Originally published at: Netflix is getting ready to revive Gamera | Boing Boing
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Speaking of gigantic turtles did anyone check out the recent lunar eclipse?
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Sing it with me:
Gamera is really neat!
Gamera is filled with meat!
We’ve been eating Gamera!
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YES! Shusuke Kaneko’s Gamera films are legit masterpieces of the genre, especially the third one, which somehow managed to not only make a giant rocket-powered flying turtle FUCKIN’ BADASS, but carried a good deal of emotional heft as well… Here’s hoping that Netflix et al get it right by following that model.
ETA: I mean, kaiju movies just don’t get cooler than this:
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Is he going to fight giant squid monsters? If there’s no giant squid monsters, I’m out.
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That was exactly my thought too. Gamera vs. Viras is the earliest Gamera movie I remember watching and it left a deep impression on me because of how completely weird it was.
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I think my favorite Gamera opponent was the guy who had a ginsu knife for a face.
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The Heisei era Gamera trilogy is fucking awesome, topped only recently by Shin Godzilla in awesomeness.
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100% true.
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The scene were the squid guys pop out of the crew guys’ bodies and merge into the super-squid freaked me out as a kid.
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While we’re waiting for the new stuff, y’all should seek out these two box sets from Arrow. They’re fantastic:
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That freaked me out too. And the fact that the main human characters were a couple of kids made it even more bizarre. I can’t think of any other general audience film with a little light beheading.
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I wondered where I’d see that Kaiju before.
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Meh, I prefer the originals and The Peanuts to summon Mothra.
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I came to say the same thing, but went with their first presentation, IIRC.
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Wait! Let me in the board room! I’ve got something important to say! It’s not a rebirth it’s a re-hatching!!!
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Gameraccas! cha cha cha!
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