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everybody, and welcome to Authors and Dragons side Quest, the every other
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interest guests. But namas for Culterion joining me is MK Gibson aka Gibbie.
How you doing tonight? Man? You know well, brother, I am
doing very well. Thanks for having me on again. Uh so this topic
is it's not having you on. You're part of the show. I'm not
on the website yet. Until I'm on the website, I'm not part of
the family. So that's whose job that is, Well, that's the thing,
it's anybody's job. Literally, we give the log into the website to
anybody who wants it, but nobody fucking takes it. So it winds up
being when I have time to update the website, time to update the website
all the time. So then people are like, We're like, there's enough
part of the A and D family because nobody added me to the website.
It's like doing yourself well one that does. I don't sound anything like that.
My voice is nothing like that, and your your impersonation of me serious
that it's hurtful. Two. When I was when I joined this this motley,
this motley band of fools, one of my author friends in the Netherlands,
she has like, so, what's it like, I'm like, it's
really cool, but no, there is no leader. It is all satellite
people and it's like hurting cats. And I was under the door, like
these guys got their ship together, and I first came to the con and
then I'm like, oh, they don't know any thing, and this is
amazing. It is building the ship as it's sailing. Oh, it is
one amazing that we've been able to keep this ship together for for like eight
years with nobody really in charge. Because the way things happen is basically,
somebody decides to do something and as long as nobody else screams and says no,
don't do that, then they pretty much do. And that's the way
it works. But sometimes sometimes, yeah, it is hurting cats because we
say, hey, if you want something done, take the bull by the
horns and go do it. And then people are just like, well,
that's work, I'm not gonna do that, and stuff doesn't and stuff like
you know, just and stuff doesn't get done until somebody somebody does it.
But that's not the point of this week's side. That is not the point
of to day. Like I could, I could, I could bitch and
moan for for almost anything for about an hour, but I don't want to.
And you know, I definitely well, I definite don't want to want
to bitch and moan about you, GiB because you showed up tonight and I'm
the guy that's always available. I think that's why it's it's kind of like
I'm like, I'm the guy from night Court. I'm just there. So
but I know this topic is near and dear to your heart, which is
what Rick, which is the big g himself. And no, I'm not
talking about God. I'm talking about Godzilla, Oh God Zerra. If we
have any like you know, any I guess any Catholic like you know listeners,
they probably just did. They got excited for a second. Then we're
like, fuck you man, Well good, I'm glad they at least they
cursed. Maybe they need to go take some penances for that. All right,
So how far back does the love of Godzilla go? For you,
love Godzilla goes back. I won't say how many years, but it goes
back to about the time when I was like three, cause I remember watching
the I remember watching King cong versus Godzilla in my grandparents' living room and just
absolutely falling in love with it. And then I watched the original Godzilla and
I got really upset because god Dylla dies at the end of that spoilers,
Yeah, from like a nineteen fifty seven movie or something. Then like you're
you're not actually not. Years later, a couple of months later, I
was I was back at my grandparents place and Godzilla versus Megal Amazon. I
saw a commercial for it, and I was like, but Godzilla is dead.
My little my, my like three year old brain could not like you
know, could not understand this concept of wait, how was Godzilla here when
I just saw him get like like turned into like, you know, into
oxygen destroyer. Go. But yes, my my obsession with Godzilla goes back
to about those formative years and like ever ever since then, I have just
been a huge Godzilla fan. For me, I would say, okay,
uh similar not the same, but similar. You're an East Coast kid like
me, uh, where you're only a couple of states south of you.
I assume that on Saturday and Sundays you'd have the Sunday Mattinee on like Channel
forty five whatever station that was playing out of like sometimes the UAHF channels Ladies
and Gentlemen. For a few younger folks out there, there is this thing
calling broadcast television. And but right before church and after church maybe had these
amazing power hours of like Monster Movie and Kung Fu Theater, and it was
all right, right, and the days are great when, especially like if
USA was doing it, and you'd get like the Kung Fu Theater for like
two back to back, like you know, the Five Fifths of Death or
whatever, and then it cuts to like King Kong versus Godzilla right afterwards,
and like you'd get these weird mat nates. And that's where my time with
Godzilla first came into place. Because it's even my son who's only watched he's
twelve, he's only watched Kong Skull Island because he saw me watching it one
day and he came in and sat down and watched, and he really enjoyed
it. But he knows all the kaiju just through nerd osmosis, and that
is why that's the pervasiveness of Godzilla. And it is nineteen fifty four.
I just looked it up. First movie came out in nineteen fifty four,
So for fifty sixty seventy years at this point, Jesus, this big lizard
has captured our hearts. Now, let me ask you, do you think
this goes back to like the dinosaurs, like us nerves growing up with dinosaurs,
and this is just the next logical steps before Jurassic Park. Oh well,
I mean, well, okay, okay, Jurassic I did not grow
up with Jurassic Park. I'm probably a little bit older than you by a
couple of years. But you're also wearing a Jurassic Park shirt. Well I'm
wearing a Jurassic Park shirt. Sure, but uh so, yes, it
definitely comes down to dinosaurs, like you know, as a young as,
you know, around that same age as when I started getting into dinosaurs,
and Godzilla represented pretty much the ultimate dinosaur. So so yeah, and I
mean you mentioned before broadcast TV. I want to just add it's like,
you know, for the for the young ens listening those things, those like
you know, those long spindly metal things you see on top of like the
roofs of buildings, those are not just lightning rods. We actually used to
get TV reception through those, I know. Mind blowing. Yeah, but
yeah, I think I think it has a lot to do with like dinosaurs,
like and the whole prehistoric thing, because even like, you know,
even King Kong, the original King Kong, draws upon that because Kanng is
Onlins prehistoric island with dinosaurs and stuff. So like just just kind of putting
putting those together, it's like, you know, kind of sparks the imagination
because I think also it's like, you know, as just people as humans,
like people in general, for the most part, are fascinated with the
concept of monsters. What we are I mean, I mean, obviously monsters
go back to like ancient folklore, I mean mythology, you know, the
Greeks, of the Romans, the Babylonians, the Japanese. There's demons,
there's ony, there's minotaurs, there's just we'd love the concept of monsters.
