Well its entertaining for one, while dune is an absolute snorefest
Film Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
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Yeah, if you’re twelve years old perhaps.
In the immortal words of George Lucas: "A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. People have a tendency to confuse them as an end to themselves. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing".
Words he definitely lived by during his entire career.
Kong picks up the baby Kong and uses it as a weapon
that alone is worth the admissionSay what now?
oh look, this tasty sister is banging her brother. the height of intellectual cinema.
ffs. spoilers.
“don’t blame them. i always wanted to tap that.” but he’d never hint at which one he was discussing.
If you get no joy out of Godzilla diving off the rock of Gibraltar olympic diving style into the sea to go scrap with kong you must be dead inside
Also hes about to atomic breath kongs face off and Mothra comes and scolds them for fighting like an angry Mom pure cinema
Also hes about to atomic breath kongs face off and Mothra comes and scolds them for fighting like an angry Mom
pure cinemaHey, I'm dead inside.
Imagine going to a Godzilla movie for story, wtf did people expect from this? It is what is should be, giant monsters fighting, nothing more should be expected from it. Shoving pointless human stories in these movies is what makes them worse.
So many people today are acting like fancy critics that can't enjoy a mindless fun action anymore. Not everything has to be a deep artsy 3 hour slog. And I am saying this as someone who loves slow dramas.
So many people today are acting like fancy critics that can't enjoy a mindless fun action anymore. Not everything has to be a deep artsy 3 hour slog. And I am saying this as someone who loves slow dramas.
The era of brainless superhero action movies or with monsters is over. Godzilla Minus One is hundred times better movie than this garbage, because guess what there is a story..
Do you think it's possible that there is something in between "3 hour artsy movie" and "CGI nightmare"?
When it comes to recent fun action movies I like, I thought the new Top Gun movie was a pretty good example. Going back a bit further, I loved Mad Max: Fury Road. Both movies were largely about the action scenes, of course, but there was a bit more going on that just that.
There is no "era of brainless action movies". They were always here in the 80s, 90s, 00s etc. Both Godzilla Minus One and this one are fun in their own way. Also, guess what, no one cares about the story in Kaiju fighting movies. If you do, you are not the target audience. People just want to see them fight, that is literally it. I am just glad I don't have the pretentious "movie critic" state of mind so I can enjoy wider variety of movies without nitpicking every little scene to death.
I am aware that Godzilla Minus One is generally a better movie, that doesn't mean I can't enjoy both. There are tons of "bad" movies from the 80s and 90s that are really fun to watch. It is not that fecking serious.
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fecking hell this was an epic pile of turd and I'm usually a fan of silly blockbusters.
Waiting for @pauldyson1uk to weigh in, the Barry Norman of the caf.
I enjoyed it. I went in expecting sillyness and got it. I enjoyed the bit with no human characters for like that 10/15 mins
Maybe if they kept to that for longer it would be better
Maybe if they kept to that for longer it would be better
Just as Godzilla is about to lay the killer blow Kong whispers mothra.If you get no joy out of Godzilla diving off the rock of Gibraltar olympic diving style into the sea to go scrap with kong you must be dead inside
Also hes about to atomic breath kongs face off and Mothra comes and scolds them for fighting like an angry Mom
"Why did you say that name?"
I see a lot of people (not here) comparing this to Minus One and being disappointed. I get why and I love Minus One too but they are going for 2 completely different things
Minus One was all about the humans and seeing it from their perspective with the backdrop of WW2, Godzilla x Kong (and the Hollywood franchise in general) is all about the monster's and from their perspective. This is even more obvious when they did like 15 mins of this film just focusing on Kong walking around and seeing Scar King for the first time, there is no human or dialogue
The collateral damage these guys cause in the Monsterverse films is hardly addressed because quite frankly, when it comes to these films, nobody cares. The purpose of these films is quite simply just to watch and hopefully enjoy monster vs monster.
