I had thought to myself a couple of days ago that something like this might happen, but then I dismissed it as too #^&^#*@! stupid for anyone to even attempt.
Boy, was I wrong. I should have listened to the lessons learned from Sharknado!
Get a load of this, you won’t believe it. My brain still hurts.
Interview with the director:
Your version of Godzilla seems to be more rooted in current events, and centers on mankind’s tenuous relationship with nature, and the environment.
Yeah. Man vs. Nature is the predominant theme of the film, and I always tried to go back to that imagery. At the beginning when they find the fossils, it was important to me that they didn’t just find them—it was caused by our abuse of the planet. We deserved it, in a way. So there’s this rainforest with a big scar in the landscape with this quarry, slave labor, and a Western company. You have to ask yourself, “What does Godzilla represent?” The thing we kept coming up with is that he’s a force of nature, and if nature had a mascot, it would be Godzilla. So what do the other creatures represent? They represent man’s abuse of nature, and the idea is that Godzilla is coming to restore balance to something mankind has disrupted.
Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/14/director-gareth-evans-says-godzilla-is-a-god-protecting-mankind-against-climate-change.html
Yeah, natural balance, like stomping cities to pieces much like a Cat5 hurricane.
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That’s San Francisco he’s wrecking, with the Trans-America pyramid prominently in the foreground. And the top picture looks like he’s about to bite the Bay Bridge. SF might be the most eco-loving, left wing city in the US, maybe except for Berkeley. It’s like the army of the Inquisition attacking Vatican City.
The consensus of 98% of climate scientists and one peer reviewed Godzilla can’t be wrong!
A timely reminder that it’s important to push back. Not because the intent is to change peoples minds but as a warning to others that they are not guaranteed a free pass when they promote irrationalism.
“Why do so many of the celebrity climate alarmist have Godzilla-sized carbon footprints?”
Now there’s a question the interviewer should have asked the director; and anyone else in the movie industry on the CAGW bandwagon.
I think the original English version with Raymond Burr also had an environmental angle, in
that the monster was the product of nuclear testing. The trouble with these more modern
future distopias is that none of them pass the scientific smell test. I was thinking of seeing
this movie, mainly to see crowds of Japanese running through the streets looking over their
shoulders in abject terror. Did it never dawn on anyone to take a turn down a side street?
And was this before Perry Mason got his law degree?
There was a recent Internet hoax about a monstrous squid that washed up in Santa Monica.
The story included a phony scientist who explained that it was a product of “Radioactive
Gigantism.” I had to ask myself one question about this concept. Where were all the 10
foot tall NBA players from Nagasaki and Hiroshima after the war? So, even the original
Godzilla was based on a shaky scientific premise.
The trouble is with the more radical concepts like global warming causing the Earth to
be flooded above Mt. Everest in Waterworld, or Silent Running starring Bruce Dern.
We are not crapping in our lunch boxes! If we were, advances in medical sciences
alone could not explain the fact that lifespans are getting longer, not shorter. As much
as I wanted to bang that Hippy chick Melanie back in the 60’s, we were not putting our
trees in a tree museum and we did not pave paradise and put up a parking lot.
(Silent Running)
If I refused to watch a movie written, produced or starring liberal Dingbats, I would never
see another movie in my life. I do however try to avoid the socially preachy or the
scientifically illiterate. This is the difference between 2001 and 2010, as opposed to
The Core, which was so bad that a Canadian science professor used it as an example
of truly bad Sci-Fi.
Over the weekend my wife (bless her) brought home a video called Blood Glacier, in which a bunch of scientists researching climate change in the mountains find a red glacier inside which horrors lurk. I won’t spoil the ending for anyone because I didn’t watch it beyond the first five minutes!
Could it be the movie is just poking fun at the alarmists. Climate change causes everything, droughts, floods, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria, Godzilla.
Great thread. I’m usually not that much into bathroom humor, but me likey the Godzilla poo posts.
USA College football (American football that is – the rest of the world is wrong) fans all know that Les Miles – former UM player, former Okie State U and current LSU coach – is the real Godzilla
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a0o9LBCd7Q?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360%5D
“We deserve it.” “Western companies and slave labor.” What boorish tripe.
Was going to see this flick to unwind, but these people wont be getting my money.
may it enjoy a similar fate:
Nielsen Media Research: Monday’s Cable Ratings & Broadcast Finals
Years of Living Dangerously (8:00)* – Showtime
0.134 million viewers, #47; 0.057 million adults 18-49 (0.04 rating), #47 http://www.thefutoncritic.com/ratings/2014/05/13/mondays-cable-ratings-and-broadcast-finals-voice-dancing-continue-their-reign-61511/cable_20140512/
good, clean money:
14 May: CNBC: Lawrence Delevingne: Ex Goldman risk chief: Stanford coal cut a ‘tipping point’
Litterman’s warning on risks to energy companies from impending taxes was recently raised by another prominent hedge fund manager, Chris Hohn of The Children’s Investment Fund Management.
