Godzilla 2012

[SummaScriptura]

What do you think Job's Leviathan and Behemoth represent?

On another subject, any Godzilla fans out there? If so, he's baaaack!

After an 8-year hiatus, Godzilla returns to the big screen in 2012.

Since 1954, the Godzilla persona has had a long run in films. Not counting the 1998 US misfire featuring Matthew Broderick, Godzilla has appeared in 28 Japanese-made films.

Read here about the coming film:

Godzilla 2012: A New Godzilla Movie Is Coming!

Godzilla filmography:

1. Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1954)
2. Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
3. King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963)
4. Godzilla vs. Mothra (1964)
5. Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster (1965)
6. Godzilla vs. Monster Zero (1965)
7. Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster (1966)
8. Son of Godzilla (1967)
9. Destroy All Monsters (1968)
10. Godzilla's Revenge (1969)
11. Godzilla vs. (Hedorah) the Smog Monster (1971)
12. Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
13. Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
14. Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)
15. Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)
16. Godzilla 1985 (1984)
17. Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)
18. Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)
19. Godzilla and Mothra: the Battle for Earth (1992)
20. Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993)
21. Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994)
22. Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)
23. Godzilla 2000 (1999)
24. Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000)
25. Godzilla Mothra King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)
26. Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002)
27. Godzilla: Tokyo SOS (2003)
28. Godzilla Final Wars (2004)

Recommended DVDs:
Godzilla Collection
Frankenstein Conquers the World
Rodan/War of the Gargantuas
Mothra

 

[JamesAH]

I mentioned this in the thread in the big screen forum I just hope it's a lot better than the Emmerich version.

 

[Chesterton]

If you see only one monster movie in your life, you have to see Destroy All Monsters!

 

[Chesterton]

YouTube - Blue Oyster Cult Godzilla

 

[SummaScriptura]

If you see only one monster movie in your life, you have to see Destroy All Monsters!

Yes, unfotunately, the only version available in the US lacks the A.I.P. dub-track which accompanied the film when it aired in the US on TV for all those years. I have a copy, but they're hard to come by. It is waaay better than the one commonly available which comes with a dub-track created by non-English speakers in Hong Kong.

But yes, great film in the genre.

 

[JamesAH]

I actually like Cloverfield you have to get passed the first person POV style of it but still a good monster movie.

 

[zeke37]

I actually like Cloverfield you have to get passed the first person POV style of it but still a good monster movie.

i thot that was a waste of my money...
but one persons junk is someone elses treasure

 

[zeke37]

besides Job, is there other mention of those beasties...in the Word
my pastor teaches another definition.

 

[DCHSKNIGHT]

In my Opinion, I Believe them to be real and living creatures at that time...

All i have to say is if all cultures have a legend and it is generally the same... chances are the legend in some part is true... And all cultures have a dragon legend... Leviathan was a serpent like fire breathing Beast.. Since Scripture is inerrant, i believe there was once dragons on this earth... Not any more... but once.. In some translations of The book of Daniel... Dan deals with a Dragon in Babylon... This could end times translation but oh well...

Behemoth... Just a dinosaur... It was not a hippo or a elephant... I could see it as a Brachiosaur or something like that...

 

[boswd]

I actually like Cloverfield you have to get passed the first person POV style of it but still a good monster movie.

me too

 

[LiturgyInDMinor]

I am totally psyched about the Big Green Machine's new movie!!!!!
woot

 

[boswd]

If you see only one monster movie in your life, you have to see Destroy All Monsters!

Hmmm Yeah that is an awesome one but I don't know King Kong v Godzilla still may be my #1

 

[Chesterton]

Hmmm Yeah that is an awesome one but I don't know King Kong v Godzilla still may be my #1

Absolutely my #2 choice. But in Destroy All Monsters they worked in a baby King Kong-like character. So, you've got Kong plus all the rest, so that's what pushes DAM to #1 for me.

 

[boswd]

Absolutely my #2 choice. But in Destroy All Monsters they worked in a baby King Kong-like character. So, you've got Kong plus all the rest, so that's what pushes DAM to #1 for me.

ahhhh well played my friend, pulled out the baby Kong,

Well Played.

 

[Chesterton]

ahhhh well played my friend, pulled out the baby Kong,

Well Played.

 

[SummaScriptura]

Absolutely my #2 choice. But in Destroy All Monsters they worked in a baby King Kong-like character. So, you've got Kong plus all the rest, so that's what pushes DAM to #1 for me.

Now you've got me...

For the life of me I do not remember any baby King Kong character... Are you sure you're not thinking of Minya, the son of Godzilla character? Minya's in there, no KK as far as I can remember. Besides there are trademark issues with KK.

 

[SummaScriptura]

besides Job, is there other mention of those beasties...in the Word
my pastor teaches another definition.

Behemoth is only in Job.

Leviathan is in Job, Psalms and Isaiah.

Leviathan and Behemoth are most extensively discussed in the Book of Enoch. Levaithan and Behemoth are a creatures of spiritual evil bound until the time of the end. Leviathan is bound under the sea, and Behemoth under the land.

I find it interesting that Revelation 13 has one beast arise from the Meditteranean Sea and the other from the land. Is Leviathan a stand-in for the A.C. and is Behemoth a stand-in for the False Prophet?

 

[Chesterton]

Now you've got me...

For the life of me I do not remember any baby King Kong character... Are you sure you're not thinking of Minya, the son of Godzilla character? Minya's in there, no KK as far as I can remember. Besides there are trademark issues with KK.

Yes I was thinking of Minya, that was Godzilla's son. But I couldn't have been entirely off-base, since you knew who I meant by the Kong-like character. I think his face looked similar to the face of a "Son of Kong" which had come out before DAM. (Perhaps they wanted King Kong in the fight, but didn't have legal permission.)

Anyway, I was shamefully wrong. I will now proceed to the kitchen for the obligatory act of hari kari.

 

[MrPolo]

I'm kind of getting tired of movie's hyped 1 year+ in advance. I mean, good grief, Tron 2 STILL isn't for another 7 months, and I've been waiting for that since who knows when earlier in 2009.

And as long as we're talking about Cloverfield - my take: NO.

 

[SummaScriptura]

Yes I was thinking of Minya, that was Godzilla's son. But I couldn't have been entirely off-base, since you knew who I meant by the Kong-like character. I think his face looked similar to the face of a "Son of Kong" which had come out before DAM. (Perhaps they wanted King Kong in the fight, but didn't have legal permission.)

Anyway, I was shamefully wrong. I will now proceed to the kitchen for the obligatory act of hari kari.

There was this one, pictured on the right side of the frame?

Here we DO in fact come full circle to the Bible, I think.

In the Japanese film "War of the Gargantuas" there are two beasties, one giant green one from the sea and one giant brown one from the land; sound familiar? This is a picture of the small brown one which is just beginning to develop its full size.

Backstory: the baby gargantua is growing from the severed hand of Frankenstein's monster, prequeled to this in the film "Frankenstein Conquers the World". And no, he does not conquer downtown Tokyo, let alone the world.