Showing posts with label giant monster movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label giant monster movies. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

1998 Month Rewind: TAKE TWO: GODZILLA

 by Patrick Bromley

Roland Emmerich makes two kinds of stupid movies: fun stupid and bad stupid. Independence Day? Fun stupid. 10,000 B.C.? Bad stupid. Stargate? Fun stupid. The Patriot? Bad stupid. 2012? Fun stupid and bad stupid.

His 1998 remake of Godzilla should have been two tons of fun stupid. Instead, it's stupid stupid. Stupid stupid stupid.

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Drunk On Foolish Pleasures: Double Feature!

by JB
Sometimes I think my students do not possess a strong critical faculty because they simply have not seen enough films. How can one tell diamonds from rocks if one sees nothing but rocks? Let’s look at two typical B-movies, one from 1958 and one from 1959, to illustrate this concept.