Rodan

[Kooshmeister]

the japanese all have american made cars and a F-86

The same can be said for almost every Japanese monster movie of the era. The most commonly seen non-Japanese vehicle is the Willy's MB Jeep. 

[Flangepart]

the japanese all have american made cars and a F-86

The same can be said for almost every Japanese monster movie of the era. The most commonly seen non-Japanese vehicle is the Willy's MB Jeep. 

The F-86 was the F/H versions. Supersonic only in a dive. Ya know, the sheer mass of Rodan provides the power of the slip stream. Thats what breaks up the jets when he passes near.

[Christopher E. Schneider]

A couple of questions need answering:
a) Why doesn't Tokyo suspend mass transit service when there is a monster attack?
b) Why does the Japanese government always stock pile it's military with forty year old U.S jet fighters and tanks?
c) Wouldn't attacking a monster that is the only one (or in this case two) of its kind an infringement on endangered species  acts?
d) Wouldn't atomic bombs fry eggs, not incubate them?

[Valentine Kutter]

Answers.

A. Population control. Have to cull the herd somehow.
B. They get them wholesale.
C. Their Republicans at heart and hate all things not made of oil.
D. Only at a sustained even heat in a skillet the size of an aircraft carrier.


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[Flangepart]

c) Wouldn't attacking a monster that is the only one (or in this case two) of its kind an infringement on endangered species  acts?

I think that depends on which species is the most endangered,
Them or us!

[Giant Claw Jr]

It maybe a japanese made movie but the funny fact is they all have american made cars,planes and cameras and that the offspring would hide away till he grew up a orphan

[Kooshmeister]

Yeah, I mean, it makes no sense for a country to use cars made in another country. Anyway here's a good site showing the cars used in the film: http://imcdb.org/movie_49782-Sora-no-daikaiju-Radon.html

[p.h.]

Here's my synopsis:
Big bug kills people.
The ENTIRE Japanese military is dispatched to destroy it.  After one blast from a machine gun fails to do the trick, the entire Japanese military retreats.
Rodan= obvious plane footage.
Five minutes of destruction.
Five minutes of the entire Japanese military blowing s**t up.
AWESOME B MOVIE!!!

[Parralax view]

This is one of those that felt flat to me as a 6 yr old kid in 54 that was terrified by Godzilla.  SO what, big unfortunately ugly birds.  The same poor f-86's on a string shooting firecrackers, and the woefully underprepared Japanese military that couldn't hit the ocean if aiming.  This one didn't do to much for me even as a 7 or 8 yr.  old by the time I saw it.  I was already mainlining Godzilla to be too impressed by a couple of birds.