Search
Search results
![40x40](/uploads/profile_image/70c/05027122-34f5-4e43-aaae-b07bd919970c.jpg?m=1613049522)
Robert Longo recommended Blood Meridian in Books (curated)
![40x40](/uploads/profile_image/cea/997aea7e-5112-40ad-97b1-a68769bd5cea.jpg?m=1614351358)
Johnnie To recommended Straw Dogs (1971) in Movies (curated)
![40x40](/uploads/profile_image/608/dc2f6e2f-2b6a-4233-abd7-d199b7cec608.jpg?m=1614853785)
Mark Cousins recommended A River Called Titas (1973) in Movies (curated)
![40x40](/uploads/profile_image/64c/2b3402d0-07bf-4685-97ab-e3e52dc7c64c.jpg?m=1614345961)
Joe Dante recommended The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) in Movies (curated)
![40x40](/uploads/profile_image/257/a4142f27-a4ab-4020-a596-2ef5d8979257.jpg?m=1614684939)
Kathryn Bigelow recommended The Wild Bunch (1969) in Movies (curated)
![40x40](/uploads/profile_image/df5/bf9dbe24-a42f-4ec6-94fe-ab1f3b404df5.jpg?m=1522361176)
Awix (3310 KP) rated Godzilla Vs Gigan (1972) in Movies
Jun 13, 2018
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.
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.