RadishFlix 2021: Highlights of KW17

And a Happy May the Fourth to those who celebrate it; personally I resent the commercialization…heh.

We have also been spending a lot of time checking in on the volcanos in Iceland about 15 times a day.

Godzilla (1998)

Library DVD, original English
Decent popcorn flick despite cloying romance subplot, but whatever that supple and malevolent velociraptor was (too much of the plot was borrowed from Jurassic Park), it was no Gojira. The original Toho lizard does not hunt down specific humans–he doesn’t even *notice* humans, very much like we don’t notice ants streaming when we’re driving to work. He just stomps around going about his business; if your hospital is in the way of his tail, bad luck for you but it’s nothing personal. Also–and this is very important–he stomps. He does not leap, sprint, or dance.

Sigh.

Godzilla (2014)

Netflix, original English
Now this was my Gojira.

Funny how suspension of disbelief works, isn’t it? I can completely accept that an fire-breathing lizard the size of an aircraft carrier will emerge from the ocean to save the Earth from radiation-eating mutant mosquitos. But I cannot believe that the Golden Gate Bridge, which nearly failed under the weight of pedestrians in the 1980s, was just fine after being loaded up with tanks. Sorry.

Cockpit (2012)

Netflix, Swedish with English subtitles
In the opening scene, a mob of journalists chases a man wearing a dress through the city before finally trapping him on the roof of a parking garage. Heh.

The film was fairly predictable and generally disbelief unsuspensionable, but most of the jokes landed.