I should technically be talking about this next week, but I guess I’m hype. Spring seems to be the time Dawn and I cast our reservations aside and actually feel like spending money to see big things hitting each other on the big screen. Okay, not all our reservations. We didn’t spend any money on the Transformers movies after the first (until last year’s Bumblebee which we very much liked). We want to see big things hitting each other movies that feel like they’re made by fans of big things hitting each other, if that makes sense. I suppose much like we want to watch superhero movies made by people who don’t give us the feeling they think superheroes and comic books are stupid. Anyhow, “big things hitting each other” is probably just a clumsy way of saying “kaiju battle.” Two years ago our Spring kaiju battle movie was Kong: Skull Island. Last year it was Pacific Rim: Uprising. This year, it’s the Big G himself returning with all his friends, and early reports are there’s a lot more crunchy, fully shown kaiju battle than his 2014 outing. So yeah, we have our tickets to Godzilla: King of the Monsters this weekend, and in the meantime I’ve been obsessively listening to the OST on repeat in a way I haven’t since Fury Road. The composer actually brought the OG themes for Godzilla and Mothra into the modern age, updating them while also preserving them, and that’s something I hope to see play out in the film at large. There will hopefully be much in the way of large. And hitting. Also atomic fire. No but seriously, if you’re any kind of classic kaiju fan, this’ll really give you flashbacks, particularly if you play it back at x1.25: