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This movie was rather good for what it was at first but, unfortunately, as soon as the titular creature appeared it got dull real fast.
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This really struggled to keep my attention.
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One of my favorite movies - Seriously, I put it on Forty-two for 2013!
A discussion of it reminded me I'd been meaning to revisit it one of these days. It's as wonderful as ever, perhaps even more.
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I kinda felt bad for Rodan...
This maybe not be the best kaiju film ever, but it was a fun installment from the master of the genre himself; Ishiro Honda. Though this doesn't come close to the king of all monsters (Godzilla) Rodan still works well as a fun and unique monster movie.
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Not the best of the kaiju solo movies as it doesn't have as strong an identity as Godzilla or Mothra, but the moments in it that are unique are really cool. I enjoy how the first half hour is basically My Bloody Valentine with giant murderous insects. I can't think of any other kaiju movie with this much blood or direct monster on human violence. Whilst I enjoy Rodan as a monster quite a lot, he doesn't really work too…
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Back in the golden age of Japanese monster films, when the creatures and situations were genuinely terrifying, and played straight. This was about the fourth kaiju film for Toho and they were really hitting their stride. The effects are great, the miniatures were perfect, and has a really strong build of tension with the film's threat always building to something worse as it goes. Yet at the same time the ending always gets me feeling such deep sympathy for the…
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I saw this movie when I was about years old, and it gave me the creeps like nothing else before. The poor miners town being terrorized by monsters from the deep while more and more miners go missing freaked me out. The poor quality of the film and the bad dubbing added to my bewilderment, it all seemed so unreal, so strange, yet so terrifying.
Watching the movie now, fifteen years later, I realized that I have only seen the… -
"Rodan" is an awful movie. I seem to recall liking this a lot more when I was younger. It is not even fun in a silly way like most of the Toho monster movies.
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What a freaking classic.... You could feed multiple villages with these gigantic creatures!!!
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Was fortunate enough to get invited to a special screening of Rodan; a man-in-suit classic I hadn't seen. Justin of Mondo News, purveyor of amazing movie posters, had recently purchased a 35mm print of this film and we were testing it. It has a few loving wears, but ultimately it was a great print. Movie's a little slow, but a lot of fun.
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2012 #62 Watched Justin Ishmael's 35mm print at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar. It was hysterical.
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Makes it abundantly obvious why Japan needs an air defense force.