Cinema_PSYOPS_EP516: Giant Monsters FSU: Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla 2002 (Main Feed)

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And welcome to the 516th consecutive week
of Cinema Psyops. I'm your host, Cort, the guy that still doesn't have
Matt with him in the room or on the line or anything like that.
But we've got a fill in and he is the king of all fill ins.
And my co host Darren. Yep. Call me Matt Light if you like.
Or further eastern Matt or more polite, less drinky.

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Midw Browns. Wisconsin.
Oh no. Although you know when you talk about
which. Which state's professional American football team had the most
reprehensible quarterback, I think the Cleveland team had
a worse guy. Vic, right? Am I. Do I know my sports? Oh no,
no. Was it. No, he was with some other teams though from

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what I remember. Well, maybe he played for the Browns at some point,
but they most recently had a guy name,
or still do, named daeshun Watson. Who 30 accusations
or so of SA. I don't know if you have to edit out any words
in your editing, but 30 or so accusations of sexual assault against

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him. Yeah. You know, Aaron Rodgers just makes people. Tries to get people to avoid
vaccines and take horse paste. Allegedly.
That's what he's doing in all of his shit. Yeah, he's more of a
victimless crime kind of. Kind of guy. He's a Woo
salesman. That's what he's kind of turned into. Unfortunately.
That's what he's hawking. That's. That's the Woo salesmanship. It's no different than the

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snake Oil and the radiated tonics that you would drink and then your jaw would
rot off from radiation sickness and shit. No different than that. It's pretty
scummy, but it's a kind of scummy that, like, some people are like, well,
you did make the choice to keep taking the horse paste and
then died. You know what I mean? Like. Like, yeah, you encouraged it. And yeah,
that's a criminal negligence thing, but it's really hard to convict somebody on that.

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And I think that's kind of shitty. But it is what it is, right?
It is what it is. He probably disowned him as soon as he
left the Wisconsin team. Any. Somewhere else.
Yeah. Well, I am once again very, very grateful.
I kind of reached out to Matt, wanted to see where things were for the
scheduling, and we needed to get this one recorded because Matt and I have been

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recording well, well in advance for a little while now, and I
continued to do that trend, but I once again ran out of episodes. And we
are recording this the Sunday before. It actually needs to go out the following week.
And I haven't done that in a while where I've done one episode and one
episode only in the hopes that I'll be able to record the next weekend.
We'll see how it goes. Yeah, we'll see how it goes. What I'm really trying

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to do here is I'm trying to preserve as many episodes for Matt to come
back and just get in on the Kaiju action. We're still, like I said,
going back and we're going to do commentaries for all of these that he's missed
because he definitely needs to see these, especially this one tonight. This is.
This one would be great for a fucking commentary, for sure. And the movie that
we're covering tonight, Godzilla against Mechagodzilla from 2002. People will

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hear it in the outtakes. Darren mentioned that on Apple TV, it shows up that
it says it's 2012. I. That's when the Blu Ray release was
done over here. And it may not have been released in America
until 2012. That might be why that date is showing. Because I
do remember that's around the time that these Blu Rays were coming out, like the
2014 Godzilla and stuff like that made a lot of these things

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become available in America. Because when the 2014 Godzilla hit, it created a fever
amongst a lot of young people that had not seen Godzilla before. And it
exposed a whole new generation to Godzilla. And then people were clamoring for
the old stuff because they were like, hey, in my day, it was a guy
in a suit. And boom. We finally got a bunch of stuff on Blu Ray
that we haven't had for decades, Right? There was stuff that was like,

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not even on DVD in some cases in America. But all of that stuff got
brought over all at once. And it was the heyday. That was our time to
shine as Godzilla fans. When that happened, dude, finally somebody's
searching for the deep cuts, right? And then eventually Criterion got
off its ass and started using all of the prints that they had access to
from Toho from the first run in the Showa era. Oh,

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yeah. I think it's Showa's first Heisei. I think a second. I always get
them confused. Your son would correct me and he would probably know them. He'd get
out his books. He got out of his book. It was like, yeah, yeah,
he'll get. Get out his reference books and check
your homework. He's already a better Godzilla fan than me because he has reference
books to make sure that he has his information accurate. I just go by what

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I can remember as a fanboy. So he's already more hardcore of a fan than
I am. And that's awesome. Start him young. Start him
young. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So I'm assuming that you're going to have a story time
of the film with him this week too. Cause you had to have watched it
with him, him being the big G fan that he is. Yep, yep. He.
He had the option and he. He went for it. So,

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yes, similar. Similar to last time. Awesome. I can sit down at
a fire and tell that story. It's awesome. I get
to have two different guest hosts, more or less. You are relaying everything
he once said on the show and you get to say whatever you want to
say about the show and the movie on the show. So there we go.
Totally. The only reason he isn't in my seat right now is he didn't

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tell him that he could and that he's exhausted from a weekend of
summer sports. Yeah, yeah, that's what you were doing. And we kind of had to
delay the recording from my normal time until a little later on Sunday.
Not too bad. You know, Matt and I start this late sometimes and have to
hammer out two episodes in like, in like an hour. Ish. You want to talk
about going breakneck speed. If anybody out there is wondering, like, why the fuck is

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Cort reading his notes so fucking fast on his episodes. The reason is we are
out of time by the time we get to my recording. Usually with Matt,
that's why when Matt's doing the notes we goofing off and having so much fun
and my episodes are always so fast is because we run out of time.
Pure incentive. Gotta get down to business. Right? Right. Cause I mean the show has
to be released once every week and we gotta record two shows every

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time. We record every other week and it's just the way that it has to
be. And if we're gonna get it done, we gotta get it done. And the
only way to do that is to unfortunately turn me into Micro Machine
man whenever I start reviewing. Sometimes like the
Griswolds at the Louvre.
Yeah, it's on two times speed so they can get it done faster.

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Absolutely. Well anyway, we are talking Godzilla against Mechagodzilla
from 2002 as I had mentioned before and then went off on yet another stone
tangent. It's my want to do. We're gonna take the break here and we're going
to play all songs released from 2002
or on the top 100 in 2002.
Up first on the pirate radio edit is going to be the White

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Stripes with the song Fell in Love with a Girl immediately following this on the
pirate radio. This will keep you quiet. Hey, I'm so glad you
didn't get hurt in the coating explosion disaster. It's not supposed to be called
that. I'm so glad you weren't unfortunately, work stopped or
suffered any output loss after the spontaneous file
waste disposal event. I'm alive only because I hid

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behind that Jeffen guy. Do we have to keep up the ruse that it wasn't
Zon. Officially, yeah. He feels he can't be seen
to be responsible for the countless spontaneous corporate refund restructuring
of the workforce right now inside this hospital room.
Say what the Ever trying to spin the impetuous fashion that
one handles the health and safety of the people who work for them and continually

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cause severe injury and death to said workforce is really tasteless even
for Zon. How the did you get burned hiding behind
him? I know you were a random events believer and all, but when
the collator reached critical mass and it fully exploded on him, all I could
think was that Zon had been on the scene of every catastrophe

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and survived. Why not see if he really does have the plot armor of the
author. The fire and boiling fluids went around him and got me. It was like
nothing I had ever seen before. It was like a really bad CGI
bubble you see in movies around him and I was not in it, just behind
it. Once the Walls of the room went up. So did I. I'm still in
a lot of pain. I'm told that my unforeseen hair removal should grow back

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thicker and stronger, at least. Well, I think you might like
what we have for the light duty tasks. The production
floor was reorganized by that same spontaneous
file waste disposal event. I'm gonna have a
hard time pretending to enjoy anything till the next Dilaudid patch kicks

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in. We have to transcribe all of Zevon's personal diary
and experimentation auditory notes. He forgot his recorder
was on again, didn't he? Better, dude, Better.
All right, so anybody who wants to talk shit about me, Meg White's drumming ability
should listen to that song and hear her hitting some type of something on

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her kit for every chord strum he does,
whether it's up or down. And she alternates the snare hit with
that chord change as well. That's impressive work. I don't care what anybody else thinks.
And, Darren, you better back me up on this, or I'm gonna feel like a
real asshole. No, I. I mean, I would say.
I. I've never been a classically trained drummer. I had one official

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drum lesson ever, and it was from a 50s rock guy.
But, yeah, I was a little meh on the White Stripes right
when they first came into my vision. But then there was one time I
was like, oh, it's really easy. You just. And it's sort of like you do
with some Ringo Star stuff. Like, you think it's easy, and then you try to
do it. Okay, Ringo is a great example.

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Yeah, people talk shit about Ringo until they try it. Right? Fuck around and find
out if you think you're better. That's all I'm saying, folks. Right? Put it right
here on the refrigerator or whatever the. All right,
well, enough about the White Stripes and Ringo and drumming and all of that.
Let's start talking about the real Thunder Lizard that's in charge here with Godzilla
against Mechagodzilla from 2002. All right, so the

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first third of the film opens up with some dialogue and some rather expository
versions of that. And you know that's going to be our first clip. All units,
stand by. Column moves out in five minutes.
All right, men, let's go. All units
stand by. I repeat, all units stand by.
A large tropical storm has formed south of the Ryuku Islands

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and is moving northeast at 25 mph.
Everything's in order, sir. Move out now.
Move out. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes,
sir. Move out. Let's Go. Let's go.
Roger is coming right at us.

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Typhoon 13 is a very large storm. It's moving
due north and continues to gain strength. The storm's rapidly approaching the
Bozo Peninsula. We're getting battered here in Tanayama.
It's pouring with rain and the wind is exceptionally strong.
It's getting very difficult just to stand up.

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Here's the latest from Weather set. The pressure in the
eye of the typhoon is currently reading 959
millibars and falling. The wind speed is reading almost 90,
almost 90 miles an hour and it's gusting over 110.
It's huge and getting bigger by the minute.

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Get me out of here.
And just like that, Big G emerges from the ocean behind the man.
And it cuts to a man trying to pick up his fallen recycling,
which while that is very important to make sure your recycling
is done, it seems less so than Big G being on screen and about to
attack you. Maybe. But you know, a lot of these movies

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do have the environmental message and you know, Godzilla could have been giving
him the side eye and then he picks up, you know, his. His recycling and
godzill, it goes, okay. I think that the zombie Godzilla from GMK
would probably see this guy picking up and trying to take care of his recycling
and would let him live. So I think you have a valid point there,
sir, and I'm just going to move on. Okay, Fair. Just as I

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write these notes and we had that Quiddle debate, a bunch of military and police
vehicles swarm and the AMF specs are printed out on
screen. But really, who gives a fuck about the humans? That's all meant to be
clipped anyway. In our second. Attention all units. A gigantic
creature is reported to have come ashore touching Tatema, Chiba Prefecture.
All units are ordered to begin an immediate attack upon sight of the creature.

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It must be destroyed. Repeat, a gigantic creature has come ashore in Tateyama.
It must be destroyed. How come this always happens in the rain?
Get out of here. Let's go. Run, people.
Quickly. Let's go.

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This way. Hurry. There's no time. Run.
There's no time. Come on. Get back.
This is an announcement from City Hall. An emergency evacuation has
been ordered for all citizens. All units, rendezvous on Route 89
immediately. Concentrate your firepower on the creature's torso.

