I watched this for the first time since I saw it in theaters. I figured, what the hell, plenty of things aren't as bad as I remember them. I didn't have any real taste in 2006; I still liked Revenge of the Sith. I might as well give this one a fair shake.
It was worse than I remembered. The things that pissed me off as a kid who loved the TV show still piss me off, like the insulting…
It was so nice to see one of these Marvel movies finally be a proper action movie with genuinely thrilling stunt combat. The film proves that Marvel still has the ability to mine the various broken parts of their comics lore and somehow make something functional out of the parts of it. Even the incredibly racist parts. Seriously, if you haven't read up on the various influences that led to the creation of Wenwu, you're going to be in for…
The word "awesome" has really lost a lot of its intended purpose, since it literally means that a thing inspires awe in the person who beholds it. By that definition, there is simply nothing more awesome than Godzilla: King of the Monsters, a big budget summer crowdpleaser in the same vein as Independence Day and Pacific Rim. It's the kind of film where even the things that are technically wrong about it feel kind of right about it. The human…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
