I don’t know what to say about Son of Godzilla. Maybe the fact that I was doing work stuff that night distracted me too much, but I couldn’t get into it. I didn’t feel anything toward the humans, and started wishing one of the giant praying mantises would eat them so they’d go away. The scenes with Minilla (the aforementioned “Son”) were cute, as was Minilla himself. But those little scenes of Godzilla playing daddy were more suited to a short-form YouTube video than a full-fledged movie.
“Cute” is the main thing it has going for it. The producers must have agreed, and they spared us the emo tension of Teenage Son of Godzilla. “You don’t understand me! You don’t remember what it’s like to be my age! Can I borrow the car?”
I’m not a Toho fanboy, so I don’t know how this film is accepted in terms of canonicity and all that. All I can say is that I’m happy the DVR is on the fritz and I missed about 20 minutes of the film. I think that 20 minutes was just about the humans anyway. Seriously, who watches giant monster movies for the humans? Maybe it would have been better as an MST3k episode, but after their experience with Volume 10 of the DVD box sets, I’m sure the gang is steering clear of Toho properties for their new shows.
Speaking of the DVR, it looks like the latest release of the software for our DirecTV DVR has all sorts of bugs: crashes, scrambled pictures, issues with HDMI, screensavers that wont turn off — how did this pass QA, and when is it going to be fixed? And, why do I pay $80/month for this? Actually, if I could get more TV legally in HD on the Internet, I’d probably just ditch the dish altogether.