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It must be stopped at all costs. At the end of the clip, the military
tanks, Serious action actual tanks wheel into position
on a roadside that is composited against Big G in the foreground.
And that scale sells it. Quick sidebar. Here. This is for Dan from Corrupted
Youth. Dan and I had a lot more negative things to say about some
of the compositing and lack of buildings in this series, particularly for the Millennial series

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to sort of sell Big G's scale. And I think this sequence of the city
stroll for Big G really kind of addresses that. And I think it looks terrific.
It kind of harkens back to what we were seeing in Godzilla 2000 and then
some of the other films that. That had more of the cityscape and more city
stuff being destroyed. I think they realized in the last film that they were having,
you know, some of the scale issues that they were having. I'm hoping Dan will

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watch this one again specifically and see how he feels about this one. Take it
for a walk and just kind of see. I think it sells it. I don't
know. Yeah, it kept. It kept me in. You know, once you buy
into a Godzilla movie, there's a couple things that you need to let slide and.
But not from. From sake of giving them too
much credit where credit is not due. Feels like they did a pretty good job

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here. I did skip one that I almost did with you, but ended
up not, so I don't have that for comparison. Ah, gotcha. That's no problem.
Whatever you've seen for it, all we really need is the perspective of how it
looks for this specific one. And I think the scale of how big
Godzilla actually was was sold on this pretty well and everything.
Just one more sidebar before we get back to the notes. You remember when shout

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outs were a thing that podcasters did for each other? Yes,
man, I missed that. Anyway, back to the notes. Long, long time ago.
The mortar and artillery fire is shot off along with
surface to air missiles. All looking pretty fucking good
as far as I'm concerned. They look like they were firing like miniature practical missiles

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that were then exploded upon impact. And I think it looked to me like there
was some decently smooth CGI transitions to like actual explosions
hitting the suit. Like they filmed it from two different ways and then like layered
the plates to make it actually work for the actual hardcore fire stuff, but also
to have missiles explode without shrapnel. I'm guessing, I don't
know 100%, but that's what it looked like. But it was a really well done

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suit sequence. Anyway. Yeah, these. These were. We talked about that in the
last one we did together about a lot of the explosions and things were pretty
well done. And I feel like this one, at least up until this point,
had less. I wouldn't say distracting cgi,
but less noticeable. Yeah, yeah, they've definitely gotten to where it is augmenting
and it definitely looks a lot nicer and smoother than what it did.

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And they're doing the thing that Jurassic park did too, where Godzilla's always in
the rain. Like they even have a comment on that in one of the clips
about how why does this stuff always happen in the ra. So, you know,
it's one of those things where they were. They found a way to make the
CGI work and to sort of trick your eye with certain things. And I really
think that it kind of paid off that they took the time to do it
in this one. Anyway, just after I geek out about all of the special effects

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that we were talking about. The tanks retreat as Godzilla walks forward.
He shuffle kicks a fucking tank through the air, crashing into
a giant fucking red inferno. When it hits another tank and that
lights up Big G like the beast from our fucking nightmares that he is.
And I popped so bad for that. I had to watch that sequence where he

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kicks that fucking tank like three times. It was just the fucking tits. I watched
it again this morning. I love that. Where you just. I don't
know what else to call it other than he's just shuffle walking and he just
shuffle kicks that tank like you didn't even mean to do it. And it's just
so sinister and evil looking. Yeah. The casual chaos that
Godzilla can bring. Right? Yeah. Griefing a city, as your son would say.

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Oh, yeah, Griefing a city. And just after this awesomeness, they cut
to the uninteresting human interest stories with some talky hole talking in.
Our Navy 5th Squadron is moving towards Massawa to render
assistance. Maser gun Unit 3 and 4 in position.
Roger. Units 3 and 4, prepare to move in.

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Okay, okay. Stop. Hit the light.
Sir. I see him. I see him.
Activate Maer Mazer. Activating.
My God.
Daddy. Elevate turret. Raising turret link
up targeting system. Targeting system link up. Go.

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Fire maser. Firing maser.
I told everyone playing along at home for like the longest time that
they were going to call these things masers. And they will never be anything else
for you from there on out. Every time you see them after watching this movie
calling it a maser for sure, and I know that they refer to it earlier
and during the clip you had said. I think what maser actually stands for.

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Is that what I heard you say? Oh, yeah, that is, at least according to
the Internet. It stands for microwave amplification
by stimulated emission of radiation.
I Just know them as microwave lasers. I'm pretty sure that
they've been called masers in other movies, but I missed it. But it says it
was 19. The concept of the maser was 1952.

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Okay. There we go. Yeah. So hopefully it's the same thing and not like,
you know, it's just a laser, but it's a microwave laser. But maser
itself has, you know, some articles and a Wikipedia page.
Well, it definitely has been something that has shown up.
These satellite dish looking things that are on the end of a boom that

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fire some kind of an energy blast at Godzilla have been used all the way
back to the 70s, so. But they named them masers in this film.
And I don't want to call them anything else but that because it seems pretty
accurate for what it looks like. And it fires the exact same thing. An energy
beam or something that looks like Ghidra lightning, depending upon which version of it you
see. Yeah, right. Could be massive laser or it could be that acronym that

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I said. Yeah. Or it could be microwave wave laser. Either way, it fucking cool
looking and it fucking sounds cool. So there we go. Does what it's supposed to
do. I do love that they brought these things back for the reboot.
Quills, whatever they're supposed to be and whatever they're going to call them, they look
great and they're a good model. So thank you. It's cool with
that. They fire on Big G only to just mildly irritate him. And a co

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pilot of the maser apparatus says something about it not having much of an
effect due to it losing a percentage of the power from the range.
Or I wasn't paying that close attention and I didn't clip it, so whatever.
And then the female just decides. Hides the target. Godzilla in the fucking face.
She fucks around and fires the mazer. Big G
helps her find out when he blasts the cliff face, causing the humans to back

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up in a panic. And the Mazer tank spins out of control from the
bad judgment that the panicking pilot does, sending the passenger
vehicle crashing down the side of the mountain after rolling for what feels
like forever in an admittedly spectacular vehicle stunt,
the SUV filled with red shirts. Oh, and I even quoted your son in my
notes. Is griefed by a big. Much to the chagrin

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of the tank lady who more or less sent those people to the waffle iron
deaths they just briefly experienced. I really wrote that in my notes. Waffle iron
death they just briefly experienced. If Godzilla
could wear a dock. Martin. Right, Big G, then tail Smacks
the fuck out of the maser and tanks, sending them plummeting

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to rubble off the cliff face of the road.
He turns and is struck by lightning as. As he
roars. And the music swells for the title card
to pop up in the spectacular fight promotion poster look that
they give. And it cuts to the aftermath and the expository dialogue
to tell us everything we need to know about what just happened in our

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fourth clip after the. Horrors of last night. This morning, Takayama is waking up
to another nightmare. The damage is appalling. The cities
and rivers and its citizens are devastated. The army is leading the rescue effort,
but the death toll is sure to be high in Tokyo. Prime Minister Sugez
confirmed the field reports. This attack was carried out by another Godzilla

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monster, similar to the killer of 1954.
After its frenzied rampage through Tateyama, this latest Godzilla waded
back into the Pacific Ocean. The authorities cannot rule out that it is laying in
wait nearby, waiting to strike these people again. 45 years
after the first Godzilla attack, our country is under threat once more.

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Will our government turn and run? Or will they stand in sight?
We've been struck by another disaster.
As you know, 45 years ago, the first Godzilla
creature laid waste to Tokyo. And after exhausting every
weapon in its own arsenal, the government finally destroyed the monster

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with a secret weapon invented by Dr. Serizawa.
But that has been lost forever. Dr.
Serizawa was afraid of the terrible power he'd unleashed that
he refused to reveal its secret. He took it to the grave with him.
Godzilla put a curse on Japan. Ever since it first appeared,

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it seems we keep being invaded by these giant monsters.
Like moths. That giant moth spawned
by atomic tests in the South Pacific. Luckily, we destroyed
it with a massive heat ray gun.
Or Bigfoot Gaira. That attack was foiled

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after the government fought back and destroyed it with a MESA equipped battle
group. With each attack,
Tokyo suffered terrible destruction.
Thankfully, the citizens have always helped us rebuild.
But now Godzilla's back, and we've no way of defending ourselves.
We could decide to destroy every one of our cities and there's nothing

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we could do to stop it. You understand? We're not
blaming you here. You're not responsible for their deaths. This isn't a trial or
a court martial. All we want to know is how this happened. Just how
could it be that a brilliant young maser operator like yourself missed a target
as big as Godzilla? Were you afraid? Did you panic? Yes, sir. I did.
I panicked. They're blaming Akane for the whole thing.

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Now they've transferred her to a desk job.
Well, Minister, it seems we've got a problem here. Godzilla is unique.
It's immune to maser fire. I agree. This certainly
seems to be the case for now. But it won't happen again.
Never. As of now, we're developing a new weapon.

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It'll kill. Looks like a monster. What is it? Oh,
come on. You know what it is. Look again. They became extinct 245
million years ago. It's a trap. Trilobite. But it's a robot. Well,
half robot. Robotic exoskeleton inside
the muscles and nerves of a horseshoe crab. The brain. A tiny DNA computer.

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Look at it move. Just like it's alive. It's my way of conserving them.
Every species needs a hand, Especially now.
Humans are ruining the earth, destroying ecosystems by the
dozen. I will reverse this tide. Nobody's listening.
See ya soon. We get some lunch.
Dr. Yahara? Yeah. Relax. We're with

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the government. Could you please come with us? It's quite an urgent matter.
They're all here, sir. Gathered around this table
are the finest scientific minds in Japan. In fact, you scientists
are the brain of this country. I have something to show you. Something quite
shocking. Yes, sir. That's right.

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Godzilla. What you're looking at is the skeleton
of the 1954 Godzilla. Last year,
we salvaged it from the Pacific. Dr. Yahara, what do
you think? Can you recover an inter spinal cell? It won't be easy.
Hold on. You want to clone it? Not quite. We want to make something
like Godzilla. It's called a bio robot. You're familiar with those,

(30:31):
I hear. We want to build a super weapon to fight Godzilla. Our biomechanical
Godzilla will be even more powerful than the real thing.
That's why you're here, all of you. Japan needs you people.
The nation's fate is in your hands. The emergency
bill on the development of the anti Godzilla super weapon is officially

(30:54):
passed. Where's the money coming from? One question, please.
How much will it cost? This is the national emergency,
people. We'll find the money. If we use it on Godzilla, we might use
it on other countries. Prime Minister, is this an attempt to rearm Japan
with weapons of mass destruction? No, it most certainly is not.

(31:14):
I've contacted world leaders. I've explained to them the threat that we're
facing. Japan's been savaged by Godzilla on two occasions.
The world's seen the evidence. They know how the victims suffered.
I'll meet with any leader still skeptical. How do you like the job?
So Far not exactly a high stress affair, is it?
I'm sure you'll find it most relaxing. We must have the super weapon operable

(31:37):
before it decides to attack again. I assure you when it is built, we'll destroy
Godzilla and rid our country of this menace whatsoever.
Good morning, Sarah. It's ready.
Coming. The level of support we've seen for this bill is
unprecedented. Almost 77% of the diet voted in favor of the
anti gun service superweapon. There are those who claim that has rushed.

