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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.
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to global warming.
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10 years.
And welcome to the 513th consecutive
week of Cinema Psyops. I'm your host, Cort, the guy that
has some rather Sad news to unlay on everybody, but I'm
gonna wait until I introduce my interim co host, which is my
co host, Darren. Hey, how you've been, man? It's been a minute.
Yeah, it's been a long, long time. And I'm very, very, very grateful that
pretty much at the last minute, like, I messaged you Wednesday, and I'm
like, I got a podcast in crisis. Able to have this thing where
we would just be like, yo, I need some help. We need to get something
done here. Can I. Can I get some help? And, you know, I was able
to call that favor in from you, and I'm very grateful that that happened.
And the reason that I have some sad news for everybody that I got to
kind of lay on it on, Matt is absolutely fine. Matt's health,
other than his mental health, is probably not so great.
Essentially, there is some stuff that's kind of getting in the way, and there's going
to be a couple of weeks where Matt's going to have to step away from
the show. You know, at least you. You got another guy from the
Midwest. I don. I'm not an Aaron Rodgers fan,
but. Yeah, but you do live in Ohio,
which somehow is going to basically counterbalance that, I guess.
Yeah. All right, so Matt, like I said,
physically and everything is fine.
Emotionally, he's probably pretty wrecked right now because his wife
has been diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia.
And while the prognosis is good, she will be in an
extended hospital stay. And when I say the prognosis is good is there's actually treatment,
treatments and things that can actually alleviate. It requires the long hospital stay.
And life is just busy enough for Matt as is. We already know
that capitalism has been crushing him. And this is just one more thing that was
just too much. So I said, you know what, let's not stress about trying to
figure out how to squeeze in recordings with you during this time. Let's take.
I'm giving him three weeks. We're going to take three weeks off. Darren's being nice
enough to fill in for week one, and I got another Midwestern guy, and I
actually think if this works out, I might actually have a Wisconsinite gentleman to fill
in for another two. And if that works out, that gentleman might actually be
the first guest to officially do all of the notes.
Now, I did have Nick from the
Bee movie cast who did his version of the movie coverage where
we let him synopsize the movie, but this is going to be our first guest
actually trying to synopsize the Movie in the Cinema Psyops
style. Clips and everything. Synopsize and Cinema Psyops
style. Yeah. Synopsizing in Cinema Psyops style. Yeah. That's very clue,
isn't it? The way that I said that. One plus two plus two plus
one. Absolutely. So, long story short, too late.
Matt's going to be out for about three weeks. We're going to have someone filling
in and there's some little bit of good news on top of that. I didn't
want Matt to miss this film that we're covering this week, which is Godzilla 2000
or Godzilla Millennium, depending upon which version of it that you saw
the title card for. I didn't want him to miss this one. I didn't want
him to miss the next one, which is Megarius next week where Godzilla vs.
Meguirrus. And then also there's like this completely insane one that we'll
be covering like three weeks from now that I don't want him to miss.
So when everything is back to relatively normal that he can start doing the show
again, Matt's going to come back and we're going to actually finish up covering whatever
it is or if he doesn't make it to the end of the year,
because we've got eight weeks left. Well, every single one of these Godzilla movies that
he missed, whenever he comes back, we're going to do as a commentary and we're
going to be partying while we do it. So you'll still get to hear Matt's
thoughts. Only this time, whenever he loses his shit during an actual Kaiju
battle and like starts shouting into the microphone, you' it happen live.
So it. We'll do it live. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
So again, thank you very much to Darren for filling in here and being a
co host while I do the notes for Godzilla 2000 or Godzilla Millennium.
I really, really appreciate it. We're going to keep the streak going. We got eight
weeks left to do it in. If we have to do it through a co
host to make it happen, we're going to make it happen. Because the bulk of
the work still happened with Matt, so that's all that matters. And it's still a
goal that I want him to be able to celebrate that we achieved as well.
Even if I got to do all the lifting for it and, you know.
Yeah, Sa reasoning, but happy to be here. Yeah.
I really wish that it wasn't for this reason, but it is for this reason.
But I am again eternally grateful to have you on the show while we do
this. And we got all sorts of stuff planned. Darren's actually gonna take over the
story time. We already got that planned out and all of it. So I'm excited.
I cannot wait. I think we've been beaten around the bush enough. I think it's
time to actually take the break and get into doing the film. What do you
think? I think I'm ready. All right. So we're gonna take the break here.
We're gonna play the Legion Patreon ad and on the pirate radio edit.
Like we've been doing all coverage for so long I can't even remember when we
actually started. We're gonna have songs that were all popular from the year the
film was released. Godzilla 2000 was actually released in 1999.
I know. It's a whole thing. But anyway. The songs that were released in 1999
just like Godzilla 2000. So up first is Fastball with Out of My Head Immediately
following this on the pirate radio edit. This will keep it quiet. Testing the paradox
sustaining devices that are essential to the function of the Mobius Loop of annihilation
has proven difficult in the labs of 7 quartz. Its all in one Edison manufacturing
business. The Collective were able to verify this through the audio taken from video
surveillance footage that survived the explosion. Okay.
We know from the PURV perv.
Why would he arrange the words that explain the device's function so the acronym made
out something that would sound like perv. This is the same guy who created security
protocol numbers based on adolescent anatomical calculator
jokes of the 80s. I think he believes it makes him relatable and cool.
I guess the perv showed some new upgrades
to the paradox sustaining device that are essential to the function of the Mobius Loop
of annihilation. And we haven't even replicated the originals since the
lab explosion. That unspecified engineer caused by
miscalculating the formulas they tried to improve on from what
they saw being done watching the perv Perv.
That just sounds so bad. Right? Like why would you want to recreate
things you saw through a perv? It's not very marketable. The boss's brand
is more about looking like a genius while taking
credit for some other people's hard work and ideas. I would venture to say
that making it widely known that your main source of innovations is
from a device that you created by mistake in an explosion
that unspecified engineer caused that allows you
to look into alternate realities would be harmful to that,
let's say deceptive brand. There sure seems to be a lot of social commentary hidden
in the things we are saying here. I wonder if our author is super,
super woke. Now, imagine that. An author who wants all of his characters and
stories to be inclusive and representative of all sorts of sentient beings
who treat each other with basic manners and dignity and respect.
That is some serious Star Trek bullshit right there. It just sucks that
our author seems to be obsessed with Douglas Adams, because the sheer volume of outlandish
concepts we deal with daily is the fucking worst.
All right, as is my tradition, whenever I'm playing, playing about a minute
or so of the music for our quote unquote breaks that I put in there,
I take a little bit of a hit or two, which I was definitely doing.
And as Darren can contest, I may have gone a little overboard. So I
was coughing a good bit during Fastball's song there, and Darren almost
had to check up on me. It was close. You spoke up right before I
said something. I was trying to be good and quiet. Right. Well, you don't have
to do that anymore because the music all gets replaced, so don't worry about that.
Everything gets replaced in this show. Now, the recordings that you're used to where it
was like, oh, man, you fucked up that take. We gotta start again. You know,
like that. Like doing every single thing live and making it come out live
exactly how we needed it while everyone was in the room. I don't do that
anymore. I'm not that. I mean, yeah, it's been a long time since we
sat down and talked about the gate. Exactly. So let's go
ahead and sit down and we'll start talking about Godzilla 2000. And hopefully we'll shake
off all the rust and see what happens. All right, so the first third of
the film starts with the classic Toho production company logo. And then
we see a man working on some kind of broadcast antenna array in what
appears to be the twilight hours by the light of his car fog and
headlights. The vehicle I mentioned is a mobile command center of some sort.
We see a woman is cleaning and maintaining a large film camera. And then
the man hops into the van. There is an overlay telling us that this is
apparently the Godzilla Prediction Unit. I promise you, in my notes,
if I don't just call it the gpu, which I will call it later on,
I'm going to say the words Godzilla Protection Unit by mistake. It's gonna happen,
folks. And, Darren, as soon as it does, you need to call me out
on that for everyone, okay? All right. Prediction. All right, so the woman maintaining the
camera talks. That's Dialogue. And as we all know, that's our first clip.
Are you sure he's going to come? Hope so. Don't want to
disappoint a big shot reporter like you. I've really got to get
some great pictures of him. IO, do you read me?
Roger, loud and clear.
18 degrees. Okay. What's that on
the monitor? Density changes in the plasma. Careful, EEL OR expresses
voltage regulation. What he means is that when a charge fluctuation occurs,
the plasma above the Earth's surface is induced to the ground. The plasma
and the tremor in the ground become linked. In short, the seismometer.
Plasma. You mean like blood? You really are
an imbecile. Imbecile? An imbecile term.
If there is any fluctuation, that means Godzilla's in the area.
It's starting, isn't it? Yeah, right?
It seems so. We still can't contact the Ocean
Queen. Is it possible something is interfering
with their transmissions? Could be. I'll keep trying. Over and
out after this. We see the man looking out at the sea
on the main deck of a lighthouse as he has a look around at all
the various windows in the stormy night out there, we see what appears to be
a ship passing beside the lighthouse within the vision of the man. That damaged
ship is definitely caught in the jaws of the Big G as they reveal that
this is the case when they zoom into a CGI augmentation of
the Godzilla eye that blinks. And that trick worked out really
well. The CG and everything that they did to make that happen look great.
If that was actually a practical thing that they did to make
that happen. It was so smooth that I actually believe that it was cgi because
it looked almost animalistic in the way that it moved. Yeah.
The logo of the film title pops up. The lighthouse man exits and runs in
fear from Godzilla. And no sooner do I type that bit about biting the ship,
and then Big G does just that, dropping remaining bits of the ship
to either side of him as he passes. Holy fuck. Did that just look incredible.
I mean, they drop actual chunks of ship at the guy that did the stunt
and everything. It was really cool. Yeah, I was a little cautious
because this was one I hadn't seen before. And then that. That put me a
little bit deeper into my seat to start watching. I actually ended
up backing it up and watching it again because I was taking notes and I
felt like I missed. And I just wanted to see it again anyway, just because
I really like that sequence. Godzilla so rarely bites anything. Like,
I mean, he'll bite during attacks, he'll bite opponents and stuff. But you very rarely
see him, like, actually, like, bite into a building or claw at a building or.
