I saw the new movie, and it was classic stuff: ever more gigantic monsters trample on cities, while po-faced humans project their gnomic interpretations of the monsters’ intents on them, and while the monsters thrash at each other and go “GROOONK” as they stand atop rubble. If that’s all you need, you’ll enjoy it. It brought back memories of old Saturday matinees with Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and Ghidorah, all awful, but all marching through the same schtick, just like this one.
What did Boston do to deserve to be the locus of monster destruction, though?
That is, in fact, all I need.
Not my former home! I’d have to think hard to think of enemies there I’d want crushed.
I’m safe here in Ecuador. Nobody would bring giant monsters here: the Andes would make them look so small!
Boston? That’s about three steps across, to a god of Zilla’s size.
Right the fuck on!!!
Giving Ruth up to the Yankees? I thought that was paid off….
We won too many sportsball championships.
Boston knows what Boston did.
I would assume that, in order to truly be considered “King of the Monsters,” Godzilla needs to show he can defeat Tom Brady.
New York, LA and Tokyo have been hogging all the mass destruction. Give another city a chance.
Have you ever been to Boston? I can’t think of a better place…
Delayed reaction to the Big Dig?
I bet it didn’t make Boston traffic worse.
Woo hoo! Parking just got way easier!
Was it ever determined what sin Sheboygan was guilty of?
sirrod @ 14
Ha! I got that reference! I played that game once and, if memory serves, it was essentially a clone of Steve Jackson’s Ogre.
I’ve also been to Sheboygan a couple of times back in high school for forensics meets. As I recall, there wasn’t a lot there to interest a ravenous Daikaiju.
The original Godzilla (1954) was a favorite of mine, despite its comparatively cheesy special effects. But the movie was great, the music was great, and years later I realized it was more of an anti-war movie than a horror film (its Japanese title was actually Gojira, meaning “ape-whale”). Today’s CGI whoosh-bang crap just leaves me cold. Myers, you can have it.
Uh, dude. Lizards are passe. You are into bugs now (assuming spiders are bugs) so don’t forget the giant praying mantis of 1957: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deadly_Mantis
Let us not forget Tarantaula (1955), The Spider (1958; it’s revived from a coma by rock-n-roll music), and, of course, Them! (1954; giant ants, but considered the seminal classic of the big bug genre).
The monsters get bigger every movie. Wait one or two, and it’ll be big enough to do to the whole of S.America what it did to Bambi.
How could you leave Gamera out of your litany of giant Japanese monsters, or Kaiju?
Why Boston, indeed. It doesn’t even rhyme with ‘Oh no’.
(‘Oh no, there goes Tokyo’ for non BOC fans)