touched tip. The tip of the iceberg of the communication finger quotes in this movie because the last, like the once the tag team match starts the way they talk to each other Big Air quotes is just wild. Oh my God. Yeah.
So, now, Godzilla is on its way, but megalon has started its Rampage in Tokyo. So then Hiroshi and Roker. We're heading towards the lab and like they're the lab that Jaguar was made in and they just fly the model plane directly into one of the seat opens faces before like knocking him out. I was like I was a child. I was aghast like it hits his face and his nose explodes. Yeah, there's blood everywhere. Like I was like, oh my God, there's so much blood.
There are like three scenes in this movie where there's a On a blood and they see him apropos of anything like it's wild. But this one. Yeah, that happens. And then they, they fight him inside. And this is where one of my favorite of the shoe tapping fight scenes happens. We're like they're trying to take him down and I can't remember if it's rokuro but one of them grabbed. One of the random floating boxes in the hallway and push it into the Seto Pian and knock him out.
Yeah. It's what its lowest like I came in like a wrecking ball Can you just rides this crate? Like, four feet. To knock a dude out. Yeah, the crate suspended from a chain from the ceiling. I don't know, man, it's just there. And it's just said, why is it there? Because it's a weird laboratory that you never know what them kooky scientists are up to So this heat LP and is knocked out.
Now, Goro shows up and he lets the other to know that Jaguar has managed to get Godzilla and megalodons approaching rapidly. So they decide to leave and megalon shows up in this utopian ends up getting crushed by it. Yeah, I love how they try to rescue the Seto Pian and he fights back and they're like a just leave them and he lays there. He doesn't get up right away. I'm like okay yeah might've killed him. Okay, well, and then there's an aside just to show that Goggins on its way.
Yeah, of course. Yeah. Why stock footage from the last movie of him teleporting in, in flying, right? I don't know if you noticed, there's so when when megalon swatting down the planes, there are there is stock footage of planes exploding with a claw in the scene. Yes. Like, if you look really close and there's and there's its stock footage in this movie. Him flying over and attacking the city with his Is like lightning horn.
A lot of that was stock footage from Ghidorah doing that to in various movies. Yeah. See you in my next to my next note is megalodons destroying the same oil plants that have been blown up in the last couple movies. Yes, it's not even subtle. Yeah. And jaguar ends up going back to the lab and like, basically just gives Goro a thumbs up because it Jaguar now has a will Of its own and it's gonna go fight Michael on it gained sentience on its trip.
And now he's going to protect the people because it can try not because of reasons. Yeah, yeah. And it approaches megalon and like grows to his size and just like, Dex them. First thing, it does, the special effects. Here are like good bad. Like, it's clearly like this still image that they grow and like, I just I love it between that and like the Super Sentai like hand signals. Yes. Yes. Yeah, it's very super Sentai. It's just so goofy and I love it.
I love Jet Jaguar so much. I but Ultraman fan. And so like this is this is the poor man's Ultraman essentially. And it's so fun and what a wonderful, what a wonderful like omage to tsuburaya as well, you know, given given that the creator of Ultraman was also instrumental in the creation of Godzilla. Yeah, so the boys start heading towards the direction of the fight which Wastewater of boys are we talking about here because we are we are all the
three pairs of boys. All the boys, all the boys, all the boys. They're going towards the fight and megalon does like the the Super Mario. 64 eyeball technique. Yeah Jaguar just runs around in a circle. Make some dizzy. Yeah. And Goro says that it was Jaguars determination that made him grow that big. Okay sure. I mean it makes about as much sense as anything else. Yeah. I mean y'all made him so I don't see how you could be confused by anything he does. But okay no he doesn't he
doesn't seem all that shocked. He's just like yeah this is a thing to Jaguar can do. Yeah. Okay. Godzilla is almost at the fight but still not there. Megalon starts using like these hit and run tactics by drilling underground and honestly Jet Jaguar basically has the fight in hand but think I can appears. Yep. And jaguar tries to fly away but immediately get shot down. God it's so funny. It's so the the comedic timing on this cannot be accidental.
