Daikaiju another day
May. 22nd, 2014 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jack_babalonSaw Godzilla. Had a blast, or to be more accurate, several dozen and not a few of them nuclear. A slow burn that builds towards an explosive CGI Daikaiju Ju-Jitsu rumble across the last hour. Godzilla strikes just the right balance between Pacific Rim and Cloverfield. Where as Pacific Rim crackled with the raw imagination of a little kid drawing big robots versus super-dinosaurs and Cloverfield inadvertently tapped into this post - 9/11 zeitgeist of dread and narcissism, Godzilla comes off dark but not so dark that you don't cheer the titular star.
Like the best of its genre, it evokes the atavistic horror of our distant rodent sized ancestors as they quaked in the shadows of giant monsters. It also provides the vicarious thrill of humanity's wide screen battle against the apocalypse without and our hubris within.
Yeah, but fuck all that - it's big monsters, big explosions and a big fight at the finish. If you're looking for something deeper then just Google directions to your local art cineplex and rock the shit out of some Miramax goodness. If you want to see radioactive monsters going full WCW and Walter White realizing he's not the danger after all, then Godzilla's got you covered.
Plus, the Squid in me took an especial delight in seeing the new USS Saratoga spearheading mankind's battle with 'strange monsters'.
Like the best of its genre, it evokes the atavistic horror of our distant rodent sized ancestors as they quaked in the shadows of giant monsters. It also provides the vicarious thrill of humanity's wide screen battle against the apocalypse without and our hubris within.
Yeah, but fuck all that - it's big monsters, big explosions and a big fight at the finish. If you're looking for something deeper then just Google directions to your local art cineplex and rock the shit out of some Miramax goodness. If you want to see radioactive monsters going full WCW and Walter White realizing he's not the danger after all, then Godzilla's got you covered.
Plus, the Squid in me took an especial delight in seeing the new USS Saratoga spearheading mankind's battle with 'strange monsters'.