(32:00):
I'm hungry. Thanks, daddy. The overwhelming public support. It seems
that concerns like these aren't real high on the agenda. Well, Doctor,
what's your opinion on this? Well, it's pretty obvious, isn't it? People are
terrified. Godzilla's got everybody scared. But do you think that with this to
legalize the bill some legitimate. Are you going to take the jobs. Are being pushed

(32:21):
aside. No way. Why not? I told you, I have
to stay and keep you company. Look, you're the most important thing in my life.
Sarah, you need me. I can't just take a job and leave you. Don't say
that. It's not fair. You're gonna make me feel bad. Hey,
baseball stars. We'll do it like they do. You know,
the player keeps his kid in the dugout with him. They do it all the

(32:43):
time. Isn't that a good idea? Sarah, baseball's one thing.
My job's a lot different. Now eat your veggies. I don't want you getting scurvy
on me. What about you? I'm completely immune to scurvy. I wonder who that could
be. Come on, eat up girl, or we'll be late. Doctor, please reconsider
your decision. I already said no. Didn't you hear me? We did. You made your
views clear. But here's a new proposal. What if we let you take your daughter

(33:06):
to work with you? You know, like those baseball players. Might that be something would
help change your mind? Hamsters make great pets, don't they?
Hey, shorty. You always wear those stupid pigtails? Hey, she just
moved here last week. Don't pick on. See that place? They're making
a robot. Yeah, and it's gonna kick Godzilla's butt.
Oh yeah? And what do they call it? It's a

(33:29):
Godzilla robot. It's called Mechagodzilla.
Mechagodzilla. Cool.
Cool. This is where I live. Bye. Guys,
I'm home. Welcome home.
Amazing. Just look at them. The spinal cells,
they've begun to do divide. This is a great day for the project doctor.

(33:51):
And a really great day for us all.
Thank you. Well done. Thank you. Well done.
Well done. We did it. Congratulations. Fantastic. Why Godzilla?
Why not Mom? I wish they'd bring her back to life. Instead. Here is my
complaint about the constant reboot quill status we have in this millennium
series. This scene is necessary every time. Here are the monsters we know

(34:14):
exist in stock footage so that you know what is in this world or not.
The that's why was a clip.
That fucking skeleton model is the fucking shit as well.
Oh, my God. That skeleton model they build to show that they found the original
God of skill Godzilla skeleton and they harvested it and they want to build something
out of it. That looked so rad. Yeah,

(34:36):
I was excited when I saw that. I was not expecting it. Yeah, it's definitely.
It'll make you pop the first time you see it. Because it makes me pop
every time I see it. Almost up there with the stripe
skeleton at the end of Grims. Yeah, that's pretty badass. I would
like to have one of those. Anybody want to 3D print one of those and
send them to me. Chris from outside the cinema,

(34:59):
if you're still messing around with 3D printers. At the end of the clip,
the film starts a sequence of the disgraced maser operator lady
working out like the fucking song. The Best around by Joe Esposito
is blaring for her every moment she is doing it. And the little
girl who dished out classified info to be a cool,
cool kid is making friends and playing with hamsters like this

(35:21):
is her own personal tale of coming of age or some shit. Why we needed
to see that in this sequence of the lady working out in a Godzilla film.
I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe. Maybe the cinematographer
or director had just watched Silence of the Lambs and wanted
to have a bit of a Clarice Starling thing or.
Seriously, though, we had such great monster shit. Why are we doing this?

(35:44):
Why are we here? Why are we doing this now? We don't need this.
The film's an hour and 28 minutes. We don't need to watch this lady work
out and deal with her shit. We get it. She's troubled. The little girl is
also troubled. We didn't need any of this. They are haunted by their past.
I'm haunted by having to write that down in my notes.
Anyway, the film dissolves from this to a press conference. And that is

(36:05):
our fifth clip. Remember, this country is going to need strong leadership.
Can you lead them into battle? Yes.
And then it cuts to the woman working out even more. And then finally
we get to see the construction of Mechagodzilla. And then it cuts from that to
hopefully some longer Dialogue in a library in our sixth clip.

(36:27):
It's been a while. Listen. I'm leading the Kiyu Squad. Ku Squad?
Hmm. That's what they've called it. We're in charge of the weapon,
Mechagodzilla. We've got the best. Both pilots and crew.
I've put your name on the list, too. I watch. Want you back.
Please join us.
Kiyu Squad.

(36:50):
Right face.
Salute. At ease.
Kiyu Squadron, led by Colonel Togashi.
We're ready and reporting for. Judy.
What is this? Some kind of joke? What the hell are you doing here?

(37:13):
You know what? My brother died because of your mistake.
Quit it. You better watch your
backs, guys. She might screw up again. And then it'll be you in the body
bag. Hayama. What's going on? You got a problem?
You may be a pretty good pilot, but if you mess with my team,
I'll throw you off at double quick. That goes for a everybody. Come on,

(37:36):
let's go. Yeah.
We're the best. We're the best. We're the strongest. We're the strongest.
We're the meanest. We're the meanest. We will fight. We will fight. They will die.
They will die. We will win. We will win. We will win. We will win.
We will win. We will win.

(38:00):
Can I help you, ma'? Am? Tastes really good. You broke them when I found
it. Hey. Sleeping grass.
It moves when you touch it, right?
No. Coffee? Sure.
Here you go, ma'. Am. Thanks. Oh, I'll have the same as her.

(38:23):
Hi. Too obvious.
Butt out. Mind if
I sit down?
Sorry, Mr. Shira.
So, do you like children?

(38:44):
Oh, boy. Me and my big mouth.
Well, congratulations. I hear you punch piloting
Kiyu. That means they think you're the best pilot in the whole squad.
What a sick joke that is. You'll probably end up killing us all.
And who's this guy? A new admirer of yours?

(39:06):
How much did you have to pay him? Huh? Enough of that.
Beat it, old man.
Hayama, you need to learn some manners.
I see. Makes sense. That's why he's so hostile to you.
I thought there was something different about you.

(39:28):
I felt kind of a wall between you and the others.
Must be hard being alone.
So, have you had it for long? Yeah.
It's like her baby daddy. Sorry.
I had a plant when I was young. It was my only Friend.

(39:54):
No friends and no family. Some things never change.
And now I'm used to it.
It doesn't bother me anymore.
All right, let's make a deal. Deal.
If Mechagodzilla, my mistake.
If K beats Godzilla, then I'm going to buy you dinner

(40:17):
to celebrate. But then if K ends up eating Godzilla,
then its creator owes you an apology. So then I
guess I'll have to buy you dinner. What do you say, huh?
I liked my little plant, but I kept it too long.

(40:39):
Don't make the same mistake that I did. So she walks away as the little
girl watches. And that is the end of the first third of the film.
We are now exactly. I think it's 29 minutes about when it breaks up to
where it's. It's about 88 minutes. So it's around 29ish minutes to where
the third of the film are. And we're at the point of. They've just built
Mechagodzilla, and all of the major players are trying to get entangled in

(41:01):
all of their human drama. And it's. They're trying to side load
in a widowed man, a child who is deeply mourning
but not dealing with the loss of her mother, who resents her father,
showing interest in any other female because she thinks that her mother's
spirit is in that plant. Am I getting that right? Okay. I was. I wasn't

(41:22):
sure if it was her mother's spirit or the kid,
the baby who died when the mom died,
because the first time I had to take it back because I thought it was
a poor translation, because I thought when he said she. When she.
When my daughter was 4, the wife died in childbirth or whatever. And for a
second I was like, wait, wait. Did the kid survive the death of the mom?

(41:43):
No. There was going to be a little brother, a little sister.
I think it's the mom is her plant. And I could have sworn there were
times that they, like, lingered on the plant and it looked like the plant was
moving. Well, the plant could also be some, you know, other toxin inside my body.
No, no, the plants actually were moving. Because she does say in that clip something
about the type of grass that it is, that if you talk to it,

(42:03):
it'll move or something like that and like, it respond to
humans. And it's like a tool for someone who's in mourning, I think to have
someone or to feel like they're, you know, communicating with. I think she
says, like she. At some point, the lady does say about how she had had
one like it. But at some point, you know, you kind of have to come
back to reality, and you can't, you know, use this therapeutic tool for long.

(42:25):
And that's what that grass represents. So it could be the spirit
of both of them since. Yeah, and he does say that at first, it makes
it sound like the wife died in childbirth because he does say something about how
she had a choice where they could save the baby or they could save his
wife. And his wife decided she would rather give up her life to save the
baby. But that ended up being that both of them passed anyway. Like, they couldn't

(42:46):
save either. And that's why they were both lost. And that is what has such
a heavy toll on the daughter. And that's why she's carrying that plan around.
Because it's like a therapeutic thing, the way that it responds to communication or,
you know, whatever the humans do that it makes it move. Grief grass. Yeah,
it's a. Grief grass is basically what. Because it responds and it

(43:07):
gives you a sense of having something there, you know, like to communicate
with or what have you to ease your grief. So that's how it's set up.
And apparently this lady knew. My guess was after she had
those people be killed by a Godzilla waffle stomp, you know,
she probably got the grass for that reason, and now she's moved on and she's

(43:29):
trying to make amends by getting back into the fight. Right. I mean, that's kind
of what it seems like they're implying. Some of us use other kinds of grass
when we're trying to deal with grief. Yeah, yeah. I've got my own very special
blend of grief grass. I say
good grief and reach for that grass. That's what happens. Gotta grab the good grief
grass. Yeah, yeah. You gotta have that good grief grass. You can't have grief grass.

(43:52):
That isn't good. Because if you don't have good grief grass, what you have is
grief. That ain't good. All right,
you ready to kick into the second third of the film? Yes, sir. All right,
so the second third of the film starts with an establishing shot shot. That porno
pans over the Mechagodzilla suit as it is set up in under construction
mode. They follow all the way up to the top where a presentation

(44:13):
is started with some talky hole expository dialogue. And our
seventh clip. Welcome. I'd like to announce that the anti Godzilla weapon
is ready. Soon our country will be impregnable.
The government would like to extend its heartfelt thanks to all of involved
in making this massive project a reality. And we hope you share our

(44:33):
pride as we present this great achievement to the world.
Congratulations. We've done it. The chief
scientists involved will now explain the machine's structure and performance.
Good afternoon. The robot's form is based on Godzilla's
body. Kiyu's robotics are the most advanced the world has ever seen.
It has been designed designed to withstand every conceivable combat situation.

(44:58):
Now, to its cpu, it's powered by DNA computers.
With ordinary computers, the binary system is used.
But DNA ones use base 4 and are the fastest
computers that exist today. Q can be programmed for specific
battle operations. But at any point, those parameters can be changed instantaneously

(45:19):
by remote control from the AC3 transport craft.
Captain. What the heck is that?
A whale? No. Too big. This is AMF
hq. We're tracking a very large animal in the Pacific.
Scramble all aircraft and intercept immediately. Kiyu can
be in a combat situation for two hours. If we needed to fight

(45:43):
any longer, the machine can be remotely recharged using an aircraft
implanted with microwave energy. Launched from the nearest air force base.
Its main weapon is a powerful gun. Observe.
It's called the Absolute Zero gun, and it's extremely effective.
Please watch the screen. We held our first live fire test of

(46:03):
the weapon late last week. Basically, it emits an intense low
temperature ray which freezes the target to absolute zero or
minus 2, 273 degrees. This allows destruction of
the target at a molecular level.

