Friday Fun Video: Honest Trailers vs. Godzilla

Movie Review: Godzilla (2014)

Monster mash.

Watching gigantic radioactive critters level entire city blocks (in 3D!) has never been so much fun.  The iconic beastie who first appeared in Ishiro Honda's 1954 movie has become an international pop culture icon with his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and with this 2014 film he is back and better than ever.  It blows away the awful 1998 movie with a force as powerful as Godzilla's own atomic breath (would you like a mint, big fella?).

Movie Madness!

The summer movie season's here!  I am so, so happy!  Granted, it is expensive to see all these movies, but I've been saving pennies for the express purpose of doing this.  While some people like going to sports events and others like going to resorts for summer fun, your humble blog hostess and her crew like going to the movies!  I'm in the process of working on 5 movie reviews at the same time right now (this is so much more fun than schoolwork), but if you're in a hurry, here are the grades.

• The Grand Budapest Hotel: B+
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier: A
• Godzilla: B+
• X-Men: Days of Future Past: A+
• Only Lovers Left Alive: B
• The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Honestly, I haven't even bothered to go yet

Yes, I know this all sounds like grade inflation, but these flicks I've seen really are THAT good.  Next up: Maleficent, Edge of Tomorrow, and How to Train Your Dragon 2!  I am expecting great things.

In related news: some people are so inherently beautiful that they can make even scrubs or 1970s fashion look goooooood, baby.

Godzilla vs. the US Military

Time to call the Navy?

Meanwhile, I can't wait to go see the new movie.  Bryan Cranston and Ken Watanabe, please make me forget that the awful 1998 movie ever existed!

Monday Therapy: Iowahawk and "Crudezilla"

Satire Alert! The inestimable and reliably hilarious Iowahawk takes a potshot at the BP oil debacle and Obama with a Godzilla-themed entry. Enjoy!

Awesome: Godzilla Haiku

Even more Godzilla haiku here!

Life Imitates the Movies: Giant Jellyfish Sinks Japanese Fishing Boat

Michael Bay, call your office! (And it's Japan again. Why is it almost always Japan when weird news happens?)

Now you can add giant jellyfish to Godzilla, Gamera, Mothra, and all their cinematic movie monster buddies.

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But where's Hello Kitty on that scale of fear?!

I suggest she goes above Godzilla as a warning of imminent apocalypse.

(via Neatorama)