Up from the depths...
May. 20th, 2014 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluegargantuaHey,
So I saw the new Godzilla movie last night. It was pretty good and by default better than the Roland Emmerich Godzilla film from 1998. Still, I think Godzilla: Final Wars is the current champion of Godzilla films, but that's probably because it totally jibes with my inner 12 year-old's platonic ideal of a Godzilla movie.
This movie flirts with a more grim-n-gritty style and most of the time that works, but there are a few times where it gets just a little too heavy-handed and it starts to eat away at your suspension of disbelief. Look, for a giant monster fight I'm willing to believe a lot of dumb things, but if you want to posit a more real-world take on things then people have to start making some slightly better decisions. Yes, history is littered with bad decision makers but still.
Anyway. As much as I want ludicrous, rubber-suit, model city Godzilla movies, I want Godzilla movies more than that. This was a pretty good Godzilla move and a well worth your time if you want to see cities stomped flat by monsters.
later
Tom
So I saw the new Godzilla movie last night. It was pretty good and by default better than the Roland Emmerich Godzilla film from 1998. Still, I think Godzilla: Final Wars is the current champion of Godzilla films, but that's probably because it totally jibes with my inner 12 year-old's platonic ideal of a Godzilla movie.
This movie flirts with a more grim-n-gritty style and most of the time that works, but there are a few times where it gets just a little too heavy-handed and it starts to eat away at your suspension of disbelief. Look, for a giant monster fight I'm willing to believe a lot of dumb things, but if you want to posit a more real-world take on things then people have to start making some slightly better decisions. Yes, history is littered with bad decision makers but still.
Anyway. As much as I want ludicrous, rubber-suit, model city Godzilla movies, I want Godzilla movies more than that. This was a pretty good Godzilla move and a well worth your time if you want to see cities stomped flat by monsters.
later
Tom
