Some of them are just plain incomprehensible
but they are an invaluable tool to help one try to understand the Japanese psyche - if you watch even just a few of them (I'm no buff and agree most are terrible) it's plain to see that they are obsessed with mutations and nature rising up against man - from Godzilla to the more mental modern films.

Being the only people on earth to have been nuked has really fucked them up. Like them or not those films are a fascinating anthropological insight into a (so far) unique national phenomenon.

God I'm a pompous ass sometimes, sorry.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 13:58, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

They're still shite though, Monty
And it's my right as a hooman bean to assert my dislike for them, anthropological merit or not.

Godzilla films, however, are hilarious and can therefore be spared my jerkily-animated-it-all-looks-the-fucking-same-and-the-dubbing-is-bloody-awful-too wrath.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 12 Jan 2010, 14:09, Reply)

Absolutely, dear chap.
I don't even 'like' them myself - I just see them as a window into the minds of a fucked-up nation and, as such, rather interesting. I do love the old Godzilla films though - the one with Jet Jaguar (I think it's Godzilla vs Megalon) is utterly brilliant.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 14:33, Reply)