Show me a kaiju-giant robot film..

[Yminale]

Same with Mechagodzilla and Mecha-Kong. Infra-Man is a cyborg.

RAMA

Do you mean the classic Toho version for the 60's because the newer remakes "Godzilla against MechaGodzilla" is similar to Pacific Rim.

 

[Christopher]

This may be why it is best for Cthulhu to never appear on screen. It is going to be very hard to have him not appear as something from a kids show.

Cthulhu did appear onscreen in the Real Ghostbusters episode "The Collect Call of Cathulhu" [sic]. Which was nominally a kids' show, but wasn't really.

 

[DWF]

There's a little known Japanese movie called Yamato Takeru and the European movie Negadon to add to the list of live action kaiju, giant robot films.

 

[RAMA]

^RAMA mentioned Robot Jox in the first post. It's mecha vs. mecha, not mecha vs. kaiju, so it doesn't fit the category under discussion here.

I rewatched Robot Jox just recently. It's an interesting film, with a script by SF great Joe Haldeman (I gather the director dumbed it down a lot from what Haldeman wanted, but there's still some intelligence there).

Joe Haldeman is fairly pleased with the movie as it turned out. It had a great music score as well.

Robot Wars, and another film were loose sequels to Robot Jox, but even these robot vs robot movies are uncommon Except in even lower grade B movies.

 

[RAMA]

Same with Mechagodzilla and Mecha-Kong. Infra-Man is a cyborg.

RAMA

Do you mean the classic Toho version for the 60's because the newer remakes "Godzilla against MechaGodzilla" is similar to Pacific Rim.

I meant all of them. I guess the newer ones use the robot as Pacific Rm does, but ultimately they are all Kaiju-vs Robot.

 

[Yminale]

Oh and who can forget Asylum's mockubuster ATLANTIC RIM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVpQmZmKNmo

 

[RAMA]

Oh and who can forget Asylum's mockubuster ATLANTIC RIM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVpQmZmKNmo

Oh Lord, I think I posted about that..but it's such a rip off its probably not worth mentioning.

 

[Agent Richard07]

^ Damn, they're really verging on plagiarism there.

 

[Gojira]

Oh and who can forget Asylum's mockubuster ATLANTIC RIM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVpQmZmKNmo

Watched it on the 4th of July. For an Asylum movie it wasn't that bad. Good for a low budget movie and I liked the design of the monsters.

 

[RAMA]

Oh and who can forget Asylum's mockubuster ATLANTIC RIM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVpQmZmKNmo

Watched it on the 4th of July. For an Asylum movie it wasn't that bad. Good for a low budget movie and I liked the design of the monsters.

Ok I managed to get through the movie but I ffwded a bit. My wife lasted 20 minutes. It was pretty awful in every way, the robot design: uninspired, the monsters: poor cgi. The acting was grade z. It is however, a perfectly legitimate live action kaiju-giant robot movie, albeit inspired by Pacific Rim.

 

[publiusr]

This may be why it is best for Cthulhu to never appear on screen. It is going to be very hard to have him not appear as something from a kids show.

Cthulhu did appear onscreen in the Real Ghostbusters episode "The Collect Call of Cathulhu" [sic]. Which was nominally a kids' show, but wasn't really.

I think they kept slimer out of that, and gave the great one four arms IIRC.