Would you like to see King Kong fight a giant lobster? Well this is what Toho Studio wanted but Rankin/Bass Production rejected the idea so Kong was replaced with Godzilla.
Tag: science fiction
Lost in Space: The Challenge (1966) – Review
Kurt Russell is no stranger to science fiction – long before taking the role of Peter Quill’s father in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 he’d appeared in such sci-fi offerings as Solider, Stargate and John Carpenter’s The Thing – but his first foray into the genre was way back 1966 as a guest star…
Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965) – Review
Don’t trust aliens. If there is any takeaway from Toho’s science fiction movies it would be that one little tidbit. In 1964’s Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster the series’ first introduced us to the outer space threat of King Ghidorah, but in Invasion of Astro-Monster we get honest to goodness aliens, ones who seriously mean us…
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 (2017) – Review
Who is Star-Lord and what is a Groot were just a couple of questions that the bulk of the movie going public were asking when James Gunn released the original Guardians of the Galaxy back in 2017, not being based characters with the public awareness of likes of say Spider-Man or Captain America, but now…
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) – Review
With the amazing success of the rather goofy King Kong vs. Godzilla, it’s not surprising that the franchise would continue in that rather campy direction and if people wanted to see giant monsters duking it out then by god that’s what Toho Studios would give them.