How many times is Godzilla going to be rebooted? 2014 edition

Will this be the franchise entry that finally tackles the issue of the monsters' respective digestive processes?

Gizzardilla

Would be awesome if the upcoming CGI headache turned out to be another secret reboot of "Blair Witch."

Loved GODZILLA VS. KONG! Great, comprehensible action, a fittingly gonzo story, and they did an incredible job hiding their big twist (for most of the movie, both Godzilla and Kong are very, very small)

— ben mekler (@benmekler) March 21, 2021

The script is rotten, but kid me would have ate this up. Daylight CGI Godzilla! Kong! They fight! More than once! And a third joins in! Kids save the day!

And as someone noted elsewhere, Kong has an axe.

watching tonight

:D

MZS review just batshit enough to get me thinking i might do the same this weekend

i am 2/3 through

this is batshit and dumb and really good
i already think i love it

guys i think

i’m pretty sure

that this rules?

Yeah, solid stuff. These two tweets are complementary and accurate:

Totally appreciated that Godzilla Vs Kong was apparently scripted by a 12-year-old boy after eating all his Halloween candy at once - this is not a diss

— Art Of Coop (@ARTofCOOP) April 1, 2021

So #GodzillavsKong was great but once again too much humans talking about some bullshit

— Kiki La Double Mask will be at the hospital bar (@kdc) April 1, 2021

In case anyone is wondering, #GodzillaVsKong's Jia is played by a Deaf actress, Kaylee Hottle and I hope this debut role leads to so many more. I loved her! pic.twitter.com/zDVKGSuMtS

— Kate Sánchez⁷ (@OhMyMithrandir) March 31, 2021

Junkie XL did an awesome job w the score too

Wingard references a lot of things in my wheelhouse in this interview & I think it explains why the movie worked so well. Dude just GETS it

https://filmschoolrejects.com/godzilla-vs-kong-adam-wingard-interview/

can’t wait to watch this ! Loved “ Skull Island”.

this is MUCH better than Skull Island, and crazier

Isn’t “too much humans talking about some bullshit” a major part of the Godzilla experience

Like the effects are expensive and you gotta hit the runtime so put some people you don’t care about in there talking about stuff that doesn’t make sense and doesn’t matter

Talking scenes in kaiju films should be funny or camp, that's what the '60s/'70s Godzilla films understood

Kong: Skull Island was that

the previous two Godzilla films have been deathly boring though

Godzilla vs Kong was kind of flat compared to Skull Island. I thought that one, even when the human characters were goofy, had decent characterization and you could point to each character and explain their motivation. GvsK just... has motivations that make no sense whatsoever

It did deliver everything promised by the title, though.

Shin Godzilla, which I will never shut up about, had a lot of human time which was.awesome

The exception that proves the rule -- the whole point of Shin Godzilla isn't the monster so much as the fuck-ups.

still waiting for the gonzo Fury Road/Raid version of one of these thats just all the good stuff and none of the boring stuff

Shin Godzilla is amazing.

I'm realizing that the only Godzilla I have seen is 1998...

okay this is unexpectedly great

MZS review pretty OTM

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/godzilla-vs-kong-movie-review-2021

so many fave moments but i looooled at how Kong slams his shoulder into a skyscraper to pop it back into place like Riggs in Lethal Weapon

somehow never saw the 2014 one, any good?

you guys have me sold on shin godzilla

Shin Godzilla rules, great pandemic movie

idk maybe i dont have the patience to enjoy these movies the way they are meant to be enjoyed but i got very frustrated with how complicated the plot was and how many characters there were in order to create situations where king kong and godzilla fight each other. idgaf about the backstory of the guy who does the podcast about the monster technology company or the handsome guy piloting the hollow earth shuttlecraft or w/e, monster smash stuff plz.

the fights btw godzilla and king kong were very fun especially the underwater stuff but in the big city i kept wishing the camera would step back and stay still more so i could see them better, i was losing patience for the 'you are there' swooping videogame camera moves and closeups, but i guess thats how modern CGI action is presented now. this was still fun but i also wish i'd just fast forwarded through everything except the parts where kong and/or godzilla smash stuff.

This was cool. Still prefer the pulpy and trim(mer) “Skull Island”, though.

just watched godzilla 2014....a few amazing moments of godzilla ownage but a bit of a slog to get there. going from cranston to tylor-johnson as focus character is a huge downgrade. the dusty grey was irritating but it made the halo jumping sequence look incredible, that almost has the feeling of what a good live-action Eva should feel like. but only for about.....2 minutes.

watanabe, olsen, hawkins all woefully overqualified

meanwhile Skull Island is even better than I remembered. considering the sheer density of MCU actors in this it's a miracle vogt-roberts didn't get sucked into that orbit (or hasn't yet, anyway). it looks so good!

man, this was absolute dogshit trash. you don't need to have the tightest script or the most memorable performances in a monster movie, but you should probably at least try

it had some OK moments but it was no Skull Island.

pity poor Brian Tyree Henry who was stuck with maybe the worst-timed "hero" imaginable

he tried to bring the right amount of conspiracy-crazy but the script didn’t quite cut it imo

This was like a cross between one of the bad '70s Godzilla movies and a bad '80s movie but with state of the art special effects that ... wasn't totally bad? But was totally stupid. I suppose in the end I'd much rather something like this be almost totally incoherent but come in under two hours than try to be incoherent, hit 2 1/2 hours and still be incoherent. And boring. Which this was at times, too, but again, at under 2 hours, it could have been worse. But not much stupider.

In 2021 “under two hours” is like an automatic 7/10 minimum.

the effects were...fine? kong haymakering godzilla on the aircraft carrier was p sick, otherwise this would have just been better as a video game

Def. felt 90+% CG, that's for sure. Would play a game that looked like this. Certainly the games I've been playing lately have been better written.

I only noticed the liquid/green blood effects being extremely janky, almost Xavier Renegade Angel-esque at times

I assumed they did that partly so that the grisly stuff (monsters beheaded, brains sucked out, creatures getting ripped in half, etc.) wouldn't get the movie an R.

I really think brody nailed what was missing with this flick

I gotta respect Brody panning #GodzillaVsKong despite all the "how do you do fellow kids" types on here who decided it's so dumb you get to love it. There's little worse than the professional culture drudge who decides to let us know, "I'm fun!" They always pick the wrong movie.

— Pfizer Wilhelm (@benschwartz_) April 3, 2021

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/godzilla-vs-kong-reviewed-a-monster-mush-of-two-venerable-franchises

this was pure trash and i regret sitting through it

- it presumed i knew or cared about the past films (which i'm pretty sure I watched?!?) but i do not
- the design of the monsters and tech and cities and costumes was tasteful and clean and derivative and expensive looking and utterly uninspired
- it has been awhile since i watched a big non-marvel summer blockbuster but i'm stunned at how painfully dumb every single line and action was. relentless inanity.
- the actors, as noted above, might as well have been in entirely different movies; everyone poorly served in every way
- the cynicism of godzilla/kong/mechazilla's respective body count - clearly each in the tens of thousands regardless of what fake news CNN says - juxtaposed with little crying girl clapping so that kong comes back to life was nauseating
- fight sequences fine enough to keep me around but otherwise generally moribund sequences throughout

not a fan

how in the fuck are you gonna put lance reddick in a movie and give him like four seconds of screen time

May I add that Millie Bobby Brownie is dead weight on the screen as well? Absolutely no charisma. The little girl from Kong's island stole the movie and she just blinked a lot and shed a tear.

how in the fuck are you gonna put lance reddick in a movie and give him like four seconds of screen time