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Go Go Godzilla

Spoiler Alert! Godzilla King of the Monsters wasn't a perfect film, worthy of awards, or a shoo-in for an oscars but it did have multiple gigantic monsters in an insane Boston destroying battle royal. After all, why would you go to the theater to watch a Godzilla movie, or any other CGI heavy summer block-buster for that matter, other than the exciting spectacle. The latest entry in Warner Brother's Monsterverse has a low 39% on the review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes as of this writing, mainly because I feel the critics have forgotten that. Pointing out the short-comings of the writing, or the effortless plot and those issues do persist but who cares. As in the original Toho films from the 50s, Godzilla King of the Monsters as well as the Monterverse itself includes a not-so-subtle environmentalist message, a cautionary tale about disrupting the delicate balance of nature. Expressing that message is why the humans are in the film and to set up the fight between Godzi