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Posted: Apr 4, 2021 9:19 AM
Posted By: Mike Bunge
They’ve been making giant monster movies almost as long as they’ve been making movies. Sometimes they’re metaphors for real world terror. Sometimes they’re just guys in rubber suits smashing models. Sometimes they’re legitimately great cinema. Sometimes they just exist to while away a couple of hours. Sometimes they’re an embarrassment to anyone who watches them and anyone who made them. But what ultimately separates one kind from another?
That’s what this edition of KIMT’S Kaiju Throwdown will examine as we pit perhaps the first big crossover in cinema history with its descendent almost 60 years later. It’s “King Kong vs. Godzilla” (1963) vs. “Godzilla vs. Kong” (2021) in a battle between films that walk that fine line between fun and failure. SPOILER ALERT: Only one avoids tripping over its own gigantic feet.
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963).
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It’s east versus west, giant reptile versus mega-mammal, the “Big G” versus the “Eighth Wonder of the World.”
Godzilla vs. Kong a new slugfest from Legendary Pictures is set to be released in theaters and on HBO Max on March 31, 2021. But it won t be the first time these two iconic movie monsters have faced off. They met once before in 1962’s
King Kong vs. Godzilla a crossover battle for the ages that also featured a rampaging octopus and a future Bond Girl. Not to mention the craziest tree-related violence you’ll ever see outside an M. Night Shyamalan flick.
January 28, 2021
Michelle Yeoh and Pierce Brosnan in Tomorrow Never Dies.
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Following the announcement that No Time To Die has been delayed for a third time, fans in Asia can always satisfy themselves with five of James Bond’s best Asian adventures.
You Only Live Twice (1967)
After faking his own death in Hong Kong and receiving a naval burial in Victoria Harbour, Bond heads to Japan in search of a pair of missing American and Soviet spacecraft.
Adapted from Ian Fleming’s novel by the author’s friend and first-time screenwriter Roald Dahl, You Only Live Twice was intended as Sean Connery’s fifth and final outing as the gentleman spy. The film sees Bond collaborate with the Japanese secret service and brings him face to face with arch-nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld (here played by Donald Pleasence) for the first time.