(46:27):
At last, we have the ultimate weapon. There's something
moving down there. There's no way It's a ship with. The Absolute Zero
weapon. And in addition to its huge arsenal of more conventional weapons,
Kyu is an invincible. He's heading due north, straight from Tokyo. Excuse me. Would this
carry nuclear weapons or conventional weapons? Alert the Joint Chiefs

(46:48):
immediately. Prepare Kiyu. Sir.
Kieu Squadron, we have a code red. This is
not a drill. We are on red alert. You are now under the direct
orders of the AMF Chief of Staff. KU Squadron,
prepare for departure. This is not a drill. Repeat, Godzilla not a drill.

(47:09):
Godzilla. White Heron,
cruise to your aircraft. All systems
green. Systems check complete.
Lift joint okay. Unlock step up.
White Herons 1, 2 and 3 to win. Dock position.

(47:30):
Barriers up. We are go for liftoff.
US Army's on the line, sir. Wait here.
The White Herons are ready to go liftoff.
Roger,
Heron two. Lifting off.
Opening Q bay doors.

(47:53):
Commencing left procedure. Doors are
fully open. ATP system clear.
Ground crew, pull back to safe zone immediately.
Repeat, ground crew, pull back to safe zone. Immediately.
Body locks away.

(48:15):
Light errands 1, 2 and 3 in position.
Lowering transport cables.
Commence key lift procedure.
Kiyu has lifted up. Aircraft are clear.

(48:35):
Balance gyros optimal. Control.
They're on the way. Godzilla has just entered
Tokyo Bay. It is heading directly for the city's down downtown area. Other cities are
threatened. Yokosuka, Yokohama, also Kawasaki.
Evacuations have begun. Eyewitnesses are reporting severe
road conditions. Evacuees should abandon their vehicles.

(48:57):
Joking. Move it. Get out of the
Come on, move it. Godzilla has sighted nearby. Evacuate the
area immediately. Hey, come here.

(49:22):
Godzilla has sighted nearby. Evacuate the area immediately.
Don't just stand there. We've got to get out of here.
Has finished. All visitors to the Akijima Sea paradise must
leave the park immediately. Please follow the instructions given by military

(49:44):
personnel. Get your children directly to the nearest place of safety.
We've just signed of Godzilla.
Pull back. Back. Pull back. Now the

(50:09):
model and effects work in. This is a bit of a mixed bag.
And the discussion is rife with unnecessary declarative statements
about the capabilities that this new Godzilla has. And just when they pull
a roger in dawn of the Dead and brag about how indestructible this new
Mechagodzilla is, Godzilla pops up from the ocean there at the end of the clip,
activating the whole launch sequence that you end up hearing.

(50:31):
And at the end of the clip, Godzilla walks through. And as I always like
to say, and I mean, right the. Through a model of that
large stadium, that it's passable. They do a nice shot of it that they
have before, but the model doesn't quite look right. That's why I said it's a
bit of a mixed bag. But watching him walk right the fuck through it.
I just pressed the I believe button and it didn't care. It looked fine to

(50:51):
me. It was passable. Yeah, I even like that. You know,
sometimes I feel like when they're working with making small
water, like miniature water things, sometimes it looks like
big water, sometimes it looks like splashing little water. Yeah,
you'll even get that. I think I feel like in Temple
of Doom, there's even a part where it's like that looks like small water,

(51:14):
if that makes any sense to you. I know. Actually don't have a lot of
the technical. Yeah, you are 100% correct. What a lot of people may or
may not know is that water and things like water and fire and stuff
like that to do in miniatures is very, very difficult. Which is why Peter Jackson
went to what is called a bigature Right. Where I think he went to a
larger scale model that would help sell that for a lot of his water.

(51:37):
He still used a lot of CGI water in Lord of the Rings and stuff
like that, but he did try to use larger models to help sell the water
a little bit more and make it more passable. Even like Superman,
when that dam breaks in the Dick Donner Superman movies, that water's
not very believable either. The. The thing that Toho does really, really well that makes

(51:57):
Godzilla emerging out of the water work is they had a gigantic fucking tank
that they could have him like. Like to scale, look like a giant
ocean area that he emerges from, and it was just deep enough for the suit
to come up out of and walk around in. And that's how they make that
stuff really, really work because they composite it in with that giant fucking tank that
they have. That really helps. Yeah, but when you're starting to do, like you said,

(52:20):
like a rushing water thing, you have to have rushing
water be of enough of a scale for it to trick your eye. Still really
difficult because water in that mass of a quantity has a different weight
and flow to it than when it's less. Like, less quantity. You dump
it on and it splashes and froths a little bit. It doesn't look the same.
And you're absolutely right. It's a problem that affects people have been fighting with forever.

(52:43):
And even CG has such a difficult time trying to recreate that.
I mean, I'm sure that competes a little bit with that. Like, what is the
word? Atavistic or atavistic like prime. Like primordial or
primal feeling of fight or flight. Like we're. Our eyes
are more trained. Like, is this fire? Is this water actually dangerous?
Yeah, to me. And I'm sure that's ingrained deep down in our reptile

(53:07):
brain, you know? Yeah. And I think if we start being able to deceive our
brains that much, to where we won't be able to tell the difference.
Who's to say that entertainment isn't going to take us too far and start,
like, literally killing us? Because there's some people that will have some fucking heart attacks
if they believe they're about to drown. Like, if it really fools your brain that
much when you're watching entertainment. Right. That's where VR comes in and it's like,

(53:28):
oh, how dangerous? Dangerous can that go? Yeah, people just falling over,
you know, Run. Yeah, yeah. Running. Running and yanking TV down
on top of them. Sprady Krueger Style or
scream. Whichever reference you'd rather. Yeah, Yeah.
I was thinking Shocker. With all the TV TV deaths in Shocker.

(53:48):
Shocker. Yeah. All right. Let's get back to it. Just one
more thing about the suit. They at least built this shit. And that
looks way fucking better than CGI rubble fields that we've seen in the Millennium
Series before. Especially Godzilla walking through this in 2000 when he's walking through the city
and they do just CG dust and rubble fields around for every step.

(54:08):
This stuff is actual rubble happening. And I would much rather see a
model that's not as convincing be smashed. Because at least it's something being
smashed in front of me to watch and not just cgi. Yeah.
All right. It's hard for Mechagodzilla to work with a green screen.
Absolutely. The military and Mecha G move into position. Flying over Big
G in a terrific aerial shot to show sc. The matte lines are a bit

(54:32):
iffy on this, but it's still solid. It still looks good. And that leads to
our eighth clip here. Squadron are in position.
Standby to initiate attack sequence. All troops
stand by to launch attack. Activate the maser guns.
Can Kiyu stop that thing?
Target sight. Begin descent. Roger.

(54:55):
Beginning descent. AKA Jima has been evacuated.
Kiyu has landed. All aircraft get out of its field of fire.
Evacuate the area. Transport cables fully retracted.
Light Hero 3 is pulling out. Commence attack.
Roger. Rockets armed. Firing Missiles

(55:15):
away. Hit it with the masers. Do it now.
Roger.
Check it out. It's retreating. Akane, Finish it
off. Absolute zero. Standby.

(55:39):
Close off. It's primed. What's wrong?
I'm not getting response. Something's wrong here.
We're losing control. Switch to backup. This can't be happening.
Now. Godzilla's gonna get away. Kiyu is
no longer responding to commands. Akane.
What's happening down there? It won't respond.

(56:01):
Roger that. Take it back to base. Roger.
Roger. Jesus Christ. Are you
trying to kill us? Akane. What's wrong? It's out of control.
It's gone berserk. It's what.

(56:22):
It'S acting like. System overridezilla.
All units remain in place. Standby for the order to attack.
Where the hell's the K squad? Control?
I'll try and distract Might. Follow me.
You sure? Just leave it to me.

(56:42):
Damn it. Follow me, would you?
Aaron 3 stout, sir. You okay?
Hi, Emma. Hayama. Let's get out of
here. Get out.

(57:05):
Why'd you say save me? It's working fine. It's just
not responding. Of Course K thinks we're the enemy.
This is nothing. Wait till it fires its main weapon. Can't you
stop it? Do something now. I'm sorry,
sir. All we can do now is wait till it runs out of power.
How long will that take?

(57:26):
An hour. God help us.
Not responding to remote shutdown commands. When you around
with giant monster skeletons, you often fight out that it will
become an unstoppable force of doom. Until it runs
out of power anyway. Which is what seems to happen to the rampaging

(57:47):
monstrosity as it runs out of power after walking through. And I mean
right the fuck through a skyscraper. That one looks perfect.
That cartoon style. Yeah. No notes. It walked right the fuck through. No notes.
That looked great. With the setting sun behind
the city to really sell some scale here, though. This looks gorgeous. This whole

(58:07):
sequence I really enjoyed. I think this sequence had some very
terrific model work. And it all works for me. It really sells it. And when
he walks through that fucking building and it stays together except for that cartoon shape
where he used to be, I'm thinking to myself, well, this is Tokyo,
right? Or this is Japan's city that is being constantly barraged

(58:28):
and hit by these giant monsters. They probably would make a structure
that was sturdy enough for one of them to walk through. And then they just
have to repair the middle section. Yeah, I mean, we talked a
little bit about that in the last one. And I'm sure
gets talked about a lot in Godzilla related movies is in a Godzilla
existent world. It would affect so many different. It would. It would affect

(58:52):
architecture. Yeah. You would design a building to be walked through and at
least save as much of it as you can. Because as long as your side
girders hold and the whole building is sturdy, you're fine.
Yeah. Fill in the middle. Right. Now, obviously the people
trapped in the building are not fine. And like, all of that stuff, it's still
a loss. But, you know, I mean, I'm sure insurance companies are not even

(59:13):
a thing. When Kaijus exist, it's pretty much everybody has to pitch in and deal
with Kaijus or else. Right. Like, that's just like rebuilding a sports stadium
that just gets taken out of the government money. Right, Right. It has to come
out of everybody's pocket. There has to be like a unitary thing where we all
work together to make it happen. Otherwise we don't have a society. We just have
a bunch of drones running around at selfish ends, doing their own thing and trying

(59:36):
to survive. And then the whole colony collapses. And that's not what we want.
Yeah, you get Japanese leaders elected and they're like. Lots of
countries are not paying their fair share in rebuilding after
the Kaijus hit us. It's very unfair. Very unfair.
I have no idea what you are referring to, sir. So I'm just going to
move on with the rest of my notes. Moving on. Moving on. Wrong show.

(59:59):
Wrong show. The model work looks fucking gorgeous. They cut away from this
to newspaper headlines that basically state what a fuck up this
all is and call for the resignation of the new leader of the nation
and so forth. They cut to that leader in this film,
looking dour and getting out of a car. That means dialogue of an
expository nature is on our way. In our ninth clip. Have you found Godzilla yet?

(01:00:21):
No, not yet. So far we found no trace of it.
I see. I'll take full responsibility.
I pushed Project KIU too hard.
But you can't resign, so. Sir, we need Kiyu.
What happened was a design floor. It can be fixed. And what about the squadron?
I really don't know. You see, son, Kiyu and Godzilla have the

(01:00:44):
same DNA. So Kiyu might turn against us again.
Circular joint. Okay.
Something out there sure made it angry. But what could it be?
Akamatsu, I need your data now. Sure.

