Posts Tagged godzilla

Saturday Afternoon Theater: BRINGING GODZILLA DOWN TO SIZE: The Art of Japanese Special Effects

Posted by mistergroonk in Documentary, Movies, One Sheets, Only in Japan on December 31, 2011

By chance we scanned a tweet from @wildgrounds sharing a link to the documentary BRINGING GODZILLA DOWN TO SIZE: The Art of Japanese Special Effects(2008). This is a documentary interviewing the actors, special effects artists, directors and the like about the insane popularity of the Godzilla franchise and why, after all these years, the king of all monsters who still stomps about Tokyo the the 21st century remains a man in a rubber suit.

Watch the documentary below the cut.

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In Aqua City Odaiba Shopping Mall in Tokyo, Japan: GODZILLA CHRISTMAS TREE!

Posted by mistergroonk in Holiday, Only in Japan on December 14, 2011

We want this in our back yard. All year long.

Once we get a back yard, that is.

via unusual life and buzz feed

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Good Morning: Future Kaiju of the Military Industrial Complex. Godzilla is Ready.

Posted by mistergroonk in Intertube Madness on June 18, 2010

via nick holmes

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When All Else Fails: Godzilla Haiku

Posted by mistergroonk in Intertube Madness, Just Freaking Neat, LOL, Macro, Only in Japan on March 10, 2010

Godzilla can dance!
Other thunder lizards laugh.
Flame breath equals the score.

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Putting the OMG in Godzilla

Posted by mistergroonk in Books, Intertube Madness, LOL on March 2, 2009

Inside the tiny tome, Crooked Little Vein, lives a reference to “Macroherpetophiles.” When we googled for the correct way to spell this horrifying act, we discovered it was not born in the warped mind of CLV‘s author, Warren Ellis. It is a *real thing.* It exists in meatspace.

These are the times we curse the world and our insane need to research until the bitter end.

On a lighter note, a Brazilian site has decided to create a meme.

godzilla,LOL

Like any good meme, there are many, like-minded, copies.

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