I agree that when there is human elements in this film they should be better but if you are going into a Hollywood Godzilla/Kong film for emotional human story then you chose the wrong film
Minus One was all about the humans and seeing it from their perspective with the backdrop of WW2, Godzilla x Kong (and the Hollywood franchise in general) is all about the monster's and from their perspective. This is even more obvious when they did like 15 mins of this film just focusing on Kong walking around and seeing Scar King for the first time, there is no human or dialogue
The collateral damage these guys cause in the Monsterverse films is hardly addressed because quite frankly, when it comes to these films, nobody cares. The purpose of these films is quite simply just to watch and hopefully enjoy monster vs monster.
I agree that when there is human elements in this film they should be better but if you are going into a Hollywood Godzilla/Kong film for emotional human story then you chose the wrong film
Agree with this. There's a place for both. Sometimes you want a great story with great characters. Sometimes you want to see absolute monster destruction
Average Godzilla movie reviews: "Getting tired of CGI movies, why cant they just pay actual Godzilla to star in the film? THE FRANCHISE IS IN RUINS".
My only criticism was probably the fighting in hollow earth. On perspective it just looked like an animal fight rather than titans. The fights looked a lot better when crashing into buildings on actual earth.
Yeah I think the landscape was part of that reason. Its only when they were next to humans, they looked massive. You didnt have much to compare them with. I also think thats why they got sucked up to the main earth area.
Quick question
Does anyone know if I can take my nephews to the cinema for this?
Under 10 years olds.
One is 6 and obsessed with Godzilla. Wants me to take him rather than his dad. I had said ok, thinking won't get in. Now he has talked his other cousins into asking me to take them too.
I'm not sure how the ratings go with these movies and who can go watch them. Was told by someone that with an adult kids get to go. But wasn't sure if there are age or number restrictions.
Does anyone know if I can take my nephews to the cinema for this?
Under 10 years olds.
One is 6 and obsessed with Godzilla. Wants me to take him rather than his dad. I had said ok, thinking won't get in. Now he has talked his other cousins into asking me to take them too.
I'm not sure how the ratings go with these movies and who can go watch them. Was told by someone that with an adult kids get to go. But wasn't sure if there are age or number restrictions.
My biggest issue with the previous films in the franchise (particularly Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Godzilla v Kong) is that they waste any time at all on Millie Bobby Brown or whatever other stupid human centered subplot. Those parts occupy far too much of the runtime and actively drag the films down. Most of the big bad action scenes in this franchise have been pretty good - and Kong: Skull Island is a legitimately good film based on any reasonable criteria.
Always check through the BBFC website and draw your own conclusions.
Thanks for that.
Just to clarify I'm not asking advice if it suitable for kids as such. More if the cinema will let them in.
To further clarify. I have loads of nephews and nieces. The 3 I will take, if they can get in, won't have an issue with the violence etc. they are "monster" obsessed. Have seen the previous movies at home etc.
Providing a adult is accompanying them , the cinema should be ok.
Cheers. Appreciate it
Some UK Cinema's can be assholes though.
I might watch just because Paperboys in it
Scenes are now being posted but I really did like Skar King's introduction - that whole bit which I think was like 20 mins of no human's leading to that was good
Over/under 3 films before they’re speaking English to each other?
This film was awful but I will absolutely keep watching.
This film was awful but I will absolutely keep watching.
Watched it today as I was bored, wish I hadn’t bothered
One of the worst films I've watched in recent memory.
Watched this after watching Godzilla Minus One yesterday....the contrast couldn't be greater. Reasonable background distraction while meal prepping, if I'd had to watch it as an actual film (ie not doing anything else) I'd have turned it off. Utterly stupid as expected, removing every scene with human beings and turning it into a 1 hour continuous monster fight would have been a better idea.
Great question because it's absolutely going to happen
Personally I'm most excited for the inevitable first Kong-Godzilla fist bump.
Great question because it's absolutely going to happen
Personally I'm most excited for the inevitable first Kong-Godzilla fist bump.