But beyond that, I think dragons exactly. I think we're also fascinated by
the thing that can eat us for being the top of the food. It's
why Shark Week is still a thing. And like that that fear of sharks,
even though they don't they numbers are way low. There's that concept of
like something primal can destroy you. And what's the ultimate prival thing, something
big than a building, And it's pissed off and it's our monuments to ourselves
that we build up gets smashed down with a like in a man by a
rubber suit and a big tail, you know. And but it's goddamn,
it's so fascinating that like this ip will not die. And one of the
reasons we're bringing it up is because what happened. Japan released a new movie,
and America's falling suit with its next latest one that's Monarchs. Yeah,
yeah, we got, we got, we got like we got like kind
of a triple thread of Godzilla going on right now. Godzilla Minus one came
out right which has been in Rave reviews. And we have on Apple TV
The Monarch Legacy, a monster show which I've seen so far, and so
far so far it's pretty darn good. I do not have Apple TV,
and is it worth getting the free trail just to watch ted Lasso and this
or should I wait till it's all come out and like binge it. I
mean the yeah, I would say, I would like right now, right
now, there's a I mean, I got three months free that's going to
take me through the end of the year, and I can want TV viewing
end at that time, Okay, but yeah, i'd say, I'd say
the free trial is worth it. And then just this past week, we
got a trailer for the new Godzilla Kung movie, the Godzilla x Kong,
the New Gorilla x Kong. Yes, and I saw that trailer because I
I, for one, like I I actually enjoyed this latest trend of the
Godzilla and King Kong stuff, not the not the Godzilla that came out in
twenty fourteen or whatever so much. It was cool, but it's way too
many humans talk and talk and and that's not what I want. I don't
care much. Brian Kranston, there is I don't care how much the guy
that played Quicksilver and Scarlet Witcher and it I don't care about that. I
want some Kaiju action. It's one of the reasons like Pacific rim when that
hit, that was exactly what I wanted. I wanted like Gin Robots versus
Kaiju. But as those movies went on, they became a little bit more
fast and furious in their tone because they started getting crazier and crazier, Like
Godzilla King of the mom Like she was a lot of dumb fun. Yeah,
I mean, that's that's my favorite in the series because Okay, so
as a kid watching these movies, to my child mind, they looked like
Godzilla King of the Monsters looked like on the screen. So like, as
I got older, I would watch these movies, I was likes, don't
look quite as cool as I remember them looking as my brain got a little
bit more sophisticated. But like, watching Godzilla King of the Monsters in the
theater was awesome for me because like this was literally like this is how I
envisioned the all these monsters when I was a child, this scale like you
know, like the horror of like that. And that's why I love that
movie, just because it brought back that terror I felt as a little child.
But it was a good terror. You no, not not not not
like not like Uncle Jack's lucked me in the luck Luck lucked me in the
in the bad Boy closet again terror, Oh my god, okay to anyone
called Chuck. Now, I think there's the one thing I also like about
these movies. Now, maybe the Monarch Show goes into it some more,
uh uh. But whenever I watch like an Indiana Jones, a tomb Raider,
you know, white people rating other people's shit, uh type movies,
there's always ancient cultures, like undiscovered cultures that we're just learning about, you
think, you know. But whenever, like the Easting Show, like there's
always some underground temple that's very in the in the Mountains of Madness, it's
very it's very HB. Lovecraft, Like there's this ancient society that we knew
nothing about, that new of these things and like built these temples into their
honor, and that kind of like lower intrigues me, because lower intrigues me
too, which makes it kind of annoying that every time we see something like
that one of these movies, what do they do? They blow it the
fuck up before the end of the movie, and it's like, god,
you know, that's a good point. Every goddamn time. It's like,
hey, we conda study this. Maybe they have cures to never mind,
it's rubble. It's it's like, go you go back to like all these
movies from like that time, like like the Lost World and stuff. It's
like it's like, hey, here's this plateau that's took here for millions of
years, and white people found that in a blue up a week later.
That is you know what, damn us, You're right, we do do
that, but forgot you know, it's like, oh, hey, this
think this place has been here for the like I mean, it's the land
that time forgot. Oh but now it's now it's blowing up because there are
people now. The one dumb thing I'm going to say, and it's I
know, they had to explain because they needed to create a fast travel system.
I think it was in Godzilla versus Cang, the almost newest one,
which was Godzilla's fast travel across the planet through like tubes through the hollow Earth.
Like I get it. It's at least it's more explained than the fast
travel of Game of Thrones in the later seasons. But damn it that that
lizard could travel oh many miles in a very short amount of time. There's
no doubt. As the Monster Verse movies have gone, like I was recently
ranting on TikTok about this and that is that they started off like grounded.
Second movie was still grounded, but getting a little bit like the and and
now we've kind of gone now and now it's kind of like they've been Joel
Schumacher a bit, a little where it's just like like every every like like
one thing that bothers me about the Monster Verus movies is, yes, the
first one is grounded. It's pretty grounded in reality outside of the whole four
hundred foot tall, like you know, atomic monster thing. The second one
is relatively grounded. There's a few elements there where it's but like it takes
place five years later, and the few parts there that look me have me
going, I don't think I see how fast buildings get built. I don't
think they'd be able to do all that in five years. And then versus
con takes place, I think another five years later, and suddenly we have
like we have gravity, we have gravity cars and and like you know,
all this stuff and the like that we're able to build freaking Mecca godzillas and
and that's the point where I'm sitting back going okay, like and again I
am somebody that, like, you know, I don't mind goofiness in films.
I don't like mine, like you know things. I completely bought the
whole concept of Yeagers and like you know, Pacific Grim. What annoys me
is, though, is when the series starts off ground in reality and little
by little, you know, turns into like we go in like literally ten
years from okay, you know we have we have normal planes and like you
know and guns to oh now we have phasers. That's that. That's kind
of where I go. Well that and that's is this? Does this make
sense? Is this sloppy? Sloppy storytelling it? Well, that's what I
mean by the fast and furiousness of it. You know, no disrespect to
that franchise that makes billions of dollars And I'm a writer over here not making
that. Uh. Those series started as a street racers at Donnie Brosco.
It was a point break guy ifil trades the thing. But ten movies later,
they're in space and flying cars off buildings and do it, do the
doing the impossible because the cool factor outweighs the logic. Yeah, who cares
how they got there? They went from being like nobody street racers, like
international spy demolitionists, black ops, whatever they are. I don't know,
so in these flicks, go ahead. No, I was say a certain
point with this is like, you know, I also have to weigh against
that whole concept of like sometimes you just have to say, Okay, screw
it, I'm gonna turn my brain off and just enjoy it. And I
mean one thing I will say, it's like, yes, for all the
things that annoyed me about Godzilla versus Kong, there's a lot of fun parts
of the movie where it's just like, Okay, I'm like, yes,
I don't, I don't. I'm my suspension of disbelief is completely like you
know, set on fire here, But I don't care because I'm watching a
giant monkey with an axe fight a nuclear murdered dragon right just blew a hole
to the center of the earth. Well see. And I love when they
start putting these worlds together obviously, I mean we talked about this the Marvel
and the DC know, all these cinematic universes that we have today. I
mean, Kong and Godzilla have fought in the past. This is not a
new concept to put them together, like this whole monster universe. So once
these thns start partnering up, like my sweet spot, like I said,
was Kong Skull Island. It was like, I'm gonna call it a perfect
movie for me. I'm not going it a perfect movie in general. It's
like it is just goofy enough, just crazy enough, just cinematic enough,
and just everything enough. That' like and Samuel Jackson basically doing a heart of
Darkness thing. We just got to kill a giant gorilla. You know,
it hit everything that I wanted to do. So when Kong and Godzilla met
in Kong versus Godzilla, and I'm like, I can't say no to this.
