Godzilla vs. Kong

[ProphetofGanja]

Originally Posted by sdp

I'm finally hyped for this movie, haven't cared for the monsterverse at all since I absolutely hated Godzilla 2014, which was supposed to be a "realistic" take on Godzilla, but it was just a boring mess, I had free tickets to watch it a second time and passed. Shin Godzilla being amazing only solidified my dislike of 2014. Because of that I didn't care to watch the sequel.

I was also mad that the prequel to Jackson's Kong, with Skull Island was scrapped in favor of making Kong movie that could eventually crossover with Godzilla. Still bitter about that but I mean I'm glad that they decided to go all out with kaiju and a new Kong v Godzilla fight is also amazing that it's happening. I will be doing a re-watch of 2014 and watching Kong/KOTM for the first time to be ready for Kong v Godzilla.

I agree that Godzilla [2014] is too light on Godzilla himself and as a result suffers for it. At first, I liked Peter Jackson?s King Kong but looking back I feel it was waaay too bloated. That scene with the bugs? Man, that sh!t drags on. I like Godzilla: King of the Monsters a lot but I?ll be the first to admit that nearly any scene with people talking (which you may or may not care about when watching a kaiju flick) is awful. The military/scientist scenes are, to me at least, more tolerable than the family drama scenes with Millie Bobby Brown and Vera Farmiga.

It fvcking sucks that Godzilla vs. Kong is delayed AGAIN but I understand. If anything, they?ll have a lot more time to polish it up and I look forward to watching it on a big-ass screen.

Edit: sdp, let me know when you get around to watching Kong: Skull Island, I think it may actually be the strongest film of the MonsterVerse so far

[TigerClaw]

Here's the Godzilla vs Kong Trailer.

[AquaParade]

All the money shots are of Zilla getting clowned on. Looks like they are leaning heavy into the goofy summer blockbuster vibe. I actually preferred the tone of something like Shin Godzilla, or even Godzilla 2014, but I can see the appeal of taking the material less seriously and just smashing the toys, I suppose.

[Allio]

That’s always the thing about what people prefer when it comes to Kaiju stories. What people prefer is so varied it is hard to get a “general” film

[ZariusTwo]

Will this film have different outcomes depending on what day or hour you see this in theatres?

[TigerClaw]

The movie is going to be awesome. And the best part about it is that I can see it at home.

[neatoman]

Is Godzilla smaller than before?

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by neatoman

Is Godzilla smaller than before?

No still the same size. Its just that Kong is now as big as Godzilla. Because the first time we saw Kong was back in the 70s. So he's grown a lot bigger since then.

[Leo656]

Eh, visually it looks fine to me. I haven't read anything about the plot so I have no idea what's leading to this one, story-wise. I'll definitely check it out but I might wait for the Blu-ray since I generally don't stream anything. Hopefully it'll be good. I've liked the series thus far even though it's definitely not how I would have "booked" a Godzilla franchise. But I openly admit that my Godzilla preferences lean more towards "He's a violent force of nature without a conscience" rather than "Benevolent protector of nature's balance", but that's just me and either works just as well depending on the execution.

[sdp]

Originally Posted by ProphetofGanja

Edit: sdp, let me know when you get around to watching Kong: Skull Island, I think it may actually be the strongest film of the MonsterVerse so far

Haven't watched KOTM but it's definitely better than 2014 and overall not a bad King Kong movie I liked it, just not the Skull Island movie that was cancelled.

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Will this film have different outcomes depending on what day or hour you see this in theatres?

King Kong wins in the international version and Godzilla loses in the Japanese cut of the film

[Andrew NDB]

Definitely can foresee how it's going to go. Godzilla goes crazy aggro on everything because some other kaiju (or some faction of humanity) is doing something to him like on a brain wave level... Kong shows up, they fight, it's indecisive and then they team up against whatever or whoever it is that's been making Godzilla go nutty.

Oh, and this new little girl that's buddies with Kong clearly is going to hold hands with the Stranger Things girl from the last movie at some point, to coincide with Kong and Godzilla becoming buddies by the end.

[drgon78]

Looks great, though the trailer is very one sided on the fight aspect.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Definitely can foresee how it's going to go. Godzilla goes crazy aggro on everything because some other kaiju (or some faction of humanity) is doing something to him like on a brain wave level... Kong shows up, they fight, it's indecisive and then they team up against whatever or whoever it is that's been making Godzilla go nutty.

Oh, and this new little girl that's buddies with Kong clearly is going to hold hands with the Stranger Things girl from the last movie at some point, to coincide with Kong and Godzilla becoming buddies by the end.

Sounds about right.

[oldmanwinters]

If Vegas was taking odds on this film's bout, I'd say the "Mecha-Godzilla" reveal would be looking very lucrative.

[AquaParade]

I preferred 2014 to KOTM. Maybe the action scenes are awesome in KOTM, I'm not sure. I couldn't get more than an hour into it because the human cast writing and acting was the poorest I've ever seen in a movie like this.

[IMJ]

See I love the new Godzilla and Kong stuff. Love it. But I'm easy like that - it was the same with Indiana Jones. I was just so damn happy to see the guy running around on screen again that I never deeply cared that he hid in a nuke refrigerator. It wasn't good. But I didn't care.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by AquaParade

I preferred 2014 to KOTM. Maybe the action scenes are awesome in KOTM, I'm not sure. I couldn't get more than an hour into it because the human cast writing and acting was the poorest I've ever seen in a movie like this.

Yeah, the last Godzilla movie was deeply disappointing to me. 2014 was good, they just had to up the ratio of Godzilla time to human time by a small percentage. Skull Island was OK but honestly a little forgettable (as in I don't really remember it... maybe 1 scene with big spider things with long legs and big lizards giving Kong a hard time).

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Yeah, the last Godzilla movie was deeply disappointing to me. 2014 was good, they just had to up the ratio of Godzilla time to human time by a small percentage. Skull Island was OK but honestly a little forgettable (as in I don't really remember it... maybe 1 scene with big spider things with long legs and big lizards giving Kong a hard time).

I prefer KOTM because it had more Godzilla then the 2014 one. I don't care how the humans were in KOTM as long as we had more Kaiju action. That's all that matters to me.

[Allio]

Like I said before Kaiju films have a hard time for hitting a good film as often they can go from silly action flick or a psychological horror film.

[TigerClaw]

Nobody sees a Godzilla movie for the good story or good writing. They see it for the Kaiju action.

It boggles the mind why people hated KOTM when I thought it was superior to the 2014 movie. The one complain people had with the 2014 movie was it had less Godzilla. So KOTM gave you more Godzilla. So they should be happy right? Nooo! They complain about the story and human characters more then the amount of Kaiju action that sequel offered. I hope for Godzilla vs Kong that it will satisfy everyone. Because all I care about is the Kaiju action. Sure there's a story in there somewhere. But those two are the main attractions.