A lot of the stuff that he does in this one, we don't really see
as much or as often. So, like, actually having him pick up
a ship in his mouth and then bite it on his way to shore was
just something that I thought was super badass. Because you see him, like, damaging other
ships or, you know, you'll see the aftermath of him damaging a ship, but actually
seeing him picking one up in his teeth and biting down on it is kind
of a rare treat. And I really dug it.
All right, so the dude diving out of the way of the
falling debris is also pretty fucking sweet and really well done.
Just because I wanted to mention that I kind of glossed over it, but the
effect was really, really cool. But the actual stunt of the guy diving out of
the way, of the ship dropping. I mentioned it, but I just. It's really,
really fucking cool. And then they add, like, a little bit of extra stunt
flourish to it, and they do a little, like, Chaplin reference. Because the ship,
right after it, Godzilla, knocks over this broadcast tower that's right
near that lighthouse, and that falls towards the guy. And that's when that Charlie Chaplin
little reference happens. Because the radio tower lands perfectly right around
the garden, the way that he's sitting, so as not to harm him in any
way. And it just kind of offers us a nice little comic relief after all
of that horror that we just watched with Godzilla walking past. I'm glad
you said Charlie Chaplin. Cause I thought that was a Buster Keaton thing. Yeah,
maybe it's Buster Keaton. Maybe it's Charlie Chaplin. I don't know. I forget who.
I'm sure they both did it. I don't know who did it first. Yeah,
maybe it is Buster Keaton. I'm. I'm probably wrong. But again, anytime I'm
wrong, call me out on that bullshit, because Matt never does. And I don't get
feedback anymore. So I don't know when everyone's putting stuff out there that's pissing people
off. I will say. I won't say you're wrong. I will say, I'm not sure
who is right. That's hilarious.
But either way, it was definitely a reference to whoever it was that had done
that originally. And they did it almost perfectly. And I know that whoever
it is, Jackie Chan's a huge fan, and he likes to recreate that as well
as best as he can. It's probably Buster Keaton because Buster Keaton did stunts like
that. But you know, building off the works. Of others,
they cut from that to a shot of the gpu.
That's what the acronym of their initials makes. GPU just does.
They cut from the GPU to a small bar like restaurant of
some sort. Which as we all know, any dialogue at all, no matter how short,
is our next clip. Ah, that damn teriyaki is cold again.
But as long as the beer is cold, who cares?
You clowns don't like it, there's plenty of other places to eat around
here. So shut up or get out.
If you're frightened, get down. I'm okay,
but aren't you worried about. About your daughter? No. She worries
about me.
Hang on.
Big G is on the move and shatters that
restaurant before we see the GPU run out of
road after four wheeling over a rock slide slide to get through
a tunnel in the mountain. They narrowly miss flying off of the new
cliff face where the road ends in damage and the dad tilts the floodlights
up to give us a terrific low light reveal and tease of the new
Godzilla look. And man, is this creepy. The way the lights go up,
it feels like a, like they're kind of like doing a little Jurassic park reference
the way that they did the lighting. But those like flood searchlight things that are
going up in the like just basically doing flashlight searches over Godzilla.
Looks so fucking cool. Yeah, it was fucking rad. It made
me forget that I was watching a dubbed Godzilla movie.
The reporter tries to flash a quick picture of Godzilla
and is stopped because they say they are too close. For a flash, Big G
leans into the car that is way too close to him
and gives it a little sniff as his bra. As his bra breath fogs up
all of the windows instantly when it hits and it actually shakes the car a
little bit too. That was really well done. It's a really nice mix of practical
CGI and compositing shots of a man in a suit to make that work.
And it looked really cool. It was, it was a nice change. You know,
I like the New Gods. I don't want to go too far on a tangent,
but I like a lot of the new Godzilla movies and they're the ones I
see a lot more often because I have a 10 year old kid. But he,
as I said before and I'll get into later, he's a big Godzilla
fan. So we've seen the other ones and there's something about a guy in a.
The Person in the suit and the practical effects and the explosions
happening off of the person in the suit and the danger that happens in there,
the fun of that just kind of transpires over. It's something that Matt and I
have been talking about the entire time we've been doing this coverage. And you're not
wrong. The fact that it's just so much more dangerous with the dude in the
suit, you know what I mean? That's what makes it more fun. It's so much
more punk rock. You feel it. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
It's much more tangible. It's much more, like,
ephemeral. It's there, you know, like, it's like there's no pressing
the I Believe button. When you at least can see a practical thing get smashed
in front of you. Even if it is kind of tiny, even if you do
have to push an I Believe button, that it's not just a dude in a
suit smashing into a small miniature building. It's still much easier to push the
I Believe button than it is with some of the compositing and CGI problems that
we'll have later on. A really good model and suit, even though it looks
like a good model and suit, will automatically trick you way,
way, way much more. You're already where you need to be, as if you've been
watching the suit Godzilla mo all along with me. So you're. You're perfect. You're a
perfect fill in. Already. Bought in at
the right time. Yeah, exactly. All right, so the reporter triggers the
camera flash photography. Multiple intense bursts. I think in her panic, she just
squeezes the button and can't let go. And that triggers Big G,
who takes a big swipe at the car as the
GPU throws it into reverse and tries to get the living out of there.
We see Big G is not giving up on his pursuit and is now
climbing up and over the mountain, including having one of
his feet rupturing through the ceiling of the tunnel while they flee.
Some really amazing action in this. They do at least two great
leg smashing through the tunnel. And then some great practical stunt
driving mixed into this, where the car is bouncing off the walls of the tunnel,
running in fear. And then the CG augmentation that they're doing in this
is also really well done for this era. And it's all really impressive.
This sequence works really well. They did an excellent job with it. And it's
really terrifying to watch his feet coming through the tunnel as they're trying to flee
too. Yeah. Builds the claustrophobia they finally make it
out of the tunnel and then Big G overtakes
the crest of the mountain. The reporter screams at seeing this.
And the kid tells the dad to get the GPU the fuck out
of there. And so they do. And then they cut to a dude getting out
of an elevator. He walks into some sort of a conference room. There's a bunch
of people talking about shit. And that is expository dialogue in our third.
Thank you. Now everyone can be
head of the CCI at 32. Excuse me,
sir. It's about the meteorite. Would you excuse me?
They've reached it. Yes, sir. How far down is
it? Just under 900 fathoms. Start surfacing procedures
immediately. The whole area is fog bound, sir. We'll have to wait till tomorrow
morning. The end of the clip starts an amazing city stomping sequence.
You just have to see to believe. There are terrific
under lighting monster style looks for Godzilla.
We kind of talked about this earlier with Matt, but they do this sort of
light from below that casts sort of shadows up and over whenever
features stick out a little bit more. And it just kind of is an unsettling
look. They've been using this monster lighting for ages. It goes all the way back
to Boris Karloff's Frankenstein's Monster and stuff like that with this technique.
But they started using it more effectively for the villains to make them look more
sinister and eerie and evil in the suit ver Godzilla in the late
70s, particularly like Godzilla versus Gigan is when I really started noticing it that they
did this. But they perfected here because there's some really amazing,
like, red gel lighting in some of the shots that looks like fire all
around and hell just surrounding everywhere that Godzilla is. And just some truly
terrifying, gruesome stuff that's included in the absolute destruction
and devastation that's left in the wake of Big G in this sequence.
So I really dug all of this. And it's like classic Kaiju dude in
a suit the way that you fucking want it. Looks great. Yeah. It was
definitely making me hearken back to the first Godzilla
movies I saw at people's houses when I was a kid and stuff.
That's the best part about it. That's the part of the suit love I
think really comes from. You have to see the suit movies when you're young enough
to where you're like, man, I would love to do that. How much fun would
this be to make this movie? They cut
from this to the GPU following as quickly as they can and pointing an
antenna Right at Big G. Why? We do not know. It's something
that they're going to do to take some kind of reading or whatever. But whatever.
It sparks dialogue. Along with a windshield wiper joke that's going
over top of a completely broken windscreen in our fourth
clip. Keep that antenna
steady. Does that help, Eddie? And I'm
the imbecile. Touche. So why don't you
take some pictures? That's what you came here for, right? Oh,
dog. Must be punishing me for being ambitious.
All right. You sure you still got film in the camera?
Oh, bite me.
Godzilla.
Go, Godzill. At the end of the clip,
the squad moved fast enough to get ahead of Big G and give us an
even more terrific shot of Big G walking in that red gel
hell lighting that we were talking about earlier. And it's in the horizon,
so it really shows the scale of him. And they put the man of the
GPU and his daughter standing in a composited foreground shot while
Big G's walking in the background in that hell gel red
looking like lighting to really give you this sort of, like, scale as
Big G just wrecks a fucking power plant. In his glorious tradition
of just knocking shit like that over while they watch. It's just fucking
glorious stuff. They cut from all of this to a strange sequence of some
dudes in a submarine and some expository dialogue in
our fifth clip. Last surfacing unit is in position.
Depth 5300. Right rudder, 10 degrees.
Unbelievable.
It's like a forest of volcanoes.
What's that? You promised
you'd put me on hard news if I shot Godzilla at Nemuro. Now come on.
Did you look at these first? These negatives are as blank as your mind.
Godzilla's radiation fogged the film.
Next time, don't guess so close. Now go and try again.
I'm not another joyride with those freaks. Quit your
bitching. They're a pain in the ass.
Kimura, is that you?
Shinoda here. Yeah, go ahead. About this data you
just sent me. Amazing, huh? The temperature of the water
off Kinkazan. Is up 38 degrees in the past two hours.
Hours? That needs to
be blue. All right. Okay, sure. Excuse me,
I'm looking for the Godzilla Prediction Network.
Oh, sure. Yeah. Down that hallway,
take the first left. Oh, right. Okay, then when you
get to the. End, turn right, left, then right. Got it.
Who told you to stop working? No one. So you got it?
Yeah, I was left, then right. Right, got it.
Great. Thanks. What?
If you want to work with us, you have to join.
Membership, 200,000 yen plus 50,000amonth.
What is this, the imbecile rate? We are like a collective. We share the
financial risk up front. Then we profit from the information we acquire.
Look, I'm not interested in joining your little clubhouse,
see? I just want to take some more pictures. Okay, you want to take pictures,
you'll have to become a member. Hey, a little
help here. I'm in charge of the business end.
