Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: GAMERA VS. GUIRON
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- The Gamera-A-Thon continues with "Gamera vs. Guiron" (1969), where Gamera battles one monster piece of cutlery!
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Out of curiosity I looked up the American mom, Edith Hanson. She was 30 at the time of the movie and she is still alive. She was a college dropout from Oklahoma, went to Japan to visit her brother, not speaking a word of Japanese. She taught herself the language, had a great career as a television host and journalist and never left. She saw an opportunity and grabbed it. A quite extraordinary woman.
Neat :=)
You know you learn something new everyday, and good for her she took a gamble and made it, that's something we all should try to do once in our life.
"Out of curiosity" = because she was hot
Doubly impressive, overcoming the Japanese bias against outsiders is no small feat.
That is legitimately pretty awesome!
I think Guiron laughing after slicing Gaus' head off was a way of saying, " Heal THAT, I dare you!".
good to know Knifehead from Pacific Rim moved on to bigger and better things :)
I understood that reference. More people need to see Pacific Rim
Pierce Timko But possibly not the sequel.
Pacific rim was ok.. But not stellar, most versions of Godzilla would brutally violate a jaeger , as would EVA 01, hell i'd go see a crossover with Pacific rim and Evangalion, just to see the kaiju run like bitches when unit 01 goes batshit-beserk-murderfrenzy on a cat-5
I wouldn't say "bigger" Things because pacific rim is dead now
It is? Can't say i'll miss it much, still haven't seen 2, and only saw the first after finding it used in a by 4 get one free deal at the local videogame store
did you know the designers of knifehead had no idea that guiron existed until fans asked if they copied the design
piplup2009 The Pac-Rim kaiju?
piplup2009 well del toro was inspired by evagelion and kaju movies including Godzilla and probably gamera
More like Super Robot in general.
I'm sure that's consciously true, but, if they're at all familiar with kaiju (and how could they not be, in that job?), they may have seen Guiron and not remembered that they had. Happens a lot.
Not that there's necessarily theft involved in "What would make a cool creature? A knife for a head". Seems like the kind of thing you'd come-up with pretty quickly. Nature sure did (rhinos/elephants/birds/various beetles/etc.).
@Jurassic Hero This is true, but, to be fair to Guiron, minor difference in available budgets.
Ya you make fun of the aliens in this movie but if you noticed there wasn't one traffic accident on their planet.
Well gee that might have been because there's only two on the whole damn planet.
Technically they did crash their spaceship into a giant monster.
Cars are illegal, probably
In the 41st Millennium traffic accidents are illegal, if someone is caught by an arbitrator committing the act of Trafficus Accidenticus they are punished with death, by firing squad.
Get back on that big gold toil....i mean "throne" , Leviathan is coming for your chips
Maybe Japanese Kenny's dad died in a traffic accident, so in his mind traffic accidents are a big problem.
That or a car crashed into the building he worked at late one night
Or maybe he saw this chart and compared traffic deaths to wars and other stuff: ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-number-of-deaths-by-cause
The Dad was accidentally eaten by Gamera, but wasn’t told By their Mom. Gamera wanted to make it up to them...🤔
If Kenny was my son, i would've killed myself in a traffic accident too.
@@TheSpaceJockey91 welcome to Brandon's videos
The american title still makes sense at least. They titled the movie "King Kong vs Godzilla" here in Italy.
Of course it was. I'm not being sarcastic, almost all monster films in Italy or Germany tended to be title with Godzilla, King Kong or Frankenstein as Brandon commented many times, and some posters even replaced the real monsters with King Kong.
Mama Mia talk about false advertising
@@coneheadzigity they did that because they thought that more people would pay to see it since king kong godzilla and frankenstein were very popular heck troll 2 wasn't even a sequel it was actually a italian made movie and that explains why the acting was enjoyably bad since it wasn't the actors native language and for some reason the movie was called troll 2
I bet in Germany its something-something Frankenstein.
