Smog Monster (was: re: call for papers)

William Karlin karlin at barus.physics.brown.edu
Fri Aug 29 17:27:23 CDT 1997


A-and, they were filming part of said Godzilla film on my street in NYC
(pre-move to RI)...some chase scene with lots of people screaming...

  should prove entertaining...

will

On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Paul Murphy wrote:

> Chris K. writes:
> 
> > Your
> >     penalty for failing to answer this question is to watch the wretched
> >     Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster.
> 
> Hey, don't badmouth the Smog. Among the funniest films I've seen (OK, it
> isn't quite Duck Soup), with a wicked theme song ("Save the Earth!") and
> "hip kids rocking out on Mount Fuji", wrapped up in environmentalist
> jeremiads. Best seen in a giddy mood.
> 
> Wanting for anything on topic to say, I should point out that the 'creative
> geniuses' behind ID4 are currently making a brand-new Godzilla film which
> promises to be pure cheez (saw the trailer prior to a very belated
> screening of MiB, which I enjoyed somewhat (spotting all the Burton & Coen
> Bros. plunderings), but I wouldn't call any of it 'subversive' in any
> possible world).
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul Noel Murphy
> 
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