Godzilla

Just for the record, yes, this is the original Japanese version, and no, I still don’t like it. From a filmmaking perspective, I see a lot to like in Ishiro Honda’s importantly formative kaiju movie, but from a storytelling perspective, I just cannot get involved. It seems to be built like a procedural in the vein of Fritz Lang‘s M, but it’s silly randomness in pursuit of a solution to a problem helped none at all by the fact that there’s arguably no main character. There are small snippets ...