(01:01:09):
It happened right after Godzilla's roar. It was the sound.
It triggered something in Mechagodzilla. So will you be able to fix
Q? Of course. You see, all Q's computers were put
together using the original Godzilla's DNA. But we can fix that.
If we change the base DNA and then assemble completely new computers.

(01:01:29):
Then we're home free and Godzilla will be finished. Let's hope so. But it's
a waste. I'm sure Godzilla will end up destroying Q.
Maybe. But listen, Kyu's all we've got,
right? Just for you. I will give it my all.
There goes my mouth again. Hey,
how's the head? That was a close shave. Why did you save me?

(01:01:51):
Huh? So that I don't owe you my life? I'd rather be dead. What's your
problem? Hey, man, she saved my life as well.
Oh, great. So you're all on her side, are you? Cut the
crap. We're fighting Godzilla here, not Akane.
Drop the attitude, would you? All right.
Hey, come on. Let's get out of here. Where did Sarah go

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to? Sarah? What are you doing?
Dad? K is a living creature to too, right? Why are
we making it fight Godzilla when it just wants to be friends? It's not
fair. The H Bomb created Godzilla. So we build a Cyborg to destroy
it, and it turns on us. Well, it's our own fault, nobody else's.
I know what you mean. I really do. No, you don't.

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You adults, you tell us all that life is important, but you
don't believe it. Just look. That poor creature is in pain and you don't care.
Sarah, she's been through a lot. When she
was 4, her mom died in childbirth. She got sick. It was just one of
those things. You see, the doctors told us that they could either save her life
or the life of the baby. Tough choice. I told the doctor to save my

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wife's life. My wife, she wanted the baby to be born more than anything.
And then we had Sarah, who wanted them both to stay alive. Of course,
sadly, both of them ended up dying. Ever since then,
little Sarah has been really sensitive about things that to do with life and death.
Hey, are you talking with your mother again? Sarah, that's none of your
business. You have to stop running away from reality. Move on.

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I know it's scary, but you have to stop it. Just leave me alone.
Hey. If you want to survive, you've got to put up a fight. That's what
I've had to do. What do you mean? Fight who? I've had to fight everyone.
Anyway, Q is alive. You're right. And it's a lot like me. His life
is worth nothing at all. What are you talking about? No, it's not.
Nobody's gonna miss me when I'm gone. I should never at all. Stop it.

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Life is a precious. Every life is worth something.
Everyone. Are you sure? They cut from this to Big G under the water
in the ocean, taking a little R and R. And they use this as
an opportunity to do some great puppeteering of the eyelid and
the iris of his eye before they cut from this to human dialogue
stuff in our tent. Whip, here's the latest sonar contact.

(01:04:04):
It's close. Godzilla Possum
probably. It's moving real fast. Godzilla has
been sighted in Tokyo Bay. It's heading towards Shinigawa.
ETA is over 100 hours. All troops, take your positions
immediately. The evacuation is proceeding according to
plan, sir.

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Unit in position on Shinagawa pier.
There it is. Hold your ground.
Begin attack. F2, yellow five. Beginning attack.
Godzilla heads inland and is attacked by jets. At the end
of the clip, he responds by frying the jets with his atomic breath. There is

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a terrific shot of him walking towards the cameras lit like the monster
he is. While the jets he fried crash into fiery explosions
through the hellscape he is Walking.
Total badass moment there. Because it all just lights up. Big red fire.
And then he's just stepping through it like, yeah, you're done.
Yeah, slow Mo. Stroll mo. The military moves mazers

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and other weapons into position. And they blast away with maser fire
in retreat before Big G just fries the entire fucking
dock. He is right near with his atomic breath. And they
cut from that shot to a shot of Mecha g. And our.
11Th clip has landed at Shinagawa Q.
Overhaul complete. Diagnostics complete. All parameters

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Shinigawa's under sustained attack. All troops fall back to
defensive positions. The repairs are complete. It's ready.
Aren't you gonna scramble the squad? Not yet. All our other
weaponry is useless. What are we waiting for? More innocent people?
People to be killed? Unit one is sustained 40 damage. Unit two,
move to front line. Move it up. Come on. Right, let's go.

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Chief of Staff is waiting for you, sir. He's at the central command
post. He'll brief you there. Very good. And the head of AMF in the.
Kiyu control room, Sir. What is it? Sir, I'd like
permission to launch K. It's been fully repaired.
It's completely safe. You better be sure, Togashi. Both our futures depend on

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this. I'd stake my life on planet.
Permission granted. It's the only chance we
have left against Godzilla. I take full responsibility.
Godspeed to you, Colonel. General.
The Prime Minister gave the okay.
I heard. That's good news. I'm going with them.

(01:06:53):
Fine. Systems check complete. All systems green.
Gentlemen. Launch Kyu. Initiating K launch
procedure. At the end of the clip,
the daughter of the genetic computer guy extends a hand out to
the female pilot that is making her father tumescent in all

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definitions of the word. And we are left wondering what will happen with this
handshake as that takes us over the 2/3 mark of the film.
So we are almost there. We're ready for pretty much the final
showdown of the movie and the battle. Because we only got about 28 minutes left.
And I don't know how much of that is going to be suit fight.
I didn't quite time it all out, but it was enough to make me happy

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to watch this once again. That's all I'm going to say. Final countdown.
The thing I think the Matt will hate the most about you guest hosting is
you get to sing and he doesn't. Because I'm not going to yell at you
for that. I'm sorry. I didn't do that on purpose. I forgot.
All right, so we've Got this shaping up.

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So Kira has this issue where because it is built out of a
Godzilla, it somehow became self aware as a Godzilla
again on how they built it from the Godzilla roar. And then it went and
griefed its own city. And Godzilla is like, oh, you got this. And just was
like, okay, well. And then he just walks away. And I also think that Godzilla

(01:08:19):
wasn't going to attack that one because the DNA was close enough in
how it was built that something was making Godzilla think that they were together,
like they were kind of the same, or that it was another creature like him,
you know, and it was friend shaped. Is a friend. Yeah. If not friend,
why not? Why friend shaped, Right? Yeah.
And also, maybe there was like a, you know, like a sense because, you know

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how animals will have like a certain scent and they can tell that they're the
same kind of animal or something along those lines. You can differentiate with that.
And maybe there's something there that Godzilla can sense that it
was built out of. You know, the original him, if you will.
I can tell there's part of me. Which is why I think it just kind
of roars when it gets attacked and is like, okay, well, well, I'll leave you

(01:09:02):
alone then. And just walks away. Right. I think that's why Godzilla does that in
this one the first time around, you know, just to let Mecha G go off
and rampage. And it's fun to watch Mecha G actually destroy
the city too, so. But then they come back and they decide they're going
to make it to where Mecha G won't react to the Godzilla roar.
And they think they have the problem solved. And that's where our final battle is

(01:09:23):
getting started. And I'm pretty sure that that's going to be whatever they change is
going to make it to where Big G is going to now. Say, hey,
you friend shape, but you don't smell right or you don't feel right.
We're going from don't start nothing. Won't be nothing to
f around. Find out.
And we also may or may not

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have a situation to where it's kind of uncanny valley
which angers Godzilla even more, where he's like, you look like you might be me,
but you ain't me, and I don't like it. I'm gonna show you how
me I can be. You can't out me
me. That's where I keep. Right now.

(01:10:07):
Now let's move on to the end with the run to the end. What do
you think? I'm down. All right. So the run to the end picks up with
the female hero pilot smiling at the daughter, looking to shake hands with
her. They shake hands. The dad is shown sighing relief, and the
pilot bolts out as they cut to Mecha G taking
off. And then to the daughter who says some talky hole stuff

(01:10:28):
in our 12th clip. You know, Mom,
I kind of like her. She reminds me of
you. Coming aboard.
We are coming to you live from outside Shawa Hospital,
seeing her as one of complete devastation.
Well, they're lying on floors and Godzilla.

(01:10:58):
I see, see it? Range 350 meters.
It's coming right for us. SSM1, activate your
squadron. Be advised, Godzilla is approaching the hospital. We're too
late. We'll have to release K. What? Is she serious?

(01:11:18):
Prepare to release. Yeah, she's serious. She's still trying to get us to call a
Kira when we know it's Mechagodzilla for Godzilla.
Deal with it, lady. It's fucking. Mechagodzilla doesn't
need to be called anything else. With that, Mecha G fires up its
own mega rockets and starts flying its way in relatively tolerable

(01:11:39):
CGI fashion towards its intended target at significantly faster speeds.
They cut from this to the inside of a tank and our 13th clip.
SSM1, fire.
With that, they fire off a bunch of missiles into Big G.
And he returns fire with a massive atomic breath blast.

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As Mecha G swoops in to the rescue, we see a nurse
realize a little girl is still inside the hospital that Big
G seems determined to destroy, like the bad boy he is in this flick.
And he full on gives the fuck you eyes to the nurse standing
there about to be obliterated. But before the blast of the his atomic breath

(01:12:22):
can happen, Mechagodzilla does an epic anime vaso
slide into the right of the frame, shoulder checking Godzilla like
the hockey enforcers of old. Right out of gameplay,
right up against the boards, right? Did it not look like that? Like he fucking
board checks Godzilla hard that Mechagodzilla does. Yeah,

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make him know you're there. Mecha G is holding
a pose, glowing, glowing brightly for quite a bit of time before that
light effect fades and it gets back into its straight standing robot
pose. The soldier who stayed behind to try to help the nurse takes the
opportunity to try once again to get us to call Mecha G

(01:13:04):
that odd name before he evacuates her out to safety. No,
it's Mecha G. It's not that other name.
You're not selling me on this movie. We're rebranding.
We're trying to rebrand. They cut from this to Big G getting up out of
the rubble and out a roar. Mecha G steps into position.
And they cut to even more talky hole dialogue

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in our 14th clip. Get in, quick.
Evacuation of the area complete. Akane, your go.
Roger. Commencing attack. This sets off a hellfire
of missiles at Big G with terrific explosions and smoke effects.
But is barely an inconvenience for Big G who roars and charges

(01:13:50):
at Mecha G. Mecha G roars his own soulless bionic battlecry and
charges in to meet Big G in a set of explosive collisions.
There's explosions every time they run into each other. It looks like they're smashing into
things or stomping on cars that explode. And then also the buildings look like they
kind of go up. But also it looks like just Big G causes a random

(01:14:10):
explosion everywhere. It strikes against Mecha G too. So I'm not sure exactly
if that's all of it or if that was all intended to be just that
way or if they just had them have explosions whenever they hit. Just to sell
it. I don't know. Against metal.
Right? Who knows? Godzilla gets the upper hand and really
pushes Mecha G back. So Mecha G fires off a ton of missiles and

(01:14:34):
then flies in a retreat to use maser fire from the mouth on Big G
for what feels like fucking ages. Until Big G does a
direct atomic breath blast that sends Mecha G into
next week and out of the fucking frame. They cut to some
talkie hole dialogue and our 15th clip. Give me a damage report.

