They were bones in the movie, looked like spines, there were no chains.Ummmmm....
Where'd the underground apes get chains from? Do they have a specialized ape blacksmith among them?
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
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Oh for sure. My partner and I both enjoyed it. We saw Minus One five times, this once, and that was enough. It'll be a good background flick for a sick day or the like when you don't want to think, just watch kaiju fights.
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Strange that KOTM gets that much love. I mean seeing the Big 4 on screen all together was awesome but the middle of the film was a complete drag and the ending was a let down.
Of course I should watch it now. I am sure that ending will seem brilliant.
jye4ever
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Almost every G fan I speak with not online choose KOTM simply because of Godzilla coming out of that ice scene lol
It truly is freaking epic it reminds me of the 2014 airport entrance.
Huge scale which is what Gareth excels at and that Michael Dougherty copied perfectly.
Wingard seriously lacks depicting scale.
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That scene is fantastic. Godzilla falling and then falling in the hole in the ice is pure Toho
I get this film was made for kids.
But did they have to make it for dumb kids?
But did they have to make it for dumb kids?
My son wanted to see this on the big screen (sigh) so I took him today and...ended up being quite entertained. 
Looking forward to receiving my dumb kid ID card in the mail, lol.
It felt like a goofy but fun 2015 blockbuster like AOU, Ant-Man 1, or Jurassic World. Maybe you guys just lowered my expectations enough for me to enjoy it. I've been chuckling about Kong beating the other apes with the kid monkey for hours, lol.
Looking forward to receiving my dumb kid ID card in the mail, lol.
It felt like a goofy but fun 2015 blockbuster like AOU, Ant-Man 1, or Jurassic World. Maybe you guys just lowered my expectations enough for me to enjoy it. I've been chuckling about Kong beating the other apes with the kid monkey for hours, lol.
What are you talking about, everybody knows how important it is to have a frost-bite healing right hand kaiju glove in storage for that unexpected moment when you really need it, lol.
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Why do you have to be so meanie, Wor? 
This was great movie to bring no expectations in and just enjoy the dumb blockbustery nature of it. Glad you and the lad seemed to enjoy it. That scene in particular got a laugh from my partner and I for sure.My son wanted to see this on the big screen (sigh) so I took him today and...ended up being quite entertained.
Looking forward to receiving my dumb kid ID card in the mail, lol.
It felt like a goofy but fun 2015 blockbuster like AOU, Ant-Man 1, or Jurassic World. Maybe you guys just lowered my expectations enough for me to enjoy it. I've been chuckling about Kong beating the other apes with the kid monkey for hours, lol.
You should see The Yellow Submarine if you want the answer, it is certainly something
My best friend who has very similar taste to me enjoyed it also. He said he knew it was bad but that he was somehow still able to have fun with it. So apparently its just not the kind of fun i like.My son wanted to see this on the big screen (sigh) so I took him today and...ended up being quite entertained.
Looking forward to receiving my dumb kid ID card in the mail, lol.
It felt like a goofy but fun 2015 blockbuster like AOU, Ant-Man 1, or Jurassic World. Maybe you guys just lowered my expectations enough for me to enjoy it. I've been chuckling about Kong beating the other apes with the kid monkey for hours, lol.
I watched Kong: Skull Island and Godzilla v Kong last night. Both true dumb fun films IMO and the films you mentioned, Ant-Man and Jurassic World, were both better made films... Especially Jurassic World.
This film is better compared to the last few Fast and Furious films. Another series that got dumber and dumber until it went full ******.
I liked that Godzilla was killing thousands upon thousands of people while "helping" the good guys, lol.
"Hey, go call Godzilla, we need him!"
*Godzilla responds, destroys all of Cairo in the process*
Um maybe get his attention when there isn't a teeming population center in between the two of you, lol.
"Hey, go call Godzilla, we need him!"
*Godzilla responds, destroys all of Cairo in the process*
Um maybe get his attention when there isn't a teeming population center in between the two of you, lol.
I finally had a chance to see this on Saturday with my sons.
It was a fun film with some incredible visuals and some quality story elements, but overall it doesn't work for me and is probably my least favorite MonsterVerse film.
My biggest overall issue with this movie is that for the most part, it feels like 3 separate stories not really connected very well with one another.
You have Kong on his personal journey in Hollow Earth, Jia on her journey discovering the lost Iwi tribe, and Godzilla running around taking steroids for a fight that doesn't come until the last 20 minutes.
The movie truly feels like a Kong movie with Godzilla added in for the sake of appearances. Godzilla's screen time doesn't feel at all connected to Kong's story until the two actually come together. In Kong vs Godzilla '62 and GvK, even though they both had separate stories going on , the overall film felt like it connected their stories and they included multiple run ins with each other over the course of the film, which worked out. This time it doesn't, particularly because Godzilla's scenes were short and felt like they were done out of requirement and not with any real purpose.
Even Jia's story feels disconnected with her time around Kong being much less than it was in GvK.
