My hubby is NOT a Kaiju fan. :D

Lynn LeFey · **on:** May 21, 2015, 10:43:09 PM

I grew up watching a Saturday afternoon show broadcast from a local station in Cleveland, called 'Superhost'. They would show stuff like 3 stooges, or WB cartoons, then two cheesy horror/monster movies.

I LOVED that stuff.

As a result, I just take Godzilla and Gamera and such for granted. (As well as Hammer Horror, and Universal Studies monster movies, and all that)

My husband is a librarian, and occasionally has to catalogue movies. He had to catalogue 'Monster from a Prehistoric Planet' and 'Gamera: Destroy All Planets' today. That sometimes requires him to watch enough to find the credits. He also usually checks at various locations on a disk for damage. He was not impressed by either.

Direct quote: "rocket powered, fire breathing turtle. Dumbest idea ever."

detron · **Reply #1 on:** May 21, 2015, 10:56:23 PM

I love all of those movies, yeah not really high-brow oscar winning stuff, but a fun watch

Smashie · **Reply #2 on:** May 21, 2015, 11:10:21 PM

He should try the Jeremy Robinson books, Project Nemesis, Project Maigo and Project 731.

I'm also not a Kaiju fan but these books are good fun.

Just an FYI Nemesis came out not long before Pacific Rim was announced

Lynn LeFey · **Reply #3 on:** May 21, 2015, 11:25:42 PM

I doubt very much he'd ever get around to reading such a thing. I think he's on an 'origins of indo-european peoples and languages' tear right now, with probably 4 or 5 books still waiting to be read. After that, I dunno. He's not much (or at all) into fiction reading, unless it's horror.

Smashie · **Reply #4 on:** May 21, 2015, 11:29:46 PM

Quote from: Lynn LeFey on May 21, 2015, 11:25:42 PM

I doubt very much he'd ever get around to reading such a thing. I think he's on an 'origins of indo-european peoples and languages' tear right now, with probably 4 or 5 books still waiting to be read. After that, I dunno. He's not much (or at all) into fiction reading, unless it's horror.

Lol pick Island 731, it's horror from beginning to end, infact most of his books have a large horror quotient

ironraven · **Reply #5 on:** May 22, 2015, 05:00:47 AM

Is he a gamer? Just put it into d20 terms. Including "you're going to need a more blessed sword".

I've always loved the idea of some local station doing a Sunday through Friday thing at like 2 in the morning, kaiju and vampire and 50s sci fi movies. Call it the "Too Late Movie". But I think we're about 20 years too late for that.

ColoSwiss · **Reply #6 on:** May 22, 2015, 05:09:13 AM

Sounds like your husband is a man of intellect, taste and discrimination.

Lynn LeFey · **Reply #7 on:** May 22, 2015, 05:19:39 AM

Quote from: ColoSwiss on May 22, 2015, 05:09:13 AM

Sounds like your husband is a man of intellect, taste and discrimination.

Mostly, then he picked ME. So...

I explained Gamera to him with this sentence: "He has jets because ... SHUT UP!"

It really makes no more sense than Godzilla breathing fire. We're just kind of USED to THAT dumb idea.

Ironraven, yes, he's a gamer, but just sort of peripherally. He always plays the fighter or some similar 'don't make me think too hard' class. "I attack it with my sword" is pretty much his standard stock answer to any question. that's a little embarrassing when he's a Duke and he's being shown the newborn Princess of the kingdom, but... you know... can't win 'em all.

styx · **Reply #8 on:** May 22, 2015, 11:26:15 AM

A Necessary End by Sarah Pinborough and F. Paul Wilson
Professor Challenger: The Island Of Terror by William Meikle
Project Nemesis (A Kaiju Thriller) by Jeremy Robinson
Savage Species: Night Terrors by Jonathan Janz
Boggy Creek: The Legend Is True by Eric S. Brown and Jennifer Minar-Jaynes
MM9 by Hiroshi Yamamoto

At least some of these should grab his attention.

Also it is interesting for a scholar to entirely dismiss the notion of giant monsters when civilizations around the world often saw them as deities or simply superior creatures that bring forth the good and the bad of nature in it's purest form. Sure a fire breathing, atomic lizard or a jetpack powered turtle might seem silly, but a giant flying snake, a bird that causes thunder by flapping it's wings or a griffin like creature big enough to block out the sun were staples of old beliefs.
Even more so to the point, we can't really say it is entirely impossible, just very improbable that such creatures could have existed or will exist one day. Megalodon is one perfect example where people didn't think it was possible that it existed but now researchers are toying the idea of it still being alive. And there is a tiny bit of research done on catfish near the Chernobyl nuclear plant which are growing bigger than normal.

If memory serves me, Gamera was bio-engineered by a civilization more advanced than our own so who knows how to properly explain those jets