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Godzilla Movie Thematic Taxonomy

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Deathiversary is coming up, a household tradition where over the course of 8 days we watch every Godzilla movie as a way of celebrating the fact that I've survived yet another year. I have ambitious plans this year and I've been putting in a lot of effort to make sure everything will be ready, but while I was taking a break, still with Godzilla firmly entrenched in my brain, I found myself playing around with those little tier maker things. You know, this one here:      The original Godzilla  lost its place as automatic first back in 2013 when a national vote figured out what we already knew but had been keeping a secret for a long time, that the actual greatest work of the human species is Godzilla vs. Biollante . Subsequent votes after the release of Shin Godzilla , which, it should be noted, was very new, and opened up an enormous new audience and "resurgence" of interest in the series, found that one to be #1 with Biollante  something like 3rd place was pret...

Kong: King of Bytopia

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Godzilla vs. Kong  was pretty darn fun. It's a great King Kong movie, and it feels like a pretty fair facsimile of a Godzilla movie as made by Hollywood. Really, if they just changed that god awful SKREEEEEEEEE roar to Godzilla's roar I'd not really have anything to whine about, and the success of all the other elements just makes that one detail stick out like a sore thumb, because aside from that it gets pretty close to feeling like Godzilla, closer even than the Hanna-Barbera cartoon. Of course it's still bonkers and makes some just plain baffling choices, but having weird non-sensical stuff isn't really a turn off for me. Full disclosure, I saw it high, so when it starts off with Kong's alarm clock waking him up and him going through his morning routine to his favorite jams like some fucking 80's teen comedy I literally couldn't stop laughing and THEN it's the god damned TRUMAN SHOW. And that's how the movie STARTS. So yeah it's insane, b...