2nd October, 2018.
Yes: it’s another night off.
Again.
Although, unlike last night?
I’m in less of a bleak mood.
Less bleak, thankfully, but equally as bored: and wanting to catch another movie.
You guessed it.
‘Hmmm’ … ?
Seems rather appropriate …
~≈§≈~
Godzilla opens in 1999: showing us Ishiro Serizawa and Vivienne Graham — Ken Watanabe and Sally Hawkins — investigating sweet strange fossils.
Whilst Nuclear power plant manager Joe Brody — Brian Cranston — leaves for work on a day that sees his wife, Sandra — Juliette Binoche — in what, at the time …
Seems to be ‘merely’ a dreadful nuclear accident.
It’s only years later, when he’s arrested for trespassing on the remains of his old home, he realises somthing else is going on.
And when Ford — Aaron Taylor-Johnson —, Joe’s estranged son, comes to pick up his father?
Things only go down hill …
~≈§≈~
The LAST time?
Was back in 2014, not long after it’s original DVD release.
The rating I gave it then is one that — in my notes — I’ve sarcastically written ‘mostly forgettable’ besides.
The rating I gave it then is one that — in my notes — I’ve sarcastically written ‘mostly forgettable’ besides.
That tells me a few things.
For starters, I’m going to have to double check on what I’ve seen: before I dive back in.
The rating I gave it, that first time arounds reminds me I could maybe have pick something else from the collection.
Back then?
I came away distinctly unimpressed with Godzilla*.
Just as I have tonight.
Frankly, Pacific Rim, Monsters and Solo: A Star Wars Story — both of the latter ALSO directed by Edwards — are better choices.
Godzilla★☆☆☆
* It wasn’t until I saw this second viewing that something of a conviction struck me. There’s a rather good scene of troopers doing a high altitude parachute jump. The music accompanying that jump sounded familiar. I was was right. According to the film’s IMDb entry, the music is ‘Requiem for Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, 2 Mixed Choirs and Orchestra,’ and something I’d last heard in 2001: A Space Odyssey. I THINK I prefer the way it was used in 2001 …
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