tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post7650458043579948480..comments2024-03-05T17:26:44.559-08:00Comments on Roman's Movie Reviews and Musings: Gamera vs. Barugon (1966) - MST3K ReviewRoman J. Martelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09545497713474664555noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-12896606273422656782017-12-30T09:45:30.990-08:002017-12-30T09:45:30.990-08:00First segment, not the final segment.First segment, not the final segment.Roman J. Martelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09545497713474664555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-6445254253177249312017-12-30T09:45:09.347-08:002017-12-30T09:45:09.347-08:00Never seen Buccano, but I've heard of the seri...Never seen Buccano, but I've heard of the series. I remember hearing it was pretty darn good.<br /><br />I think you may be on to something with the cultural view of Rainbows being different. In the Kurosawa film "Dreams" there is that moment in the final segment where the little boy has seen the foxes marriage and now he must leave home forever. As he steps out from the home he stares out across the wide open world and sees a rainbow, but the scene as a whole feels eerie and lonely , not hopeful. Of course those moments are all based on dreams, but there could be a cultural resonance that that I wasn't understanding. Roman J. Martelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09545497713474664555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-56043915781901619402017-12-30T07:54:41.577-08:002017-12-30T07:54:41.577-08:00I don't know if you've seen the anime seri...I don't know if you've seen the anime series Baccano. Anyway, there's this bit from the first episode which gives the impression that they may have a more pessimistic view of rainbows in Japan. Setting the scene, we have a little girl admiring a rainbow, at which point her guardian rattles off the following:<br /><br />"From the time we are but children, we see rainbows as beautiful things. Without a doubt in our heads, upon sight, they are harmonious to our spirit. I've always wondered why that was. Of course, people who do not understand science or the refraction of light might see this anomaly in the sky as the harbinger of a natural disaster, thinking that something unwelcome might be coming down from that rainbow. Perhaps vegetation might be ablaze at the foot of the rainbow, bringing destruction. At any rate, we still see these seven-colored pieces of information with a sense of faerie tale magic to them."<br /><br />Really makes you think, don’t it?Sitting Ducknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-62571338686167895752014-11-18T16:52:58.715-08:002014-11-18T16:52:58.715-08:00I need to check out those 1990 Gamera flicks. I...I need to check out those 1990 Gamera flicks. I've heard a lot of good things about them. And yeah "Pacific Rim" is a lot of fun. One of my new favorite Summertime flicks.Roman J. Martelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09545497713474664555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-8527121577990815622014-11-18T11:47:19.755-08:002014-11-18T11:47:19.755-08:00I haven't seen the Misties take on the Gamera ...I haven't seen the Misties take on the Gamera films, though I imagine they are fun to watch. I do have the first one without MST3K on them, which is fun if you're in the mood for such a film. When I was in a Godzilla mood back around the time the newest movie was coming out, I have another friend who loves Godzilla and SF in general, and I was talking to him about what were his favorite Godzilla films. <br /><br />He said, I like Godzilla Final Wars (monsterfest), Godzilla, Mothra, & King Ghidorah: All Monsters Attack, Godzilla vs. Ghidora (90's version). My favorite kaiju films of all is the Gamera trilogy from the late 90's. Mill Creek put out a cheap blu ray set of these films. I feel these are the best giant monster films made......at least until Pacific Rim came out.<br /><br />I wasn't even aware of the updated Gamera films until he mentioned them. <br />El Voxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05985563041511492981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-32022056605082702532014-11-17T07:55:05.959-08:002014-11-17T07:55:05.959-08:00Yeah the series gets goofier and goofier as it wen...Yeah the series gets goofier and goofier as it went along, but in a way that made it more fun to watch. These first few lack some of the crazy momentum of the later ones. Oddly, this film seems to take the concept pretty darn serious still. Hard to imagine with a creature destroying things with his tongue. :)Roman J. Martelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09545497713474664555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-85655140478896905602014-11-16T09:07:48.262-08:002014-11-16T09:07:48.262-08:00I was a history major in college and in consequenc...I was a history major in college and in consequence was a fan of unabridged collections of documents. Books like "The Selected Letters of Alexander Hamilton" were just annoying, because I never could be sure that what I wanted wasn't in an omitted letter. "Show me ALL of them!" I would lecture the book (which never listened). So, in a similar way, yes we must have ALL the Gamera films. That said, I just barely remember this one, though I do recall the greedy dude and the opal egg. Maybe one day I'll go somewhere over the rainbow and peek at it again. MST3K is probably the least painful vantage.Richard Bellushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10108081864942272619noreply@blogger.com