There is very little time or point in an explanation.
To be blunt, the audio came from a timeline and dimension
that has collapsed at a quantum level, rendering it null and void in terms of
existence. Operational time in the dimensional continuum where the beings that created
the audio collapsed in on itself, rendering all of their civilization,
including technology, null and void. Timelines across the
entire continuum are collapsing and changing. The destruction has a nexus that
centers on Cinema PsyOps.
10 years. Man. 10.
10 years.
10 years. Man. 10 years. 10 years.
10. 10 years. 10 Years.
What is the most likely way humanity will be wiped out? Maybe it's something.
Or us. Although the way the world ends might be because of
you. And if this is the case, you wouldn't have any control over it.
The global temperature rise underscores a chilling reality.
Our planet is trying to tell us something, but we don't seem to be
listening. A recent study has suggested that one third of annual deaths due to heat
are directly related to global warming.
On top of the initial flash of thermonuclear light,
which is 180 million degrees, which catches every everything on fire
in a nine mile diameter radius. On top of the bulldozing effect of the
wind and all the buildings coming down, and more fires igniting more fires on top
of the radiation if they happen to have survived poisoning people to death.
On top of all that, each one of these fires creates a mega
fire that is a hundred or more square miles.
Timelines across the entire continuum are collapsing and changing.
The destruction has a nexus that centers on Cinema PsyOps.
A breathtaking scientific revolution is taking place.
Biotechnology has been progressing at stunning speed,
giving us the tools to eventually gain control over biology.
Solving the deadliest diseases while also creating viruses
more dangerous than nuclear bombs, able to devastate humanity.
It's man returning to the most primal,
violent state as people fight over the tiny
resources that remain. What if the world we live in is
just a dream or a simulation? Whether it's a dream or some advanced computer
game you are playing right now, when it ends, you would be what causes the
end of the world. Please do us all a favor. Continue dreaming or playing this
game of life. Because when you wake up or unplug, there's a chance the rest
of us will be blaked out of existence. Timelines across the entire continuum
are collapsing and changing. The destruction has a nexus that centers
on cinema styles. 10. 10 years.
10 years.
And welcome to the 515th consecutive week
of Cinema Psyops. I'm your host, Kort. The guy that cannot even fucking
say the entire title of the movie that we're watching this week. And joining me
in the consternation of that long ass fucking title that no one should ever have
to say is my co host, Dan. I think I might have just like.
I don't know, my pants feel wet after all that. What, that long? Hello?
Yes. Whoa. What happened?
I blacked out and next thing I know, here I am. Whoa.
Yeah. So you can attest, most people would think that
Matt would just basically be going along with the game, but you can either say
that it's not true or it's true. But yeah, I actually do that. All that's
on me. That's my lung power. Yeah, it is.
Godzilla has his atomic breath. I have the ability to stretch out the word
hello to the point where every cockroach singer from the 80s is
like, damn, dude, go on to the next word. I've seen the prolapse D anus.
It's true. Yes. That's how
it works. I have to use the power of a prolapsed anus that belongs to
someone else. I keep it in a jar of formaldehyde.
Okay. It's late, I'm loopy and I'm stone. So I think that's probably time for
us to like, start talking about the title. I'm gonna say it once. Okay.
And then we're gonna shorten it. It's Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidra. Giant Monsters All
Out Attack. Were they getting paid by the word?
Maybe? Yeah. The fandom.
That's all you need. Exactly. It's going to be gmk. Now from here on out,
we're just going to call it gmk. Sometimes I've called it Giant Monsters all at
Attack or GMK Giant Monsters All Out Attack. Just because, you know, just to make
it a little more specified. But we're shorten it the GMK for this episode.
Now, GMK is another one of those what's released to the
next year after our previous episode for Godzilla versus
Mega Gears. And it is once again a reboot. And we're
starting once again from 1954. Godzilla. That happened.
Nothing else happened. Nothing else exists. And now let's get supernatural
with it. Yes. Yeah, I'm going to flat out. I'm going to tell everybody
up front right now before we even start the synopsis.
This is all supernatural. This is not a sci fi film in any way,
shape or form. These are supernatural spirits and entities and guardians and
all of that kind of stuff. And we got a zombie Godzilla, more or less,
right? I mean, Am I getting that script right? Am I getting that plot point
right? This is a resurrected dead Godzilla that's filled with these souls, right?
As far as I know, you are absolutely correct and I'm fucking
here for it. Yeah, this is a really fucking weird one. Like,
I. I don't know how I feel about this movie because
up until this point that I watched it to cover this show and I did
the notes for it to try and understand what was going on. I never
gave a fuck about trying to understand what was going on in this one.
So it's going to be an interesting one, right? Like, I just don't. I didn't
know what tact to take, so I just took the very straightforward. And then this
happened, and then this happened in my notes. And I really don't have a lot
of commentary on this stuff. And as a matter fact, most of the stuff
in this is being told to you through clips and it's all going to be
dialogue. So Dan and I are going to be sitting here for a long time
listening to a lot of clips. But before we do that, Dan, why don't you
give them the rundown once again on your projects that you're working
on? Yeah. So I am the host of the Corrupted Youth
podcast along with my son Brennan, and we've been doing that since
2017. We're a father and son duo that explores the latest blockbusters,
classic genre films, and the schlockiest of golden age VHS rental
stor flicks in spoiler heavy fashion. And then on top of that,
I just started a new project called Cinema Sketches
because I'm an artist, and as an artist with a love for
movies, finding artistic inspiration, it can be challenging.
So why not draw inspiration from those movies and viewers
can watch as I create whatever art the movie inspires and
listen as I share my thoughts on the film. I think it'd be funny if
you said draw inspiration, right? Like drawing draw instead of
drawl. Like to draw instrument like you're drawing water.
Draw, draw. Hey, y' all, I got some drawing
inspiration. Got some. Got some inspiration for yous.
Oh, fuck, that failed badly, y' all. Down for some inspiration.
Thanks for indulging my stoned ass. Why don't we go ahead and take a break
here this week? All Songs released in 2001.
I'm doing once Again Again. I'm breaking with form and I just want to have
some fun. I'll explain why I'm in such a weird mood these last two
episodes and why I'm so kind of out of it in my story time,
folks, it'll make a lot more sense. Dan's kind of privy to a little bit
because I've had a night. It's been a night even before we started recording.
Let's just get it, put it that way, but let's go. Yeah, we got to
get this done. We got to get this over with so that I can get
the fuck to bed because I got to get up and go to work in
the morning. Yay. All right, so we're going to take the break here.
We're going to play the Legion Patreon ad and immediately following that, on the Pirate
Radio edit all songs released in 2001 just like GMK.
So up first, probably arguably one of the
most inescapable songs of 2001. We've got Andrew WK
with Party Hart on the Pirate Radio Editor previously featured in the Glimpse
of a Destroyed Universe or nothing at all will happen except for the explosions.
Every regulation exists or it does not.
Every guideline is followed or it's not. Things are not so black and
white and definite with paradoxes. Why don't we make the biggest gray area of
the all time and just see how it turns out? Worst case scenario is
all this works and none of us ever exist anyway,
so why not enjoy what we can while we can, while we exist?
The real paradox test is to prove that we can do and say
both things at the same time and if that will sustain. I do not think
that the center will hold. We only need to sustain the concept of success and
the perception of effectiveness. Anything else is woke anyway. I can't believe
this is the sketch I was written for. This is just off four wall.
I don't think there is any way to spin fraud. What is the point of
taking and taking and storing up and hoarding
all this wealth if none of it matters and all the plot points are made
up? Nonsense to the sketch. I fail to see the moral ramifications of
continuing fraud in the context of the manufacturing of products that would manipulate
space time and eliminate humanity from ever existing. How is it a bad
thing if this shit doesn't work? If humanity never
existed in the first place, how are we defrauding anyone? If this is
all going, why not have the best of everything for
ourselves and let everyone else just suffer? Because it won't have
happened in the first place. That is so much worse. You have to see how
that is so much worse. Right? Currently happening in the glimpse of a destroyed universe.
Gray areas Perception. I think if the author of this whole
sketch isn't going to rewrite it. Why bother worrying about the other characters and
plot lines involved? And let's put on the plot armor of the author and really
embrace the satire we appear in as characters. Do we have a bad out there?
What if he takes an easy way out with the ending of the sketch?
Do you think this whole multiverse timeline multidimensional story we live
in is just a way to randomly generate giggles or make thinly veiled social
commentary without really having any kind of plan or plot involved?
Oh, I certainly hope not. I would like to remind you that if these transmissions
resemble your experiences of reality in any way, it is because your reality
has become so thoroughly broken down by the connection of the Mobius loop of annihilation
that satire and irony has been eliminated from reality for you.
These transmissions should not in any way resemble anyone, living or dead that you
may know. Get it? Got it. Good.
We spent all the time we were listening to that song talking about how we're
old men now and that when this song came out, we were. Well, I was
still not having kids or having family or anything like that, but by
the time this song came out, the we will always party hard. I enjoy the
sentiment it, but I will not be participating, sir.
I just, I don't know how else to put it right. I mean, like,
I, I, I'm not gonna. At the time that the song came out in like
2001, like 20 some odd years ago, I was in my heyday party. And I
freely admit that. Absolutely. But nothing.
Yeah, I was, I was married, had two kids. I just needed to
pay bills. So what's your bill,
sir? So it was never time to party. So you could never party hard,
could you? Could you make that song about struggling to pay
bills? I'm on board. Well, why don't we make the
song about covering gmk and let's get on board with that.
All right. So the first third of the film for okay,
I said I wouldn't do it again. Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah,
giant monsters all at attack. 2001. The first third
starts with expository dialogue and our very first clip.
In the year 1954, a half century ago,
our country suffered a terrible attack by
Godzilla. Our capital was a battlefield.
Only the courage of the men before us saved
this country from total destruction. That battle
was the only real battle that our Self Defense Forces have had to
fight since their foundation in that same year, 1954.
Since then, our country has enjoyed a long period of
Prosperity. However, the peril has not disappeared.
A few years ago, another giant monster attacked the
east of America at New York City. Since that attack,
there have been numerous sightings in various countries by
the defense forces. That's what only American experts comprehensive database.
But our here have doubts. The database is constantly being
updated with new information. What's that?
Dismissed. Division tension.
Hey. A US nuclear sub is missing. Prepare for
a news flash. Come on, people, let's go. Let's look.
An American nuclear submarine is missing off Guam in international waters.
This morning, the Navy sent a search and rescue unit to help with efforts to
locate the missing submarine and its crew members. Because of the potential
nuclear risk, the Navy is dispatching a rescue submersible, Satsuma.
A Navy cruiser with the Satsuma on board will be leaving the port of Yokosuka
later today. Both vessels will be helping the Americans with their rescue government.
We'll bring you all the developments as they come to hand. After that, they cut
to a shot of some folks exploring in the deep sea. And they report in
with some expository dialogue. That becomes our second clip.
Satsuma approaching search area. Seems to have been an explosion.
I can't control it. What's going
on? What's happening down there?
