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Godzilla: King of the Monsters
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I got tired of looking at my angry review of Pacific Rim: Uprising (which is still awful, by the way), so I'd figure I'd replace it with a review of another sequel.
Godzilla: King of the Monster is honestly a pretty mediocre movie, but it's perfectly watchable. Not nearly as good as its predecessor or Pacific Rim, but not as bad as Kong: Skull Island or the burning trash heap mentioned above.
Without getting into spoilers, it has what I call a 'movie and a half' problem: there's too much in the script, but not quite enough that it can be easily split into two stories. Apparently it was originally three hours and got trimmed down by forty-something minutes, and it REALLY shows. There are some bizarre or unclear jumps in time, and some things that very much shouldn't have gotten cut did. If it had been up to me, I would have streamlined the story, which is pretty clunky, and axed either Mothra or Rodan. Both are fun in it, but neither quite has enough to do.
Anywho... I hate everything, but I thought it was okay, so go see it if you have any interest.
Godzilla: King of the Monster is honestly a pretty mediocre movie, but it's perfectly watchable. Not nearly as good as its predecessor or Pacific Rim, but not as bad as Kong: Skull Island or the burning trash heap mentioned above.
Without getting into spoilers, it has what I call a 'movie and a half' problem: there's too much in the script, but not quite enough that it can be easily split into two stories. Apparently it was originally three hours and got trimmed down by forty-something minutes, and it REALLY shows. There are some bizarre or unclear jumps in time, and some things that very much shouldn't have gotten cut did. If it had been up to me, I would have streamlined the story, which is pretty clunky, and axed either Mothra or Rodan. Both are fun in it, but neither quite has enough to do.
Anywho... I hate everything, but I thought it was okay, so go see it if you have any interest.
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Pacific Rim: Uprising
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Since I've seen several others give their thoughts on the film, I might as well too...
I hated it.
More accurately, I loathed every aspect of it. There's no "but" here. As far as I'm concerned, it has no redeeming features. It's an shallow, generic, and, worse of all, INSULTING followup to one of the most passionate and soulful films of all time. The original is far from perfect, but it was made with love that was tangible. This movie ruins everything its predecessor so carefully crafted. I mean, it ruins it all across the board. It's almost amazing in a horrid way, like a train wreck or something. It broke the logic of the first movie, it defaced the characters, it neglected the themes, it did everything it could to fly in the face of the first. I've seen a lot of reviewers say it's just okay to mediocre as a standalone film, but I don't think that's fair. It's not a standalone film, it's a sequel, so it should be judged as one. And as a sequel? I think it's as bad as it could possible be.
It managed to surpass Shin Godzilla as my least favorite film of all time, and anyone who knows how I feel about that film can tell you that's a goddamn feat. At least Shin has SOME things I can compliment.
I'm really disheartened, guys. Besides the fact that I've never regretted wasting time and money on something more, I've only enjoyed two out of the six big time kaiju movies of the 2010s. And it seems like next ones are geared to follow in the footsteps of the underwhelming Kong: Skull Island instead of 2014's Godzilla, which is literally my worst fear for the MonsterVerse.
Long story short, I have now fully transitioned into a grump old man.
I hated it.
More accurately, I loathed every aspect of it. There's no "but" here. As far as I'm concerned, it has no redeeming features. It's an shallow, generic, and, worse of all, INSULTING followup to one of the most passionate and soulful films of all time. The original is far from perfect, but it was made with love that was tangible. This movie ruins everything its predecessor so carefully crafted. I mean, it ruins it all across the board. It's almost amazing in a horrid way, like a train wreck or something. It broke the logic of the first movie, it defaced the characters, it neglected the themes, it did everything it could to fly in the face of the first. I've seen a lot of reviewers say it's just okay to mediocre as a standalone film, but I don't think that's fair. It's not a standalone film, it's a sequel, so it should be judged as one. And as a sequel? I think it's as bad as it could possible be.
It managed to surpass Shin Godzilla as my least favorite film of all time, and anyone who knows how I feel about that film can tell you that's a goddamn feat. At least Shin has SOME things I can compliment.
