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Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2014 3:11 pm**

Without watching that trailer, I read something yesterday that seemed to imply Godzilla wasn't the bad guy...

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2014 3:14 pm**

That would be interesting. There were some things in that trailer that did not look Godzilla-ish. Thanks for spoilering that for me.

Wink.

ANyway, I am going to go on a blackout as of now. Tired of getting movies spoilered up and down in trailers.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2014 3:24 pm**

Leisher wrote:Without watching that trailer, I read something yesterday that seemed to imply Godzilla wasn't the bad guy...

I've never felt like he was the bad guy anymore than a hurricane is a bad guy. Godzilla is just a force of nature and the cities happen to be in it's path.

Posted: **Thu May 01, 2014 1:06 pm**

New international trailer that shows a lot more of the monsters. Apparently, they're going with the "Monsters are going to kill us all. Cue Godzilla." plot lines that became the standard for Japanese Godzilla films.

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I already have tickets. Gordo, should we meet up for this one? UPDATE: Nevermind. The Sound of Music is playing that weekend (my daughter is Gretl), and I want to take her. We'll probably see it on a weeknight after that weekend.

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Posted: **Thu May 01, 2014 1:09 pm**

Avoiding all trailers from here on out.

When does it open?

Posted: **Thu May 01, 2014 1:12 pm**

Opens 5/16.

I'll probably go on 5/20 now. (See my edit above)

One of the twins wants to go too, and while she will eventually be the one that will do all this nerd stuff with me, I think she's still a touch too young.

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Posted: **Thu May 01, 2014 1:17 pm**

I believe there is a plan to finish up a PA project that week, so I will prolly be seeing it the weekend after it opens, with my kid.

Posted: **Thu May 01, 2014 2:00 pm**

Well, if we get delayed until then, we'll arrange something.

Posted: **Thu May 01, 2014 3:39 pm**

I would be open to arranging something next weekend.... I think. My social secretary keeps the master schedule of my engagements. I will run it past her.

edit - But my kid is going, so it can't be a midnight viewing or anythign

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Posted: **Thu May 01, 2014 3:40 pm**

edit - But my kid is going, so it can't be a midnight viewing or anythign

Stop using him as a smokescreen for your Morty Seinfeld tendencies.

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Posted: **Thu May 01, 2014 3:42 pm**

I can catch the rated-R stuff at midnight when kidless. But he is a huge sci-fi geek like me, due to good parenting, so he wants to see this one.

Posted: **Thu May 01, 2014 4:01 pm**

GORDON wrote:But he is a huge sci-fi geek like me ...

That kind of explains why he didn't like Firefly.

Posted: **Thu May 01, 2014 4:17 pm**

Firefly is a bit too cerebral for a 6yo, which is the last time we tried watching it. Half the show is Joss Whedon showing off how clever he is with dialogue. At 6 he much preferred Star Wars Ep:1 because of simple characters and shiny lights and acting on par with the stuff he already enjoyed on Playhouse Disney. Kids are dumb, but he's coming along.

Posted: **Thu May 01, 2014 4:25 pm**

Half the show is Joss Whedon showing off how clever he is with dialogue.

I'm betting his brain gets tired after writing about three lines. Must be a short show.

Posted: **Thu May 01, 2014 4:27 pm**

My kid is going as well.

Posted: **Thu May 01, 2014 4:35 pm**

I assume the baby mommas are also going.

Posted: **Fri May 16, 2014 3:46 pm**

I am here to see this. All shall see this post and despair.

Posted: **Fri May 16, 2014 3:52 pm**

Didn't you just complain to me this morning wondering if I was going to wait until next weekend?

Racist.

Posted: **Fri May 16, 2014 3:53 pm**

Your perfidy is what caused me to be here now.

Posted: **Fri May 16, 2014 8:28 pm**

1. I watched the old godzilla movies as a young boy... 30+ years ago. Point being, I probably never appreciated them as any thing more than monster movies. In later years I learned that they, among other things, represented Japan's psychic trauma with having been nuked. Fine, I get that.

2. I recognize the Mathew Broderick was not a Godzilla movie, it was a giant lizard movie.

3. This movie reminded me A LOT of the old movies, and even had a central message about using nukes to solve problems. Don't much care about the nuke message, but I really enjoyed it. It felt very much like Godzilla, very nearly, but not quite approaching a level of cheesiness. That is good.

Go see it, then I'll see you in the spoiler thread.