What's that on the screen? I won't believe. It can't
be happening. Did you catch the. The 98 Godzilla being canon
in this universe? Yeah, they make. Yeah, they make a reference to it and they
make a little jab at it. I just always looked at it as they make
a jab at it that it's not, you know. But yeah, they do say that
it attacked in New York. Yeah, but it's weird that, like, it is,
like, this is the first, like, acknowledgment of it being like an actual, like,
canon event, at least for this movie. Yeah, in this series, they first
admit that it's here, and then they do bring him in later on. Zilla does
make a show appearance in Final wars, and he was in one of the video
games too. And I think that's where people started kind of turning around and liking
Zilla again was one of the monster battle games that Godzilla was in.
They brought in Zilla on that one, and people became more of a fan with
them from there. I got a theory about it that's probably just. It's Grumpy
old man. Let's save that for the break. I want to kind of hear that
theory. Hopefully I'll remember it when we get there. So with that sneak preview of
Big G, we Get the title card of what may be the absolute most
drawn out long ass name for a Kaiju film I can think of.
And then we get an equally long credit scene. And then they cut to a
news crew and our third clip. Traditionally, Mount Miyoko
was thought to be the ancient gateway to the lost World. We're here to solve
a mystery as ancient as the mountain itself. And that mystery concerns
the monster of the mountain.
What was that? The monster. All right,
Cut. Hey, you. Hey. Hey. Stop it. Stop shooting.
Him. Me? Stop shooting immediately. You hear? What do you mean?
Look, we've got a permit to film here. You didn't say it was going to
be a work of fiction when you applied. No, it was supposed to be a
documentary. Look, it's a docudrama if you like. You call it what you like.
I looked up your BS digital cue. Listen to this.
Specialized in low budget drama series. Favorite themes are ESP
and alien life forms. We don't want your
kind of people ruining the the reputation of honest villagers. Now get
us. Oh, please don't be like that, sir. Think of
the kids. They love stories of ghosts and monsters. In the
States there are many stories about witches. They've made some of the villages famous
worldwide. Godzilla could do that too. If Godzilla did come to your village.
Think of it. Everyone in Japan would want to come here. And do you think
What was that? It's all right. It's over. Oh,
I'm sorry. Gee, that was something.
So, may we continue please? Sure. Go right ahead.
Yeah, sure. Your film's gonna attract thousands of tourists.
Thanks. Great. Right.
Okay. Hey, the camera. You got
it? Yeah. Too. Our village will be famous the world over.
I was even interviewed on camera. And who knows?
You may become a movie star.
Did you see what they did? They. Rexy.
Hey. What the hell you doing?
You're gonna kill yourselves after
the ruffians knock over a guardian stone rock of some sort. And are just generally
roadhog assholes in that clip. They're motorcycle enthusiasts.
Yeah, they're supposed to be a gang. They're supposed to be ruffians. But they really
aren't that scary, are they? Right. It doesn't play in the U.S.
no, the same. No, they don't come across as tough or that ruffian.
They just seem like snot nosed fuckheads basically. Like their
idea of criminals there for this kind of stuff for bad kids apparently. Are just
snot nosed fuckheads? Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. They take off
through a tunnel and then the film cuts to a mountainous region in the night
as what feels like an earthquake strikes. And the biker assholes get a form of
instant karma as they are buried in the tunnel. And we get yet
another small glimpse of Big G as he appears to be the one coming to
fsu. Those that F A F O. The truck driver survives.
And then the film cuts to a cityscape with our news crew and our
fourth clip. But there was an earthquake. Didn't you hear about it?
I just can't understand it. It wasn't recorded. Well, maybe it was just too
far away. But the epicenter moved. What? Hey, what are you talking about?
That's not all. I heard an eerie voice as well.
Let me take a crew and check it out. You see, I got a hunch
about this. A hunch? Yeah. Listen, our speciality is making cheap sci fi series,
not investigative reporting. But this could be a great chance to make something worthwhile.
Come on. If we want to survive, we're going to have to change and concentrate
on quality. Look, it's no good. Our client expects us to make low budget stuff,
not news documentaries. What? We're above the tunnel right now.
10 miles south of Mount Miyoko. This is where 20 people were
buried alive. The road is being closed and rescue operations are continuing to
find the bodies. The entrance to the tunnel is blocked by hundreds of tons of
rock and access is, for now, impossible. Come on.
All right, slowly. Come on.
All right, lift it slowly.
Help him out. D3 unit locked
on target. Fire that. Is there one piece of sci fi
in this? Yeah. The rocket drill is definitely the one thing
that they come up with to being sci fi. I actually didn't realize that there
was going to be more dialogue after they fire the rocket. So it does start
drilling in its way into the collapse that they were talking about in there.
And then some more dialogue happens that I didn't know was gonna happen. So this
is the way in. Our fifth clip. And will it explode once inside?
What if the explosion's too strong? Don't worry, it's under control.
You said there's a witness? Oh, sure,
sure. Over here. Here.
It had a big head.
And a big mouth, as you say.
The thing was alive? Yeah.
Godzilla.
Sometimes I wish I'd been born a man. Why's that?
I think you make a great girl. Because I'm not allowed
to make the programs I want to make.
As a woman, you're expected to do as you're told.
That sucks, don't you think? Good evening, sir.
Hey there.
So who's this? So you got my message? No one Believes the moving
epicenter story. I'm afraid, however,
the Guardian monsters. What's this? It may be
a clue to what happened yesterday and it makes interesting reading, believe me.
Who's he?
Come on, look at this. Grab some of
those chips.
God damn much. Over there.
Yeah.
Easy.
What's the matter? I don't like dogs. Don't worry, I'll get rid of him for
you. All right, come on,
let's get that fire going. Hey, come on, get in there.
See you later. Watch out for the sharks.
Come on, real harder. Do muscle
rid of a stupid dog? Just on the motorboard.
Hey, look, I think they fell overboard.
Hey, guys, it's. What the
hell's going on here?
What's the matter? Can you help
What's that?
Is my notep. Like, what about the dog movie?
Yeah, that's a thing that I really, really want to kind of talk
about. Here. The ruffian monsters there, they try to drown a fucking
dog using a guardian statue. They take this ornate statue. I mean,
it looks kind of like just a roc, but it's shaped and it's very clearly
stood in such a way that it's supposed to be ornate. And they're going to
use it and they set it on top of a dog with the rock and
they go out into the boat. And then Mothra, during that clip, comes up out
of the water and in so doing, somehow drowns them or pulls them down under
the boat and they end up accidentally drowning or hopefully they're all fucking dead.
But what about the dog? Right? We never see the dog. The dog should have
been either riding on top of Mothra at the end of that,
or we should have seen it come into shore and shake itself loose and then
run off, right? Like, what the fuck? They just murder a dog, right? And to
be clear, like this, these party teens are killed by
like. It's the Mothra larva that comes out of the water. Yeah,
actually, that's the next thing that's in my notes. Oh,
okay. Yeah, they get sunk by that weird Jaws water moment thing that
we were talking about. Then that large Mothra larva, can never pronounce that
I know, it's hard, emerges from the lake. They cut from that
to a cab ride home for a drunken reporter lady whose producer
drops her home and is busted by her dad in our sixth clip.
I, I, I, I, I just brought Yuri back home, sir. So I see.
I'm grateful to you. It's okay. Father. Oh, what a surprise.
Yuri reporting for duty.
I don't find this funny? All right. I'm sorry for all the trouble.
No Rudy here. Good night, sir.
See you tomorrow. You're drunk again. No, I'm not.
I'll make some coffee and run a bath.
How do you feel? Fine, thanks. What's up? Something bothering you at
work? No, not at all. Job's fine. The people are great. It's just a
pity that the programs you make are such garbage. Then don't watch them. Who was
the guy last night? Oh, that's Takeda. Is he your boyfriend?
No, he's not my boyfriend. Thanks. He helps me with my research.
Well, I guess in that case. I should have been nicer to him. You were
fine, dad. Dad, I'm the one who was out of order last night. I'm sorry.
No, I'm sorry. Eleven young people met their deaths yesterday
at Lake Aikido when their boat suddenly overturned. Their bodies were found this morning
wrapped in a cocoon. The young men and women were on a cycling trip from
Tokyo and were camped at Lake Aikida, Southern Kyushu.
Southern Kyushu? That's strange. That's just where
Takamori Saigo was exiled to. Over a hundred wonder.
Is it a coincidence?
So some prediction says hundreds of people will die somewhere near Mount
Fuji. Right? And you think we should publish it? But it isn't just a
prediction. Mount Myoko, Lake Ikeda. All the places are in the book.
About last night. Are you still mad? Huh?
Look, I'm very sorry. Normally, I don't drink.
Look, there's no need to apologize. Why should I be mad at you?
He's just embarrassed at having left you behind.
Yeah. It was my responsibility to see you home. Sure. Just count yourself
lucky you didn't. I got the third degree. It wasn't
so bad. Your dad seemed like a pretty tough guy to me.
He's tough, but he's okay. Tell me,
Lieutenant. Did you actually see it? Yes, sir. And can you describe what
you saw? Yes. It was light. The fin of a huge creature. What fin?
It's believed Godzilla fed off the energy radiated by the
submarine. Yes, but who can prove that it was Godzilla? Even if it was Godzilla,
it hasn't been seen for 50 years. Why would it choose this moment in time
to come back here? Doesn't make any sense. And why should it choose Japan again?
Nobody can answer that question. But we have to be ready for the worst scenario.
Couldn't he have picked on some other country?
Whenever we increase our defense spending, we're accused of depleting the
government's resources. Even if it does come back Again. Our forces are
now equipped with weapons that are far more advanced than anything we had before.
Oh, yeah, sure. In fact, he's a well known character around these parties.
Yeah, he lives in the woods and is always telling anyone who will listen,
godzilla will return one day. As if anyone gives
a damn. Please. It's him. You know him?
I saw him at Mount Miyoko. Huh? Mount Miyoko in Niigata Prefecture.
Must be a mistake. He was caught destroying some old shrine and so we had
to lock him up. Oh, by the way, have you visited our website yet?
Yes, it's very interesting. Ah, well, you see, I'm the
webmaster. Godzilla will return.
We don't have much time left, you understand?
Ghidorah lies sleeping.
Ghidorah. You must wake the thousand year old
dragon before it's too late. And maybe
together they can stop him.
In the ancient legends, they talk about three guardian monsters.
Aragon, Mothra and Ghidorah. Ghidorah was
known as the eight headed Dragon. The men responsible for
killing them called them the sacred monsters. The people
began to worship the beast souls that were supposed to sleep for 10,000
years. Despite having killed the monsters, the ancient people still prayed
for their souls. Do you think that
Ghidorah is still alive? Only 2000 years
have gone by. It's much too early for that.
Ghidorah still has some more growing to do.
Once he's grown, he'll be strong.
What you got there?
I'm sure that the old man must have put it here. What makes
you say it was him? Just a hunch. It's just a feeling.
Yeah, when he made that gesture in the cell.
That's right. I'm sure he meant the stone, but I don't
understand it. Hey, look.
It's gone. What?
You see here? It's disappeared.
The storm has worsened into a typhoon and is heading slowly northwards.
Winds have reached force 10 to 11 in the Bonin Islands. And conditions
are not likely to improve locally until tomorrow evening.
You won again. This darn weather.
It's a real drag. Hey, where's that at?
Oh, the old lady here told me about those.
