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Summary: Almost Perfect
Review: This is a great Godzilla movie, but there's just one scene in it that just prevents it from being a total success. The lead up to the climactic battle between the space monster Ghidrah and the defenders of Earth, Godzilla, Rodan and Mothra is entertaining and fun. But then we have the scene in which the three Earth monsters "talk" to each other when Mothra tries to convince the other two to help he/she/it fight Ghidrah. There could have been another way to do this scene. Even the post chat fight scene between all the monsters is great. Re-work that scene and you've got a film that is almost on par with the original "Godzilla: King of the Monsters"
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Summary: Rip-off!!!
Review: This is not a legal, legitimate DVD, it is a DVD-R! The hideous cover art is not only unattractive, but rife with mispellings and not even cut properly, it looks like sisors were used when it was removed from the dot-matrix printer this was run-off on. Contrary to the bold statement that the film is in widescreen, it is in fact full-frame, and sporting one of the shabbiest, dirtiest representations I've ever seen! In this case, the VHS editions offered in the past by Video Treasures are 100 times better. AVOID at all costs. $5 would have been too much for this hideous release of a fun film, $20 is just about criminal. Speaking of criminal, notice that Toho is given no credit anywhere on this thing! Hmmm, think somebody needs to talk to their legal department!
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Summary: Godzilla has a change of heart . . .
Review: This is one of the awesomest Godzilla movies available. It marks the first film where Godzilla becomes the good guy. The plot revolves around a giant space creature called Ghidrah, a three-headed fiend with an appetite for destruction, who threatens the world. Godzilla and Rodan, who once held this dubious honor, slug it out toe to toe while poor Mothra attempts to defend the earth, but she is pathetically over matched. Godzilla and Rodan slowly form a truce, and perhaps feeling some sympathy for Mothra (although she defeated Godzilla in the last movie) eventually help her out and dirve the beast back into outer space. This movie is also noteable for its clever use of audiences knowledge and the way it combines 3 toho monsters, who all started their carreirs solo, into the same series. It also marks the debut for Ghidrah, who returns at least 3 more times to threaten the earth. Godzilla and Rodan also learn the value of cooporation and eventually earth saving.
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Summary: This classic Godzilla is one of the best.
Review: This is one of the best Godzilla films of all time. Good special effects and story, and having Rodan, my favorite monster, didn't hurt either ;-) END
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Summary: Enter the dragon!
Review: This is the first movie appearance of Godzilla's greatest foe, King Ghidorah! One of the best storylines of the entire series. Godzilla historians will note that this is the film where Godzilla starts to transform from atomic horror to Japan's savior. Ghidorah is an awsome creature in his own right, but incorperating 3 other monsters in the film just made it that much better. The few downers for this movie are few but many. Wouln't have been better for somewhere in the film for larva Mothra to transform into an adult Mothra before battling Ghidorah with Rodan and Godzilla? She could have done ariel dive bombs at Ghidorah while Rodan does the same. All the larva can do is bite Ghidorah's tail and hang on for the ride. At the beginning of the film, a jet plane carring the princess of Japan ( or something like that ) explodes with a very unimpressive explosian. Lastly, when Ghidorah causes a rock slide, one of the baddies in the movie happens to be underneath it. As the rock bolder falls on him... he catches it and then falls off. The opening music and graphics are really better than say the opening to "Son of Godzilla" or "Godzilla vs. Megalon". The fight scenes between Godzilla and Rodan are some of the best live action and puppeting of all the movies. All in all, this film is a nice combo of Japanese monsters and a good old fasion suspence. This is followed by the sequal "Godzilla vs. Monster Zero"!
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Summary: Great Story, Better then most American Sc-fi films.
Review: This marked a change in the Godzilla movie series. Here The big G starts becoming a friend to humanity and meets his most terrifying foe yet, Ghidrah. the film is also notebale for having some creative science fiction ideas like the monsters being intellient and having some kind of language, thus shown when Mortha using her telepathy convinces Rodan and Godzilla to fight for mankind's survival, thus they become less like monsters and more like living creatures. It also has a better story then what you see in most american science fiction films, outside of Star Trek and Star Wars, naturally.
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Summary: GREAT Godzilla movie.
Review: This movie is great!The only reason it's not five stars is the bad acting and simple plot,but that dosen't take away too much.Great battle scenes.I recomend this to everyone!
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Summary: Monster showdown!
Review: This movie is one of my favorite Godzilla movies. This movie had a huge monster showdown with Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and Ghidrah. I liked this movie because it displays many monsters, also the peolpes part of the story. I rated this movie 5 stars because this movie is a really big monster showdown.
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Summary: It is a bootleg copy.....
Review: This so-called DVD movie does appear to be a bootleg copy with very poor picture and sound quality to speak of. It appears it was made from a poor film print of the series. Don't be fooled by it.
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Summary: CineVu Release
Review: VIDEO QUALITY:
While they decided to slap a huge "WIDESCREEN" logo on the bottom of the case, the film is actually presented in full screen. The print itself is disgusting, probably more so than anything Power Multimedia have ever released. The colours are under-saturated to the point of looking black and white, the image occasionally warps, the image is abundant with scratches, hairs, tears and other such blemishes. The high amount of artifacting didn't help it much either. While trying to be as fair as I can with this review, I honestly can't find any redeeming qualities with this release. AUDIO QUALITY:
The disc only contains one audio option, the English dub. Although encoded as 5.1, all it is doing is putting the exact same stream through every channel. Basically it's mono, which just happens to be coming out of all your speakers. The whole film is plagued with constant hissing and some frequent popping. It's not flat out terrible, but it's far from "good". EXTRA FEATURES:
Seriously, what did you expect? OVERALL:
The first thing I noticed upon opening the Amazon box was the cover, which is printed on standard printer paper. They must have been running low on ink when printing my copy, since it's covered with vertical lines. The cover itself wasn't cut to fit properly, with odd white borders around the image and stuffed in the case at the wrong angle. The cover art looks very crude, and the name "Ghidrah" was also misspelled as "Ghidra". The disc itself has a cheap home made label, and I noticed the ink had smudged around the edges. Upon playing the disc there is a very cheesy splash screen which aids the ego of the mysterious "John Matarazzo", who also had his name listed as the films director for a short time on Amazon, and credits himself for "DVD Design and Creation" and "Realization" on the cover. When I tried booting the disc in my DVD player, no luck - rejected. When I tried in the player in my room it loaded, however the film was constantly jumping and jittering. In the end I tested it in my DVD-ROM, which seemed to play fine. Why is this? Probably because it's a badly encoded DVD-R. That correct, DVD-R, even more obvious since the bottom of the disc is purple, whereas legitimate discs are silver or gold (single and double layered respectively). Finally, CineVu don't own the copyright to "Ghidrah The Three Headed Monster", or "Ghidra The Three Headed Monster" should I say. Not only is this disc a bootleg, but it's a bad bootleg. You would have thought since they are breaching copyright anyway that they would have used Toho's Region-2 DVD as a source and subtitled it, but alas it was much easier for them to mass produce this garbage. What's the worst of it all? The disc costs $20. If you've got any wits about you, you'll stay away from this release.
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