Godzilla

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sat May 31, 2014 8:36 pm

1. Cranston: Not enough.

2. Humans: Not important/memorable.

3. Monsters: Awesome.

4. Godzilla himself: Super-duper-awesome.

5. Aesthetic beauty: Quite a bit.

6. Director's balls, for daring to use Gyorgy Ligeti's "Requiem for Soprano..." during the skydiving scene, a piece of music that ANY movie lover knows belongs to 2001: HUGE. You can use Also Sprach Zarathustra because it sort of trancended 2001 and became a meme, a public domain fanfare, a gag. But Requiem for Soprano IS the 2001 monolith.

7. Summary: Dry, two-dimensional human characters/stories + immense, incredible monsters fighting it out = sure as fuck better than the 1998 one, by a factor of 10 million. Not the greatest movie ever, but definitely the best Godzilla of our lifetimes, and his coolest presentation yet.