Topic: Babby's first Blu-Ray

[Super Waffle]

So I finally decided to join the video format cool kids club and got this thing:



(you can tell it's my Blu-Ray because you can see my Lisbeth, Rufina, and Tsugumi figures hanging out in the background)

And, yeah, it's pretty anticlimactic.  Most people probably buy Avatar or Prometheus or whatever HD THREE DEEZ thing is hip these days for their first Blu-Ray, but not me.  This is what convinced me to make the generation leap.  It was either that or .hack Quantum.

Now I can use my PS3 for something other than complaining about how bad all of its games are.

[Lelygax]

Yeah, now you can complain about how bad the movies are too.

[Lone Wolf]

Yeah, now you can complain about how bad the movies are too.

lol lel

[Abnormal Freak]

Heard some talk about this release. Probably not my cup o' tea (guy who got excited for it is all into kaiju flicks, to which I say "eh") but I'll watch some trailers.

[Shiroi Koumori]

I want those kaiju movies with a lot of them fighting each other. But I will always have a special place for Mothra.

Super Waffle might like this too: http://www.amazon.com/Daimajin-Revoltech-Poseable-Action-Figure/dp/B0035JJJEG

[crisis]

So Super Saiya-jin Waffle-chan finally decided in 2013 that VHS & HD-DVD is obsolete in his habitat? bahahahahaha

I hardly watch blu-ray movies anymore, most of my movie-watching is done online nowadays. I still have not seen Avatar in any format, or any 3D releases. I miiight purchase a fanct 3D TV if and when they become more affordable but I'm happy with my 42" that's what she said ^v^

[Lelygax]

Never heard of this guy from the cover, its suposed to be lika a "Menacing Macho Ultraman"?

[Ratty]

Never heard of this guy from the cover, its suposed to be lika a "Menacing Macho Ultraman"?

It's a series about a giant monster (kaiju)
Daimajin: Triple Feature Blu-Ray DVD (Trailer)
Think Godzilla but darker and in feudal Japan.


Personally this is the kaiju film I wanna see though.
The Big Picture: Monster's Movie

Eh you're not the last one to go to blu-ray Super Waffle, I've been waffling on whether or not to get one for a few years now. Always expecting a significant drop in the PS3 price as the new console generation approaches with glacial pace. (And just as significantly for Sly Cooper 4, which has come out so late I might as well wait a little longer for the next generation to actually get here before buying a PS3.) I think I probably will get a player soon since I've been meaning to get my own copies of the original Planet of the Apes series for around a decade now and the blu-ray set sells for about the same as the DVDs.

[Lelygax]

Well, I dont even have seen a blu-ray for real, only in images, so you really will not be the last Ratty lol

[Abnormal Freak]

And then there's me, who bought an external Blu-ray burner to watch Region B movies, and just splurged on a bunch of cult UK releases, among them Berberian Sound Studio which looks awesome.

This UPC is from a Gorgo comic collection and it's awesome:



Courtesy of Wtf-Film's Facebook, who's been on a kaiju kick for months, collecting and posting images of his toys and movie fiends (LaserDiscs included). For example:

[Ratty]

This UPC is from a Gorgo comic collection and it's awesome

That is pretty nice, I'd like to get my hands on some of those Gorgo comics as they've always looked neat. I liked the movie as a kid but watching it now it hasn't aged as well as Toho's work. The painfully long scenes of the stupid human plot separating you from your cool monster rampage aren't any easier to sit through in English. The dialog is just as bad only with Gorgo everything in those scenes is dull looking and murky to. Still is a sweet creature design though.

[Abnormal Freak]

I just nabbed a Gamera triple feature Blu-ray in the Walmart dump bin, $7.88. The first in the series is one I saw as a kid; my brother bought the tape and said, "Here's a Japanese monster I used to love watching on TV—it's a new movie with really cool special effects, I heard," and that sheet blew my mind because movies were already inundated with CGI by that point and it was cool seeing these old school effects.

So who knows? With this purchase I may be on my way to being a kaiju maniac. It's just too bad that one of the Godzilla movies put on Blu-ray by Media Blasters has all sorts of problems. I can't remember what they are, but I think the initial batch had a gamut of extras including a commentary track, but Toho bitched about something or other and those copies quickly had to be recalled in exchange for a barebones edition. Something like that, anyway.

[Lelygax]

Cool, I've never seem the old Godzilla movies (I've only seem some new ones when kid) nor Gamera, but I know that they are enemies.

[Ratty]

Cool, I've never seem the old Godzilla movies (I've only seem some new ones when kid) nor Gamera, but I know that they are enemies.

Yeah they're rivals in popularity anyway, from different companies. I've never been a big Gamera fan myself, maybe if I watched more of the films but I doubt it. Godzilla though, I've been a fan for a loooong time. I had Son of Godzilla on VHS and watched it a lot when I was all of 4 or 5. Had about 5 or 6 of the others on tape at various times in my childhood, and have made a bit of an effort in more recent years to see the ones I missed. 

I must admit though, the Kaiju genre (particularly films from the 60s and 70s) is often a lot more boring than many people who've never watched the movies probably imagine. Suite-work was difficult and expensive, so in a 2 hour monster movie you might get 15 - 30 minutes of monster battle/rampage. The remainder being taken up by characters you don't care about doing things you're probably not really interested in.

There are exceptions of course. The original Gojira and Godzilla: King of the Monsters were good character dramas for 1950s monster movies. And I would always recommend 1991's Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah as one of the best in the series (possible Anti-American sentiments aside) where the human plot ties in with Godzilla really well. I'm a bit of a King Ghidorah fanboy but it really is a fun, engaging movie. But when the aforementioned dullness of uninteresting characters taking up too much time gets bad in this genre, it can get really bad.

[Abnormal Freak]

Oh, there are definitely some (a lot) boring movies in the genre. I've seen my fair share growing up, mostly Godzilla movies. Great material for MST3K though.