I generally agree with Katie's take on Shin Godzilla, its flabby structurally, but there's a lot of thought into making this film a viable re-interpretation of 3/11 and how stymied Japan is by it's Self Defense protocols.

There's another out next year, an animated film.

I've seen it, and only know basic Japanese from basic business dealings, and yeah, it's really difficult to understand. Still, it's interesting in a lot of ways that film-goers pretend they want blockbusters to be thematically relevant. Anno's military fetishism and the portrayal of the United States gives it a very…