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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted November 17, 2014 12:56 PM
Very true! That, and, there are often cases where there are alternates angles of shots or even bits and pieces of scenes left on the "cutting room floor", that the film-makers chose to not include in the complete feature, but are in the trailers!
By the way, there is actually one film I am looking forward to seeing ..."Exodus : Of God and Kings". It's a re-telling of the familiar "Ten Commandments" story ...
However, at the helm of this film, is Ridley Scott, the awesome director responsible for "Blade Runner", "Gladiator" ect. He is meticulous about his film-making and so this should be well worth seeing!
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted November 20, 2014 01:20 PM
I understand where Gary is coming from. he's right, it's much in "homage" to the rubber suited Godzilla, but I think that's what I didn't like about it. I felt like I was watching a very good CGI of a rubber suited Godzilla, (albeit, some nice effects here and there).
Even the tag team "Dad and Mom" duo in the "bad guy monsters" looked terribly fake in my opinion, but then, if it was all in homage, then it makes sense.
However, if they really wanted to do a proper "homage", make all the sets look terribly cardboard completr with obvious "Tonka truck' vehicles and such, looking ridiculous in slow motion being destroyed.
How about some terrible dubbing to the actors.
Actually, come to think of it, I would have thought that to be a real turn on for the movie, but I'm sure modern audiences would be totally perplexed by it!
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Gary Crawford
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 979
From: Manassas, VA. USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted November 21, 2014 06:20 AM
I very much enjoyed the extras on the dvd. "Project Lucky Dragon"....is a fake briefing film showing late 1940's newsreel footage of Godzilla sightings, talking about some U.S. Navy ships that were mysteriously damaged, and revealing that the 1954 H bomb test on Bikini was not a test at all, but was set to destroy Godzilla. Also, the project name, Lucky Dragon ...is an homage to an actual incident in which a Japanese trawler, named Lucky Dragon, accidentally strayed into waters set for an A bomb test in the Pacific and the crew came back with radiation burns and sickness. The Japanese had already had enough of atomic bombs and that real incident just made relations between the U.S. and Japan worse. it's interesting that the DVD extra feature which they named project Lucky Dragon, does not mention the trawler incident at all so the people who "get" the title are only the ones who know about the actual trawler incident. Whoever put the extras together really put in some "in" jokes and really knew their stuff. Also, it has been written by several Godzilla researchers , that the producer of the original film used the trawler incident and descriptions of what happened from the surviving crew as the inspiration for the scene in the original film when the fishing boat is attacked. We don't see Godzilla, but we see the bubbling ocean and the blinding flash of light and the deafening roar....which is how the crew of the actual Lucky Dragon , described their experience.
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