Favorite Gamera Film - Blu-ray Forum

MechaGodzilla · 04-05-2014, 03:19 PM

Since Godzilla has a couple polls I thought I'd give Gamera some love too.

My favorite is easily Gamera 3, with G2 and Guardian of the Universe not far behind. The '90s trilogy absolutely nailed it, and got better as it went on, culminating in G3. The effects are definitely among the best I've seen in a Japanese giant monster movie, cinematography and music (composed by Kow Otani, probably best known for scoring the video game Shadow of the Colossus) are great. The human drama is actually compelling for once and works for the movie, the monster action is fairly sparse but what is there is absolutely killer. For once we get to see how giant monsters duking it out in a city affects the people there.

Gamera the Brave is pretty good too, very competently made, but disappointed me because of the expectations I had after the trilogy. While I enjoy the older films for their camp, they just aren't very good movies. Supposedly a 50th anniversary Gamera movie is coming next year, will be interesting to see how that turns out.

SethRex · 04-05-2014, 03:35 PM

Odd. I've never heard of Gamera: Super Monster.

MechaGodzilla · 04-05-2014, 03:41 PM

It's a super cheap little oddity mostly pieced together using stock footage from previous Gamera movies as well as some other (including anime!) sources. By all accounts the absolute low point of the franchise.

View Poll Results: Which Gamera film is your favorite?
Gamera (1965)	0	0%
Gamera vs. Barugon (1966)	0	0%
Gamera vs. Gyaos (1967)	1	14.29%
Gamera vs. Viras (1968)	0	0%
Gamera vs. Guiron (1969)	0	0%
Gamera vs. Jiger (1970)	0	0%
Gamera vs. Zigra (1971)	0	0%
Gamera: Super Monster (1980)	0	0%
Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995)	1	14.29%
Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (1996)	1	14.29%
Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999)	4	57.14%
Gamera the Brave (2006)	0	0%
Voters: 7. You may not vote on this poll

04-05-2014, 03:19 PM	#1
MechaGodzilla Blu-ray Baron Top contributor Member since:Sep 2012 Location:Sweden 4K collection:96 Blu-ray collection:660 DVD collection:234	Favorite Gamera Film Since Godzilla has a couple polls I thought I'd give Gamera some love too. My favorite is easily Gamera 3, with G2 and Guardian of the Universe not far behind. The '90s trilogy absolutely nailed it, and got better as it went on, culminating in G3. The effects are definitely among the best I've seen in a Japanese giant monster movie, cinematography and music (composed by Kow Otani, probably best known for scoring the video game Shadow of the Colossus) are great. The human drama is actually compelling for once and works for the movie, the monster action is fairly sparse but what is there is absolutely killer. For once we get to see how giant monsters duking it out in a city affects the people there. Gamera the Brave is pretty good too, very competently made, but disappointed me because of the expectations I had after the trilogy. While I enjoy the older films for their camp, they just aren't very good movies. Supposedly a 50th anniversary Gamera movie is coming next year, will be interesting to see how that turns out.

04-05-2014, 03:35 PM	#2
SethRex Blu-ray Ninja Member since:Jan 2009 4K collection:6 Blu-ray collection:7 Digital collection:1 Blu-ray reviews: 6 Trading Score:127	Odd. I've never heard of Gamera: Super Monster.

04-05-2014, 03:41 PM	#3
MechaGodzilla Blu-ray Baron Top contributor Member since:Sep 2012 Location:Sweden 4K collection:96 Blu-ray collection:660 DVD collection:234	It's a super cheap little oddity mostly pieced together using stock footage from previous Gamera movies as well as some other (including anime!) sources. By all accounts the absolute low point of the franchise.

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