Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)

[blakninja]

Originally Posted by JayTL

How does this family have the exact skills needed for the plot at the very moment they needed to?

Like her, who suddenly knows more than the army general?

[CyberpunkCentral]

Originally Posted by blakninja

Bring Mortal Kombat into the MCU please.

[unsung122212]

Originally Posted by mwynn

Right, the movie just has some parts of the plot that do not line up.

Why is Kong in an artificial environment on Skull Island. Why would they spend money on something like that?

The budgets of these two companies has to be astronomical. Where do they get this kind of funding? They just have stuff on demand.

They built it caused they suspected that it would lead to a titan confrontation between Kong and Godzilla. They were protecting the world from another fight with potential casualties, I guess. Not really any different from the sites were they did the same thing. Just this time the titan was alive. I don’t recall them saying when the cage was built, built, but it is mentioned that all of the natives on Skull Island, besides for Jia, were killed from a storm. So, perhaps the damage from ghidorah in GKotM caused instability in that region.

Originally Posted by blakninja

Btw, did Kong live in the Hollow Earth in the past? Alone? How did he escape?

It was mentioned that Skull Island was like another opening from Hollow Earth where Kong’s ancestors climbed up and out into this world. Similar to the site in Antarctica and the sea opening in GKotM where Godzilla went to recharge after the military use the oxygen deprivation bomb in that movie.

They also mentioned genetic memory theory to explain why Kong knew where he was going in Hollow Earth.

[jayman3]

Originally Posted by fred25_Ca

I wasn't sure about what I thought about that at first either but thinking about it I think it's fairly fitting. For one, it reminded me of the Universal movie Wolf man meets Frankenstein, where Frankenstein had had multiple movies but this was only the first sequel to the wolfman and they made it as a wolfman movie with Franky as the bad guy in it. I feel like they did something similar here, seeing as Godzilla had already had his big epic sequel, unlike Kong. This to me felt like a Kong movie with Godzilla as the bad guy.
Another reason I think it works is that's also pretty much what the original King kong vs Godzilla movie was. Godzilla had very little personality and was the main antagonist of the movie, the big bad wolf if you will. And seeing as this was way more of a remake than I anticipated, I thought it was really cool they went this direction. It just blew my mind even more thinking about it, these guys are such big fans, it's really awesome.

Makes sense.

Weren’t they just trying to relocate Kong? It’s only that Godzilla got in the way of things.

[starsteam]

Skull Island was ravaged by the storm, which apparently killed off everything besides Kong and Jia. The artificial environment outpost was protecting Kong from the storm. Kong couldn't stay on Skull Island otherwise. Skull Island is the only place he was safe from Godzilla.

The Birth of Kong comic book established that Kong was born on Skull Island and that generations of his family have lived there. The ones who came from the Hollow Earth had to be a very long time ago.

[Underworld54]

So many arm chair writers and directors in here...dear lord.

[avs commenter]

So it seems the Kongs won the ancient war since we know about Kongs family and Zilla id likely much older?

[y2jman]

I saw it this afternoon around 3 pm it was pack awesome movie

[JMDiaz718]

I’d give it a 3/5.

Lot of cool monster battles. The effects were excellent. The flying cobra things were cool. I wasn’t really all that wowed by the final fight with Mecha G.

Rebecca Hall was wasted, the little girl was cute. The two teens and blogger scenes were painful to watch. I wasn’t a fan of the Middle Earth plot. Should’ve just kept it on Skull Island.

Still, it was entertaining.

[John1701D]

Oh good Lord what did I just watch. Absolutely spectacular night time fight scene surrounded by a brain dead pile of wtf nonsense.

[blakninja]

Originally Posted by JMDiaz718

I wasn’t a fan of the Middle Earth plot. Should’ve just kept it on Skull Island.

I felt Kong: Skrull Island was more grounded in reality, while Godzilla v Kong is more sci-fi with its Hollow Earth stuff.

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by Underworld54

So many arm chair writers and directors in here...dear lord.

I am in the game.

[doctorD]

Just got home from watching GvK with the Mrs. Really enjoyed it. Some top notch action. Can’t wait to watch it again at home.

[Freezeup]

GvsK really didn't vibe with me. But then again, neither did the Godzilla films. Very disappointed. Felt like I was watching a mindless futuristic video game with human characters you don't care about. Sometimes that works but it didn't for me here. Could have been so much better so it gets a 2.5 from me. Maybee a 2nd watch will bump it up?

Skull Island on the other hand I loved.

