Do we have clown culture because these aliens visited long ago, or did the aliens adopt clown culture from viewing our tv signals in space? (This question is actually asked in the movie itself.)
This is a question I also had while trying to puzzle this bizarre movie together. Obviously this movie doesn’t need puzzling together. From the beginning you get exactly what was written on the tin.
As someone who is versed in schlocky movies and doesn’t mind a…
The Thing meets Lethal Weapon.
Holy cow! That was the most 80s movie I’ve seen in a while. It’s such a cheesy film, but it comes off so earnest and everyone in the movie is playing it with a seriousness that it elevates the film from cheese-fest to an actually well made movie.
I can’t help but think “what if the premise of this movie wasn’t revealed in the first 15 minutes?” That would have been interesting to see how…
While this is personally not one of my favorite Godzilla films, it has a lot more depth and complexity than people give it credit. The best Godzilla films are the ones that have the monster stand/represent something. Sometimes he is representing the anxieties over nuclear power, or the hope humanity has in defeating its biggest threat, or even the slow response of a bureaucratic system to a disaster. In this particular movie Godzilla and King Shisa (Caesar) represent the tense…
This is a slow and thoughtful movie with tons of period drama, and if you are patient enough, rewards you with some of the most intense kaiju scenes I’ve ever seen. The atmosphere in this movie is fantastic. The camera work enhances the sorrow and fear in the story with long shots and slow zooms. There is nothing that I can say negatively about this movie. It is brilliant and beautiful and there is nothing else in the genre like it in how it blends multiple genres together so seamlessly. Watch the HD remasters because it is absolutely worth seeing in the highest quality.