I'm really disheartened, guys. Besides the fact that I've never regretted wasting time and money on something more, I've only enjoyed two out of the six big time kaiju movies of the 2010s. And it seems like next ones are geared to follow in the footsteps of the underwhelming Kong: Skull Island instead of 2014's Godzilla, which is literally my worst fear for the MonsterVerse.
Long story short, I have now fully transitioned into a grump old man.
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-mouth fart noises-
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Kaiju-King42 tagged me to give eight facts about Sam. I'm not gonna tag anyone else, but here we go anyway.
Fact #1 : I honest don't remember a thing about Sam's conception. For all I know, she might have been made for the UCA. I don't thiiiiiiink she was, but I also don't know for sure, so fuck me, right? Sorry, Sammy-baby. I'll treat you better from now on.
Fact #2 : What I can tell you is that Sam was originally a much less important character, a notable side character at best. She's since grown increasingly prominent to the point where she can safely be considered the co-lead with Alex. In fact, she remains important in Titan World longer than Alex does! Of course, that's because Alex retires with a wife and son while Sam remains alone for the rest of her career afterwards. So, uh... wins some, lose some, Sam.
Fact #3 : Sam was born in tiny Vermont, Illinois. Maybe having so few peers to play with is why she's a loner, I dunno.
Fact #4 : Sam's middle name is Athina, an alternate spelling of Athena, the Greek goddess of defensive war. This was 100% her military father Harold's idea and had to be bargained for. He forfeited giving her a majority female name. Her middle school teacher mother Ava named her after one of her older brother.
Fact #5 : Sam's father was killed in a car crash when she was sixteen. After receiving the news, she refused to speak or leave home for three days, as well as hung up her fencing sword. Though she had fenced for nine years, won a handful of state titles, and placed in two national competitions, it had always been Harold who encouraged her and she could not bring herself to keep participating in the sport after his untimely death.
Fact #6 : Sam's most embarrassing secret is that she has a rather gaudy lightning bolt tattoo on her left thigh. She got it the day she turned eighteen in rebellion against her mother, who had always been overprotective and controlling, but Ava refused to pay it any attention, so she has only regretted it ever since.
Fact #7 : Sam was wed to firefighter Ryan Savage for nearly four years before they divorced amiably. The two had realized they married on a feeling that was not love within their first year together, but refused to admit it out of pride. This left Sam with a quiet fear of commitment that is partially to blame for the inability of her and Alex Shepherd to maintain a relationship despite caring deeply for each other. Ryan was later killed by an Aberration.
Fact #8 : Uh... Sam is the same height as me. That's sort of neat, right?
Fact #1 : I honest don't remember a thing about Sam's conception. For all I know, she might have been made for the UCA. I don't thiiiiiiink she was, but I also don't know for sure, so fuck me, right? Sorry, Sammy-baby. I'll treat you better from now on.
Fact #2 : What I can tell you is that Sam was originally a much less important character, a notable side character at best. She's since grown increasingly prominent to the point where she can safely be considered the co-lead with Alex. In fact, she remains important in Titan World longer than Alex does! Of course, that's because Alex retires with a wife and son while Sam remains alone for the rest of her career afterwards. So, uh... wins some, lose some, Sam.
Fact #3 : Sam was born in tiny Vermont, Illinois. Maybe having so few peers to play with is why she's a loner, I dunno.
Fact #4 : Sam's middle name is Athina, an alternate spelling of Athena, the Greek goddess of defensive war. This was 100% her military father Harold's idea and had to be bargained for. He forfeited giving her a majority female name. Her middle school teacher mother Ava named her after one of her older brother.
Fact #5 : Sam's father was killed in a car crash when she was sixteen. After receiving the news, she refused to speak or leave home for three days, as well as hung up her fencing sword. Though she had fenced for nine years, won a handful of state titles, and placed in two national competitions, it had always been Harold who encouraged her and she could not bring herself to keep participating in the sport after his untimely death.