He begins. Has to fly and just immediately explosive at his back as he just Falls arms outstretched pose unchanged to the ground. Oh, there's a lot of the pose unchanged happening because like megawatt and guidance are playing volleyball with them. Basically. Yeah. And he's just posed the same way the whole time because it's funnier that way. Yeah, I can't believe that this is bad work.
It's funnier this way. Yeah, so megalon walks up like he's about to finish him but then Godzilla appears in all the monsters square up. While Godzilla's like inching back towards Jet Jaguar and who's to say that the this moment that's about to happen where they like high-five to team up and then we suddenly watching a tag team wrestling match. Like big Kaiju Big.
Battle Vibes. Like this is the exact moment where everybody involved with Godzilla knew that this was just men in suits wrestling and it's just, and it gets Wilder, like, there's a move that Godzilla pulls out towards the end that I've seen clips of my whole life and forgot it was from this film, but like that moment where they like, shake hands and talk and then they like square up. Its just, oh yeah, they're all performing like fighting game taunts at each other.
Yeah. They're killers and then it's like literally 30 minutes of no almost no real talking of spoken word. It's just monsters making noises and fighting, it's amazing. Yeah, male on attacks first but like Godzilla's just takes them both on for a while on his own and then managed to like knock them. Both out for a second and then Godzilla like kicks megalon starts moving to guy again, but guy can does like a wake-up attack. That's actually that's how I
wrote it out. Yeah. Because he's kind of like faking out. He's pretending he's knocked out so that when Godzilla gets close, he'll like sucker-punch him. Yeah. Megalon like lobs a grenade but Jaguar throws it back. Yeah, it's it. Back into his mouth fucking idiot. Why would you keep your mouth open when you spit grenades? And that's your weak point? Don't do that. Yeah. Godzilla ends up getting cut like, like the first time when Godzilla, fuck I guess.
Yeah. Well, it was probably the exact same shot, it's crazy. Yeah. And this is the second time where it's like there's the there's so much blood from that one shot and it's like, yeah, Godzilla doesn't bleed the rest of the film. No one does. But in that one shot when it cuts into his shoulder, just blood everywhere, that's all of my man. Gotta talk about your blood pressure. Gotta get that shit down.
Then this is the point where a Jaguar like really just pops off against megalon, but having swap back to, and having knocked megalon out, Godzilla goes up to guy and who's like, holding Jet Jaguar hostage, kind of? Yeah, I think that was the intent. Yeah, but just ends up getting Atomic breath. Like, Godzilla doesn't play that. So, megalon starts bombarding them. Both with explosives and creates, like this big ring of fire that jaguar-lips Godzilla up and out of. Yeah.
Oh my God. The big Godzilla just climbs on his back and his fly. Yeah, and they just fly out of it, but like very poorly because the carrying Godzilla's weight, makes it hard for Jet Jaguar, to fly, I guess, yeah, what a coffee fucking scene. But they lift up and out over it, and then Godzilla Atomic breaths megalon, and seeing that they're on the losing side now. The seat open Emperor is like, all right, we should probably just close the Fisher's back up now. I love that.
Like in a lot of these films it's always like the bad guy gets defeated right? Or like the alien wedding ring. Aliens get defeated here. They're just like oh our monster lost. Let's go. Yeah, I guess what moaning base slowly backing into the Shrubbery right? Like yeah. We were never here Jet Jaguar like flies up the guy in like, slams amount of the sky and Godzilla just keeps blasting megalon and then megalon like shoots a grenade up and it ends up just right back in his own mouth.
Again, it's this is not a smart monster. Yeah. So then Jaguar like puts guy get into this hold and it lasts for a second. I actually thought like he broke dragons arm or something because guy's arm just stops moving. But he like throws guy get into the air for Godzilla. Do atomic breath. Mmm. And then guy get just leaves got hands like I'm not doing fuck this shit.
I'm out, I'm out. Yeah, yeah and then after this moment when he leaves when they went then Jaguar picks up megalon and puts him in like a full nelson. The best moment in almost the entire film. Helped happens, Godzilla does a dropkick but like defying all laws of fines for slides forward on A like this is this, this is the clip that like, if you've seen a clip of Godzilla on Twitter or wherever like Drop kicking someone, it's this clip.
