Osaka Bomb

"War does not determine who is right; only who is left." -Bertrand Russell. "Love is just a chemical. We give it meaning by choice." - Eleanor Lamb. "Humans are cowards in the face of happiness." - Momoko, in the film Kamikaze Girls "Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!" - Monty Python and the Holy Grail "We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the siren sang. There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child that dreamt one day he would hunt the forests of the night, and feast beneath the hollow hills, and a love to last forever somewhere south of Oz and North of Shangri-La. They can keep their Heaven. When I die, I'd sooner go to Middle Earth." - George R.R. Martin. (From a longer quote, but I chose my favorite part to save space)

Agreed. Plus, I mean...Godzilla (or, well, Gojira, whichever you prefer) has such a deep connection to Japan's history. I mean, the later ones are fun and exciting, monsters fighting, yeah! But the first is actually kind of...dark and dreary, in a way. I mean, Godzilla basically came from the Japanese fear of the effects of the atomic bomb, because they didn't know what kind of long-term damage it would cause. In the first, Godzilla was...pretty much a threat. A kind of looming reminder of what was done to Japan at the end of the war, basically. That was just lost in the American version. There is no cultural relevance to Godzilla there, except for...well, on the global scale in terms of nuclear testing, but you know what I mean. Haha. And, yeah, that was kind of what inspired J.J. Abrams to make Cloverfield. We didn't have that sort of landmark American monster that was tied to heavily to our culture and/or history and what have you.