Spoilers Godzilla vs. Kong release thread

And the daughters' opinion on the movie?

 

As I was watching this I was thinking that less human characters might be interesting. It's been mentioned that you could drop Millie and Co. out of the movie (that Dad scene out of nowhere ) but I'm thinking Kong in hollow earth would've been more wondrous and magical if it had just been him exploring gravity, finding the axe and so on without all of the narration and cartoon vehicles and letting us the viewers discover it through him and to put the pieces together. It seemed like "Eric from True Blood", whatever his name is in this, just sapped the scenes of any of that being Captain Obvious.

I wonder how much could actually be dropped and communicated without words. Like I think they even could've done MechaG with the guy connecting in Ghidorah's skull just shown visually. I think that could've been an intriguing approach.

I kind of liked the mystical deaf girl and Kong just because it seems like there's always something like that in kaiju movies. I did smile at Kong's sticking the axe down Godzilla's throat in what I assume was an homage to their original showdown. And when will these jets ever learn to shoot from a distance where they won't be grabbed.

 

They enjoyed it; I think they'd have liked more of MBB and so, for that reason, I think they preferred KOTM

 

Nearly $300m at the box office so far. So in the end it wasn't Christopher Nolan who saved cinema; it was a giant monkey and a radioactive dinosaur.

https://deadline.com/2021/04/godzil...a-global-international-box-office-1234727363/

 

The 2nd most pretentious director of all time loses to the least pretentious movie of all time, I love to see it.

 

You just know it's exactly the sort of film he's bound to hate...

 

In all not bad, liked the kong/zilla fights and enjoyed the deaf kid scenes. And yes Millie could have been cut out completely.. Great big shoehorn .. Though did like seeing the kid from deadpool2.
Liked king of monsters better.. In Godzilla films, but liked this better than skull island. Pretty much a kong movie with a rampaging Godzilla for a few minutes..

As for evacuating a big city.. Not a chance. Maybe if you had a week. If I was in a big city and something was going to happen shortly, id grab a lawn chair and enjoy the show til I get stepped on..

 

I've seen a couple people call Pacific Rim the best American Kaiju movie and I definitely agree. Love that movie.

 

Pacific Rim the best Mecha Godzilla movie? Id agree.
Best regular godzilla? Have to say no on that one.

 

JD said "Kaiju movie," not "Godzilla movie."

 

I know everyone probably groans at people posting youtube videos but I thought this movie really earned this razzing. This movie and "Pitch Meeting" were made for each other.

 

Even though I really enjoyed the movie, that was hilarious.

 

I thought the movie was fine but not as good as Kong: Skull Island, though we get a proper answer why and how Skull Island can support gigantic prehistoric creatures from different time periods, despite being a relatively small land mass.

Also Kong showing a sensitive, loving side is just people in general being less ignorant about gorillas. They can be very likeable:

 

Anyway, my personal canon is that In-Universe they just decided to not even try to warn Hong Kong people, because they perfectly know that it would have been perfectly useless. Worst case scenario, an unorganized evacuation could have done more deaths than Godzilla itself. But it was a very dark plot point and they simply decided to not show it on the screen.

 

Wes Anderson?

 

I had Snyder in mind when I wrote that.

 

While, while I think that "pretentiousness" is quite subjective I think there a lot, quite lot, more pretentious directors out there. Unless one for "directors" means only "directors of blockbuster movies which make hundreds of millions of dollars and everybody know, even people who watch only one movie a year". In this case it's a quite little subset.