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― j., Tuesday, 18 June 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
i keep meaning go back to read j.s superlong posts
vg what did you think of skull island
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
Im not vg but Skull Island was way better than this ish imho
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 22:53 (four years ago) link
I saw this a second time to see if my opinion changed. Sadly it didn't and the friend of mine who begged me to see it with him got bored and fell asleep :/
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
Skull Island was pure stupidity but def on the enjoyable end of the spectrum for me. The vietnam-war-movie parody element went a long way with me, also John C Reilly. Tom Hiddleston was not a great choice of leading man though. Also Kong wrestling the Trogdor Pterodactyl was pretty dope.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
hmm ok was hoping youd hated it so i could gleefully disregard yr pan of this but no such luck it appears
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:26 (four years ago) link
yr welcome
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:30 (four years ago) link
might still go tbrrwu
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:33 (four years ago) link
I'd figure you would never run out of movie ideas for someone in a big lizard suit.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:36 (four years ago) link
I would totally see a movie where everything was state of the art CG *except* Godzilla, who was a man in suit.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:37 (four years ago) link
xxpost i get it - hell i went today know that there was a good chance it was going to be badgotta see to believe
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:38 (four years ago) link
yeah....and despite the criticisms above ringing v true based on trailer....i mean monsters on a big screen with the bass HHHHHOOOOMMMMM noise yknow?
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:40 (four years ago) link
nmmnmnrhrrhrmnrmnr mnmrnrmnrnmnrrrhrrr rrmnmnrrRRRRRRRRHHGHGHRRR WWOWOWOWOWHWHRHRMRMRMRMRMMRMRMRRM
ZZZZZZZZTTZTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― j., Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:45 (four years ago) link
basically yes i fuckin love it
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link
ents are kaiju dont @ me
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:48 (four years ago) link
electro monsters are not enough when TWO THIRDS of the movie is Concerned nonsensical humans
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
ents are totally kaiju
i kaiju knot
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:51 (four years ago) link
the concerned nonsensical humans are like. true to the source material
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:57 (four years ago) link
This is like sub-Friday Night Lights drama
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 00:04 (four years ago) link
the humans aren't there for you to care about
they are there for the mythopoesis
― j., Wednesday, 19 June 2019 00:15 (four years ago) link
WOWOWOMROMWOMWOMWOMORWMOMWWWWRWRWRRW
― j., Wednesday, 19 June 2019 00:16 (four years ago) link
many xpost concerned nonsensical humans take on new layers of nonsense in *this* movie lemme tell yaplus it’s not the fact of them that bugs me, it’s that we spend way too much time with them & everything about them is eyerollingly dumb/boring/both
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 00:48 (four years ago) link
sounds more like a documentary amirite hey
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link
The humans were presented as if you were supposed to care deeply about them and their motivations, except they were completely unsympathetic and their motivations made zero sense.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 03:38 (four years ago) link
otmthen again tho i mean thank god they all took turns standing around explaining themselves to each other or we would have never known their deeply stupid reasons
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 03:43 (four years ago) link
I spent a good chunk of the movie trying to connect the family with the first movie only to learn they weren't in it. Yet they were presented as if we'd be totally familiar with them from the beginning.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 03:47 (four years ago) link
that's myths for ya
― j., Wednesday, 19 June 2019 03:48 (four years ago) link
I did like the monsters though. King Ghidorah was cool.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 03:50 (four years ago) link
King Ghidorah was pretty neatI liked how beefy they made Godzilla too
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 04:23 (four years ago) link
Wait they weren’t in the first movie? Christ, this movie seems even dumber now, was the dead son that they won’t shut up about in it at least?
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 04:42 (four years ago) link
I don't think so, but that's what I'm saying! The treat the kid as a tragedy we're supposed to be familiar with. False memories, maaan.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 04:47 (four years ago) link
Was anyone from this besides Ken Watanabe in the first one?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 04:53 (four years ago) link
they were not in it; everything about them is at the beginning of this one, which writes them marginally into the events in san francisco from the last one. doctor serizawa his colleague and the david straithairn admiral are holdovers. plus the big guy obviously.