I have just just just fuck me in the eyes with it, because
this is I need this, And I have said to say I was rooting
for Kong more than Godzilla through that whole thing. I mean, here's I
enjoyed Congress Clan as well. I put it as my second favorite Monster Verse
movie because, yeah, what I liked about it is even outside of the
giant monsters, it's a decent adventure movie. You know, it has likable
characters. I mean, come on, Samuel Jackson is like, well,
John Goodman is is likable, you know, Tom Hidleston is in a B.
Larsen. It's like it's like it's like, yeah, exactly, And
most of them look like they're having fun in the movie, and that's that's
a very good point. When they look like they're having fun, fun comes
across and it's like, you know, and there's all these other actors like
the dude, did you watch a Loki show? The guy that plays Casey,
the guy he's in that too, he's one of the he's one of
the people half the cast of the movie who did n W A or and
it is an amazing cast. But uh, but when moved on to Godzilla,
I don't know much about Godzilla minus the one other than the trailer.
And there are a couple of the reviews I've seen, and I've heard that
Godzilla is quote the bad guy again, he's very nice, though, So
have you what are your thoughts? Like, I haven't officially seen the movie,
but there are so many clips on TikTok of people like you know,
with their phones in the movie. I have literally seen like like the beginning,
I have seen the end. I've seen good chunks in the middle.
There's probably like very small parts of the movie. I haven't actually seen,
and like it's just like it's one of those things where I don't want to
watch it on TikTok, but I turn I turn it and and I find
myself just glued to the screen anyway, And I mean, for what I
can tell, it's like it's a bit of a mash up of some previous
movies. They took taken some elements of the previous movies. Yes, Godzilla
is a bad guy, and like, yeah, he's he's a force of
nature. He's the like, you know, his whole thing is. Yeah,
apparently, from what I understand, this is like a monster that's like
you know, that's mutated from the radiation, is in constant pain and thus
really fucking pissed off. Okay, and pretty much and pretty much in a
I'm gonna kill everybody mood all the time. From what I've seen, what
I've seen of it, it does look like it like the parts I've seen,
Like I said, which at this point it's an hour and a half
movie. I've probably seen a good hour of it. Oh wow, Okay,
it looks like it's a pretty damn good, pretty damn good movie.
Yeah. Yeah. The people, the people on TikTok are just merciless when
it comes to this ship of course, of course, but I want to
see it when it comes to some streaming service of one, I could just
rent it like that. I can't wait to see it because I want to
sit down like and the same thing with the Kong. Well, I think
it's also called The New Wampire, but the Kong X congue Godzilla x Kong.
Now do you have the trailer? Yeah, we have, we have
the trouble and when we get to that in a second, because when we
talk about monarch first, okay, yeah, so monarch legacy of monsters one
thing I like about and that's kind of what puts it into odds. That's
what puts Godzilla x. Kong at odds to me, is because Monarch Legacy
of Monsters. Even though it's a pretty big budget show, they've had pretty
good special effects with monsters on it. It does seem pretty grounded in reality.
Like it's supposedly takes place right after the first Godzilla, so nobody's flying
around in gravity cars or like you do do okay, wacky shit shit like
that, and it just kind of makes and the show itself does seem to
take itself pretty seriously, which, like I said, just kind of makes
it. I'm not saying I'm going to hate the new movie. I'm just
saying that it it goes kind of at odds. It's kind of like it's
going a little crazy, all right, So pitch me the pitch me the
Monarch thing, because I know very little about it. So yeah, I'm
a fan of the series, so pinch me. Okay. So Monarch Mark,
the Monarch Legacy and Monsters like it spans. It spans between right after
Godzilla happened, and it keeps jumping back in time and it's jumped back in
time to the fifties, it's jumped back in time to the seventies. I
guess to explain how this organization and like you know, has has been tracking
these monsters. But it's also how it's affected this one family's life. It's
based. So the family that involves is remember John John Goodman's character from Constell
Island. It's all his family that is like kind of dealing with the fallout
of this. It's like his son, his yeah, his his son,
his grandson and stuff that are dealing with this. We actually see John Goodman's
character he does, making John Goodman mix appearance in the first episode. Oh
cool, very cool. And as we go back further in time, we
meet his character younger, who's played by a different actor. So it's it's
kind of like what was his name, Bill Randa, So it's kind of
like just like the story of like Bill Bill Randa from like you know,
from then till after he died to like how it's like how this stuff is
kind of messing up his family as they're trying to figure out what's going on.
Now if I'm not if I met was it in Kongsko Island that John
Goodman's character Bill, uh, Well, he was a survivor. Was he
like a petty officer on the on one of those battleships that was attacked and
he was one of the few survivors and he saw the monster but no one
believed him. Yeah, despite the big slash mark down the side of the
ship. Yeah, Okay, And there there's a there is a bit of
a continuity thing with that because we like we saw we supposedly saw the ship,
but the ship they it shows up again, except the ship's like five
thousand miles away in the middle of the jungle, so that that's one thing
they haven't explained, Like, Okay, we saw pictures of this ship where
it was like kind of grounded on a beach. What happened? So that
that maybe they'll explain that at some point. But that's that's a little bit
seems to be a continuity error. But yes, we do we that that
is kind of a big thing with regards to that, and has the show
so far going into gone into any This is just my nerd because I'm just
curious, uh what Also in the skull Alley movie, Ryley John c Riley's
character was talking about things coming up out of the hollow Earth and they are
talking about the hollow Earth thing and like the skull walkers or whatever he called
them. Uh, those skull faced batwing things are coming about the ground and
cong was part of the things to stop them. Does it go into any
more of those monsters where they come from, why they come from? Okay?
