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Just a bad imitation of a godzilla movie

posted 19 years ago by pundit-1
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This Korean made film is just plain terrible.
I remember seeing it and thinking to myself that instead of being an improvement
over Godzilla it's just a bad imitation.
I would rather watch a rerun of Mothra or Gamera even as opposed to seeing this one again.

The most hilarious and most unnacceptable scene in this low grade thriller was when the monster started dancing!!
Now what was this all about? An attempt to inject some humor in a film that couldn't be taken seriously anyway? A pathetic attempt to gain sympathy from the viewers for a monster by portraying it as somewhat human?
God knows but this just convinced me unlike anything else, that this film is a joke.

I'll give this one two thumbs down.

[–] occidentalchandala 19 years ago

I think a savvy person could put forth an argument that Yongary's dancing was only in the mind's eye of the rather infantile protagonist. I mean there was a lot of burning fossil fuel. While the oil fields were burning in Iraq I experienced some interesting physical effects although not quite hallucinations. But I'm also not the kind of person who would try to relate myself to a giant fire eating horn-ray blasting earthquake monster.

IMO the dancing monster is just one of the many ridiculous moments that makes this movie worth watching. As if Godzilla or Gamera never danced. Puh-leez!

Most of these type movies only offer variations on established genre conventions. And reasonably there are plenty of little bits that Kaiju B-movie fans should love to chew on in this outing. For instance the method used to dispatch the monster was original and the death scene (intentionally?) quite horrific.

[–] mikethegent 18 years ago

I never seen such god awful trash since they turned Godzilla into some sort of hero.Especially seeing Yongary dancing .Now that was stupid.

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[–] bonapartejones 18 years ago

fabulous piece of cinema genious

[–] GojiraMireniamu 17 years ago

I got this at a dollar store too. One of the best movies I've bought there, along with some Gamera films.

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[–] Laserdome-AMH 16 years ago

It should really be considered what a poor country 1967 South Korea was and what circumstances the makers of this film had to cope with. The above statement does no justice to this film.

[–] pundit-1 12 years ago

Being a poor or 3rd world nation is no excuse for making a ridiculous movie.
I'm pretty damn sure that some great films have come from developing nations.
One of the best vampire films I saw was actually made in Mexico in the fifties.
It was called simply enough "The Vampire" starring German Robles as the main bloodsucking villain.
This is regarded by some as a real classic vampire film.
No need to mention what Mexico is like as a nation in comparison to the Western world.
Especially back in the fifties.

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[–] jjk50 8 years ago

You could argue that every Godzilla movie after the first one was a bad imitation. The only real problem I had this otherwise fun movie was the ridiculous dancing scene, considering that just before that he had killed a number of people.

[–] Squonkamatic 15 years ago

Its a classic, I especially like the out of tune musical score, and the scenes where the performer wearing the Yongary suit almost falls over because it's top heavy.

[–] PostmortemG 14 years ago

"I think a savvy person could put forth an argument that Yongary's dancing was only in the mind's eye of the rather infantile protagonist."

Riiiiight - i guess that´s a nice, forgiving way of looking at this damn goofy film. I´m with the original poster on this one; when Yongary started dancing, i nearly said "That´s it!" and ejected the DVD. In fact, I´m only keeping it because Konga is on the flipside... now that´s a movie i really dig. In short, Yongary may very well be the most annoying Asian monster movie I´ve seen yet, and it reminded me why i tired of the genre so long ago anyway. Next!

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[–] phrumpster 13 years ago

Not much of a monster flick, but interesting artifact of cold war, space age go-go modernism, korean-style.

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[–] Fargo_North 13 years ago

Granted, Japanese Kaiju movies aren't Academy Award material either, but during the monster's death scene the reaction of the two women in the back of the helicopter are hilariously innappropiate.

The older woman in particular seems quite giddy and giggly, she's like "Hee Hee Hee. Awww, you great big, silly monster, tried to destroy the world, Tee Hee Hee. She even looks down, dotingly, at the helicopter pilot just like it was a warm and fuzzy moment!!

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