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Imagine you wake up one night in the middle of a storm. It's obviously dark as all hell but that doesn't stop you from getting out of bed, because something in your bones is telling you to get out of the house and run, but you don't know why. Then suddenly you feel it. The rythmic vibrations running through the ground, through your house, through you. The house begins shaking more while you try holding it together in vain, while that little voice screams at you. That's when you hear it. Louder than the thunder that had before masked it, deeper than any foghorn you've ever heard in your life. You run to the window just in time for the lightning to illuminate an enormous foot about to come down on you and your home. The only thought that manages to reach your mind before you meet your maker is of those two outsiders, and that smaller, and yet at the same time large, sea monster they hauled away days earlier...

... Damn, I just scared myself there, lol. What I just wrote was what might have been the last moments of some of the people that lived on Nara Island, when Ogra trashed it.

Warning!: The following writing includes quotes from the MST3K episode. So don't say I didn't warn you when you suddenly find yourself wiping soda off your moniter.

"Gorgo", probably the best European monster movie to be made. It starts off with an undersea volcano erupts right next to a ship whose crew were salvaging treasure from the ocean floor off the coast of Ireland. The ship barely manages to survive, but is in need of repair, so it weighs anchor at Nara Island. Already something appears to be off as limbed fish litter the surface of the harbor ("Hey, let's sell these to the Japanese for $60,000."). Two men, Joe Ryan and Sam Slade, try to make a deal with the harbor-master to stay in the harbor long enough to make the necessary repairs, but negotiations go nowhere really. The next night a group of fisherman ("There's, like, one cod in the north Atlantic, but dammit they're gonna get it!") go out to kill what they think is a shark that had killed two divers the previous day, one directly, and the other out of fright. Of course, it got worse. Gorgo makes short work of the fishing party ("Poor Robert Shaw, eaten again."), but is forced back by the use of fire. Joe and Sam make a new deal with the harbor-master that involves getting rid of his monster problem. Harbor-master approves, Gorgo is caught, a Kenny stowaways on the ship to London in an effort to free prehistoric beastie, inadvertedly gets a man killed, and Gorgo is turned into the guest of honor at the local Freakshow, but not before causing slight havoc ("The Japanese that lies dormant in all of us comes to the surface in situations like these.") and blows up and elephant with his tail ("Ooo, I didn't know elephants exploded on impact!").

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! Two paleontologists discover that Gorgo is nowhere near adult size. And guess who decides to pancake Nara Island back into the stone age? ("Ow! I stubbed my toe on a duplex!") A corvette investigates the island ("The SS Curly has arrived.") and soon engages Ogra ("Deploy pitching machine!", "The order comes in: KILL WILLY!", "No, wait, wait, we can't all be number one turret!") The guys back in London deduce Ogra is headin' for her youngin' due to Gorgo leaving behind a scent trail. Back at the fight, Ogra destroys the SS Cur- errr, HMS Royal Oak and all hands aboard. Joe, in a drunken state, tries to set Gorgo loose, but Sam beats his head in. Ogra engages another corvette ("Well, we've taken out the QE2, the Bismarck, and the, uh, Loveboat, but we've missed Gorgo."), before disappearing beneath the waves. Britain then decides to send out the whole damn NATO fleet to intercept her ("Y'know, at this point I'd be glad to see CHER straddlin' these guns.", "This is the equivelent of the navy getting drunk and throwing cherry bombs overboard", "Uh, ten whales are dead, sir") when one of the ships dives in order to follow her ("Uh, we are a submarine right?", "Whoops, we left the Captain in the conning tower.", "Movie much longer than it would have been without us, sir."). Ogra of course evades the ships and breaks through the submarine nets meant to keep her out of the estuary, and gets into the Thames. They try to use fire against her but to no avail, but it made a group of kids nice and crispy ("Well, now that just seemed completely avoidable.").

Ogra the destroys the Tower Brigde ("And I'm on half-power as it is!") and proceeds into the city ("Oo, maybe Mary Poppins flies in and kicks his ass?" "That I'd pay to see.", "Noooo! He has the power to super-impose rocks!", "Meanwhile the Russians sneak in the back door, 'n take over London, and rename it 'Krushevgrad'."). Havoc continues in the city as people are still running for their lives and Ogra continues her rampage into Picadilly Circus ("What? What? Am I offending?", "We need to find Elton John so he can sing a song about this!", "C'mon, my car's gonna get towed. MOVE!", "By the way, does this mean no work tomorrow?", "The fire dept. still running over people!"). < THAT was quote heavy. The RAF is called in, while chaos is still occuring ("Oh, let me guess, the air force is ineffectual?", "Oh no, it's well past tea.", "I'm not wearing any pants! No pants, baby!" "Mike, can one repent if one hasn't yet pented?"). A plan is soon concocted to electrocute Ogra at Fantasy Park, where Gorgo is located. Of course the plan fails, Ogra frees Gorgo, and the two wade off back into the sea ("Come on, son. Let's go crush France!" "Hooray!", "Why didn't you eat the announcer?!"), thus ending the movie.

...That was probably the longest description of any movie I have given. The quotes make it worth it though, IMO. I think this was the first movie that plays on the angle equivelent to the Brown Noise, in that the monster you caught wasn't the adult. God I love this movie, not for the characters that probably end up getting sued big time, but for the monsters and city destruction. There was a short lived comic series, but like I said, short lived. And apparently they were able to breathe fire. Way to hammer in the Godzilla rip guys, way to go.

