Movie review: Godzilla [no spoilers ]

To: a fool in paradise

LOL!! I love the sound effects in that video.

81 posted on 05/18/2014 7:48:23 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Uninstall Fascist Firefox. Get Pale Moon.)

To: Vince Ferrer; MeshugeMikey

Please let me know if a Mac version of Pale Moon comes out.

82 posted on 05/18/2014 8:00:46 AM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)

THEM!

to add a fourth...

83 posted on 05/18/2014 8:01:46 AM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)

Yeah. CGI is used as a substitute for a few minor things, like a plot, character development, good acting, good direction, plausible premise, coherent dialog....

84 posted on 05/18/2014 8:04:38 AM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)

To: Vince Ferrer

85 posted on 05/18/2014 8:22:43 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)

We did some great movies here about that! Come on THEM?? I want to see a remake of THEM!

Can't be done in Hollywood. THEM! is too religious.

86 posted on 05/18/2014 8:36:36 AM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)

To: Williams; BlueLancer

Well it didn’t really make sense that the Japanese scientist knew Godzilla would take care of the other monsters.

Godzilla is a surrogate for America.

The big overwhelming force that came out of the sea and devastated Tokyo.

Americans came and pretty much flattened Japan from a distance. They they arrived in person, big, loud, scary, uncouth.

The Japanese (quite reasonably) expected these loud invaders to rape, pillage and burn, to demand draconian (hmmm, like a dragon!) reparations, to bleed Japan dry and discard the husk.

That was the first Godzilla movie. It fit the temper of the times, it was an attempt to psychologically cope with a new world turned upside down, a world where Japan wasn't ascendant.

Then it happened. The Pale Destroyers (hat tip Blue Lancer) didn't destroy Japan! They helped Japan rebuild everything they bombed! Rebuilt the infrastructure, established a constitutional government, established entire industries, became the biggest customer, and fast friend and defender of Japan.

Huh?

HUH???

The following Godzilla movies attempt to grapple with this conundrum. Godzilla vs this that and the other creature. Godzilla not quite as a friend of Japan, but an least as a fellow combatant against other threats to the Home Islands.

And then Baby Godzilla was downright cute!

That's the what the Japanese scientist knew from his youth. The big scarey monster turned out to be not so bad after all.

87 posted on 05/18/2014 8:39:29 AM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)

Here ya go:

Empire of the Ants

88 posted on 05/18/2014 8:39:51 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Uninstall Fascist Firefox. Get Pale Moon.)

To: RandallFlagg

Re: Your tagline.

See post #82.

89 posted on 05/18/2014 8:46:10 AM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)

To: null and void

Last I’d read is that Pale Moon has no plans for a browser for Mac.
That could change, however. Since so many have dumped Firefox.

90 posted on 05/18/2014 8:51:30 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Uninstall Fascist Firefox. Get Pale Moon.)

To: RandallFlagg

That’s the last I heard as well. Still, hope springs eternal...

91 posted on 05/18/2014 8:53:36 AM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)

To: RandallFlagg

And yes, I will drop Firefox as soon as a Mac Version of Pale Moon becomes available.

92 posted on 05/18/2014 10:00:43 AM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)

To: null and void

I’ve got em bookmarked!

will do

93 posted on 05/18/2014 11:43:41 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)

To: null and void

94 posted on 05/19/2014 6:08:20 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)

I also thought that Pacific Rim was a great movie.

95 posted on 05/19/2014 9:24:52 AM PDT by mowowie

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