Yeah it's from this is him leaning backwards like feet forward head backward and sliding on his tail like several hundred feet to kick megalon. It's incredible, it's stupid, it's insane. I love it and they do it twice like you say you shot eyes just for for no reason. This is when, when they did this shit with Anguirus, in the end of Godzilla vs. Gigan and they were like, oh, this stupid shit with Anguirus? Flying backwards to hit. Ghidorah was so good. We need to do it twice and I was
like, put a pin in that yeah. Because So mega mega on just gets kicked from across the Plains and then like they did, you start slamming in another ground over and over again, like the ground by the tail just slamming. Just like Hulk fucking whipping Loki into the ground, but in the a slow motion. Yeah. And then megalonyx like launched into the fissure nearby and then they just sealed the Fisher behind him. He's like I'm out. Get that ass out of here.
So Godzilla, having having done his job, leaves and rokuro, like sends him off the boys. Go meet up with Jet Jaguar who shrinks back down and he agrees to come back home with Goro in the others because he knows he doesn't have free will unless like, the Earth is in danger. Yeah. He starts listening to the little controller around his, the Goro's necklace, the necklace like Gore's wearing because his Free Will is done because he has nothing like Doesn't have to protect the Earth again.
And like, it's just and then they all walk off into the sunset and one big. Happy family with the little boy, riding to Jaguar. It's the most wholesome thing ever. Yeah. And then they, because this is a fukudome movie and I'm starting to realize, this is just a fuka thing. They say the the messages behind the movie at the end? Yeah. Oh my God. Yes. So there's some people to see taupe Ian's were only trying to attack us because they were
threatened. And yeah, and we need to stop, you know, fucking nuclear testing, damaging the planet. Tada, here's every possible thing that we intended for you to take from this movie. Yeah. But yeah. Then the, I guess the Jet Jaguar theme plays. Yeah. That's what that is. And then it's a song about Jaguar. That's for sure. Yeah. And then credits roll. You did it? Yeah we did it.
Good Lord this movie. This like the last 30 minutes is literally just a WWE match with month dudes and monster suits. Like I know that this happens in other films but I don't feel like it's ever this long. Like it felt like a long time to have. No ego, no word spoken just yeah this is almost and you know what, I think about it. There's a lot of people who talk about like I don't want all
these human. Parts in my Godzilla movies and for a long time, I've been like, what fucking Godzilla movies, were ya'll watching that it was a Non-Stop Monster Jam and I'm realizing it's fucking this one, because this is one of the most popular ones to air on TV. It was in all these videos stores like, and it is like, there's just a huge chunk of this movie. That is just Monster shit. So like this is the one that they watched and no other ones.
Yeah. Oh So we got to talk about these monsters because here's the thing, all four monster suits are brand-new. Yeah. Which like we're going to talk a bit about the conditions under which this movie was made, but lacking money was not one of those problems. They made for brand new monster suits in in a surprising amount of time for this movie. We have our final version of Godzilla for the show.
Are this is the suit they're going to use for the next three movies before everything goes on ice for a while. And honestly, this is kind of the Godzilla suit in my head when I think of like show a Godzilla. Yeah, this this kind of Cookie Monster, he kind of look with the big eyes. That's a little friendlier looking, you know. This is this is the one I see in my head and maybe that's just because of my fondness for the Mecha Godzilla movies but This is Godzilla friend of chill.
Yes, this is Godzilla boxer and wrestler. Yeah. And I mean, there's just no way to separate that in my head. Like, when I think of, when I think in my memories of other earlier movies, I still see this Godzilla in those movies. So sure. Well, also because this Godzilla was the most marketed one here. I feel like, like, when we started getting merchandise for Godzilla in the states, like you, It was this design. In fact, I have if I could Sidetrack us for just a minute.
Yeah, I remember growing up. My dad worked for Morgan Stanley. He did lot of brokerage stuff and like had co-workers, who often traveled, and one of his co-workers who was a good friend went to Japan. And when he came back, he brought souvenirs for everyone and for some of their kids, I must have been. I don't know, three or four, I was a kid and I remember getting this toy that I unfortunately don't have anymore.
