A low-prep "bonus" follow-up to our Pacific Rim episode! This is focused on Godzilla movies. A lot of it is pretty general, though there are some spoilers.

https://letterboxd.com/film/godzilla-minus-one/

https://letterboxd.com/film/shin-godzilla/

https://letterboxd.com/film/godzilla/

https://letterboxd.com/film/godzilla-raids-again/

I had planned to get this out for Xmas (hence the hat, despite the episode having no holiday connection otherwise) but no such luck. Sorry about that. You'll notice there's a lot of re-recorded bits on my end (Michael), which should give an idea as to how a "lower effort" "bonus" episode ended up taking just as long as anything else... Hopefully our Out of the Past episode shouldn't take as long to edit, but I'm just one old man with a pair of scissors and a roll of scotch tape.

Here is the Hedorah fan made short I mentioned, though I want to warn that I had remembered it being more substantial than it is. It's a decently moody setup for the original Godzilla v. Hedorah film, though.

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While it's unlikely to fit in well with your Halloween movie marathon, we do technically have a monster movie recommendation here… kaiju are a type of monster, after all… Anyway, you're very likely to be familiar with Pacific Rim already, and it doesn't seem like the sort of fare we usually feature, but it's a favorite of ours, and we had as much to say about it as we do about most movies we've talked about on PLWIL, so, please indulge us a bit here. There's also some fun tangents about Tolkien, Gainax, anime clichés, etc…

Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/pacific-rim/

IMDB: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1663662/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1

If you're a Pacific Rim fan who's just stumbled across our podcast, then welcome! Please don't be scared off by the artsy fantasy selections we often make: if you liked this episode, you might find more to enjoy! I usually recommend Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown as a great entry point, since it's a fun movie and discussion, but if you love this movie, then Dragon Inn or Dead Leaves would likely be up your alley, as might our next one…

Right! The next one… We're considering whipping up a quick bonus episode revolving around a certain related film that we mentioned in this one, but the next actual episode will be on the noir classic, Jacques Tourneur's 1947 film, Out of the Past. I don't see it listed as currently streaming in the US, unfortunately, though it seems to be available on Japanese Amazon Prime if you want to try that, and there are some… unofficial… uploads of it here and there if you take a quick look around, not that you heard it from me. Personally, I don't see why seventy year old films shouldn't be public domain yet, myself.

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Joe introduces Michael to a very unique and interesting little gem that I'm having a very difficult time summarizing without spoiling... it's about a guy whose life falls apart under a Nazi occupation, but aside from that, you should just watch it, especially if you like suspense movies. It's on Criterion. Hey, sorry about the wait on this one. It's just us two making these and sometimes real life gets in the way of editing them.

https://letterboxd.com/film/mr-klein/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074916/

Next one is Pacific Rim and I'm very excited. Giant robots, baby! You can watch it on Netflix in the US or HBO Max in most Spanish speaking countries.

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