a good 75% of the human interactions (including that line) were just fodder so they’d have something to put in the trailer
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 14:10 (three years ago) link
*rebecca hall looks directly into the camera*
“kong bows to no one!”
Lol ok wiki:
Skarsgård called Nathan an homage to 1980s films like Indiana Jones, Romancing the Stone, Lethal Weapon, and Die Hard. Skarsgård prepped for the film by researching the Hollow Earth.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 14:13 (three years ago) link
little to no interest in the current iteration of the monsterverse, tho i do wanna see kong: skull island
you will not regret watching kong: skull island imo
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 14:18 (three years ago) link
skarsgard had to teach himself how to play a character that wasn't an enormous creep
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 14:20 (three years ago) link
The Godzilla one with Cranston has some good moments, Skull Island is probably my favorite of all of these and actually fun in a way the recent Godzilla movies never are, because they’re positioned as being more about loss and human drama.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters has a handful of fun moments, mostly contained in the monster battles, and a very thin selection of interesting human moments. Ken Watanabe and Vera Farmiga get some good bits, and don’t appear in GvK for (no spoilers) plot reasons from that movie. I have no idea why they shoehorned in MBB and Kyle Chandler into this new one, because the former has motivations that could have been any stock character and Chandler’s given absolutely zero to work with and his scenes just exist to suck the air out of the room. Brian Tyree Henry’s character seems like they wanted to cast Craig Robison and have him ad lib half the lines. All the material he has to work with his kind of boilerplate
For some reason, the bit that bugged me the most was the big evil corporation having all this highly advanced technology when this seems to take place in the present or at most the near future. The other ones didn’t really do that, and. now we’ve got these electromagnetic antigravity ships?
― mh, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 16:08 (three years ago) link
What do they have against gravity, anyway?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 16:11 (three years ago) link
why do I suddenly feel like I’m drinking coffee in a car
― mh, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 16:13 (three years ago) link
the (hopefully) best thing about watching GZvK is that it has motivated me to have a go at Shin Godzilla now
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 16:18 (three years ago) link
Shin Godzilla is great, but also a completely different type of movie than this run of new big budget Godzilla films. It's basically a drama about government bureaucracy with incidental Godzilla mayhem.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 16:23 (three years ago) link
Where did Tyree, MBB and Julian sneak onto the maglev subway? Florida? I could handle the giant monsters fine, but given that Seattle took 6 years to bore out the two mile Highway 99 tunnel, my brain tangented to "when/how did they build a FL to Hong Kong subway?" If there are secret societies amongst us, they are excellent at construction projects.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 16:27 (three years ago) link
one of the constant brain breakers about this film for me was the juxtaposition of an international super-science team that has the wherewithal to figure out how to basically lift the Ever Given with a big net and a fleet of jumbo helicopters in the space of a few hours but can't keep a seven year old from wandering on to the deck of an airplane carrieeror the amoral capitalist tesla (basically just tesla) company that creates an underground maglev supertrain from Florida to Hong Kong but doesn't take the time to check the cargo in its monster egg transportsetc ad infinitum
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 16:38 (three years ago) link
basically everyone sees the tech for the first time when they start using it, no one has a user's manual but everyone knows where the seatbelts are
evil capitalist guy and his evil capitalist daughter are incredibly unnecessarily stupid in the approach and execution of their goals and both die for laughs in the same stupid kind of "UH OH" sequences
i dunno, i think i'll remember this film much more than mank (and it's not much worse!) but i wish i hadn't bothered
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 16:41 (three years ago) link
I literally have no memory of an evil capitalist guy death scene. The daughter (who we kept calling Khloe Kardashian), what a stupid pointless drama free death that was, even for a stupid pointless character.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 17:02 (three years ago) link
that guy’s death scene was one of the few times I laughed, not because of the highly choreographed death, but because of another character saying “I really wanted to hear the rest of his speech!”
― mh, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 17:08 (three years ago) link
the role of The Other Kid played by Julian Dennison was really the most memorable character outside of the monsters
― mh, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 17:12 (three years ago) link
the cute deaf girl might lead him a little in plot relevance and screen time, though
― mh, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 17:13 (three years ago) link
biggest wtf plot thing for me was the business with ghidorah's skull having psychic powers? why not have it be his brain? was very confused by all that until i realized they were just positing that the skull also works like a brain (i guess?)
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 17:37 (three years ago) link
by far the best "i wanted to hear the rest of his speech" death scene in movie history is this one, everything else is just copying the masterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS8I9H07wKw
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 19:32 (three years ago) link
Elon Musk dude must have died when I was in the bathroom during that same minute that Mechagodzilla went rogue.
Question: if Musk could have made a giant robot, why did he decide on the form of a robot Godzilla? Lack of creativity, imo.
Meanwhile, how are they going to fill and plug the giant Kong-sized (plot) hole that runs from the center of the earth to Hong Kong?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 20:01 (three years ago) link
thoughts thoughts thoughts• forks otm, no question that is the GOAT of unfinished speeches• much like recent star wars, the first thing I thought on seeing the cybernetics office park with its own nuclear reactor was "okay where are they getting the money? let's talk cash flows..."• this had the unexpected effect of inoculating me from disbelief by the time we got to the Florida to HK tunnel bc sure lol why not nothing matters• feel like no one here is giving sufficient weight to the sheer edgar rice burroughs-ass majesty of the GODDAMN THRONE
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 00:53 (three years ago) link
the throne (and the throneroom) in particular is one of the places where i felt like the design was tastefully lazy. they basically went for brown fortress of solitude.
