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im1776.com
Ever since the first Godzilla movie hit theaters in 1954, the King of the Monsters has served as a metaphor for the moment, standing in for everything from the dangers of nuclear weapons, to man's destruction of the environment, to the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Part of the power of the original lay in the fact that it was created for a Japanese audience who had recently seen their cities suffer the sort of devastation portrayed in the film, which was released shortly after the end of the American occupation regime. The most recent installment - and the first to come out of Japan since 2016's Fukushima parable Shin Godzilla - takes place during the end and immediate aftermath of World War II, when Godzilla would have had to look hard for cities whose destru... |
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mdhughes.tech
Finally out on Netflix (along with most Godzilla films). G-1 follows the style of GMK and Shin Godzilla by only admitting to the events of Gojira (1954), in this case by being set in 1945-1947. Failed kamikaze pilot Shikishima watches an island base (a hut and a few engineers) be destroyed by T-Rex-like baby Godzilla.... |
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filmfreedonia.com
. Director / Screenwriter / Visual Effects Supervisor: Takashi Yamazaki By Marilyn Ferdinand As the credits rolled and the lights came up in the theater, one of my fellow moviegoers stood up and yelled, "King of the Monsters." I pumped my fist in agreement. Yes, we had just seen Godzilla prove yet again that he... |
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whatever.scalzi.com
No, the 2014 version of Godzilla, the US-produced one directed by Gareth Edwards, is not the best Godzilla movie in the several-decade, several-dozen-installment history of the franchise. If I had to rank it, I would probably put it at three or four, depending on how I was feeling about Shin Godzilla that day (for clarity,... |
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