Monday, October 10, 2005

ZILLA SPOTLIGHT: SMOG MONSTER

When I was a kid, I LOVED watching Godzilla movies on saturday afternoons. The one movie that always stood out more than the others, was "Godzilla vs The Smog Monster" (don't ask me why this one - I have no idea). What I remember the most is when The Smog Monster crawled up onto some narly pollution-makin' smoke stacks and soaked up all the black fumes like a Bong Monster. It then molded its body into the image to the top-left, and took to the air on a jet of poisonous, high-pressure smoke. Everywhere the monster appeared, people on the ground below were overcome by the fumes, metal objects acquired years worth of corrosion in seconds, and all manner of living things sickened and died. Those poor bastards who experienced intense, close-range exposure to the monster’s vapor trail were killed almost immediately, their flesh boiled away into blackish, tar-like slop. Ah, kids' shows just aren't the same these days! Anyway, after some wicked zilla-brawling, Godzilla eventually defeated the silly beast!

But wait!! It wasn't over yet.... Godzilla then plunged his mighty zilla-fists into Smoggy's bod and pulled out two eggs..... and crumbled them to dust with his zilla-strength!!! Whoa! It was going to have Smog babies! Plot Twist!!!!
Go Go Godzilla!!!

Additional Highlights:
--Godzilla flies by breathing fire at the ground and lifts off like a rocket, propelling himself backwards. To watch, cut/paste http://gojistomp.org/quicktime/gojifly.mov into a browser window.
--Miki does a table dance wearing a costume that looks almost as though it consists solely of blobs of brightly colored paint applied strategically to her nude body.
--Yukio drops acid and hallucinates that everyone in the club has the face of a tropical fish.
--Godzilla gets his eye fused shut with a Smog Loogie. *

* (Thanks, Melchy, for the informative Smog Loogie fact!)

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