It was this wind-up Godzilla egg that when you wound it up the egg would crack open and then Godzilla would walk out. And I see this face that we saw. This whole film is the face that was on the story. I remember it. So vividly. Yeah, because it was just this little friendly face like like Charlotte said, like this was Godzilla's era where he was friend to Children. You know, he was the superhero essentially for the longest time. There were two images of
Godzilla in pop culture, right? It was the the 80s and 90s version, right? Which was kind of the the new hotness at the time. But Was also a very consistent image of Godzilla through those through that era of filmmaking and was kind of the serious Godzilla and then there was the goofy fun old Godzilla. And, and that's always this suit. That's yeah, those two designs were the ones you saw on every piece of merchandise, one or the other and I just love it. It's great.
He's kind of expressive. He looks a little you can project a lot of different thoughts on to this Godzilla's face. I think and boy, do they give you time to do that? Since there is no dialogue. Yes, they will. And time go on to make some refinements to the suit. Like the eyes don't work in this movie, which is why he never blinks, but they do end up refitting it with like moving eyes and stuff for future
movies. If I remember correctly because we got Godzilla, we have Jet Jaguar, which is I mean he's an Ultra Man knockoff but he's a wonderful term and knock off with a big cheese, ball, grin and horrifying camera, lens eyes that I never noticed as a child. Oh my God, you can't even tell really until that last scene when they're talking to him closely. Yes, go home. And like they zoom in and I'm like, oh my God. Yeah, you did not have those show me the mechanics behind
that it's terrifying. Got those like, yeah, little ringed kind of like floodlight camera lens kind of look, but Jaguars, really fun. If you have an opportunity, look up, let me see if I can find a picture of jaguars original design because Jaguars kind of this unique case, he was designed as basically, they held a contest for somebody to design a monster for the new Godzilla. Movie, and a kid won the contest with with a design called red alone. If you Google read alone, you will see it.
It's this weird like Dragon winged red, white yellow and blue thing. Let me see if I can find, you know, pop this in the chat in a second, but like, oh my God. Yeah, it's a pretty weird design. And you can see in the Torso, some of the design that was left over. Yeah, but yeah, read alone was so heavily redesigned into Jet Jaguar. The thing, we know that it's nearly unrecognizable by the end and for the better because I don't know what the fuck is
going on in that design. Yeah I love I love our wonderful weird Ultraman, knock off. By the way in those Google search results you might be seeing jet alone from Evangelion. Popping up in the designs because jet alone from Evangelion is very specifically a reference to Jet Jaguar. Jaguar. Yeah. And and and write alone so yeah, that's neat. Little little factoid for you. But I love Jade Jaguar. He didn't do much other than be, the world's strangest, robot? Yeah, but I love him.
He does. He does seem a for and he changes size and he is briefly Godzilla's boyfriend. First just hammering home that game. Yeah this is just two sets of boyfriend's doing a wrestling match. Honestly it's honestly that's you know it's spurred on as a third set of boyfriend's watches from the ground. We have digan guy. Going is back Huygens, and brand new suit.
I don't know why. I think they were just full of gas and we're like, fuck it. We got the money because gaijin's suit, one movie, you go was in pretty good shape, but they just read it, they just redid his suit, and you might notice he's a little bit, Slimmer his head's, a little redesigned, his sales are a little bit redesigned, it's not by much, but they built a new guy. Zoo and then Mega 1 R. Big R big weird Beetle boy that I mean, like I think the megalon suit is well made I think the
design is yeah. I don't know about y'all. I don't think the designs a lot. Yeah he's this he's a big beetle thing with drill hands and like that's not particularly interesting but the way he acts as interesting, you know I mean he flips out all over the place and I loved it and he skips and Ops and leaps. I mean, I think my fondness for both Gigan and megalon is probably similar for Charlotte's reasons which is in Destroy, All Monsters the game like they were all plastic. Oh yeah.
