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Moovit Carpool for Drivers

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Moovit Carpool matches passengers to drivers heading the same direction. You (the drivers), set the...

A Planet Full of Plastic and How You Can Help

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Everything is made of stuff. Some things are made of paper, like this book. And some things are made...

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Of Mice Not Men

Donald L. Canterbury

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In the near future, mankind has exhausted the last of their fossil fuels and a new energy crisis...

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David McK (3369 KP) rated Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) in Movies

Jun 16, 2019 (Updated Apr 24, 2023)

Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)

2019 | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

6.7

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OK, I'll admit it: I have a soft spot for the 1998 Matthew Broderick version.

This has nothing to do with it, but is (rather) a continuation of 2014's Godzilla movie that 'kicked off' what I'm going to call the Monster-verse, which now consists of 3 movies: 2014s "Godzilla", 2017s actually-quite-enjoyable "Kong: Skull Island", and now this.

The connecting tissue? The organisation known as Monarch, which has secretly being studying the Titans (as they are called here) ever since the events of that movie (set during the Vietnam War, remember). Kong is mentioned a few times, and appears on a TV screen in the background, but is not a character in this film.

What anybody really wants out of a movie like this, of course, is to see the monsters fighting each other whole destroying all around, and - in that respect, at least, this movie does not disappoint. It's just a pity that the human element doesn't really connect, with some clumsy eco-message exposition, although it does have some nice-looking vignettes when viewed in isolation (King Ghidorah on top of a mountain, with a cross in the foreground, for example).