Letterboxd — Your life in film

When you do a Godzilla marathon it's kind of like you're on a bumpy train ride with uphill and downhill slopes. Then you get to this, the twenty-eighth film and the conclusion of the Millennium Era, and it's like that train takes off, starts flying through the stratosphere and takes you for an unexpected ride while blaring turn of the century alt-rock tracks. Godzilla films are known for taking ideas from other cinematic masterpieces and putting their own twist to…

This 50th anniversary Godzilla movie was designed as a (temporary) send-off to the series. When I saw this as a Godzilla-obsessed teenager, I was frustrated. I didn’t think it was truly in the Godzilla spirit. What a fool I was. Now that I’m older and wiser, I can clearly see that this is in the spirit of the goofy, childish ‘70s Godzilla movies — but with a level of absurd spectacle that those films didn’t have the budget for. Also: most…

The original cinematic masterpiece before Aquaman. The trifecta of what makes a movie rule. Dragon ball z, super sentai, and pokemon related drama. I have not cried this much from joy during a movie since Mars Attack. This movie said “I can make a better matrix and x men movie, but with giant monsters 🌚”. This movie contains the greatest scene to ever bless the screen. It took the Godzilla from the 1998 movie and gives him the most disrespectful…

I was curious to know if watching GODZILLA: FINAL WARS after going through the Godzilla franchise would lessen or heighten the experience.

Good news! It only got better.

I became acutely aware of how loving a tribute it is. The structure, the characters and the storytelling are all share the same DNA with everything that's come before - from the presence of the reporter and scientist, the non-actor American lead, the alien invasion plot, and the sheer joy of spectacle…

“The more painful the sacrifice, the greater you’ll be.”
- bald Dennis Reynolds

Airtight from beginning to end. Matt Johnson’s razor sharp direction gives this a way more tense and gripping feel than I would’ve expected out of a movie like this, but this is really some of the best of its kind. Not to mention it’s also fucking hilarious, and it steadies those tones perfectly, elevated by a pulsating soundtrack as well as Jay Baruchel and Glenn Howerton giving…

It's alright. Basically an amalgamation of everything we've seen before. Paper thin dialogues with generic story and characters, takes a little of everything from movies like Iron Man and Ant-Man but for a character that's never had a movie before. I didn't find the movie funny but George Lopez made me laugh a couple of times, I think Xolo Maridueña is terrific and I'm glad he'll continue this role in the DCU. It's no surprise Gunn will carry things from…

"I've had a strong opinion about the psychopathic fringe that thrives today in America's fast food culture."

i kept thinking about what this movie would look like today given media saturation now vs. then and stuff like outrage twitter, but that's a total trap because the only way this functions is if it's thoroughly divorced from context or "timeliness". Stone's coke-and-'shrooms-fueled "Who's really in the prison?" swipe at satire is so utterly sanctimonious and trite that for at least half…

Bill Foster: You think I'm a thief? Oh, you see, I'm not the thief. I'm not the one charging 85 cents FOR A STINKING SODA! You're the thief! I'm just standing up for my rights as a consumer.

This is basically the joker movie for boomers and it was very enjoyable. 
We don’t really get much introduction to the story or it’s characters and we are immediately shown our main character stuck in traffic only a few moments before he…