Godzilla: He’s the King of the Monsters, and also, right now, the King of All Media. As Godzilla Minus One sets unexpected box office records in the U.S., Monarch: Legacy of Monsters finishes up its first season on Apple TV, and Godzilla fights the damn Justice League in a current comics series, AND with Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire coming out in just a few short months, Jesse and lifelong…
The SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Godzilla vs. Kong
After numerous pandemic-related delays, the Godzilla vs. Kong title bout is finally here. For basically as long as SportsAlcohol dot com has existed, we have been your go-to source for monster-movie expertise, especially as it pertains to King Kong and Godzilla. Whether that involves exhaustive Kong History, sharing valuable Godzilla information out in the wild, seeing the Kong on Broadway,…
The SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Top Movies of Summer 2000
It’s that time of year again: Time for us at SportsAlcohol.com to get together and go on a long, wild, fast-paced trip down memory lane to look at the highest-grossing movies at the U.S. domestic box office from twenty years ago. This year, that brings us up to the year 2000, and we may be feeling especially nostalgic given that the summer 2020 movie season is more or less canceled. But not to…
The Top 20 Best Movies of 2019 17. BooksmartIt’s hard to talk about Booksmart without someone throwing around the phrase “female Superbad.” The comparison isn’t even unfair, since they’re both movies about a pair of friends who experience a one-crazy-night scenario and process some things about their lives before heading out to college. They’re also both, you know, really funny.
But people tend…
The SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Top Summer Movies of 1998
The summer movie season means sequels galore, and we here at SportsAlcohol.com are happy to oblige with the latest installment of our own long-running series! Since 2014, we’ve been recording a podcast wherein we go through the top summer box office attractions of 20 years earlier and discuss what it was like going to movies in a different era, and how we feel about some of these…
SportsAlcohol.com Founder in the Wild: Kevin Geeks Out About Kaiju
One Week From Today!
One Night Only!As you may have noticed, SportsAlcohol.com co-founder Nathaniel is a bit of an expert when it comes to all things Godzilla. If you’re in the NYC area, you get the chance to see him smash through the structures of Monster Island ignorance in person ONE WEEK FROM TODAY at Kevin Geeks Out About Kaiju. The event takes place at the Alamo Drafthouse in Downtown…
The Top 20 Best Movies of 2016
If the Oscars can wait so long to unveil their best-of-the-year picks, why not us? After all, ours are demonstrably superior to the Academy’s: More eclectic, less predictable, sometimes more weird (often, also, more musical). 2016 wasn’t good for a lot, but it was, as it turned out, a good year for movies. So our core film group — Marisa, Jesse, Nathaniel, and Sara — went ahead and picked not 10,…
First things first: Shin Godzilla is here! There’s a new Japanese Godzilla film currently playing theaters in the United States and it is pretty spectacular. With a franchise that has lasted over six decades and twenty nine films, audience members will obviously approach it with a wide variety of expectations, so it’s best to know going in that it is a film much more in the vein of the original G…
Everyone can give you a review of the new Godzilla movie, but only SportsAlcohol.com is offering a look at all four movies titled Godzilla in one article!
Did you see the new movie? Come tell us what you thought!
Godzilla was on hand to greet fans at the G-Con ‘98 screening of the last American Godzilla movie. We’re headed off to the SportsAlcohol.com screening this evening, crazy excited and fingers crossed that they deliver the real deal!
In 1956, the Japanese film Godzilla was released in America under the title Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, incorporating new footage featuring Raymond Burr as reporter Steve Martin to guide US audiences through the story.
In 1985, Burr reprised the role in Godzilla 1985, the American release of the previous year’s Japanese reboot, a direct sequel to the original film (he was now referred to as simply Mr. Martin, since 1980s audiences had another Steve Martin on their minds).
By 1989, two little boys in Arizona were moved to tears watching Burr’s final monologue on VHS, delivered as Godzilla is cast into a volcano, seeming to shriek in terror or agony.
