George Carlin - Saving The Planet

Rating: 9/10 (15 May 2014)

There is something brilliant about Godzilla that I'm convinced people will complain about, it's what I complained about. "The military have no effect on the plot, they're useless". That is the point, their scenes may be pointless and ineffective but that is because they are dealing with Godzilla, the God is in the title. We are never given too much Godzilla because it is bigger than us, all we can do is watch from the sidelines while it wrecks havoc. It's a movie about nature taking back and how little control we have over it, we can send the army in but in the end it doesn't matter. The storytelling choices are perfect because they make us watch through a TV screen or from the soldiers on the ground. Godzilla shows just how irrelevant humans are, one minute we're here and the next minute we're gone and it doesn't really matter. The characters are the way they are because they're not really characters, they're just another group of ants in the colony that is slowly but surely being purged. This is a god damn horror movie and to quote Matt Zoller Seitz, "it's all about perspective and point-of-view—not just what you're seeing but how much, and under what circumstances."