Quotes from kaiju

[re: 'gas tank'] They got away with stacking film cans on a pile of sand and superimposing an explosion over it instead of building a miniature. — Bloody Pit of Rod,
The Giant Behemoth @1:09:56

And here we see the car crush. Okay. That’s the first time you see that shot. Embarrassingly enough, you’re going to see that shot twice more during this rampage. — Bloody Pit of Rod,
The Giant Behemoth @1:02:38

In films these days, it seems that there’s far too much desire to get the story jump started immediately—of course, this film started with a nuclear explosion, so maybe I’m talkin’ out of one side of my mouth. — Bloody Pit of Rod,
The Giant Behemoth @0:23:49

They’re not stupid. [They know] Dinocroc is not hanging out, playing pool, at the heavy metal club. These people would just have the right contacts on the street to be able to tell them where Dinocroc does hang out. — Tysto Commentaries,
Dinocroc @0:28:12

I will say this about Roger Corman: he knows how to structure a film. … Corman knows what he’s doing. He’s been around a long time… some would say centuries. — Tysto Commentaries,
Dinocroc @0:18:42

‘Triumphant yet peaceful music rises’? And it really is triumphant yet peaceful. And the ‘tense music’ at the beginning really was tense. If you’re listening to this, and you’re deaf, I assure you, these closed captions are very accurate. — Tysto Commentaries,
Dinocroc @1:18:29

Now the dinocroc should get on the radio and be like, ‘Send more deputies.’ … And they could have this Die Hard kind of thing, where they talk back and forth on the radio all the time. — Tysto Commentaries,
Dinocroc @1:00:48

[reading sign] ‘Grant’s Lake Recreation Area.’ Come for the water. Stay for the funerals. — Tysto Commentaries,
Dinocroc @0:42:26

That whale has crawled up on the land and is going to jump on you from the top of the cliff. [1.5 minutes later] He’s coming up over the cliff just like I predicted! … Why will no one listen to my crazy ideas?! — Tysto Commentaries,
2010: Moby Dick @1:14:22

How do you know it’s a male whale? … Well, obviously, if it was a whale cow, … it would have a big udder. I’m pretty sure that’s how whale anatomy works. — Tysto Commentaries,
2010: Moby Dick @0:52:49

I’m completely on Ahab’s side. [laughs] We have got to kill that whale. Don’t you see?! It is an air-breathing animal. It could crawl up on shore and devour an entire town if it wanted to. — Tysto Commentaries,
2010: Moby Dick @0:47:10

O MY GOD IT’S MOBY DICK AND HE’S EATIN’ A GIANT HELIC— Now, wait a minute. He’s eating a helicopter with the rotor running. That would hurt. You can’t just devour a moving helicopter. — Tysto Commentaries,
2010: Moby Dick @0:46:10

We have now exhausted my knowledge of the novel, other than that it is a thousand pages long, and it’s badly written. And it did not involve any bikinis whatsoever. — Tysto Commentaries,
2010: Moby Dick @0:10:55

I guess it’s too much to hope that you’ll have a director’s cut. No, … the director’s cut of this movie consists of: as soon as they get on board the Zodiacs, stop watching. — Down in Front,
2010: Moby Dick @1:30:31

That’s the best shot of all time. … It’s Barry Bostwick on a Zodiac, going 30 miles an hour, with a 7-foot gun, screaming at a giant whale. What more do you want?! — Down in Front,
2010: Moby Dick @1:28:07

I don’t even know how he got on the boat. … Cute story: there’s about two minutes missing out of the movie there, because— I was saying that! … I said, ‘I feel like the layer change skipped over a couple minutes.’ — Down in Front,
2010: Moby Dick @1:13:23

It was 12 days of principal photography, and then a day of pick-ups … and then we still had holes and time to fill, so— We’d just shoot anything. — Down in Front,
2010: Moby Dick @0:41:32

Instead of Sean Connery it’s a whale, but otherwise this scene was cribbed from Red October. — Down in Front,
2010: Moby Dick @0:38:23

Some very noirish lighting choices here. … I can barely see anything in the submarine. I mean, there’s noir and then there’s chiaroscuro. — Tysto Commentaries,
2010: Moby Dick @0:04:52

He seems much, much bigger when he gets to New York City. Of course, maybe he grows. … ‘My God, he’s still growing! Stop feeding him…! He’s getting enormous!’ — Tysto Commentaries,
King Kong @0:49:44

You gotta hand it to the government. Within hours, they already have special tents where people can go to explode. — Rifftrax,
Cloverfield

[as Lily, regarding Jason] Whoa, whoa, did I give that impression? … The very thought of him made me shiver with revulsion. I gagged when he touched me! His clammy skin was— [as Rob] Okay, enough about my dead brother. — Rifftrax,
Cloverfield