However, we do have an alternative plan. Half off of you
agree to share expenses.
The meteorite is highly magnetic. The material could be
the first step toward finding a new and more efficient source of energy.
Excellent. Any reduction in the use of fossil
fuels would be a real feather in CCI's cap.
All balloons, inflicted Aqua Lift
system standby.
Standby to commence lifting. Roger.
All ships commence lifting.
It's going up too fast. What the hell's happening?
I don't hear that cabbage being charged.
Destroy our power. The few of us would be busy indefinitely
trying to suppress a large hostile population.
Steppers ready. All right.
What makes you think you'll conquer us without a fight? With regrets
to meet with you.
GPN Center hold on,
please. It's Outpost 23 1. Ah,
that'll be Sonoda. Hey,
I've been analyzing some new tremors and
I'm writing now. It. It looks like he's moving south.
Vacation?
Hey, let me give you a hand. Spotted him again?
Yeah, give me a push here. There you go.
Jeez, you stink. No,
your breath. See you tomorrow. Later,
baby. Bye.
Hello? It's Yuki.
You know where he is?
Thank you, sir. Sharing expenses, my ass.
Well, I sure as hell ain't paying for gas.
Unit one, stand by. Unit two.
We've drilled several holes into the rock, but we keep hitting something
solid. So we've stopped for now. Give me a
guess on its age. Best estimate so far is 60,
70 million years. What about
its buoyancy? Well, possibly it's hollow.
And it did surface of its own will somehow.
Meaning what? It could be a vessel from
outer space.
Mr. Secretary. Come in.
Kitty. Yes, of course.
I'm on my way. Godzilla.
They've just spotted him moving south near Ibaraki.
You stay here for now.
New Godzilla reading. He's moving inward toward
Tokai. The nuclear plants? I knew it.
Afraid so. Oh, that's just lovely.
Another Chernobyl.
This is Katagiri of Crisis Control. Godzilla is heading
for Takai as we speak. Shut down all your reactors
immediately. Are you crazy? I don't have the authority.
You do now. And as head of the Crisis Control Agency I'm giving
you authorization now. Shut down the those reactors.
Red alert. Red alert. Shut down all reactors immediately.
This is not a drill. Reactor one shut down and two shut
down. We'll circuit.
Godzilla is headed for Tokai on the east coast of Ibaraki.
The government is holding an emergency cabinet meeting. And they're sending
the army to the presumed landing spot.
Don't you think this. This is a little too close? I need
to be as close as possible. You don't like it, Go home and watch it
on tv.
Katagiri didn't waste any time. Katagiri?
Deputy Secretary of the Interior, Head of the cci.
Hello, Shinoda. It's been a long time.
Not long enough. I'd hope never to see you again.
I know you and me are were a fine team.
You should have come with him when I established cci. Not in a thousand years.
I could never work for a man like you. Why not?
We both have the same goals. Boy, that's a real laugh.
Godzilla needs to be studied. He's a gold mine of
knowledge. Well, you couldn't care less. You just want to kill him
before we fully analyzed him. And in the meantime he just levels
Tokyo? Of course not. That's why I created the Network.
He must be contained. I realize that, but his word worth the
effort. Tell you what. Join the Network.
You might learn something.
Your Network's history. I'll send flowers.
Shutting down the reactors isn't enough.
You'll have to kill all energy sources.
General Takata of the first Division. I was told to report to you,
sir. Bastard. You really think you can kill. Guys.
Godzilla.
It's moving. With that, the rock
in the ocean stands up on its side like a monolith at sunrise.
And that triggers a sequence of some slightly off looking tanks
moving around in what I assume is early CGI compositing of
them. It just didn't quite look right. I don't know if they mapped like
something over existing tanks that were moving to make them look nicer and newer,
or if this was just CGI tanks that they put into
place to map over them moving in city streets that they couldn't put them
on, or what, but you definitely didn't get. That's what I was thinking. Yeah.
It just didn't look right. Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It felt like something was off.
It felt like seeing CGI now from a student film. You know what I mean?
Or like. Or like seeing Doctor who effects now, which have not improved
from Doctor who effects of this era. For cgi. That's what it looks like anyway.
Then cuts to what I assume is stock footage of actual tanks moving over hills
and rough terrain as they look real and are actually there as they're
moving, there's a wide shot of the tanks all lining up. And then a dude
reports in, triggering more expository dialogue in our sixth clip.
Group two in position and ready. Over. Roger, group two.
Stand by.
As we know from experience, when Godzilla's attacked,
he advances instead of retreats. We can make use of his aggressiveness
by luring him to the mouth of the river. And what happens once he
gets there? The underwater mines will do the rest. Mines? What about the safety of
the local residents? Ah, yes. Well, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed,
but I can promise no more than 2, 300 tops. I don't like
it. And if the mines fail to stop him, then what? We've developed an advanced
new weapon. A new generation of armor piercing missile. It's so powerful,
it can penetrate any known material. I guarantee it'll go through Godzilla
like crap through a goofy IO. Yes.
So what now? You and IO go to a safe distance.
What about you? I'm waiting for Godzilla.
Katagiri is determined to kill him.
That sound can mean only one thing.
Godzilla.
He's coming. Coming. Get going. Godzilla makes landfall.
Some rough CGI helicopters move into position and fire
at Big G. This sequence is pretty great, excluding one ropey
bit where a suit actor walking against green screen is composited with
him walking onto a peninsula that starts with him actually on
top of water just outside of the land. Like he's walking on the water,
like Jesus or something. Again, it's not a huge deal. Just thought
I would point it out since I noticed it this time that like, he actually
starts walking on the water with this like green screen shot of him
walking into the foreground. Otherwise it looks fucking great. It's just that, like,
they needed to do a little bit of work on the compositing on where they
started his feet. I mean,
I wondered how they were going to start the second season of Watchmen.
You know, they ended it with the foot going onto the water and
now. It'S going to be Godzilla walking on water. Yeah. Yeah. Well,
you know, some folks that listen to this show may actually believe
that. I honestly think that Godzilla should be walking on water at this point because
I am such a fan. And those people are not wrong. They're dicks, but they're
not wrong. You could be both. Yeah, you can be a not wrong dick.
We Know that It's been established. All right,
so the tanks start a barrage of mortar fire that frankly
feels as dangerous as the old school stuff, but looks more realistic
in the manner the explosions happen. Now, what I mean by that is it's concussive,
not sparkly like the firework explosions we have seen
them use in the paint past. But these tank hits still have no
effect on Godzilla. And having them looking as believable as
they actually do as they explode in front of him, it makes Big G even
scarier to me because these look like actual tank explosions
that are really believable. And not only is it not
doing shit to Big G, there is a suit actor having these
concussive explosive fire balls going off from his suit
at us on, like towards the camera. And they're just standing there taking
it. And that's so fucking punk rock and cool. Yeah, I'm sure they
were quite bruised. Again, it's way
scarier to me. And it's so cool that he's just standing there as all of
this ends up happening. But then when you start to think about it, there's a
person in there taking that concussive fire. And would you not describe those
explosions as concussive fire balls? I would.
At this point is when I started saying, oh,
are they going to actually do some damage to
Big G? Yeah, well, I guess we'll see.
Yeah, it made me a little bit nervous for a second. I forgot who I
was watching though. Right, you forgot whose name's on the marquee.
So, yes, damage can be done, but he's gonna get back up. That's the point.
Godzilla and Rocky have very similar fighting styles where it doesn't matter how hard
you get hit, it's how hard you could get while still moving forward.
I didn't hear no bell.
All right, so the tanks are called back when Godzilla heads
into the water towards them. And a set of bigger missile
firing vehicles with those mega bunker busting missile
things that they were talking about that they showed us earlier, all equipped with all
of these things as they roll into position and fire. This damage being done from
these missiles takes us right up to the end of the first third of the
film. These missiles seem to do some surface damage to Big. Like, I'd like to
point out that Darren was just concerned about what was going to happen because those
explosions were insane. But they don't really appear to be penetrating deep like
a bullet would to a human. Like they're not hitting him like a 9 millimeter
bullet would to a just you know, cloth covered, like T shirt
wearing chest on a human being. Right. Like they're hitting him like a strong pellet
gun style would embed into a human being. And then
they have like a little explosive burst from that. So it's like a smaller wound,
but it's like a little chunk being blown out of the skin. Almost like
whenever you nick yourself shaving and like a whole chunk comes out. You know what
I mean? Like, that's all they're really doing. So, yes, they're doing
damage to him. I will admit that these rockets that were sold to
be these super penetrative, like really damaging rockets,
they're doing damage and they're exploding little chunks out of them. But they're just little
tiny chunks comparatively. And it's really not that big of a deal. Yeah,
like a, like a classic childhood Midwestern apple fight, you know?
You know how it goes. I will say this, I don't know Midwestern
apple fights because I was raised on the east coast. So did
you guys do dirt clawed fights as kids maybe? No,
we didn't. There was, you know, because if you threw, there's too many
cars around to throw rocks. Right. But, you know, plenty of yards
had those trees that grew the fist size or,
you know, handful size apples that nobody ever wanted to eat. Crab apple trees,
right? Yeah, yeah. Something like. Yeah, you just go yard to yard and
helping each other with apples. Oh. See, where I grew
up, up in the smaller areas of, you know,
the hills of Pennsylvania, there was a lot of orchards around,
you know, like apples and things like that. But like full size big apples.
Right, right. Not like those just random crab apple trees that you just find
out there, you know, and stuff like that. So when you said apple fight,
I'm picturing like, you know, apples from an actual orchard. And I'm like, that would
really hurt. But crab apples make small sized apples. Right,
right, exactly. Okay, we are definitely tangenting way off
of Godzilla at this point. So why don't we get back into act of the
film? What do you think? Yeah, yeah, I'm down. All right, so the second act
starts with a cut from the new missiles herding Big G.
Like we said, just those tiny little bits of damage. Nothing really that big.
Two jets taking off. And then cuts back from those
jets to these new missiles hurting Big G. And then back to
the scientists studying the big ocean rock thing with more expository
dialogue in our seventh clip. I was right.
It's following the sun if
it keeps. Don't just stand there.
Move the boat Target
in sight. Engaging now.
