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Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956) / Godzilla 1985
We're talking about the two times America re-edited Godzilla films to include gay bear icon Raymond Burr as a journalist named... Steve Martin!
First, America is introduced to Godzilla in 1956's King of the Monsters, where clever editing and filming integrates Burr into the original 1954 film. Then, New World Pictures brings Burr back for their weirdly comedic, less successful Dr. Pepper-riddled take on The Return of Godzilla, renamed Godzilla 1985.
We talk about the history of this now archaic but endlessly interesting form of adaptation, the importance of film editors, and Burr's life as a gay man with deep respect for Godzilla.
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Godzilla's pink and Kong has a power glove in the most recent Godzilla film! We're joined by Merrilee from Glitterjaw's Fear Coded for another tag team wrestling movie from the Monsterverse, this time centered on Kong's search for a family that leads to a tyrant from beneath the Earth, an old lady/dog/ice dinosaur, and a baby Kong with creepy, creepy eyes. We talk about the theme of home and the emotional human story at the core, how Mothra was almost a different monster entirely, the horrible offense of making us hate Brian Tyree Henry, the great strides this film made for ASL accessibility, and the tragic loss of Kaylee Hottle.
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Cover art by: Hamish Steele
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Bonus episode! We're sitting down with our friend and unofficial Skreeonk producer Hamish Steele, author of the new kaiju and tokusatsu-inspired book Go-Man vs. the Star Dragon! We talk about the Go-Man series, its themes of monsters as friends, Super Sentai and magical girls as influences, and of course, plenty of Godzilla thoughts.
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Theme song: "BIO WARS - Synth Cover" by Kweer Kaiju
It's the final Godzilla film in the Showa era, the first (and only!) Godzilla film written by a woman, the final film Ishirō Honda directed, and the last Godzilla movie Doug has never seen! Jazz aka Henshin J joins us for Godzilla's final battle against Mechagodzilla and a cyborg story that is also a deeply trans story. We talk about Katsura's queer but tragic journey (even though her dad is a cartoonish mad scientist dressed like Colonel Sanders), the floppy-headed Titanosaurus who did nothing wrong, the darker "back to basics" edict, how writer Yukiko Takayama was ahead of her time, and how this movie invented both the trans flag and Team Rocket.
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Cover art by: Samantha Richardson
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Derek will be hosting Godzilla events at Monsterama Con in Atlanta, Georgia on August 7-9! Stomp on by, it's a chill little con!
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It's the wildly divisive 50th anniversary movie and Millennium era finale no one expected! Lauren Goodnight returns for a postmodern monster mash and the baby of cult action horror director Ryuhei Kitamura, where a cavalcade of sleek Showa kaiju get taken out by MMA fighter Godzilla while superpowered mutants battle black leather duster-clad aliens in Matrix-inspired fights. Oh, and Don Frye has a sword and gets really sweaty, veteran Toho actors in their 70s are in gunfights, and a British prog rock keyboardist does the score. We talk about the return of the Xiliens, practicality in the suit design, quadrupedal Ghidorah, and how something so stupid can still be hella fun.
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Cover art by: Brett Punk
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The Zilla shirt we mention is by Eduardo Martinez @doomdino!
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Tonight, Godzilla dies! Steve Mowry of Comic Book Bears and Bear Cave of Terror joins us for the grand finale of the Heisei continuity, where Burning Godzilla's nuclear heart disease threatens the planet as much as a devil crab born from the Oxygen Destroyer. We get into this film's big publicity stunt, its ties and callbacks to the original film, and an emotional farewell to the big G. Someone protect poor Godzilla Junior!
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Cover Art by: Tanner Wright (Bluesky | Instagram | InPrint)
Derek's piece on Latitude Zero as queer cinema on Kaiju United
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What would you do if a rogue star was about to collide with Earth? Oh, and also there's a giant walrus for some reason! We're tackling Ishirō Honda's lesser-seen high concept sci-fi film about the far future of 1980 and a kind world overcoming borders and politics to literally move the planet. But can a disaster movie work without any interpersonal or human conflict? We talk about the strange dullness of this film, random amnesia, Honda's commitment to authentic science, and of course the top-notch Tsubaraya effects.
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Theme song: "BIO WARS - Synth Cover" by Kweer Kaiju
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The OG Robot Dinosaur makes its entrance! Author Daniel Dockery joins us for the first appearance of Mechagodzilla in an unexpected ode to Okinawa with ape aliens, a fake Godzilla, and two doggy best friends. We get into the political context around Okinawa Island that made its setting, culture, and legends so central to this film, why we love King Caesar despite him being ineffectual, and Anguirus GETTING HIS JAW VIOLENTLY RIPPED OPEN.
Daniel's books:
I Am the Night: The Ultimate Unauthorized History of Batman: The Animated Series
Monster Kids: How Pokemon Taught a Generation to Catch Them All
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Cover Art by: Kaiju Kasey (Bluesky | Twitter | Instagram)
Special Appearance by: Russ (Kaiju ComicCast)
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We're filling in the movie we missed with a diamond-stealing space jellyfish! We venture back to the 60s for one of Honda's sci-fi flicks, couched between better-remembered movies with Mothra and Ghidorah, and plagued with limitations on its otherwise inventive special effects. We talk about how this movie went from from global alien invasion epic to gangster/diamond heist romp, Robert Dunham as delightfully roguish super spy diamond insurance man Mark Jackson, and much more.
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