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Pop Culture Cherry: Destroy All Monsters

Okay, so I’ve been working through all the Godzilla movies, slowly but surely. Tonight was 1968′s Destroy All Monsters (怪獣総進撃). Not entirely sure what to make of it, other than that it was better than Son of Godzilla.

HOWEVER... it strikes me as odd that the alien villains first say they mean no harm (to which humans inevitably go "SCREW YOU!" and run at them and shoot them like madmen, purely to show off the fact that the aliens have forcefields), but of course then they're going through this whole plan of destroying sites all over the globe with the help of the kaiju, only to distract everybody from the fact that they set up a base in Japan.

Now, is this a metaphor for American occupation, or what?

And it also strikes me as odd that when like 10 of the monsters come around to destroy the alien base, they bring in King Ghidorah and boast that they are no match for him. Even though we've already had a movie where he's beaten down with, what, 3 monsters? And of course they proceed to mercilessly pound him as if he was nothing.

Egh. Not sure what's up next on my Godzilla roster but I feel so far away from my goal (the new movie that I still haven't seen).