Call Superman.
Kill both franchises once and for all.
Cannot we look at the possibility of saving the life of this poor creature? Godzilla is the last of it’s kind and should be preserved for future generations to see and enjoy. Perhaps we could use sleep-inducing darts and then transport the animal to a safely constructed preserve where it could live out its life without being victimized by our warmongering society. Think of the tourist business such a zoo could do! Furthermore, our scientific knowledge would certainly be more enhanced by a living Godzilla than by a slaughtered one. He make look a monster, but is not Godzilla also a sentient being deserving of our compassion? Could not this poor misunderstood lizard become a symbol to help us overcome our prejudices toward so-called “monsters”? Is not the real monster within us in our desire to kill an animal whose actions are but a by-product of our inability to co- exist with creatures so different than ourselves?
Look, if we put him in a nature preserve and build a wall around it, that might work for the short term, but then people would probably start worshipping him, and performing Og-knows-what kind of rituals to appease him, and policy rationality would go out the window, and then where would we be?
Far better to move him to Titan.
For Japanese problems, I give you Japanese solutions.
I prefer the Venkman Gambit: “We’ve been going about this all wrong. This Godzilla’s okay! He’s a sailor, he’s in New York; we get this guy laid, we won’t have any trouble!”
Well, then we have to find a really out of the way place to put him. Like maybe an island off Costa Rica. Sorna or Nublar would be good ones.
An island? For a creature that came out of the ocean? I don’t think so.
We need a high plateau with cliffs on all sides, the kind of place you’d need an airship to get to.
You don’t think the computer controlled electrified fences would hold reptiloid monsters? Don’t see why they wouldn’t…
Nah… we’d get lost there…
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Curse you!! The flash backs had just faded! Months of therapy wasted!
Analog
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Reactor
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EMP
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Controlled by a UNIX System. Anyone might know that and be able to release the beast… even a kid!
I’ve long thought that in the Godzilla movies, Godzilla represents the United States military. He’s huge, strong, and strange, and he even spews out radioactivity as a last resort.
Just like the United States, Godzilla comes out of the Pacific Ocean and destroys Tokyo…and it’s Our Fault for disturbing what we should not have disturbed ( a dual symbolism of “Pearl Harbor awakening a sleeping giant” and “Mankind letting the nuclear genie out of the bottle”). At first he seems an invincible, malevolent monster. But in the following movies, a child (the new generation of Japanese) strikes up a friendship of sorts, and Godzilla now serves as Japan’s protector against new monsters (the US as a bulwark against communist China and the Soviet Union).
That… makes a surprising amount of sense.
Not bad. There’s the core of a film school thesis in there.
Does that mean Cloverfield represents the chaotic terrorist tragity of 9/11?
There was a lot of shaky-cam on 9/11.
Was that when the terrorists flew planes into our spellcheckers?
Oopsy.
Yas, wes e hurrible trajety ahl urond.
Look, this is a unique life form and NONE of us has the right to arbitrarily wipe it out…
Godzilla is protected by the finestPlot Armor. He can only die if the writer allows it. And if the writer allows it, he could die from a stray shot from a water pistol.
However, the writer is not invulnerable. That’s Gozilla’s weak point: non-gentle persuasion of the writer responsible for his invulnerability.
The writer is the shield generator on the forest moon. All we need is a strategically-place car crash, an axe, a blizzard, and a tribe of Ewoks and Godzilla’s a dead dead lizard.
There is if you ask nicely enough
Hey that was a misunderstanding, she was totally coming on to me