@@MforMovesets It probably would have, but it seems the movie never got a german release.
"The Kennys have their own Kenny!" Ken-ception!
Oh My God,They killed Kenny
Me:Yes!!...YES... *YES!!!*
BWAAAAAAAAM
Matheusnever1 Plasma Man except the Kenny they killed wasn’t that annoying
"It's Kennys, all the way down".
@@michaelccozens Nice!
3 KENNY"S!! is this a bad dream!?!?!
What's next? 5 kenny's 10 kenny"s INVASION OF THE KENNY"S?!
GAMERA VS THE KENNY'S?!
Worse: Gamera Saves The Kenny Multiverse!!!!!
Even worse : gamera saves that kid from godzilla's revenge!!!!!!!
Jim The Jackal hey! that kid isnt that annoying!
I think you will find that the worst we can get is 9001 or greater Kennys
Jim The Jackal war on the kennys
Hearing a Canadian yell about how a Gamera movie mixing up star and planet is somehow making my day
14:02
There's really only one way to summarize this scene: "Hello. Thank you."
fun fact there was a supposed to be a new monster but the budget got tight so the spray painted the gyaos suit silver
SkySlasher I could believe that.
His name was monga and he could glide like Varan
It would be interesting to see an interview with the Kennies. They should be in their sixties now. Especially for the American one it must have been quite an experience.
Gamera high as fuck...well it was the 60's
Lol! Times 3747585992813774644738928753234537263748837262734858576225373918282828373747372616253646
"Star" in Japanese is "Hoshi" and "Planet" in Japanese is "Wakusei", unless I'm missing something somewhere.
I believe the confusion is a holdover from older generations.
Yep, you're right. The kanji for star is "星" (Hoshi OR Sei)...planet is "惑星" (Wakusei), wich literally means wander star.
Michael Regan
Well, in Chinese, planet literally translates to “star ball” (星球). Not sure if it’s the case for Japanese
@@kimjongoof5000 IIRC, wasn't a lot of Japanese originally cribbed from Chinese/Mandarin?
I'm gonna assume that's probably not something the Japanese like to be reminded of, given the international history/current political climate.
European languages also called planets "stars" while stars where called "fixed stars". This was because stars rotated around the polar star, like they where fixed on a rotating sky dome, while planets moved around more freely. Without a telescope, it was not possible to tell planets where, what we understand as, planets and not a special type of star. So it might have been similar with Japanese.
"Just ask the Native Americans"
O_O
........gonna need a senzu for that one....
I actually liked this one considerably more than Viras, for while the Kenny’s are just as annoying, they aren’t also smug boy-geniuses like the last two. This one also gets to the point quicker
This is probably the most entertaining and watchable of the original Gameras in my opinion. The kid actors at least have SOME acting abilities and it moves along nicely
@@kevinr.3542 I'll mostly agree, in that I'd say it's the most entertaining and watchable non-Kenny entry; the second one, which didn't have a Kenny, might get my vote for the best, that being a central facet. Although you are correct in that GvGuiron probably had the best pacing of all seven movies; the others often times dragged.
This is my favourite Gamera of them all, so obsurdly stupid and cheesy with an enemy monster who is simultaneously cool, weird, cute and oozing with cheese at the same time.
My second favourite is Gamera Vs Barugon for the opposite reason, it's the most solid and non cheesy of the whole Showa series.
The Heisei films are great but I'm always drawn more towards older films.
Honestly, whenever the "if they could discover interstellar travel, they have to be peaceful!" argument comes up, I need to fight the urge to insert a clip of KLINGONS. :D
To be fair though, if you have interstellar travel... why would you even need to invade lesser developed inhabited planets when in terms of raw materials there are literally asteroids with bajillions of tons of raw materials that, while rare and pricey on earth (mostly because of artificial price manipulation, but whatevs) are super abundant elsewhere. The asteroid belt alone, just 4% of the moon's mass about is is 2,390,000,000,000,000,000 metric tons of free floating rock free for the taking. Even considering over 75% of that mass are carbonaceous asteroids... that's still more than enough metal to completely eclipse what we have easily accessible here on earth by several orders of magnitude.
