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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.
Quote the article: "Even if the new movie makes money, it will be at least a decade before Godzilla returns, Tomiyama said."
That's pretty much telling us there's not going to be another sequel for a while no matter what. At least, unless you think he's lying.
And how many retirement concerts did Barbara Striesand have?
:)
Go'zilla isn't going anywhere...the press will see to that. This will simply be another comeback spike. It worked before and it will work again, and that's a good thing
I'm just glad Bambi can finally get some rest.
Karma: It's all a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap!
Popular fictional characters never retire, they just get put away for a spell to create a pent-up demand. There will likely be more, but it'll likely be 10 to 20 years before somebody realizes they have a popular franchise that they're not using and it's time to revive it.
I thought Gojira was HUGE in Japan!
Er...
Ryan Fenton
...a bitter dejected Mothra mumbles profanities in broken Japanese.
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So, does this mean that we'll never get "Godzilla: The Musical?"
'Coz that would have been cool.
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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?
Toho group has taken over the operation of the Virgin Cinema movie theaters in Tokyo and seem to be doing a bang-up job of bringing first run movies to Japan in a very timely fashion.
It still costs an arm and a leg to see a movie here, but the theaters are much more comfortable than any that I've been to in the US.
Godzilla ought to be retiring. The threat of environmental damage and subsequent mutations caused by a nuclear waste spill has been shown to be a Chicken Little cause. As more countries shift their means of electricity production to nuclear, we have seen a progressive reduction of air pollution in those countries. In the US, coal and oil are still the primary means of power generation, and it shows when looking at statistical charts how much pollution per capita is produced by Americans.
Godzilla ought to be retired because the reasons that he was brought forth in the first place are gone. A new creature, relevent to today's global threats ought to be created so that kids can learn about those threats in an interesting and entertaining manner. Whether the threat ought to be fossil fuel pollution, terrorism, or global warming, bringing the issues to the public in an easily digestible and entertaining medium is the first step towards educating everyone about the dangers posed by these global problems.
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As long as they dont make another incredibly terrible movie like that Godzilla 2000 movie, I will be very happy
I would rather see a japanese guy in a rubber suit step on model trains for an hour than see the most expensive 3D technology used to string together a movie with plot elements so stupid it makes my eyes bleed!!!
Post apocalyptic gaming goodness
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.
theya re rereleasing the orig 1954 B&W Godzilla in the USA in spring/summer (no dubbing!!!!!).... then next year we will get Godzilla: Final Wars.
it'll be sad they are not making more, but we still will have 28 movies to watch.... that's not too shabby. i have to admit i am just psyched to see the first one in a theater.
Teaser/trailer on apple.com for the reissue. fun fun fun!
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.
Well, Godzilla has its own statue in Yurakucho (a district of Tokyo),
so I thought I'd go and check for you...
And indeed, Gozdilla may look huge...
But actually, if you don't count the pedestal, he's about the height of a 6 year-old
So you were right: Godzilla is not huge, even in Japan. It is just special effects (^_^)
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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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Godzilla ought to be retiring. The threat of environmental damage and subsequent mutations caused by a nuclear waste spill has been shown to be a Chicken Little cause. As more countries shift their means of electricity production to nuclear, we have seen a progressive reduction of air pollution in those countries. In the US, coal and oil are still the primary means of power generation, and it shows when looking at statistical charts how much pollution per capita is produced by Americans.
True, but Godzilla wasn't really about nuclear power. Godzilla was all about the nuclear bombs that the United States dropped on Japan.
The effect that Hiroshima and Nagasaki had on the Japanese psyche was simply incredible. It instantly broke the will of the Japanese to fight, enabling the Americans to come in and transform their society. The scars still haven't completely healed. Every time you see some post-apocalyptic anime/film/book come out of Japan, you can bet that it was influenced by the atomic bomb.
Gojira was just a natural outgrowth of that. Look at the original story: A huge amoral destructive force comes from abroad and lays waste to Japan. Conventional weapons are useless against it, and it destroys the Japanese military. The monster is only stopped by the use of a weapon that is so terrible that the creator would rather die than see it unleashed upon the world.
Gojira was always a bomb reference. As long as we have super-weapons, he'll never be irrelevant. I'll miss the big guy.
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History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man....
you know the rest
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heres the deal, monster Godzilla do not take them selves seriously. IT's all about stomping, and breather, and laughing.
2000 tried to be serious.
There were some greate scenes in 2000, but it was more like the king kong theme(especially the ending) then it was the Godzilla theme.
That said, If you like old sci-fi, I highly suggest you rent the FIRST Godzilla. It is done spectacullarly well. Better then many of the 'Sequals'
Of course, if you hate any sci-fi deemed 'old' then stay away from it. I hope this isn't the case, beasue there are a lot of good sci-fi stories that have been put out pver the last 80 years.
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... 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.
First use of the word "Mozilla". You'll have to search in the page to find it, but if the page is new to you, read the whole thing; it's fascinating.
Care to revise much?
The Japanese military was thrilled to go toe toe superweapon to superweapon with the Americans. The Japanese people obeyed the will and word of their God-King. (Don't forget unit 731 and their already weaponized biological arms)
And as much as Godzilla was about the aftermath of the atomic bombs it was also about the promis of an uncertain future technology might bring, for better or ill, only to be realized after the dye was cast, and of course the mercurial nature of US foreign policy.
US tests nuclear weapons, Japan suffers unintended results.
Godzilla was always and will always be a much more multifaceted expression of Japanese culture than "We got nuked! Wonder Movie Powers Activate! Form of: Self-Pity."
Does that mean, I've actually been using Mojira all this years?
> PLEASE make another American Godzilla.
I want to see Godzilla invade California and governer S fight him off.
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!
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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
this wont be good for the contractors and Buildings industry. Without Godzilla there is not much to rebuild.
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