I'm on the love train for King of the Monsters too. Bar a slightly ropey final sequence it's great fun and looks amazing. Had the Atmos on the other day and it's insane, one of the best showcases.
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I liked the visual elements of KOTM, it looks great and it's constantly moving but I struggled with the story of it, the film felt messy and easily the weakest of the three.Comment
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Movie 37 - Godzilla vs Kong
The initial culmination of the Monsterverse due to Legendary being unsure as to whether audiences interest was lasting with the films, this fourth entry in this timeline saw humans capture Kong and move him to the Hollow Earth so that he can retrieve a power for them that can finally stop Godzilla. But as the two of them battle, a group has secretly been working on Mechagodzilla who is telepathically overtaken by the remains of King Ghidorah.
Did this entry provide a satisfying culmination to the four film arc and a quality Mechagodzilla appearance following his Spielberg directed US debut?
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I got genuine goosebumps when Godzilla emerges by the boat and the Godzilla Theme starts up.Originally posted by briareos_kerensky View Post
Close personal friend of mine, Bear McReary (he liked one of my tweets) seen here conducting during the recording of it - sound UP!
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Yes, I should have mentioned how amazing the soundtrack is. It is its own thing but brings in the classic theme beautifully. It's incredibly powerful on its own, made even more epic by it being the classic Godzilla theme.Originally posted by QualityChimp View PostComment
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I really wanted to like GvK, but it was just boring, IMHO.
38.3% was spent in some giant sub-continental subway system that terrorists built, or something. Whut?
I thought the GvK fight was well done, telling a story without too much narrative needed.
I think it's right that G overpowered K, then teamed up at the end as he was always going to be more powerful in those ridiculous internet arguments about fictional stuff.
I did laugh at this prediction of how they'd make up:
Also, it just seemed to shift back to pretty bland night battles again and lost all the vibrancy of KotM.
Did they change director or cinematographer or something?
Also, I just didn't click with their take on Mechagodzilla. I dunno, he just looks like one of those magnifying stands.
In comparison, I thought the Ready Player One version looked pretty badass and it's been controlled by a bad guy, although it's not a gorilla-faced alien from Black Hole Planet 3.
Urgh, searching for that pic found this set that I'm now thinking of getting...
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For me, Godzilla vs Kong was a misfire. It's really messy, has a whole bunch of story strands that didn't engage me (one with a bunch of kids that didn't really go anywhere), and for me it dipped into fantasy to a point where nothing really mattered. And I know that's a weird criticism when we're talking giant monsters and taking into account the events of the previous film, which I loved. But when GvK went into the Earth, none of it really made sense to me at all in terms of how gravity worked, where the light was coming from or anything really, and it all looked so CG that I was no longer in the world of the film.
King of the Monsters felt to me like the real world had been invaded by fantastical mythical beasts. For me, there was barely a real world in GvK. They were golden light CG sets. And that made a huge difference to me,
I guess they felt like Kong would be a more relatable character and that's why he got more focus, and they're probably right, but it didn't have the engaging human characters and fun like Skull Island had so the film suffered there for me. In the absence of that, I wanted more Godzilla action but didn't hugely get it until the end.
And the appearance of Mechagodzilla was a bit of a crowd-pleaser but didn't really get the build up it needed to mean all that much.
I did enjoy some of the action but, to me, it's a far weaker movie than any of the three other Legendary films.Comment
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Yup, they changed director for GvK and presumably the next film will be similar in how its presented as the same director is returning and after GvK was a hit for the studio they will probably go for route of not changing much upComment
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I think Millie Bobby Brown is a brilliant actor, but she was just wasted in this.
I keep saying that we need a word or phrase that describes finding something mundane unbelievable, but totally accepting all the other elements in a completely fantastical story.
I've tweeted Susie Dent, so I'll let you know. If not, I'll make my own word up.
100% agree on everything on your post, Dogg.Comment
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This is going to sound really bad but I feel like MBB was part of the problem in GvK. It's not a personal thing to her but because of her profile from Stranger Things she felt shoe-horned into a film that the character didn't really need to be there for. Sometimes an actor can overcome that, elevating the material but I'd say she's... not that good?
I don't mean it as a slight to her, she's fine in Stranger Things, but that role does spend large amounts of time not really requiring her to do that much and outside of that show she's not really done anything of real note so to hook the films human storyline around her as an extension of KOTM felt really, really strained for the sake of providing some sort of connection to the previous entry and some face recognition from ST's popularity. The film would have done better to once again solely focus on new characters caught up in the mix.
GvK is all over the place as a film though, it's very much a case of them reaching a point where they go all out and to be honest the saving grace of the film is the latter section. The set up drags a little and the middle borders on being too boring but once you hit the near death revival of Godzilla it goes all out and as someone less well versed with the Toho films I almost admired the studio for having the gall to actually put millions of dollars into having Mechagodzilla rock up on screen. It does leave things feeling a little exhausted though for the future.Comment
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I think she's great and having bad material to work with is hardly her fault. *Shrug*
Back to KotM: director Michael Dougherty was and the cinematographer was Lawrence Sher, neither of which makes me go "Oh! That's why it looks like that!" like Alfonso Cuarón uses cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, who does all those amazing one-shot sequences (Children of Men, Gravity, The Revenant).
As for the future of Godzilla, I'm not sure where they go now he's fought all the big names like Ghidorah, Mechagodzilla, Kong and Rodan.
Could reboot again like the Japanese ones did every three films!
I guess the critical mass idea could work, with the world trying to survive Godzilla melting cities, but I don't think they'd want to lose their main character.Comment
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I saw Godzilla VS Kong a couple of times and I still have to figure out if I dislike it or really dislike it. The Kong side is pretty strong, but the rest is meh. The one thing I'm sure is Mecha Godzilla here looks like a Bayformer, it's nowhere near as cool as the original MechaG or Kiryu, and I was honestly disappointed seeing it.
The conspiracy plot is almost laughable, especially after how serious the other Legendary Godzilla and Kong movies were.Comment
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Needs more rivets on his space titanium.Comment
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Movie 38 - Godzilla 1945
We take a rare step into the future in this thread as we reach the 38th Godzilla movie, this entry being the upcoming Toho live action film which is set to release in November of this year and will yet again see the timeline restarted with the storyline taking place sometime around the year 1945 as Godzilla first emerges.
Based on Toho's last few films and the historical setting, does this latest entry sound like an appealing concept for Godzilla?Comment
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