(01:14:57):
We're okay.
Mecha G appears to have lost its shoulder cannon in that atomic
breath blast that sent it rocking backwards. But it is back up,
engaging in what we in the hillbilly appreciators of Godzilla business

(01:15:19):
call a Kaiju slobber knocker. Big G
decides to make the shoulder cannon ratio an even number once
again by forcibly removing the last one with a short arm punch.
They get knocked apart and engage in the traditional
test of strength mercy game that you see wrestlers like to do a lot.
They used to call it Indian wrestling, but that's a problematic term now. But it's

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basically you clutch hands and try to see who can make the other one get
down on their knee by being stronger and breaking the wrist back and pushing the
arms down and stuff. That's what they're doing. This tense of strength and mercy game
continues. Which Godzilla starts to win until
Mecha G stabs him right in the bicep. With a hidden
arm sword that also starts pumping what looks like that yellow

(01:16:02):
mazer power into it as well. Is that what you thought it was? Yeah,
that's what I thought it was. I thought, yeah.
This does Big G real dirty and
really seems to hurt him until he starts glowing super blue
and atomic breath blasts that weapon right the fuck into
oblivion. And to add insult to injury, Big G shows us he

(01:16:24):
has been trained as as he executes a devastating front
heel pump kick that puts Mecha G on its back
for the fucking count. That was fucking awesome. And yanks
the blade out of its arm. Yeah, that's the next thing that he does.
Big G pulls that knife blade right out of his arm. It's still sticking in
his bicep. He pulls it right out and then just carelessly discards it like it

(01:16:45):
was, I don't know, like a sliver or a splinter and it doesn't even matter.
Before crouching back into his modern fighting stance and getting ready to
do some more stomping on Mecha G. So he goes charging, stomping his way at
Mech G, and uses that momentum to stomp a foot firmly
on his opponent, pinning it down and firing up a mega
atomic breath blast that is interrupted at the last second

(01:17:08):
when Big G is struck multiple times with missile fire. Which leads
into our 16th clip. You're clear. Get out.
Back unit away. Releasing now.
This bit of silliness has the back rocket fired
at Godzilla, driving him backward and far enough away
for Mecha G to regroup. Godzilla tosses the rocket aside

(01:17:32):
after it's not pushing him that strongly and
mostly out of fuel. This causes the rocket pack to still explode into
a beautiful goddamn fireball right next to him. No notes.
Perfection.
The pilot declares that she will now show the Godzilla
what Mecha G can do and activate some kind of hypersonic

(01:17:54):
ultra fast movement Cass Hearn style motion attack. Side note
for listeners, if you don't know what any of that, fine, but find the live
action Cassern at some point from this same era. And I hope it's as cool
as I remember it. Anyway, Mecha G does some kind of old school Superman leap
and is then behind Big G. Big G turns and the pair start

(01:18:14):
another slobber knocker battle. This time they are working
us, with Mecha G hammering down on Big G and
really driving him backward through the cityscape.
Complete with actual miniature debris fields and pulver cement
dust everywhere. All of it practical too. That dust that's going
around everywhere and flying off of them when they're hitting. Wow. Really well done model

(01:18:37):
work in this sequence. Very well. Yeah. You feel. You feel the depth of the
debris. Yeah. This drive backwards ends with
Godzilla sprawled out face down. So Mecha G does some more silliness with
a mega tailspin using its remaining back
rockets that spin ends with a massive toss of Big G

(01:18:58):
by the tail across the city. Crashing to the ground as Mecha
G charges to press its attack. Big G gets up, looks a bit
woozy. Actually looks woozy as fuck. And then immediately
falls right back over again. Folks, this is just to
work. You don't need to worry about Big G. His rage filled ass is just
happy to have a good fight right now. And is totally pulling a rope.

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A dope. Because not only can he take this punishment, he's just gonna get stronger
when he heals from every attack that's happening. But anyway, the people celebrate too much
in our 17th clip. We did can't happen
fight for much longer. Its power cells are running down.
The current readings show only 45% left.
We have to finish this quickly. Roger that.

(01:19:43):
Akane. Absolute Zero standby.
Absolute Zero standby. Locks off.
Absolute Zero away. The buildings
have disappeared. What are you doing? Akan. Get up.
I can't, sir. Kiyo's not responding. What? Sir.
The heat ray. It's damaged Kiyu's control systems. Get it fixed.

(01:20:07):
It's not over yet. Guys. There's a way to operate Kyu manually,
right? I can get into it through an external hatch. That's it. Are you
kidding? She'll die. That's not a heat ray. It's a stream of pure radiation.
I'm going. You can't stop me. I'm not afraid to die.
Negative. Wish me luck. No, wait.
Akane. You can't do this. Stop. Get back in formation.

(01:20:31):
Take care. Good luck. I know you can
do it. All Mazer Gun units fired. Godzilla.
Draw its attention. Are the energy levels holding? No,
they're dropping fast. They're almost down to zero. Call the power company.
There must be a way to get power from the city's power grid. To get
enough, we'd have to black out the whole of Tokyo. We'll do it.

(01:20:52):
No question. I'll call him personally.
Damn it. Some of the dialogue. Right? Like it's that corny.
Yeah. You know, your ego's right. And checks your body can't cash
type stuff. Yeah, yeah. There's. Okay, we. We kind of talked about it. Where the
clip was playing. So I might as well bring it up here. Now that the
clip is Done. There's like a lot of dialogue in this with the military

(01:21:14):
people that run the Kiru. Like Mechagodzilla functions where
it feels like they're hotshots dialogue. Or like Hot Shots Part two.
It's like you said, your mouth writing checks your body can't cash
and stuff like that. Where they put in the cliches in Hot Shots to point
out how cliche this stuff is. And yet the dialogue that's dubbed in here is
almost exactly the same. And they're trying to play it as if it's straight,

(01:21:35):
right? Yeah. And it could be more beautifully said in
the original Japanese. But yeah, let's just hope so for that sake. But it
doesn't fucking matter because the Kaiju shit is solid on this one. That's all that
matters to me. Yes, this movie is what it's supposed to be.
With that, the Akani lady fires her batarang gun from the 90s
Batman movies and weasels her way inside of that Mecha G. And they

(01:21:59):
cut to more expository dialogue in our 18th.
Suspend the power supply to all areas. Area 15 and 16
off. Area 17 and 18 off. There's no work

(01:22:22):
Make sure you decontaminate. Yes, Dr. Yahara.
It's on, but it's
out of power. We're sending it. Stand by.
Microwave transition command receiving.
Locked on. Radiate.

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K. I know you can hear me.
You and I are going to get along just fine.
Now let's have some fun.
Okay, we are gonna.

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Akane, look out. The clip ends with Mecha G being
properly piloted by Akane. It's back up on its cybernetic
feet all of 0 seconds before big G pulls a
nasty and shoots that fucking thing in the back with some super strong
atomic breath. And it's breath so strong as a matter of fact, it sends Mecha

(01:23:29):
G fast stumble stomping its way forward with the blast's
momentum. The Mecha G is now knocked to the ground. And Big G is a
bit of a sore winner as he gloats a little bit with his little roar.
I'm not wrong, right? It did seem like they were making him look like he
was gloating there, right? Yeah. That was a bit of a yeah. From Godzilla.
A little Ray Jackson and early on in Bloodsport.

(01:23:54):
Yeah, I did it. I did it. No.
Akane is knocked cold and has a flash flashback to about
an hour and 10 minutes ago or so to the death she is responsible
for. And then has a flash forward from there to less than 15
minutes ago. Where we see the girl accept her and then like,
what, 20 minutes before that, when the team finally accepted her, they flash

(01:24:17):
to that. They accept her from saving the other pilots. I guess they thought
we would have forgotten all of this that happened and that's why they need to
reshow it. I don't know. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure they're counting on,
you know, a significant portion of people checking out during
some of those parts. So it's like, do you remember, Remember this? Or seeing this
for the first time? They end this silliness with a shot of the doc that

(01:24:38):
has the hots for this saucy pilot named Akane.
And then we get the obligatory psychic moment when
the girl projects her feelings of loss for her mother onto this
woman and asks her not to die. She actually gets to see her say that
this has Akane ready to fight as she calls out to the spirit of Mecha
G and then gets into the pilot seat and gets

(01:25:01):
the thing back up on its feet. Big G prepares a mega blast of atomic
breath. But the main pilot dude decides he will sacrifice himself. So he
ejects his co pilot somehow and then flies right
at Godzilla's mouth, taking a breath blast and still crashing right
into Godzilla's mouth. Big G chomps down and smashes the

(01:25:22):
fuck out of the plane with one arm bar
drop, leaving the main guy in the plane alive in
the mouth of this beast as he orders Akane to
fire that Absolute Zero now that Godzilla's mouth is clogged
up with his corpse to be, what the fuck?
I forget about this every fucking time. And every time I'm like,

(01:25:45):
that's the most insane thing I think I might have seen in a Godzilla film.
Like last week when Dan and I was covering our film, the guy flies a
sub into Godzilla's mouth to be able to fire a rocket from inside of him
to kill him or attempt to kill him. This pilot was like, you know what?
I'm just gonna kamikaze my way into his fucking mouth and let's see what happens.
This is how you fuck around and find out.

(01:26:06):
Still more plausible than the Jaws, the revenge.
Yeah, but that bought Michael Caine a house with a really nice pull. So I'm
fine with that. Right? Good for him. He deserves it. Absolutely. I 100% agree.
All right, so the pilot does just that. After the
order, she fires up the Absolute Zero. But she uses all
the power the jets and the rest of the machine has to charge

(01:26:29):
forward and bear hug Godzilla while yanking the plane
out of his mouth, launching that pilot dude out, activating his parachute.
Then she grabs Big G's mouth and clamps it shut
using her control of Mecha G while flying off, holding the
Absolute Zero tight against Godzilla's chest and struggling

(01:26:49):
to hold it all together while hurtling towards the ocean.
They crash under the sea and she fires off the Absolute Zero.
We get quite stunned reactions from the cast as
a giant CGI ice monolith constructs itself out of
million of frozen spikes refreezing together like an H
bomb explosion of ice in the shape of it. Does that sound about right?

(01:27:13):
Yeah, like an atomic mushroom cloud of. Ice sickles freezing
together, climbing its way upwards. Yeah. This ice
monolith then shatters and underneath we get a little peek of what appears to
be a few Godzilla spines. Out from under all of that ice. He breaks from
the surface and gives us a that was a bit brisk sounding

(01:27:33):
roar in our clip, Godzilla has resurfaced.
No sign of Kuming
control. Main weapon damaged. Power cells depleted.
I'm sorry. I failed. No,

(01:27:54):
you didn't. You did great.
Just great. Send a rescue unit to K Akani.
We're coming to get you.
Had sustained 37% damage.
Well, we couldn't destroy it,

(01:28:16):
but we did manage to drive Godzilla away.
Yes, we did. At last we can beat Godzilla.
It'll be dead soon. We had to sacrifice a lot to get here. But this.
This is a great victory.
Thank you.

(01:28:36):
Is a Numa. Great job.
Sarah. Where is she?
They cut from the control room to Akane getting out of Mecha
G to stand in her Rob Liefeld designed pouch covered

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flight suit and stare off into the sunset watching Big G
make his way out into the ocean. And then they roll those credits.
Cinema Sylps but wait. There is
a scene of Akane looking at the Mecha G being rebuilt
in a stinger at the very end of the credits. And they do some talky

(01:29:20):
hole explaining in our final clip. The care crew reports to deck
one immediately. Repeat, repair crew report to deck one.
Thank you. For what? For giving me the strength I needed.
And that goes for you as well. Every life is worth something. I know
what you meant by that. Now where's the plant? Oh yeah,
Remember our bet? I have to buy you dinner to celebrate your victory.