Okay, So so we've definitely seen some new monsters in this in this
show, and at least one of them does seem to come from underground and
stuff. They haven't gotten too deep into into that yet. I'm hoping they
do but it's kind of like hinted at it. Okay, I mean there's
only there's only four episodes at this point so far. I don't care what
they're doing for the season. So so no chance of getting come to that
lore that we saw and like you know, Godzilla, King of Them Monsors
and things like that with like you know underground cities with like built to like
a giant monkey god any that weird stuff. Yet Yeah, I don't I
don't think we're gonna get that. I think we're I think we might get
hints of that, but I don't think we're going to get too too deep
into that. But I don't know. And how about uh, I think
they hinted that again in King of the Monsters that was a king Geetra,
the three headed one was not from our world. That it was like some
kind of like either cosmic entity or something like that. So so the modern
point of this movie is right after the twenty fourteen Godzilla movie. Oh so,
I mean it's possible they might they might like you know, they might
touch like I don't know what the licensing is there. They might not even
be able to be able to like say, get it in the show okay,
but no, there hasn't been any any mentions of that, and in
fact, so so far, the only like in the Only to Ho Monster
they mentioned, the only monster from the series they mentioned. They did mention
Kong, we did get we did get a view of like we did get
a quick view of scott Island at one point, I think at the first
episode. But other than that, it's it's been Godzilla and a few new
monsters they've they've introduced. Okay, that's very cool, man. I I'm
okay, you sold me. I'm gonna have to get this. Uh,
I don't have to get Apple TV for like at least a short period of
time, because one are fans over on on the Andy Discord, like grizz
Drop is constantly telling me I need to watch ted Lasso and this is just
now it's a two for so there's at least two things I need to watch,
So I need to get this. Yeah. I've been watching the show
on there called c which is basically Jason Momo in the future when all of
you manity is blind, right, and apparently I think there's two seasons of
it. Season two is pretty decent, but season one, Season one is
a little dope. This one friend of mine knows I hate musicals, but
he keeps telling me I need to watch Smiggadoon. It's like some musical like
show on there, like the it's like a Brigadoon musical type thing where the
I don't I don't make me rant again about musicals, but these people so
But all right, so you wanted to talk about you wanted to talk about
the trails. What we're going to do is is something a little different here,
and hopefully hopefully YouTube doesn't smack us down, and hopefully Steve doesn't yell
at us for us, for us for causing copyright issues. We're gonna watch
the trailer here, and we're gonna kind of do a U I guess a
reaction thing live and maybe kind of an analysis. So let me call that
up. So here is the trailer for Kong the New Empire. Blah blah
blah. Oh it always it's always gonna start with the seismicograph and let your
audience know how how big something's gonna be. Yeah's subtitle. So I'm just
gonna turn off the soun because yeah, that's perfectly fine. I'm pretty sure
that's where I saw devastators balls, all right. So now, so no,
we have this giant, this giant hand coming up through the like you
know, through the Okay, am I the only one. I thought there
was a transformer for half a for a hot second. The first time I
watched it, I was like, I was like, okay, are we
are we getting mechanic Kong from like King Kong escapes It looks like a beaver's
hand coming out of the grounds, and it does, you know, And
then then that's where we get that that first hint of like a bit of
goofiness. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Kong's found Congs wearing a glove.
He's got the glove exactly, all right, some more of the hollow earth
stuff, because clearly, like it's like everything's wedge inside this thing. We
got looking a little old, I mean yeah, I mean he was young
in the fifties. But now he's got a weapon. He's got that weapon
he got from Godzilla. Now here's there, Here's where I kind of got
my first My first issue here is, I know this is a first trailer
and we're not really necessarily supposed to judge on special effects, but that doesn't
really look too good to me. Especially in a still like this, it
looks more like a painting. It looks less like a fleshed out things.
It looks like a cgi ap. To me, it doesn't. That doesn't
strike me as well, it is a cgi ap. That's well, I
know, but I want to believe, man. Sure, sure, sure,
we'll either make a cartoony or more believable, but not in between.
And also, also, here's what the continuity freaking me is going to go
a little nuts? Is that? Okay? So in the in Kong Skull
and Cong was one hundred feet tall. By this time, Kong's three times
are like more than three times. He's like three hundred and fifty feet tall
technically speaking, looking at the scale of this thing to Kong, this thing
should be about the same size as Kong when Kong was fully grown on Skull
Island. Wait, I see what you're getting at. Yeah, he looks
like he looks like I mean, I put probably one hundred feet maybe like
like an eighty ninety feet. But yeah, it's some little like ape like
child. And again that might be might be me being a little nitpicky.
It probably is. Okay, we see more with the axe, the l
are downstairs underground, we see some underground like ks and big monkey skulls and
then again monkeys eyes see one one thing I like, as cool as it
is to see, like I guess the hollow worth you also lose a sense
of scale with it. I've noticed you do you one hundred percent to uh?
Can? I also just point out like Kong has got a sweet ass
like that man, he's that monkey. They always show us butt shots.
You never see Kongs junk, but they have zero problem showing that that he's
for He's got a sculpted ass and I appreciate it. Kong Kong works the
glutes he does, you know, a lot of power left like lunges.
Yeah, he's He's like like I can't be Godzill in a fight, but
Godill, but I will. I will twerk like it's nobody's business. No,
we have we have basically Godzilla going super Saiyan Rose. He yeah,
he is like like was it Rachel who said like why is he magenta?
Now? Yep? And so and here's the thing, okay, is this
supposed to be an evil like an evil Caesar from like he's more of a
he's a chimp as opposed to a gorilla or looking at range tanger. So
here's where the special effects fail me is that this thing doesn't look very good.
He doesn't look scary either, like like like I look at this and
I it looks it looks like he's given a speech on the Senate floor and
Planet of the Apes. He looks like a drunk irish father with the bald
head and the ginger and like it's like, you know, as you know,
if I this right now, like ah, like that's not far off.
See, that would be great, like to give a nod to the
original guy like King Kong versus God till we're con kept getting drunk on like
the berry juice. It just turns out this ape is angry all the time
because he's just pissed drunk all the time. And he's just he's just angry
drunk. He's like, come on, bro, fight me, fight me.
But hey, I'm glad they put extra special attention in this in the
saliva in his mouth. That really sells it. But like that hair,
like the lack of hair, it's just yeah, and the other thing that
and the other thing that doesn't help for me is they they made him like
his arms super thin, like like in Orangutan, And that really doesn't work
for me. First, for giant monsters like you know, like especially in
the series where the giant monsters also far have always been shown to be giant,
huge, bulky, have weight to him. So when you have like
you know, when you have like you know, this dude showing up like
he's been like chugging like you know, alcoholic slim fasts, right right,
I don't know, it doesn't it doesn't really good work. Well, the
skinny arms joy out of it. This is just my thing because I am
a continuity freak. I've always been a continuity free But you're not You're not
wrong. The skinny thing works in anime. You can have a skinny person
be powerful because it's the way it's designed to be. Like like the very
fire hundred d is a very lanky, britishy looking David Tennant guy, but
he could have some power. But in Sensel like this, it's like it
looks like Congress just gonna snap his arm, you know, because yeah,
and like like and here's the thing, I understand that that the square cube
law basically says none of these monsters could fucking exist. Of course, but
at least here's the thing. Like like a lot of people complain that God's
all kind of looked fat in the first cup in the first like you know,
movie and stuff. But it made sense because it's like, Okay,
these this this is a beast at three hundred be tall. He's shaped like
a triangle. But it makes it, at least someime a little more plausible
that this thing is not class. He swims through the Arctic, he needs
the bulk to like deal with the cold water. So yeah, and it's
like, okay, fine, you know, maybe Godzilla could like you know,
he couldn't just the low calorie like uranium and he's like powering up.
