ryuuseipro
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Well, the first two Ultramen may look pretty cheap when we look at them now, but it was groundbreaking at that time and was done professionally. Ultraman, Kamen Rider, and Super Sentai are basically like the great great grandfathers of Toku who fight for peace, justice, and equality.....while a Garage Hero fights to pay for his/her bills, booze, and record collection by mooching off of the great great grandfathers' names while freeloading off of them by living in their basement and playing their music too loud.
In short, a Garage Hero is the bum of Toku.
I think filmmaker/writer Don Glut (the King of Fanfilms) beat us all to it. He did fanfilms since he was a kid in the 50s. Though barely watchable (without his commentary), he did the first-ever Godzilla fanfilms! (Thus doing the first American tokusatsu fanfilms!) He did giant monster films as a grade school kid (and a couple in his teenage years). In his teenage years, he's done "Teenage Monster" movies, and in his college years, he's done the first-ever superhero fanfilms (where he REEEALY improved as a filmmaker!), including the very first live-action version of Spider-Man (his last fanfilm)! Simply awesome!
I highly recommend looking for the 2-Disc DVD, I Was a Teenage Movie Maker, the complete collection of Glut's work!
