Rodan (1956) Monster Madness We decided to upload old Monster Madness videos to Cinemassacre Plays this October. Most of the episodes have only been available on our website in the past.
There's still plenty of classic kaiju movies from Toho that James has yet to cover on Monster Madness. Like Varan, the Mysterians, Frankenstein conquers the world, Space Amoeba and several others. Would love to see videos on those some day.
Agreed, as well as the original Mothra, Atragon and Latitude Zero. There is also plenty of other non-Toho Kaiju movies he could do like Daimajin, Gorgo, X from Outer Space, Gappa and Pulgasari
He has the tape of Space Amoeba, released here in the States as Yog, Monster from Space in his VHS collection. It’s from the Grampa’s Attic collection of horror movies hosted by Grampa Munster from the Munsters!
Rodan's is probably my second or third favorite kaiju roar after the Big G's. Despite the fact we never see two Rodans sharing the screen ever again, it's slightly implied that the Showa Rodan from Ghidorah: The Three Headed Monster, onwards, is one of the Rodans from this movie. When Rodan appears in Ghidorah, it emerges from the same volcano where the Rodan pair die in this movie. It's never outright stated, but there are little nods that Godzilla Raids Again, Rodan, King Kong vs. Godzilla, and Ghidorah: The Three Headed Monster, all take place in the same universe.
"It's never outright stated" All of the Showa Godzilla movies take place in the same universe and many of the stand-alone movies were incorporated into that universe later. They didn't feel like they needed to outright state that because back then, they just assumed you already knew that.
@@INFERNO95 That is not true. It is meant to be the male Rodan who survived. I don't know where this rumor started, but it's something some fan made up.
@@INFERNO95, In Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster, it's stated that Rodan was "revived by volcanic gas" in Mount Aso, which was the same volcano as in Rodan's standalone movie. Whether this was the baby that hatched, or one of the adults was never stated. It was, however, implied to be one of the Rodans from the '56 movie.
Not just George Takei. The dub also had James Hong (who also did voices in Godzilla, King of the Monsters), and Paul Frees (Ludwig Von Drake, Boris Badenov, many Hannah Barbara characters, etc).
@@NoxHardigan yeah they'd be bird food for sure !!👍🙂🦅🦅then I guess pinhead pumpkinhead, and leather face are next on the menu, gotta keep the bird fed !!🙂
King of the Monsters 2019 did this monster SO MUCH JUSTICE. the best part is when Rodan tries to challenge Godzilla, he snarls at him, and he quickly submits to Godzilla's alpha status.
What everyone fails to mention is AKIRA IFUKUBE ‘s MUSIC , this music is haunting and is a style that is easily the most recognizable music ever done for film. When you hear his music, for the Ishiro Honda films , there’s no mistaking who’s music your hearing , intensely memorable
@The Grumpy Little Dog i mean,. man, do you see how detail the model and props ":cars, building, street .. the whole thing is top notch.. .. those thing take's a lot of time and lots of back pain.. james know all about it thou .. im sure he doesnt mean it in negative way..
I’ve seen this one a number of times and it was a favorite as a kid. It’s actually pretty good. My only gripe is one scene towards the end with tanks and artillery blasting the land. It goes on for quite some time.
For as much Godzilla I watched as a kid, I never saw Rodan’s solo movie. I’ll have to track this down. Loved his other appearances, especially in Monster Zero
Rowan is the definition of classic monster movies. Along with kong and godzilla and of course Mothra. I saw Rodan very long ago and it was so scary at the time. I loved it because of that. It's an amazing movie.
In Stephen King's novel "IT." the IT creature appears to the librarian Mike as a giant bird because he says he had watched the movie Rodan the night before and had terrible nightmares. IT chose this form as Mike's greatest childhood fear in which to appear to him.
I'm surprised they never tried remaking this movie, i know that nowadays they'd just fuck it up but i'm surprised they haven't tried. This makes me want to go watch some of the Godzillathon reviews, my personal favorite Monster Madness.
Toho only cares about three monsters and Rodan is not one them. So much they could have done whit him over the years but toho is too stuck in there ways to give him a chance.
one thing about the visuals is that they were in their prime in the showa era when legendary special effects director eieji tsuburaya was alive. during the dark age of godzilla from 1969-1975, the visuals either relied too much on stock footage or poor camera work and while the mechagodzilla films were good on their own, the visual effects were ultimately a step down from the 60's especially when seeing monsters in the background.
A good review and I think a significant improvement over your old Godzillathon reviews. I know you grew up watching these dubbed, but I do think these Kaiju movies are better subtitled.
From what I read, one of the Rodans were killed and the other one committed suicide out of grief so I'm guessing that the Rodan in future films was their offspring.
Those caterpillars had been just mutilating the miners. Then Rodan hatches from his egg and proceeds to eat them up like mere orderbs. A brilliant example of introducing a new threat that makes the old one look like nothing by comparison. In other words things are about to go from horrible to even worse.
Key Luke was the narrorator. George Takei was in the mix, as well ( he was also heard in Godzilla Raids Again aka Gojira's Counterattack!). I THINK James Hong was heard in Rodan (aka Daikaiju Radon!!), but I'm not 100% certain about that.
With all the monsters under too I was wanted to see a monsters fighting other monsters aside Godzilla like "rodan vs varan" or "angirus vs some other monster". We wouldn't get that until the mothers series decades later
Would be cool if he did a Kaiju athon Take a look at the remaining Toho, Daiei and other studios kaiju films Mothra Varan The Mysterians Daimujin Whale God Frankenstein conquers the world
Yeah they weren't the best, but it's understandable (imo) since the older Monster Madness series seems very high-production and James has said he's had other major projects he's been working on. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@elijahblechman8633 I considered that, but MCMXXXIV is several mistakes away from MCMLVI. It's not like you can add or remove a single letter, change a letter's position, or misunderstand the value of a single letter and arrive at 1934.
