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Originally Posted by hammerfan
I wrote this on your FB group page, but thought I would post it here, too.
I have a suggestion for next year, if you do this again: giant monsters, i.e., Godzilla, Them!, Tarantula, The Giant Gila Monster, etc.
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Excellent choices. The original Nippon version of Godzilla is a good film to see with friends, depression is best experienced together.
Interesting... did you know Gila and Attack of the Killer Shrews was made back-to-back by Ray Kellogg? So, with the skype room, can you hear people's comments well? and is there a delay? Cause Gila sucks, & without lampooning is a bore. I might recommend a better film, or the MST2K version instead.
Tarantula is a decent 50's film, maybe a bit overseen for a film with not a lot of re-watchability, IMO.
I recommend better &/or lesser seen giant monster films:
20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) - Ray Harryhausen does some of his finest stopaction animation.
Pacific Rim (2013) - excellent Del Toro film
Destroy All Monsters (1968) - best Godzilla sci-fi film
Jurassic Park (1993) - good movie, been a long time for most.
Godzilla Vs the Smog Monster (1971) - rich, dark, psychedelic Godzilla film, just read it's Roger Ebert's fav G film.
Monsters (2010) - film won Gareth Edwards directorial dibs on Godzilla2014
Gamera 3: The Revenge of Iris (1999) - 91% rottentomatoes, good FX & story