Godzilla and Mecha Godzilla Duke It Out Again in Tokyo

Lori Lancaster | August 14, 2006
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Amy Austin | August 15, 2006
Heheh... happy anniversary, Lori. ;-)

Lori Lancaster | August 15, 2006
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Scott Hardie | August 16, 2006
What Amy said.

It occurred to me today: If the Godzilla movies were successful because they played off of Japanese fears after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, what films today (if any) touch a nerve because they play off of American fears after 9/11 in the same way? The closest I can think of is Hostel and that one's a stretch.

We got to talking at lunch today about the silly uproar over seemingly 9/11-named material five years ago, like the religious leader who denounced New Line Cinema for planning to call the second LOTR film "The Two Towers" in an "obvious" reference to 9/11. In this person's worldview, what kind of nutcase studio executive would ever dream of using such an offensive title? It's like the people who denounced then-20-year-old metal band Anthrax for naming themselves after the chemical during the national scare. The bad issued a joke press release saying they were renaming themselves Basket of Puppies.