![]() That’s pretty much a win for the monsters, right?īut where does Monster Bird fit into all of this? Long before the SyFy Channel did monster tag teams on a weekly basis with their terrible TV movies, Japan was doing it with Gamera and Godzilla films and decades before even that, Universal was doing it with Frankenstein, Dracula and the Wolf-Man. Here? Just Ashizawa and his lady friend trying not to fall off a log into some lava while the monsters play grab ass nearby. ![]() Modern audiences would expect a Will Smith or a Bruce Willis to be jumping on them from the cockpit of a fighter jet to punch them in the face, shove a nuke down their throat and make a witty comment (Here’s a breath mint you ugly Jurassichole!) before skydiving to safety as mushroom clouds erupt behind them. Maybe this is some commentary on the Japanese post World War II psyche or something, but who wants to watch a movie about rampaging creatures where the people run around panicking before finally just watching the monsters duke it out until they fall into a hole or get bored and wander back out into the ocean? The best part of this positively stupid development is that this Grand Canyon-sized leap of logic plays absolutely no part in the resolution of the movie because Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds is one of those Japanese giant monster movies where the humans are completely superfluous. But then looks up and sees it up in a tree! But why? A Plesiosaurus put it there to munch on later! Duh! What should have just been another simple midnight snack for our toothy hero instead puts the human lead character in the film hot on his trail! Who could have ever expected (especially someone with a dinosaur brain) that some hysterical woman seeing the remains of a cow you had gnawed on to be so problematic? Ashizawa, who is already in the area hunting the dinosaur his crazy dad always believed was roaming around, checks it out and finds that the horse body is gone. Fuji in Japan! And now with the big Dragon Festival coming up to take advantage of his legend, he feels like a snack! But even with a few people mysteriously disappearing in and around the lake, few believe it to be the handiwork of the Loch Ness Monster’s bad ass cousin! But even the most ancient of killer beasts can get cocky and slip up! A legend of a dinosaur who somehow escaped extinction and survived to this very day! And is living in a lake near Mt.
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