Don't forget the Romulans :=)
Sure, but then there's the point that the Klingons (at least the warrior-culture TNG ones) don't make any fucking sense. This even gets parodied in that one episode where they have the Klingon scientist and they're barely functional from being abused by jock dickheads their whole lives.
@@VunderGuy True, although there may be difficulties in zero-g mining v. the normal grav sort, but surely not enough to offset the added task of invading a planet.
A more likely motivation would be seizing habitable living space roughly matching the evolutionary environment of the creature in question within a self-renewing ecosystem. That stuff's hard to manufacture, and gaining nearly a planet's-worth would be quite the coup. As we already say, they're not making any more real estate (in substantial amounts, anyway).
Re artificial price manipulation, I assume you might be referring to DeBeer's famous "diamond engagement ring" scam? Those guys are dicks.
*Laughs in Crusader Clan*
And cue King Ghidorah descending into the Kennies' hometown.
Kennies: "Hey look, it's one of Gamera's friends! He needs a hug!"
(Kennies get zapped by King Ghidorah's Gravity Beams)
King Ghidorah: BIDIBIDIBIDIBIDIBIDIBIDIBIDIBIDI-RAAAAAAUUUGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! (summons other kaiju sleeping underground or underwater)
This is the one time that Ghidorah's the hero. (I mean, besides GMK.)
I do understand that it is odd that a kid would include traffic accidents as one of the scourges of the earth... but really, it kind of IS. Far more people die of traffic accidents than in war in modern times, for example.
+Jimera0 We never see Akio's dad in this movie; I wonder if he died in a traffic accident. Seriously, it would explain why Akio is so obsessed with them.
+Jimera0 Let me put it this way, I've never seen a post-apocalyptic movie where humanity was wiped out by traffic accidents!
+Brandon Tenold give it a few more fast and furious sequels and by the tenth film which will be called fast decade the worlds population would have been mostly killed by car crash's and stunts.
Not to sound racist, but traffic accidents usually kill off most characters in Japanese media. Whether or not that's a statistic in real life, I dare you to see how many animes, movies, books, etc., a character dies due to a car accident.
+Brandon Tenold Now that would be a movie. Imagine the last man is run over by a car.
So, Brandon, let me get this straight....you think this movie is kinda weird? Maybe a little bit goofy?
Its just weird
Just a little
Maybe
Kinda silly
19:03 at least Gamera predicted Tea-Bagging in video games
If you haven't hop stomped on a person you've fought then you've never rage fought against someone you hated
Be the Mario Japan wanted you to be.
that native American bit had me dying thank you
same bruh
+TheBlackKnight1o1 66yy
TheBlackKnight1o1 a
LadyGoddessofAnubis
Same sis.
Gurian is so adorable with that enormous great sword for a nose
Like a Bull Terrier 💕
@@roringusanda2837Delicious 😋.
The only time in my life that I've ever poured cereal and then discovered I don't have milk was this very morning. And I'm fairly old. I remember the 70s.
5:14 Kornja does what we were all hoping to do to Kenny. Problem is, it's the kid friendly version.
Holy shit! I never even noticed how much the gamera theme sounds like the mighty mouse theme until now.
And to think the aliens would get even GOOFIER from here...
Traffic accidents do kill more people than guns.
Guns don't kill people
People kill people
Being exposed to a Kenny for long periods of time can kill you too.
Fake-Darth-Vader Channel Guns don’t kill people...
I DO!
Its a proven scientific fact that the leading cause of death is.....DEATH XD
@@UMBChannel2019 Guns don't kill people
People kill Guns
The Gamera song always makes me smile.