I feel like I'd have felt better about this movie if it had simply been a Kong movie and not billed as Godzilla and Kong. It would have even worked if it was a Kong film and Godzilla showed up, not going through any evolution process, and helped with the final fight.
What stings particularly with Godzilla is the huge, missed opportunity to realize a classic Godzilla scene with the wow of modern visuals, which was the nuclear power plan scene. This could have been a much longer scene and had more impact for Godzilla fans, but it was kept to short and only as much as needed to be scene to move along. Had they shown Godzilla arriving, and destroying the plant and starting to absorb the radiation in addition to what was shown on screen, that would have been amazing.
Another missed opportunity would have been showing the historical battles referenced in exposition instead of just briefly talking about it.
I think this movie suffered a bit from build up from filmmakers in marketing before release in how they presented Skar King. While he was not a real physical threat to anyone, like they seemed to talk him up, he was an interesting new style of villain. I would equate him to being similar to Emperor Palpatine, power hungry, but uses influence over others to get them to do his dirty work for him.
Shimo is a great design but an odd character. The exposition makes Shimo seem like a really bad kaiju, saying how she caused the ice age, yet, once she is freed from Skar King, she becomes a pal of Kong, just didn't feel like a natural character arc.
Godzilla's evolved design looked great on screen, though rumor mill is that the design will return to his 2019/2021 design, that the evolved effects will wear off and were only temporary.
Kong was fantastic in this movie, lots of showcasing of his intelligence and emotions, and he was truly the highlight of the movie, but again, it felt like it was his movie, so that should be the case.
As of right now, this would be my ranking of the MonsterVerse films based on my enjoyment for rewatching them, not getting into quality of filmmaking or anything of that sort.
1. Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2. Godzilla vs Kong
3. Kong: Skull Island
4. Godzilla
5. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
With all of this said, I am glad the movie is succeeding and giving reason for this series to continue.
I have two hopes for the future of the MonsterVerse.
It was a fun film with some incredible visuals and some quality story elements, but overall it doesn't work for me and is probably my least favorite MonsterVerse film.
My biggest overall issue with this movie is that for the most part, it feels like 3 separate stories not really connected very well with one another.
You have Kong on his personal journey in Hollow Earth, Jia on her journey discovering the lost Iwi tribe, and Godzilla running around taking steroids for a fight that doesn't come until the last 20 minutes.
The movie truly feels like a Kong movie with Godzilla added in for the sake of appearances. Godzilla's screen time doesn't feel at all connected to Kong's story until the two actually come together. In Kong vs Godzilla '62 and GvK, even though they both had separate stories going on , the overall film felt like it connected their stories and they included multiple run ins with each other over the course of the film, which worked out. This time it doesn't, particularly because Godzilla's scenes were short and felt like they were done out of requirement and not with any real purpose.
Even Jia's story feels disconnected with her time around Kong being much less than it was in GvK.
I feel like I'd have felt better about this movie if it had simply been a Kong movie and not billed as Godzilla and Kong. It would have even worked if it was a Kong film and Godzilla showed up, not going through any evolution process, and helped with the final fight.
What stings particularly with Godzilla is the huge, missed opportunity to realize a classic Godzilla scene with the wow of modern visuals, which was the nuclear power plan scene. This could have been a much longer scene and had more impact for Godzilla fans, but it was kept to short and only as much as needed to be scene to move along. Had they shown Godzilla arriving, and destroying the plant and starting to absorb the radiation in addition to what was shown on screen, that would have been amazing.
Another missed opportunity would have been showing the historical battles referenced in exposition instead of just briefly talking about it.
I think this movie suffered a bit from build up from filmmakers in marketing before release in how they presented Skar King. While he was not a real physical threat to anyone, like they seemed to talk him up, he was an interesting new style of villain. I would equate him to being similar to Emperor Palpatine, power hungry, but uses influence over others to get them to do his dirty work for him.
Shimo is a great design but an odd character. The exposition makes Shimo seem like a really bad kaiju, saying how she caused the ice age, yet, once she is freed from Skar King, she becomes a pal of Kong, just didn't feel like a natural character arc.
Godzilla's evolved design looked great on screen, though rumor mill is that the design will return to his 2019/2021 design, that the evolved effects will wear off and were only temporary.
Kong was fantastic in this movie, lots of showcasing of his intelligence and emotions, and he was truly the highlight of the movie, but again, it felt like it was his movie, so that should be the case.
As of right now, this would be my ranking of the MonsterVerse films based on my enjoyment for rewatching them, not getting into quality of filmmaking or anything of that sort.
1. Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2. Godzilla vs Kong
3. Kong: Skull Island
4. Godzilla
5. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
With all of this said, I am glad the movie is succeeding and giving reason for this series to continue.
I have two hopes for the future of the MonsterVerse.
- Godzilla is the featured kaiju of the next film.
- If Wingard completes his "trilogy", I hope is the last Godzilla/Kong combo movie for awhile. Godzilla and Kong are not the Avengers, there are limits to what you can do with them both in a movie. They should return to some solo films for awhile and build towards some big event to bring them together again.
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