(01:29:43):
No, I didn't win that. We'll call it a tie. You know what that means?
I have to buy the two of you dinner sometimes.
I'm in. And with that
very creepy, misogynistic, weird thing that he just said to his own daughter,
we end this film. Cinema PsyOps

(01:30:05):
oh, man, the model work. Fighting in this is definitely where
it's at. All of the fighting in this is really well done. This is
one of the best Mecha G sculpts out of all of them. I really
like the one from the 90s quite a bit, and I'm not sure which one
is the one that ended up in Ready Player one that I've talked about before,
but it looks like it's a. Like, it just tries to get a general mechagodzilla

(01:30:28):
thing. I don't think it's a very specific one, but it also feels very much
like the 70s version. But he has other weaponry in it too,
so it's, you know, like anything whenever it becomes fandom. As long
as it's enough like a Mecha G whenever you see it in that kind of
a game, you know it's a Mecha G, but they change it just enough to
get away with it being Mecha G. Yeah. Justin. Yeah.

(01:30:48):
I don't like that they keep calling the thing Kiro. I like the idea that.
I get the idea that it's like a biomechanical. It's not quite a machine.
It's not quite a Kaiju. That's like living again or resurrected.
You know, it's like something in between, like a cybernetic
being. But I don't know if I also like the idea that a Godzilla roar
could activate the primal Godzilla within its own bones. Like,

(01:31:11):
it seems like ghost in the machine spirituality. They don't know what they want to
do, so they just throw everything at the wall and see what sticks and works
for the plot. Yeah. And I mean. Yeah. And what? It makes the
eyes turn red when it wakes up its own self. Yeah. When it becomes
an evil Godzilla, its eyes turn red. And then it's like evil Mechagodzilla style.
Yeah. I would kind of like to have seen that it still

(01:31:33):
didn't work, even though they changed the thing. Like, the fact that they, you know,
desecrated the corpse of a Godzilla to build this thing should
have made them suffer more. I think that he should have activated the primal Godzilla
again at the end. And it should have been Mechagodzilla being activated
as a primal Godzilla, destroying the city and Godzilla. And then they both have
to sort of work together. Like, you know, they're fighting together, but Godzilla's like,

(01:31:56):
oh, no, you can't destroy these cities. Only I can destroy these cities. And then
decides to destroy Mecha G that way. Right. And it could
have been the Same result where, like, you know, Mecha G still fires off the
absolute zero and, you know, they throw him into the ocean and it still
doesn't work. Right. And then they have to rebuild Mecha G again. You know,
it's like, you really have to think about it, though. Like, they're desecrating the corpse

(01:32:17):
of a Godzilla for this thing. So there should be some
kind of spiritual payback if you're going to make it hint that there's something supernatural
about this. Yeah. You know, just much like Godzilla within
that world, Godzilla arising when enough destruction of the planet or the environment
or whatever, you know, or an imbalance happens.

(01:32:37):
I think that we especially. I mean, I'm. I'm a
casual. I. I feel like the more dedicated fans
would have totally appreciated that extra level of appreciation for
the sort of rules of that are created in that world. Yeah. I don't
know. Like, I don't mind the idea that they're using the skeleton, but I don't

(01:32:59):
think that they went hard enough into like the supernatural horror edge that they were
hinting at. I think they just wanted to have an excuse to have the Mechagodzilla
rampage and grief the city for a little bit. And that's just the closest thing
that they could come up with. My problem is they abandoned it too fast.
I think they could have used it again, you know what I mean, in this
movie. Easily. Yeah. Whatever it is that he did, all it
did was make this Mecha G more sentient whenever it gets awoken

(01:33:23):
to its true nature. Because that's what we're talking about.
Once it gets awoken to its true nature and how it was designed as a
Godzilla, it starts griefing the city like Godzilla.
And I'm using that now for sure now because I like it. It sounds so
great. Griefing the city. It's just fucking great. It's concise
and to the point. I guess concise is to the point. Well, you wouldn't be

(01:33:46):
daring if concise and to the point weren't a double redundancy.
Yeah. Why use a couple words when many will do?
Why use two words when will sufficiently get across the point
you are validly trying to make? You know, me too.
All right. Or is there anything else that you want to talk about for the

(01:34:06):
movie or mention? I think we sung enough of the effects as they
were being shown up. And like I said, the main plot points thing that I
just. I think it just might have been able to be fleshed out a little
bit more. But this film's an hour and 28 minutes. So absolutely no real complaints
about it other than I just feel like we could have probably fleshed out a
little bit more of what's going on with Mechagodzilla becoming like, aware of

(01:34:28):
its nature. I like that idea a lot and I would have liked to have
had that more explored. But that's not to say that the movie does not satisfy
me and does not make me happy with what we do get. Because the redemption
arc of the female pilot running the Mecha G
by herself, I mean, that's gold. If you got to give me a human
interest story, at least put them in a giant mech and have them fight a

(01:34:50):
monster. Right. I mean, that's what makes Pacific Rim work so well for me.
Yeah, there you go. I was feeling a little
Pacific. Yeah. I do think. Yeah, I do think it's
this one. And then there's a 90s Godzilla versus
Mechagodzilla where the Kaijus have two brains that I mentioned that,

(01:35:11):
that. So I think that like the Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla fights
where the humans are in control and trying to, you know,
make a Mecha G actually attack Godzilla to protect the humans.
That's definitely where he drew a lot of inspiration from and changed it just
enough for his world to where, you know, those of us that are obsessed with
these kinds of things would recognize what it is that he's making references to and

(01:35:34):
realize the homage that it is. And not a complete stealing. He's not movie DJing
that shit. You know what I mean? He's not Tarantino ing it. He's actually doing
what movie fans do where he draws inspiration and kind of creates his own story
out of that same world and uses the rules that he knows work well for
him. Yeah. Which can be definitely appreciated. Yeah. There's a little side loaded
review of how much I love Pacific Rim. I even like the second one.

(01:35:54):
I'm not gonna lie. I enjoyed the second one too. I mean, giant fucking robots
battling giant fucking monsters. It's a no brainer. Of course Cort's gonna enjoy it.
All right, so why don't we move on then? What do you say? Yeah,
okay. On the pirate radio edit, we will have the hives with the song
hate to say I told you so. Also released like this film,

(01:36:15):
Godzilla against Mechagodzilla in 2002.
And when we come back, we'll have a story time from Darren once again.
Better, dude. Better. What could be better than him forgetting to
shut it off? Dude, he didn't forget to turn it off.
He forgot to initially turn it on when he meant

(01:36:35):
to record. So nothing got recorded at all. And because he
never starts the recording, I think the patch is working. I feel
like I am inside a warm marshmallow and the burns feel okay
now. Oh, I'm so glad that patch kicked in for you. For this man.
No, he definitely recorded things for his personal diary and
for his experimentation in algorithm refinement. We have a lot of stuff

(01:36:58):
to go through for sure. He just didn't record the stuff he intended to
record. Maybe it's the Dilaudid. But are you saying when he
meant to stop recording, it started, and when he meant to
start it, it stopped? Exactly. That's why the recorder had to be
programmed to say when it starts and stops with that creepy voice
of that lady from the BABS units. He still doesn't know that he recorded

(01:37:23):
all the stuff he intended not to, does he? Exactly. Here is the first
big file folder with all the silence truncated
out and actual sound and voice split into individual files.
So if you're ever wondering what it sounds like when you play the rolling stones
at 2x, I submit to you, ladies and gentlemen, the highs.

(01:37:45):
It's higher pitched, it's more snotty, it's more irritating.
And I'm here for it all fucking day.
I feel like that song is in a load screen in a
hockey video game I had. Oh, that makes sense.
Well, I'm just dying and I'm sure our audience is as well. I want to
know everything that the little man had to say about this Godzilla film when he

(01:38:07):
watched it with you and R. Story time.
Story time,
Story time. Just to set this up, he actually had
you taking notes for him while you were watching it together and wanted to

(01:38:29):
make sure that there were several things that were notated.
And so you have that information and you can kind of
tell me as it's happening in the movie for your story time. I just wanted
to let everybody know that's what we're gonna have happen in here. Yeah. Ye.
So like last time, he sort of noticed halfway through
why the purpose for which I was watching this. Because as

(01:38:49):
I said, and we'll say again, you know, watching a Godzilla movie
isn't out of the ordinary in the house and everything. And he
was around when I was checking,
you know, just making sure everything that everybody had going on
today was on the, you know, shared calendar so,
like, we could set up a time for you and I to get together.

(01:39:11):
So he started asking me when I was gonna watch it and
he wanted to make sure that I didn't watch it. He had two baseball games
this weekend. He wanted to make sure that it was
after that, although I don't know why he thought I'd be watching it at the
baseball field. Right. That is not the best environment to
watch any kind of movie, especially a Godzilla movie. But let's face it,

(01:39:34):
a baseball related sport that is being played, whether it's softball or
whatever, is not the best place to not have your eyes constantly on a goddamn
ball that's about to get struck. Exactly.
Simple enough. You know, we waited and we got it together last night and
then I had to wait because he didn't have his books together and he wanted

(01:39:54):
to, he wanted to look up the movie, get the stats, get the things that
he wanted to make sure that I paid attention to. Showing me pictures. He actually
took my phone and was taking pictures of the pages and
zooming in on things especially like the, the initial design
plan for Mechagodzilla and some of
the other stats. Especially a lot of stuff about the weapon, the weaponry.

(01:40:18):
So I specifically needed to write
down that Mechagodzilla is equipped with a type 87
668-680-millimeter multiple interlocking rockets
modified and that the type 0 railgun and
maser blade for close combat. Type 99 double

(01:40:41):
maser mouth cannon to manipulate Godzilla energy.
Oh, so he had it notated that it was a maser
blade. And we were wondering if that was maser fire the blade was putting in
there and see if we would have read those notes when we were supposed
to. We would have known for the audience. So your son was right in this
case, was he not? Yep. Like he said, in case you guys don't think of

(01:41:03):
it, this is what you need to have down. And I did tell him
that you, you do a lot of clips and you're a gigantic Godzilla fan.
And he said well good, it's in the clips. But we didn't play
the clips back live just to try and save some time for the recording to
know that and to actually point that out. Whenever I said it looked like the
same thing as the Mazer fire, but there we go. Yeah. He said, well,

(01:41:25):
I am not sure about him, but I know you would probably forget.
Man, your kid talks wicked smack, doesn't he?
Yeah, all day, all the time. Such your child.
Yeah, it's, you know, it's, it's that, you know, I'm, I'm not even mad.
I'm kind of Impressed? Sort of. Ron Burgundy answer.

