tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819372552985537908.post4723057498284602458..comments2023-05-27T12:35:06.383+02:00Comments on Ninja Dixon: The H-Man (1958)Ninja Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13211571098475743546noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819372552985537908.post-9329383480412209782012-12-26T20:16:16.501+01:002012-12-26T20:16:16.501+01:00One of my favorite directors in one of his best ef...One of my favorite directors in one of his best efforts. Great review.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819372552985537908.post-62003947306494677532012-12-26T00:24:46.267+01:002012-12-26T00:24:46.267+01:00Honda was a genius, but a lot of it was also thank...Honda was a genius, but a lot of it was also thanks to Eiji Tsuburaya's fantastic effects - which you allready knew. <br /><br />The first day of film studies, I flipped though the pile of books I was supposed to use, and one of them "The History of Film" - the backbone of the course - had a pretty lot of stuff on Honda and Godzilla. It made me a happy camper and I always used to shove that in the face of course colleagues who frowned at genre films. There are also a couple of really good books written on Honda and Kaiju, so I wouldn't pull all academics over one edge<br /><br />Love that Honda and Kurosawa used to work together on films. Honda was second unit on RAN, which just goes to prove the trust and respect Kurosawa held for his mate.<br /><br />I also believe that the "Kurosawa Kaiju" was more a joke between the two than an actual plan.<br /><br />Great stuff, and I wish more would be like you and dare venture outside of a couple of key Honda works.<br /><br />:)<br /><br />J.CiNEZiLLAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06776853636620227783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819372552985537908.post-68131542341391085942012-12-25T21:18:18.458+01:002012-12-25T21:18:18.458+01:00Magnus, that would have been very interesting. Do ...Magnus, that would have been very interesting. Do you remember where you read it?<br /><br />And as usual, thanks Megatron! :)Ninja Dixonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13211571098475743546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819372552985537908.post-42512588130898949242012-12-25T18:45:27.120+01:002012-12-25T18:45:27.120+01:00"Ishiro Honda was, according me, one of the f..."Ishiro Honda was, according me, one of the finest director to ever have lived and work in Japan. "<br /><br />The original Gojira (1954) is very dark, serious movie....I was very surprised by that when I saw for the first time.<br /><br />Rarely do you see that kind of darkness in creature features.<br /><br /><br />"I'm not gonna go into the story that much, except it's a beautiful and original mix of gangsters, night clubs, cops and slime - yeah, more or less a monster-noir packed with jazz and tough guys wearing hats."<br /><br />Odd mix I must say.<br /><br /><br />"Usually when fancy schmancy nobody's with a PHD in fine arts laugh at Godzilla I always reminds them of how Honda and Kurusawa was dear friends, they often worked together and how much they respected each others work - even if they worked on the total opposite of the movie scale in Japan."<br /><br />Well, when they laugh at Godzilla (1998) by Roland Emmerich I´m fairly ok with it, it´s not very good but the original has always been interpreted by some fancy critics as an metaphor by the japanese to deal with atomicbombs over Hiroshima, Nagasaki.<br /><br />You should throw argument at them as well......or force them to watch Bergmans video by SVT.<br /><br />Bergman had all kinds of films in his library.<br /><br /><br />"The special effects here is fantastic and produced with a lot of imaginative ideas. This piece of slime moves around and behaves like no slime up till then - sure, some effects is a bit cheesy, the dancer who gets covered by slime comes to mind, but it's very realistic compared to the American counterparts."<br /><br />It can never be as good as.....drumroll.....The Stuff (1985)!<br /><br />hahahahhah....always like the way that dessert kills people.<br /><br /><br />"The H-Man is a masterpiece of fifties sci-fi and manages to be adult and intelligent all the way through."<br /><br />Sounds very cool, thanks ninja, great review.<br /><br />MegatronAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819372552985537908.post-84580033470799352122012-12-25T18:36:41.236+01:002012-12-25T18:36:41.236+01:00I'm not sure how true this is but I read somew...I'm not sure how true this is but I read somewhere that Kurosawa actually wanted to do a kaiju himself at one point. I wonder how that would've turned out?Magnus Wersennoreply@blogger.com