retro.pizza is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A poly-fandom instance for nerds to talk about nerd culture. No Nazis, no TERFs.

Server stats:

296
active users

Okay. Might start movie late.
Placeholder to start film thread.

Okay. As soon as I finish organizing up some podcast recordings that are the reason I missed Monsterdon tonight, I am going to watch the movie and do my usual taking too many screen caps routine.

Time to tow that hoe.
So only Godzilla 1954 and the American Godzilla in name only have happened in this continuity.
Dang the music comes hard out of the gate.

A little orange submarine? Well not actually orange but named after a type of orange apparently.

I love that the titles are over the flesh and bones and wings of the monsters in the movie.

Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack is a mouthful of a title. But I really wish they had gone with the original script version of Godzilla X Varan, Baragon and Anguirus: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack.
We was robbed of a new Varan movie!
But we got the best puppy dog Baragon out of this.

Godzilla X Mothra X Ghidorah (GMK) was in a double feature with a Hamtaro movie. Which seems like a really weird combo for this Godzilla movie (I think this is the right hamtaro movie trailer?).
youtube.com/watch?v=39y1P0u8DR

So a skeezy sci-fi channel fake monster show is trying to convince a small village with their own local Nessie that if Godzilla showed up it would be good business for them like how Salem and witches are good tourism? Eh?
Okay that makes about as much sense as when I first watched this movie bootleg with no subs back in the day.

Oh no! It's the ghost of a lawn jockey! Or cowboy. Wtf is his outfit?

Oh a bosozoku biker gang has come to town. Damn rowdy kids with your cool bikes and awesome jackets.
Oh they beheaded a statue. And buried by a tunnel monster.

Pagos, Neronga, Magular, Gabora, and more reuses of the original Baragon body in Ultra Q & Ultraman & Ultraseven until they stuck his head back on so he could have a minor appearance in Destroy All Monsters.

Two of these Baragon beheaded beasts got to come back to life in Shin Ultraman.

40 minutes into watching 10 minutes of the movie maybe I should watch more movie and less kaiju trivia

strangefour with the Pleiades

Uh what if there are survivors trapped in the tunnel? is that drill missile a good idea?

"Sometimes I wish I'd been born a man."
Oh hey did we have trans narrative in a Godzilla film on the bingo card?

The Guardian Monsters graphic novel was big in ancient times.

Aww a normal dog sized pupper.
WAIT WHAT NOOO! Fuck these drunken asshole teens.

Did one of them steal a large brachiosaur toy from the local Nessie gift shop?
OH NO IT'S MOTHZILLA! Wait...

Oh hey a good shot of that loch monster gift shop sign.
PUPPER IS OKAY! He is getting many head pats.

Wait it's a real old guy and they arrested him? I could have sworn he was a ghost? Wait can you arrest a ghost?

"Ghidorah the three headed dragon was known as the eight headed dragon."
Okay I know this is a reference to Yamata no Orochi the mythical eight headed dragon that an ancient prince of Japan fought, but it's real weird here in the dub.
Illustrated here from the Toho movie Yamato Takeru.

Dude. Ya ever go for a piss and had this happen to ya? Bummer.

This Godzilla is powered by uncounted souls of war dead. So this Godzilla is a physical manifestation of Japan's war crimes. He can no be denied.

"If spirits are another form of electricity. Maybe there's a way for them to be stored in stone."
Oh man. The "ghosts can hang around limestone deposits" and what not has spread even to Japan. Stone Tapes you have had a long and lasting effect on occult nonsense for a very niche British scifi tv movie.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ston

en.wikipedia.orgThe Stone Tape - Wikipedia

Oh. Oh no... movie no...
Wait is that?
Holy crap it's our old pal from the Gamera trilogy & Garo! Yukijiro Hotaru!
Guess Gamera isn't the only monster out there ruining this guy's life.

So Mothra and Ghidorah are here to defend "the homeland." These are nationalist monsters? Oh that is awkward. I guess I gotta root for zombie Godzilla powered by the souls of the dead?

WAIT WHAT!?
The old guy who I though was a ghost is Hideyo Amamoto.
Aka Dr Shinigami from Kamnn Rider. Aka DR WHO, THE INTERNATIONAL JUDAS!?
Man he always looked like an old guy. But I had no idea he was still acting until GMK.

Aww Baragon is a good pupper breaking Dr Who out of jail.
"GAO~ GAO~!"

Aww I wanna boop the snoot of this big ol` pupper.
Baragon the big red dog.

Baragon is like a pitbull of the kaiju world. Looks big and dangerous, but is really a big goofy misunderstood baby with a huge head.

I was joking about the dick thing! What the hell Godzilla. Right in the bay. Ewww.

Godzilla in this one is such a creepy looking design. He's got all the basic Godzilla look there, but the blank white eyes, thicker neck, bigger head. Everything is just slightly off and more beastial.
Oh and that. That is Godzilla being treated like a living nuke, because he is devastation personified.