But still, I think the bulk, the bulk just sells to me as
something big, right, And even though we get this thing, he's like
looking over a beach, he doesn't feel big. And again, now special
effects are not done here. I'm willing to, like, you know,
give it that. I'm just saying it's interesting that they picked this shot for
the trailer because it doesn't look great. Now. I mean, they're picking
a lot of shots in the trailer, and I'm gonna be very honest for
Off the Bat, like they picked a monster. And I don't know if
this is from class at Godzilla Lord because I again I go deep and not
that deep. Godzilla and Kong versus another ape like creature is very boring to
me. That's that's like, it's like drag of the fighting another vampire.
I want to see something different, I want to see something new. Give
well, bring us so spoil potential spoilers. But but the Internet rumor mill
says that, yes, there is another monster. That's like, you know
that they will be fighting. This is not just it. I hope that's
true, because yeah, I'm I'm I'm of the same thing. I'm like,
Okay, Godzilla versus Congress is another monkey. If that's it, that's
that is going to be a little underwhelming, especially especially since King of the
Monsters we had King fucking Godora, right and how and you're telling me about
like you know this, this this drunk drunk bald monkey is like an upgrade
from that. Yes, the harangutang Yeah, yes, all right, all
right, so this is cool shot. Godzilla's powering up is like you know,
his uh, his breath. Yeah, I don't. I don't hate
Godzilla's new look. I know some people have a problem with it, like
the radioactive Look now him running makes me laugh. I'm sorry, Like there
is a nerve is no planet we're calling losing a flint race of this fucking
lizard. Yeah, okay, And here's the thing, Like, like I
was, I've watched this several times and I couldn't really think of what I
knew. There was something about that that annoyed me, that was bothering me.
But on our discord, Zack of All Trades actually pointed out correctly.
He's like, both of these creatures are running like people right now. They're
not running like monsters right like we've seen before runs like an ape. Godzilla
is a dinos is like essentially a dinosaur. He doesn't need to swing his
arms. His tail exists like you know, to do the calendar balance.
So the fact that they had these guys running like you know, like like
I don't know, like like like it's Rocky three exactly, It's Rocky and
Apollo on the beach exactly. I was gonna say, it's that's what's like.
First of all, there's no sense of scale again with like you know,
the Hollow Earth, but just the way they're moving it doesn't look right.
Now, maybe they'll explain this, maybe maybe, like you know,
there'll be something there, but just the way they're they're running just seems at
odds with how they have moved in the past, and how a creature this
size should actually be able to move like they looked like they looked like they're
going for a jog. Yeah. So yeah, that's that kind of bugs
me. And all right, I think that's the end of the trailer god
Zilla X Kong. I think we can probably get a one more shot of
something they usually stay. Yeah, yeah, little monky Miniko. Yeah that's
the fake looking uh he look, Mini Kong ain't got no junk, yeah,
lack of monkey junk, you know. I mean, I get PG
thirteen movie, but you're taking you can't have like Kong swinging around with this.
Yeah. I want to I want to see like you know, yeah,
like Doctor Manhattan. I want to see that that Schlang just hanging right
over that cliff there. They're like hobly fuck ah, just Kong pissing on
things, you know, just hanging from like the Napire State building. You
know. Yeah, I really don't like the way little Kong again, I
understand they're they're not finished special effects. It's just it doesn't look good like
little KLNG in particular. Yeah, like I'm not gonna say he looks like
son of Godzilla bad, but he's not far off. No, he's he's
he's in a weird way. He's like that what was that cartoon we watched
we were kids, like the god god Zooki the Gods, Like, uh
yeah, it's like it's you need something small and cute for the audience,
but like that's doesn't Yeah, it's kind of like Planet of the Apes.
It has a very Planet of the Apes vibe on some of the look on
some of these apes. And I'm hoping hoping that these aren't the monsters because
the pantheon of cool monsters out there that they could choose from, I mean,
like I think which one was. It was a King of the Monsters
where we got to hang out with Mathra and found out like, yeah,
she's the Queen of the monsters and she was you know, her essence is
what's keeping some of them in sleep and slumber and check. And Godzilla was
the basically like hey, he was there, just like he's like they're like
he is the drunk uncle. If you step out of line, he's there
to smack you back down. I want to see more of Rodin because Rodan
just rod was just a punk. Oh he was just with everybody. He
switched sides so much. He was just he was like the beaver star screaming.
I could hear that voice and he just yeah, you know, like
that that obsequious little ship you know, so see now now would give me
a lot of respect for this film. And I know they're not going to
do it, but everybody treating little Kong here like he's like he's cute.
And then they realized, oh then remember wait, this is one hundred foot
tall, like, you know, a thousand ton monster. As he like
as he like playing with them smashes like all the people and ship, and
we're like, oh god, just crushed. Like the cut to the scene,
it's just the triage center of every like just a broken pieces. Next,
let me you try. You tried to play to play with the like
you know, with a monster baby monkey. Huh you try to touch the
monster monkey, didn't you. It's like, yeah, we tried to touch
the monster monkey. We thought we would play with them, and only doubt
that the ticks of Larva in its hair are the size of like Rottweiler's you
know. Yeah, like like like I had say, I would almost kind
of like like to see a little bit of like I hate Okay. One
of the things I like best about King of the Monsters was the stakes were
high. It was basically like there was a lot of human misery going on.
