{"id":2811,"date":"2019-05-29T14:28:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T14:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinewipe.com\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2019-05-31T07:11:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T07:11:45","slug":"godzilla-king-of-the-monsters-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinewipe.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/29\/godzilla-king-of-the-monsters-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Godzilla: King of the Monsters review &#8211; A religious experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been four years since I last felt moved in a cinema, and that was because someone told me I was sat in their seat. But upon my most recent visit to the multiplex to see Godzilla: King of the Monsters, I found myself overcome with emotion as the film\u2019s rich themes transported me to Plato\u2019s World of the Forms, through space and time and then to a Homebase car park.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Directed by someone or other, Godzilla: King of the Monsters sees the mammoth lizard awake from a five-year nap to sumo wrestle several other titanic beasts, all of which are easily bigger than your house. The plot also involves a bunch of humans and a box that makes whale noises, but I was far too busy being in awe of Godzilla (Glenn Close) and his glowing back ridges to worry about any of that.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When Godzilla first squeezed onto the IMAX screen that could barely contain his godly girth, I immediately burst into tears. The auditorium glowed an atomic blue and I was temporarily sucked into a vortex where circles became triangles and squares became biscuits.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By the time I came out of the vortex, Millie Bobby Brown had said a few lines and Godzilla was now twatting the three individual heads of a three-headed dragon, which was quite clearly a metaphor for the age-long political disparity between the East and West.<\/p>\n<p>As Godzilla showered the dragon in his atomic breath, time stood still, then rewound, then skipped forward, then I was plucked from my seat and dragged right up into space, out of our solar system, out of our galaxy and out of our dimension. I was surrounded by nothingness, except for a black window directly in front of me that seemingly had white text scrolling through it. I reached out towards it only to suddenly find myself clawing at a bin.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Somehow, I\u2019d been transported from the screening to my local Homebase car park, where a rat and a pigeon were engaging either in battle or epic coitus. As I wiped the blood from my knees and tried to recall how I got there, the only explanation I could muster was that I must have had some sort of profound religious experience watching Godzilla: King of the Monsters.<\/p>\n<p>Two out of five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been four years since I last felt moved in a cinema, and that was because someone told me I was sat in their seat. 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