Look, Godzilla!
I freakin’ love Godzilla, probably because there is still a ten-year-old boy living inside me, and Godzilla Minus One, now on Netflix, plays to that boy. This film is a retro delight, trying to take Godzilla back to his roots, and pity the poor Japanese…they’ve just survived WWII, cities are in ruins from Allied bombings, and now Godzilla is targeting them! The Allies won’t help, either, having too many problems with the Soviets…
So the Japanese are having a really bad decade, but defeating Godzilla is all up to them. A central character is a surviving kamikaze pilot who had second thoughts, and brought his plane down on an island, claiming mechanical problems. Godzilla then attacks the island, but the pilot again escapes death, haunted by guilt afterwards.
While computer-generated. Godzilla is finely-detailed, and looking much more convincing than some dude in a rubber suit, as was the case in early Godzilla movies. The acting is good, and adds emotional content, but I would have preferred more of Godzilla and less humanity. The film is overly-long, and drags a bit in places. Godzilla’s core nature is restored as a force of nature or the consequences of the nuclear age. There are nice touches to his ferocity, too…when he unleashes his lethal breath blast, the spiny plates on his back individually pop up, and glow a lovely shade of blue. Godzilla chomps down on train cars, and even sends a sizeable boat hurling through the air…
I really like this Godzilla, Toho got him right…and while he’s sent to his death in the depths of the ocean at the end, the bubbling of his flesh reminds us that The King of Monsters has great regenerative capacities, and is likely to be ready for a rematch.- – I’ll be rooting for him!
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FOXSYLVANIA 
June 5, 2024 at 4:01 am
I still prefer the Showa-era Godzilla as portrayed (latex suit and all) by the late, great, deservedly legendary Haruo Nakajima..
That being said, I wonder if they’ll include the scene where Seaman Bill Randa was the sole survivor of the USN vessel sunk by a mer-Titan (but officially attributed to an Imperial Japanese sub) during WWII.
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June 5, 2024 at 8:50 am
All I know for certain is…Godzilla will be back! I’d like to see a dedicated Mothra movie, too! 😻
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June 5, 2024 at 5:41 pm
I’d like to see a CGI remake of “Destroy All Monsters” from circa 1969! But, I won’t be holding my breath as part of the waiting process.
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June 5, 2024 at 6:33 pm
Google the original anglophonic trailer on Youtube if you want to see what I’m referring to. 😉
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June 8, 2024 at 5:06 pm
One more thought for this article: who do you think would win in a deep-space dogfight: Ghidorah the Three-headed Monster or Enterprise NCC-1701?
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June 8, 2024 at 9:49 pm
I love match-ups like that! I’d bet on the Enterprise, but Ghidorah would pose some challenges and surprises, requiring Kirk to ultimately have sex with it… 🙀
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June 14, 2024 at 4:12 am
You mean, one of the Kilaks? It’d be a pretty rocky romance. 😉
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June 14, 2024 at 4:33 pm
Kirk doesn’t care. He never sticks around after bedding someone, anyhow. He’s done feline species with tails. I would, too, but you expect that of me… 😉
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June 14, 2024 at 6:32 pm
I would think that you’d prefer foxy women over cougars. 😉
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June 14, 2024 at 6:45 pm
But of course! It’s only natural. So let’s bungle in the jungle. It ‘s alright…with me! 🦊
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June 15, 2024 at 12:01 pm
Sorry, dude. But, as I believe in safe sex, I ain’t fixin’ to be mixin’ with no unprotected vixen.
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June 15, 2024 at 1:43 pm
You win our daily poetry and safe sex award! 😸
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June 15, 2024 at 4:24 pm
I thank all the little people behind the scenes who made it all possible. 😉
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