So I'm watching the new Godzilla movie, and look who is in it! Don Frye. The Ultimate Fighter Don Frye. The guy that looks like Tom Sellick. He was one of the very first cross-trained fighters in the UFC. He brought a combination of wrestling with great boxing skills. Many of the early UFC fighters were focused on a single discipline, and Don Frye in UFC 8 showed that grappling skills combined with striking make for a formitable foe! Don's muscular physique and handsome features (not to mention his winning record) made him an early UFC star. He's also got a gravely, low voice and a good sense of humor. He seems like a natural for an acting job. I don't know why it didn't happen sooner. There was also a cameo by Gary Goodrich, who KOed Don with a high-kick in his last fight. The new Godzilla Final Wars is a fun, old fashioned rubber-suit Godzilla flick. They threw in almost every monster ever seen in a Godzilla movie (except Matthew Broderick) in the opening montage. They did leave out personal favorites Mecha Godzilla and Mecha Kong, but I'll forgive the omission. This is Godzilla the way it's supposed to be. There is some CGI stuff going on, but it's mostly a guy sweating it out in the suit. There is something about CGI that is just cheezy. Poor CGI is unbearable. Poor stop motion or practical effects are funny. No matter how expensive the movie, some crappy CGI sneaks in. In the last (horrible) Exorcist movie they had CGI angry wolves. We have wolves. Real ones too. Do we need to CGI them? And yes ,they looked horrible. They had very bad stop motion animation in Basket Case. But that was creepy and funny. The effects in Return of the Living Dead were great. Would CGI halfdogs have worked? Robocop was awesome. But now, they would have relied on CGI for ED-209 and screwed it all up. You can tell when something doesn't feel right. It doesn't seem real. Give me a guy in a rubber suit over some cornball CGI nonsense. Van Helsing sucked because of crappy CGI run amock. We need to stop the CGI madness. It's not the solution for all movie monsters. Long live Harryhausen!
So I'm watching the new Godzilla movie, and look who is in it! Don Frye. The Ultimate Fighter Don Frye. The guy that looks like Tom Sellick. He was one of the very first cross-trained fighters in the UFC. He brought a combination of wrestling with great boxing skills. Many of the early UFC fighters were focused on a single discipline, and Don Frye in UFC 8 showed that grappling skills combined with striking make for a formitable foe! Don's muscular physique and handsome features (not to mention his winning record) made him an early UFC star. He's also got a gravely, low voice and a good sense of humor. He seems like a natural for an acting job. I don't know why it didn't happen sooner. There was also a cameo by Gary Goodrich, who KOed Don with a high-kick in his last fight. The new Godzilla Final Wars is a fun, old fashioned rubber-suit Godzilla flick. They threw in almost every monster ever seen in a Godzilla movie (except Matthew Broderick) in the opening montage. They did leave out personal favorites Mecha Godzilla and Mecha Kong, but I'll forgive the omission. This is Godzilla the way it's supposed to be. There is some CGI stuff going on, but it's mostly a guy sweating it out in the suit. There is something about CGI that is just cheezy. Poor CGI is unbearable. Poor stop motion or practical effects are funny. No matter how expensive the movie, some crappy CGI sneaks in. In the last (horrible) Exorcist movie they had CGI angry wolves. We have wolves. Real ones too. Do we need to CGI them? And yes ,they looked horrible. They had very bad stop motion animation in Basket Case. But that was creepy and funny. The effects in Return of the Living Dead were great. Would CGI halfdogs have worked? Robocop was awesome. But now, they would have relied on CGI for ED-209 and screwed it all up. You can tell when something doesn't feel right. It doesn't seem real. Give me a guy in a rubber suit over some cornball CGI nonsense. Van Helsing sucked because of crappy CGI run amock. We need to stop the CGI madness. It's not the solution for all movie monsters. Long live Harryhausen!
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