GIANT MONKEY BUTT FOR PRSEDINET: Kong Skull Island Movie

this is a bad movie but very, very pretty in 70mm. kong's body hair very tufty and luxuriant in 70mm. they should reprocess all bad movies in 70mm.

This is the kind of film my eight year old self dreamed of and one my middle aged self loved to bits. So much fun.

so the only reason this film exists is so that a godzilla vs kong film can exist then?

i was hoping the seismologist and the biologist would bone down :(

i thought it was kind of weird that hiddleston waited until they'd already marched however long it was away from the kong graveyard to the spot where chapman died to tell them that chapman was dead? wouldn't you bring that up a little sooner, partic if you think this trip is bogus anyway?

i will also admit not quiiite getting why kong was so sweet on lara croft, i mean brie larson. he'd seen plenty of human ladeez before?

then again i saw this movie in french lol so i may have, uh, missed a few things

when i saw the huge thunderclouds encircling the island i half expected one of the navy dudes to look up from his charts and exclaim "my god, that's the biggest break into act ii i've ever seen"

i will also admit not quiiite getting why kong was so sweet on lara croft, i mean brie larson. he'd seen plenty of human ladeez before?

She's a blonde white lady. That's kind of Kong's thing

you're right about the dog tags though. It was like, "Let's just chill in this gruesome boneyard for a while. Oh shit yeah, meant to say that the only reason we're here is already dead. Forgot to mention that."

Saving private Ryan for later

i will also admit not quiiite getting why kong was so sweet on lara croft, i mean brie larson. he'd seen plenty of human ladeez before?

Didn't he see her risking her safety to help that animal out from under the jeep, or helicopter, or whatever had fallen on it?

yeah. but wasn't kong responsible for that dude's plight in the first place? i guess it's easy to overlook a stray beefalo amongst the detritus of the 1000 carcasses of animals you killed in a rage-fit (i wouldn't know)

Oh u wouldn't would u not pfff

JACCUSE

rumbled

i am actually the undead soul of the crawling chaos nyarlathotep soz

I think it did an ok job of conveying that Kong was hulk-level "oh shit what did i get up to last night" Jekyll/Hyde split

Late now to cry spoiler so just wanna say when our grenade priming hero got kicked into the far cliff that was p much the movie moment of 2017 locked down for me

Has cgi got worse since Jurassic Park? This looked cheap as fuck

I agree with a lot of whiney's comments.

There are a ton of shots in this movie that are pretty ridiculously staged but I love all of them. Watching this at home with the handy rewind button at my disposal somehow turns this into a 3 hour movie for me.

I also love the design of the skull crawlers. DID U KNO that they were apparently based on a creature that pops up once in the original 1933 movie? http://godzilla.wikia.com/wiki/Two-Legged_Lizard - that's some good crate digging I think (the skull crawlers' own page on the gojipedia is kind of a candidate for People who have obviously written their own Wikipedia entry, S/D C/D though)

I'm not sure why people are ranking PR so high above this, frankly? Maybe I just have really high standards for mecha and lower standards for gigafauna or whatever

it's dumb and overloaded with CGI, but as a giant monster movie this towers over PR ... better build-ups to better monster battles, better use of a better cast, and better pacing

also: big apes

like, really big apes

I hope the next Godzilla is as much fun as this. The 2020 Gorilla/Gojira stand-off should be insane (and as above, ought to wind up with a team-up against - my guess - some kind of mecha controlled by skynet)

Or perhaps controlled by PRSEDINET rather

Kong taking a copter out the sky mere minutes after it arriving on the island is great

There really aren’t any non-great things done by King in this film.

I love the squid dinner too.

forget godzilla vs kong let's talk about this movie again

this movie is almost fury road level great, only the boringness of the Hiddleston and especially Larson characters, and a bit of lame banter, keep it below that level. a lot of the rest of the cast is pretty good! the effects are great! kong is great but not basically just a big furry person like he was in the new one! as stated upthread, incredible pacing! super colorful but not cartoonish! real-feeling gnarly violence and danger! why hasn't vogt-roberts been hired to do another one of these yet??

The rewatch value of this film is insane. No need to fast forward any dead space. There are a couple of lulls in the pacing but they are tiny and before you know it it’s “Oh Wow! Awesome!” all over again.

I don’t think I’d ever need to watch Kong vs Godzilla 2021 ever again. Or without massive FF’ing.

giant spider took down that imperialist hardcore

a good example of how this movie rules is how they set up the plot thread involving the lone soldier roughing it out while he waits for rescue, then instead have him get brutally eaten and literally gets his gory skull spat out with his tags, because that's what how it goes on skull island! you are the skull!!

lol true true

why hasn't vogt-roberts been hired to do another one of these yet??

possibly getting revenge-ported by his vine star girlfriend, then a sex worker tell-all-ing on the two of them, before the movie, then a porn actress me-too-ing him after the movie for forced kissing on the set of his and TJ Miller’s TV show, made universal determined not to let anyone with their own ideas write a movie at all, let alone hire him again

i watched this again - with my kids, this time - and it really deserves the praise. huge cast handled very adroitly. never lets up. lots of useless/upended bravado. when the grizzled vet decides to spectacularly sacrifice himself but just gets... unceremoniously twatted into a cliff. very vietnam. don't be a hero. just get the fuck out.

could watch hiddleston in a gas mask running through green smoke and slashing a katana through pterodactyls all day tbh

my 9-y-o HATED the slj character. HUGE cheers when he bit it. he even felt bad for the skullcrawler though lol

oh yeah Shea whigam gets one of the most iconic movie deaths in a long time xp

i had forgotten that the hollow earth theory makes a prominent straight-faced appearance in this movie

and continues to be a straight-faced major feature of this monsterverse afterwards

Vogt-Roberts is directing a Metal Gear Solid thing then a Gundam (giant robot suit, I think?) movie for Netflix.

can i tell you how ALL IN i am for both of those??