Got a kitty. It's Miyasaka. The rock's
gone. It. It just flew away. All right, so we see the
rock ship thing flying towards Big G,
who is there getting blasted all too fuck by those missiles we
were talking about, which still seem to be just doing some minor damage comparatively.
And he heals really, really quick right afterwards, so more or less it's barely
an inconvenience. Super. The rock arrives,
does some form of predator scan that goes down to
a cel and even possibly sub molecular
level to find some sort of something or other that it
apparently likes and or wants from Big G. Now, when I say predator
scan, it actually cuts to predator vision. And then you see like the display of
the alien language, like up on the screen, and then you see the scan and
then it goes into like this CGI thing showing you the cells, and then deeper
into like, what looks like might even be a submolecular level. All done with cgi.
All not done super well. But it's all very important story point stuff.
And that's why I'm up, because like
I said, it looks like that something is what it wants from Big G.
So there is a super long standoff before some sort
of laser blast fires out of that rock. There's like this
weird hole up on the one corner and then sends Big G hurtling
backwards through a building. Big G gets back up
and heats up his atomic breath, which fires just as the
rock thing fires off into its blast. While Big G is being sent backwards
by the blast of the rock laser thing, he also sends the rock spinning through
the air away from his atomic breath blast. As they both
explode, the sort of like breath blast challenge becomes
a draw here because they both get exploded backwards from what they're blasting
at each other. And I really like that the way they did that, where they're
like, ooh, they're equally matched. Yeah,
they cut from this to a train and some people talking.
That is more dialogue and all right. Club I picked this up for next to
nothing. You be a love it. Yeah, if she's still speaking to you.
Holy crap.
Did you see that flying rock U by? It's unbelievable.
Therefore, I'm convinced that this vessel comes
from. From another galaxy. A visitor from outer space.
My God. It's just too crazy to believe,
right? Like, Godzilla's normal.
Anyway, it's my theory that it draws its energy from light.
When it landed, it sank in the ocean where sunlight couldn't reach it.
Until yesterday when the research sub beamed its lights on it
and it woke up. What we must know. Is it dangerous
to mankind? It's dangerous to Godzilla, that's for sure. I've never seen anything
with that kind of power before. But it's been inactive since the sun went down.
Maybe, but we can't take chances. Run a full set of diagnostics.
If an alien is still alive in there, I want to know more about it.
What about Godzilla? Nothing so far.
The air force is still sweeping the area.
All units 300 meters from target.
Sensors in scanning mode. 10 bytes over.
Baby. Begin sensor scanning.
I wonder what it's up to now. You and me both.
I'd love to know what's in there.
I'd love to know about its power source. It could be centuries
before we came up with something close to this. Hey, Professor. A call for you.
Yes, Miyasaka. What? That was Shinoda.
He wants to see us. He wants to use our equipment to examine a
Godzilla. A skin sample, sir. Any common observation? Not at the moment.
The minute we know something, we'll let you know. Thank you. Any idea when
that will be?
Hey, Yuki.
Oh, so we're on a first name basis now, are we?
Come with me. I have to collect some materials and you can get some photos.
Okay, Fine. But I'm still not paying for gas.
That's odd. What? My laptop came on by
itself. Sure you didn't just leave it on?
Yeah, well, I wouldn't worry about it. Come on.
To be blunt, you're the last man I'd ask for a favor. And you think
the sample's that important? I wouldn't have come here otherwise.
You can use the CCI equipment on two conditions. You share all
the data you found, and you fully abide by our rules.
It's a deal. Come on. We're going back to
Tokyo. Some data was hacked from my computer.
From the Godzilla file?
Doesn't make sense. If the data's been read,
the entire network's at risk. No kidding. Better bring the MO
disk with you, just in case. I have a ton of summer homework
to do. Are you going to help me with it? Of course I will.
Okay. See you in half an hour.
These photos are of the Godzilla skin sample I found in Tokai. The first
one shows clear signs of scar damage, but the second one is
completely clear. Same piece of skin?
Yeah. The photos were taken only five hours apart.
That's a remarkable healing speed.
Look. Every layer of skin, every cell,
every blood vessel, they're all intact.
What a creature. It's invincible. The question is,
how can all these Cells regenerate.
Maybe it has something to do with his radio radioactive properties.
Let's try the electron microscope. Okay.
Look at that.
How does he manage to regenerate his cells so quickly?
Cell recovery and reformation. Even with the simplest
life forms, we've never been able to do that. It's like watching the
process of creation. In a way where it's got parents.
You discovered it. You ought to name it.
You really think so?
Regenerator G1.
The clouds are clearing, sir. Yes, I know,
but that thing's tied down with electromagnetic cables.
Even if it wakes up, it's not going anywhere.
If regenerator G1 is the secret of Godzilla's healing
ability, then we're onto something monumental.
It could revolutionize modern medicine if
we. Could find a way to use it for humans. You know,
Godzilla could be full of such discoveries.
I feel like we're back together at the university. Why did you
resign? I couldn't take it anymore.
It had gotten too unethical. We were doing the research for
all the wrong reasons. Come in.
Excuse me, Sir. There's an I.O. Shinoda here
to see you. Come throughout. A grim negative drive.
Did you bring him? During the clip, the flying rock has a small amount of
what appears to be an alien ship revealed under all of the rock that was
flying around. And the GPU folks were investigating a large Godzilla footprint.
We did see them kind of doing that. Also, that generator G1 stuff is what
that alien ship buried in the rock seemed to like about Big G that I
pointed out earlier. So the doctor discovered it, or that scientist guy discovered
it. And we all know what's going to happen with that from this point point
forward. And at the end of the clip, the ship gets some more sunlight on
it, and that has it start to shimmy and shake and terrify.
The scientists studying it and the reporters filming it alike. It starts to
shake loose as this is starting to cause some expository dialogue to explain it
in our ninth class. Those things were unbreakable.
So yeah, there we go with the exposure transitory dialogue again. Those things were supposed
to be unbreakable, but however, they were not. Good thing
he told. Yeah, good thing they told us. Well, I mean, they were described.
They don't describe the cables. But one would assume that when you have that whole
sequence that was happening during the clip of the cranes, you know, wrapping the
wires up to try and hold this thing down and keep it from flying away
again, you would assume that, you know, they're supposed to be this,
like Most unbreakable tension metal wire that, you know, they possibly could make.
You know, maybe. Maybe even like it's diamond encrusted in some way with like
a lab grown diamond to make it even more, you know, amazing and impressive,
or let's call it sonic steel or something to make it
more impressive. And yet the ship still breaks the binds. That's how it works.
Yeah. In a world with the Godzilla Prediction Unit and the
cci, you would think that they'd be like this. This beam can stop two and
a half Godzillas, you know, in measurements of strength and sturdiness.
Yeah. Like they have like a. Well, there is a G Force
unit in the 80s movies. I don't know how many of those you may or
may, but we just got through the coverage of those, and the G Force unit
very much is like that, where they have a guy who just like slaps the
side of a Mechagodzilla and is like, this thing could kill three and a half
Godzillas at once. You know, like, they make those bold statements
and shit like that. And there's always like the guy that's like, I can't wait
to fucking face Godzilla and stuff like that as well. You do have that a
lot with these. But this is sort of like they're rebooting it and they're kind
of coming back in with a new series again, and they're trying to start a
new storyline and they're gonna start a new saga with the Millennium Era.
E. They're just trying to revamp Godzilla
or at least bring some of that fear into the modern era with this.
That's what they're attempting. So there we go. Makes sense.
All right, so after that thing takes off, the film cuts back to the daddy
daughter GPU and our 10th clip. You up to your tricks again,
Dad. I couldn't let them destroy our network. But they'll find out soon enough.
They're your own discs, right? Do we run? Yeah.
Shinoda, the UFO just flew away again.
How can it still be alive after so long? It must have been in
suspended animation. I just can't
conceive of any life form that could survive for 60 million years.
Good Lord. I just hope it's friendly.
Great Caesar's ghost. What is that?
Look at that.
Everybody down.
No, I can't get the pictures. No time, sister.
Let's get out of here. Get going. Stop. Ping me.
Hell's the battle with you? It's the scope of the century.
Close off all streets around City Tower. Evacuate everyone in there now.
Right away, sir. All aircraft away from the 5 mile
radius around Shinjuku. This is now military airspace.
Come on, come on,
let's go. Move it.
This way, this way. Move it.
Now that we know it's hostile, we must do whatever we can to destroy
it quickly. Thank God, it's going to be dark soon. That gives us
a few hours to plan a course of action. What's tomorrow's forecast?
Sunny and clear.
We can't wait till then.
We've got to destroy that thing tonight. The CGI ship
that flies around is pretty poor quality, especially the parts with the helicopters
crashing into it. At the end of the clip, the ship lands very heavily
onto a newspaper building tower. And then they cut to some CGI of
Godzilla swimming along menacingly and kind of glowing with radiation.
That looks pretty ropey too. That was not that great. They cut back to the
ship fully landed on top of the tower with people gawking at it and waiting
for it to do something. Since it is inactive at night and powered
by sunlight, apparently since it can fly and is alien, it should
probably just, I don't know, leave our atmosphere where there is sun and then head
directly into the sunlight without our atmosphere filtering it. And then it will like
supercharged, like maybe even way faster. Maybe then the people would be even
more bored saying come on, do something other than being a multi million year
old spaceship on top of a newspaper building, right? Just sitting there
for no fucking reason that landed there and is doing damage and can fly.
And it was a rock under the ocean. But I mean it's, that's enough stuff
that it's already doing that's kind of cool and terrifying at once. But also I
don't understand like how a sun powered ship that can fly
doesn't just chase the hemisphere with which the sun is constantly
in. Because. Because that is possible for a thing that can fly. So it's always
in the sun and always charging, right? Just slowly drift with the
sun as it moves around the hemisphere and charge. They're anti woke.
They also want to be plugged into the grid at the same time, I guess.
I don't. They do kind of explain later but like right
now I think if the ship just needed to get some energy, like why didn't
it just leave the atmosphere and you know, supercharge, right? Because that would, whatever it
is in sunlight that it needs, that it's charging during the day on Earth
is going to be a hundred percent percent stronger outside of our atmosphere.
That's all I'm saying. As intelligent as they
appeared to be. You would think they would think of that.
