1.   But how good can Godzilla movies be for kids when they mimic spaghetti westerns?

2.   He resembles a smaller, friendlier version of the late actor Lee Van Cleef, the eagle-browed villain of many spaghetti westerns.

3.   Instead of just stringing one high-speed, bratty, self-deprecating tune after another, Green Day looks to rockabilly, New Wave and spaghetti westerns for some songs.

4.   Tarantino has characterized surf music as sounding like the soundtrack to rock-and-roll spaghetti westerns, and that is how he uses it.

5.   Think Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef, professional rivals cut from the same cloth, in those old spaghetti westerns.