[Mikezilla3k]

Originally Posted by CyberpunkCentral

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[StarWarsIsAwesome123]

1. Kong: Skull Island
2. Godzilla vs. Kong
3. Godzilla
4. Godzilla: King of the Monsters

I like KOTM less and less the more I watch it. Especially with it's stupid plotline about humanity destroying itself, and the idiotic mom who they tried to give a redemptive arc even though she got a million people killed. Plus the action in GvK is a sizable improvement over KOTM's action.

[Darkstream]

Originally Posted by JMDiaz718

Middle Earth

My wife referred to it as that, and my son and I haven't stopped ripping on her because of it. We told her the next one will be called Kong: The Return of the King and he'll fight giant Hobbits.

[Britbuffguy]

Might try to see this tomorrow. Wasn't planning on it, but need a big, loud, dumb popcorn movie. I got the first vaccine tonight, so unsure if I'll feel too sluggish tomorrow or not.

[slumcat]

Godzilla V Kong Review

This has to be one of the most outrageous movies I have seen in some time. I mean sure in any big budget CGI movie we are being asked to suspend disbelief but there is always some context to it.

Are we to really believe that in this day and age, a concept like the earth is hollow with creatures living inside it can be shown so nonchalantly.

I found that portion of the film simultaneously the most interesting as well as the most preposterous.

Literally nothing in this movie makes sense. The human characters do jack most of the times. Name one thing Millie Bobby Brown - 2nd billed - actually accomplishes in this film? After she meets up with Henry, they are all just running around. She's superficially leading the group but she doesn't really contribute anything. That entire trio is only there for exposition. And they just manage to stop this minor attack in the end.

Rebecca Hall in some ways is the human lead. She (through the girl) actually makes a lot of the decisions that drive the film. Why is she 3rd billed? Alexander Skarsgard is top billed only because he is a white male. He literally is this crackpot scientist who Bichir contacts to get things started but otherwise his role could have been eliminated from the film without changing it.

Only Hall and the little girl actually truly matter to the plot of the film.

The fights were okay. Not really my thing seeing barrage of pixels colliding into each other.

Godzilla is overpowered. Basically in any fair fight, he wins 10 out of 10 times against Kong.

The movie was clearly on Kong's side, in some ways he was the hero of the story but he needed help in every single fight. Not one could he win on his own. Maybe it is interesting to have such an underdog hero. Maybe makes him more relatable.

The script and plot are totally ridiculous. I had moments where I was thinking what on earth are they showing me? It is all a little bit crazy and unhinged. I guess props to them that for a big budget committee made tentpole, it is definitely quite a bonkers movie.

Then again maybe movies like these are normal and I just haven't seen them. Like I know Transformers movies show crazy things as well, but I haven't seen a single one and you couldn't pay me to watch one.

I haven't even seen Godzilla King of Monsters and Kong Skull Island. Though I did see Godzilla with Elizabeth Olsen and all I remember is the blue vomit at the end and that the movie literally took place in darkness.

I only saw this because it was free on HBO Max and I already had a sub to watch ZSJL. There was no chance I would have paid individually to watch this movie in theaters.

So again, mildly interesting for some of its out there scifi aspects but also a totally ridiculous movie.

1 star out of 5

[Gamma_Winstead]

Watched it today on HBO max. It was fine. Definitely a step above KotM which was honestly kind of terrible, but not as good as Godzilla or Kong Skull Island. Godzilla 2014 nailed tone and atmosphere. Kong: Skull Island gave the humans something to do, and was possibly the most well rounded. This one delivered on the monster fights, but it's kind of just a weird mess otherwise. Not a distracting mess, in the way KotM was, but the kind of mess where I've forgotten a lot of what the human characters were actually doing already and its only been a few hours since I watched it.

Thankfully though, unlike KotM, the humans aren't the main focus of the runtime. They're there just enough to connect plot threads and move us along scene to scene, but they didn't really try and make a big deal out of them. Hell, most of the time what they're doing, or how they get there, doesn't even make sense... but who cares. You're there for Monke V Lizard. It delivers on that aspect.

Still, they could have saved some money and cut several characters, like Kyle Chandler. I get it, MBB's character is underage so they needed him there just to show that she has her dad still after the last film, but like... her dad added literally nothing. He just wanders around a bit looking confused. No arc, no character building. Same with Lance Reddick. They paid him, clearly. He's fourth billed. He shows up for five seconds, and delivers half his line on screen, with the second half of his line ADR'd in. Just... why pay these people?

I really loved how expressive Godzilla was in this one too. He had some hilarious expressions. Like his cocky grin after

[Show spoiler]blasting Kong in the back.