What's up with vintage Godzilla Movies Now Streaming? 1 1

[Xenosmilus]

For the life of me I can't find any that are dubbed that are streamed. I don't think you can buy them and switch it to dubbed either.  Anyone know why this is? Please don't say undoubted is how they are suppose to be watched either! 

Edited May 31, 2020 by Xenosmilus

[Bosco685]

 

[Marshall Crist]

I think a lot of this boils down to the rights to the individual films have pretty much all reverted to Toho.  They have become very activist about the films being shown in their "original versions."  (In many cases the US distributors made alterations beyond just dubbing the films.)  Also, in some cases Toho does not necessarily own the audio from the English dubs.  I personally know nothing about streaming, but if it's a situation where only one audio track can be included, I can definitely see Toho defaulting to the Japanese version due to their current corporate philosophy.  I believe Criterion recently released a set of the first 15 Godzilla films, and only a few included an English dub option, at the insistence of Toho.

[Xenosmilus]

6 hours ago, Marshall Crist said:

I think a lot of this boils down to the rights to the individual films have pretty much all reverted to Toho.  They have become very activist about the films being shown in their "original versions."  (In many cases the US distributors made alterations beyond just dubbing the films.)  Also, in some cases Toho does not necessarily own the audio from the English dubs.  I personally know nothing about streaming, but if it's a situation where only one audio track can be included, I can definitely see Toho defaulting to the Japanese version due to their current corporate philosophy.  I believe Criterion recently released a set of the first 15 Godzilla films, and only a few included an English dub option, at the insistence of Toho.

I can understand Toho's point on the editing aspect however the dubbing is a different issue. I like watching them out of nostalgia so if they revert back to the original Japanese dialogue I won't be able to have that experience anymore.  The dubbing was almost comical even back in the 70's/80's! It's a good point about the licensing of the dubbing though.  I hadn't thought or realized that might be an issue,  

Edited May 31, 2020 by Xenosmilus

[ashsaytr]

are they subtitled? LOL

 

[Bosco685]

43 minutes ago, ashsaytr said:

are they subtitled? LOL

 

They are

[Bosco685]

[Bosco685]

Now, where there is an English edition is where they took Godzilla (1954) and made the American version as Godzila, King of the Monsters (1956). The latter is in English.

 

[ashsaytr]

sweeeeet!

[Sauce Dog]

The Criterion Channel has lots of the original films, and by comparison to other streaming services offer the better quality picture (and extras such as interviews)

[Xenosmilus]

HBOMax has a bunch on it's service now also.