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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Human civilization lived and thrived long before Hollywood. Hollywood as one of the strongest centers of pop culture is less than 100 years old.
Civilization will be fine after Hollywood goes under from lack of interest in what they are selling.
As much as I love SF and fantasy, I have no interest in preachy, derivative, poorly written remakes.
G-g-g-good bye. Godzilla. Not gonna watch ya.
Godzilla is more real than Climate Change.
I guess now we know where the missing heat went in the ocean: into Godzilla’s bedroom.
“Frank K. says:
May 14, 2014 at 1:25 pm
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Most of all, for all of us U.S. citizens, remember in November. The left-wing, eco-progressives are literally destroying our country, and together we can stop them…”
Frank, unless you have access to the “code” in the touchscreen voting booths, you won’t change anything by voting in November. Just look at the exit polls versus the vote count over the last few presidential elections, and tell me that the machines “count actual votes.” The only way we could impact the government by voting is if this country would insist on paper ballots and fully monitored vote counting.
But instead of doing that, they will demand that they can use there tablets and smart phones to vote instead of going to their precinct so it doesn’t have to interfere with their texting. You know, just browse to “votingbooth.gov,” log in with your pin number, and open the ballot for your precinct and touch away as you cut back and forth between voting and texting to your bud or whoever, and fit both in around having sex, getting a tattoo, or yet another body part being pierced.
Yes, this is somewhat off this very important topic of discussion, but I feel compelled to say that one of the very few crucial global entities not effected by CAGW is the Detroit Tigers. Currently at 24-12, 5.5 games in front on May 15 – the cold, wet weather caused as a result of CAGW in April and early May has not affected them in the least; and, with enlightened people like Mann, Gore, and others bravely forecasting increasing higher temps in the coming months as a result of CAGW, I foresee no ill effects for the Bengals for the rest of the regular season, despite the global warming to come. I would greatly prefer that, come the World Series, they play a National League team from America’s heartland – Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, perhaps – or some such, given that by late October entire coastal states like California and Florida will be under water – it will still not be late enough in the year for all that water to freeze, and the possibility of artificial turf placed over the ice mounds that will from over parks like the Dodger’s or Giant’s in the winter months as the flooding casued by CAGW subsequently freezes over. I want NO climate distractions on the Tiger’s rightful, divinely ordered path to the World Series championship.
And yeah – rest of the world – the World Series is only open to teams from ‘Murica, with one token hoser team in Toronto to make it worldwide– you’d never understand unless you were a true Murican.
[The baseball is colder, and thus hit further in Detroit. Mod]
What I find ludicrous is the idea that a single A-10 couldn’t chew a giant lizard into dogwood.
What I find ludicrous is the idea that a single A-10 couldn’t chew a giant lizard into dog food.
“God”zilla forsooth. That name is nothing but a Western transliteration of the Japanese .
For some reason, the name “Gojira” disappeared from the above.
Okay, this is a little pointless. I’m a skeptic, but this is stupid. Its a fictitious movie about a giant god-lizard. I dont even think it would classify as science-fiction. Go see it have a good time. If you like me think AGW is a fantasy you should have no problems with it being used in a fantasy movie with giant monsters who breath fire and wreak havock. Again fake movie. Fake world. Fake problems. So I see no reason why you should not see it or worse stop your kids from seeing it.
For those thinking that this is all just harmless sci-fi fun, think again. This is about propagating a powerful myth, that of CAGW/CC/?? which is being peddled as “science” by powerful forces. The sci-fi thrills are merely the conveyance.
Director doesn’t talk about climate change, but a lot about evil radioactivity.
Given the deaths per TWh, it’s time there were a whole string of blockbuster movies against hydropower.
http://www.world-nuclear.org/uploadedImages/org/info/DeathsperTWh.png
found on
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Safety-and-Security/Safety-of-Plants/Safety-of-Nuclear-Power-Reactors/
Godzilla! Is that Michael Mann’s Love Child?
Mac the Knife says:
May 14, 2014 at 11:54 pm
A few years back, I participated in a bicycling weekend, exploring the wineries around Prosser and Zillah Washington dot dot dot
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The Times they are a changing!
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20000610&slug=4025861
with some pics here
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/3227
Why does this remind me of the thoughts of Dougas Adams?
Resplendent in their black-jeweled battle shorts, they were meeting for the last time, and a dreadful silence filled the air as the Vl’hurg leader was challenging the G’Gugvuntt leader to retract the insult. At the precise moment, the phrase “I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle” (muttered by Arthur Dent to himself, which for some strange reason was carried by a freak wormhole in space back in time to the farthest regions of the universe where the G’Gugvuntts and the Vl’hurgs lived) filled the air over the conference table, which in the Vl’hurg tongue was the most dreadful insult imaginable. It left them no choice but to declare war on the G’Gugvuntts, which went on for a few thousand years and decimated their entire galaxy.
After millennia of battle the surviving G’Gugvuntt and Vl’hurg realised what had actually happened, and joined forces to attack the Milky Way in retaliation. They crossed vast reaches of space in a journey lasting thousands of years before reaching their target where they attacked the first planet they encountered, Earth. Due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was swallowed by a small dog. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy states that this sort of thing happens all the time.
In the same way this director is having difficulty with his lifestyle, sets up an an attack, but the size of the global warming problem is so small it is eaten by a little dog.
Anthony, despite the headline, the interviewee clearly indicates the movie’s enviro concern is recent events in Japan, i.e. Fukushima. He does not say it is about climate, and politely distinguishes his movie of climate change.
Unless that stupid message is directly discussed in the film, like Avaturd and it’s hideously preachy heavyhandedness, I’ll just let the director have his little fantasy about what he made while I sit there and watch cgi monsters fight and break things.
WWS, interesting theory. I understand a lot of Americans fell for the
“Our boys cannot beat them, they are best jungle fighters in the
world, they have a decade of combat experience, etc.” They were
so convinced of their superiority, they lied to their people about
Midway, which turned the tide of the war.
It was not the first time the Jar-heads slapped some sense into a
belligerent nation. At some point, I would love to see the original
Japanese version so long as it has English subtitles. It would probably
be far closer to your theory than any remake.
Maybe not so stupid of the director. He’s banking on the stupidity of his audience and he has some ready made research in that The Inconvenient Truth was a moneymaker and got both an oscar and one of those Crackerjack^TM Nobel Prizes.
It appears the Japanese now think we are all watermelon lefties instead of horse-riding, cow-punching, gun-slinging westerners. I should go visit Japan one of these days, wearing my gun-powder stained suede leather skirt and old paisly shirt, complete with dirty old sh*t kickers and a stomped on black cowboy hat, and pluck off a few apple blossoms at 300 yards with my .22 long. Better yet, put that smarmy Japanese guy under yonder tree 300 yards that-a-way, with a cherry on his head. I’ll make him change his mind about climate fricken change.
[The mods will hold that image quite dearly … 8<) Mod]
Oddly enough, the movie itself seems to be pushing the opposite message, i.e. we cannot control nature and should leave it alone.
Like a Cat6 hurricane, shorely? They’re all the rage these days.
This [article] has more bullshit in it t[than] [global] warming [itself]