By For decades, Godzilla movies have been about one thing: people in giant rubber monster costumes stomping around tiny little sets. Especially in America, where the films that Toho made for its native Japan were imported as badly dubbed B-movies, Godzilla felt more like Saturday morning escapism than proper art. Of
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