Like guy Gaijin did this buzzsaw attack where he like dropped you on his belly and through. Yeah I specifically remember megalon like using his drill hands to toss stuff like yeah, that they you know and they did a little bit of that here. What always is astonishing to me is when megalon flies and His Hands man. They become one drill instead of two halves of a drill. It's like how does that work? Yeah. What's the, what's the
anatomical? Reason they joined together but like and then can spin it depends. I just yeah, they can spend together but also independently, right? Like it's not super thymine. It make more sense. If they were like vibrating, right? If they like vibrated and then it. Hey, now. Well, that's true. I know given the movie we're talking about but like, you know, you could have this this thing that like Twitches back and forth to like tunnel through dirt. That's all mold.
Do it right there not I don't know. Fuck look Megan ones my gal a fun ass monster even if the design is a little but I love him. A lot of great. Yeah yeah a lot of gray and brown lot of gray and brown like yeah you know looking like a lot earn a modern first person shooter like Graham Brown Unreal Engine ass motherfucker. But you know, I agree. I think his personality is great.
Like also again like we tied her before, but the bouncing the yeah nonsensical bouncing like a flea almost maybe that was it was like he's acting like a flame like a grasshopper because he's kind of all different kinds of bugs, he's roachy. He's he's crickety, he's beat Ali, you know. Yeah. And I also was thinking about how we're just entering this like design thing for these
monsters. And I say entering, as if it's not just Toe but you know, like we're their biological things with like Hardware attached to them. Yeah, drills and Buzz saws and whatnot, instead of just being like big lobster. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I mean, yeah, that's that's pretty much over after megalon, but it is interesting that we got these two together and like aside from the fact that guy gun shows up in megalodons movie like fandom can never separate guy going to megalon.
They are they are there? Mates their boyfriends, they are boyfriends. It's just, they will always be two. Halves of a whole y'all not to distract too much but I would play a Godzilla dating Sim where you could take the monsters. Like give that to me, I would play the hell out of that. We got us, we gotta pitch it to the Godzilla Twitter account, right? Please give me that. Charlotte. It's time for our favorite game show. What's the title in Germany? Got this, has been so fun.
Yeah. The increasing shock of both. The guests and Charlotte as you reveal these titles. I wish I wish we'd caught on to this earlier honestly and not, you know, in the last third of the season. But but yeah, I mean there's there's so for new listeners who popped in just for this movie and haven't Into the rest of Castle Bravo these movies have had some pretty unhinged titles in Germany. Specifically almost always involving Frankenstein in movie, for some reason, for reasons, I
cannot figure out. Usually, I did find some answers. Usually, yes, the actual like rewrites to the movie do just say that like Godzilla is Frankenstein's monster or something like that. Yeah, so like Ghidorah the three-headed monster is Frankenstein's monsters in battle against Ghidorah. King Kong escapes was King Kong Frankenstein's son, son of Godzilla was Frankenstein's Frankenstein's monsters hunt. Godzilla's son. Godzilla vs. Gigan was Frankenstein's, hell brood.
Are y'all ready for the German title for Godzilla versus mega Lon? Yes, but as I can. All right, King Kong demons from outer space. Okay, what cocoa breaker? This is not a Frankenstein movie in Germany. It's a King Kong movie. I just yeah, there's no King Kong. Anyway, the Jaguars King Kong. Okay, call Jet Jaguar, King Kong in the German version. I got nothing. Y'all. I got nothing. Is King Tut is Jet Jaguar. Still Frankenstein's, son.
Or man, King Kong this shit. There is a common fan belief that this is like an old urban legend that in the movie, like he's King Kong in a suit of armor and know that. That's it's just they just call him King Kong. That's literally it. They just named him King Kong. They could have named him, Mickey Mouse. It would have been as okay. Yeah. Also if I may the outer space part like demons, okay, sure. Fine, whatever their Invaders. But like, from outer space.
That's the op the most opposite from outer space. As you can get there in the center point, guy can see only one from outer space and he's working from the for the Seto pians. So he's on higher, he's a boyfriend. Fire. Yeah, it's the logic for these tight.
