and, the houses, he makes, last till, Doomsday, (hm, that's cool, Doomsday)

[thehefner]

Heads up, fans of Hamlet and/or metal.

For those who don't watch METALOCALYPSE, there's an episode where Nathan Explosion, lead singer of the metal band (and twelfth largest economy in the world) Dethklok records the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. His aim to make Shakespeare metal.

In the actual episode, we didn't see too much of the actual performance. However--and I am very peeved that no one has told me about this--in the DVD, this here video is a special feature.

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(Erm, just ignore this link, the video above is all I'm posting here)

Holy. Bejabbers. I'm dying here.

I haven't had the time to watch the whole thing yet, but that easily joins the ranks of Arnold Schwarzenegger's HAMLET:

And, of course, the still-brillaint South Park (Canadian) HAMLET:

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Re: ACKACKACKACKACK

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

The Schwarzenegger one is from LAST ACTION HERO. So that may be why you've never seen it!

The South Park Hamlet is Phillip, from "Terrence and Phillip," who wear "T" and "P" shirts respectively. The clip is from an episode which reveals that the potty-mouthed Canadian duo has split up, and Phillip has been focusing on doing Shakespeare. When this episode came out, we in the Rude Mechanicals quoted it for years later. "I die, buddy. Blah!!"

Re: ACKACKACKACKACK

[kali921.livejournal.com]

BLEAH!

Ooooh, now I remember the Ahnold Hamlet!

Also, you do realize that I'm going to go around for the next six days saying BLEAH! BLEAH!

One More Day. Ugh. I finally read the full issue, and.....oh, GOD, WHY.

Oh oh oh also LOOK AT THIS:

[kali921.livejournal.com]

OH OH OH look at this! I hate fanvids, right. They clog up YouTube and get in the way of actual content. But I found a fan-made trailer for GODZILLA: FINAL WARS that is hands down the BEST fan thing I've EVER seen on YouTube. Look at the EDITING, and the music! (The soundstrack to Final Wars was a Paragon of Excellence.) It really kicks in at about thirty seconds. This guy must have spent HOURS on this, and he needs to working in Hollywood, stat!

HOW AWESOME IS THIS?!

Re: Oh oh oh also LOOK AT THIS:

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Oh ROCK.

You know, I've never seen a Godzilla movie before? WAIT, BEFORE YOU FREAK OUT...! Tonight, the AFI Silver theater here is showing GOJIRA, the original uncut version! So I'll be there tonight, rest assured!

GO. Because the original Godzilla is a masterful exploration of the post-War ZEITGEIST.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

WASN'T THAT AWESOME? GHIDORAH RISING UP AT THE END!

YOU'VE NEVER SEEN A KAIJU FILM? WHAT. WHAT. WHAT. GET ON AIM RIGHT NOW!!

Because the original Japanese version of the first Godzilla film - the one from 1953 - was the first film ever in Japan to deal explicitly with the implications and collective terror of the Japanese Zeitgeist in the atomic age. It is a MASTERPIECE of tense pacing, the soundtrack is rightfully considered one of the finest film soundtracks ever, and it perfectly embodied the Japanese terror of illness, mutation, and unspeakable horror after Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Many, many highbrow film critics cite Godzilla as a masterpiece, including Pauline Kael, who once wrote a five thousand word essay on it. Think about that CAREFULLY, because Americans so often Just Don't Get It. Imagine living in Japan in the fifties, being the only country that was ever nuclear bombed. Imagine how profundly intertwined that experience is in your culture.

That's why Godzilla was a landmark social, historical, and cultural event.

The full Japanese version was finally released here in 2004, to rave reviews - did you know that?

Ishiro Hondo went on to direct many, many other films, many very good films in fact, but he always cited Godzilla as the one nearest and dearest to his heart, because he said it was his most passionate and heartfelt work.

NOW, FOR MORE AWESOME: have a clip of Gamera, Guardian of the Universe, rightfully considered by many to be the finest monster film ever made. It was put out in 1999, and it features highbrow special effects, and some of the sequences are HEARTSTOPPING. It took monster films to the next level, and recast Gamera (the giant turtle who loves kids) as sort of the Punisher - a darkher, more deadly anti-hero. This clip is set to Killing Joke's Judas Goat, and my GOD, IS IT BRILLIANT:




NOW TELL ME THAT ISN'T AWESOME. I've never seen a monster film with such graphic depiction of human collateral damage.

Re: GO. Because the original Godzilla is a masterful exploration of the post-War ZEITGEIST.

[gnort.livejournal.com]

Not only was that video awesome on its own. It led me to this particlar video




Better then most fan vids on its own, but the fact that they used Final Countdown just brings it up to a whole new level.

Re: GO. Because the original Godzilla is a masterful exploration of the post-War ZEITGEIST.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Don't make me start posting the awesome Mothra fanvids that I've found on YouTube. One is set to Green Day's version of "She's a Rebel."

PS

[kali921.livejournal.com]

PS - Godzilla Final Wars was the 2004 blowout extravaganza that had all of the Earth's previously vanquished kaiju wake up, due to alien interference, and ATTACK Godzilla. Cities around the world get trashed: Sydney, Beijing, Paris, San Francisco, Tokyo. Then they all attack Godzilla, and he and Mothra plunge into battle in an all out multi-monster melee to defeat them, which they eventually do. It was notable for using CGI in some sequences, and excellent acting, with an interesting human plot.

IT WAS AWESOME.

Also, you've seriously never seen the last Mothra trilogy, from the nineties? You know that Mothra is Wonder Woman to Godzilla's Wolverine, right? You know that she's considered a cultural icon, and that she's literally a goddess of love and the defender of ecological purity, and of the Earth?