Big Picture Classic - TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN - PARTS I & II (Gamera)

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[Originally Published July 2020]
The "kaiju" giant monster genre is big business once again with new incarnations of Godzilla and King Kong hitting screens; but let us not forget the epic legacy of Japan's other great giant reptilian champion: Gamera - Guardian of The Universe and Friend of All Children. Originally published in two parts, now presented as a single double-length episode, "The Big Picture" looks back one of the most influential and unusual sci-fi creature franchises of all time.
#Godzilla #Kong #GodzillaVsKong

[@stevenmarshall653]

'from apacalyptic badass to big eyed soft boy who does his best' is the new header epitaph of my character sheet

[@katherinealvarez9216]

4:03 a giant turtle that turn into a flying saucer and shoot lasers. And we settled for cars turning into robots?

[@1987MartinT]

To be fair, the Transformers are pretty cool too.

[@mattfrank85]

Call it narcissistic but I’m really glad this one got re-uploaded. I busted my hump working on the box set for Arrow, and for some reason the high point of the release was finally seeing something I worked on get covered in a MovieBob episode 🤩

[@voltijuice8576]

Matty Frank! Matty Frank! He's the source of our new pain! ;)

[@AdamYJ]

Wow. You seem to work on a lot of kaiju/tokusatsu stuff.

[@AngryIrishBenjamin]

So nice to be in the era of Giant Monster Movies making a comeback.

[@3faltigeralexandro]

I just wish they were more fun and less of "monsters sometimes partially seen through fog or at night, while human characters jabber something about the enviroment, aliens or hollow earth theories most of the time".

[@JanetStarChild]

It _could_ be nice if not for the over-usage of CGI. If the monsters are going to be 100% CGI, then might as well make the whole movie a CGI animation like the Croods.

[@katherinealvarez9216]

11:38 I’m guessing this was their “Bambi’s Mom Got Shot/Optimus Prime Died/Littlefoot’s Mom Died” moment.

[@Enshohma]

You've done videos based on Godzilla, Gamera, King Kong, and numerous other tokusatsu shows... Will you be doing an 'What the Hell is Ultraman' one sometime soon? Hopefully? Hmmmm? :)

[@calebmarmon1310]

I’ll second that as I do not know.

[@moviebobcentral]

I've put it off for awhile just because... it's A LOT and there's so many ways to approach it, but I think when SHIN ULTRAMAN gets closer it MIGHT finally be time. Fingers crossed.

[@Enshohma]

@@moviebobcentral Finger firmly crossed for that possibility and keep up the good work as me and my family are huge fans. Thanks for the reply!

[@AdamYJ]

@@moviebobcentral Fingers firmly crossed. Ultraman’s getting a surprisingly big push lately here in the U.S. (at least bigger than usual). So, some people could probably use the info.

[@novadselir1068]

Gamera the defender of children everywhere.

[@JohnZ117]

"Gamera is really neat! Gamera is filled with meat! We've been eating Gamera!!!"

[@Jesse__H]

Whoa I didn't know Mike Nelson could play piano! I must've missed that ep. brb gonna go watch a few hours of MST3K 🤍

[@Toppro]

This was always a fun one.

[@thetribunaloftheimaginatio5247]

Ya kidding? This fire-breathing, flying-saucer turtle-Kaiju is the reason I want to be an inspiration to a new generation. The reason that I too consider myself a "Friend To All Children."

[@Rozilla]

"For all I know, when this virus shit is done this will help you pass the bar exam." 🤣

[@glenngriffon8032]

damn it i've never seen a Gamera movie in my life and don't really care about the kaiju genre outside Godzilla. So someone wanna tell me why the heck I'm crying over Gamera's death and weeping about his awe inspiring return? I'm blaming it on my hormones... That has to be it. Cause I can't really be crying over a rocket powered, spinning disc, dragon-turtle that guards the hopes and dreams of the world's children. right?