Yeah. I so I only picked ahead and I know that like the German title is absurd in every single one of the showing movies like here out, but I'll have to see what happens in the 80s because surely some of those have absurd titles but by that point we're probably getting things more under control. There was one other, I don't remember what country it is, but one other Country had like a
really absurd title. It was like Superman and gorgo like great team up or something like that and and Godzilla is gorgo and jaguars Superman and I mean that makes more sense than the guy gets closer so it's is better. That's for sure. I mean the Germans are still holding the holding the crown here for and really we that I got to tell you Germans holding crowns doesn't make me feel comfortable, so No, sir. Go a completely different more
correct. Yeah. Yeah. So this movie Man, the behind the scenes behind the scenes on this movie. Like, at first glance as I was doing, my research was not that interesting but you know as I read more and connected some dots it's started to develop like just how Wild this movie
was To be made. So as I mentioned before director, June Phuket has back who we've been seeing an appreciating frequently this season of Castle Bravo Tara, you tario she, nah Cano. Who is the special effects supervisor for the last two Godzilla movies versus had or n versus guy. Again, is Back. Music is by Ricci Romanov. A who is from Godzilla vs. Adora. So we've got like, a lot of the same Talent from the worst one in a long. Time back with Foo Kedah and like they're kind of their kind
of ripping, right. Like the special effects work in this movie is good and fun, and the music is kind of fun, and weird and catchy and it's way it's not very Godzilla doesn't sound anything like the e. Fukube sound. We've come accustomed to but you know, it's a fun score. Yeah, I mean, the, the check, the car chasing, we talk about the beginning. Like, has this kind of Jazzy? Yeah, I don't like like this laughs. I love this. What, what the hell? Welcome to the motherfucking 70s.
Here's the, here's the weird thing and I cannot find anything that that explains or squares away. These two facts. This is the most Rush. Godzilla production of all time. This movie was made in three weeks. Wow, it was made in three weeks and the screenplay was like a nightmare. There were the original concept for the screenplay came from like a long time, like collaborator on the Godzilla franchise who done a lot of screenplays for these movies. But he has admitted in interviews.
He basically handed over like a rough concept to Fukuoka and fuka de wrote the movie himself like scribbling In margins, all the way up until they got the cameras rolling. Huh, which is why there's so many if you look at like trivia stuff, there's so much that comes from just unused ideas for
previous movies, right? Megalon was an unused idea from a previous movie, Gigan was back just because he was, you know, kind of the most recent thing they had to work with, you know, Jet Jaguar coming from a children's contest. Like there's so much that kind of got thrown together. It's kind of a miracle that this is a movie in a lot of ways. But this was not a cheap movie, like Touhou had money. I think Touhou had done, well, the last year or two. I mean, Godzilla vs. Gigan.
Certainly did a lot better than previously, so they had the money to build these for entirely new suits. A lot of special effects work. The new special effects work is really good. Good and really expensive.
We noted that there's a lot of stock footage in the movie like any place where they could just use stock footage instead, they kind of did even a couple places where it didn't totally match like the claw knocking, the the planes out of the sky because it's Godzilla when it was supposed to be megalon. But it's so weird because they had like no time and they used a lot of stock footage but then everything that they did that
was original. They pour A shitload of money into and it's this very weird to see a movie with a ton of budget and a super tight production time. Usually it's, you know you have the confidence in the money to give the movie what it needs, or you were just trying to get some cheap shit out there to make a little cash and I just don't know enough about the film industry to understand what happens at this particular intersection. I mean, who's to say, right? Yeah, it's definitely like it
looks good. Our arguments about the script and thus, how much sense it makes a side. Like, it looks good, even with those reuse scenes, like there was, never a moment was like, this looks. This hasn't aged well, like it was entertaining. It was well-made. If you, if you like half to use stock footage like you, you have so little time to shoot new
footage that you have. To cut footage from other movies into your movie, to make it work, like that is a crippling handicap to work with and yet like they make it work. Surprisingly. Well, in the edit, it's not as good as it would have been if they got to make everything from scratch. I'm sure. But I'm that's incredible to me, one.
