Godzilla -1 and some Gaming

My roommates wanted to see Godzilla and since I had seen a bunch of people saying it was very good, I thought fuck it, why not. I had never seen any Godzilla movie before. The old Japanese movies looked amusing but I had no interest in them, and the American movies looked bad. This movie was fine. It was good in a very, ah yes, Japanese drama, sort of way. Godzilla itself was cool, some of the action was neat, the human interest stuff was cheesy and predictable, but it was earnest enough. I'm very much not a fan of the sort of directing that goes into some of Japanese drama, where the actors chew the shit out of the scenery, and this movie had a whole lot of that. It's one of the reasons I don't spend that much time with Japanese live action even though it would be good practice for me. And I couldn't get too invested in the story because it was so paint by numbers. I found the sets and the costuming to be the most interesting part of the whole thing.

I'm not the audience for these movies.

The one thing I found endearing was how Godzilla was animated. We've come a long long way from the special effects of the first movie, but because the man in suit movement of Godzilla is so iconic, this Godzilla still had a weird, stiff gait and funny proportions. This amused me.

But I don't thing I'm seeing any more movies in the theater for a long time. We have a few nice cheap theaters nearby, they used to be 5 dollar second hand theaters before COVID fucked things up and now they're a little different but still cheap. But whenever my roommates want to go watch a movie they want to go to the fancy place a whole town over that costs 15 bucks and the scrooge in me just can't abide this so after swallowing the sticker shock twice in a short period of time it's back to library rentals and a friend's netflix for me..
 

( And Gaming Stuff... )