I love Godzilla.
But I am a Godzilla snob.
I don't care about any of the Hollywood Godzilla movies. They have to be made in Japan, in Japanese. No English dubbing. Do I speak Japanese? No. Does it matter? No.
I know what you're thinking. "That is a weird thing for a middle-aged stitcher lady to love." Maybe so. But I have an older brother, so I grew up with monster movies and heavy metal and bugs preserved in jars of rubbing alcohol in the refrigerator and even a tarantula. [We thought it was a male, but when she started spinning an egg sac my mom drew the line and my brother had to let her go in my grandparents' pasture.]
After school, the three o'clock movie on the little black and white TV we had was often an old monster movie, and regularly a Godzilla movie. I loved them. Still do. They're like comfort food for me. Put me in front of the TV, under a blanket, with an old Godzilla movie on, and I will drift off to sleep to the sounds of Tokyo being destroyed. In Japanese, of course.
Imagine my delight when I stumbled across this awesome little Godzilla design. It's a scene from the 2023 movie Godzilla Minus One, which turned out to be the highest-grossing Japanese Godzilla movie of all time (we saw it twice--and I *never* go to the movies). It also won an Oscar for Visual Effects. This is the scene on which the design is based:
Pretty cool, huh?
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