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Friday, May 28, 2004
This year marks the 50th-anniversary of the original release of Godzilla, and this Memorial Day weekend makes an apt time for watching the Big Guy make his big first impression on Tokyo in this rather-historic re-release. No joke: this is a grim nightmare film, derived from King Kong, of course, but reflecting the spectacular trauma of a fire- and atom-bombed nation almost a decade after the end of the Second World War. Sure, that first reel is pretty creaky (though film bugs will have fun identifying actors from The Seven Samurai) but the lasting effect is pretty somber. Tell 'em, G. |