20 years later, Peter Jackson's sci-fi classic exposes a modern Hollywood sin

20 years later, Peter Jackson's sci-fi classic exposes a modern Hollywood sin

If there’s one movie franchise that I’d happily walk on a bed of nails to avoid watching anything from, it’s the MonsterVerse. So often do they prove to be narratively uninspiring and far too focused on spectacle over sustenance that my attempts to sit through them have, so far, proven unsuccessful. 2014’s Godzilla felt as though director Gareth Edwards had forgotten it was a Godzilla film, with the giant monster not having nearly enough screent…