Yeah. Well, again, what do I know about any
of this kind of crap? I do know that there is some dialogue
about all of this stuff. And I just ended up recording that. So that's our
11th clip. When's it gonna do something? Yeah, we've been waiting all
day. The alien vessel remains motionless
atop the city tower. And where is Godzilla? That is
the question. As you can
see, all traffic and transport facilities to this district are.
The area around the city tower is completely blocked off.
A no go zone on premises Tower.
Still waiting for this really is incredible.
Like a scene from an old sci fi movie. A giant flying saucer appeared
in the sky above Tokyo and is perched atop city tower,
completely immovable, looking down on us as if to challenge mankind
for rulership of this planet.
Again. Why does this keep happening?
All computers in the Shinjuku district have gone down, sir. Isolate our
main computer. Yes, sir. Sir, the anti hacking program's crashed too. And the
main computer, kdo, has also gone down. What the hell is this?
Miyasaka? I. I tried.
All right, thank you. Try the infrared filter. Yes,
I'll be damned. It's hacking City
Tower supercomputer. It'll soak up every last bit of data.
Use the linkage tracer to visualize the access route. Yes,
sir. Mr. Secretary,
at this rate, all of Tokyo's data could be gone in a few hours.
I can't believe it. This could be
the end of our civilization. You really call this civilization?
Anything we don't understand, we try to destroy. And CCI
ground zero for that kind of lunacy. We're all gonna die. And I'm part of
the the reason, aren't I?
Engineers have just left, sir. Good. We're checking a readout.
How long do you need to set up the bombs? Half hour, tops. And to
pull out? 10 minutes. That ought to be plenty.
Shinoda. Well, it's about time I got through.
Yuki. Yeah? Guess where I am. In a few minutes, I should
know what they're after. Now listen. Get out of there immediately. You hear me?
Katagiri's up to something. Are you crazy? No way I'm gonna leave now. We gotta
know why they're interested in Godzilla. I'll call you back later. Are you there,
Yuki? I'm going to strangle that imbecile. The end of the clip starts.
A sequence of military dudes using high powered bolt guns to bolt explosives
of some sort to the floor of the tower to explode it and save all
of the data to save the world.
Somehow I fail to see how the world is just going to explode because
data is being harvested. Like I understand that them getting the data for the
aliens is bad because they're trying to formulate a way destroy us. And that's bad.
But like data being taken in and of itself, isn't that destructive?
It's not going to make it to where people can't grow food in the Earth.
They were trying to warn us about Doge.
Yeah, that explains why it's ropey cgi. Yeah,
it's best not to think too hard about all of this after all. Anyway,
so the Daddy Daughter GPU unit raced to save the reporter
lady, and that is all. To Health Club.
Let us go, please. My mommy's in the tower.
We have to save her. Hey, listen to me. Her mother's in
the building. Understand? Let us through.
You can't go in, Professor. Why not? The whole place is going
to blow in 10 minutes. What?
Katakiri's orders. Come on,
come on. We gotta get out now. I think I know what the aliens
want. There's no more time. The whole building's coming down in 10 minutes. Go on,
move. What about you? I can do this faster than
you. Go find a guard and ask him to tell Katagiri to postpone the
blast. Hurry up. Dad.
Don't be too long, okay? I promise, sweetie.
All right, here we go. At the end of our 12th clip,
the military rolls out to evacuate the blast zone. That leads to more
dialogue and our 13th clip. Bomb's in place. All units pulling
out now. Detonation at 2110
precisely. Check that. Nation at 2110.
All unit destination at 2110.
Two people are still inside the tower, sir. Who gave them access?
I did, sir. Clear the area immediately.
No delays.
Come back. Stop. Yes,
Blow up the building yet? My Dad's on the 48th floor. Contact Kiri
and tell him to delay the blast. There's still a man in
the building. Postpone the detonation.
Proceed as instructed.
It's Shinoda in there, sir.
Looks like I'm going to have to send more flowers.
Too late. We gotta go. Follow me. With this, the dad
tries to flee the building, and the reporter turns the car around to take herself
and the daughter back to the building that is about to explode for
some inexplicable reason. At least leave the daughter there so
she can run further away from the explosion. And then you go back and get
the guy. Maybe, but whatever. There was a lot of child endanger in
this that made me try to explain to my kid later that
it was not an adult, it was a child.
And this silliness actually takes us over the 2/3 mark of the film.
So let's go back to that discussion. Yeah, there's a couple of things
that end up happening in here where I'm like, this parent is terrible. This kid
thinks that they're an adult and have every right to risk their lives as much
as all of these adults around her do. All because she kind of is the
person that's in charge of this Godzilla Prediction Network,
which we kind of had a little bit minutiae discussion that you'll hear in the
outtakes later, but I'll kind of bring it up here too. So there's a network,
it's loosely put together. It's very anarchist the way that it is. They all have
a buy in for this collective, right? Where they all spend.
They explained it in one of the clips earlier that we end up hearing where
they all have a buy in, they spend a certain amount of yen and then
they have annual dues that they all are responsible for to help fund this collective
network. And then they all share in the financial
windfalls and earnings of whatever information they draw from studying
Godzilla together. And each individual person or group of
people that pay their dues have a unit or a prediction
unit that they also self fund all of their equipment and go out and have
like seismic equipment and all of this kind of stuff. It's a really cool collective
and it's very kind of anarchist and leftist and just really fucking neat that
they put this into the film. That that's like the solution is the scientists
all get together and like, nah, we're all just going to buy in and do
this and then whatever financial windfall that comes out of it, we're all going to
share. It's fucking cool. The gp, the gpu.
United or union. Yeah, well, it's the gpun,
right? Yeah, there you go. Yeah, yeah, the gpu,
Godzilla Prediction United Network.
And each individual unit is a unit that is united into
the network. And they are, you know, hammer and sickling it up. And I think
that's fucking sweet. All right, are we ready to move into the run
to the end then? I. Yeah, I think so. All right, well, let's do it
then. So the run to the end starts with the main human commander about to
blow up the building with our main, main character dad still in it and the
reporter and a child just outside of it because they didn't think
things through. I Guess. And child safety is not a thing that the Japanese are
concerned with. The military commander
explodes the building just below the ship.
And there is a smoke pattern that is comically shaped
exactly like the ship was. Almost cartoon like. Like the
joke of the cartoon where you would see like a smoke outline of a person
with a line when they run away or something like that. That's exactly what it
looked like. And then when the smoke finally clears away from the ship, it's revealed
to still be just absolutely fine and hovering right there. But the building just below
it is all scorched and burnt to a crisp and blackened for a few
floors. It just looks nasty. The alien ship
decides to show off and literally explodes the whole goddamn building.
Sending the dad to slide down the elevator cables with
his bare hands and causing a terrific model explosion shot
or two to be mixed in with all of this. I was going to talk
about how that sliding down the cable using his bare hands would destroy his
hands. That he should have used a belt or something like that. But when the
daughter and reporter go in what is left of the building looking for the dad,
he emerges from a floor grate with his hand all wrapped up in like a
really bloodied bandage. He's also sufficiently injured enough everywhere else and covered in
blood to make this as believable enough to where I'm going to let it go.
But seriously, if you're going to try and slide down a metal cable like that,
you will destroy your hands. You will probably lose some fingers to it.
Don't do that. Yeah. And a good portion of the palm
of your hand. Yeah. You're gonna lose a lot of shit, man. It's gonna rip
up your body. You need to use a belt or you need to use something
else like a chain to wrap around there that you can tighten to control how
far fast you slide down. Too. Gonna be hard to operate that electron
microscope. Right? All right.
So the daughter hugs her dad and cries. And we have this wonderful reunite moment.
That's very touching. And he proudly displays the laptop to the reporter with a
smile. And then they cut from that to our 14th level.
Nice try, asshole. See here,
they want to change our atmosphere to make it more suitable to their living
conditions. They want to build their own empire on Earth.
But they need more information. Look at this. Why are they
so interested? Interested in Godzilla? Give me your pin box. You.
I don't get it. Something without form can
take on another one. Regenerator G1.
Godzilla's Enter the bay with
this. Godzilla stomps his way towards the alien spaceship and is ready to kick some
ass and take some names. They are using a lot of green screen compositing for
the destruction happening while he's walking through the cityscape. And it leaves a bunch of
dust and debris moving in weird directions. That doesn't look great. And it just makes
me sad because the model would have looked so much better.
The lighting on the suit does look fantastic during those shots though.
So I gotta give them props for when they do it right. Man, that suit
looks fucking terrific. It stayed constant through.
Yeah, yeah. When Godzilla gets close to the ship, it flies
off to the top of another tower and weird tendril things break through a
model of a city street and it looks terrific for sure because it's an actual
model. You see the actual tendrils breaking through and it looks great.
The tendrils break from underground and completely ensnare Big
G, taking him down to the ground before dragging him across the ground
and and towards the ship in a very violent and fuck
your couch kind of way. This obviously pisses
off Big G, who stands up, uses his atomic breath to heat up and melt
most of those things off of his spines. And then
the atomic breath reaches his throat to fire it off, which he
does, blasting the tower and the ship which takes off to swarm by
Big G, who catches it with his tail, sending it
spiraling through the air. The ship stabilizes and then blasts Big G, who stands
and and takes the blast for what seems like forever before
it takes him to the ground. The ship flies off to the top of a
tower above and Big G stands up to try and find where the ship went.
We see the ship is above Big G and it hits him with what looks
like some kind of gravity wave or force field that crushes him and pushes
him down. It then knocks a tower down on top of him with that same
wave. The humans are terrified and we see the CGI devastation
left behind from the building collapse. The ship flies above the
wreckage and delight forms, which prompts more expository
dialogue and are 15. What's that?
The tentacles again? The tendrils pull out the Godzilla
special sauce and then this stuff from the ship regenerates from
that power into what looks like some kind
of an Independence Day alien done bad CGI wise that
is apparently called the Millennium. I guess. I don't know.
That's what Wikipedia said when I was looking up some video facts in the background.
This version of the alien that looks kind of like a bad, independent,
badly done CGI Independence Day alien. It's Called the Millennium. I was getting
those vibes. And War of the Worlds walkers. Yeah,
a little bit. Sort of combined a little bit more of like an organic version
of the War of the World's Walkers, I'd say. But it also has the head
shape, which was probably where, let's face it, the Independence Day aliens were
probably influenced a little bit by the aliens from War of the Worlds too.
