I enjoyed Godzilla vs Kong, but I thought it was the weakest of the Monsterverse movies so far.
-This had some of the best MONKE PUANCH LIZARD big-monster fights of the series, although once or twice (especially during the last fight with Mechagodzilla) the monsters lost a bit of their massive weightiness and felt a little CG-light. The boats carrying both of them (and not immediately capsizing) beggared belief a bit, too.
-I liked that Kong was an actual character, and the sign language was obvious in retrospect but still a good moment.
-I'm still not entirely sure why Godzilla was after him except just because "Godzilla goes after other titans." I guess they did have that ancient war etc etc, but even with the lore they peppered around it felt like a flimsy excuse to bash the action figures together.
-Madison/Bernie/Josh served literally no purpose in this story and should have been cut from the script. Also they did Madison dirty after the last movie by making her a conspiracy nut.
-Dollar Store Tom Brady and scientist lady's story felt really loose too but at least they went along with Kong; with the development time wasted on the conspiracy arm redirected to them, they could have actually had good development.
-I have just been informed/reminded that Dollar Store Tom Brady is Alexander Skarsgard, which I think is very unfortunate for Alexander Skarsgard.
-I realized toward the end of this movie that what I really want is a movie starring giant monsters with as little human presence as possible, preferably the absolute bare minimum to establish the scale and presence of the monsters. Kong here proves that it could totally work.
-Despite going 100% comic book wacky sci-fantasy full of "Don't bother asking" questions, at least Hollow Earth was pretty cool. I do wish that Mechagodzilla had factored into the plot more than just being a macguffin-cum-final-boss.
-Was the Apex second-in-command seriously supposed to be Serizawa's son? Talk about a bad story decision that didn't get paid off, and about doing earlier characters dirty.
Someone above mentioned wondering what Kong's axe was made of, but I thought it was perfectly clear: The shaft was a huge bone, so probably a godzilla or big-monke bone, and the axehead was definitely made from a Godzilla back-plate. (Not necessarily from Godzilla himself, but definitely from a godzilla.) It glowed the same blue, channeled and blocked the same Godzilla Energy both in the carvings and during the fight, etc.
Similar to when I started Battlestar Galactica at the first episode of the TV series and thought it was a brilliant, bold, incredible way to launch a series, only to realize there had been a very normal pilot movie/miniseries I hadn't known about.
-This had some of the best MONKE PUANCH LIZARD big-monster fights of the series, although once or twice (especially during the last fight with Mechagodzilla) the monsters lost a bit of their massive weightiness and felt a little CG-light. The boats carrying both of them (and not immediately capsizing) beggared belief a bit, too.
-I liked that Kong was an actual character, and the sign language was obvious in retrospect but still a good moment.
-I'm still not entirely sure why Godzilla was after him except just because "Godzilla goes after other titans." I guess they did have that ancient war etc etc, but even with the lore they peppered around it felt like a flimsy excuse to bash the action figures together.
-Madison/Bernie/Josh served literally no purpose in this story and should have been cut from the script. Also they did Madison dirty after the last movie by making her a conspiracy nut.
-Dollar Store Tom Brady and scientist lady's story felt really loose too but at least they went along with Kong; with the development time wasted on the conspiracy arm redirected to them, they could have actually had good development.
-I have just been informed/reminded that Dollar Store Tom Brady is Alexander Skarsgard, which I think is very unfortunate for Alexander Skarsgard.
-I realized toward the end of this movie that what I really want is a movie starring giant monsters with as little human presence as possible, preferably the absolute bare minimum to establish the scale and presence of the monsters. Kong here proves that it could totally work.
-Despite going 100% comic book wacky sci-fantasy full of "Don't bother asking" questions, at least Hollow Earth was pretty cool. I do wish that Mechagodzilla had factored into the plot more than just being a macguffin-cum-final-boss.
-Was the Apex second-in-command seriously supposed to be Serizawa's son? Talk about a bad story decision that didn't get paid off, and about doing earlier characters dirty.
Someone above mentioned wondering what Kong's axe was made of, but I thought it was perfectly clear: The shaft was a huge bone, so probably a godzilla or big-monke bone, and the axehead was definitely made from a Godzilla back-plate. (Not necessarily from Godzilla himself, but definitely from a godzilla.) It glowed the same blue, channeled and blocked the same Godzilla Energy both in the carvings and during the fight, etc.
I think this exact same thing happened to me, including the appreciative awe -> disappointment.My copy of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes was somehow missing the subtitle track for the ASL and I spent the first twenty minutes thinking "THIS IS SO BOLD. THIS IS AN ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE WAY TO DO THIS MOVIE" and then was so bummed when I figured it out.
Similar to when I started Battlestar Galactica at the first episode of the TV series and thought it was a brilliant, bold, incredible way to launch a series, only to realize there had been a very normal pilot movie/miniseries I hadn't known about.