{"id":27055,"date":"2021-06-01T19:21:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T18:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27055"},"modified":"2021-06-01T19:21:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T18:21:26","slug":"a-review-of-the-new-movie-godzilla-vs-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27055","title":{"rendered":"A review of the new movie &#8220;Godzilla vs Kong&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the years, I&#8217;ve seen the two American versions of Godzilla and the three versions of Kong, so I was up for a movie pairing these two mega-monsters &#8211; and there were some extra factors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was the end of the third British lockdown of the global pandemic and I was desperate for some cinematic entertainment. It was showing at a local IMAX cinema and, if there&#8217;s a film that cries out for a huge screen, it&#8217;s this one. Finally, I was with friends including a 14 year old boy. So, I went for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The acting is mediocre and the dialogue is dire, while the plot is pretty crazy, but the special effects are impressive, the action is non-stop, and the noise is incredible. Prepare for a trip to Hollow Earth, the home world of the Titans, but beware of the strong reverse-gravitational effect. Exciting, huh? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No mega-monster movie would be complete without the smashing up of a well-known city and, in this case, the final titanic battle takes place in Hong Kong. The tag line for the movie is &#8220;One will fall&#8221; and, of course both monsters have their fans &#8211; but, don&#8217;t worry, it all works out and we enjoyed it.\u00a0<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, I&#8217;ve seen the two American versions of Godzilla and the three versions of Kong, so I was up for a movie pairing these two mega-monsters &#8211; and there were some extra factors. It was the end of the third British lockdown of the global pandemic and I was desperate for some cinematic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27056,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27055\/revisions\/27056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}