Reminds me of MSK 3000 Riff on the song.
9:55 my reaction would have been different, along the lines of:
HOLY S#!T IT JUST EASILY KILLED THAT OTHER MONSTER!!!
''Guiron must be tough. He's beating up Worf.''
I remember when I was a kid I thought the sets in these movies were super futuristic 😂
"PLANET, THEY'RE ON A FUCKIN' PLANET!!!"
19:11 this clip says enough for the every showa gamera movie
Guiron has a cool evil laugh.
Bruh your movie reviews are hilarious keep up the good work. Subbed!
#makelovenottrafficaccedents
Prevent Isekais today!
You go, Gaira! Or, Caleb East I suppose...
#MakeSeatopiagreatagain
#endallkennies
#makegamerablowup
"What a monster..."
LOL
Great movie. This all seemed so plausible back in the day.
So did they change the girl's line from "Kon-chan" to "Kondo" to avoid any possible "Cornjob" misunderstandings? GOOD THING IT DIDN'T WORK 😂
What he said: "make love not traffic accidents"
What I heard: "have sex not a lawsuit"
The words by which I live my life.
Truer words have never been spoken
C O R N J O B !!!!
J O R N C O B !!!!
B O J N R O C
Kon-Chan
To be fair, if they only had one Guiron and there was a swarm of gaos then I could see it ultimately making little difference in saving the "star".
any one else think japanese Kenny's mom is kind of hot? Caucasion Kenny's mom aint bad either
I think she's attractive, too
Envy 羨望 you wanna bone a turtle?
The aliens are pretty hot too tbh
Her name?
I'm glad I am not the only one who thought that! 😘
Godzilla vs Kenny
King Ghidorah, Gigan, and Orga vs. the Kennies: Invasion of the Vortaak
Vorticia: (to Ghidorah and Gigan) "Fly, my pretties! Go get those disgusting, idiotic children for our scientific experiments! Then we will dissect them, and all of you can destroy Earth for your amusements! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!"
Forget Godzilla vs kong I want Godzilla vs kenny
@@nicholaslienandjaja1815 I can’t like this comment it’s on 69 likes
Wow, I have never seen this dub version before and that is just hilarious about the star and planet stuff. What was evening funnier was your video cut to a Starbucks commercial right after the Planet/Star conversation the kids had with the aliens.
Out of every dialogue detail in every dub of this movie, the "Traffic accidents" line is obviously the most important line to keep.
Perhaps that is what the kid actually said?
DESTROY ALL KENNIES
yes destroy them all make the kennies extinct .
oh my god they killed kenny!You hero!
yay and now dodos rule the world XD
If you hate Kenny’s whach Godzilla in that universe Kenny doesn’t exist
All right I'm to join this fight.
Yeah he high on those Cosmic waves.
Do GODZILLA VS. MEGALON! So much comedic potential!
20:23 If you look closely you may notice that Gamera isn't just smooshing the two halves of the space ship together with brute force; he is actually using his breath to weld them. Who's the "goofy" one now?
It’s still goofy, because it’s still complex circuitry, and welding it together won’t always work.
🐙oh yeah, I'd trust a welded back together spaceship...why didn't he just use FlexTape?!!🛸
0:40 I'll never not see that thing as the evolved form of Timmy, Crow's evil jet-black doppleganger from MST3K.
5:29 The aliens have a "Somebody Else's Problem" field.
5:42 There's a line from "Apollo 13" where Tom Hanks says, "What if Columbus sailed home from the New World and nobody followed in his footsteps?", and all I could think was, "The answer you get to that is really gonna depend on your audience".
6:06 The aliens have mastered FTL flight but not immobilizers, apparently. That thing'll be in a chop-shop inside the hour.
8:07 If the ship was on remote control, why did it crash? There may be a logical flaw in this movie about farting space turtles.
