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January 20, 2008
JJ Abrams Reflects on the Obvious
Abrams glanced upon something I mused on before walking into the CLOVERFIELD theater.
Stirring up uncomfortable feelings is not entirely without purpose for a monster movie, Abrams notes. It's a standard of the genre. "'Godzilla' came out in 1954 in the shadow of the bomb being dropped in Japan. Culturally, you had people living with this terror they had experienced - but in the guise of something absurd and preposterous. My guess is that it enabled people in Japan to have a catharsis."
Even though I had a few issues with CLOVERFIELD, I will say it ran circles around the hot mess known as 1998's GODZILLA.
Posted by Groonk at January 20, 2008 09:19 PM | Ministry of Movies, Only in Japan, Quotables