― j., Wednesday, 19 June 2019 04:55 (four years ago) link
absolute unit
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 09:15 (four years ago) link
Man, Shin Godzilla was soooooo weird. Also pretty boring, like watching a filmed radio play at times. But cool destruction, guess.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 22 June 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link
I described Shin Godzilla as "nonstop panic" so I guess we disagree on that. It's an office drama as much as anything but I was into it.
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Saturday, 22 June 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
I thought there was not enough panic! Everyone was really cool and collected and practical and reasonable, almost to comic effect.
"If we were to devise a coagulate, maybe we can hinder Godzilla's cooling abilities." "Yes, that is a very good idea. What time is it?" "It's 5:42." "Hmm, at this hour the traffic could be pretty terrible. Can we get a helicopter?" "Maybe. Here, fill out these three forms and we'll send it over to accounting to see if we have enough funds left." "Oh no." "What is it?" "The printer is out of ink." "Damn. Can you check the filing cabinet?" "Hmm, let me see. No, it's locked. Do you have the key?" "I think there's a copy of the key with the secretary." "Great. In the meantime, are you staying hydrated?" "Yes, but the water bubbler will need to be replaced soon." "Hmm, good point. Perhaps we can have someone make a run to Costco for a case of bottled water?" "That's a very good idea, but Godzilla has destroyed the main road." "Damn again. How about the Americans? Can they deliver some water?" "We can ask, but the treaty does not outline water distribution, only recycling protocol that addresses the empty bottles." "This is a terrible development."
And every line of that exchange would be delivered by a different character in a suit and take place in a different anonymous bunker or board room. And then Godzilla would do something cool.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 22 June 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link
Shin Godzilla is great but it is fundamentally about meetings iircKinda funny, considering these films as reflections of the anxieties of the societies that produce them, how detonating nuclear warheads is like super cazh in these latest American ones
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Saturday, 22 June 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
xp yes exactly, it’s a satire
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Saturday, 22 June 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
I guess as a satire it's pretty amusing? Except googly-eyed Godzilla is pretty menacing in this one, which undercuts the satire.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 22 June 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
Wait why?
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Saturday, 22 June 2019 21:27 (four years ago) link
It’s satirising the Japanese bureaucratic response to natural disasters, how is that undercut by the disaster being scary
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Saturday, 22 June 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
did he mean papercut
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Saturday, 22 June 2019 21:40 (four years ago) link
I suppose I just found the satire kind of dumb, because like I said, everything they wanted to do made perfect practical sense. If they are already worrying about floods and nuclear reactors and things of that nature in the movie, what difference does it make to throw in a giant supernatural monster? I mean, it works just as well as a satire of Godzilla films!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 22 June 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
Maybe we just live in a post satire world.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 22 June 2019 21:43 (four years ago) link
I saw it less as a satire and more as a compelling office drama. You can only get away with going that deep on the minutea of office decision-making when the fate of Tokyo is on the line. Probably a big part of the appeal of (certain) war movies as well.
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Saturday, 22 June 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link
> how detonating nuclear warheads is like super cazh in these latest American ones
If you are stupid enough to watch the straight to TV films on the horror channel you'll see they fix everything with nuclear weapons. Asteroids, tornados, alien invasions, you name it.
Shin Godzilla was a bit weird, yes, but I'd still take it over the last two Hollywood Godzillas (not seen the new one)
― koogs, Sunday, 23 June 2019 00:43 (four years ago) link
rewatching the recent Hollywood Godzilla venture and, yes, it does a lot less with a huge budget than many low budget Godzilla movies
they really leaned too hard into the family drama aspects and boring white guy gets too much screen time
the plot about humans deciding to revive the "titans" in order to correct a planet out of balance, only to realize they've unleashed something that's not of earth, has some legs
tbh the best -- and maybe only good character -- is Ken Watanabe who gets all the reaction shots telling the real plot. he gets that something much bigger is going on, and his sacrifice in the movie is a good depiction of pure religious devotion to something he fears but respects
― caucus fricked iowa account (mh), Saturday, 8 February 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
otm. couldn't believe all my kaiju friends were going gonzo for this, because the Vera Farmiga storyline was fuckin' terrible.
by the time the big battle happened I was bored af
― ill fuckin put a paste on those (Neanderthal), Saturday, 8 February 2020 17:13 (four years ago) link