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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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I first saw this oft used image in a library book at school about Godzilla. It was a series of books that featured many of the most famous m...
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******GODZILLA-SIZED SPOILERS!****** I've been a Godzilla fan since I was a little boy ("The King (of Monsters) and I"); from watching the increasingly silly English-dubbed movies on TV (seen/own them all) to worshipping at the altar of my green plastic Aurora Godzilla model kit. Highlights of my long love for the franchise reached a peak...
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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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