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Not just 'cause he's Guillermo del Toro's favorite creature feature actor.

Yeah, and 'cause he's like built so that, like, you can wrap him up in something and he still-

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You have your fear, which might become reality, and you have Godzilla, which is reality.

Today we're discussing Gojira, or Godzilla: King of the Monsters if you're watching the American version.

Starring Akira Takarada, Momoko Kochi, Akiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura.

And if you're watching the American version, Raymond Burr.

Even though Rocky IV is a terrible movie, it's a lot of fun to watch sometimes, right? So I don't always wanna go to Rocky I.

I would like to watch Rocky IV every once in a while, so what's the problem with that? I can respect this movie and enjoy it, but sometimes I just wanna see some corny Godzilla stuff.

Well, I'm glad you said that, because we haven't talked about Godzilla: King of the Monsters yet, the American cut of this movie, which does its best to ruin any dramatic weight that they were trying to bring to Japanese audiences with the Raymond Burr cut.

Oh, I disagree completely.

we'll post it.

Welcome to the Monster Movie Happy Hour, where three friends share two of life's greatest gifts, monster movies and cocktails.

I am merely one of you three hosts, Dave Geister, picture book illustrator.

history painter, sculptor, and longtime monster kid.

And he sometimes refers to himself as the umami guy.

Yes.

The umami to the meal that is the monster movie.

The

If you're not familiar with the term, dear viewer, that's a Japanese word that basically means giant monster.

Going back to childhood days when Godzilla was on the Creature Feature in Chicago every Saturday afternoon.

And they come a long way since guys in rubber suits.

Now with the CGI and the tools available for modern movie makers and producers, the films are spectacles.

And there was another one as well I noticed that was a nod to a...

To that sort of creature feature.

Oh, it's the film that the Colonel's watching.

Yes.

Yeah, well.

But it should be.

It's not going to get any easier because the second list is just creature features.

Oh, go on

I mean, I was the kid that would, like, sleep through the news at 1030 so that I could stay up until and watch.

I think we had Dimension 13 in the next town where my aunt and uncle were, had, you know, Creature Feature, you know, these old...

So I would do everything in my power to stay awake on a Saturday night so that I could watch all those old movies and...

Anytime it was a mummy, I was all over it.

They just pretended I didn't exist.

Did you...

Did you grow up watching any of that? Because you said creature feature.

When I was a kid, they showed a lot of Godzilla movies and stuff on creature double feature here.