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Mothra 1961
What I thought I wanted was a movie about monsters beating the crap out of each other. Turns out, what I actually wanted was a movie about twin faeries who share a deep bond with a giant benevolent moth.
Following up on the debut of Rodan is a film about another flying monster: Mothra. The first thing I noticed about this movie was that it was much lighter in tone compared to the films that had come before it. In…
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Destroy All Monsters 1968
In Destroy All Monsters, director Ishirō Honda is picking up from where he left off. This film makes for a nice endcap to a King Ghidorah trilogy that also includes Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster and Invasion of the Astro Monster. Though it’s a jarring shift since it follows the more family-friendly films directed by Jun Fukuda, Ebirah, Horror of the Deep and Son of Godzilla. If I were to watch these movies again I would rearrange the order a bit…
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King Kong vs. Godzilla 1962
After being delighted by Mothra, I found King Kong vs. Godzilla to be a very disappointing drop in quality. The effortless charm in Mothra seems to be completely absent here, while the goofiness and absurdity are cranked up even higher this time around.
By this point, the Toho monster movies know what they’re all about: monster on monster mayhem. But King Kong vs. Godzilla takes a long, long time until Godzilla and Kong are actually squaring off against each other,…
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Godzilla 1954
The King of the Monsters makes a hell of an entrance in this classic film from 1954. After a title sequence filled with the thunderous sounds of Godzilla, the monster itself is revealed amidst a violent typhoon as it rages against the Japanese coastline. It’s the birth of a massive cultural icon and a very special moment in film history.
I think Godzilla holds up surprisingly well. The use of miniatures is obvious but these rudimentary visual effects are a…
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