![]() ![]() I was nine years old, and one of my favorite past times was riding my bicycle a few blocks down the street to a little locally owned VHS rental store. ![]() ![]() I was going through a great deal of emotional turmoil, and my family was about to move to another state when my stepfather got a new job. Legend came out on VHS in the US during a major transition in my life. Just sitting here writing this now, I may have to watch the movie again as soon as I am finished. For me, perhaps the feeling is more sentimental than an acknowledgment of production, but I can drop everything to watch this movie if even a little snippet of its soundtrack pops into my head. I don't know if I'd let kids watch this, even though I saw it when I was 6 or 7 years old, I don't know if I'd let a kid that young watch it.I'm one of maybe four people that I can confirm believe this movie to be an underappreciated classic. Still, if you want to watch a cheap kaiju knockoff with shock violence, it's worth hunting down a copy. It's also fairly unoriginal, as it's merely one of many Godzilla knockoffs, made cheaply to make a quick buck. Basically, this is probably one of the most violent kaijus ever made, and even though I'm not easily shocked, I watched that ancient tape again the other day, and was surprised how violent this movie is, and how graphic the violence is. I think he regretted it for some time afterwards, b/c my mom was not happy. I saw this back in the late 80s on the USA Network (when it was still in its weird, still-trying-to-find-an-identity-among-all-the-other-basic-cable-channels days) on an edition of the sorely missed "Commander USA's Groovy Movies." My dad taped this movie from that show (like he did with many Godzilla and Gamera movies on that ancient, crappy VCR we had in the 80s). ![]()
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