Welp movies ruined for me now b/c of that spoiler. Guess I have a legitimate excuse to not go see it!

Exactly!

Oh yes there is and it’s magnificent.

YES. ><

Other stuff they boiled into the show definitely included Alien, The Thing (but really the non-licensed music of the show is pure John Carpenter), Poltergeist and A Nightmare On Elm Street. It was a field day for my brain picking out all these little cues, shots and imagery the creators paid homage to.

I mean look at the kids from something like E.T. A kid in the Pacific northwest in the 80s was basically what a modern Brooklyn hipster is today in terms of style.

It borrowed so much, from those movies and many more, that there wasn’t a single thing that I hadn’t predicted or figured would happen either a scene or episode in advance even down to the ending.... And I LOVED it. It was like a concentrated amalgamation of all the scary ass shit I loved growing up, in one sharp,…

Han Solo is my favorite character. A movie about Gungan life as an underwater cotton farmer or whatever racist ass shit Lucas had them doing in that prequel would be better than a Han Solo prequel movie

There’s definitely a cycle in the Godzilla franchise where it starts serious, gets silly and then back to serious. It’s one of the reasons that there’s a dissonance between fans with Godzilla 2014. Some people prefer it when he fights monsters, others prefer him as the stand-alone antagonist. It’s hard to juggle 60…

I was technically thinking of the scene where they initially discover this weakness to bird calls. They use it after Super X (1) fails.

It boggles my mind that Ishiro Honda eventually ended up directing All Monsters Attack/Godzilla’s Revenge toward the end of his Godzilla career.

Maybe he plays “God”

In the Heisei series (1984-1995) - which is basically famous for being the first series that was entirely serialized, but where they would totally and conveniently forget about or retcon Godzilla’s weaknesses between each film they successfully stopped a Godzilla attack by luring him away with birds.

What leaves me most nervous about this is it could easily emulate the lower points of the series - i.e. all the times they tried to make Godzilla a hotbed of political strife. Of which they succeeded fewer times than they’ve tried. There have been a lot of scenes of pointless arguing over Godzilla across the 28…

But.... Gojira (1954) and Return of Godzilla (1984).... Do you even Godzilla? That’s what the series is based on. You basically don’t have the silly movies without the horror movie roots.

Ha. It’s ok. I got what you mean. I was talking more about the people who probably haven’t seen one of the Japanese films in 10 years and try to say it was better based on foggy memories. I didn’t mean to sound snobby.

Yeah. Basically a lot of io9 readers and commenters bring that up a lot and it makes me question exactly how many people have watched even half of the 28 (released) Japanese films let alone every one - because there are definitely some I don’t watch due to them just being bad or boring. Far more boring than even the…

I think therefore I steal

I think that’s really the best you can hope for with Disney. Even the latest Marvel films have felt pretty flat in comparison to the earlier ones, but at the same time are entertaining, easily digestible and definitely sell tickets, so to them there’s no need to make changes to the formula.