There's these monsters are released throughout the world, like you know, like
Boston's getting smalled, like the implication there was a lot of people died,
you know, and and for the most part, the humans were like bugs
there, like like none not a single one of those monsters other than Mathra
Larva, which, let's be honest, was a stupid thing for the character
to do. Were the types of things you could want to get close to
and be like, ah, well you be my friend because it's like,
no, this is a giant hell beast. Yeah exactly. If it farts
in your direction, you're dead. Yes, we haven't really explored like the
the the monster excrement, like how many times it's like, you know,
like a zilla taking a shit on, like you know, on a town,
like you know, it's in a weird I like that and Uh stick
with me in uh Pacific Rim where they after the moster died, they talked
about how valuable the parts were, like even it's crap had so much fosters,
it could fertilize a field, and it like it's their body parts were
Like I really because clearly, like I don't mean to deviate, but like,
I love that movie so much. I just showed it to my kid,
and it's such an anime movie. And for a kid who loves anime
like he, this is like he doesn't want to watch many movies. So
I have to be very picky with what I choose. And it is that
within the mythos that they set, I'm able to suspend disbelief and believe it
all. Yeah, And and that's like that's that's I guess what kind of
makes it work for me. And I'm I just watching this trailer. That's
what I'm having a little bit of trouble digesting. But yeah, I'm just
thinking how how like, you know, it'd be one thing to be like
okay, you know, okay, you're in Tokyo, got those rum go
through and like the building collapses on you and you die. That's fine,
but it's a another thing to be like, you know, to look up
and just Godzilla's letting loose with a giant turn as you look up, and
you know, this is how you die. Like I said, just Kong's
gonna piss on something like you know because obviously. Okay, So in the
last movie, they they battled each other a couple of times and had a
team up to stop mecha Godzilla, you know, and like and it's it
felt like the Hulk versus Thoor the First Avengers, where they kept batle each
other, but they still got in some cheap shots once in a while on
each other, especially once once, uh it looks like Godzilla has an axe
made out of one of the scales on excuse me, Kalm got an axe
made out of one of like Godzilla's scales or a Godzilla like creature because it
could resist his fire blood is his uh atomic breath. But is there just
gonna be one of those like meet cute moments in this movie coming up where
they're like, hey, it's you again, Hey, oh buddy, do
we gotta like so you just brought up one of my biggest issues with Godzilla
versus cong and it wasn't like you know, the monster battles or anything.
It was the fact that there was a lot of moments in that movie that
they should that they should have stopped and explained or had people at least acknowledge,
and instead it didn't. Like I'm a like, I can't think of
a single like you know, scientist and even somebody who's studying KANNG who suddenly
if you've noticed that, obey, oh, not only were there like you
know, other kngs in the past, but they learned how to make fucking
tools, you know, giant hundred foot access that's ship that you like would
mention and be like, whoa hold the boat here, let's talk about this
crap and nobody blinks when he grabs this thing. And those are what I
call like basically the the somehow Palpatine survived moments, whereas a sloppy directorial move
that you just that it's almost like insulting to the audience when they do that,
because they're just like, yeah, just go with it, and it's
like, no, no, this is not something we should just go with.
Like so like another another scene was which was pretty much the same,
Like later in that same scene was they found the the middle, like you
know, the hollow Earth power source, and basically they just three D scanned
it and up on the surface they were able to replicate it. And I
was like, yeah, I don't think science works that way. It does
not. But also again, you had you hit the point like they had
hovercraft. They had magnetic maglev hovercraft flying, flying ships and shuttles for the
hollow Earth. So uh, once they make that technological or exponential leap,
you kind of have to just say, if it's it's all bullshit, it's
none bullshit because you have to accept there's a giant lizard who comes out every
so often. Uh so uh, but you're right again, that lure shows
that there were there were a lineage of Kongs, like even on Kong Skull
Island. He's like, you know he had parents, We saw the bodies,
he visited the graves. We know that one of the giants skullwalkers killed
his parents, and like the Congs of that island were meant to guard that
island from things that come out. For some reason, they knew their job
sit here, protect the giant things that are just on these like the giant
willed to beasts and but eat the giant oct and then kill the skull Walkers
when they come out. Great, but there's a history down there. There's
a throne. Clearly he's got the Monkey Infinity gauntlet on his hand, and
I don't know what that's about. I don't know if that's the symbol for
the King of the Kongs or what I mean. I'm sure someone is going
to give us some theory, which is even wackier is that is that when
he first fights the thin Monkey, he gets his arm broken, so they
apparently so they maybe build them a giant cast, which honestly, I'm not
sure feels like any more realistic than him finding like like the giant monkey Infinity
gaunlet. That idea that the thin Monkey breaks his hand and they have to
cast it is the dumbest fucking thing, and I hope they do not.
It's one of those like, Okay, I get the humans are in this
movie to be our exposition dumps, so like, what do you think it
means? It probably means if there's an ancient society and they fill in the
gibber jabber, that that connects our tissues for our brains. So we get
to the next big Monkey Fight. That being said, I like the idea
that there was a a a because in the Hollow Earth they showed like small
pyramids in that trailer, you know, so clearly they were as above as
below that the pyramids were there. It actually like mark the place below.
I don't fucking know. But he's got the he's got the symbol of the
King of the of the Kongs, and like, I hope it there's more
to it than that, you know, because it's like, right now it
literally is just barning for Marble. He's got storm Breaker, he's got Thor's
Axe, and now he's got the Infinity Gauntlet and for some reason, uh,
Godzilla has mood spikes. I'm not gonna lie. This trailer does very
little for me compared to the last couple of movies. This looks like a
step backwards. And I'll see it, you know, and I'm sure when
it comes out, you know, I'll go see it, and you'll go
see and we'll talk shit about it later or maybe we'll be surprised. But
right now I'm not feeling hyped. Well that's what I mean. It's like
if it feels like they're jewel schumackering up that, like you know that,
and like you know, and I know there are people who like Batman Forever
and Batman and Robin. I'm not one of them. I'm just gonna say
that. And Yeah, this seems like this seems to be taking a series
that started off kind of serious, and once again, you don't have to
be super serious with giant monsters. There were plenty of goofy parts in like
you know, in Godzilla, King of the Monsters and stuff, but it
sounds it seems like it's taking something that should be kind of a serious thing,
which, let's be honest, giant monsters that pretty much we can't kill
with the even nuclear weapons kind of a serious topic, I would think,
and it feels like they're kind of just purposely goofing it up. And I'm
like, I don't know if that like one, I don't know if I
like that, even though again I've seen Godzilla versus Magalon. I know Godzilla
can be goofy. I understand that, but in the context of this series,
it doesn't seem like it makes sense, you know, because you go
from like, okay dark also like the second movie is pretty dark Godzilla versus
or like Kong skull Light is not dark, but it kind of takes itself
pretty seriously. You know, even Godzillivers have come, there's parts of it
that takes seriously. It's not too goofed up, but like here, it
almost seems like they're kind of going Superman three all of a sudden. Oh
yeah, yeah, I see what you're saying it there. I agree.
I think the twenty fourteen Godzilla was very serious and very tonal, and it
was like it was trying to be an art piece using Godzilla in the scope
and the scenery, and I respect here's the thing. I respect it.
I was a little bored, and it's kind of like I fast forward to
the good stuff, you know, like the action scenes and the flying scenes.
