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Jon Walmsley

@arghzombies.com

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UK. Mostly here for film chat. Because trashy movies are always fun. I care about accessibility, so no 'Likes' on posts with no image Alt text. he/him https://linktr.ee/arghzombies

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Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · Dec 9

So, I've basically watched all the mainline Japanese #Godzilla movies - all 30 of them. So here's my overall ranking of them all. (Alt text for all the names and scores).
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1.Godzilla 1954
★★★★

2.Shin Godzilla 2016
★★★★

3.Godzilla Minus One 2023
★★★★

4.The Return of Godzilla 1984
★★★½

5.Godzilla vs. Destoroyah 1995
★★★★

6.King Kong vs. Godzilla 1962
★★★★

7.Godzilla vs. Gigan 1972
★★★½

8.Invasion of Astro-Monster 1965
★★★½

9.Son of Godzilla 1967
★★★½

10.Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah 1991
★★★½

11.Terror of Mechagodzilla 1975
★★★½

12.Mothra vs. Godzilla 1964
★★★½

13.Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster 1964
★★★

14.Godzilla vs. Hedorah 1971
★★★

15.Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. 2003
★★★

16.Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla 2002
★★★

17.Godzilla vs. Megaguirus 2000
★★★

18.Godzilla vs. Biollante 1989
★★★

19.Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla 1974
★★★

20.Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla 1994
★★★

21.Godzilla vs. Mothra 1992
★★½

22.Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II 1993
★★½

23.All Monsters Attack 1969
★★½

24.Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack 2001
★★½

25.Destroy All Monsters 1968
★★½

26.Godzilla vs. Megalon 1973
★★½

27.Godzilla: Final Wars 2004
★★

28.Godzilla 2000: Millennium 1999
★★

29.Godzilla Raids Again 1955
★★

30.Ebirah, Horror of the Deep 1966
★★

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Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 3h

Yes exactly. Great ideas back then but still learning the craft. I don't think he managed to match his vision with his skills until Videodrome. Everything before that was just a work in progress.

Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 3h

It may be heresy to say it, but I think this version is better than the original. I don't think Cronenberg did anything decent until the 80s.

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Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 5h

Can't really accept a movie where they decided to give one of the leads the name 'Clover' though. Who calls their kid Clover?

Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 5h

My ★★★ review of Until Dawn on Letterboxd boxd.it/bl5HF9

A ★★★ review of Until Dawn (2025)

Was this a good movie? I'm not sure. Was it an interesting one? Yes. It's interesting in that it's got the license from a videogame but doesn't really use anything from that game. Yet the structure, s...

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Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 5h

Yes, that's the one. If you want a modern gory movie then that one certainly fits the bill.

Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 5h

The Terrifier films

The Sadness

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Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 7h

Gonna check out the UNTIL DAWN movie. I hear it's ok although doesn't really follow the story of the game. I'm just curious to see what they've done with it.

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Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 7h

I think even when I'm 80 and future movies are all beamed into our brains to live the full sensory experience, if there's T2 showing on an old-fashioned 42" Plasma TV, I'll still pick T2 and think it's still one of the coolest movies.

Because it is one of the coolest movies.

Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 8h

To be fair, anyone who is in the same prison as a man like him was unlikely to be the best that humanity has to offer.

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Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 10h

Had a hankering for another rewatch of this for a while, and tonight is the night.

TERMINATOR 2

Going either the superior version too - theatrical.

a young boy is holding a bunch of money in his hand and smiling .

Alt: a young boy is holding a bunch of money in his hand and smiling .

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Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 13h

Genuinely surprised he lasted this long, tbh.

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Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 15h

The only reason?

a cat is laying down in a dark room

Alt: a cat is laying down in a dark room

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Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 16h

Yeah, I remember ME using it back then too. Still feels like it's working but magic.

Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 16h

You know a free app that's been around forever but somehow hasn't been enshitified?

SHAZAM.

Still free, still works great, no stupid extra features nobody asked for. Just a big button.

And it adds everything you scan to a playlist for you too.

Mine is 5hr long. (I've used Shazam a while)

Screenshot of my Shazam playlist.

My Shazam Tracks

Evie (Let Your Hair Hang Down)
Stevie Wright

Heartbreaker
Pat Benatar

Atmosphere
Video. Joy Division

Gravity Grave - Live Glastonbury 93
The Verve

Extreme Ways
Moby

Carimbó do Macaco
Mastruz Com Leite

Love Hangover
Diana Ross

Trouble Man
Marvin Gaye

The Impossible Dream (The Quest)
Andy Williams

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Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 19h

It's always a BMW

Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 1d

Great fun film.

Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 1d

One of those films where I'm genuinely not sure if I enjoyed it or not. So much of it is awful, yet there's a lot of it I had great fun with too.

Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 1d

Yeah same.

Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 1d

At least rubber puppets are funny.

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Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 1d

Yeah that was cool. Genuinely had to turn my eyes away from the screen at a few points, which is always a good sign.

Shitty CG climax though, sadly. Why do filmmakers think thats the only way to end a movie? Just use a rubber puppet.

A ★★★½ review of Dangerous Animals (2025)

A ton of fun. I kind of love Zephyr, what a badass, but fuck me she does some gnarly shit. It's great to watch a film going in blind beyond knowing that plenty of people dug it. Because this took me b...

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Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 1d

Right, it's getting to that point in the year when I try to watch the films that released this year that I've not managed to catch yet. Starting with this, now that I have access to US Shudder.

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Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 1d

It was so visceral. I've not played a Battlefield game that felt so raw and 'real' before. And I've played most of them.

Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 1d

Maybe there is humanitarian progress happening in Saudi Arabia. I mean, there were women in these audiences, which is progress, I guess. But then the regime still kidnap, arrest and execute hundreds of people a year - including journalists and foreign nationals. So that's not that progressive.

Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 1d

There's a difference between doing a gig in Saudi Arabia that has been arranged by some promoter who thinks there's an audience there, vs a festival arranged and run by the actual regime that runs the country.

He doesn't acknowledge that. That's the big issue with this event.

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Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 1d

I loved the beta but can't really afford to get in on this just yet. But I will do. Battlefield games just hit differently to the COD ones. Reviews for the multiplayer side have been pretty great, thankfully. They're due a return to form.

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