Just the Ticket #209: Invasion Of Astro-Monster
Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. That's right, Ticketholders; it's Invasion OF Astro-Monster , not Invasion Of THE Astro-Monster . Why? Who knows? Japan, maybe? Why is a lumbering force of destruction and nuclear allegory suddenly a dancing idiot with mad boxing skills who can only use his most iconic attack from cover like this movie is XCOM DLC? Who knows? It's Goj -Year- ra , so let's find out. Or not? 1965's Invasion Of Astro-Monster (a.k.a. The Great War Of the Monsters in Japanese, also marketed as Godzilla vs Monster Zero ) is another Honda joint with Sekizawa returning as writer and leaning harder into the science-fiction angle, to a fault in some ways and to the film's benefit in others. Though the model work is obvious (incongruous colors, a plastic sheen, and the characters not moving; things that wouldn't have stood out as much on the visual fidelity of the time as they do now), the set design is dated (if it has flashin...
