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My Thoughts on “Godzilla: Singular Point”

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Foreword:  This was originally written and posted on DeviantART on Thursday January 20, 2022. Now that I’ve got my reviews of Tron (1982) , Tron: Legacy , A Working Man ♂︎ , and Alien vs. Predator (2004) out of the way, I can finally repost another one of my old reviews. This time, it’s my review of the Netflix anime series, Godzilla: Singular Point . I’ve been meaning to repost this review for a while, but I never got the chance to because I got caught up with writing other reviews and writing other stuff. But now, I do have a chance to, and I’m taking it. It has been awhile since I’ve seen this show from beginning to end, so it’s not as fresh in my mind as it once was and I don’t have a lot new to say about it for this section that I haven’t before in other places. And that’s just because I have no desire to go and watch it. If you’ll notice when you read this review, that I actually went pretty easy on it, giving it a middling review rather than an outright negative review, e...

My Thoughts on “Akira” (1988)

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  (This is a wallpaper image for Akira (1988).)  It is time for Neo-Tokyo to E.X.P.L.O.D.E.. I still don’t know why it was written as an acronym, or even what that acronym stands for if anything, but that’s how it’s written. I just finished my review of  Man of Steel , and it’s time to me to tackle Akira (1988), the seminal anime movie for a lot of people. For a lot of people, especially those who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, this was the thing that got them into anime. It was either this, or Ghost in the Shell (1995), or Ninja Scroll 🥷📜 , or Dragonball Z , or Yu-Gi-Oh! , or Pokémon , or Sailor Moon 🌙 if they were girls ♀︎ or gay boys ⚣, or straight boys ⚤♂︎ who were too embarrassed to admit they liked watching Sailor Moon 🌙 and other magical girl ♀︎ shows. It wasn’t for me, the thing that got me into anime was Cowboy Bebop …I think.    I started watching anime around the late 2010s and early 2020s, and my memory of that time is a bit fuzzy, but I d...