One popular reason I saw cited. Some places as to why this movie had such a short production time was that this was originally intended to be a Jaguar movie that this was originally. And like, you noted, this was, this is basically Jet Jaguar movie till the end. And then it was just decided later in that like, this is not going to work without, you know, Godzilla's Starpower. So rewrite everything, you know,
we have three weeks left. You know let's let's let's cram this through that almost logically make sense. Except we know it's not true because the original like Jet Jaguar contest was specifically for a monster to be in a new Godzilla movie. So right, you know despite those stories you know that was never the case. This is not something that had to be Rewritten at the last minute. I don't know, man. I just think maybe drugs. I mean, yeah, it's the 70s
because it's reasonable. I there, there's a great little anecdote of the new Godzilla actor because Haro Nakajima has retired. And this guy only played
Godzilla once. So, I don't even have his name written down, because he will never return to us but talking about the suit actors, because they shot this in winter, and it was so cold out, Jun fukuyama Just bring out whiskey and like, share whiskey with the suit actors and they'd have a couple drinks before they got started a little whiskey to warm you up in the winter. Like okay. No, I think y'all might have been drunk and explains the
whole laughs. Yeah. Last 30 minutes of just nonsense and fighting my God, I mean, I think, I think this is a bunch of dudes. I just think they were having fucking fun making this movie right. I think every actor, every, you know, PA the director, you know, were a little Buzzy and, and just knocked this fucker out and had a blast and then moved on from it. And you got to respect that.
There's I can find no evidence that that's what like, beyond the fact that few could have shared whiskey with some of the actors but like, that's that's what I'm choosing to believe if I connect the dots right, I mean, it makes sense. Yeah. But yeah, so let's talk, let's talk social and political messaging I have two notes. One is stop nuking shit and destroying the planet. Yeah to is the gays are too powerful to be stopped yells. Yep correct. Yeah I don't get all is all
clear as a bell. And if you weren't sure, they spell it out and last few moments of the film, right? Right, don't. Yeah. The the usual kind of like don't pick wars with other nations and we're all just one people and don't destroy the planet at this point. It's kind of watered down, but he bik. What is through it all?
Just that General sense of like optimism and get togetherness, you know, in a very like watered down to a child's understanding of it, because these are at this point kids movies, But God a kids movie where they almost kill the kids. We can't. Well, I'm telling you that they shot that kid like and I I stopped for a moment I guess I guess and I wasn't loaded you shoot that child and then they shoot and it's just a cloud. And I'm like, oh, it's the gas
pistol, I guess. God. I, we have joked all through this episode about this being the gay Godzilla movie, but like it's I cannot say, if this shit is intentional or not, but the Vibes are pretty. I mean, it takes 30 seconds of looking at Goro and arashi. Hero. She to be like their boyfriends. Yeah. Also he wrote like they're both attractive man. But Hiroshi is a ha my God. Yeah. These two or these two are cuties their Dapper there. Well, groomed and maintained.
They dress sharp like these two belong on the cover of like women's health magazines. You know what I mean? Yeah. And like it it like they're literally picnicking on a beach together while they're there platonic, you know. Well, the ones Little Brother Kyle right is, is like just hanging out. It's like it's just too wholesome to not be true. And even like the walk at the end, like they might as well have been holding. Yeah, yeah.
That's nice. It's almost like they wrote the female lab assistant role to be the love interest and they just cast a dude instead because otherwise you everything about the writing of you got the framing. Like I think back to the the Kung Fu girlfriend and Godzilla vs. Gigan right? Like It's like you took a roll like that the usual, you know, female lead and just cast another pretty dude and it worked it add it just it was fun it.
