Tag: Kaiju

Giant monsters, mechas, Godzilla

  • Kong King of the Apes was a wasted opportunity

    Kong King of the Apes was a wasted opportunity

    I’ve been in the mood and writing about King Kong and was surprised to see a King Kong listing on Netflix a while back for a new show since I hadn’t heard anything about it but I was definitely curious and added it to my list so Netflix would remind me when it finally came…

  • Myth Explorer: The Quest for King Kong Blair witch style-documentary

    Myth Explorer: The Quest for King Kong Blair witch style-documentary

    Universal Studios’ Islands of Adventures got a new King Kong ride in 2016, we won’t be talking about because there’s something far more interesting that came to existence because of it and it wasn’t the ride. In order to promote the new ride they made a viral website and web series called Myth Explorer which…

  • Skull Island: A Natural History Documentary King Kong + Son of Kong hoax

    Skull Island: A Natural History Documentary King Kong + Son of Kong hoax

    King Kong seems to be making a nice comeback and while I have a few reservations on the current take, it’s still nice to see Kong be King once again. To celebrate his return to glory we’ll be taking a small detour to Skull Island for a couple of days. Let’s start off with a…

  • Godzilla’s Hanna-Barbera cartoon is upsettingly odd

    Godzilla’s Hanna-Barbera cartoon is upsettingly odd

    Godzilla had a cartoon made in the late 70’s by Hanna-Barbera and well it’s umm..something. As a kid I loved Godzilla but whenever re-runs of this show aired on Cartoon Network I found it difficult to sit through. The show seems to have been made by people who didn’t know what Godzilla was and just…

  • Making Godzilla Scary Again

    Making Godzilla Scary Again

    I was seldom excited about the new Toho Godzilla film when it was announced last December; I mean we already had a Godzilla movie recently and even with this one coming from Japan but then I saw the trailer 6 months ago which changed my mind. I had already seen the Godzilla design from the…

  • The problem with.. Shared / Cinematic Universes Part III: Copycats

    The problem with.. Shared / Cinematic Universes Part III: Copycats

    So as I started with Marvel and DC but now let’s go over the other Cinematic Universes currently in development. As I mentioned before the concept of a Shared Universe is nothing new however it’s become popular thanks to the way Marvel Studios had hit after hit in their Cinematic Universe. I won’t look at…