Godzilla
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In short: Suck it Matthew Broderick.
This "summer's" Godzilla is hardly the movie I expected it to be.
Hell, it's hardly a movie that was more or one that surprised me.
But it's one I thoroughly loved and enjoyed.
We start of with some Black-and-White footage of nuclear testing by the various nations in the 1950s while credits flash on the screen presented as redacted documents. We come to learn that those nuclear tests back then weren't the testing of weapons technology or the flexing of muscles by world powers but were attempts to destroy a monster living in the deepest parts of the ocean and in secluded corners of the world.
Our story opens in 1999 with the finding of a large sinkhole in the Nevada desert inside of which lays a massive skeleton and large, strange sac-like growths. Meanwhile in Japan high-level ranking nuclear power-plant employee is called into work to manage strange readings and malfunctions at the plant, before too long of being their the plant's reactor has melted down and the entire facility destroyed.
Flash-forward to present day where the estranged, adult, son of that plant-worker is returning home to his wife and child after serving a tour of duty in the military, shortly after getting home he gets a call telling him his father was just arrested in Japan for trespassing in the Japan quarantine zone around where the plant once was.
The son goes to bail his father out and to try and to reconnect with him on some level but finds his father still obsesses over the incident that claimed the life of the mother during the meltdown, the father believing something much more sinister is going on being hidden by the government and he intends to continue his investigation.
The father and son manage to sneak into their former hometown where they learn that no radioactivity is present in the area and the father manages to recover some Zip-Disks from their former home, on which there's more information on what's really going on.
At the site of the former nuclear plant another large sac is being studied and observed by scientists, soon everything goes wrong.
Inside the sac there's a large insect-like creature who manages to escape, attack, and begins an attack and a soon to shore of California. The scientists conclude that this creature intends to mate with another creature being held in the Yucca Mountain facility in Arizona, both creatures being drawn by (and consume) radioactivity.
It's believed by the head of the operation that's being keeping these creatures secret that there's a ages old cycle going on here between the radioactivity consuming creatures and another, much larger, creature capable of fighting and destroying the insectoids.
This other creature, obviously, is Godzilla. And so beings a Pacific Theater battle between Godzilla and these two insectoid creatures, where meanwhile the US military plots to destroy all three.
Yes. Godzilla is effectively the good guy in this movie.
This movie is a lot of fun with a lot of great, fun, visuals and is just a blast to watch. It's probably a bit skimpy on showing the creatures and their destruction of the various involved cities but what we do get to see is just a great, great spectacle. No, it's not Pacific Rim but it's a damn good fun ride.
I saw the movie in 3D and the visuals of it were great. If you can swing it, I recommend the 3D.
The movie is blast to watch and it surpasses the 1996 disaster greatly. Yeah, as said up-thread you still probably don't get to see Godzilla much more but what you do see is great and brings utter destruction, it's somehow fun to watch this Godzilla fight and, yes, use his breath weapon.
Fun, fun, fun, fun. Loved every moment of it.
Well, almost. There's some schlocky stuff with out main character who's largely just trying to get back home to see his wife and kid but it's not nearly as bad as drama of the characters in the Broderick movie.
See this.
See it in theaters.
See it in 3D.
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