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Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire (2024)

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What can I say if your into the monster verse & love those old time Toho studio films you'll love "Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire".  But I think even if you're not a fan you'll enjoy this film.  In this film we have a team up, and what a team up it is.  Godzilla and Kong doing their thing.  Here they must defeat the evil ape Scar & his pet who is controlled by Scar, and it's up to Godzilla to help along with Kong. The movie opens up the monster-verse and makes it bigger.  We the audience learn more about hollow earth and its lore, and it's a great jumping off point film for more adventures with our cast of characters.  Is this a film that says something and why does it exists, and all I can say is the film exists for pure entertainment value, and for the kid inside of all of us.  This film is about the monsters, and it is us humans who are caught in the middle of it.  Godzilla is the protector of the earth.  That means he protects it...

The Matrix Resurrections R 2021 ‧ Sci-fi/Action ‧ 2h 28m

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  Okay first of all I have to say I liked Matrix: Resurrections .  Maybe I'm in the minority, but I can really say I enjoyed the film.  Lana Wachowski creates a hip, smart follow up to the Matrix trilogy.  It was inevitable that Warner Bothers was going to do a follow up to the Matrix with or without its creators.  When the studio learned that Ms Wachowski was interested in doing a 4th Matrix the studio didn't blink and so they gave it to her, and why not.  Lana Wachowski was one of its creators and in what better hands to have it in than one of the films franchise original creators.  Lilly Wachowski didn't want to participate and felt she had done that already and was not interested in resurrecting the franchise.  That being said I think Lana Wachowski came up with an interesting premise for the film. I hear in many reviews that the film is "meta" and yes that is a good summing up of the film, but it does a disservice to the film.  The ori...