Description
Imagine you wake up one night in the middle of a storm. It's obviously dark as all hell but that doesn't stop you from getting out of bed, because something in your bones is telling you to get out of the house and run, but you don't know why. Then suddenly you feel it. The rythmic vibrations running through the ground, through your house, through you. The house begins shaking more while you try holding it together in vain, while that little voice screams at you. That's when you hear it. Louder than the thunder that had before masked it, deeper than any foghorn you've ever heard in your life. You run to the window just in time for the lightning to illuminate an enormous foot about to come down on you and your home. The only thought that manages to reach your mind before you meet your maker is of those two outsiders, and that smaller, and yet at the same time large, sea monster they hauled away days earlier...

... Damn, I just scared myself there, lol. What I just wrote was what might have been the last moments of some of the people that lived on Nara Island, when Ogra trashed it.

Warning!: The following writing includes quotes from the MST3K episode. So don't say I didn't warn you when you suddenly find yourself wiping soda off your moniter.

"Gorgo", probably the best European monster movie to be made. It starts off with an undersea volcano erupts right next to a ship whose crew were salvaging treasure from the ocean floor off the coast of Ireland. The ship barely manages to survive, but is in need of repair, so it weighs anchor at Nara Island. Already something appears to be off as limbed fish litter the surface of the harbor ("Hey, let's sell these to the Japanese for $60,000."). Two men, Joe Ryan and Sam Slade, try to make a deal with the harbor-master to stay in the harbor long enough to make the necessary repairs, but negotiations go nowhere really. The next night a group of fisherman ("There's, like, one cod in the north Atlantic, but dammit they're gonna get it!") go out to kill what they think is a shark that had killed two divers the previous day, one directly, and the other out of fright. Of course, it got worse. Gorgo makes short work of the fishing party ("Poor Robert Shaw, eaten again."), but is forced back by the use of fire. Joe and Sam make a new deal with the harbor-master that involves getting rid of his monster problem. Harbor-master approves, Gorgo is caught, a Kenny stowaways on the ship to London in an effort to free prehistoric beastie, inadvertedly gets a man killed, and Gorgo is turned into the guest of honor at the local Freakshow, but not before causing slight havoc ("The Japanese that lies dormant in all of us comes to the surface in situations like these.") and blows up and elephant with his tail ("Ooo, I didn't know elephants exploded on impact!").

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! Two paleontologists discover that Gorgo is nowhere near adult size. And guess who decides to pancake Nara Island back into the stone age? ("Ow! I stubbed my toe on a duplex!") A corvette investigates the island ("The SS Curly has arrived.") and soon engages Ogra ("Deploy pitching machine!", "The order comes in: KILL WILLY!", "No, wait, wait, we can't all be number one turret!") The guys back in London deduce Ogra is headin' for her youngin' due to Gorgo leaving behind a scent trail. Back at the fight, Ogra destroys the SS Cur- errr, HMS Royal Oak and all hands aboard. Joe, in a drunken state, tries to set Gorgo loose, but Sam beats his head in. Ogra engages another corvette ("Well, we've taken out the QE2, the Bismarck, and the, uh, Loveboat, but we've missed Gorgo."), before disappearing beneath the waves. Britain then decides to send out the whole damn NATO fleet to intercept her ("Y'know, at this point I'd be glad to see CHER straddlin' these guns.", "This is the equivelent of the navy getting drunk and throwing cherry bombs overboard", "Uh, ten whales are dead, sir") when one of the ships dives in order to follow her ("Uh, we are a submarine right?", "Whoops, we left the Captain in the conning tower.", "Movie much longer than it would have been without us, sir."). Ogra of course evades the ships and breaks through the submarine nets meant to keep her out of the estuary, and gets into the Thames. They try to use fire against her but to no avail, but it made a group of kids nice and crispy ("Well, now that just seemed completely avoidable.").

Ogra the destroys the Tower Brigde ("And I'm on half-power as it is!") and proceeds into the city ("Oo, maybe Mary Poppins flies in and kicks his ass?" "That I'd pay to see.", "Noooo! He has the power to super-impose rocks!", "Meanwhile the Russians sneak in the back door, 'n take over London, and rename it 'Krushevgrad'."). Havoc continues in the city as people are still running for their lives and Ogra continues her rampage into Picadilly Circus ("What? What? Am I offending?", "We need to find Elton John so he can sing a song about this!", "C'mon, my car's gonna get towed. MOVE!", "By the way, does this mean no work tomorrow?", "The fire dept. still running over people!"). < THAT was quote heavy. The RAF is called in, while chaos is still occuring ("Oh, let me guess, the air force is ineffectual?", "Oh no, it's well past tea.", "I'm not wearing any pants! No pants, baby!" "Mike, can one repent if one hasn't yet pented?"). A plan is soon concocted to electrocute Ogra at Fantasy Park, where Gorgo is located. Of course the plan fails, Ogra frees Gorgo, and the two wade off back into the sea ("Come on, son. Let's go crush France!" "Hooray!", "Why didn't you eat the announcer?!"), thus ending the movie.

...That was probably the longest description of any movie I have given. The quotes make it worth it though, IMO. I think this was the first movie that plays on the angle equivelent to the Brown Noise, in that the monster you caught wasn't the adult. God I love this movie, not for the characters that probably end up getting sued big time, but for the monsters and city destruction. There was a short lived comic series, but like I said, short lived. And apparently they were able to breathe fire. Way to hammer in the Godzilla rip guys, way to go.