There’s narrative danger in taking silly things too seriously: you don’t see how silly the thing actually is. It’s obvious that there is a Japanese contingent of Godzilla superfan who takes the adventures of a giant lizard stomping on miniature buildings very seriously because the first movie had the not terrible subtle subtext of nuclear weaponry. Decades had degraded that, and the Heisei era brought a bunch of superfans into control of the franchise. This led to the decision that space mon...
Published on April 30, 2025 04:31