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Beyond the Electron

J.J. Thomson

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Sir Joseph John Thomson was an English physicist and Nobel Prize winner and is credited with the...

Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods: Model Regulations: 2015: Volumes I & II

United Nations: Economic Commission for Europe and United Nations: Committee of Experts on the Transpo

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The Model Regulations cover the classification of dangerous goods and their listing, the use,...

Awix (3310 KP) rated It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) in Movies

May 11, 2020

Stop-motion monster movie with Ray Harryhausen's special effects. Odd goings-on in the Pacific lead the authorities to suspect a giant radioactive octopus is on the loose. Sure enough the beast is soon dry-humping the Golden Gate Bridge and menacing downtown San Francisco (at least, those parts within tentacle-reach of the seafront).

The bits with the octopus attacking the city are put together with Harryhausen's usual verve and skill, but - as ever - they are mostly confined to the end of the film; the rest of it is rather like a stolid Navy training film entitled 'How to Deal with Giant Octopi': functional but uninspired, and (apart from a sluggish romantic subplot) almost entirely procedural. Hits all the beats of the atomic sea monster subgenre, but doesn't have the sense of fantasy or fun that the best known films of this kind have. Some good stuff but threatens to drag even at less than 80 minutes in length.

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Fiskadoro

Denis Johnson

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'Daring and provocative... Startlingly original' New York Times The nuclear holocaust has been...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Godzilla Vs Gigan (1972) in Movies

Jun 13, 2018

Godzilla Vs Gigan (1972)

1972 | International, Sci-Fi

6.5

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Scraping-the-barrel Godzilla movie would be unbelievably silly and weird by the standards of any other franchise, but following Godzilla vs Hedorah it feels relatively restrained. Aliens invade again, monsters show up, blah blah blah. All the stuff that makes it distinctive is mad and inappropriate: Godzilla and Anguirus get dialogue together, for crying out loud, gory fight scenes show an unexpected Sam Peckinpah influence, villains are defeated when hippies carry large boxes clearly labelled TNT into their secret base, 'Everything was going so well!' cries a dying giant cockroach as its plans come undone.

But this is a Godzilla movie, and if you're watching this movie you'd probably expect no less. What is less forgivable than the unbridled strangeness is the cheap-ass nature of the fight scenes - one suspects Anguirus and Ghidorah are only in this film to allow lengthy clips from Destroy All Monsters to be included to pad things out. Probably a bit of a low point when it comes to giant radioactive dinosaurs on film.