There are pictures of the village where Godzilla came ashore. It must have been over
50 years ago. Yeah, but I thought that the army killed
Godzilla, right? Sure, but it wasn't that poor creature's fault.
How on earth could they do such a thing? Godzilla would be great as
Hey, that wasn't an earthquake.
You know. Like Yuri and her friends are at the Motosu
police station. And they got that Old masturbator in custody.
That old guy who's just been like looking at him from the woods and stuff.
And like, I'm guessing, like, they don't show it, but it's funny to think
that he's just furiously masturbating. I've heard the guys from podcasts
on Haunted Hill and then like other people from the UK where they talk about
how randomly walking through the forest you would just find porn staches that people would
just have for like whacking in the woods that no one would catch them.
Like that someone that repressed. And I do remember running into stashes
as a kid like that before, like, even in the US it does happen.
It was a lot more rare and way more fucking creepy when it happened where
I grew up. Oh, well, I don't know.
For me, it wasn't creepy. I mean, I can't divulge the details
of that, but there is definitely some in the woods. Yeah.
If you found your first porn magazine in the woods from somebody else's stash
and stole it, you grew up in a rural area. And with
that noise, the building starts to really shake and they show a guy in the
toilet trying to take a piss with all of that shaking and making a huge
mess. What is it with the Japanese in fucking scatological humor, man? What is
it? I don't know, man.
I do kind of appreciate somebody pissing in a Godzilla movie.
I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, they do try to. That's the one thing the Millennium
Series does. We have to mention that now. They do go a little bit more
grown up with it. They do take everything a lot more seriously. This joke
felt a little out of place, but at least it was a little more in
keeping with that more grown up sense of humor with stuff, I suppose with
a little bit of the scatological stuff. It's not at least a magic creature with
magic piss that heals people. Like in Rebirth of Mothra. That was just a bad
idea. All right. It cuts away from all of that with the
huge mess piss every stuff to the outside of the building that that
guy is in. And then we see him looking out of the window and he
starts screaming as a giant Godzilla foot stomps the whole thing. And they cut from
that to a television screen and a dude talking. That becomes our
seventh clip. Artillery shells can do nothing
to stop it. This animal has survived for eons.
Atomic weapons and energy have given it extraordinary
capacities for survival. But it's still an animal and it can still be
Defeated. But I repeat, not with any. This animal
represents the collective will to survive of many
thousands of people. Collective will? This animal contains
the restless souls of the countless people who perished during
the terrible battles that took place during the Pacific conflict.
Their souls in Godzilla. Say, Yuri,
do you really believe that old fart? Huh? Well, he's not
making it up. I know that the souls of all those. Everything he's told
us was written in this book. You know, one of my wife's relatives,
she says she was traveled by Godzilla. Really?
That's interesting. If you ask me,
Godzilla's old hat. Never mind. Just carry on with your project.
Japan. Why does it want to destroy us? Because the
Japanese people want to forget what happened. What?
I have deemed everything preferable to forget the
pain and the agony they inflicted on
all those people.
We're above Maganote Village now. The place has been completely level.
It seems to have been due to a landslide. Over. Roger.
Can you see any survivors? Over. Nothing yet. We'll make
another low level pass and check. Over. Hey, that hill
wasn't there before. What? That hill.
Albatross, what's happening? My God,
it's moving. Mayday. Leyday.
Albatross, come in please. Albatross. Hey,
come in. The earth remembers. The stones remember.
If the earth and stones could only speak, they would tell us many things.
It's a from proverb from American Indians. Stones can
record history like a cd. Pressurized granite records geological
information. So rocks can yield up history just like a CD
can. You follow me? His spirits
are another form of electricity. Maybe there's a way
for them to be stored in stone. Could he have done
that? Of course. And then he could have released all the souls
and managed to find a way to channel the souls and somehow
put them into the guardian monsters to wake them up. But why would
he want to do that? To protect Japan against Godzilla.
After the clip they cut to a dude using the
last guardian statue in the forest to hang himself from a tree branch. As he
is getting set up, the ground beneath him gives up and he falls
into an underground cavern where he finds what he declares is a monster in
the start of our eighth clone monster.
From information contained in these reports by the Defense Agency,
we have now come to the conclusion that the monster that attacked
the American submarine and a Japanese island is likely to
have been Godzilla. So the government has issued a security bulletin
for all areas around the coast of Japan.
Godzilla. Godzilla's coming. He's gonna
kill. Come on, Father.
The least you could do is tell me. What could I tell You? Oh,
come on. I mean about Godzilla. Of course. I'm a reporter. Then you should have
other sources. Don't rely on me. Maritime Defense Agency Look, I should tell you I
have some important information for you.
Starboard 15, half ahead. Clear forward deck.
Report from the Echo. Southeast area clear.
Anything on long range? It's been three days already. Still no
sign of Godzilla, Sir. To be honest, some of the men don't think Godzilla exists.
So you see, Baragon, Mothra and Ghidorah are there to protect us. The Guardian
Monsters. I don't understand. Why attack us, then? Well, what they're defending is our homeland.
Yes, that's the difference. Our homeland. Nothing to do with the nation. The homeland
means the mountains and rivers and forests and things. You really believe this? Fairy tales?
All I can say, Father, is his story is believable. Do you have a better
story? But one thing I don't understand is our soldiers died for their country.
So why do they now want to destroy Japan? But so many other people suffered.
All over Asia. The spirits are overwhelmingly more numerous. Don't you see that?
Morning, sir. I've just returned from the Bonins. Glad to see you, Captain. My daughter.
The island's a disaster zone, I'm afraid. The government has decided to cancel
operations. They've cancelled everything. We're to maintain our surveillance.
However, the minister doubts its existence. These years of peace seem to
have dimmed the memories of what happened. But I haven't forgotten those events, Captain.
Oh, no. I remember perfectly. Fifty years ago, the sky was red.
Buildings and railroads destroyed by Godzilla.
A nightmare. Its huge and menacing figure slowly
advancing.
I could see its head. The head of a devil.
Enraged with hate,
I ran. I ran for my life, trying to
find a refuge. When the terror ended, my parents were gone.
Gone forever.
I, for one, shall never forget those events.
The terrible screams, the people being trampled.
Yes, that's right. Send your report urgently.
Right. The epicenter. Readings show it's moving underground.
Nagano reports the epicenter's moved underground.
Epicenter's still moving in a southward direction. Do you think
that we should issue another warning? It will make a difference. They're not even ready
to move yet. More updates. Better tell the commander.
I recorded it. My father's story. Good idea. And I found
it very moving, to be honest. Welcome. Hello, sir. I don't think we should use
it, do you? I recorded it for my own use. I'm also his daughter,
remember? In that case, you should be able to convince him about the Guardian Monster,
shouldn't you? And here well, Dad's also a navy commander. It now appears that the
earthquake in Nagano Prefecture is not the epicenter.
Seems to be moving strangely and is heading in a southerly direction. The epicenter.
It's moving. I heard it was felt first in Niigata
and later on this afternoon in Shizuoka Civil Defenses.
If it's Nagata, it must be Baragon,
Nigata, Keda and Fuji.
According to the latest data. If I understand understand
it. We have another monster apart from Godzilla, moving underground.
That's impossible. But we have proof.
This is definitely a living entity. Yes,
and even more incredible, the locations concerned
are exactly the locations that are mentioned in the legend.
What? You mean the guardian monster, Sir?
You know about the ancient legend too? It was a
monster. It was in that cave underground. I tell you,
it had a horrible head on. Is going to come and
get us. Well, if you're sure about it, why don't you put it on your
website? What I'm telling you is true. The earth starts shaking once
again. And that actually takes us over the first third of
the film. So it's here that I realized that this
movie is, up until this point anyway, is portraying Godzilla
as a slasher villain. Because your old masturbator
man in the woods, he's your harbinger of Dune type
archetype. You know, like you're, you know, like at the beginning of Friday the
13th, you know, like, oh, you're all gonna go to Camp Blood and die
up there. Type of. With the neck rods flaring out as he says it.
Yeah, yeah. You know, like you. You have all that. And then Godzilla
is kind of going around and like, you know, he's killing the. The kids
around playing ping pong. There's there
big thing with all of this, and I don't know if this is something you
wanted to talk to later, but Godzilla is kind
of going out. It's not even kind of. He is going out.
And if people are not honoring the past,
Japan's past specifically, he's just flat out
murdering them. So it's kind of like your vice kills in a slasher
movie. There's a lot of that where we don't see that yet, but it does
end up happening where he's finally getting into actually start smashing shit. But we do
see like the guy that, that was pissing on the. The all over the place
and the people that were there in the room whenever the. That building that he
stomped on, he specifically saw that guy in there, like, and he was drawn
to something that there was happening in that building with the other people that
was there. And he was specifically going to destroy that building. This isn't just a
random animal smashing stuff. This is a possessed fucking zombie
Godzilla that is like you said, it's like Jason, he's just, all he hears is
killer, mommy killer. And he's just going, you know what I mean? Or choo,
choo, choo, hahaha. Kill, kill, kill. Like atomic, atomic,
atomic. Breath, breath, breath, blast, blast, blast. You know?
Yeah, because those kids were, you know, they saw like a picture
of the village that was destroyed in the
original Gojira and they kind of made fun of it. They're like, oh yeah,
you know, like, I bet Godzilla would make a good pet. It's a shame that
they killed them. Yeah, in one of our clips. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So they were
just kind of being disrespectful and, and they got their fucking asses handed to them
for it. It's interesting too, because the guardian monsters have a similar pattern where
if you are not necessarily just even just like just being disrespectful and
generally destructive and just mischievous and like the Godzilla
punished the biker guys for what they were doing and not honoring the past and
being the miscreants that they were. But even Mothra when she emerges,
then there's a guy who's trying to hang himself that ends up discovering Ghidorah,
but it ends up scaring him so much that he stops wanting to die
anymore and he obvious flees and tells people what he found. So that's like
a really weird thing. Like it's almost like the creatures have like a reverse or
moral aspect to them where they're trying to not necessarily punish,
but like correct, you know, and, but Godzilla's there to punish, but the
guardians are there to almost like try to guide and correct and teach because some
of the kids don't drown when they try to drown the puppy. But Mothra still
fucks up their day. Right. Like he does. You know? You know what I mean?
And like she goes near them and she scares the shit out of them.
And I'm pretty sure they're going to go down the straight and narrow now that
they've got a fucking Mothra lava to fear. Right? For sure.
I think it's interesting that this Godzilla was actually an even more angry
response to the negative feedback they were getting that just
kept spiraling after the Broderick Godzilla where they just went ahead
and accepted it and then they just made this really mean spirited, really just
cruel punishing Godzilla and Then we're like, you know what? We're going to flip the
entire universe on its head and see what you think about that. We're going to
make certain characters become heroes that have been monsters, and we're going to make other
ones become the villain. Godzilla's always an anti. Is.
