This is the last movie I'm watching in the place I've lived at for over ten years. Leaving off on one of the best Jack Kirby adaptations (in visual spirit if not in total source of straight-faced psychedelic-fueled pulp splendor) is a good one to go out on, I think.
Matt Damon cameo in Thor > Matt Damon cameo in Europe ip. Which is not nothing. Also a smashingly good Stan Lee cameo.
I kind of love how Hulk comes in…
(Criterion Challenge 2022 - 48/52 Amy Heckerling's Closet Picks - if you watch her video, this is the one pick she doesn't even say anything about, the camera just shows she picked it near the end. Oh, well. This is also one of the only times, if not the only, where I'm watching something I originally didn't finish)
"Your death won't give us back our lives."
An easy choice for the most mortifying account of humanity at its most barbaric…
Credits:
Godzilla - Himself
King Ghidorah - Himself
Mothra - Herself
Rodan - Himself
DAMN right!
At its best, an umabashed love letter to Japanese monster movie fans, and I mean that as a compliment. Michael Dougherty also manages to have solid sense of big blockbuster movie pacing, and we get if not fully dimesional then more interesting human characters than the 2014 film... Though on further reflection, this is an edit a week later after writing this, there are...…
"So horribly sad. How is it I feel like laughing?"
Seriously, it's a strange thing for me to give this 5 stars because it almost feels like a duty to do so because of its status as a classic thriller and for its set pieces... actually that's not really true, but I'll get to what I love about the movie in a moment.
I think that Hitchcock here is doing (and try to follow me on this) what JJ Abrams…