13:17 The aliens are flatworms? (FYI, the claim that flatworms can learn by eating other flatworms is popular in sci-fi, but extremely weakly supported)
13:33 And yet, whenever I use that strategy to try to fit-in to a new workplace, I get yelled at.
16:41 This may be the most sensible part of the movie. If you had those kids, how hard would you be looking for them?
18:08 Way to sell that hit, kid.
12:42 I burst with laughter at this scene. XD
12:46
LGman 2000
HERE I COME TO SAVE THE DAAAAAAAAAAY!
Ironically he gets his ass kicked lmfao.
Gyaos was a victim of the Worf Effect.
A lot of the kaiju movies take place in the MIB universe so every time aliens show up the witnesses get amnesia zapped. It's a hypothesis but I think it has merit.
The name Guiron is a play on the Japanese pronounciation of Guillotine
That's very interesting, I didn't know that.
I suspected as much, thank you for sharing this
I think Kendra was saying "Kon-chan" in the Sandy Frank dub. And while that was a nice little addition of normal Japanese speak, if she doesn't view Kondo as an authority figure and more as a peer (which isn't hard to picture due to how hard he is to take seriously), then she should say "Kon-nii". Which apparently doesn't strictly pertain to actual older siblings, but rather any male that is older, but not quite an adult....God, I'm such an otaku.
Interesting explanation
Okay I know this is a silly movie but it was one of the first giant monster flicks I ever saw. Whenever my parents would drop me off at my grandparents apt. the first thing I would do is drag out the TV Guide and see what was on and if there was a monster movie playing I was in heaven. At seven years old this movie had me glued to the couch for its entire two hour running time. Years later I watched the MST3K version and thought it was hilarious.
The word "star" in Japanese is "hoshi" which can also be translated as "planet". For example, in Transformers Headmasters, the planet Master is called "the Master star" in Japan.
You almost got it. The exact term for planet in japanese is "惑星" (wakusei), wich literally means wander star.
Guiron is actually one of my favorite Gamera monsters. After Irys. And Legion. And Zedus. And Gyaos. OK, maybe not one of my favorites.
Ethan Webster top 5 monsters? His design is pretty interesting in all seriousness.
Ninjatend03 I agree on that rather than just lasers and stuff he's just really tough and has a knife
Eh, I like him more than Irys
Congratulations Brandon Tenold you went through this entire review without making one "he killed kenny" south park joke
I guess you can say its...
K e n c e p t i o n
Brandon's anger at them calling a planet a star echoes mine at mid-70s British Science fiction.
They frequently interchanged the words Galaxy and solar system.
This is our galaxy no it's a solar system one of many stars in your Galaxy.
Looking at you Doctor Who.
I watched this when I was five, and I liked it because that was also the first time I ever had orange tic-tacs
🐙de orang ones is me faverit
One Turtley Boi vs One sharp boi
Lol 😆. "You're on a fucking planet!"
Kenny One; What a monster! Kenny Two; yeah!...That about sums up this entry in the Gamera cannon!!!😳 Thanks for the ride down monster lane Brandon, my man!!!👍😎
Brandon, nowadays traffic accidents might not be as deadly, but its still quite a big number , 2,118 deaths in Canada alone in 2016. I googled for how trafic was in japan during the 60's: " during the 1960s, the annual number of people killed on the roads in Japan exceeded the annual number killed in First Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. For this reason, 1960s Japan referred to its road fatalities problem as the “Traffic War"" (japanallover.com) so yeah, Kenny is just smart. :P
Damn... now lots of 60s and 70s anime having traffic accidents to orphan a protagonist or anyway affect the plot makes sense, it was sadly frequent in Japan those days
Fun fact: one of the Kaiju from Pacific Rim was actually based on Guiron
Actually it was a coincidence somehow
Holy Crp! I never noticed this before, but did they actually managed to light the Gamera suit on fire during the flying in space scenes, and just leave it in?
I loved the MST3K version of this.