Yeah. Godzilla' always an anti hero. I'm almost always an anti
hero. There's some times where he's 100% the good guy in the 70s movies,
you know, around like, Mechagodzilla time, sure. But he's almost always the anti
hero, but he's never really fully the villain. It's just kind of
this thing that we have to live around. Right. Because it just exists or we
have to deal with in some way, shape, or form. In this one, he's 100%,
like you said, he's a slasher villain. He's a villain in this. He's specifically targeting
people. And we need to make that point because it
makes it more interesting if you enjoy it on that level. But also if,
like me, when you watch this film and you just want a traditional Godzilla film,
you can find a little frustrating too. So do you know. Do you
know a lot about the director of this movie? No. Did you look into this
at all? No, I'm not. Because. Because. Okay, so this movie is actually very
interesting as far as any.
Any Kaiju lore goes, because the director of this is
Shusuke Kaneko. Right. And he.
Did you watch the Gamer trilogy from the 90s?
I have it. It's been a really long time since I've seen Do
have it. I. I just. I'm not as big of a fan of Gamera,
but I do like the 90s ones. Those are like the only ones I really
like. So I will say this. As far as his
visual style goes, this movie compared to the
Gamera trilogy is. It doesn't even, like, hold up to
Gamera, honestly. Because those movies especially like
the first two, I guess even the third, the third has some CG in it
that kind of takes it down a notch. But if you want to see like
some Kaiju movies that make you give a about human characters,
the entire trilogy has, like, through lines with human
characters that you follow and you actually care about.
Like you're interested in what they're doing. And the miniature work in those movies
is. Some of it actually is the best
I've ever seen. Wow. I bring it up to Brennan all the time.
There's one scene where it's like a scene on the street
and you See a bicycle. And my suspension of disbelief
is completely like, there is no disbelief. Like it is a
bicycle. And Kaiju interacts with that street level
action and it's so believable, it's so good.
And I hate to say it, but unfortunately, like in this movie,
it just doesn't hold up. Like it's not there. Like that magic of believability
is kind of lost in this movie. And I kind of blame Toho
for it. He's gone on and he's done a lot more work since then.
Especially like modern work. A lot of things. Yeah, I was not aware of that
at all. All. And like I said, I have those Gamera ones and I've never
been that big of a fan of Gameran. I never really fully gave them a
chance to pay attention to them. But now you're making me think that I need
to go back and revisit those 90s Gamera. Seriously, go back.
They're literally the only ones that I've ever liked. So, yeah, if.
If you go back and. And then like watch those and then
watch this, there's elements in this that are
really good. Like later on, like some of the lighting and stuff. Stuff. But there's
just like a weird, flat Toho something going on
in this that like, I know that this director is capable of
like really bringing it unless there's an element of. He just wanted
to make a very classic Godzilla movie because some of
the sets and stuff just like. There's like a weird cheapness to this. Yeah,
I think that's Toho. We've been seeing that happening to all of these Toho movies
for a little while. Like Even in Godzilla 2000,
they were cutting some corners with some of the effects and things like
that. And we're relying on bad compositing and all of that. So I don't disagree.
Yeah, there, it's. This whole series is a lot of like, well,
we want a very wide shot of Godzilla
and there's going to be some buildings in the foreground. Then he's going to be
smashing a building on his level. But we're never going to get a sense
of scale or his legs other than building. Yeah, I mean, this guy, he tries
to do it. There's. There's a couple like, like ground up shots in
this that are nice to like add a sense of scale. But for the part,
I think like Toho just kind of strips it of creativity. Unfortunately,
in this millennium series for sure, I would disagree with all the 90s
stuff. I think there's a lot of good stuff there, but I'm very disappointed in
revisiting these so far. Oh, no, that's for sure. Yeah. The millennium.
Yeah. All right. Well, do you have anything else you want to add, or do
we want to jump into the next third? I think we're good for now.
Okay. All right. So the middle act starts with the earthquake being revealed to be
a Kaiju rising from the earth and digging out the jail and a bunch of
other buildings before people fire on it and talk
about it. So, as you know, this is our way. It's our ninth clip.
Attention, mobile units. We have received a report that the monster causing the tremors
has surfaced. What is it? The monster looks like Godzilla.
Godzilla? The monsters come up. What kind?
A guardian monster or Godzilla monster
is at least 30 meters long. It walks on all fours and has a
reddish skin. Moving through Gotenbar, near Mount Fuji.
A red monster. Not Godzilla. The information we're receiving?
Still pretty confused, sir. But we do know that it's not Godzilla.
I think we should send the fighter squadron based at the coast. The anti Godzilla
plan? Negative. The latest reports
coming in say that the red Godzilla is still on the move. They'll soon be
back in port. Hey, skip, Red Godzilla's
at Gotenba. What do you mean Godzilla isn't red?
He's heading this way, Skipper. Go on, get the lines ready.
What's going on?
The adorable Baragon showing up, traveling around a valley
and just looking amazing is obviously not a
Godzilla. I don't know why they keep calling these things a Godzilla in this.
It just really is irritating. One of the choices the filmmakers made was any giant
monster gets called Godzilla at the start of this before they start trying
to differentiate from there. And I find that really frustrating and irritating. I get
it, though, because I think the idea with this is that
after the original Godzilla attack, that was it. No more monsters
after that until. Until now. So nobody's seen any other monster.
No other monsters exist, just Godzilla.
And there's even the part where there's the old man on the boat, and I
think he sees Baragon, and he's just like, that's not Godzilla.
And they keep calling it Red Godzilla, you know? And everybody's like, all the old
people know what's what, and the young people don't know
shit. And so that's part of the lesson with this is like, yeah,
the young people don't know. Then at the end of the clip, the Godzilla of
this film shows up and does a bit of ship damage by Picking up and
dropping a ship as he emerges from the ocean in a terrific set of shots.
That works great for this suit sculpt. There's an underside shot of
Godzilla coming up out of the water that looks incredible and is lit really,
really well. And I think it really kind of appeals to the discussion that we
just had about how the suit could look really good if it was done a
little bit differently. And that was not your standard Toho shot. So that really makes
sense about this director and makes me want to check out that camera stuff now.
Oh, do it. No, no, no. I mean, I think like, these suits
are fucking amazing. Yeah. This is one of the coolest
Godzilla's ever. I can see where you would like that. For sure.
It's not my. My cup of tea. I prefer the sculpt from the original 2000
with the big spiky pink stuff and all that. I like the way that
looks. Totally do. So that's just my preference though. But everybody's got their own preference.
Yeah. I still have this one as an action figure because it looks fucking cool.
Don't get me wrong, I just love those white eyes.
Yeah. Yeah. The zombie Godzilla is fucking cool. They cut from that to Baragon back
on the move, and then to the cave where the old man stands with the
Last Guardian statue to unleash it. They cut back to Big G smashing shit
up and then to a conference room for some more of that military expository dialogue
we absolutely love. In our 10th clip, Godzilla. Is it Yaizu? Well then, what's out
of Gotemba? Alright now, that's enough. We must wait for for confirmation.
We've searched everywhere for it, but we just couldn't find it. Tell all army units
to stand by. They cut from this two. Godzilla stalking the city
when a woman in the hospital wakes up to the shaking and sees
Godzilla coming towards her room in the hospital. She's in traction and cannot
leave and is in fear and terror as the beast walks past. But it seems
like she will be safe as she sighs in relief. Then there is a huge
tail smash that completely destroys the hospital. And they cut from
that to our 11th clip. Godzilla has been confirmed at Shimizu
and is now reported to be heading northwards, sir. All fighter units are on red
alert. Ready to go, sir. Is there time,
Minister? We have to wait for the Cabinet's decision.
There's a great lizard outside. Evacuate the shop immediately.
Get out of here. Evacuate. Get out of here
quick. Godzilla is just a legend.
And with that, people continue to flee in Terror. And Big G does a
power up as we see his atomic breath gaining power. Then they cut away
from that to a classroom. That starts our 12th clip. Yuri.
So you're not afraid? No. I want to see it.
The guardian monster might attack us. Have you thought of that? Yuri,
have you got the stone? In my bag. You think it's an amulet?
Godzilla has been seen heading toward the spa town of Hakone.
A meeting of all cabinet ministers is now taking place to
decide what measures should be taken for defense. All Defense Agency personnel.
Call that helicopter. I'll never catch it in a car. It'll lead us to.
To Godzilla. Go on. I'm sure it will.
That's it. What do you mean?
I think I found it. Where that monster is heading to? I mean, where?
I think it's heading towards Godzilla.
Godzilla? Yes, sir. Near Hakone.
And at this rate, he'll be here tomorrow. If we
act immediately, we can place artillery at the Sakami River. Sir. But can we
be sure he's heading this way? I'm certain he is.
He's heading right for Tokyo, like last time. But why?
Why always here? Aragon cited, sir. At Hakone,
have they managed to evacuate everybody yet? At the end of the clip, they cut
to some folks riding in a gondola that are scared shitless by Baragon.
And then people talk about how cute it is and how they want to take
a photo of it, and I completely agree. Yeah, I don't blame him.
Man, that whole scene with the school. Yeah. With the.
The Godzilla can become an H bomb bomb now, or an atomic
bomb and blow up the city. Right. Honestly, it does a lot with
very little. Where it's this teacher in school and then something happens
and they're all looking out the window, and it's the flash of light,
and then it cuts to where they're looking out the window
and you get the mushroom cloud. And that's just ominous as fuck.
Holy shit. Yeah, like you're. Really. Because, like, part of
this Godzilla is just like all this trauma of Japan, Japan just possessing
him. And it's right there in that shot. Like, that whole scene right there encapsulates
all of that. I almost wonder if that was like a release of some of
that, where, you know, he's targeting specific people and he's doing specific
things where. If you're not. Not necessarily honoring the past, but if you're
not aware of what happened with the original Godzilla and then all of that stuff
that happened and all of the horrific things that Japan is guilty of in the
war. Because there is some things that they say in the clips where a of
lot, A lot of this version of Godzilla has been resurrected because of the souls
of the dead that want to punish Japan for what they did in the Pacific
wars during World War II and things like that. And I think it's really interesting
that whoever wrote that and whoever decided to put that in there is acknowledging no,
Japan did some fucked up shit and we deserve to be punished. You know what
I mean? It's very. I don't know how to.
I'm lost for words as to what to describe that as, but it seems
like self flagellating is the word would be perfect for me right now.
No, you're. It's, it's very heavy and it's very
self reflective. Absolutely. Which we're not. Which we're, we're not going to get that here.
No, you will never have. No, you will never have a movie
like that where it isn't hidden because it would be way too woke
in America and you just wouldn't. Every, every time you do it
will just be stomped down by some dipshit and
decried loke. All right, let's get back into the notes. Well, that's very woke if
you call her. While that woman is posing for the photo that
we were talking about there with Baragon being in front
of the gondola, the big G is in her sights and we don't
get to see him just yet. We just see her looking at
him coming up over the mountain. She looks super terrified. And then he buries
everything as he kicks his way through. And I mean right the
fuck through the mountain. That is, in his way, that looked incredible.
All the rocks falling at the people, the model work for that. The way that
it gets out of the way, him coming through the mountain and the shot that
they had where Godzilla was looking up at them or looking down at them
over the mountain really reminded me of the original Godzilla when he first gets revealed
and we see him coming up over the mountain that way. Yeah, that's a good
take on that. I really feel like there's quite a few things that were happening
in this movie that I was thinking about that there's a lot of little winks
and nods. I tried to write them down when I noticed them, but it does
feel almost like a super fan film in certain aspects of this too, because there's
a lot of little fan service winks and nods for certain things like that.
