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        But seriously: Why is there a sun in the Hollow Earth? Why would a researcher with a proud emotional connection to Kong say "Sure, you can take him on a one-way trip to Antarctica, an environment where he would surely die?" What shape even is the Hollow Earth?
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      Despite the Hollow Earth nonsense, of the American kaiju movies, this does the best since PACIFIC RIM at getting across the scale of the monsters and not reducing them in the frame. They're careful to make sure that both close-ups and wides have something for scale in the shots.
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    GODZILLA VS. KONG is Hollywood's attempt to reckon with America's status as a dying empire which nonetheless is deeply invested in preserving the ideology of American exceptionalism. In this essay I will