Movie News & Miscellany
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I figure at least one Spider-Verse sequel will do something similar to the original Spider-Verse crossover, with Morlun.
Part of me still hopes we can.
Also, if we're going for an inter-dimensional Sinister Six, I'd like to see an anime-version Mysterio.
Let's not kid ourselves; the best version of Mysterio would be Raimi's planned buy never done plan to make Bruce Campbell Mysterio...
There was a deleted scene showing her surviving and jumping into the portal before it closed in an attempt to control the multiverse
Hellboy 2019 made a whole $12 million opening weekend.
In an age of James Gunn being rehired for GotG3, I want to hope there's at least a tiny chance that Guillermo del Toro can be handed back the reins. No one's going to have to forget a different continuity movie they never saw.
In an age of James Gunn being rehired for GotG3, I want to hope there's at least a tiny chance that Guillermo del Toro can be handed back the reins. No one's going to have to forget a different continuity movie they never saw.
And features a Hellboy who isn't allowed to have sex...for some reason.
Real question: I haven't seen any Godzilla movies except the one in the 1998 (shut up, it was free and opening night). If the point of Godzilla is that we're fucking up the environment, doesn't having a bunch of other monsters who were just...around and napping I guess detract from that message? Or are they also abominations caused by plastic straw abuse?
The other monsters were added over the years when Toho already figured for the 1955 sequel having only godzilla walking around getting a bit boring. Some of them are the results of humans mess around with nature however.
The original Godzilla was created due to the fears of nuclearization. The monster was basically the stand-in for the terrors of nuclear war, brought by the real terror Japan experienced at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Them killing Godzilla at the end was Japan's way of sort of cleansing themselves of those fears. It's why it was so big back in the day.
Of course that popularity lead to it spinning off into Toho's King of Monsters era, where Godzilla was mostly a traveling monster hunter who beat the shit out of ancient monsters or aliens that were causing problems. This became one of the most popular eras of Godzilla and gave us a lot of other monsters like Mothra.
Only the American 1998 Godzilla you referenced was about fucking up the environment specifically.
The new movie and it's past movies (Godzilla and Kong: Skull Island) are an Americanized version of the King of Monsters Era, and thus does not really tie directly into nuclearization or environmentalism. It's all about monsters beating the shit out of each other, whether they ancient sleeping beasts, alien robots, spiritual giant moths, or nuclear lizards.
Of course that popularity lead to it spinning off into Toho's King of Monsters era, where Godzilla was mostly a traveling monster hunter who beat the shit out of ancient monsters or aliens that were causing problems. This became one of the most popular eras of Godzilla and gave us a lot of other monsters like Mothra.
Only the American 1998 Godzilla you referenced was about fucking up the environment specifically.
The new movie and it's past movies (Godzilla and Kong: Skull Island) are an Americanized version of the King of Monsters Era, and thus does not really tie directly into nuclearization or environmentalism. It's all about monsters beating the shit out of each other, whether they ancient sleeping beasts, alien robots, spiritual giant moths, or nuclear lizards.
This, plus Godzilla over the years basically became an analog for "American intervention". In the original, he was a direct representation of the Atomic Bomb and it's effect on the psyche of Japan: an unstoppable force that unleashed untold horrors on anything in it's path. But as relations between America and Japan improved over the years, Godzilla also changed. Suddenly he wasn't an unstoppable monster looking to destroy the world, he was an unstoppable monster looking to protect it. That's why he went family friendly.
It’s not really communicated well, but the current theme of the American Godzilla movies is that nature is more powerful than humans, so if we fuck with it then we will get fucked. The idea of all these kaiju waking up and reasserting dominance over the planet has an implied parallel with humans experiencing more and more natural disasters as a result of unchecked human activity.
To continue that theme, Kong: Skull Island is basically "Maybe we shouldn't go around acting like the world belongs to us" for American intervention/adventurism.
That era also lead to the greatest godzilla scene of all time.
While I get that is the theme they are trying to go with, it really does not work. If the point was "nature is too powerful we are just ants", it kind of loses it's luster when the movies basically come down to humans siccing what is in essence a walking, scaled atomic bomb to beat the shit out of said natural disasters parallels.
GasBandit
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That's Gamera.
Yeah, 'zilla is about nuking our own planet...
The tracking glitches were a nice touch.
The other studios could take a few Pointers from this.
--Patrick
It's almost as if the world has gone... Mad.
