whats your favorite space amoeba kaiju?

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whats your favorite?

gezora
23
42%
Ganimes
7
13%
Kamoebas
25
45%
 
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It's close but Gezora. I felt like he was the "star" of the film considering he starts off the movie and appears by himself for longer. Even though he gets killed off first he feels like the focus. Plus he appeared in the Godzilla comics which was cool. Kameobas is fine but he only appeared in the Godzilla series to get killed off by Godzilla off screen. Ganimes is cool too but he's just not as unique as Gezora, he's kind of an alternate Ebirah and unlike Gezora or Kameobas he hasn't had any wider introduction in the Godzilla universe.
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Gezora seems to have the most personality of the three. Also he's fairly unique for a kaiju as we've already had a turtle and a crustacean before.
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True. Besides Gezora, all we have it Oddako for toho's cephalopod kaiju.
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Let´s see...

Gezora has a really cool introduction music.
The theme of Kameba is 2nd.
Intro music of Ganime is 3rd.
(Yes, they really have thier own intro music. :shock: :D )

Gezora and Ganime were beaten by humans. This is no good. :evil:
Kameba wasn´t. Point for the turtle.

The appearance point goes to Kameba

The scream point goes to Kameba

The weapons point goes to Kameba
(when he lifts off the crab with his snappy neck - come on this is soooo cool!)

So for me Kameba (or Kameobas) is one of the most beatyful kaiju ever. I like all armored kaiju but Kameba is really the coolest. He is the ultra-underdog and had just 2 appearances in movies.
I wouldn´t say underrated but underused in my opinion.
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Gailah 1966 wrote:Let´s see...

Gezora has a really cool introduction music.
The theme of Kameba is 2nd.
Intro music of Ganime is 3rd.
(Yes, they really have thier own intro music. :shock: :D )

Gezora and Ganime were beaten by humans. This is no good. :evil:
Kameba wasn´t. Point for the turtle.

The appearance point goes to Kameba

The scream point goes to Kameba

The weapons point goes to Kameba
(when he lifts off the crab with his snappy neck - come on this is soooo cool!)

So for me Kameba (or Kameobas) is one of the most beatyful kaiju ever. I like all armored kaiju but Kameba is really the coolest. He is the ultra-underdog and had just 2 appearances in movies.
I wouldn´t say underrated but underused in my opinion.
Interesting points!

For my money, Ganime actually wins the "best theme" contest.

Much as I love Gezora, in all his floppy, bizarre, eat-your-ventricles-out,-Viras glory (and Gezora is my favorite kaiju of the three), his music just gets on my nerves: too much blaring, discordant brass that grates on my ears and gets really repetitive... even though if anyone could have made that work, it would be Ifukube. (I do like the interlude in Gezora's theme that's played mostly on strings, though...)

In contrast, Ganime's theme has a turn-your-guts-to-ice-water, panic-inducing quality: the opening bringing to mind someone trying desperately to escape, only to be cut off at every turn, followed by slightly electronicized and simply terrifying sustained notes that go right to the brain stem: conveying the urgency of getting the Hell away from this thing far more effectively than the clumsily moving and badly matted monster itself. IMO, Ifukube's music is the only reason the chase scene works at all.

Ganime also scores extra points by having a twin. How could I resist buying a second Marusan vinyl figure to go with the first?

Kameba (never could abide the superfluous "s" Toho appended to his and the crab's names) also has a good theme, and the monster is beautifully sculpted, though his accordion neck never quite did it for me.
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I would have to say Gezora for me. It would be great to see him reimagined in a new kaiju flick. Maybe possessing more traits of the cuttlefish such as the color changing skin, blending into his surroundings.
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Kamoebas. I really, really like his suit: it's one of the most realistic looking of the Showa era.
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Ganimes, although Gezora's a close second.
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Gezora. The ridiculous design clashes to an almost creepy degree with Ifukube's overly dramatic score.

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Legion1979 wrote:Gezora. The ridiculous design clashes to an almost creepy degree with Ifukube's overly dramatic score.
All the scenes with the floppy mantle flopping around while Gezora lumbered forward with those eyes always really creeped me out. What's particularly scary about Gezora was how he picked up people and specifically targeted them. A lot of kaiju don't do that.


Now I want to watch Space Amoeba again...hmmm...
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Out of all the three, Kamoebas is my favorite.
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Kamoebas. Only because hes appeared in a Godzilla movie, not alive though. Maybe ill like the others if i get a chance to see Space Amoeba.
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Ganimes. By far the most unique looking kaiju of the bunch.
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