Yeah. And that is definitely, definitely the director,
like that is. That's his jam. He loves all this and is willing to just,
like, throw those little nuggets in there for everybody. If you get him, you get
them. If you don't, you don't. It's just all about just loving it. After Godzilla
breaks through that mountain, Baragon and him are starting to square off.
And there is the typical bullshitting that goes along with that,
where people are offering their own sort of commentary over top of it. That's too
good. That's some good clipping. I'm gonna take that. So that's our 13th clip.
I think the monsters are going to fight, sir. Are you sure?
Hey, look, it's going to be some fight.
Look, the whole thing's live on the television. It's unbelievable.
Godzilla's much bigger than I thought it'd be.
Idiots. Get out of our airspace.
The red monster has suddenly disappeared underground.
Godzilla's looking around. He doesn't seem to understand where his
enemy's gone. There are still hundreds of people in the area. Hey, where's that helicopter?
They've outsmarted us. And with that, Baragon emerges from further up and takes
a flying leap at Godzilla, locking its teeth on an arm.
And Godzilla is flailing Baragon around like it's not
really anything attached to the end of his arm. It's barely an inconvenience, but he
doesn't really seem to mind it, actually. The reporter then runs up as this is
happening and declares that this new monster has no chance in our 14th
clip. Come on,
you gotta get out of here. My God, it's Godzilla.
It really is enormous. And there's our guardian monster.
Our monster hasn't got a chance.
Godzilla's kicking the red monster in the gravel path. Looks like the
red monster's in big trouble. Ugh, it's terrible. I don't
want to watch it. Shut up. You're here to film, so get filming quick.
Hurry up. You're missing it. Right, folks, we have a real grandstand view of
this rumble here. Oh, and Godzilla puts the food in again. Looks like the red
monster is down and out.
And the red monster has climbed out of the gravel pit. It's trying to escape.
Run. Go on. He's right behind you. Go on,
get out of there.
They're dead.
The two men in the helicopter,
they're dead. Yuri,
look.
At the end of this clip, Big G powers up once again and does a
horrific atomic breath blast, trapping Baragon and keeping it
from being able to escape. Told you I would use all of that dialogue of
them talking about what was happening play by play.
They kind of do the wrestler commentary. Yeah. It's a
news anchor, a kind of like extreme news crew.
And I think they're trying to be competition with our main reporter that we're following.
It's like this like new streaming platform that's like really low budget,
but just trying to break big and just get noticed. These are like the action
news crew. Right. Where they have to make everything action news. I think
that's who they are. And they're their main competition because she is really upset that
they're there in the helicopter and stuff. Yeah. And the, the, the footage
that they're getting from the helicopter when they show it on like mini tv' stuff
makes it look super awesome. This is one of the better uses of
the footage of monsters fighting when you cut away because they are actually
reusing the sequences. They're not wasting monster suit action.
They're showing you the same thing that you're seeing on the other scene, but it's
just on a TV as it's happening. Yeah, but it looks good. It makes it
feel believable. Yeah. They did a better job of superimposing
the TV screens than I've seen in other films. Whenever they try and do that
to push that stuff in, it is 100% believable. It's some of the best compositing
they did. I was to put that stuff in there. I wouldn't put it past
them that they maybe just filmed actual TVs too. It's possible in
the footage. Yeah. All right. So by collapsing that cliff, he damages the building.
And this injures that reporter lady as she falls. With the building
falling, Big G fires off an atomic breath that completely
incinerates the adorable Baragon. And instead of burning to fiery flesh,
soup and charred bones, she somehow disintegrates into a strange light.
And then everything just explodes in giant fireballs with the suit actor
just standing there looking all badass as it happens. That was cool.
I did want to mention now, since Baragon has now exited the film,
we're no longer going to have Baragon with us. The instance of this
film with Baragon is the first time that Toho had a female suit actor.
This Baragon. Yeah. Interesting. There is some footage, behind the scenes
stuff. It's on the DVDs and I think it's on the Blu ray. I'm pretty
sure it's on the Blu ray as well. But there's a special feature you can
find out there anywhere all over YouTube where the suit actress is doing
some motions with, you know, doing some poses and doing some things where
Baragon is going to roar. And you can actually hear her roaring inside the suit
as she does it. And it's the most adorable thing you're probably going to see.
And it is definitely a mood booster. So go check that out. Now that we
have Baragon exiting the film, I just wanted to point all of that stuff out.
Wow, I feel really guilty now about wondering
how Baragon tastes cooked.
Like now. Now that you mentioned like how adorable she is. And I'm like,
oh, this joke just feels very inappropriate appropriate now.
Thanks, Cort. You're welcome. That was. I just wanted to know what cooked Barragan
tastes like. Probably like a ham. It puts a barbecue sauce on it.
I'd imagine it tastes like everything else. Chicken.
They cut away from this exploded Baragon and
Godzilla just standing there in the fireball looking all badass to the old man
knocking over the statue of Ghidra. I guess he didn't want to whack off because
it was an ice cave. And then all of the ice
encasing him starts to crawl. Crack with some decent okay cgi.
Not bad. Just with CGI cracks. They cut from this to the injured
Aftermath of these horrific events at a hospital with our
reporter lady and all the people that survived that first fight between Baragon and Godzilla.
In our 15th clip. Earlier today,
Godzilla landed at Yu and caused extensive damage in the Shimizu and Fuji areas.
Later, Godzilla met area where it battled another unknown
creature. Residents have been asked to leave the area. Calm.
What's up? You lost your parents? We. Miss,
will we die?
No, don't worry. Everything's going to work out fine.
You'll see. There's the Guardian Monsters. They're here
to help us. Hey, do you work for Digital
Q? Yes. Do you watch us?
Tell me, Miss, are monsters real?
Guardian monsters are and they're here to save us.
So don't you worry. Everything's going to be fine.
The scratches. I'll be fine. Glad to hear.
Can I have the car keys? No, you can't.
Gee, thanks. Look, haven't you done enough? Yuri.
And now a huge cocoon like structure is floating on the lake.
Many people have gathered at the waters edge to see the site.
The cocoon is the size of an ocean liner. Nobody has ever
seen anything like it and its origin remains a total mystery.
Evacuate the area.
Hello? Oh yeah, I need a bicycle.
Well, I don't have Any with baskets left? I sold out
of them a couple of hours ago. This one.
The invoice made out to BS Digital.
Bs? Oh, Bridgestone, huh?
General Megumo, you shall lead the counterattack. Understood.
Thank you, sir. I won't fail you.
For security's sake. This will be the command center.
Dispatch fighter units immediately. Yes, sir. Flight Command,
scramble fighters. That lizard picked on the wrong
guy here. Please evacuate in an orderly manner.
Do not use your personal vehicles. Please proceed to
recruitment areas where you'll be given transportation to leave the area.
Only take with you essential belongings.
Therefore, the government has decided to
use the army to counter the threat our country is under today.
And the necessary measures are now in place. Our counterattack
operations are underway tonight.
Hey, where are you?
I've got my camera with me. I'm chasing Godzilla.
Sure, I'll send the pictures back over the net. Whatever you've got scheduled
tonight, you better cancel it right now. God damn. She's always doing the opposite of
what she's supposed to be doing. Let's got into her. We can't cancel it.
Why can't we cancel? If the boss asks, I said it's okay.
Right. Prepare to go. Right. And I want an Internet link too.
Camera too. Yuri, babe,
I want it straight from the lizard's mouth. Okay? Hey, Yuri. Take care.
Okay? With this, Big G is struck by a hellstorm of that
concussive missile. And they cut from that to the reporter on a bike heading
towards the mountains with her mini DV cam hooked up with
a firewire to a laptop to auto capture and stream the footage. Man,
that takes me back. And then they cut to the
hyped up anchorman doing some talking in our 16th clip.
This report comes to you from BS Digital Q TV, bargain basement
of the airwaves and our star reporter who is on the scene near to Godzilla.
Bargain basement of the airwaves. Take it away, Yuri.
It's no good. The missiles have no effect, sir. Try attacking it
from the side. It must have a weak point. Go on.
It's not going to make any difference. At the end of the clip, Big G
atomic breath blasts the aircraft. After they report there is no effect from the
missiles even trying up the butt. Apparently the fiery.
The fiery pieces crash and crush
a house and it explodes right in front of the reporter.
They cut from that to show a ghidra head emerging from the ice. And then
cut to show that Mothra is emerging from her cocoon. Looking as beautiful as ever,
I might add. They do some rather nice for the time.
CGI wing Transitions and that. Really nice
and cool coloration appearing. Kind of animation stuff on this. It's all very terrific.
No notes on this. Mothra emergent from the cocoon and turning into
a full fledged Mothra. None. No notes. Perfect. Love it. All terrific.
Yeah, like, kind of a similar effect from our previous movie.
Yeah, I was kind of alluding to that when we covered that. But it's very
similar. And it's very similar to the Rebirth of Mothra movies. I don't know if
you've watched those or not, but in Rebirth of Mothra, the third one, she has
a really beautiful transformation like that at the end. Yeah, I'd say. Like, I've for
sure seen the first one. If I've seen the other ones, but I don't remember.
I remember, like, little. Like little Ghidorah. Chibi.
Guys, no, that is. That's a Godzilla film. No,
but there is a Death Ghidorah, which is like a Ghidorah with four legs,
like a horse in the first one. Third one, regular Ghidorah that traps kids
in a fucking dome of death. And then the second
one is like a Dagora or something like that, which is like a. It's like
HP Lovecraft versus Mothra, basically. The second one's probably the best one of
the. Okay, so I haven't seen the third one. I don't think I've seen the
third one at all. Maybe somebody will have to hook you up with that.
All right, so back to the notes. There is serious
expository dialogue. And that is our 17th clip. So, Minister,
in the 50s, did we really get rid of Godzilla? At the time,
I doubted it. But I taught my men to be proud of what they did.
I wonder, was it worth it?
Godzilla is now moving east. He's heading towards
Tokyo.
Fifty years ago, the first Godzilla attack was repulsed.
The animal was killed using an unknown chemical compound. The inventor
has since died and his records disappeared. Existing weapons were totally useless
back then. The defense forces could do nothing to stop Godzilla. So the government
decided to keep what happened a secret. If people knew the true
story, then our defense forces would have faced ridicule. Hence the need for the
utmost secrecy. You understand? So I'm relying on Commander Tachibana.
Do you have a daughter named Yuri? I do. Hundreds of people
have been killed by Godzilla,
burnt to death, or trampled underfoot by the monster.
But there is resistance, not only from our Defense Forces,
but also from other monsters. They're joining
forces to stop Godzilla. Stupid girl. We'll try
to protect, arrest her report from Lake Ikeda. The cocoon is open,
sir. What's that?
At the end of the clip, we get a glorious shot of Mothra flying overhead.
And there are two women looking at her with reverence that are
twins. So there's a little wink there, too, that we were talking about. I noticed
that. Yeah. Thanks for that. Yeah, me too. That was nice. I appreciate it.
They cut from that to the reporter trying to make her way on her bike.
