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@bonniegrrl: I'd want triptych with Gamera. #starwars
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The last Vader pic prompted me to do this. #starwars
11/06/09
Also, that TARDIS one is pretty sweet... #starwars
11/06/09
Kane from Alien just before the facehugger gets him. #starwars
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I never saw Alien, but I've been meaning to. I liked Aliens, but I was always told that they were very different movies. #starwars
11/06/09
Vader in black velvet, never reaching the end,
Tuskens they've painted, never meaning to send.
Boba in ways I'd missed with these eyes before.
Just what the point is, I don't know anymore.
'Cos I love you, yes I love you, oh how I love you.
Gazing at Godzilla,flames from the mouth,
Just what they're thinking through I can't understand.
Some try to tell me, the art they cannot defend,
Just what you want to be, Mothra will be in the end.
And I love you, yes I love you,
Oh how I love you, oh how I love you.
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11/03/09
You River Tam fanatics better stay the hell out of this! #zombies
11/03/09
as for Godzilla vs. Zombies...i'm so there with you. But it raises the question of if 'Zilla would be susceptible to the zombie plague? Zombie-zilla, perhaps? #zombies
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Think of the ticket sales! THE TICKET SALES!!??!!
Brought to you by the Saturday Morning Cartoon Motion Picture Bastardization Council. #zombies
11/03/09
Zombies Attack Tokyo, Godzilla breathes his atomic breath on half of the city and crushes, tears apart and flattens the other half. Zombie threat is over. #zombies
11/04/09
His body had to be "heated" in order to allow the virus to spread enough for Godzilla to pass out and allow his body to recoup. However passing out in a frigid pacific coast cooled his body and caused his metabolism to restart and eradicate the virus permanently.
So no. Zombie plague < Godzilla.
There's a reason he's the King! #zombies
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11/03/09
While he correctly states that "Godzilla fought scientists and the military," he fails to note that humans almost always lose those battles. In twenty-eight movies, Godzilla is killed exactly once by human science (the 1954 Godzilla), and once by human military equipment (Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II). And in that last case, Godzilla is resurrected by Rodan's self-sacrifice and goes on to defeat the human military.
No, when Godzilla's actions are seriously affected by humans, it isn't by massive group endeavors like battles - it's always by individual action. Whether it's some child putting out school chairs in the shape of the Mothra symbol in a plea for help, or Miki Saegusa telepathically asking Godzilla to turn away, or the Okinawan priestess summoning King Caesar to help Godzilla defeat Mechagodzilla, or the pilots of Moguera deciding to assist Godzilla by attacking Space Godzilla, some individual or very small group always takes responsibility in a way society can't or won't.
Even in the one case where Godzilla dies and actually stays dead (for a while) - the original 1954 Godzilla movie - it's not the military that does it. It's Dr. Serizawa single-handedly taking the Oxygen Destroyer to kill Godzilla, and knowingly losing his life in the process.
Godzilla is the product of societal hubris, and if he is "defeated" by human actions, it is always by one person or a very few people standing alone and saying, "I don't care what anybody else says, I don't care what the government or that powerful group wants, THIS is right and THIS is wrong, and THIS is what needs to happen," and then making sure that's exactly what happens.
Turner's summary of the Godzilla oeuvre is very shallow. When you get outside of the 60s kiddie flicks, many of those movies address serious societal and moral questions, and come up with answers that are quite surprising and rather subversive when seen from a Japanese group-think perspective. #zombies
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@RocktheDebit: #zombies
11/03/09
Zombie stories can take place during anytime in history in any part of the world.
It's not hard to link zombies to any subject (including Godzilla) since it's a perfect vessel for any metaphor you can think of. That's what makes it perfect and that's why it's loved so much, we have so many to choose from any. You don't like that one? Ok here's many many more that may suit your fancy.
When it comes to government in zombie movies a "scorched earth" plan seems to be what we see most. The solution being bomb the fuck out if it, people that are still alive are seen as acceptable casualties.
Godzilla is the opposite, where you literally have no choice but to hope and pray that whatever sci-fi trillion dollar gadget can save them from Godzilla. Yet oddly enough unlike zombies, Godzilla can be seen as a hero. Probably the only character I can think of that can be a legitimate hero and legitimate villain in the same movie (when said sci-fi trillion dollar gadget can save them from the aliens, who does? Godzilla that's who).