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    Baby Game - Pop Balloons

    Baby Game - Pop Balloons

    Games and Entertainment

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    Great fun for toddlers! There’s hardly a child under the age of 3 who doesn’t love popping...

    Tengami

    Tengami

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    Tengami is an atmospheric adventure game set inside a Japanese pop-up book. Fold and slide the...

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Godzilla (1998) in Movies

Mar 24, 2018  
Godzilla (1998)
Godzilla (1998)
1998 | Sci-Fi
6
6.3 (42 Ratings)
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Much-reviled and frequently-mocked (especially in subsequent Toho films) American Godzilla is actually not bad as a mega-budget reinvention of the classic American monster B-movie (which the original Japanese Godzilla was inspired by), it's just very disappointing as an actual Godzilla movie. The French irradiate the Pacific, causing humble iguana to grow to ginormous proportions, experience curious gender issues, and then devastate Manhattan.


Some good effects sequences, particularly the two big battles between 'Godzilla' and the US armed forces, and the leads work hard to be likeable, but on the whole the film seems much more interested in American pop culture (there's a pastiche of Jurassic Park, jokes about Elvis, some really unsubtle digs at film critics who didn't like Independence Day) than in the Japanese pop icon it's supposed to be about - the monster is lacking in grandeur and majesty, doesn't have Godzilla's special abilities, and is basically just a big lizard you can kill with conventional weapons. (No wonder the beast is just called 'Zilla' in its subsequent appearances.) Not awful on its own terms, but then it was never going to be judged on those.
  
    Aya Nakamura

    Aya Nakamura

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    Welcome to Aya Nakamura’s official channel ! Listen to her album NAKAMURA :...

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Morrissey recommended Kimono My House by Sparks in Music (curated)

 
Kimono My House by Sparks
Kimono My House by Sparks
2017 | Pop, Rock
7.5 (2 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"In a glorious surge of deserved success in 1974, the very comprehensive lyric sheets accompanying Sparks albums prove that Ron Mael is clearly driven to tell, yet he answers the media by skillfil Quietism and by impersonating various walls. Ron Mael is an undoubted genius, and where else would a true genius live but in the catacombs of hell? Ron asks his younger brother Russell to sing the words - in chilling falsetto. Russell sings in what appear to be French italics, and has less facial hair that Josephine Baker. It is a scream, because the songs are screams. (...) Who on earth would write a pop song in such a way? A song about an arts and crafts competition where 'lovely Claudine Jones/has to come to push her quilt', but where Tracy Wise gets a prize. There is no category for this madness - except the category of madness, and Sparks are only let down by their name. At 14, I want to live with these people, to be - at last! - in the company of creatures of my own species"

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