Shin Godzilla/Godzilla Resurgence (Anno Hideaki, Higuchi Shinji)

[Sycophant]

IMDB

[number8]

This is absolutely terrific. Shot up to one of my favorite G-man movies. The idea of making a Godzilla movie as a through-and-through political satire is hilarious. This is morbid, but when the Fukushima disaster happened, I remember thinking, "I bet Toho's gonna make a Godzilla reboot in a couple of years." It's just such an obvious angle. This movie plays like a mix of The Thick of It, Max Brooks, and the 9/11 Commission Report. I love the visual gag with the unnecessarily detailed locations and Yaguchi's ever growing title cabinet title. I was grinning the whole time.

I made the joke that if you ask someone like Hillary Clinton to write a monster movie, this would be the result.

[Peng]

Long suspected that this borderline overwhelming and dizzying-speed combo of bureaucratic satire (with its flying-by title cards of government positions and locations) and monster movie (one crisis after another, both when Godzilla wreaks havoc and when it disappears/doesn't move) will only gain in rewatches if nothing more than for knowing the shape that contains it makes that combo even more exhilarating, and indeed it does to as score upgrade from 7.5. But in between these two watches I've also finished all of NGE, so the way Godzilla basically functions as an Angel and the government as Nerv stand-in (with real-world comedic satire thrown in), complete with several hair-raising uses of Decisive Battle score, just kicks the film up another notch. 8/10