[@AngryIrishBenjamin]

0:56 "Dear Lord, that's the loudest profanity I've ever heard!"

[@TheCreepypro]

gamera the brave really is underrated

[@moondog548]

SO. MUCH. LOVE. I was once a child, and so Gamera is friend to me. In addition to being filled with meat.

[@robobeetlepanzer]

Observation I made elsewhere that gained some traction there: Gamera is the Mick Foley of kaiju. Every single movie (except the original) he takes a beating the likes of which Godzilla has rarely seen.

[@ChristianNeihart]

Giant Monster movies are a lot like WWE events.

[@davidv4018]

Legendary probably should try a Gamera movie to catch children's attention.

[@katherinealvarez9216]

I’m guessing Gamera is on the PTA with Kong and Rebecca Hall.

[@darkworlddenizen]

I for one am positively SHOCKED

[@enfercesttout]

For a sec i expected a Prachett retrospective.

[@TomVCunningham]

The 90s Gamera Trilogy is awesome.

[@theGreenGoblin]

Mom and I started watching the MST3K Gamera collection over the Holidays.

[@ThePhantomTomo]

Bob, please please PLEASE do a review of Gamera: Rebirth. It may be a tv series rather than a movie, but Gamera deserves all the attention and praise right now, and there aren't enough content creators who are fans of Gamera.

[@masofdas6475]

Gamera? Oh yeah, he's really neat! I've heard he's made of turtle meat. 8D

[@TakeWalker]

KZbin has driven us to leave contentless comments to support our favorite creators! Comments for the comment god!

[@fearedjames]

I suspect "Gamera the Brave" was probably intended to be a start of an unrelated non-Gamera series of child targeted Kaijuu movies, considering the Japanese title means "Little Heroes: Gamera"

[@PainCausingSamurai]

Any word on that new Gamara movie that was teases a few years back?

[@geoffreywinn4031]

Cool video!

[@chwenhoou]

Happy birthday, Bob!

[@Joshua_Shadow_Manriguez]

I keep watching these things to see if I can figure out how people got past the stupid rubber suits to no avail. I guess at least Bob is good at talking about it. Bob being so good at speaking about these is the main reason I watch them.

[@AdamYJ]

The rubber suits are part of the appeal. It’s part of the “tokusatsu aesthetic”.

[@VelkanKiador]

I would say it entirely depends on whether or not you saw these movies as a kid. I have never heard about an adult getting really into movies about people in rubber suits smashing up miniature cities, and it mostly depends on whether or not you have nostalgia for such movies from your childhood.

[@mikethetowns]

Goddamn I love me some Gamera, have since I was a lil kid watching kaiju films. Got a tattoo of him on me leg a few months back too, tis groovy.

[@jonathaneilbeck2263]

Happy birthday.

[@chrislorusso433]

That piano guy singing the Gamera song raises so many questions. The most baffling is why is he playing it for Ron White's non-union stand-in and Weekend at Bernie's who stole Beakman's lab coat?

[@SoullessOO1]

That's a clip from Mystery Science Theater 3000.

[@zeusbacchushades]

I would love to see a video on Ultraman

[@inquirohaqq1472]

Well that was impressive.

[@TK-_-GZ]

algorithmic punch!

[@r.j.sullivan2104]

Hey Moviebob, how about a Big Picture on the 60s British Avengers. We lost Diana Rigg last year. I’d love to see a proper sendoff.

[@markchapman6800]

It would certainly rate a "TV ... is ... WEIRRRD!"

[@vazak11]

So good!

[@BLasherman]

8:24 wait was is Gam-air-a this whole time, Have I been saying it wrong?

[@Morgil27]

No, the movie's bad dubbing did.

[@fearedjames]

Gah-meh-ra. Not sure what the dubbing did, but I think they are trying to mimick the way the boy says Gamera when he yells, which could sound similar to that if your not used to Japanese.

