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Kay Nielsen's a Thousand and One Nights

Noel Daniel, Kay Nielsen and Cynthia Burlingham

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Night visions A fine art portfolio of Kay Nielsen s sumptuous A Thousand and One Nights In the late...

A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful

Gideon Lewis-Kraus and Jon Gray

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A young secular writer's journey along ancient religious pilgrimage routes in Spain, Japan and...

The Letter for the King

Tonke Dragt and Laura Watkinson

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A young messenger. A secret mission. A kingdom in peril. It is the dead of night. Sixteen-year-old...

British Comics: A Cultural History

James Chapman

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British Comics is a unique cultural history of British comic papers and magazines, from their...

Ryan Hill (152 KP) rated Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) in Movies

Jun 29, 2019

Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)

2019 | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

6.7

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Kyle chandler Vera farmiga Millie bobbie brown Ken watanabe The action scenes The score The creature designs Godzilla (0 more)

Not as suspense filled and grounded in reality as the first film (0 more)

"We opened Pandora's box. And there's no closing it now."

With Godzilla (2014) Legendary Pictures was the first American studio to get it right. No idiotic US edits of the latest Japanese films. No remakes that went out of it's way to be anything but Godzilla. It was GODZILLA! Now from what I understand from an interview with Shinji Higuchi is that Legendary only has the rights to Godzilla until 2020. So what do you do in that case? Well since you only have time to make one more Godzilla film before Godzilla vs. Kong, you do the obvious; You remake Destroy All Monsters!

There is some Michael Bay level stupidity going on in some moments of this film, but I don't care. I loved it. Some of the great Toho Godzilla films have goofy science combined with forgettable human characters. This one isn't even close to being the greatest offender of this in the franchise. Besides, when it comes to Vera Farmiga and Kyle Chandler I'm going to care about their characters at least a little no matter how they're written.

The film makers really went out of their way with tons of references from Godzilla's history. They even find a way to do a subtle nod to the Shobijin which I didn't think they'd ever touch with a 10 foot pole. I don't want to spoil anything, but it's just things that are used in the film that aren't part of American pop culture like the character itself of Godzilla. There's a lot of shit that only people who have seen the original films will pick up on.

The score is great, but even greater is that they actually used Gozilla's theme which is god damn iconic and shockingly even Mothra's theme. How can you not love that? I dunno. Maybe I'm just a geek, but seeing Ghidorah, Mothra, Rodan and Godzilla in a big budget Hollywood movie just blows my mind. I loved it. It's basically the American remake of Destroy All Monsters. Don't bother telling me how dumb the movie is either. I fully realize how dumb it is.