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 01:14 (three years ago) link
Who built those stairs?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 02:21 (three years ago) link
serf kong
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 16:02 (three years ago) link
watching this at the request of kids, I have no interest at all in action movies / sequences, but have do say that the dialogue is fucking appalling here. maybe all of these films are like this though, idk
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 25 April 2021 17:10 (two years ago) link
Man, tough crowd. What did you even expect a giant monkey or fire-breathing lizard to say, anyway?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 25 April 2021 17:29 (two years ago) link
something about supply-side economics
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Sunday, 25 April 2021 17:41 (two years ago) link
someone was spouting stuff about mind control via fluoride in the water, don't think it was one of the monsters
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 25 April 2021 17:47 (two years ago) link
GODZILLA IS HURTING PEOPLE AND WE DON'T KNOW WHY
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 25 April 2021 22:33 (two years ago) link
Monkeys have tails, apes don't. Kong is an ape fwiw.
Okay, I'll shut up now.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2021 04:01 (two years ago) link
If Kong can be a one-off ape the size of a skyscraper then he can also be a one-off giant monkey without a tail. That's just science.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 26 April 2021 12:35 (two years ago) link
king of the monsters is genuinely one of the most stupidly plotted efforts I've ever seen
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Friday, 4 February 2022 22:42 (two years ago) link
Hold up, in addition to that incredible looking Japanese "Godzilla Minus One" movie, there is an Apple TV Godzilla mini-series *also* coming out in November?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 13 October 2023 20:14 (six months ago) link
Seeing "Minus One" today, psyched.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 December 2023 16:03 (four months ago) link
Pretty much ruled. Basically a post war melodrama with a particularly angry Godzilla. Yes, you hear the original theme. Yes, Godzilla stills hates trains. But there's something particularly tragic about the beaten down population of Japan still reeling from WWII and forced to contend with a giant lizard on top of it all. As soon as a character mentions how quickly Ginza is rebuilding, you want to tell the poor person: don't bother.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 December 2023 22:19 (four months ago) link
Loved this
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Sunday, 3 December 2023 00:39 (four months ago) link
caught this going in totally cold and found it to be a pretty mixed bag. found the dramatic parts to be pretty corny and time-consuming, esp anything that had to do with the empty lead character and his “war.” sakura ando was _way_ underused! and the actor playing the lead really wasn’t up to the task of finding something interesting in there either. and went back to the well of updating beats from the OG film a few too many times too.
i did enjoy the smashin and bashin and how godzilla was actually scary again. but i dunno, shin godzilla is a masterpiece imo and this was pretty safe and dour in comparison. a little surprised by the hype.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Sunday, 3 December 2023 18:00 (four months ago) link
I thought the corniness was part of its charm, though I agree, there's a little too much boring drama, balanced out by some of the best Godzilla destruction in recent memory.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 December 2023 18:02 (four months ago) link
yea i can see that. i think if we had a director with more of a sense of humor and some more fun performances, i could have gotten more on board in a campy way. i haven't actually watched any of yamazaki’s live action and cg cartoon anime adaptations but he seems like a pretty bland director judging by this and a back catalog bursting with junk.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Sunday, 3 December 2023 18:11 (four months ago) link
Saw this last night, thought it was great.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 3 December 2023 18:55 (four months ago) link
I assume I'm not the only one that thought of "Jaws" throughout the movie, right?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 December 2023 19:16 (four months ago) link
Oh yeah, I spotted that bit immediately
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 3 December 2023 19:22 (four months ago) link
yeah, def. thought it captured the same kinda claustrophobia at sea as jaws pretty well.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Sunday, 3 December 2023 20:06 (four months ago) link
Call me a sucker but any action film with an anti-war message usually wins me over
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Sunday, 3 December 2023 21:59 (four months ago) link
All I can say is, keep this movie in mind while you watch this pile of poo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV1OOlGwExM
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 December 2023 22:11 (four months ago) link
G-1 was def anti-war but… maybe with a little bit of that old rambo 2 “can we win this time?” nationalism seasoning? (I’m honestly not so sure about this myself but I _did_ get scared that the movie was gonna lean into that more at some point, at least)
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Sunday, 3 December 2023 22:27 (four months ago) link
I worried about that too but the line from Doc about "not going to war is something to be proud of" kind of assuaged those worries
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Sunday, 3 December 2023 22:33 (four months ago) link
saw a trailer for Godzilla x Kong - The New Empire, and it looks terrible artistically, I assume almost all of the effects have to be extremely unfinished. it looked like a Playstation One game on my buddy's 80 inch TV.
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 December 2023 21:07 (four months ago) link
The plane reveal had me excited because I recognized the type. I knew that plane, I’d built a model of the German version of it.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 4 December 2023 23:13 (four months ago) link
yeah that was a mega cool moment.
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 December 2023 23:23 (four months ago) link