So there's that. Yeah, yeah. But anyway, this Millennium hover
the frame, prompting people to talk about him in our 16th clip.
What's going on? It's regenerator G1.
He's using it to adapt to our atmosphere. At the end of the
clip, Godzilla explodes out of the rubble and fires off some CGI
atomic breath right at the alien ship. And that sends off
a ton of sparks and explosions while it's hitting everywhere it hits,
the ship explodes into bigger fiery chunks, and one of them hurdles
two towards the humans. Godzilla watches triumphantly as the exploded ship
burns. And then the mutated form of the Millennium emerges
from behind the wrecked ship in its next form, which is known
as Orga, apparently. And since this looks like a
person in a suit, we finally know that we are about to get some Kaiju
stomping badassery. So let's fucking get into it. Yes.
Finally. This battle starts as a slobber knocker sort of
tooth and claw affair with a decent amount of slamming and shov where
Godzilla headbutt happens here as well. It's a really nice sequence that shows off
how much bigger the form of Orga actually
is than Godzilla that it's been mutating from. And then there
is, like, a claw smash that puts Godzilla on the back foot because the
claw is almost as big as Godzilla on this fucking monster. And then Orga
then fires off that back cannon thing. Apparently, like, the ship is made out
of some of the same DNA that the alien is because it has the same
cannon that the ship does. But I totally thought the ship turned into it
at first. Yeah, but no, no, it doesn't really turn into it. It's. The ship
and the alien are like. Like using some of the same biotechnical DNA,
I guess. I don't. It's like the fly they spliced a little. Yeah, maybe.
I don't know. But anyway, it has a back cannon thing, and it blasts Godzilla
back into the building, sticking him there by the spines and plates sticking
out of his back. I was really taken aback by that for a second.
I'm amazed that it took them this long to think of Trapping Godzilla
with his back plates. But that. But that was fucking cool. Watching him have to
sort of snap his way out of the building like that whenever it got shoved
in there. Like, you know, he gets dropped to the ground from above by Mothra
and so many flying opponents. And never until now have they
actually had him get stuck on his spines that he has to wiggle his way
loose. Right. Like, why has it taken him this long to like 1999
to think of that? I mean, the technology had to arrive, I guess.
Maybe. It does look cool though. I really like watching him snap and break his
way out of the building with his spine. Still. I thought that was fucking cool.
I really dug it. Yeah, it makes total sense that, you know,
somebody thought about it previously, they just weren't allowed to or couldn't pull it off.
Maybe I think it's because the spines before were never really like a lot more
rigid, so they couldn't make it believable. But this is the first Godzilla suit with
some really rigid spines, so maybe that's the case too. All right, so the ship
goes back into barbed arrow. Yeah, yeah. The ship goes back into the air and
Orga then does a tall building in a single bound kind of leap that puts
it way out of Godzilla's reach. His giant Superman esque
jump distracts Godzilla so the ship can smack into him
from the side. Once back up, Big G fires up the atomic breath
and the ship seems to sort of sacrifice itself to save the Orga creature,
which miraculously is very hurt by the atomic breath. Once the ship fully
explodes and it only gets a little bit of the hit, he seems particularly vulnerable
is what I'm getting at. The entry on Orgra heals
really, really quickly if you as well though. So the Godzilla,
like it heals like Godzilla style, but like really, really quickly. But it also causes
him to mutate again because whatever parts got burned, like, then stick out and
become weirder and like misshapen. So like, it's doing some serious,
like cellular damage that the OR creatures not repairing. Right.
I'm guessing with a Godzilla's breath. I think that's what they're implying. They don't
explain it to us, they just show us. And that's what we're supposed to assume.
Watch it. Just enjoy. Big G comes in to do some tail
stomping damage. As we return tooth and claw.
Classic wrestling bout. Before Orga clamps down
onto Godzilla's arm and starts using some CGI created power
to siphon the good stuff out of Big G and gain More power. Not sure
if they're taking the Regenerator X here or they're just taking something else. But you
know what? The scientist knows exactly what's happening and he's going to explain it to
us in our next clip.
Look at that.
Trying to become a Godzilla clone. The look on the face of the main military
guy during that clip alone made it worth recording. Orga seems to be particularly
vulnerable to the atomic breath as one blast rips away a big chunk
from the top of his head. But the regeneration Orga stole
seems to really be out of control as the healing bit on its head
mutates and looks like it can't really handle regenerating as well as
what Godzilla does. Because again, we talked about it earlier, those weird moves, misshapen,
sort of like tumor looking things start growing out of this version of Orga as
well. Godzilla gives him a full on fireball,
huge explosion inducing amount of atomic
breath blasting at Orga. And after the fire finally dies
out, it emerges from the fire blast and smoke all fucked up
and smoking, making all sorts of like super hurt monster creature noises
as it does this. And we see it slowly start to CGI
heal yet again, which then accelerates until it is fully healed.
And then the mouth and jaw mutate on the Orga into a huge sort
of undersea monstrosity style mouth. I don't know how to describe it. It looks like
the unfolding of like some kind of anemone or something deep in the ocean
that you really shouldn't be seeing. But it just looked nasty, like maybe
some like viper extending portions, but like parts of it also look like a sea
anemone the way that it on. I can't pronounce that word right, but like it
just looked like one of those things like just unfolding too. It just looked just
Lovecraft nightmare. Not right. That's basically what I'm getting at.
Yeah, there you go. The mouth and
jaw mutate on the Orga and they open up even further. And then
for some reason Godzilla walks right into and is partially swallowed
by this new mouth. This leaves everyone perplexed as to why Godzilla did
this, including the audience. And we see Orga drawing more power and
that good stuff out of Godzilla and starts to make itself more of a clone.
It even starts to grow a back plate or two.
Until Godzilla slowly turns red in the back plate areas,
which then accelerates to all of him glowing really bright red
and turning into a flaming Godzilla, causing the orca to explode
into fiery chunks and leveling the building. Surrounding them. It's like
almost like mini meltdown that he does. It explodes everywhere. The smoke from
this clears and we see Godzilla there with electrical discharge and sparks
shooting across across his back plates. There is a shot of the arms
and feet of Orga emerging from the clearing smoke and Godzilla
bellows out a huge challenge roar or two before it is revealed
that Orga falls over dead and the top half of it is smoldering
and blackened and just fucking gone. Big G roars again
in triumph. With eight minutes of scream time left. They focus
in on Orca decaying and collapsing, and we get
some miniature expository dialogue in our pent ultimate Glip
Boy. That's ironic. It woke up after
60 million years and then Godzilla destroyed it the very next day.
Yeah.
Godzilla's coming.
All get out of here.
Hurry.
Come on, run.
I've never seen Godzilla this close before.
Come on. Leave me,
daddy.
Godzilla.
So what you heard there is Godzilla walking over to the building, staring down.
The guy that wants to be all tough and brave, Big G puts a claw
in the building where the guy is standing to
show him how insignificant he is. And the man lights up a cigarette
and fucks around. As you heard at the end of the clip, he finds out
when Godzilla smashes the fucking building, sending that dude plummeting to his death
to be crushed in the falling debris on the way. And really, as much
of a prick as that guy was, it's a fitting death. Yeah, I thought,
looks like we're gonna have to send some more flowers.
Exactly. What a fucking prick. The dad from
the PSU unit screams the dude's name as he falls to his death. And we
see Godzilla turn and casually stroll away.
And as always, there has to be final human thoughts on Big G,
which is our final clip. We scientists
produced this monster Godzilla,
and ever since we tried to destroy
him. But then why? Why does he keep
protecting us? Maybe because Godzilla
is inside each one of us. The end of the clip has Godzilla light it
up and fire a bunch of atomic breath across a large swath
of the city before a huge fiery explosion covers everything in
sight. And they roll those fucking credits. Cinema PsyOps
10 years.
10 years. All right, I freely admit the story is
all over the place. And it's difficult to follow more or less.
You just have to to boil it down to alien spaceship crash land away from
sun, volcanic explosions under the sea. Hold it
and trap it in place until man comes to fuck around, finds out
what it is. Godzilla saves the day once again and destroys the ship
and the creature that it was contained therein. Even though this creature was trying to
take over the Earth and basically inhabit it and make it its own planet.
Kind of the same plot that we've had all along. But in this case,
it's like this weird semi sentient sort of creature.
Almost like the ship version of this reminded a Flight of the
Navigator, right? Like where it doesn't have a pilot and it's a ship that just
kind of does its own thing and you have no clue what's going on.
And it looks so much like that ship, doesn't it? Yeah, Flight of the Navigator
plus an oyster out of its shell and a
prosthetic nose. Well, yeah, the monster was the oyster out of
its shell with the prosthetic nose. Yeah, yeah.
And then there was like the Millennium or whatever it was
version of the alien, which I'm assuming that the alien
is the ship. The ship is the alien because it coming off of it
and all of that. And the ship projected out the cells
of the alien and combined them with the regenerative properties of the G cells.
So the alien was basically dead. But the ship is almost like
a stasis pod that it travels in that kept it alive.
And then the stasis pod is what used the tendrils of the stasis
pod to learn about Godzilla and then harvest the Godzilla cells that it needed to
bring its alien back. So it's just a stasis pod doing its job.
And if man would have just left it where they found it and not fuck
around, we would have never found out any of this. Yeah, man fucks
around, finds out Godzilla saves the day. Roll credits. Yeah, yeah, that's basically it.
I mean, they try to do a few more things with the way that the
alien mutates and they just, like it has multiple forms. And because that's just.
That's just Japanese entertainment, man. Your villain's gonna have multiple forms and
change and you'll have different types of suits and different attacks on Godzilla. And sometimes
it'll be a composite monster that breaks up into a bunch of smaller monsters and
then menaces people. Just because it's a way to try and keep your interest and
have you save your budget by having smaller monsters attack people.