17:31 why dai o studios disliked this video
You can say First Nations, we know you're Canadian
Am I the only one who noticed that the one Kenny said "Gamera has always been a good children to friend?"🤣
How about Kenndra instead?
You know, the traffic accidents line is.... Well, if you know the context of the time period it becomes a lot more harrowing.
Brandon: the japanese language has, as English, the respective words for planet and star. 惑星(spell: "wakusei") which means planet and 星 (spell: "hoshi") which is for star. In the case of the movie I guess it was a mistake or malinterpretation by the translator(s).
Yep, wakusei literally means "wander star".
I can relate.
Ever pull and prepare everything you could want on a sandwich from the fridge only to realize you don't have bread?
Then you remember your neighbor has bread because you were partying at his place the night before and saw it. But he's at work, and you're also still tripping from the acid you all did.
But, ah ha! His brother stayed the night! He'll be there with the bread. I somehow find the door.
Alas, the stairs... the stairs and the blasted stairwell.... It takes half an hour but you beat them and find your neighbor's door.
Arnold, get your fat ass up!
Tim! You want some shrooms and an omelet?
...
Fuck the sandwich.
I named my dog cornjob because the actor of cornjob died and he and my other dog rei hade puppys i named one kenny
Yeeeah - More Gamera:D Happy New Year btw, Brandon:)
Do we even want to know what a Corn Job is?
Watch Troll 2 - I'm pretty sure there's a Corn Job in that movie - Along with a bunch of other famously weird crap.
TyranntX i understand because you are not farmer and a killer.
"There are one hundred billion fixed stars in galactic space".
That line made me giggle :D
Yeah, but how many of them are unfixed?
4:26 thats why you put the milk first.
that blood splatter effect when she was about to cut open Akio scared the shit outta me XD
The AIP dub is superior to the Sandy Frank dub. I can't believe I used to watch the Sandy Frank one.
+Hewylewis at Least Sandy Frank Left in the Complete Space Gyaos Decapitation Scene, Including My Dad's Fav. Part, the Chicken Cackling Severed Head. Lol!
DW4Ever91 true
+DW4Ever91 I Always Liked That Part Too. it Cracks Me Up Everytime I Watch This Flick!
BeefStuu92 The only Sandy Frank dubs I like are Gyaos, Barugon, and Zigra.
I can't believe you watch dubs when there are subs.
This is actually the first and only Gamera movie that I've seen. A friend told me they were showing a Godzilla movie for free at an old theater we frequent and I went along expecting Godzilla to tear some shit up. Instead I got....Kenny's! Oh well got some good laughs out of it at least.
Someone probably ate someone’s brain thinking they could get smarter after watching this movie
🐙*burrp!
18:50 Last time I saw something like that, I was sneaking a peek at my parent's copy of The Joy of Sex.
Caucasian Mom: Well, I'll certainly give Tom a good licking when he gets back.
Chris Hansen: Ma'am would you like to have a seat right over there?
I kid you not, but as a parapro working in a high school Special Education department I found myself walking down the hallway outside another SPED teacher's room and I overheard her tell her class that the sun was one of the planets in our solar system. I was an Astronomy major so this really blew my mind to hear another teacher utter.
Maybe it was a Special, Special Education teacher
LOL! "Lightning fast turtle relexes."
Fun fact about gyaos in this film there was originally supposed to be a new monster but the budget ran low so they took the gyaos suit painted it silver and called it space gyaos
Great video, as ever. I award it five planets.
🐙💨 dang, this really deserves recognition! 🪐🪐🪐🪐🪐
Officer Cornjob: That one guy that is easiest to make fun off
18:14 This made me laugh so freaking hard. XD
How Gamera vs Guiron should have ended.
20:02: If you look closely at the bottom left near the smoke, you can actually see the other half of Guiron
I love this movie. It's a fun Japanese monster movie.
It was the only Gamera film available at my local Blockbuster - back in the day.
7:02 that is me when i saw godzilla's revenge