Fact #6 : Sam's most embarrassing secret is that she has a rather gaudy lightning bolt tattoo on her left thigh. She got it the day she turned eighteen in rebellion against her mother, who had always been overprotective and controlling, but Ava refused to pay it any attention, so she has only regretted it ever since.
Fact #7 : Sam was wed to firefighter Ryan Savage for nearly four years before they divorced amiably. The two had realized they married on a feeling that was not love within their first year together, but refused to admit it out of pride. This left Sam with a quiet fear of commitment that is partially to blame for the inability of her and Alex Shepherd to maintain a relationship despite caring deeply for each other. Ryan was later killed by an Aberration.
Fact #8 : Uh... Sam is the same height as me. That's sort of neat, right?
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In my beginning is my ending...
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Okay, so I dun usually make journeys willy-nilly about purely personal life stuff like this, but oh man. I just finished the last book in the Cressida Cowell's How to Train Your Dragon series and I'm so full of feelings right now that I can hardly stand it. I just... I just love these books so much and to have it end... I dunno how to feel. Happy? Sad? Both?
I just dunno!
The Silverwing books by Kenneth Oppel are still my favorites, but the HtTYD books are a truly standout second. They're kids books, very fast reads, but I dun think it matters. They're amazing anyways. Don't get me wrong, I love the movies too (the first is among my favorite films of all time), but I'm sort of... actually mad they overshadow the books so much? I feel like a lot of people don't even know about the books, and that's a tragedy. The movies are great, but the books are better by a mile. They're just so creative and fun and wild and optimistic even if they aren't afraid to say that there are bad people and bad things in the world. They're optimistic DESPITE that. In defiance of all that nasty stuff, laughing in its face and vowing to be better.
I just really, really love them, okay?
... also, the game Undertale is phenomenal too. Go check it out if you've never heard of it. Been heels-over-head in love with it since I discovered it... a month ago?
I think between those two, I've reached my physical limit of adoration and this journal is the result of the overflow.
I just dunno!
The Silverwing books by Kenneth Oppel are still my favorites, but the HtTYD books are a truly standout second. They're kids books, very fast reads, but I dun think it matters. They're amazing anyways. Don't get me wrong, I love the movies too (the first is among my favorite films of all time), but I'm sort of... actually mad they overshadow the books so much? I feel like a lot of people don't even know about the books, and that's a tragedy. The movies are great, but the books are better by a mile. They're just so creative and fun and wild and optimistic even if they aren't afraid to say that there are bad people and bad things in the world. They're optimistic DESPITE that. In defiance of all that nasty stuff, laughing in its face and vowing to be better.
I just really, really love them, okay?
... also, the game Undertale is phenomenal too. Go check it out if you've never heard of it. Been heels-over-head in love with it since I discovered it... a month ago?
I think between those two, I've reached my physical limit of adoration and this journal is the result of the overflow.
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Titan World : Book One Leitmotifs
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This didn't deserve its own deviation since TW is suppose to be a text-based world, but I was bored and love me some character themes, so...
Angore: Quiet, but intense, percussion overlaid with blaring horns
Angore: Quiet, but intense, percussion overlaid with blaring horns
Quetzar : Slow strings and vocalizations punctuated by church bells
Kedos Croder : Powerful brass mingled with deep, ominous vocalizations
Grinnin : Subtle string work underlain with tribal-sounding percussion
Drakia : Fast-paced percussion and strings with notable oriental styling
Vanyris : Shrill, piercing strings and whiny brass in up-and-down melody
The Sub-Titan : Soft strings heavily segmented by sudden, pounding percussion
Plume : Loud, heroic horns that would not sound out of place in a 70's sports movie
Fainis : Thumping, dominant vocalizations and string work
Strider : Guitar riffs mixed with frantic strings
I'm imagining lots of cool things with these such as a theme interrupting or overpowering the current music when a new monster enters a fray or two pieces of music mixing together when monsters team up. Kedos and Quetzar in particular would benefit from that last one, I think, heheheh. And Strider would be a good candidate for the former, the big ol' jerk.
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