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China thinks Godzilla should have saved his girlfriend
Godzilla: King of the Monsters tops the box office in China, where netizens compare the villains' plot to Avengers: Endgame
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Kaiju battle royale Godzilla: King of the Monsters scored a big win in China. It scored US$70 million in its opening weekend -- far outstripping the US$49 million it made in the United States.
However, that doesn’t mean that all Chinese viewers actually liked the movie. One complaint for many cinemagoers was the poor plot. But some thought the way to fix it was to have even less plot… and more of a monster mash.
“Next time, let the little monsters play a couple of hours without human characters, okay?” asked a reviewer on popular review site Douban.
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But what got the most attention wasn't the magnificent special effects, or the performance of famed Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi -- known for her roles in Memoirs of a Geisha and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It was Godzilla's love life.
Mothra is the moth-like monster star of the film, and according to Weibo, she’s also Godzilla’s wife.
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