They did all sorts of different shit like that with these Godzilla movies. But I
really enjoyed this one. And I really want to just state, this is my
favorite look of Godzilla is the millennium Godzilla, the 2000 era Godzilla
with the giant hardened back plates that are sort of pinkish. The way that
they light up and glow fiery red. And you watch the
sort of fire build up the back from the lower midsection of Godzilla,
like the tail and everything lights up all at once. But then it just kind
of builds up his back as the fire reaches up his throat and across the
back spines and everything. For the atomic breath, it just looks sinister. The sculpt,
we. We talked about this, but the scales in the sculpt for the
Millennium Godzillas are incredible. The detail that they end up putting into the suits on
these are just absolutely fantastic. And this one is, like I said,
it's my favorite. I absolutely love this look, including the way the scales are sculpted
and everything. I spent a shit ton of money on an action for this specific
version of Godzilla. I actually spent a shit ton
of money because I did a variant for the colors. It has the original Godzilla
colors with all of these crazy back plates, spines, and all of that stuff
to it, you know. So, yeah, I absolutely love
the look of this Godzilla. Will admit, the movie itself, kind of a bit of
a mess, kind of hard to follow. Not much of a story. Takes way
too long for us to get Godzilla, of fighting another Kaiju. But we get amazing
sequences of Godzilla destroying stuff when we reintroduce him. Get that cool
sequence of him biting that ship, get to watch him destroy a small power plant.
I really enjoyed the GPU people, particularly the guy and his daughter.
They're like some of the least annoying humans in any of these films that I've
seen. So overall, the film's really enjoyable for me. And when we finally get
to the fights, the fights are fucking great. Yeah,
and it's, you know, it's under an hour 45. Yeah,
it's one hour. And like, it's short. It's just under
an hour and 39 minutes. It's basically like it breaks up into 33 minute chunks
for the story, the way that I did it for my thirds. And almost
perfectly, it breaks up into like 33 minutes to
36 minutes, give or take. So it was great. It actually was really easy
to cover this way. I actually understood it a lot more than I ever did
because I'll be honest with you, I never paid attention to any of the dialogue
in this before I actually covered it on the show. I'm just here for the
fights and I love the way the suit looks and I don't care. And there's
also the downside of I noticed a lot more than what I normally do,
like the edges for the compositing and that issue with
Godzilla walking on Water for a little bit,
you know, but it's fine. It's nothing. That's going to Little tiddly things.
Yeah. Again. Or piddly things. Yeah, whatever the word is. Minor little
things that'll kind of make me chuckle the next time I'm watching it after I
noticed it. But everything overall is terrific. And this is one of the scariest
and most horrifying Godzillas that they've made yet at this point.
Like. Like, it's really fucking good. He's very terrifying. The only thing I don't
like about the Millennium Series, which I'll just talk about it now because we might
as well acknowledge it. Almost every single film in the Millennium Series is a reboot.
And they ignore almost every film that came before them. Like, there's Godzilla
1954, then this movie, then the next movie is there's Godzilla 1954,
then the next movie. It's like every
single one. They were trying to reboot a franchise and try again. And it's weird
that they just aren't happy with the choices that I made in the previous one.
And then they just abandon all hope and then just reset. So we've got a
lot of reset buttons happening here. It's kind of weird that that's also the one
where. Because there's so many resets that it's almost like this show got reset
because of the resets in the movies. The ripple effect is large.
Absolutely. You have anything else to say about it before we go into the story
time where you can kind of tell the story about your son being a Godzilla
fanatic? Oh, no. Know I'm good. All right, well, we're gonna take a break here.
We're gonna play. Also released in 1999, just like the
film Godzilla 2000, the song Last
Kiss, which is a cover that Pearl Jam did, but it was released in 1999,
and that's on the pirate radio edit. And right after that, we'll have Darren.
Concepts we deal with daily is the worst. This is
in one the of authorized philosophical conversation. And its duration has been
deducted from your work hours. What the hell was that? Boris the
boss made some tweaks to the BABS unit designs and did his bad marketing
thing to make it his own. He called it the Biological Organism Rescue
Inhabitation System. Boris for short. Clearly someone else named it.
It's not immaturely, perverse or spiteful. That's fair. Back on track, though.
Okay, Testing paradox System substantiation is going to prove a bit tricky.
How so? Well, in order for Us to know sustenation is working.
We have to knowingly create a paradox. And in order to create
a paradox, we have to make a change in time that cannot self sustain.
So like we are trying Grandfather, maybe Fermi. What's an easy one
to create and attempt to sustain? I think the sort of thought exercise
ones can be eliminated.
So Darren got away with the thing that Matt never gets away with. He was
actually singing in the background. You're not gonna hear it in the outtakes probably
because, well, we're talking over, you know, copyrighted music and you know, that defeats
the purpose of a pirate radio edit to remove that out of there. But,
you know, doesn't fucking matter. What does matter is just know that it happened.
Yeah, that definitely happened. And I let him get away with it because he's
Darren mostly. And then also he was actually somewhat on key. So.
Yeah, there we go. Sometimes drummers can sing.
Hey, just look at Phil Collins. And then give us your story time.
Story time,
story time. All right, so tell us about how he's such a fan
of Godzilla now. Yeah, so, you know, I don't think I've ever actually talked
about this here, and I don't know if I ever talked about it on my
show or not. But yeah, I know you definitely not told me about it on
this show because me being the huge Godzilla fanatic that I am, I'm eager to
hear about it. Oh, okay. So probably when he was
around six or seven, he saw his first
Godzilla movie. Yeah, I.
I don't remember how we got around. It's not like, you know. Yeah, I think
it was just like, okay, I think you're old enough to check these out.
I, you know, you like dinosaurs. Let me show you something that's not a dinosaur,
but that we like. And you might like. And he and his mom
watch a lot of the. Sometimes I find out later that
they've watched one without me. It's, you know, it's kind of like, oh, him and
his mom and it's, you know, it's okay, I get it. Like, they like more
of the actiony movies and I watch a lot of the sad political movies
and stuff that I don't. I don't put on to them. But yeah, he got
into Godzilla. He really could. Especially the old King Kong.
He could not care about old King Kong, but he just
got really into Godzilla, started getting Godzilla books.
When I told him that I was going to be doing this with you,
he went and dug out his God, like encyclopedia of Godzilla or
something that he has. And he was looking it up. And when we were so,
you know, I guess going back a little further. I don't know how short you
want me to make this. I tend to ramble on and on. He.
I got his mom that big book box
set of Godzilla movies. That's you Criterion Collection. One with all the
modern. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We used, we used that for most
of the films from that era that we covered for this show. So he tried
to take it as his own. You know, I think she kind of let.
Lets him have it. He. He does have the
only real DVD player in the house anyway in
his room. So that. That's on his bookshelf. He likes to flip through
it. He, you know, he really likes getting the encyclopedias like
this in Star wars and stuff like that. He's just like, okay, do you,
you know, he' test people's knowledge on stuff? But not in a pedantic
sort of way. It's just, you. This is stuff you should know. You know,
fun trivia about the things that he's obsessed with that he wants. It's just
like, to make it, you know, like, hey, did you know this? And here's a
fun fact. Yeah, I get it. Yeah, it's total fan stuff,
like where you want to tell someone something else that they may not have known.
I do it all the time still to this day while I'm watching a movie
with someone to the point where my wife's like, yeah, you've told me that like
100 times, cort, shut up. You know, it's just,
it's true. Fandom is. What you're describing is like, he's really, really excited about
it. He's really, really into it, and he likes to tell people as many facts
as he can whenever they're into it, too. And that's awesome. That sounds just incredible.
Yeah. Really into it. You know, we've. They haven't really had any screenings
near us of any of the old ones, but there is a neighborhood theater that
has played all of the ones that have come out since he's been alive and
we've gone to see those. And then he looked up the Kaiju in,
you know, from this movie. And I don't know what all he. He has never
seen this movie before, and we watched it last night and he's. And he's a
little bit of a pre spoiler guy. You know, if you don't watch it,
it'd be like, oh, in two minutes this is going to happen. Or wait,
wait, wait. Just here look at this. Look at this. And he knew a lot
of the points of what was going to happen in this without. So it must
be from one of his books. Yeah, yeah. He probably read up on it.
Yeah. So it was. It was fun and it was. It was.
You know, I. I knew that I could lean on his knowledge because this is
a little bit less out of my wheelh. You said he took notes
or he had specific notes that he wanted you to tell us. Right. Do you
have those? So let's see. He said,
make sure that I point out about the. The UFO parked,
hacking into people's computers and stealing the information about how to
beat Godzilla in the fight. And there's the other.
I wrote a couple of them down. And then at one point, he's like,
I'm not here to do your notes, even though he kept telling me notes to
write down. That's funny.
Yeah. So he wanted to make sure that everybody understood that the reason that it
hacked into all of those computers is it was trying to find information on how
to defeat Godzilla. He wanted to make sure that the audience understood that. Yep,
he wanted to understand that. He sort of. Like we talked about
in our summary, he said sometimes the plot got a little weird,
but really all. He's all you've got. I wrote this down. Really all you got
to know going into a Godzilla movie is Godzilla's job is to
show up, grief a city, beat up the Kaiju, and then disappear
back under the water, leaving people to think about what they did. Grief a city.
Is that like a new kid young term that I'm not familiar with? Yes,
I think it's the summary of the destruction the Godzilla
causes in. Causes grief. Right,
right. I get it. Like, yeah, the context makes sense. Like, I just had
not heard of that as a term before, and I. Didn'T know I had not
either. Yeah, that's at least a term that. That your child uses more often.
Like, mass devastation would be griefing a city. If you do
mass devastation to a city, you grief a city. Hey, if that's. If that's a
term that he came up with on his own and other kids aren't saying it,
that's still fucking slick. I like that. Like, I might steal that from him,
I think. Go for it. He does like to. Yeah,
he does like to explore different uses of language.
Oh, he's such your kid, is he not? Oh, yeah. I mean, we got into
talking about the things in movies where the bad guy
with the giant boutonniere at the beginning of the movie is often wearing a big
black trench coat, and the scientist dad was often wearing lighter
clothes, and they were more open, like his vest and stuff like that. And then
we got into the, oh. The symbolism of the guy wearing
the black hat versus the guy wearing the. White hat, good and evil,
and the racism connotations that come along with that.
And we went down a rabbit hole about, you know, America having a
bit. Not, you know, he's like, well, you know, it was Japanese,
though, so it's not this. It was like, oh, there's racism everywhere. And,
you know, you know how it goes in this house. Some of the most egregious
blackface I've ever seen was in a Japanese film that was made
solely for American audiences. Yeah, Is it. I can't remember which order it's
supposed to be in, but it's either Frankenstein Girl versus Vampire Girl or Vampire Girl
versus Frank. I think it's Vampire Girl versus Frankenstein Girl. There is some
egregiously horrific blackface in that film
that is, like, super offensive.
