I was hoping for a Nicholas Cage reference when the name “Kal-Elle” came up. 

The Terminators have apparently discovered K-pop. 

There’s actually a shout-out to DAM on the Criterion calendar site today!

DAM was actually set in 1999, but your point remains valid. It was a great near-future take on the Godzilla mythos. 

That was true back in the 1962 King Kong vs Godzilla as well, but there was still a plot contrivance where Kong was struck by lightning and given special electrical powers to give him an edge against the much more powerful Godzilla.

Yes, there are several promo shots from DAM that show all the monsters in a group shot. Here’s another great one that shows the directors:

The extent to which the original Showa-era kaiju were supposed to have been enlarged/ mutated by radiation exposure is still a matter of debate decades later. In the original “Gojira” , Dr. Yamane theorizes that Godzilla was a prehistoric throwback hybrid of land and marine reptiles that was awakened by the H-bomb. …

As a lifelong Godzilla fan, I find myself wondering how the 2020 Godzilla vs Kong movie is going to top this one. King Kong has the name recognition of course and the original KK vs G from 1962 was the most lucrative of the original Toho films. However, seeing Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra and Ghidorah seems like the high…

I was thinking more Oscar Goldman.

Even Reggie Mantle says,

It was just a theory.  Heh

Great article about a bygone TV era. My father has told me about “Winky Dink” being on when he was a kid, and he was indeed one of those unfortunate tykes who got in trouble for trying to draw directly on the glass TV screen (fortunately he didn’t have access to Sharpie markers back then).

When I was a kid playing Star Wars, all the characters held their weapons the same way...

Here’s a deleted DAM scene with Godzilla smacking Manda around.

Exactly! I suppose that Legendary figures that Kong has more name recognition in the US than Ghidorah, et al. However, anyone who has seen more than a couple Godzilla movies knows that the multi-monster throwdowns like “Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster” and “Destroy All Monsters” are the real crowd-pleasers.  Kong…

I understood that reference

I am and always will be a huge Godzilla fan,  but I have to agree that Kong: SI was more fun than the 2014 Godzilla (which I still enjoyed, of course).  I’m optimistic that Godzilla 2 will give us much more of the good stuff. 

Spoken exactly like someone who gets all their information from the Fox News website.