Kaiju Boogie
Tonight, I watched Godzilla 2000 on the local Spanish TV station. Despite my last name, I don’t speak Spanish. Turns out you’re not born knowing it, and I never really got the chance to learn.
It didn’t matter. Godzilla speaks the universal language of butt-kicking, city-stomping action. I’d seen the movie before, of course. Several times. Even if I hadn’t though it would’ve been easy to follow.
That’s something I love about Godzilla flicks. They don’t need complicated plots to be exciting. They just need Monster A to fight Monster B until one of them is defeated. The why is largely unimportant.
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