Castle Bravo: A Godzillaverse Retrospective - Episode 22 - Space Amoeba / Yog, Monster from Space (1970)

Episode 22 - Space Amoeba / Yog, Monster from Space (1970)

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02/08/23 • 50 min

Castle Bravo: A Godzillaverse Retrospective

Dang y'all who's ready for a downer episode? Honda made a movie that should have ranked among his finest if it wasn't just a little bit off, devoid of the love and passion normally found in these movies. Turns out making movies is hard when your workplace is falling apart and one of your closest collaborators dies right as you start making it.

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Episode 21 - All Monsters Attack / Godzilla's Revenge (1969)

It's time for the most infamous Godzilla movie ever made: All Monsters Attack, aka Godzilla's Revenge. Director Ishiro Honda returns for this *explicitly made for children* movie about standing up to bullies and getting your money's worth out of old footage. During the process, we come to a final head against the miserable and frequently racist dubbing practices these movies endured for their original American releases, and thank god we won't be suffering that for any future movies.

We're joined today by SDGC creator and fellow cohost John Phipps. He's supposed to come back for another one of these, but we can't be sure he will anymore. Not after this.

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Episode 23 - Godzilla vs Hedorah / Godzilla vs the Smog Monster (1971)

A first-time director was handed a miniscule budget and told to make a Godzilla movie in a month. The result is predictably messy, but would go on to be a cult classic regardless. Despite being ostensibly a family movie, we think we probably weren't supposed to watch this one sober.

We're joined this week by friend and fellow SDGC host Brittney aka Peachia. This was her first Godzilla movie ever. It's possible we owe her a better first experience than this one.

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