tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2467807781586384838.post3837032057833251990..comments2024-02-29T06:11:26.267-08:00Comments on Cool Ass Cinema: Gamera Super Monster (1980) reviewvenoms5http://www.blogger.com/profile/13655919099947763891noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2467807781586384838.post-75265789462147030752014-10-18T04:12:10.170-07:002014-10-18T04:12:10.170-07:00"Super Monster" was never meant to be a ..."Super Monster" was never meant to be a revival of the Gamera series and Daiei itself had nothing to do with it. The movie was no more than a cynical cash-grab by Tokuma Publishing, who had bought Daiei's properties at the time (very similar to what Kadokawa has done now). They discovered that the Gamera crew owed one more movie (the unmade 1972 film) and called in their contracts. For whatever reasons, Tokuma refused to furnish the movie with a proper budget. No one involved behind the scenes wanted to make the movie, but were pretty much forced to legally. The original script Niisan Takahashi wrote ended just like the other Gamera pictures, but when Noriaki Yuasa saw what was going on during production, he realized that Gamera could never come back from this, so they killed him (this is why everyone's still happy at the end-- only the rudimentary changes were made). In short, it's amazing how well the movie turned out considering no one wanted to make it. And why Tokuma wanted to do it (other than to be a bunch of sadistic asshats) remains a mystery.321LetsJamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18094684498683065911noreply@blogger.com