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Godzilla To Retire (for now)
ackthpt writes "CNN is reporting that Toho, after 50 years and 28 films, will be retiring Godzilla (Gojira in Japan) after this years film. Toho has thought of retiring the venerable monster before, but after pulling the stops to make a special Best of Best this may be it (but you never know, particularly if it draws large audiences)"
It'll be sad to see such an icon of the 'old scifi' go, now if only william shattner would stop screeching on television =)
Just because you disagree doesn't make it offtopic or flamebait.
Let me be among the first to with you well, in whatever endeavor you undertake in this chapter of your life.
Hail! King of the Monsters!
ps. don't attack my city
There's more than one Godzilla movie? I always assumed I was just seeing different parts of the same film... go figure.
I'm just glad Bambi can finally get some rest.
Karma: It's all a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap!
I thought Gojira was HUGE in Japan!
Er...
Ryan Fenton
...a bitter dejected Mothra mumbles profanities in broken Japanese.
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
So, does this mean that we'll never get "Godzilla: The Musical?"
'Coz that would have been cool.
-err...
ps. don't attack my city
Shouldn't that be 'please don't attack my city'?
I'd certainly be polite to the 400-foot monster under those circumstances. Or any circumstances, really.
"We have to go forth and crush every world view that doesn't believe in tolerance and free speech." - David Brin
Oh man.
They never even got a chance to do Godzilla vs. Mozilla
Have you tried Linux yet?
...or remade so that Gojira shoots first.
//Blessed are they that run around in circles, for they shall be known as wheels.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - radioactive scourge of Japan Godzilla was found dead in at the bottom of the Pacific ocean this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an Asian icon.
yeah but people actually WANT Streisand to retire.
It takes a special kind of person to actually enjoy retirement, and call me cynical, but I don't think Godzilla is that type of person.
In a couple months he'll start a consulting business.
"when life gets complicated, I like to take a nap in a tree and wait for dinner" - Hobbes.
In the end, to destroy the seemingly unbeatable (yet stupid looking) American robot monster, Godzilla is forced to explode himself into seperate fighting body-parts! His eTail will become a powerful digital entity known as GodThunderTail. His head will fly around and catch on fire : GodPhoenix! Ooops, I mean Firebirdzilla! Wrong again: GodFireZillaFox! The stupid american monster will be backed into a canyon, then becomes enraged by a massive wave of tiny annoying gophers which pop up both under and over him. He eventually starts to cry, and GodFireZillaFox pretends to feel sorry for him, and gives him some ActiveEcchs laxative ... whereupon Stupid American Monster forgets to eat a critical update monorail, and EXPLODES!
Remember folks, you heard it here first.
They outsourced his job to a Rent-A-Zilla from India.
So what you want is Oilzilla. Hey, we'll send him right on over. Just wait 'till the election's done - he'll need a new job.
is thousands of Japanese people going 'whew'.
Michael Dell stepping down from the helm at Dell and Godzilla going into retirement. Anyone smell collaboration?
Its really a much better web browser than Explorer and..
Oh wait, GODzilla. sorry..
"You lied to me! There is a Swansea!"
It's just a big linguistic misunderstanding. He merely called a contractor to give an estimate for his bathroom - he's retiling.
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We have to type in the URLs by hand? You must work for Microsoft Security.
Five percent of one year's DoD budget puts us on Mars.
History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man....
you know the rest
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
. . .they're unwilling to simply milk a cash cow or popular brand name because it'll make money with [a] potentially inferior product.
Inferior? HE HE HE! So, I take it you've never seen Godzilla?
3cx.org - A truly bad website.
... will miss our Gigantic Japanese Reptile Masters.
So when do we get the Mothra spin-off sitcom, and the Gamera E! True Hollywood Story?
Xbox reviews.. We think they're funny.
Does that mean, I've actually been using Mojira all this years?
This is a plea to Hollywood, in particular the mor... the gentlemen behind the 1998 Godzilla:
PLEASE make another American Godzilla.
Back in 1996, Toho killed Godzilla in Godzilla vs Destroyah, and "Minilla" (aka Baby Godzilla aka Son of Godzilla aka NOT THAT FUCKING MUPPET AGAIN) took over as the "new Godzilla". This was Toho's way of saying, 'We will not make Godzilla movies anymore.'
Then the WONDERFUL Godzilla 1998 arrived... And the Japanese were so OUTRAGED that they demanded a new Japanese Godzilla.
So we got the kick-ass Godzilla 2000, and the following very entertaining Kaiju flicks. You guys gave us 5 more years of "Godzilla borrowed time".
So PLEASE MAKE GODZILLA 2 and repeat the magic!!
P.S.: If you like Japanese SF, check out "Returner", also from Toho. Nice special effects, derivative but highly enjoyable story.
> That's pretty much telling us there's not going to be another sequel for a while no matter what.
Well, maybe one more... but you know they've got to stop before they get to Godzilla XXX.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
The Godzilla franchise is closing its doors and selling off their locks, stocks and barrels, however
A select group of original Godzilla developers have licences the genome and starting a new project, OpenGodzilla, which will allow the innocent victims of primeval sea-dwelling beasts to view and contribute genes to the monsters that destroy their lives.
Senior OpenGodzilla developer Owyabitme Muvathuka said that people have traditionally had no input into the supermonster design process leading to poor quality genetics and weaknesses to conventional weapons that proper review of the code would prevent, and hailed an era of free-as-in-beer, invincible terrors.
I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
Godzilla To Retire
Thank God!!!!1!
--
Pan T. Hose, PhD
Skyscraper Construction Consulting Services
Tokyo, Japan.
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
Finally you can fly helicopters over Japan without getting smashed like a bug, and you can drive in the streets of Tokyo without being stepped on.
this is probably the most boring sig in the world
...Godzilla said today that after winding up his acting career he intends to move into politics, and will be running for Governor of the Kyoto Prefecture next year.
qntm.org
this wont be good for the contractors and Buildings industry. Without Godzilla there is not much to rebuild.
"The quality of life is inversely proportional to the number of keys on your keyring."
Speaking not as a mocker, but as a true Godzilla fan (one with a room full of memorobilia and who already owns films 1-26, several in various versions) I have to ask:
Intellectual investment? What the hell are you talking about?
Trouble making decisions? Just flip for it.
I know! Godzilla and Barbara Streisand can retire at the same time after one last movie! Godzilla vs Mecha-Streisand!
Disconnect your television. Do your own research. Draw your own conclusions. They're probably lying. Don't be a sheep.
I can see it now:
"Can there be a Klein bottle that is an efficient and effective beer pitcher?"