And they made it for American audiences, so I think they think that's what Americans
want, which. Fair enough. You know, you kind of got us there. I guess they've
got a big enough audience to guess that correctly.
All right, well, I think that's going to wrap up our story Time slash,
bit of a rant. But I'm super impressed with everything
that the. The little one has as far as knowledge when it comes
to Godzilla. And hey, if there's other movies that they haven't seen,
hit me up with some titles that they need to see and I'll see if
I can. I've got copies of them, as long as I haven't deleted them already.
You know, like, if you haven't seen this and any of the ones forward in
the millennium series, now's the time to get them off of me before I delete
those copies. Awesome. Yeah, I will. I'll ask him,
and either way, he'll say, thanks for offering. Yeah, if he already has them,
cool. But if not, you know, any of the titles, if I still. Still have
them, I haven't deleted them yet. If I need to re rip them, I guess
I will, you know, but just let me know. I'll see if I can get
him a copy. And yeah, and I probably have some extra copies too, that I
could hand over as well. So there we go. Why don't
we go ahead and play the show Housekeeping here. We're gonna take that break,
and then when we come back after the show, Housekeeping. We're gonna play a song
from the band Citizen King which was also released in 1999
like the film Godzilla 2000 2000. It's the song Better Days which
you could not escape in 1999. And you'll hear that immediately
following this if you've decided. I think the
sort of thought exercise ones can be eliminated as
easy to reproduce for testing. Let's see. The barber liar
and nukems are more about logical concepts, so those are not
likely. Also, I think the grandfather paradox is going to be of voluntold
situation if we try to Sarah Connor our way into testing these bad boys.
Good point. Time travel seems to be our best bet for testing though.
So we could try to just go back and remove someone
from ever existing. But how do we know unless we observe the
removable with the 3 TD maybe. And then if
we remember it happened, it did. And then we have a paradox that we're sustaining.
Hey, why is Court Double five three two one smashing
up his lab over there? Twist the nipple on the perv there.
Yeah, I heard it. As I said it. He is such a child. I know.
Is that device some kind of weird contraption that shoots DMT endorphins
and serotonin in the exact amount that is released at the point
of death directly into the neurotransmitters of the brain? I would take
an educated guess that the device would suspend someone at the point of need
near death experience indefinitely while connected to
it. And they continue to live while that's happening. If this is how Court 55321
comes to invent his version of the Mobius loop of annihilation stands
to reason that a version of the grandfather paradox was used. Which as I mention
it right now the loop is really just self replicating paradox
anyway. That is fueled by the connection to the 3 TD to the near
death settings. No paradox sustaining devices being used in
this case then. None detected. The perv is overstimulated and should really be switched
to ASMR mode. The power of names matters.
The power of terms matters. Why does
he not get that? Probably because marketing needs at least a little empathy
to understand others in order to manipulate them that he lacks.
So he is terrible at appealing to anyone. I feel sad
for him. If he wasn't such a a colossal ass hat.
Speak of the devil. Why did they let him watch Undercover Boss? You can't
really think he's fooling anyone. Never failed.
In 1999 you walk into a convenience store and it was almost like that
was the Security trigger to say that someone just walked through the door. That song
was playing somewhere. McDonald's,
man 7:11, convenience store of all
sorts. Fucking kmarts like it was goddamn muzak. That song
was everywhere. It really was just
you couldn't escape it in 1999. Am I. Am I over exaggerating or was this
your experience as well? It was everywhere. I don't think I've ever act like chosen
to listen to this song. And I've heard it 15 times at least.
Well, I'm glad to be the 16th one to play that for you. There's only
one. One other song I can think of that was released in 1999.
Was popular in 1999 at just like Godzilla
2000, you know, the same year that it was released. And that one had to
be included in the pirate radio edit to close out the show for
this week. 100%. The song that you could not escape
from 1999 is from Everlast with the song what it's like on
the pirate radio edit. So kick the fuck out of this week. Can't make it
your while you enjoy that song.
Speak of the devil. Why did they let him watch Undercover Boss?
You can't really think he's fooling anyone when he does
this, can he? Look, I'm pulling rank on you. I'm not pretending to not recognize
him for the 50th time while he fishes for compliments and ego boosting.
Okay, Very good. Looks like a new recruit has come to our
department. So this guy right here. Golly,
thanks. This guy is going to show you the ropes today. Jeff, on oh,
it's Jevin. Jeffin. Jevin. Jevin. Got it. So we're
putting the perv into ASMR mode right now. What do you think of
Zevin? Isn't he like the coolest? I love having him as a boss. I think
he does so many amazing things with the company. What is your favorite thing he
has done as your boss? Don't tell anyone this, but I heard he sometimes
comes out to the factory for floor or the labs to work in disguise because
he became a huge fanatic of Undercover Boss. If that is true,
that would be kind of cool. Oh, really? Like, if I were.
Yeah. Hey, thanks again for doing this, man.
I greatly appreciate it. I should warn you, I'm already recording, so I'm gonna.
Yeah. Use everything. Okay, cool. Yeah. It's been a minute since I've been
on here. Does it sound like I'm using my microphone and not my computer?
It tells me I am oh yeah. Yeah, you definitely sound pretty incredible. It's like
you're in the room using one of my mics with me actually. That's pretty nice.
Yeah. Sweet. You'd be so. Recording in progress. There we go. I'm like,
I bought it, but now I don't remember what it is. Let's see.
I believe one of the times you and I recorded before for your show in
the past, after you just got it, we talked about it and you knew what
it was then and I'm pretty sure you got that SM7. I've been. I've been
drooling over those once. Once. The consecutive episodes that you're
helping keep going alive here on this ends. I am actually going to probably
be retiring the old equipment in the old rack because it's getting to be too
much of a pain to maintain it for the show every year. Oh, wow.
And I'm going to just probably go to like a digital. Cuz those digital mics
have improved to the point where they made the equip, the need for the equipment
in the years that I've been doing the show useless now. You know,
technology caught up to what I wanted it to. So finally, yeah,
it only took 10 years of me doing this show for me to accept that
it did. I knew that this was like
a edited version of the Japanese release or. Something like that usually. Yeah,
they usually do stuff like that. This one is actually one of the ones where
it's just. This was a straight Toho to America release. So it's pretty
much as it is. And from here on out they don't really re edit
them as much in the Millennial series. And we can get into that as sort
of our. Our discussion of when we actually bring in our inner patter or Pablum
or whatever you want to say. That's actually a good place to bring in it.
So I'm glad that you suggested it. I'll probably keep you for about an hour
and a half ish, give or take on how long it takes for us to.
To do the show. And if we're having fun and we goof off too much,
then it'll be longer. And that's not my fault. Yeah, that's. That's how it
goes. Jam sessions go. I'm rolling on
my main recorder. I already started the backup recording and I think we're ready
to go. All right, let me take a hit and then I'll be ready to
do the voice. So. Three, two, one. All right, Fix all of that.
Cort. Go back. Jesus. Christ. 3, 2, 1.
Combination of not enough caffeine, low sleep, and still getting high to do the
show because it's more fun that way. Hey, man, go for it.
I'm on a. Calm down, Gummy, because I was at children's hockey this morning.
As you notice, all dialogue becomes a clip. And this
is about to be a good chunk of the movie because it's 13 minutes and
28 seconds of screen time I gotta cut down. Oh, well, there's a lot of
not dialogue in there, too, that gets cut out. But it's 13 minutes of screen
time that just gets turned into a clip so I don't have to write about
it. That's how lazy I've gotten, Darren.
That's how creative you've gotten with your editing.
That's fair. I always love your spin.
Oh, I gotta spin a lot of things. Three,
two, one. Oh, God, I'm pathetic. All right. Three, two, one.
I think you said GPU instead of gpn. Well, there's the gpu
because there is an actual Godzilla protection unit, but there are parts of
the Godzilla Protection Network, so the Daddy Daughter is a unit
of the network. They are the unit in the. Okay, perfect.
Yeah. Thank you. Hey, this type of minutia is
what I live for, so thanks for bringing it up, even if it's during an
outtake. GPU,
GPN, CCI. UFO.
Yeah. And then there's the Ghost, your regenerator, G1.
Yeah. And then the GeForce. I hope you like acronyms
and a lot of weird words that don't really explain what the Is going on.
Because that's what you get in this Godzilla universe.
Right. Let me move my clips up. Every now and then,
something flashes on my screen, and I think I'm losing you, because Matt's calls
always drop on us. Drop. So, like, I'm always,
like, looking up, making sure you're still there. It messes me up for a minute.
All right, I think I got everything. And. Yep. Three,
two, one. This is what happens whenever you record a show with unedited clips where
the clips need to be cut down, but you didn't cut them down. That's all
the studio magic. Yeah. Yeah. It's all the Cort and his spare
time spending it making this show happen for multiple weeks
consecutively with the help of his friends who do the show with him, you know?
All right, break it down. 3, 2, 1.
Could you imagine if that Undercover Boss thing were true and I worked with
him? I don't know if I would be able to handle it if I found
out after and I said something hurtful or did something to anger him.
I would honestly be way more worried if I were the unspecified
engineer that killed a goodly portion of our friends
and had had to, for reasons no one understands at all. Am back
out at the same labs I exploded a few months ago.
The unspecified engineer made an honest mistake and I frankly admire
Zon for forgiving them and allowing them to stay home. Self preservation is like that.
Sorry, what was that? The resonator is in an ice bath.
Good. Okay. What am I doing today? As your new staff
member, unfortunately, you. Join us on the day of our most important yet
wholly most unfun task imaginable. That's right. It's collating time.
Seems a lot of departments do collating time at different times
and always when I'm training there. Call it a coincidence. Best not to overthink that.
The song that you could not escape from 1999 is from Everlast
with the song what it's like on the pirate radio edit. So kick the
out of this weekend. Make it your bit pitch while you enjoy that song.
All right. I just kind of closed out on it. It's fine. I'm not
going to play that because it's a long ass
song. We don't need it. So there we go. All right. And I'm going to
stop the recording so we can stop this. Yay. Recording stopped.