{"id":17328,"date":"2018-09-01T16:40:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T21:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=17328"},"modified":"2018-09-01T16:40:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T21:40:44","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/09\/01\/belated-movie-reviews-360\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 405px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pm1.narvii.com\/6356\/4c89a484a15c0f7d9cfd2512433a379333c1e073_hq.jpg?resize=395%2C222&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"222\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>No character, in fact a real whiner. Godzilla reportedly sought help from a support group later that year.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of the weaker offerings in the <em>kaiju<\/em> <strong>Godzilla<\/strong> series is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Son_of_Godzilla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Son of Godzilla<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (1967). Sonny boy, as I&#8217;ll call him, first comes to light on Solgell Island (if I remember the name right), still in the egg. The egg is being dug out of a mound of boulders by three <em>Gimantises<\/em>, gigantic praying mantises who can fly. This is being observed by a journalist who is visiting an experimental station on the same island.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 339px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vignette.wikia.nocookie.net\/gigan389\/images\/9\/94\/Kamacuras_Showa.Jpg\/revision\/latest\/scale-to-width-down\/304?cb=20150305231512\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"181\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Better known for their roles in <strong>Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Gimantises break the egg open and make some half-hearted attempts to dine on Sonny boy, but Godzilla, in a very minor, unmenacing aspect, arrives in time to kill two of the three Gimantises and chase the third away, and Godzilla now assumes the parenting role. Meanwhile, the journalist discovers a heretofore unknown inhabitant of the island, a daughter of a missing archaeologist, who helps the team out when they become sick, and later when Spiga, a giant spider, attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Bad story short, the last Gimantis is pithed by Spiga, and Sonny-boy almost meets the same demise, but big ol&#8217; Dad comes to the rescue, and Spiga finds himself (herself?) overmatched and eventually catches fire and capsizes. The science team finally performs its experiment, which causes a snowstorm to occur on the tropical island, and Godzilla and Sonny-boy go into hibernation.<\/p>\n<p>Yech. This was a real time-waster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the weaker offerings in the kaiju Godzilla series is Son of Godzilla (1967). Sonny boy, as I&#8217;ll call him, first comes to light on Solgell Island (if I remember the name right), still in the egg. The egg is being dug out of a mound of boulders by \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/09\/01\/belated-movie-reviews-360\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17330,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17328\/revisions\/17330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}