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sorcyressTonight I went and saw GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS as hosted by the Slaughterhouse Sweeties. It was _extremely excellent_. There are gonna be spoilers in the rest of this post, but also honestly, it's a Godzilla movie. Exactly what you expect to happen does.
First of all, more movies should have burlesque in front of them. Even if it's PG-13 burlesque. Maybe *especially* if it's PG-13 burlesque. It was SUPER FUN to watch these happy, athletic, sexy people dressed as monsters dance it up for our benefit. The Rodan especially was SO BADASS AND COOL and a really impressive gymnast. And of course, Godzilla themself was magnificent, and the use of one of those long flowy cloth fans that skill-toy dancers use as his breath attack was *really cool*.
Second of all, ohmygod.
Ohmygod, ohmygod, oh my fabulous fucking gods. What an ABSOLUTE DELIGHT of a movie!
Sure it was a little white man pain at parts (but I forgave the character a lot when he looked at the assembled troops and asked, with full seriousness "how many nukes do you have"). I loved Mille Bobby Brown desperately, her parents were both...mostly awful. The rest of the humans were all pretty great, especially Dr. Serizawa, who gave me a lot of really positive entomologist1 feels.
THE MONSTERS HOWEVER WERE AMAZING! I mean, that's what you come for, right? The CGI was pretty damn decent (a couple parts were meh, but it mostly didn't break kayfabe) and the monsters were large, glorious, and fighting with each other on the regular. Everything you could possibly want! The part where Ghidorah posed like an album cover was Very Quality Imagery and I would totally paint that on the side of my panel van. Mothra was ethereal and beauteous, and Godzilla was KING and it was great.
Better even than the monsters was the audience! WE WERE A GREAT AUDIENCE! The environment was such that I was able to be a little chattier than usual with jere7my3, and then just *everyone* was whooping it up and applauding and cheering and occasionally shouting clever things at the screen. Given that much of the final third of the movie takes place in Boston, we were ECSTATIC! Never has there been a theatre full of people so overjoyed to watch their hometown be destroyed!
...yes, I did spend that part of the movie searching desperately to catch a glimpse of Old North, while simultaneously crossing my fingers that somehow it wouldn't actually get destroyed.
I missed a bunch of lines because people were cheering so hard at mentions of Boston, or because Fenway was blowing up, and man, I do not care at all! It was TOO FUN!
So seriously, A+ movie watching experience, really wonderfully joyous audience, and a FUN monster experience. I'm definitely gonna have to go dig up some more Godzilla movies when I get a chance!
~Sor
MOOP!
1: Not that I am in any way a Godzilla/kaiju expert2, but one of the themes I *really* like to see them explore is the fact that, to the Titans, we are essentially insects. We are far too small to make any impact on them, and while they could have us as pets, it's more of an aggregate "I have a bunch of ants in my farm" than a specific "the white cat is Mr. Foofums and the black one is Thirty Steps of Death"
2: This was probably my fourth ever kaiju movie...and one of the others4 was PacRim, so like...yeah.
((To be clear, Pacific Rim is awesome, but it's also American, and I am given to understand that we did not originate the genre and therefore I don't want to make blanket statements about it without having a better cultural grounding.))
3: I am a horrible movie-talker, he likes to take in things in utter silence. We've managed to make it work as regular movie-watching buddies, and this sort of thing is exactly the kind of compromise why --I'll stay silent during premieres of Star Wars, because I know how much that matters to him, and he'll snark back with me on the kaiju movie, because it's the right space for it.
4: I've seen at least one Gamora (possibly with Joel and the bots) and I definitely watched some episodes of the animated Godzilla and Godzooky show.
First of all, more movies should have burlesque in front of them. Even if it's PG-13 burlesque. Maybe *especially* if it's PG-13 burlesque. It was SUPER FUN to watch these happy, athletic, sexy people dressed as monsters dance it up for our benefit. The Rodan especially was SO BADASS AND COOL and a really impressive gymnast. And of course, Godzilla themself was magnificent, and the use of one of those long flowy cloth fans that skill-toy dancers use as his breath attack was *really cool*.
Second of all, ohmygod.
Ohmygod, ohmygod, oh my fabulous fucking gods. What an ABSOLUTE DELIGHT of a movie!
Sure it was a little white man pain at parts (but I forgave the character a lot when he looked at the assembled troops and asked, with full seriousness "how many nukes do you have"). I loved Mille Bobby Brown desperately, her parents were both...mostly awful. The rest of the humans were all pretty great, especially Dr. Serizawa, who gave me a lot of really positive entomologist1 feels.
THE MONSTERS HOWEVER WERE AMAZING! I mean, that's what you come for, right? The CGI was pretty damn decent (a couple parts were meh, but it mostly didn't break kayfabe) and the monsters were large, glorious, and fighting with each other on the regular. Everything you could possibly want! The part where Ghidorah posed like an album cover was Very Quality Imagery and I would totally paint that on the side of my panel van. Mothra was ethereal and beauteous, and Godzilla was KING and it was great.
Better even than the monsters was the audience! WE WERE A GREAT AUDIENCE! The environment was such that I was able to be a little chattier than usual with jere7my3, and then just *everyone* was whooping it up and applauding and cheering and occasionally shouting clever things at the screen. Given that much of the final third of the movie takes place in Boston, we were ECSTATIC! Never has there been a theatre full of people so overjoyed to watch their hometown be destroyed!
...yes, I did spend that part of the movie searching desperately to catch a glimpse of Old North, while simultaneously crossing my fingers that somehow it wouldn't actually get destroyed.
I missed a bunch of lines because people were cheering so hard at mentions of Boston, or because Fenway was blowing up, and man, I do not care at all! It was TOO FUN!
So seriously, A+ movie watching experience, really wonderfully joyous audience, and a FUN monster experience. I'm definitely gonna have to go dig up some more Godzilla movies when I get a chance!
~Sor
MOOP!
1: Not that I am in any way a Godzilla/kaiju expert2, but one of the themes I *really* like to see them explore is the fact that, to the Titans, we are essentially insects. We are far too small to make any impact on them, and while they could have us as pets, it's more of an aggregate "I have a bunch of ants in my farm" than a specific "the white cat is Mr. Foofums and the black one is Thirty Steps of Death"
2: This was probably my fourth ever kaiju movie...and one of the others4 was PacRim, so like...yeah.
((To be clear, Pacific Rim is awesome, but it's also American, and I am given to understand that we did not originate the genre and therefore I don't want to make blanket statements about it without having a better cultural grounding.))
3: I am a horrible movie-talker, he likes to take in things in utter silence. We've managed to make it work as regular movie-watching buddies, and this sort of thing is exactly the kind of compromise why --I'll stay silent during premieres of Star Wars, because I know how much that matters to him, and he'll snark back with me on the kaiju movie, because it's the right space for it.
4: I've seen at least one Gamora (possibly with Joel and the bots) and I definitely watched some episodes of the animated Godzilla and Godzooky show.