Like I also love that we're assuming that if it was written for a woman at first that that woman also would have been a badass ass-kicking car driving? Yeah, whatever. But instead it was this gay dude and they had a happy family and it was amazing. It's incredible. It's it's And I mean, obviously if if they were intending these two to be boyfriend's, if they were intending these two to be gay, you couldn't have aired that in 1970s Japan, America
anywhere, right? You just couldn't have done that, right? So like I can see where maybe the idea intention could have been to do that and they just have failed it. I can totally see it being accidental, right? I can see a bunch of dudes little buzz, having a good time shooting this movie and And you know, man, sometimes when you leave dudes alone in their natural habitat, they accidentally discover homosexuality, right? Like, they have no word for it,
but that's what arrives. And I just love that. I love that for them. This weird movie were Godzilla, and it will Jet Jaguar, and megalon fight, and then both summon their new boyfriend's to fight. And what else can I say? A, I mean, also the to see taupe Ian's, yeah, like I got a Vibe like the two henchmen. I got a vibe that they also like it just simply. It was all guys, being dance, and I think the emperor was was,
I'm sorry, man. But the Emperor of see Topia you cannot tell me. Was this Freight man? Looking at him, he's 22 Fab. Yeah, that this ridiculous giant hairy man in his like glittery, silken toga. Yeah, that's an elder right there and then the drag show like there's just tremendous gay energy in this movie. There's no heterosexual explanation for this movie and and I love it. I love it scam. Penis. Like I don't think it's a good movie, but it's a movie. I had a blast watching.
Yeah. Oh, no, it is not a quality film, but I still had so much fun watching it. It's the Venom of the Godzilla movie. That's a great way. You know, me and if you know me, you know, that's the highest praise. I could give any film efforts camp, this isn't here. Trying to be high cinema. This is campy Looney Tunes, giant monster wrestling and it knows exactly what it is.
And it says, if we're gonna do this, if this is what we have fallen to from The Prestige we used to have, we are going to have a fucking blast in the mud and you cannot help but respect T' that kind of energy in the face of the difficulties that like Touhou is going through and the emotional weight behind the franchise at this point. You know, the death of tsuburaya Honda being off in fucking limbo you know working on television shows instead of movies. Yeah.
Yes movie reps. Agreed, we got any final thoughts about this. Before we wrap, I think everything that could be, said, has been said, yeah. I mean, I'm honored to have come on for this increase, incredibly gay film. That it was that I was thought of for it. It just has, I've always loved Godzilla stuff, I'm still clap catching up on the newer ones, I've seen Godzilla and Destroy All Monsters. I haven't watched Godzilla. As King Kong yet.
I'm saving it for a special occasion, but like, I live grew up watching all of these films. Definitely not any kind of sensible or yeah. With without even probably understanding most of them, but like, it was so fun to go back to this. The fact that so many of them are on HBO, Max means, I'm definitely going to go and watch
a bunch of them now. But this film, I just, I'm still, I have to hammer home, how good the special effects are a queen, even talked about how they had like this Army. We mentioned it, But like the Army drive to go fight MegaMan, it's all it's all toy cars. That look good and like you can barely see the motors like dragging them along like and there are some shots of real vehicles to.
But like it's just it never doesn't feel like it's act, the actual Army going to. Yeah, they're about of this is the Miniatures, quality is really good and they know how to like Over crank. The footage, just enough that like it's slowed down just enough those little toys, have that much more weight as they drive across. Like it's it's just crazy to think of how this stuff was done in an era before real computer-generated effects.
You know, they had to shoot toy cars and just set their frame rate at a certain way and use a certain kind of lens and you know, macro lenses and and design the tracks. We're going to go across in such a way that they would look weighty. And that's amazing to think of its real Artistry. And my other final thought is something we've already mentioned, but I have to repeat
it because it Bears repeating. This has the greatest Godzilla dropkick Of All Times, beautiful, and you've not seen if you've not seen this film, see it? But if you've not seen anything, you have to see that because it is impossible not to laugh at and it is Glory.
I think like the Dropkick here, And then Godzilla flying and Godzilla vs. Hedorah, and then the victory dance and Godzilla vs. Monster 0 is, is the like those are the three, the three horses of the Apocalypse for show a Godzilla. It's just these truly baffling moments. That you cannot forget, there is a fourth one coming up that I cannot spoil because Charlotte deserves to, to get hit with it. It completely fresh. But yeah, show it show a Godzilla.
Had some truly wild shit going on and I just love it. I respect it. Well, all that being said, that is a wrap on this episode. Thank you all so much for joining us on our journey, so far stormy. Where, where can people find you? So I'm going to give the short pitch because if I talk about so many shows I was done, I said podcaster virtuoso, that was me. Trying to find an easy way to summarize it.
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