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Summary: The Gamera Heisei Series Ends With A Blockbuster!
Review: I've always been a bog fan of monster movies. So naturally I would love this movie. But to let you all no up front, the Showa series of Gamera films were decent but were more aimed at kids so they were a little goofy for me. But the Heisei series and especially Gamera 3 are much more adult oriented with great plots, special effects, and acting!
Gamera 3 is my favorite out of the ENTIRE Gamera series! I highly recommend it for anyone who is a fan of monster movies!
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Summary: BLOWN AWAY !!!!!!
Review: Im a big Godzilla Fan and Gamera but this flick no question or complaints whats so ever.Directed by Shusuke Kaneko and visual effects by Shinji Higuchi they make godzilla 1998 special effects
look like crap with only 7 million dollars.This is the best Kajiu
film ever created sorry Godzilla but your latest films doesnt
even come close to this.The Spx is amazing the action good and
I mean it was so good I wasn't even worried about the monster
fights like godzilla and gamera other films.The story line was
good and the acting was great no disappointment from me.Gamera suit was bad ass and Iris look cool as hell.The fighting Man I
have to say they so realy i could't sometimes think there were
in costumes.This is a must have Kajiu Film period !!!!Gamera 3 is the best Kajiu film ever created in its period sorry
Godzilla your my Favorite Kajiu monster but it seems the Turtle
go the upperhand!
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Summary: Great Addition to the Classic "Godzilla" movies
Review: My kid is 6 yrs old, and didn't get weened on the old B&W Godzilla Classics the way I did. So I was very excited to see such how quality movies being offered in DVD color. I was not disappointed, my son loved it.
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Summary: Destroy Your Preconceptions!
Review: Old Gamera movies = MST3K funfests, Gamera 1 = Decent attempt at reviving a classic, Gamera II = better effects and storyline but still a wee bit campy. Gamera III = Unbelievable VisualFX, compelling plot, dynamic (and occasionaly freaky) characters. Gamera III - Advent of Legion is one of my favorite movies of all time, much less one of my fav creature-features/action flicks. Destroy any preconcieved notions you may have about "Campy, bad dubbed (with any Japanese film: ALWAYS WATCH IT IN ORIGONAL JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES! >.< ), rubber monster suit, Japanese monster movies", and give this one a shot! PS: If you like this movie, I highly reccomend a few other excellent critter-flicks: The Relic, The Howling (the first one), Aliens (Directors Cut DVD), Godzilla Vs. Destroyer (only if you can get it subtitled though, the dubbing reeks!) and Reign of Fire. ^_^ Ja matta!
~DJ Neo - DJ Neo Pro-Sound & Lighting
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Summary: Giant monster masterpiece
Review: Shusuke Kaneko's Gamera III has all the best ingredients that make a great kaiju movie. This movie shows how it's supposed to be done. Having seen more than 25 Toho films (Godzilla series, Mothra series, etc), all the King Kong films, a few giant monster spin-offs made from all over the globe, not to mention the horrid 1998 American Godzilla and many other disaster movies, this one takes the cake. Gamera III outdoes them all with a solid, earthly story complete with humanity and heart. Also, the use of special effects is absolutely fabulous; they do not take over the film like the excessive CGI used in Hollywood. I must say that Gamera III has some of most exhilarating monster fights ever put to the screen.
Gamera III is a direct sequel to the first film in the trilogy, Guardian of the Universe. A girl lost her parents during Gamera's final battle with the last Gyaos, and garners a hatred for Gamera. She enounters a tentacle creature whom she names Iris, and it is eventually nurtured to become the monster who faces off with Gamera. What was striking about this movie was how surreal and poetic it was. The story flows brilliantly and sensibly, as the roles of human and monster come together so good. Gamera III is a movie all about personality, something that many monster movies lack. The human characters are wonderfully integrated in the story without their roles becoming too cheesy. Also, Gamera and Iris are enigmatic monsters with true character. They are not mindless, menacing beasts whose purpose is to execute showtime destruction.
Speaking of destruction, Gamera III's fight sequences are some of the best you'll ever see. The special effects are such a huge improvement over the first two Gamera films in the trilogy. They also shame anything attempted by any Godzilla movie of recent times, even Shusuke's own GMK. Adding to the special effects is the showing of the human side of the fights. The battle in Shibuya is one to mention. I was in awe of such a brilliantly staged battle, and also how the film showed the human suffering coinciding with the destruction. Most monster movies sacrifice too much of one side for the other. Gamera III does not.
And finally, one thing that carries this film (and the rest of the series) was the character of Gamera himself. How can the population care so much for such a destructive monster? Does he do good or bad to the people? What constitutes which? After watching Shusuke's Gamera trilogy, you realize how much more personality Gamera has than Godzilla.
Gamera III is such a special movie for its genre. Along with the first two films in the trilogy, it shows that the kaiju genre is here to stay. It ranks up with the best of Godzilla such as Godzilla vs. Destoroyah and GMK: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, perhaps even surpassing them. This is a true kaiju treasure.
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Summary: A classic by any determination!!
Review: The final film in the Heisei Gamera series, G3 is a jewel. True, the meta-spiritual sub-plot does go a bit "deep" ifyaknowhatImean, but overall this is VERY fine movie with good performances and many great SFX shots that Mssr's Devlin & Emmerich should have taken a note or two from. This comes Stratospherically recommended!
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Summary: Visceral reality
Review: The first thing that struck me seeing this movie was how real it felt. It was the first monster movie I saw that treated the idea of monsters fighting in a city seriously; these aren't empty models they are destroying, they are real buildings with real people inside. Or so it seems. And then the public reaction is perfect! It is something probably lost on most American viewers, but all of the newscasters you see in this film are real newscasters. "The Wide" is an actual news show in Japan. The "man on the street" interviews are just like you would see on a show like "The Wide". I lived both near Kyoto and in Tokyo for a few years, and the reality in which these cities were brought to the screen (and subsequently destroyed) was amazing. And the air battle between Gamera and Iris is dynamic and incredible. For some the movie may lack in quantity of monster battles (although I think it makes up with quality), and for others the movie's story and premise may be silly. But I liked it, and I think if you like monster movies at all, you probably will, too.
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Summary: Bad Movie and Bad DVD.....
Review: The picture is grainy and the dubbing stinks. The DVD extras are non-existent, and the effects stink. It's a monster film from Japan, so of course it will look fake and be terrible.
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Summary: The Best Kaiju Film ever!!
Review: This clearly is the best Kaiju film ever made by any country, it even surpasses the best Godzilla film to some degree. It contains some of the most coolest action scenes ever recorded on film. The acting is really well done and perfectly directed by Shusuke Kaneko. Shinji Higuchi is a master at his craft and should be honored for his contribution to the film. Bravo to the cast and crew of Gamera 3:Revenge of Iris, bravo on a job well done!! Oh...BTW... Shinobu Nakayama is a Babe!! ...but you knew that...
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Summary: This is not Your Children's Gamera
Review: This is a meaner, nastier and darker Gamera. His appearance has changed some from the first two movies in the trilogy, with a smaller, meaner looking head. His fire breath is much better then the previous movies. There's no question his attitude has changed.
The story was reasonable, and the SFX were very good for a rubber suite movie-definitely better than Godzilla 2000. The fight with Gyaos in Shibuya (scene 7) is probably my favorite Kaiju battle of all time, and well worth the price of admission. I thought the final battle was somewhat anticlimactic though. Despite that minor gripe, this is the best of the three 90's gamera film.
As for the disc itself, the picture was good, as was the sound, but the extras seriously lacked anything of interest.
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