Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Godzilla fights a Mechanized version of himself. There is a Shady dude in Aviator glasses. I shouldn't need to sell anyone on this. Watch it.
GodzillAthon; Godzilla 2000
Manages to not let you know if it was filmed in the 80s, 90s or 2000.
Proof with enough time, early CGI CAN be endearing for bad movie lovers. Though I would stake godzilla 2000 as a legitimate "good movie" over the 2000 oscar winner "American Beauty " yeah. We all wanted to think it was high art, it wasjust some trash blowing in the wind. Do you have any idea how complex your circulatory system is?
THIS is a godzilla movie. Seek it out.
GodzillaAthon:Godzilla (1998)
Sometimes, we remember a Film that was unfairly maligned on release.
Nothing unfair here. The "Jason Goes To Hell" of Zilla movies. A joke no one laughs at? A Sad affair no one feels sorry for.
Belongs buried, unless you have a taste for big budget late 90s throwaway entertainment.
This could have been OK bordering on watchable if they trimmed about 40 minutes, at 2 hours, this is a slog.
If it was 80 minutes? Watchable.
GodzillaAthon: Godzilla 1985
It's kind of baffling that Godzilla was not in more movies in the 80s. I Mean, what could be more 80s? This is one of the fun badly dubbed ones except it's from the 1980S so it's got that layer slopped over it. Worhy of your time. On youtube.
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Seriously. HOW WERE THERE NOT COUNTLESS JAPANESE/AMERICAN GODZILLA MOVIES IN THE 1980S?
Tune In Tuesday: boardinghouse blu ray
Soundtrack is great, synth crazy.
Meditation and death.
GodzillaAthon:Godzilla/Gojira 1954
This is the Original Japanese Version, unavailable in The States for decades. I Have been a Godilla fan since I was a lad, I remember reading about the Japanese version at the public library and wanting to see it since (I eventually bought the DVD when it came out.) I got in fistfights on the elementary school play yard over who would win, Godzilla or Kong. I always understood Godzilla movies as silly fun, as badly dubbed guys in monster suits stepping on toys. They were so fun!!
Well this original film, which directly references Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is a much, much, heavier affair. Everyone knows Godzilla is a metaphor for the big bomb in '45, but here is a company, Toho, not ten years later, making a major motion picture that comments on the atrocities of war and nuclear power. And from the country that to this day is still the only one to have experienced the bomb.
It is still a thrilling, expertly made Monster on the loose movie, it just has a heavy dose of philosophy that was surgically removed for the Americanized version.
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
The Pretenders very 80s cover of Hendrix's "Room Full Of Mirrors" is the best song you will hear this week.
https://open.spotify.com/track/5q5W1TV50yFi5kZBlUOa3P?si=KPcRd8cpSBqtYT5k1dHuwA
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