-This past week I watched Gareth Edward's Godzilla (2014) starring Bryan Cranston and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. A link to the IMDb page for this movie can be found here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831387/?ref_=nv_sr_1

-This was a pretty entertaining movie.. when Godzilla was actually on the screen.
The majority of the movie is dialogue on how to stop the invading monsters, and then Godzilla makes cameos. It was a little different than other Godzilla movies in that this monster actually helped more than destroyed. Also Bryan Cranston dies way too early in the movie which is strange considering he's a top billed cast. My favorite scene is near the very end of the movie whenever Godzilla rips open one of the other creature's mouth and spits blue fire into the other creature's body, killing it. All in all, the movie was not terrific, but you got what you want with a monster movie. 6/10 stars.

-Now for the scientific side of this movie. Lets start with the basics of the monster. The movie alludes that Godzilla was formed from massive amounts of radiation to komodo dragons living in the pacific. This movie suggests that since the 1940s, one komodo dragon was able to grow extremely high. I was actually curious how tall Godzilla was actually supposed to be. He is suggested to be 355 feet tall. Which is impossible for the dimensions of this creature. It's legs far too skinny to support such massive height and weight. Godzilla supposedly weighs 90,000 tons... He would need 215 million calories in order to survive daily. The amount of food required to sustain his metabolism is impossible to consume. Now back to the radiation. There's no doubt that atomic bombs can cause genetic mutations. This was clearly seen after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings following WWII. But, it is not possible for a komodo dragon to grow hundreds of feet and thousands of pounds in just a few generations. Another thing to keep in mind is that there are physical constrains on natural selection. The trait must exist in an organisms gene pool in order for it to be mutated. This is the reason humans cannot have mutations like the X-men. I was curious to how radiation actually affects future generations. Further research would be interesting. But I'm certain that we won't be seeing a 355 foot tall monster destroying any cities anytime soon.