You know what I never realized before today? That Ken Watanabe is part of the cast of the new Godzilla movie. I knew about Elizabeth Olsen, Aaron Taylor Johnson and Bryan Cranston, but I didn’t realize Ken was in it too. I LOVE KEN WATANABE. He is beautiful, talented and very cool. His participation in this film is intriguing. I mean, maybe he just did it for a paycheck (it happens) but I’d like to think that he (and Cranston, for that matter) believed in the project.

As for Godzilla… there’s a new trailer and we’re getting a better look at the Godzilla monster and the plot of the movie. It seems like Godzilla is a good dude in this version. Entertainment Weekly theorizes that the flying monster is Rodan and Godzilla is created/awakened (????) to fight Rodan. For those of you into the Godzilla films, I’m sure that will make sense. Anyway, here’s the new trailer:

I have a weird thing to confess: as I get older, I get more and more disturbed by the fictional representations of the destructions of cities. I was reminded of that when I was watching Man of Steel again the other day – I know directors want it to “look cool” and it’s supposed to be disturbing to see a city’s iconic buildings destroyed in a fictional universe, but the CGI sometimes looks too realistic and it makes me think of 9/11, the destruction of so many real cities in real time. It’s bad juju, is what I’m saying.

Now, all that being said, this Godzilla movie doesn’t look so bad. It actually looks a lot better than I was expecting. It comes out on May 16th.

Here’s a featurette for the film too:

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