G-FAN #83

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[MouthForWar]

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I just find it ironic that J.D. wouldn't appreciate the commentary on the times (9/11) in CLOVERFIELD, as that's essentially what the original GODZILLA movie was touching on (i.e., the A-bombs, the Lucky Dragon) during it's day!!!

He went on and on like an old dude, and that's cool if the movie made him sick, but NOTHING was good about the movie to him. NUTHIN! He was like, the reference "to 9/11 was both gratuitous and tasteless".

Like, you TOTALLY missed your chance to evolve/prove yourself, man! You undermined my respect of your understanding of the gist and meaning of the genre with some flippant and ruddy opinions-making. Came across very annoying and kinda dumb.

It suggests to me that J.D. is:
A) Totally set in his ways and somewhat less useful to the changing nature of the fandom and as a pseudo-"figurehead".
B) Just trying to use a ruse via a harsh review to stir up some kind of reaction for his readership, like some kind of appeal to people's passions or some such Hitler stuff.
C) Buying into his perceived status as the western-guru-segue-wayer for all North American fans of Godzilla and just dissing this flick like a drama queen.

tsk tsk tsk...

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^^Yeah, right on guys. I mean, this movie pulled off something fairly special. I wouldn't say it re-wrote the genre or anything like that, but it certainly pulled off an awesome and unexplored angle with the extreme "subjective-perspective" (you WERE there). That and it was able to exploit a universalized connection to the viewer's, and public's-at-large, relevant and contemporary fear/anxiety gleaned from an event that still remains just outside of our ability to really grasp (at least for now).

I feel like the movie won't necessarily become a reference point of social-awareness or allegorical mediation. Not every giant monster movie can pull off a Godzilla '54! The Collective Consciousness has long ago assimilated the "Giant Monster", so it's nothing new... and we fans will probably always tend to compare Clover to Godzy or Kong. But the movie, standing on its own merits with the noise and vertigo and kinda half-baked monster, was SPECIAL!! And I think that if you're looking with the right set of eyes, you'll see that.

Just my knuckle-headed opinion(s)...

***On a side note, I really think that G-Fan would benefit from becoming an on-line magazine/forum. J.D. can make his claims all he wants and the process of debate he seems to relish could have the advantage of becoming fresh and organic and lively and RELEVANT instead of editorialized and very heavy-handedly closed-book 3 months AFTER the fact!

Any thoughts on that, Armand? Wouldn't it be the shift of gears that the camp needs???

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