I don't care about the I truly don't care about the family dynamic of
the dad and the son and all. I just I wish I could care.
But it's like every time there's a war, every time an alien bade
movie, there's gonna be a scene where dad's sitting in his car with his
kids, are talking too loud, his kids are wont to do the Dad's
gonna look in the rear view mirror, see explosions and shit, he's gonna
get out of the car. What is going on? It's every one of
those movies does that, and so and a lot of these things, these
these monster movies did the same thing. We have to fill this run time
because CGI is expensive. Yeah, and Gareth Edwards, I mean, the
movie is competently shocked, but it just the the inexplicable thing of Okay,
we've already seen what the monster looks like. There's no need to keep cutting
the fuck away from it, you know, don't cut don't cut away from
it to the human drama. Dude, We're here to see a movie called
Godzilla, not like you know, not Scarlet, which bangs a Quicksilver.
Now there's some nice things about that. Okay, hey, they're not really
brother and sister. I'm just saying, you know, weirdly enough. And
the Ultimate three uh for those who know Comicer fans know that Scarlet and quicksover
were had did have Lanister lust, and they were banged god Like. Not
only did they bang, but apparently Wolverine was like a voyeur watching it.
Yes, yes, the Marvel Ultimate Universe, like I love, I wish
they hadn't fucked it up because it was like thatashit glorious. It kind of
was like, like I think it was Hulk screaming He's going, I'm gonna
kill Freddy Prince Junior because that's who was dating Betty at the time, Betty
Banner, and he who did heat was a blob that ate the Wasp or
something like that. Yeah. I like there was all sorts of crazy shit
that like that went on in the Ultimate Universe. It was like it was
like the Marvel Universe, but like everybody was like on meth. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. Well they tried to go for quote the grounded thing and
ground it works for three or four issues before you have to start realizing these
are people with superpowers and much like our topic, these are monsters. Now,
I'm also a lore junkie, like I want the story with enough lore
that keeps me involved. So I forget which movie it was, but it
might have been King of the Monsters. But like they showed all these monsters
from around the world that each one seemed to serve a function, Like there
was a sasquatch like giant like Kaiju, and clearly his job was to patrol
the Pacific Northwest and beat down anything that like any bad version is thereof you
know, like these monsters had had a task. Now who gave them their
task? Were they just born to it? Is it just like that that
is their biologic function. I don't know, but that's the kind of stuff
I'm interested in. I'm hoping the Monarch series goes into stuff like that because
I love this idea. It's trying yeah, okay, but no, I'm
the same way, like I gotta be honest. Like one thing, I
understand why they did it because they need to get Kong off the Skull Island
because otherwise, But like it really annoyed me that essentially, like the parts
of like you know, God Silver Skon that were on Skull Island were really
stunt, and it was basically like, yeah, yeah, Skull Island has
been destroyed, and we built this giant geodome, this giant biodome over it,
and Kong's living in the Truman Show, and I'm like I really wanted,
right, well, see, I want to see Kong learn more like
more silingorg something and go fuck yourself, you know, like, oh my
god. The other problem, like we're talking about cheer, you kept talking
the sense of scale and it irks me because it's it's been a repeating process
and a lot of CGI heavy movies, because if you don't see something next
to something else, you don't get the sense scale. Like I assume you
saw ant Man three, like I did not go to the theaters. I
waited till Disney Plus. But when they're down in the quantum realm, like
I couldn't tell that he was giant until he had to stay next with a
city because like him and his daughter, you're a giant, you're a giant.
I can't tell it. You just are two normal people talking to each
other because there's nothing around you that's tailed me that when you're just standing around
rocks. Rocks are not really great for scale, right you know that?
And yeah, yeah, you're right. It's like, uh, you know,
I love the concept of the hollow Earth and stuff, but I also
kind of like, I'm like, all right, is it like there needs
to be something there to like to remind you that these are giant monsters.
And if they're moving around like you know, like like they're like like if
they're running at full speed, like you know, pumping their arms and stuff,
that doesn't feel giant giant monster mean. And again I watched Pacific Rim
I bought into everything going on there, but once again, it has to
do with the lore that's established and the lord that was established there kind of
made sense. This feels like it's breaking the lore and yes, I know,
it's just goofy and fun. Here's the other problem, and it's like,
this is like, I have an art background. You have an art
background. If you want to show scale, turn the camera up. And
Gamma del Toro did that. So when the when the Jaegers are running,
it's you're looking up at them. From an audience standpoint, it's you're not
so when those two monsters they're running at the camera and if that doesn't do
anything for me, so you know. So a low budget example of that
is back when God's Back, when Toho is making I guess the Heaths I
series, the like Godzilvers's Destroyer, Godzilivers's Space Godzilla. Right. One of
the guys who did the Gamera films, they came out with the New Gamath
trilogy and the New Gamera Trilogy quality wise pretty much kicked their ass even though
they had like half the budget, and part of the reason was that most
of the shots were shot at low angle, so it felt like the monsters
even though the movies were made more cheaply, it felt like everything was bigger.
It wasn't just like shot in typical Toho scope of like, you know,
okay, we're we're gonna have a couple of fake looking plants or fake
looking like you know, building backdrops, and the monsters are liking to do
in wrestling moves on each other. So yeah, and as a result,
the move the movies like I watched was it Gamma Versus? Was it?
It's not? Isis not Gamma Versus isis? Isis Gamma versus? Legion was
just the second movie, and Legion is kind of a dopey looking thing.
It's kind of like an insect creature. But the movie works because once again
it shot from a low angle. Everything feels big, even though you know,
the rubber suits. So we danced around it. We never actually talked
about we talked with the good ones. What about the bad ones? What
about like the Godzilla from nineteen ninety seven? Okay, so like ninety seven
ninety eight, all right, so if you watch just the first fifteen minutes
of that movie before they get like just after they get to New York and
the New York attack. It's actually not a bad movie. It's they make
the inexplitlit decision of one, we're gonna we're gonna evacuate New York, so
it takes away the danger, and two we're gonna make the military incompetent,
which just really did not work in this context. And three the main actress
of this movie probably wouldn't get the lead in the porno film. She was
just so bad. Yeah, it was I don't know. I didn't have
a problem with the design of Godzilla. It was just the movie itself.
It just missed the point of what a Godzilla movie should be. Missed the
mark. Now, what about the Godzilla being a female and having children?
And how do you say? What was your stance good with that? Again?
