Toho takes the monster mashup to the logical conclusion: turning the familiar ones into good guys to fight the new monstrous bad guy. These sorts of franchises can’t go on forever making a huge threat repeatedly defeatable. The threat loses its sense of danger by the tenth time. So, if you’re going to bring Godzilla back, don’t find another way to kill him or put him under ice. Get him to win the day for humanity instead. Then you can focus the idea of the threat on some new creation, perhap...
Published on May 07, 2024 04:00