Gamera is really neat

The Cones of Dunshire is anything but “punishingly intricate.” It’s maybe a 2.6 out of 5.

I’ll take that bet.

Good quote. But this was incorrect when Shane Black wrote it, and it’s wrong now.

Humanity was a mistake.

Like when you tell people to “go slow” and they ‘correct’ you with “you mean slowLY.”

I tend to miss jokes that aren’t funny. :D

As the kids say, it’s complicated.

Fake Mandarin in Iron Man 3; real Mandarin in Shang-Chi.

It’s not that they don’t surf, it’s that they can’t surf. The salt water goes in their hoo-ha and they die.

Never would have thought something could make me respect Bill Maher less and simultaneously gain some respect for Steve-O, but here we are.

With you on all counts, but, uh...

“Readable,” that’s it. High praise. :)

To each their own, of course. Wildly creative, sure. Fascinating, even. In the context of the larger Duniverse, fine. Great? Can’t quite go there. For me it’s where all Herbert’s worst psilocybin inspirations start piling up.

And Chapterhouse is a total mess, full stop.

Every Godzilla movie since the first has tried to put the emphasis on the human characters, with the problem that most are simply not very interesting. Minus One pulled off deeply relatable and sympathetic human characters and a lot of smashy smash.

God Emperor is not a ‘great’ book, tho. It’s... something, but it’s not great.

But what did Steven Spielbergo think?

Pull Minus One from this equation. It stands apart as a ‘whole other thing.’

Every single review said it was too dark and there weren’t enough monsters smashing each other.

Seems odd you mention 2014's Godzilla, 2017's Skull Island, and 2021's Godzilla vs Kong, but not 2019's Godzilla: King of the Monsters. I expect that film really informa a lot of subtle storytelling and nuanced character development.