Fights are only ok but the running plot of a bunch of yakuza assassins trying to kill a princess who has been possessed by a Venusian emissary sent to warn us about the KING turning Earth into an uninhabitable ball of greenhouse games unless all your favorite monsters team up is a powerful metaphor for international cooperation in the face of climate change.
Also godzilla throws like a ton of rocks in this. Him and Roman straight up playing volleyball.…
Gamera fights an slien thst eants to shoot its eggs into space.
Improves over the first one in thst there are none fights and everything just looks cooler. Just incredible VFX. Really gets away from the character work of the humans in the first one to focus on gamera and it's probably an improvement ad he's the star. Felt more empathy for gamera here trying to defend a helicopter from a giant squid guy and he's bleeding and there's a…
Best sequel I can remember seeing. Takes everything compelling about the first movie, explores it more and adds in a bunch of new stuff. Love the holograms adding some new texture on exploring what it means to be human; love Ryan Gosling's love of his hologram gf.
I suppose the biggest complaint someone could have with this is thst it doesn't seemingly answer a lot of its own questions but it does, actually--being human means being loved, you dummy. And…
A movie about loving your wife, and how everyone Lana Wachowski has met in Hollywood is a huge piece of shit she hates.
Feeling absolutely validated for watching all of the Matrix movies, especially the Animatrix. This one IS wonderfully indulgent but the running metanarrative at the beginning about being gaslit by yuppies is a lot of fun and then you get to all the matrix shit we love plus Neo can do cool force blasts now. Just really polishes…