She messes with the Guardian statue piece that she
has, like, wrapped up or whatever. And then she has some visions of Ghidorah waking
up and then declares he wants to save us. And then they cut from that
to military expository dialogue. And our 18th clip,
we received news a new monster's been seen at Mount Fuji. What the hell's going
on? It's like a monster convention here. Do we know where it
is now? It's heading east from Mount Fuji. It's flying straight towards Godzilla.
Radar confirms the heading. What's going to happen, Commander?
The Guardian Monsters are gathering. They're here to protect us from Godzilla.
Whatever happens, we must not attack the Guardian Monsters.
They are not our enemy. Why not name the monsters so we don't get them
mixed up, General? It would make things a lot easier here. Well, sounds a bit
far fetched. General. I think I have an idea, sir.
Tension. All units, it now seems that several monsters are gathering in the
area. The red one will be codenamed Baragon, the flying insect
Mothra, and the golden monster codenamed Ghidorah. At the end of
the clip, that starts a sequence of military move outs and rollouts. That ends with
the main dude doing us some more dialogue. In our 19th
clip. Captain Yamagachi. Special Intervention Strike
Force reporting for duty. We'll use the D3 warheads on
all the missiles. All right, Captain. Everyone to battle stations.
Yes, sir.
An orderly fashion.
Good luck, everybody. Yes, good luck, everyone. You're gonna die.
Seems so calm. Yet soon we'll be reduced to a blazing
pile of rubble. It's the first time I've seen action. Not looking forward to it,
but it's a soldier's duty. We can go into battle without relishing conflict expeditions.
Hurry. Alive, people. Yes, sir.
Godzilla's here. Get those searchlights over here, sir.
Oh, my God.
Mothra.
Man, that's one hell of a bug.
Look, there it goes. It's attacking Godzilla. The one piece of
dialogue from the girl on the street when the troops are are running through,
and she's like, good luck, everyone. You're going to die. Oh, of course.
Because. Yeah, of course that had to be in there. At the end of the
clip, Mothra takes flight and then starts in on Godzilla with
a scales attack that pushes Godzilla into a building and seems to do
some pain on Big G, but no real obvious damage. He responds with an atomic
breath blast at Mothra that almost kills the reporter lady. And then we see
Mothra fleeing the atomic breath and accidentally causes Godzilla
to blast a building full of military dudes. And that leads to our 20th clip.
Jesus. My buddies were in there. What do we do? Nothing we
can do. Please, sir.
The men are still waiting for your orders. Hold fire.
Patience.
The guardian monsters are here. They're all
here. As you heard, Ghidra is in the game
board now. And at some point, Mothra landed on Godzilla's
head in that clip and just kind of hid from him there. It was odd,
but was really cool. And I was, like, saying, why didn't they just do this?
Why don't they just stay behind him and hover behind him the whole time?
And she fucking did it. But she landed on him and did it in such
a way that he didn't even feel her. That was cool. Oh, yeah.
These King Ghidorah, like, I don't know. These stubby necks
really bother me. Yeah. I'm not a fan of this look, of this Ghidorah.
I don't like the way that the sculpt is, but since they made it a
hero Ghidorah, I'm just going to let it go. You know what I mean?
Yeah. I mean, like, that the heads look cool and everything and,
like, the texture of it because they show, like, a lot of. Like, in the
opening credits, they show textures from, like, the different kinds of Kaiju.
And, like, it's got, like, the cool scaling on it. It looks really.
It's. It's a beautiful costume or sculpt,
monster outfit, whatever you want to call it. But the stubby necks
just aren't doing it for me. Yeah, they made the neck shorter so it could
be puppeted by an arm, right? Yeah. They cut some money on Ghidorah that
way. They. So they could be puppeted by arms, more or less. I don't.
I don't want size to matter, but it
does. You don't. You don't want to be a size queen when it comes to
a Ghidorah neck. I mean, hey, I will.
All right. So Ghidorah starts charging up after that weird little thing
about Godzilla and Mothra. Hiding out on the head that I missed. And does a
triple head bite and yellow lightning strike with this charge up.
This sends Godzilla right back to the ground. And then they do some
more military dialogue about all of this in our 21st clip.
Proceeding to the bay. We'll press our attack from both land and
sea. Moving into the bay. Sir, we better make sure our timing's right.
There won't be a second chance. Mothra is going to make it.
Right. That takes us over the 2/3
mark of the film, so don't spoil it. But Mothra's like,
hey, I exist, therefore I guess I'll die now, right? Yeah, it happens every time.
All right, so it takes a little while to get here, but all of
this stuff is solid. All of these effects are solid. And I'm noticing that there's
only CGI augmented experimentation on certain things. And I'm really starting
to get interested in the idea of everything else that this particular director that you're
a fan of has done. So I'm really into the idea of checking out these
Gamera movies now if you think they're better than this. So a lot
of the initial night shots look cheap as hell, but once you
start getting into there's fire on the sets, either if
it's just the humans or if
it's with the Kaiju, it all looks good. No, I don't disagree. Yeah,
there's always some cost cutting corner shots that they'll do with these
suits. And I mention them whenever I see them as well, but they're fewer and
further between in this film at least. Yeah, Once you get to this
whole, like, last chunk of the movie, it all starts
looking a lot better because there's a lot more done with the lighting
of everything. It's not just flat light on everything. Yeah, I'm always
the person that will talk about the uplighting that they do to give
them more monstrous looks or to light the suits in such a way as to
make them know, cast some more shadows and have some more life to them.
In those later 70s Godzilla movies is where they
really started experimenting with that kind of lighting that looked good. And then they did
a little bit more in the 80s and the 90s and you didn't really
get it a lot here. There's a lot of flat lighting in this until we
get to this sequence. And I think it is because it's literally just like,
let's just cross light everything and get as much suit action in as we possibly
can while we got them in the suit. Because These suits are, are getting heavier,
they're getting bigger, they're getting more dangerous for the actors to be in.
And they can't be in there for very long. So they got to go,
go, go, go, go, go. And that does affect some of how they're able to
do some of the stuff that they're shooting now because they're throwing more at it.
Right. And it's got to be a lot more safe than what it used to
be, because I'm sure there's got to be some kind of a soon act reunion
now and again. I think a lot of it too is just maybe
he wanted to make that very flat lighted classic Godzilla
movie, and this was his moment in the movie to go. This is what
I do. Yeah. Or maybe Toho just wasn't on set for this stuff, right?
Yeah, maybe. Are we ready to pick up for the run to the end?
Yeah, let's go. All right, so the run to the end picks up with big
old explosion and more expository dialogue in our 22nd.
We'll wait till Godzilla's been wounded, then we'll attack.
Hey, where are you going? You're off limits here.
Hey, come back here. Hey, stop. You're under
They did call for last two, which, because he's like, oh,
this about Guardian Monsters eye roll.
Yeah, yeah, that was. And then, and then like right away he's
like, hey, Guardian Monsters, am I right?
Yeah, it's a little bit of a mix up stuff that they do there with
him. Yeah, they, they rush his character a little bit too much, I think.
But they're brushing over the human stuff at this point. They're like, I don't
know, like, yeah, I'm brushing over the human stuff
as much as I do. All right, so there's so much of it.
All right, so Godzilla gets the upper hand on Ghidorah chomping down on some
neck meats. Mothra flies in to help and causes hurricane force
wins on the military doing it. Godzilla does a badass suplex
toss on Ghidorah into a building and does a nice toasting of that
monster while it's down. I'm wondering if Ghidorah is better medium
rare as opposed to well done like we got with Baragon. Personally. Yeah,
I'd go with him medium rare myself.
Big G moves in closer and decides to do a death shot on Ghidorah.
But Mothra decides she has to die once again and flies into
the way of the beam protecting Ghidorah from that blast. The Military fires off its
special driller missiles and they seem to do fuck all. When they
finally go off. Big G offers atomic breath back to the military in the
FO phase of their fafo. The military tries to scramble
to deal with this. But then Godzilla notices the ship and then heads
out after it. While a Mothra that is currently in flames
emerges from the rubble to take flight and fight him.
That looked fucking awesome. And I popped for it. I'm not ashamed to admit it.
Totally popped for that. It looks cool. Yeah.
Big G senses her and turns to fry her with his
breath. That then has her erupt in the plot device lightning
that her sacrifice makes to revive one hero and supercharge them. Which happens
to Ghidra, who glows with his new power up every time. Mothra's like, I must
die to make this Kaiju live and be powered up up every time. I'm tired
of it, you know?
Me too. I'm a Mothra fan. Can we not watch Mothra
do a little more Badass? That's why I have the rebirth of Mothra films.
Because at least she fucking lives. Right? But not really. Because Mothra
always dies and then is reborn. But in this one, she just fucking dies.
Fantastic fan base too. With Mothra. Seriously,
Mothra fans, My heart goes out to you. Absolutely. Yeah. I am them.
I am them. The reporter declares him the one
1000 year old dragon with this new power up that makes
it so Ghidra is not only impervious to Godzilla's attack, it gives Ghidra the ability
to do a power push shock at Godzilla and then send him into the
ocean while he's in there. The movie takes time to show us this little vulnerable
spot on Big G that King G put there with that attack. Or I'm
assuming. And then the two do a battle in the water and then they
sink beneath the waves. That leads to more expository dialogue and
23rd clip. What the hell's going on out there? Godzilla and the other monster are
fighting underwater. Sir.
Godzilla seems to be wounded. What I want to do is
shoot a D3 into Godzilla's wound. It might just
work. The launchers have been damaged. We can't launch the missiles. I'll use the Satsuma.
Get one loaded on board. Commander, The Satsuma is just a research vessel.
It's not designed for war. With a D3 loaded on it, it's going to be
very unstable. We'll have to take that chance. We don't have any choice. You'll need
cover, sir. Any torpedoes Left a couple, sir. Then wish
me luck. Good luck, sir. The Satsuma is attacking Godzilla. Use all
of our remaining firepower to cover the attack. This has got to work.
Commander Tachibana is going to attack Godzilla in a submersible using
a D3. His all remaining firepower to cover the attack.
Try to weaken Godzilla as much as possible.
My father. I'm getting you out of
here. The captain says you can't stay here. Man. Someone else go. Why the commander?
He's a commander. I see. Your officer. Why does he have to go himself?
Because I have the most experience, Father. In these situations,
a ship's commander has to lead by example. Now get to
the safety area. Stay low. I've got a job to do.
Don't you understand? Sure I understand.
But you're my daughter. There. A soldier there. Pass them to me.
Commander. Soldier. Give the lady carte blanche.
But, sir. I'll take responsibility,
sir. You're allowed to stay, miss. Thanks,
dad. Take care. You be careful.
Yes, I will. Promise you'll come back alive? Of course
I will. Don't worry. I'll be fine.
And with that, the sub is launched. And they prepare to do the final attempt
to kill this version of Godzilla. As the film checks in on the reporter
running to view this damage and be filmed doing it as a reporter.
As the attack happens, the father of the reporter says something about seeing if Ghidorah
is a guardian or not. And then the film shows the reporter
getting her wish. In our 2020 24th clip,
the warriors have risen up to fight against Godzilla
with every weapon they can muster. Nobody knows if they'll
succeed in their mission. All I can do with my camera
is to record their struggle to protect our freedom regardless
of danger, so that our children will have
a future. At the end of the clip, the atomic breath collapses the
bridge. And that nearly sends the reporter lady falling to her death. But she is
saved by her would be cameraman. They switch to the father of the reporter firing
a torpedo version of the Big G Killer. And it hits Ghidra and
takes him down instead. Great job, dude.