I mean, I thought it was an unnecessary change, and it felt
to me like like the whole scene with the baby Godzilla's felt like it literally
felt like Jurassic Park envy. That's exactly what I would, dude, get
out of my brain, because I remember seeing that with this in the theater
in nineteen ninety eight. I was I forget where I was stationed at the
time. I think it was actually station back here in Maryland. We went
and saw that that summer when it came out, and I remember watching this,
I'm like there were some moments actually during the baby Godzilla scenes, like
someone said, fuck your raptors. We got little Godzillas, and the scenes
weren't bad. They weren't bad for the time. I remember like that was
that actually had a little bit of tension, but clearly someone had rapt or
envy and it showed so and like like for his entire series, Gozillas meant
to have been meant to be this like allegory of like you know, of
nature given form and stuff, like Godzilla is a force of nature. That's
like there's like a sense of awe there that you lose when it's like,
okay, here's a monster and he got hit by two missiles and I was
dead right right right, of course, that just tells me killed too quickly.
That just tells me that that like you didn't get the point of of
Godzilla. So it's like, again, I don't hate the design, Like
the redesign was fine, but they basically like like I remember seeing like an
interview and they were like, well we really didn't want to do like the
the the atomic Breath because it didn't feel realistic, like but a two hundred
fatal mutiny. Did see was that the one where the it had it had
the plates light up with lightning kind of thing. I I liked that effect.
Is that, No, it didn't like there's there was a there's a
scene where there's lightning in the background. But every scene where Godzilla quote unquote
breathes fire is literally just a car exploding like that. You could tell they
put it in like in post production because people because apparently they didn't like the
fact that people were like, fuck you dudes, this is not Godzilla.
All right, Rick, I'm asking a very important question. Pitch me your
ultimate Godzilla, Kong whatever. Pitch me your ultimate monster movement. As a
fan, what is that you want to see more than anything else? What
is the story? You don't have me give me all the plot points,
but it gave me what you would like to see. I mean, Godzilla
came, the monsters hit a lot of them. Mark for me, it
was okay, pretty much what what I want to see. I mean,
I what I would have liked to have seen. From guys, the liking
of the monsters is is like at the end, I would have liked to
see it be like more like destroy all monsters where we see a lot more
of those, Like we get teased with like seventeen Titans. We only get
to see like two extra two or three extras, And I'm like, I
want to I want to see like more. I want and probably would have
doubled the budget, but like, yeah, I want to see like scenes
of these creatures destroying the world and and and and and such, like I
liked, Like what I liked about that movie was humans were bugs in that
movie. We like, you know, we were pretty much inconsequential. I
really liked that in like, you know, in that And that's one thing.
That's one reason I can't stand like the bay Formers movies is because it's
it always has to be it's like, oh, yeah, the humans solve
everything. Yeah, well yeah, okay, we beat these forty foot transforming
robots because just we're plucky er so whatever the fuck, because we've got Kaid
Jaeger and he can carry a sword. He's a transforma doctor. For me,
you're actually you're kind of like again, get in my brain. I
want to see the Avengers version of the monsters, and I want like King
Geedra to come back and like bring with like some kind of like cosmic Cthulhu
monsters, like he is a herald for these other things coming. And these
creatures have either been like maybe there's a lord dump that, like maybe they
were monsters, maybe there were one time a prehistoric version of man that was
mutated into these things, and like they've existed in preparation for the thing from
space that's coming. Because if they've already teased that Gidra comes from not our
world, bring what is, bring it here and bring the fight to us
and give me like that Wakanda scene in a Infinity War where I want to
see all the good monsters good and I want to see against all the Cthulhu
monsters and in just an epic battle and let ken Wat to not be like
narrate it for good's you know, like like just let them fight. And
I want to see that movie. I want to see them like Diavy deep
in the Lore bring out the monsters, have the have the Avengers type of
moment of them, and like I want to see them at their best.
I want to see them die. I want to see some some good stuff
that you've teed up almost the perfect Thanksgiving dinner and King of the Monsters,
and I feel like you're wasting it now, and like like you could set
it up with like, you know, you could set it up with those
ancient civilizations almost kind of like almost kind of like the like Zack Snyder's like
Justice League set up like that that early fight with dark Side, except do
it more competently, right, And yeah, like you could like like this
is the reason like the humans of like the early humans like you know,
like worship these things, like they they managed to defeat the space monsters,
so they built trians to them and and and such. Yeah, like yeah,
well you've got like all these ancient aliens and mind calendar enough conspiracy theories
out there, like say, oh no, the whole clock was different because
they was we knew they were coming back, and you know, it's kind
of like I liked when the humans fought the predators and aliens in that one
predatorversus Alien movie in the Underwater pier uh excuse me, the the Pyramid under
the ice Cap movie. I like that because I was just a lord dump
with all the monsters fighting each other. It was a bad movie, but
I loved it because it's exactly what I wanted. And I want a three
hundred million dollar budget version of that with these cast of of insane kaiju.
Yeah yeah, no, I'm no, I'd watch the fun out of that.
You should write the fuck out of that. Helly, helly even want
to throw in some mug you even want to throw in like, you know,
uh, some Jaeger tech where the humans just like try to like you
know, maybe trying to do guns. Make it so they built it.
They built mecha Godzilla. Why can't they build like some kind of like uh
oh god Okay, stick with it gets worse? What if they build armor
for the Kaiju and they turn into a mecha kai juw of themselves. They
basically they combined, they turned into their version of Devastator. You know,
and you you said write this, we lit on this story. But I
actually do have a story start started that is it's called it's called Rain of
Giants. I'm only maybe ten thousand words into it because it's like I know
the entire story, but but like for some reason, I don't want to,
like my brain doesn't want to write it right now I understand. I
actually do have a Kaiju story that is started. Dude, that sounds amazing.
Let me know how that's going, because I I I love that kind
of shit, And it's it's just we have so many stories of giants from
our myth you know, like like the even the Scots and the Celts,
they like they have all these giant stories. So giant moss is giying anything
and like making us feel small and like having a deal with it. It's
like, it's why it still exists. It's why it's it's why we love
it. You know. We love knowing that we could be squished or eaten
or destroyed. So yeah, I mean, uh, you know, part
part of part of the reason, like you know, I love this stuff
is not because I want to see the humans win, but I want to
I want to be reminded that, you know, we're only at the top
of the food chain because something else. Let's it lets us be yeah,
exactly all right. I think we've kind of eaten up a good hour with
with that. I'm enjoyed this, uh, this this dive into into God
to Laura. No, we didn't touch upon like the show era and stuff
like that. I'm more than happy to do another one of these and talk
about and sit down and be like, okay, and let's talk about god
Zilivers's Mathro and Godzilla raids again. But this is probably it for about for
for about now. Give you thank you for for for joining and for listening
to me pas rant about all things Godzilla. And yeah, I guess we
will catch you again next time back when back on Authors and Dragons, and
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