The Big Picture: Monster's Movie

[Leemaster777]

HO. LY. SHIT. I KNEW that "monster that eats metal" movie sounded familiar! I remember watching Galgameth when I was a kid.

And now I know the full story behind it. Great episode as always, Bob.

 

[sir.rutthed]

So now I gotta ask, when are we gonna see the Hollywood version of this story? I can see it done as a genuinely scary psychological horror flick, or as a really over the top farce.

 

[NinjaDC]

I remember seeing the US knock off/recreation

 

[Jandau]

Maybe it's just my tendency to focus on minor details, but what caught my ear was that the kidnapped director was IMPRISONED FOR 5 YEARS BEFORE ANYONE EVEN TOLD HIM WHY HE WAS THERE! I mean, I can kinda understand kidnapping someone to make movies for you, but I can't understand KIDNAPPING HIM AND THEN FORGETTING ABOUT HIM FOR FIVE FUCKING YEARS!

 

[edgecult]

I heard about this whole Godzilla knock off story somewhere else along with a whole bunch of other things I'll list here.

If I remember right Kim was also big on Basketball too. A big Jordan fan. I think someone that went over and visited him actually gave him a signed basketball.. that kim built a museum to put the ball in. He also might of actually studied to be the bond villain he was as he was actually a Big Bond movie fan too. (also Daffy duck, showing where the other half of his psychosis came from) He also imported over 700k worth of congac a year. Fun facts for the day.

 

[Redd the Sock]

Well, in fairness to Kim Jong nutbag, it's not like Korea hadn't tried to knock off Godzilla in the past. I've seen Yongory

 

[Andre Nilsson]

This is not the first time I heard of this film. it is the first time I herd it´s name and what the plot is (I herd it on a comedy panel show where they called it a Communist version of Godzilla). well that man was mad (and I don´t know anything about his son but I do not like him)

 

[TheEnglishman]

The weirdest part for me, he made them re-marry. It feels like Kim Jong was a fan-boy and was devastated when they broke up or something, hell, this feels like that Steven King novel.

In fact this feels like one of those movies "Based on a true story" which someone would watch and know was clearly not the case, only this it would be.

 

[The Great JT]

Their escape would make an awesome movie, from what I hear.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Well you don't get much stranger than that.

The weirdest part for me, he made them re-marry. It feels like Kim Jong was a fan-boy and was devastated when they broke up or something, hell, this feels like that Steven King novel

Actually I think there was a Stephen King novel like that. I think it was called "Misery" except it was a novelist not a film director.
Hmm, life imitates art.

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

I heard about this shortly after Kim Jong Il's death. Also, apparently Kim's first words to the man he had kidnapped when they finally met were "What do you think of my physique? Short as a Goblin's turd aren't I?"

I love this guy! xD

 

[Sylveria]

After he made High Noon at Mega Mountain.. they should have sent him back to North Korea.

And, say what you want about Kim, but the man knows how to keep his country under foot. No wonder the US is stealing pages from his play-book. Wonder how long till the president starts claiming divine right.

 

[Strain42]

Bob, have I told you recently how much I love you? Seriously. I used to think I had some pretty good film stories I could bust out at parties, but since you made this show, those stories have more than doubled.

Sometimes you talk about stuff I already know (which makes me feel smart) but learning new stuff about film, comics and TV from you almost every week is something I really enjoy.

Keep up the good work.

 

[Le_Lisra]

I actually saw Galgameth sometime in the nineties on superRTL

 

[esperandote]

The director guy really had balls to do that. Kim Jong didn't noticed it or punished him?

 

[WoahDan]

As a connoisseur of Kim the crazy its nice to see Bob talk about him; that man was so utterly insane you could probably make the entire show about him without struggling for material,hell this story is actually tame by Kim's standards, itd be good to see a North Korea episode sometime as that country is tragically overlooked considering the s*** going down there.

 

[Steve the Pocket]

I always suspected Kim was a bit thick, but missing the obvious symbolism in having the monster that by his own demand represented Communism turn on the people it fought to save? That's just epically stupid. Sang-oh himself was probably baffled that the guy failed to pick up on that, and incredibly relieved.

 

[Tohron]

Funny, I actually read about this story earlier shortly after Kim Jong Il died - funny that the director would be posthumously awarded a cultural medal when many politicians opposed his work prior to his kidnapping.