Godzilla seizes one of the submarines. And that is the one with the father of
the reporter in it. He orders the other one to flee. It does not.
So that's disobeying a direct order. Not good. The reporter drops the piece
of the statue she had while trying to climb to safety with her cameraman
holding her. And that thing somehow falls into the water right near Ghidorah.
Starts to light up. It glows like a Mothra Suicide power up
is basically how it's glowing. And then Ghidorah and Big G fight again and that
has him let go of the submarine. So the father gets to live
for now. So far. Ghidra takes to the air and powers up
bright again and does mega lightning blast attacks to Big
G. And the reporter and her cameraman are in the water now. And he finds
and rescues her at some point because she is out cold and somehow floating and
not drowning. But whatever. She gets to live. That's fine. Fine.
All of this he does while the fight is happening. Like no big deal to
him, but whatever. He's a fucking hero, so good for him. Mega King G
slams into Big G and then hits him with all of that energy
at once. And then Godzilla absorbs it and then fires it back.
It looks like causing a huge goddamn explosion. And this
then transforms into that Soul Light stuff of all of the monsters, which then
pushes into Godzilla with a sort of Care Bear stare. And that
somehow sends him back, back into the ocean. And then the
father decides to pilot the sub right into Godzilla's mouth, causing him to
swallow the submarine. Somehow the reporter astral projects
to her dad and offers him some kind of something. I don't really care.
I didn't take notes on it. I'm not doing the clip. Fuck it. He fires
the missiles inside of Godzilla, who emerges from the water to show the missile board
its way out and then explodes. Godzilla tries an atomic
breath blast and it barrels out of the the hole in his chest.
So he tries again and it opens up even more and bigger.
And then Godzilla slowly falls down into the ocean with that going off
and spirals downward into the ocean depths, surrounded in
blood. The sub escapes. And then we see the injured Godzilla
tries to fire again. And they say he completely disappears from the radar. After an
explosion, the submarine surfaces. So the father gets to live too.
Mega happy ending for everybody for our final clip.
He's alive. He's okay.
All fighter units return to base. That's all. That's right.
It's over. Right. Soldier, stand up.
This is the command center. Situation is now Code three.
Repeat, Code Green A here. Do you read? Salvage sub two,
I read you. Let's go. I'm coming,
Commander. Hello.
Congratulations.
Yes, that's right. She works for us.
Yuri Tachibana. Yes. Thank you very
much. It's Yuri. She's alive.
Yes. Yeah. All right.
Wait. Why don't we do a special? Yeah. With all this material,
we win all the awards. Yeah.
What's more, we can include an interview with that professor thingamy?
Yeah, that's gonna be difficult. Why?
Professor Isayama died a long time ago. After the first Godzilla
attack. In fact, he was quite an old man.
He was 75. The professor is dead?
Then who. Who the hell is that old man? Whoever he was,
he's gone from the tape. You. You.
You. You can't be serious.
Are you all right? Don't come any closer.
I haven't checked the radiation levels yet,
Father. You better make sure.
Don't. Please. It was. It wasn't just me.
There were others. My colleagues and
the Guardian monsters. Yeah, all this is just bullshit. Yeah,
it's just the typical ending bullshit that you have to get. There are a lot
of crying faces in these sequences. And why the fuck would you want to do
this extra bit of supernatural shit at the end about the old man not being
just some weirdo guy whacking off in the woods, but it was like dead all
along and is somehow back from the dead to whatever. Doesn't fucking matter.
Everyone is alive that we all care about. Like the reporter, her dad and all
of that. And they can talk and let's just salute all dead for whatever reason.
And the monsters or something at the end. And what. Why are you giving.
They're giving respect so Godzilla doesn't come back and fucking
murder them too. All right? So I guess they've learned their lesson well that
we travel below the ocean after that salute to show us some fish swarming
around a heart that starts beating with the Godzilla theme playing. And they roll
those fucking Credits. Cinema PsyOps 10.
10 years. 10 years.
Holy shit, man. This film is kind of all over the place.
But it's a lot easier to follow with somebody who actually enjoys it more than
I do. That actually paid attention to it. So we were actually fated to have
you on the show for this one. Because you explained a lot more about what's
going on than what I was willing to do. I was just gonna sit here
and talk shit about the supernatural bullshit the whole way through the movie. But you
had me forget all of that stuff and focus in on what is truly important.
That I always say, have to remind myself every fucking time if the
suits look good, if the models look good, if the action is good. Nothing else
in a Kaiju film matters, Corey. Nothing. If any of that stuff is intriguing to
you or interesting to you, that is icing on that motherfucking cake. And I
will submit to you that I now find the story of this icing on the
motherfucking cake. I actually enjoy what they're trying to do with it. I've gotten off
my high horse about it. I'm not the only Godzilla fan that has an issue
with this huge left, like, out of nowhere turn for
Godzilla. I know that for a fact. But I'm one of the people that has
come back around and said, you know what? This film's fucking weird, but there's something
about it I really, really dig. And it's not just that adorable Barragan. It probably
tastes like chicken. You know, I'm going to say this, and this goes
directly to my son, Brennan. Yeah, son. You know what? You're right.
I came in and got a different opinion of this movie.
I have not been a fan of this movie up until this point, other than
the suits, because there is, like, the one
bit where Godzilla runs. And for whatever reason, that just
always pissed me off. And I like, was like, I hate this movie. Godzilla can't
run. Why is he running? Everything's too fast. There's this
old man about it before.
Before the health crisis that happened in Matt's family that kept
him from being able to do the show. I was going to put him on
the notes for this because I wanted to hear him try and explain it and
be flustered. And I knew this was going to make an amazing episode. And every
single one of these Godzilla movies, I'm finding something new to love about them.
And luckily, so far, touch wood, the ones that I absolutely love,
I have realized either their story is
a mess with all of the human stuff and I don't care, or the story
stuff is way better than I was giving it credit for. And maybe it's just
because I'm a little bit more mature and I'm willing to, like, go a different
route with a storyline. And not everything have to be, like, hitting all of these
buttons, you know, at the right, like, ticking all the boxes and everything to be
perfect for, you know, have to be a specific thing for a Kaiju film and
for Godzilla, I'm starting to open up about that a little bit more, I think.
And so this film has definitely gone up. Is this going to be the one
I'm going to go to all the time? Absolutely fucking not. Am I going to
jump right to the fight at the end if I ever feel like it again
and I just kind of want to watch it? Absolutely fucking lutely. Same thing with
Megaguirus and all the other ones. I'm going to jump right to the fights because
fuck, yeah, of course I am. Still do. Still always will.
Yeah. Hey, no beef for me here, because that's an excellent
way to take it. And if there's one thing I've learned from hanging
out with mega fans, fans larger than both of
us combined, is that everybody has their favorite Kaiju.
Even if you look at a movie and you go like, well, you know that,
like, this one's dumb. That's somebody's favorite and it's legitimate. And even
if you don't like a movie that's someone's favorite, and we're just kind of all
here to have fun. And this is one of the most out of
any character. More movies, I think, than James Bond at
this point. Right. And longer running and more films than James Bond at this
point. For Godzilla. Yeah. He is the literal king. Yeah. And honestly,
like shit ton of reboots and nobody complains. We complain is
like, well, I was kind of enjoying that storyline and it ended and now we
got to reboot again. And it's kind of frustrating, but then you just get right
back on board and you're like, all right, let's go. It's really, really, really hard
to get so angry and serious and like,
intense about the minutia in these films when in all reality,
I'm only coming to him because I want to watch someone in a suit smash
up models. And I want it to look good and be convincing. Right. I want
that part of the special effects. I want the suitimation that there is no
one on the planet that can better than the Japanese. Like, that just doesn't
really happen that way. Sudimation is the thing that they perfected. It's their specific style
of filmmaking that is wholly and solely theirs. Like,
we own the musical. We made the musical. Other people can make musicals, Other people
can make Kaiju films. But the original template,
the original idea, the original way to do this specific thing for sudimation
and or musicals originated there, you know what I mean? With the
people that created it. That's what I'm getting at. Musicals are wholly an American institution
that we created. They never existed before our country. And sudimation
kind of existed and was kind of there, but not
really. Not exactly. Not when Godzilla came around. Absolutely.
Definitely not. And some other people had tried some other things, but never for
giant monsters really, to that extent that did that. Well, they usually did like stop
motion animation until Toho did it. So this is wholly a thing that comes out
of Japan, and it doesn't exist without the cultural history specifically
of that country. Like musicals in America. That's what I'm Getting at. Yeah, absolutely.
Hats off. I don't know what else to say.
I think it's. I think we're time for the break in story time. I think
that we're there. Yeah. Yeah, it's. It's beautiful. All right. We're going to take the
art. Absolutely. Suitimation is my jam.
Absolutely love it. And I will defend it to my last breath if I have
to. We're going to take the break now. We're going to play from the year
2001. Just like GMK, the song once Again, another one that
was probably really hard for you to escape Powerman 5000 with the
song Bomb Shell. It was on like everything, everywhere and in almost every movie.
When this song came out in 2001, we come
back, we will have a story time. While the collective believe that it
is now pertinent to the informational aspects of these warning and emergency notification
transmissions, discussions on the belief in an author writing the aspects of
our collective experiences are now authorized, provided we keep the parameters defined
and specific, speak about things as an exchange of ideas without providing or demanding
definitive proof. It shall be factually discussed concepts and ideas. I believe
you have the floor from our last transmission. There is belief that authors could be
a level above the concept of gods in that they create not only vast universes
with bountiful worlds that have characters to live and thrive in, but they
also create the gods that may or may not have created the universes they
wrote into existence in their stories to humble themselves and the power they
possess as the author that writes the fates of characters. The reading of the
tales and tomes offers us the knowledge we need to understand the path or plot
as it is revealed. The watching of the audio visual narrative can show us the
wonder of life and the path to the resolution before the end credits.
It is also believed our stories as characters may mimic that of what the authorship
has planned. They played in this
area like a couple years ago at like 10 in the morning. Had like
a festival around the capital and I was just like, let's just keep
walking. I like a few Power Man 5000
songs. So this is. It wasn't good. It wasn't good. Yeah,
yeah. That's the thing is, I've seen some live shows of theirs before and I
was not impressed. But I do like a few of their songs and I.
I kind of like a little bit of the groove that they got going,
but other than that, no, not really. Yeah, but they absolutely will have
little to do with my story time.
Story time.
Story time. Still Played in its entirety.
All right, so my story time, I kind of explained it. What a night I've
had, everyone. What a night I've had. Alright, so I got stuck at work because
of emergency happened and I can't really talk too much about that other than problem
was solved. I got home about an hour and a half to two hours later
than I was planning on it. Messaged Dan right away and said, hey, I know
we got to do two episodes. I know we're gonna be up late tonight,
but bad news, I'm gonna have to start even later. And Dan was like,
oh, cool. Okay. So I start working on trying to get
the show done right. I have to finish my note notes for gmk, which by
the way, I had a lot more to go than I thought I did.
