{"id":17538,"date":"2025-05-20T21:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T01:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17538"},"modified":"2025-05-20T19:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T23:48:15","slug":"godzilla-vs-biollante-1989-kazuki-omori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17538","title":{"rendered":"Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989, Kazuki Omori)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very silly movie, rarely ever good, with big sweeping symphonic music that sometimes gets close to ripping off <em>Star Wars<\/em>.  Jeers to Criterion for getting people to take a 1980s Godzilla movie seriously enough that I was tricked into wasting an evening on it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Army weapon temporarily turns Godz into a Trapper Keeper graphic:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/biollante2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Competing English-speaking forces kill each other to capture Godzilla DNA, then a plant lab gets blown up, then a psychic girl speaks to plants.  Botanist creates a plant monster and the next time hitmen come to steal secrets they get <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/375\">Little-Shop<\/a>ped.  Plant monster and Godzilla fight.<\/p>\n<p><em>What? Your IVYSAUR evolved into BIOLLANTE<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/biollante3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Some of the human players: Yoshiko Tanaka (right) starred in Imamura&#8217;s <em>Black Rain<\/em> the same year, the plant scientist had starred in <em>Samurai Spy<\/em> in the 60s, the psychic girl became a Godzilla regular.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/biollante1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Godzilla will return, and return, and return<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/biollante4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very silly movie, rarely ever good, with big sweeping symphonic music that sometimes gets close to ripping off Star Wars. Jeers to Criterion for getting people to take a 1980s Godzilla movie seriously enough that I was tricked into wasting an evening on it. Army weapon temporarily turns Godz into a Trapper Keeper graphic: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,624,36,2635,1422,40,181],"class_list":["post-17538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-giant-monsters","tag-japan","tag-killer-plant","tag-mad-scientist","tag-psychic","tag-sequel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17556,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17538\/revisions\/17556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}