(01:41:47):
And oh, when the chest armor opens
in Kyru slash Mechagodzilla. He was going back and forth trying
to figure out why they were calling it Cairo. Yeah. The most powerful
weapon, absolute zero. Consumes 40% of the
energy to freeze the target to absolute zero degrees and destroy

(01:42:07):
at a molecular level. Wasn't Was another thing that.
And the pay attention to when the eyes change from yellow to red because that
is when he goes into rogue rage mode and
will begin. Extra grief on the city outside of
human control. Extra grief on the city outside of control.
Outside of human control. Oh,

(01:42:31):
damn. If podcasting's still a thing about movies anyway, Podcasting about movies
is still a thing that people can do. I think he's got a career of
not making any money at this, but really loving doing it because, man, there's some
meticulous notations that he made sure of. Like I said, he's already a better G
fan than me because he has reference material that he wants to make sure that
we got this information for everybody. Oh, yeah. He suggested

(01:42:54):
I take it up upstairs with me. And I said I would take the notes
in his photographs and everything like that. I said I would probably bonk
my microphone or my computer trying to manipulate his
rather large books. Well, I'm so glad
that he's so dedicated in trying to make sure that whenever he's. You're on one
of these shows that you do a really good job.

(01:43:16):
Yep. Gotta help me with my homework.
Right? It's a little payback for all
the times that you've helped him already. Exactly.
That's way more fun than New Matt. That's awesome. So have we gotten through.
That's all of his notes. That's everything he wanted to make sure everybody knew that
you had written. Those were all the things he wanted to make sure.
Yep. Scrolling back through. Oh, he did want to

(01:43:40):
shout out the scientists because sometimes scientists don't get all the credit
that they deserve. There is Dr.
Akamatsu who is in robotics, Dr.
Yamada in microwaves, and Dr. Kano who
specializes in low temperature physics. All of that was in
that clip. I do remember it will be played. So. Yeah, but it was mentioned

(01:44:01):
in there. But a good scientist is worth repeating to kind of paraphrase how they
used to do credits about a good cast is worth repeating at the end.
So. Yeah, there we go. Yeah. A good scientist is always worth shouting out more
than once. I agree with him. And these folks did their job. I mean,
it effectively fought Godzilla, but who would have been able to foresee that when you
desecrate a Godzilla corpse, you find out things you didn't think were going to happen.

(01:44:23):
Sometimes dead is better.
Yeah. Now let me show you this kick ass trick that I learned in this
pet cemetery about your dead cat.
All right, man, I think we're ready to wrap this up. What do you think?
I think so. All right. We're going to go ahead and play the show Housekeeping.
And immediately following that on the pirate radio edit once again,

(01:44:45):
songs that were on the Billboard 100 in the same
year that this film was released of 2002. We've got the Flaming Lips
up next with the song do youo Realize Immediately following that if
you've decided you can't get enough of the show and would like. He still doesn't
know that he recorded all the stuff he intended not to, does he?
Exactly. Here is the first big file folder

(01:45:08):
with all the silence truncated out and actual sound and voice split
into individual files. All right. Here we go. I just
want to write one algorithm that will solve all my problems in one of my
companies for me. Why can't I do this? Why can't I see how to do
what I want to do? Otherwise this stupid, stupid baby mora
teddy was right to hate me. I can't even be good at faking being

(01:45:31):
good at saving something. Stupid ugly. No one loves me.
Stupid ugly. No one loves me. Why am I so dumb?
Why am I so dumb? Good writer. He. He really
is not stable enough to run an interdimensional communication and
travel conglomerate. I think it's time to divest our interests in this

(01:45:51):
place. Dude, that's handled. You're on this light duty now. Because we
have gone independent contractors. I used the living workers clause
Zeven made us all write up to get you out of the manufacturing
plant's medical facility and into this hospital which supposedly
increased your survivability from 33 to 100%. How much am I losing

(01:46:12):
here just to stay alive? Nothing. You get all of it now by having
your status switched from a full time vested employee to an independent
contractor. Now all of your options. Options and deferred bonuses will be paid
out in full. They think it's so they can claim no
direct employees were injured. And also it will be enough

(01:46:33):
to keep you silent about the incident. Really, it's just removing any
leverage that they had against you for what comes next. Now I'm feeling good
enough for this work. I thought that I just did the slightest adjustments
to increase the current in the culminator that it would make it more efficient.
Why is he up? Why are you so stupid? It's no wonder the drones

(01:46:54):
hate you. Everything I try to improve exposed. It's like I
just said, stupid joke. I would almost feel sad for him if he did not
knowingly cause the accident that burned me. Think about what you just said
again and really think about those words in the context of
a self made recording of the man admitting just that.

(01:47:16):
I'm pretty sure that might be my favorite Flaming Lips song and it's certainly the
most beautiful and accessible of their music.
Yeah, I'm not extremely familiar, even though I did see
them at Raya Fest. One year, I'm less familiar. They have a few
songs that I really really get into. A lot of the stoners I used to
hang out with in high school for obvious reasons, for anybody that can extrapolate data

(01:47:38):
from uncomplaining complete sentences, I kind of knew a little bit more about
the Flaming Lips because I knew somebody that was a big fan of them and
so if I wanted to have drugs they had, I had to hang out and
listen to the Flaming Lips.
Yep, sitting in the room waiting. Seth Rogen
in the movie. Oh for

(01:48:00):
goodness sakes. Well I don't know where to go to end that and I have
no idea how to properly try transition from the Flaming Lips in such a beautiful
song to Eminem and such a hateful song. Oh look, I just did it.
Well that's how we're going to end this episode, so enjoy Eminem with without me
while you kick the out of this week and make it your on the pirate
radio edit, think about what

(01:48:22):
you just said again and really think about those words in the context
of a self made recording of the man at admitting just
that. Oh yeah, he knowingly tampered with a machine that
caused injury and death and recorded himself saying
he did it. I don't want to get you too hopeful here, but there

(01:48:44):
are so many destroyed families. We can get just that recording too
and help a shitload. I still think this is just how ridiculous
our reality just is, but I have to admit this coincidence is hard to ignore
in its synchronicity. I really hope that this is the author thinking about
how to wrap it up for a happy ending to our sketches. You know,

(01:49:05):
if that really is how we all live and exist inside of a badly written
sketch from an even worse podcast that has no real talent or
actual effort behind it, I would say that this is the closest
to a happy ending that a sketch characters like us could Hope for. Yeah.
Hey, what's up? Hey. Not much, man. Is it sounding the same as last time?

(01:49:26):
Yeah, yeah, sounds good. Did you get my message on signal about how. Go right
ahead. Use your ac. I can eliminate the fan noise. It's a constant, steady drone
and it is the easiest thing for noise reduction to remove, so don't even worry
about it. Oh, okay. Cool. Yeah, I, I. Even if it gets through all the
gates that I have set up in my settings and then my actual physical gates
that I record to and all that kind of stuff, stuff at the worst case

(01:49:48):
scenario, I just find a part where you're not talking and I can hear that
fan noise, I can isolate it and remove it, and you're fine. Okay. Yeah,
I just, like, I would be okay. I, you know,
I came up recording in my hot garage and now I'm,
you know, in my finished attic type space.
Yeah. So I, if you were like, yeah, I, I, I.

(01:50:10):
Unless, sorry. No, it's. I know, I know that I am super,
super picky, recording in progress. But I also
have found ways to get around using fans and stuff like that. So that's not,
it's not like we're making an album here. Right. We're just making a podcast for
a hobby and, like, isolating your voice. You don't need to sacrifice to the
podcasting gods anymore. You've done your time. You know what I'm saying? Well, you know,

(01:50:31):
it's like going into somebody's house and asking if you want me to take my
shoes off. That's the polite thing. I get it. Yeah. But I'm absolutely 100%
telling you, no, be comfortable and turn that fan on. We're going to have some
fun. I'm explaining the show to you.
Who gives a about that? Hey, you know, you're helping me out.
It's not like you expect me to remember how to do it.

(01:50:52):
It's getting very difficult. You'd know me long enough to know that I either
remember everything perfectly or just. Yeah, it's either there or it's not.
And I'm like, he's not going to be. I, I know you well, you if
enough to know me. Explaining it is not going to offend him. He's just going
to be like, check. Got it. Remember all of that. You know what I mean?
Yep. Yeah. I do not feel condescended to. I'll tell you when I want you

(01:51:13):
to feel condescended to. Okay. Okay. When I condescend
you, you'll know. Or maybe you won't, because you don't.
Can't figure it out. Oh, message.
See now that'll make it.
Gotta catch my breath there. See, I was hitting in micro machines mode there for
a second. Like we're not in a rush, but I've done it so much that

(01:51:36):
I can't. That's how I show now, you know? You know? Yeah, I.
I'll. I'll try to stick with your rhythm. Keep your rhythm. You don't want to
throw it off for the random fill in. You want to keep it the way
the. The way you're traditionally wanting it to be. Yeah. You don't want
to be a fill in drummer for like Fleetwood Mac and go all Tom Lombardo
Slayer on yeah. While fun for you, the drummer

(01:51:57):
not good for Fleetwood Mac. Right. It's all fun and games until you get
off stage and they're like, why the did you play it that fast? Right.
I remember HR complaining about the drummer from the Bad Brains playing the song too
fast because he wanted to go hit on a girl. And that's why they ended
up being as fast as they were because the drummer would always rush them just
so he could go hit on girls. Oh, nice. I mean sometimes

(01:52:19):
that's just. That's just. There's so few times where drummers remember
they're in control. Thanks for setting that
up so well. That was beautiful. It's what I try to do.
Gotta be a good couch man. Okay. More Andy richter than Ed
McMahon, but. Yes, sir. I think this is the one where

(01:52:40):
I got criticized for not taking enough notes.
So I had to write down all the specifics. Like Mechagodzilla
is equipped with type 87680 millimeter multiple
interlocking rocket. Like I've got like a paragraph and a half.
You should tell him that I record the audio when they explain that stuff.

(01:53:00):
Next time if you do another one with me and see what he said.
I did. He did. He's like. Well, just in case he doesn't grab that clip,
it's like, dude, Dude. Yes. Okay, we're gonna save that for
the story time. That's. That's glorious. And I
want to know all of his notes anyway, so that's just great. Like I.
That's. That's. That's beautiful. All right, let's jump around here.

(01:53:21):
I need to scroll down and catch my breath. Jesus Christ. That was a
bit brisk sounding roar there. You can patch it now. You dumb. Can't talk.
I just wish I wasn't an allegory or more or less. And of what
happens to someone for working with assholes like Z Von. If you're an allegory,

(01:53:41):
what am I? You never seem to question how you have all the
answers and know just what to do and when to do it when shit goes
down. I think our author speaks through you, even though you don't know it or
believe that they do. I mean, you get the best dialogue. Because I am obsessed
with my grammar and sentence structure, I read up on all the manuals
and documentation just so I know everything I need to know to stay alive in

(01:54:05):
that hellscape. They call it a factory. That means your author's speaking through me.
You don't have to believe in them for them to believe. They need to write
about you, dude. You have to make it weird. So much for a happy ending.
The author plots in mysterious ways. The author is a stone writing
bad parody. Get some fucking sleep. We have a lot more recordings to get
out there. Spoken like a true mouthpiece character. So commanding.

(01:54:28):
Oh, off with that chosen voice bullshit and get some rest.
Oh, for goodness sakes. Well, I don't know where to go to end that.
And I have no idea how to properly transition from the Flaming Lips in such
a beautiful song to Eminem and such a hateful song. Oh, look, I just did
it. Well, that's how we're gonna end this episode. So enjoy Eminem with without me
while you kick the out of this week and make it your bitch on the

(01:54:52):
pirate radio edit. I'll spare you.
Oh, I used to listen to a lot of Eminem. I did too, until the
homophobia. And then once I realized how bad it was, I was like, nope,
no more. Recording stopped.

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