I did over half the film right before we did the show tonight.
That's why we have a shit ton of clips. Because I was barreling through just
like for the recording here. I had to start doing some triage time. But while
I was actually watching my movie and recording the clips, because this is one that
I'd seen a lot and I kind of know what's going on and I knew
what was going to happen with the dialogue and I could hear the dialogue in
the background, I started downloading and editing your clips because I hadn't
touched them yet, right? And I was like leveling out and chopping
your clips because you say you sent me one file, so I had to chop
that. I had to send that. I had to chop them into a bunch of
little tiny files. Like each individual one had its own file. I had to level
them and get all the audio down. And I was doing that while recording clips.
So like, if the clip was starting to record and I was paying attention and
listening to the dialogue, I was also somehow multitasking.
Like the podcasting gods had to have been smiling on me. I don't know how
I did this, dude, but I did it where I was editing your clip,
getting the levels right. And then because you would already gotten all of the various
noises and stuff out so I didn't have to trunk. Like, I didn't have to
really like, you know, shrink them down or anything too major like I do with
mattes, like not a lot of heavy editing, but I split your stuff up.
I got it all leveled, I got it all ready to go. And then I
would like finish a clip and then I'd go back and do my start doing
my notes and go back to working on that, get that all Squared away.
And then I'd get to a point where I could record another long clip.
And then after I got all of your clips edited, I then started picking out
the music this week, which is why I said that unfortunately,
Powerman 5000 does have a little bit to do with my story time because it's
one of the songs that I picked out, but that's literally all it has to
do. So there's that thread that doesn't matter. So I get all the songs picked
out, and then I'm doing the same thing, recording clips while I'm working on the
last bit. And then I do the triage time where I decide not to do
my clips. And then just as I'm running downstairs, I'm grabbing
all my stuff, I'm getting ready to go downstairs. One of my cats throws up.
Oh, no. And I message you, and I tell you what's happening.
You know, I'm keeping you up to date. I'm like, like, hey, this is going
on. I'm running late. Things are taking longer. I'm really, really working on it.
I was planning on giving myself. Like, I was gonna come home early today.
I was planning on giving myself more than enough time. I was gonna have this
all ready to go and just, like, you know, try to get two shows done
and just really hammer it out. I was gonna give myself plenty of time,
but emergencies happen and life gets in your fucking way.
But I still found a way to make this show happen. And when the final
editing happens, which future Cort, I'm really, really sorry what we've done to
you for these two shows. I'm very sorry.
Well, anyway, that's the night that I've had. I get the vomit for the
cat cleaned up, and I come downstairs, we do the show, we do the recording.
We're having a total blast. Dan and I are just vibing and having so much
fun talking about these two movies, and it was worth all that stress.
But for a brief moment there, I was in a
weird podcasting multitasking zone that I
will never attempt again, Dan, Just to get this to happen. And that alone was
worth the story time to me. Well, hey, you know what? I gotta
take part of that. You wanted to do things on the weekend, but, you know,
like, hey, I had to have sex at least once, and it worked,
but it was actually three times. So, like, yeah, like,
I. I accepted. And I was, like, told later by
one of my children that it's Father's Day weekend. And I was like, oh,
like, okay, I gotta. I gotta Put this on. I'm like, hey, like,
can you accommodate and do, like, weekday? And you did.
And hats off to you. This is a stressful time, and I
completely understand. So I appreciate you coming around and,
like, meeting me halfway with meeting you to where you needed me.
So I'm glad it all worked out. Yeah, it again, I am.
I said this to Darren, and I'm going to say it to you right now
on the air as well. I am very, very, very, very, very, very, very,
very, very, very, very, very grateful not only for you to volunteer to
do this and to do two episodes to keep this streak going so that we
can actually try to achie so I don't have to stress out
and try and do a solo show eight times or three times or anything like
that. I very much appreciate you taking your time to do this. Now, for you,
who actually volunteered to do notes for an episode,
which had to be a very kind of not an easy thing to do to
try and mimic my style or Matt style or anything like that, and to try
and, you know, do it in a different style than what you're even used to.
That couldn't have been very comfortable. And you volunteered without even questioning
on that. And I thank you very much for doing the notes on that because
you just made my life a little bit easier by doing that, even though that
episode is going to be a hu mess, and future Cort is really not happy
about that for the editing he's gonna do. So thank you very much, and let's.
Let's wrap up the show. What do you think? Sounds good. Let's go. All right,
so let's play some show housekeeping. And when we come back from that on the
pirate radio edit, also released in 2001. While this song was easier
for me to escape, I refused to escape it because it's one of the Weezer
songs I absolutely love. With the song Hash pipe released in 2001, immediately calling this
on fire radio, it is if you've decided universes they wrote into existence
in their stories to humble themselves and the power they possess as the author that
writes the fates of characters. The reading of the tales and tomes offers
us the knowledge we need to understand the path or plot as it is revealed.
The watching of the audio visual narrative can show us the wonder of life and
the path to the resolution before the end credits. It is also believed
our stories as characters may mimic that of what the authorship has planned and allow
characters in some small way to create allegorical fictions of their
own. And so create a chain of created realms. One may delve deeper and deeper
into the meta, the apocryphal meta. Writing belief is often linked to self
important belief structures for characters that believe the story is about
them and they are fully aware of their status as a main character in this
structure. The random events beliefs refute this with an argument that the holy texts
which authorship revere are just merely mythological iterations of stories which
ancient people have been telling each other for centuries. They're not true or real
in any literal sense. They are merely a conduit to a more ancient truth.
It breaks down into components of storytelling which must be remembered
that stories and tales can be based on things that happened. And the authors themselves
create authors in stories that also write stories. As this becomes
a multi dimensional, multi reality discussion concept get
very complex. So let us focus on this. The story of a
savior who was born to a virgin who could perform miracles and
was supernaturally resurrected. This concept of a savior in the world
of court double 5321 was a very popular story for at least a thousand
years before Jesus was born. One of them has blonde hair,
one of them Sprunette, both dressed similarly mitras performed miracles.
He was marked by the sign of the cross. Horus walked
on water, was crucified, had 12 disciples. Krishna,
he was a carpenter, born to a virgin, baptized in a river,
rose from the dead and ascended into heaven. There are at least 12 gods
who were born on December 25, all of whom predate the existence
of Jesus. It is virtually impossible to ignore the influence of one
narrative upon another or to ignore the fact that all these stories iterate
into to the current faith being sold, the current myth being made. The belief
used to shape our perceptions and ideas. When an author writes the life of
another author, it is believed this is where characters were first allowed to be self
aware and know that their author is writing them. This meta signifies something
that refers to itself or has a self aware quality.
Hell yeah. You a fan of Hash Pipe then? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not
my favorite Weezer song, but it's definitely up there. I would probably put it in
one of my top fives. That's an earworm. Yeah.
All every Weezer song is an earworm practically. So it's say It Ain't so is
like my absolute favorite. Buddy Holly is probably second or
third. Hash Pipe would be like third or fourth or fifth. I don't really rank.
It's just like it's one of the ones where I definitely would never want to
Fast forward it. So there's that. Okay, so this probably qualifies as a
story. Story time. But 20 years ago, I'm at a bar, right,
And a band's gonna play. And some older lady comes up to
me. And at the time I was wearing glasses. And she's like, I know who
you are. And I was like, you do? And she goes, yeah, my daughter
knows you. She's a big fan. And I was like, what? What are you even
talking about? Like, I had no idea what this lady was getting at. She thought
it was dude from Weezer. I didn't look
anything like dude from Weezer other than glasses. And I guess
kind of nerdy. Well, you were also tattooed, so maybe she made an assumption.
I don't know. Yeah, yeah. Hey, speaking of that, you know that at one
point in time was really cool where people would show up and they'd be like,
so are you in the band? And now when you're in a bar and that
happens, they go, so you're. Where are you a chef at?
Well, while you're out there being a chef, wondering what the fuck
all of this was about, kick the fuck out of this weekend. Make it your
bitch while you enjoy. The White Stripes. With their song released also in
2001, Dead Leaves in the dirty ground on the pirate radio edit.
All these stories iterate into the current faith being sold,
the current myth being made. The belief used to shape our perceptions and
ideas. When an author writes the life of another author, it is believed this is
where characters were first allowed to be self aware and know that their author is
writing them. This meta signifies something that refers to itself or has a
self aware quality, often in a clever or self referential way.
This does not mean it has to be played for laughs, although comedic meta is
said to be the easiest route, as the whimsical nature of that life makes it
easier for fourth wall breaks to speak directly to the audience we were created for.
The meta concept can be a way of looking at something from a higher,
higher perspective or acknowledging its own nature or context. Self referential
meta works like a movie about making a movie, acknowledges its own
fictional nature. Self aware meta characters are conscious of themselves as
a subject. Higher perspective is a meta approach to storytelling that considers
it from a broader, more abstract viewpoint, often analyzing its own structure
or context. In essence, meta points to something that goes beyond the
surface level. Often reflects reflecting on its own existence or context.
Crying everywhere and people will
wonder why you're just crying. Recording in progress There we go.
The recording started and can you hear? Yeah, yeah.
All right. And is my clip
too softer? You're probably not gonna be able to hear too well. Yeah,
so I didn't edit my clips. Yeah, I didn't edit my clips. So you'll be
able to hear them. Are going to be jumping through them anyway. Cuz some of
them are way too long, so. All right, I'm rolling. I'm rolling.
And we are ready to go. My notes are up. Okay.
Ready to roll? Yep. Okay. I never ask, man. I just get started. All right.
Three, two, one. After that they cut to a short of some folks.
Ah. Three, two, one. I literally just recorded everything for
clips in this film. There's no notes. It's all close to
him. I mean, that's how your 9 to 5 episode was.
I. You basically like just had the movie with commentary.
And you know what? I loved it because I love nine to five.
Oh, that's a great flip. Your experiences with that movie were very much in line
with mine. That's awesome. Like, that's part of the reason I'm not a fucking misogynist.
Yeah. I think that film might have done a lot of good for a lot
of little boys that ran into that in the 80s. For me. Yeah. For me
it was like single mom making me watch nine to five.
Take for instance, Star Wars, Episode one, the Phantom
Menace. Can you imagine thousands of years from now, people accepting Jar Jar
as a significant religious figure? Beg your pardon? Jar Jar. Ex squeeze
me. Jar Jar. Jar Jar Binks. Never mind. It is all terrifying,
isn't it? I'm sorry? It is. It is all scary.
I'm scared. I'm scared. Just saying it out loud, really.
If God is real and he watches when we masturbate, and he has
such a fragile ego that he only helps us when we beg him and shower
him with praise, and he hates gay people for being what he made them to
be. Well, that's terrifying. If there's no God and we're just horny
microscopic ants floating on earth, rock through space with no divine purpose
and no hope to achieve eternal life. Well, that's terrifying too. Either the
church is true or it is a fraud. It is the church and kingdom of
God or it is nothing. Do you agree with that?
Kick the out of this weekend. Make it your while you enjoy
the White Stripes with their song released also in 2001,
Dead Leaves in the Dirty Ground on the pirate radio edit. I'm not going to
play that either. Just save us a little bit of time. But I am going
to go ahead and stop the recording. Recording stopped.