[@crouchingotter]

It's been something I've wondered each time I've watched one of your videos Bob. Is that Edward James Olmos at 3:38 ?

[@TheTrekkie42]

If it pleases the algorithm I comment here.

[@AngryIrishBenjamin]

11:34 This is The Amazing World of Gumball by the way. And apparently those are supposed to be cats, NOT rabbits. Took me quite a while to figure this out.

[@Starcat5]

The Wattersons are a Furry "Mixed Racial" family. The boy and the mother are both cats, while the daughter and father are both rabbits. The goldfish is adopted.

[@ArkCiD_Z3r0]

@@Starcat5 And the last part is as weird in-universe as out of it.

[@namechoice]

So, hear me out: A claymation Gamera movie, by Laika.

[@Asaji05]

"Gamera The Friend of all Children", SO THAT'S WHERE THE PHRASE CAME FROM

[@Hanmerhack]

Is anyone else disapointed that Bob didn't through in a clip from Shane at 8:30? Just me then? Alright then.

[@RaymondoPerson]

come on dude it's not "deconstructing" the genre; Kaneko just went back to the dark roots of kaiju the same way Anno went back to the dark roots of mecha.

[@davidv4018]

I can see a Kaiju's bigger picture coming.

[@ronanodonovan3673]

"The Biggest Picture"

[@apex2000]

Bob been doing lot of combined re-uploads. Rather than new episodes of stuff that older. Since Covid stopped most new stuff.

[@Emplordxiii]

These re-uploads are to put them in his channel. The original ones were at The Escapist.

[@leonardmccain668]

Maybe sometime take a step back and engage with _why_ so many people, even big old school Godzilla and Kaiju movie fans, didn't like King of the Monsters, instead of just asserting they have bad taste.

[@TK_Brainslug]

nice

[@frankwolftown]

1:26 Roger's and Hart feel? Is this version on iTunes or Spotify?

[@alankohn6709]

I think something more along the Guardian trilogy would go over better than the brave movie which even as a pretty big Gomera fan felt too much like a kids tv movie or the Mothra reboot movies

[@Raso719]

I like Turtles.

[@googamp32]

14:34 REPTILE! Turtles are REPTILES! NOT AMPHIBIANS! GOD! Why does EVERYONE get that wrong?

[@voltijuice8576]

Sorry, I am fib again.

[@deathgoddragon3698]

Gamera the Brave is frustrating. The monster stuff is good, but the first two thirds of the movie is nothing but boring children shenanigans.

[@voltijuice8576]

Or - were boring children the real monsters all along?

[@jadedheartsz]

Get over it, not every single person that does not mindlessly agree with your opinions has "shitty taste" Also most young people know what physical media is Bob, don't patronize them.

[@Alakaizer]

I will do you one better! Why is Gamera?!

[@SamButler22]

If someone gives you something shitty, then offers another and you don't want it; that's not shitty taste if the second one turns out to be good. That's the shitty person's fault for setting expectations so badly

[@callanhutchison1871]

False God(zilla)

[@zeusbacchushades]

I kept thinking you were joking about King of the Monsters being awesome. Too many people and poor plot lessened my enjoyment of the movie

[@abhirao8582]

People have shitty taste for not liking the last Godzilla movie when you did? Bit obnoxious but ok Bob

[@mabusestestament]

That's manchild Bob for ya 🍻

[@RAMSES-eh1if]

dislike

[@petermarsh5017]

I made it less than a minute into this video before rolling my eyes so hard I thought they'd escape my skull. Not bothering watching this now.

[@mabusestestament]

Yeah, it's Bob still pretending Godzilla: King Of The Monsters was great...

[@petermarsh5017]

@@mabusestestament it wasn't even outright terrible, its...just fine. But he's such an asshole about it and how we're all wrong and dumb and idiots for not loving this pretty boring movie.

[@voltijuice8576]

Yeah, Bob doesn't get that only the European colonists are "Western", while the rest of the Americas have our own culture.