SHIN ULTRAMAN - Mini BOP

Time to get huge! The podcast goes tokusatsu as we check out Shinji Higuchi and Hideaki Anno’s back to basics reimagining of a beloved icon first debuting in 1966, and the next entry in Anno’s ‘Shin Japan Heroes Universe’, the kaiju slayer himself: SHIN ULTRAMAN. The Crew gets into what sets this apart from other ‘Shin’ entries, the way Anno injects beauty into the absurd, how this is the best Miracleman adaptation we never got, and the sad fact that every culture can identify with incompetent governments being self serving!

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KING KONG VS GODZILLA Commentary Track

The famous dust-ups of history: Ford vs. Ferrari! Ali vs. Fraiser! Niles vs. Fraiser! All meaningless compared to the rivalry that cracked open the very Earth in 1962, concerning one King Joseph Kong III and the kaiju who'll fry you, Godzilla! A cinematic empire was spawned the day fur-suit met scale-suit, and IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN IN YOUR LIVING ROOM! Before you see their modern-day rematch, revisit the very first clash of these bitin' titans with The Crew's ringside commentary! BOP n' A Movie takes you back to a simpler time, when Godzilla was still a villain, giant apes could still drink, and monster movies were vessels for cultural satire. Who will be left standing, Honda's skyscraper-stomper or Fay Wray's ex-bae? Will the lizard king humble the prime primate, or will the ape-lord show him the hate-sword? WHICH TALL BOY SHALL FIND JOY IN-- I appear to be having a stroke, please help me.

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GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS (2019)

History (and Hollywood) can't help but show, again and again, how nature points out the folly of man, and usually it's with a giant, radioactive, morally-ambiguous lizard beating the ever loving snot out of some monsters. Now THAT'S an environmental lesson we can all get behind! It's been many a years since Gareth Edwards rose a new Americanized big budget Godzilla from the depths. It may not have been perfect, but with the release of Michael Dougherty's damn fine roller-coaster ride of a sequel, it is the perfect cinematic equivalent of "I set 'em up, you knock 'em down!" And boy, did Dougherty knock 'em down! Aided by one hell of a cast, some killer effects, new and fascinating allegories, a surprisingly engaging human story, and more Monster Zero and Mothra action than you can shake a Rodan at,  GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS is a Kaiju slug-fest that all others should bow down to! I mean, Rodan definitely will, but he'll bow to a startling breeze. So, with a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound, pull some high-tension wires down with us as we dissect the intricacies of this Toho love letter!

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What Coulda Been...

Godzilla! Hans and Franz! Super suits in tin cans! Arnold Schwarzenegger and Weiner! These are all connected in a logical manner, and Box Office Pulp is here to do the dirty work of connecting the dots in this special episode all about notorious Hollywood films that ALMOST happened. Did we dodge a spray of bullets? Did we miss a series of miracles? Listen in and decide for yourself.

BOP Reviews: Godzilla (2014)

When the new Godzilla roars, he freaking roars.

Ever since the debut of the film's astonishingly well-crafted teaser trailer late last year, I had an unexpected surge of excitement running through me - all in anticipation of a movie that, by all accounts, I should have had no interest in. Despite being intrigued by the trailers, I was never one of the many that ran out to see 2013's Pacific Rim, another recent kaiju action movie slugfest that had similarly accredited talent behind it. Not for any particular reason, but merely due to a lack of familiarity or direct association with the genre to appeal to me on a profound level. I hadn't even seen Jurassic Park since I was a toddler. My experience with movies about giant monsters hitting other giant monsters, terrorizing innocent civilians and wrecking everything in their path began and ended with a certain movie in 1998 that I'm not going to talk about, even though you totally know which one it is - it shares this movie's title and little else. But unlike that hilarious blot on cinema history, the trailers for this new Godzilla awakened an inner kaiju fan that I never even knew I had. Something indescribable had taken hold, whether it was the bleak and dead serious scope of the thing, the gorgeous effects and what I liked to call "apocalypse cloud syndrome", or the first glimpse of the big lizard himself and the fact that he now towered over entire modern skyscrapers instead of quaint outskirt villages. Or maybe it was just Bryan Cranston. Yeah, probably Cranston.

"You're goddamn right."

Either way, 'Zilla fever had hit me along with most of the cinema-viewing public, and I couldn't wait to see this movie on opening day. In my excitement, I even went back and, through the magic of Netflix, watched a couple of the movies I'd missed out on to get a feel for what I was in for: specifically, the original American-dubbed version of 1954's Gojira (or "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!"), and one of the subsequent sequels, Godzilla Vs. The Thing (or "Weird-Ass Movie About Tiny Women Singing To Giant Moth Creature"). With those two whetting my appetite for some monster-fueled chaos courtesy of modern special effects, I sat back and waited for my chance to feast eyes on 2014's version of the King of the Monsters. Finally, the day came. But did it live up to the hype? Many critics are torn on that, and I went in fully aware of the consensus. Despite this, I remained determined to see if they were right while not allowing it to cloud my judgement.