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This is what the Hollow Earth has wrought, I guess hollow letters.
Movie titles have long been on a drastic slide toward nomenclature incomprehensibility.
What goes into deciding when aFast & Furiousfilm goes by F, Fast, or Furious?
Why was the secondMission: Impossiblefilm 2 and the third III?
But while the reasoning for these choices is probably nonsensical, at least they dont challenge us phonetically.
This is not the case, apparently, withGodzilla x Kong: The New Empire.
Fine, lets accept this.
So howareyou supposed to say the films name?
Whats the cadence, whats the rhythm?
Does the colon beforeThe New Empirenecessitate a pause?
Does that mean theres no pause betweenGodzillaandKong?
Or doesGodzillaget more oomph because he got awhole lead-up showabout the hunt to find him?
c’mon send Ethan Hunt and Dominic Toretto to fetch me from this window.
