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  • movie year countdown #53 - 1954 - Gojira (Godzilla)

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    Gojira  (1956)

    This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown”.  To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entry.

    Gojira (Godzilla)

    I couldn't find this as profound or exciting as its legacy proclaims.  It wasn't horrible, but it may be that I just don't inherently appreciate the Japanese giant monster movie genre that this really spawned.

    Rating: 6/10


  • James Dean Remembered

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    James Dean Remembered

    There's no Spout link for this movie.  It was a television documentary from 1974 that was included on the bonus features DVD of the movie Rebel Without a Cause.  I've never felt a much of an affinity for the 70s.  I was born in 1981 so I missed it, and I'm kind of glad.  Seeing this documentary turns me off to that era even more.  Here we see such freaks as Peter Lawford, Sal Mineo, Natalie Wood and others recount James Dean.  The James Dean obsession itself kind of makes me ill, but all of these personalities talking about him seem so flaky.  I bet they all think they are so hip, and groovy, and real with it man.  In the most sophisticated way of course.   Yeesh.

    I didn't feel like I got too much information about Dean, nor did I care too much anyways.  Watch it only for a strange time-warp experience if you aren't already watching lots of old videos from the 70s.

    Rating: 4/10