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   Mack A. Damia to All   
   Re: Godzilla vs King Kong question   
   27 Mar 21 20:23:12   
   
   From: drsteerforth@yahoo.com   
      
   On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 17:33:46 -0400, moviePig    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 3/27/2021 5:15 PM, Mack A. Damia wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 06:54:18 -0400, TomBenton@agent.com wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Monsters come and go, but Godzilla and Kong see to last forever. And   
   >>> this is, what, the third time that they have faced off.  Does anyone   
   >>> have some insights as to why these two are so popular?   
   >>   
   >> Not really.  Consider three of the genres within the category of   
   >> "Monsters":   
   >>   
   >> Vampires   
   >> Werewolves   
   >> Things from outer space   
   >>   
   >> Can you say that they "come and go"?    I suppose so, but they will   
   >> always be popular because they require suspension of disbelief.  So do   
   >> conspiracy theories, and look how popular they are.   
   >   
   >...and how monstrous.   
      
   Just don't gaze too long.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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