What's Playing the week of April 20, 2007

Mo was too worn out from a birthday party to go to the IMAX for their new dinosaur movie, so I rented Godzilla to go with one of the new toys he got.

First I had forgotten how bad this Dean Devlin produced movie was starring Matthew Broderick and Jean Reno and how it was at the time of it's release considered too over the top, a total flop and "The end of summer blockbuster movies". Second I forgot how many people died. Not that it mattered. After two hours of watching Discovery channel Mo was ready for some killing other than cute and fuzzy bunnies and dehydrated elephants.

I forgot how loud this movie was. I had to constantly battle the controller between dialogue and gun play. It was surreal in a way to see the twin towers standing over the landscape of the city and the total destruction that the monster and the military bring to the city in light of 9/11. I am not one to shy away from the real destruction versus the Hollywood variety but I doubt a movie with that kind of damage to the Big Apple will be on the screen for a while.

Mo enjoyed it for the most part. He got lost in some of the plot holes and the feeding frenzy in Madison Square Garden got a bit much for him, but he knows the difference between whats real and whats fake.