“If you believe over time a carbon tax is coming—which I do—and if you believe in climate change, 80 percent of the reserves of energy companies can never be extracted. All these oil and gas companies and the coal companies will have stranded reserves, basically,” Hohn recently said in an Institutional Investor cover story on investing and climate change.
Hohn has joined forces with hedge funders Jeremy Grantham of $117 billion GMO and Steve Mandel of $27 billion Lone Pine Capital in backing a new Showtime series on global warming, “Years of Living Dangerously.”
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101669392
bad, dirty money:
13 May: Bradblog: Brad Friedman: BRAD BLOG’s Christie/Koch Bros. Scoop Picked Up For Showtime’s ‘Years of Living Dangerously’
VIDEO: WATCH: ‘Governor Christie and the Kochtopus’…
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10622
He’s only a model. 🙂
Forgive me if someone else has already pointed this out, but as an avid consumer of bad monster movies from the ’50s & ’60s: Godzilla was originally a damned hippie anti-nuke prop. That is all.
So was Pacific Rim “Gods” revenge?
I guess I am not as smart as you as I would never think anyone could be that stupid. That is why I am constantly surprised.
Leviathan is the progressive scientists’ god, no argument.
What’s the next contrived scare campaign –
UFO’s invading to save the planet from
‘Man Made Global Warming’?
… It’s probably already in planning… lol.
These manipulators won’t be happy until we’re all in
a UN-ruled global undemocratic communist/marxist police state,
then the facade of it being about the environment will be dropped like a hot potato.
Beware the wolves pretending to be green if you wish to remain in a somewhat free & somewhat democratic society!
I love monster movies and will watch this one the warm mongers be dam.
Charles Nelson, the movie was probably on the level. The idiots on the left
actually believe it! One day, I saw a trailer on a Blog for a movie called
Run Bitch Run! It was so bad that I had to put it on my Netflix queue.
it made Ben Hur look like Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes. It was truly
the worst movie ever made! I laughed my ass off from beginning to end.
(Warning: Mindless violence, rape scenes, T&A and the worst acting ever!)
Stark JohnsonsomethingGerman, Wrong era! While the original Godzilla
probably was anti-nuclear propaganda, it was produced in the 50’s. The
closest thing we had to Hippies were the Beatniks. Think Maynard G. Krebs
and Dobie Gillis, not Jane Fonda or Abbie Hoffman.
The original Japanese language Godzilla was made a few years earlier. I love
nuclear weapons. I was born in 1956 and had a hard enough time learning
English. I had no desire to learn Japanese. Every year, I celebrate August 6,
and August 9.
We saved millions of lives, and manage to contain the savage impulses of
the most barbaric culture on the planet at the time. Today, we cannot even
call Islamic terrorists terrorists!
The worst movie every made was the Happening
One movie that I really would pay to see is the “Mann Made Global Warming ‘Scary Movie’ Edition”
ie: a full-on send-up of AGW/CAGW using as many of these http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm as possible
C’mon, yall need to lighten up a bit!
You can always turn down the sound (and substitute) on any Godzilla movie and still enjoy it thoroughly.
Not even CAGW can beat the “G”……….. 😉
I wouldn’t even pirate this film
OK, now I’m confused. Is Godzilla fission, fusion or fundamentalism? Just askin’…….
btw BlackRock has plans for public monies:
13 May: CNBC: Lawrence Delevingne: BlackRock says green investing should be public
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager at $4.3 trillion, is urging investors with a social and environmental bent to go public. ..
“Impact investing has historically been very associated with venture capital and private equity. If we’re thinking about the whole investor and they want to address climate change, then why should we ignore public equities, fixed income and alternatives?” asked Robert Morris, a member BlackRock’s strategic product management group, which helps the firm’s clients align their ethical goals with investments.
Morris also encouraged clients to be public with those investments. “It’s important to make this visible, and activism is also critical for it to actually have an effect,” he added while speaking on Tuesday at the New York Society of Security Analysts’ Sustainable Investing conference in New York City…
In fixed income, BlackRock has focused on so-called green bonds, which are issued by companies and international organizations and only back environmentally friendly projects. He called green bonds a “fascinating market” despite its now small size and often low returns.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101668729
Godzilla is a threat to humanity…much the same way that runaway global warming is a threat to humanity. i.e. a large fictional monster that we use to scare our children with.
If anything, from the opening picture above, I would have to say that the thing that was destroying the planet was this overeating colossal lizard! Step away from the hog tough Lizzy!