' Godzilla Versus Kong '

Discussion in 'Visual Arts' started by Wildest cat from montana, Jan 28, 2021.

  1. Uncle Meat

    Uncle Meat Forum Resident

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    There is Aguirre the Wrath of God in there......
     
  2. Godzilla and many Kaiju films border on Theater of the Absurd. And I truly mean that as a compliment.
     
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  3. Ghostworld

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    I wandered into the local anime/comic book/gaming shop today and even the owner-geek said it was ridiculous! This from a guy with a picture of Guillermo Del Toro hanging in his shop! Lol.
     
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  4. The Revealer

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    I have. Long ago just before the Godzilla movie came out, and I felt primed. It was an excellent precursor to this entire series. I still love the first entry best. I think I might go acquire monsters on vudu for five bucks.... Thanks for the push since I was already thinking about it!
     
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  5. Mad Dog

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    It is what it is. I saw it. Two hours of mindless entertainment. Plot holes and all.

    Don't watch it if you haven't seen the movie.

     
  6. robertawillisjr

    robertawillisjr Music Lover

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    Mindless and ridiculous. I enjoyed it.
     
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  7. Outside of the fist Godzilla film, which ones aren’t ridiculous?
     
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  8. crickets...
     
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  9. Bruce Racket

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    Part of the beauty of Godzilla.
     
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  10. maccafan

    maccafan Senior Member

    Finally had a chance to watch it, and I absolutely loved it, have to get the blu-ray!
     
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  11. Luvtemps

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    Actually those two were buddies until Godzilla slipped on a banana peel that Kong had thrown down[he was always doing that]well after a face to face argument about banana peels Kong told Godzilla to scram and Godzilla told Kong that he would burn down all the banana trees and Kong took a swing at him, well it was on after that!
     
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  12. Wildest cat from montana

    Wildest cat from montana Humble Reader Thread Starter

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    Knowing you as I do , maccafan , I would have thought any movie you'd love would have to have a McCartney score.
    I kid !
     
  13. Lenny99

    Lenny99 The truth sets you free.

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    I saw the movie Saturday evening.

    I liked it. Great effects, decent story line, great fight scenes. Not a great movie, but good.

    It’s hard to classify the Godzilla movies as great, since the primary goal is to set up a great fight. The story line is there to bring about a great fight. The acting is secondary to the action.

    I have to say those last fight scenes as the monsters demolished Tokyo was about the best special effects in a Godzilla movie I’ve scene.
    And having King communicate with that little girl was a nice touch.

    So, comparing it to other Godzilla movies I’d give it a good to great. One issue, It took a long time to set up the fight scenes.

    Recommend for all Godzilla lovers.
     
  14. To keep everything in perspective, here’s a clip from a previous Godzilla film:

     
  15. Pizza

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    3 fights between G and K. G took 2 but K was told G wasn’t the enemy and shouldn’t kick his butt. And K saved G. So who’s really the winner here?
     
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  16. inperson

    inperson Senior Member

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    That 20 seconds was more enjoyable than the entire 2 hours of Godzilla vs Kong.
     
  17. Vidiot

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    They cheated in this film by suddenly making King King a lot taller than he normally is, so he was roughly the same height as Godzilla. And let's not forget that Godzilla has "radioactive breath" and could kill King Kong from a distance of about 2 blocks away -- that's not really handled well in the film. To me, the addition of MechaGodzilla into the film takes it from just being "mindlessly stupid" to "beyond mindlessly stupid and horrible."
     
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  18. Grand_Ennui

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    In all fairness though, wasn't that also the case with the original film?

    At least with these new monster films, Kong was Godzilla sized in "Kong/Skull Island"-They didn't have him start out as 1933 sized Kong and get radiated or something to make him Godzilla size for the new fight film.
     
  19. Ghostworld

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    My problem with the film was they just piled so many clichés into it. Was I watching a Godzilla movie? King Kong? Jurassic Park? Star Wars? Pacific rim? The hardy boy rescue Led by a girl they cast because she Won the Carrie Fisher look-alike contest at comicon?It was like a surrealistic haze of stock action film characters. I hadn’t been overwhelmed by so many B-movie threads at once since But aforementioned pacific rim. cliche overload.



    As a supreme commander of the United States Air Force here is my advice to all pilots: “try to keep from getting kamikaze close to the Godzilla OK? “
     
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  20. vertical

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    I enjoyed it. Not "great!" Yet good entertainment.
    I must add though that I had seen the 50s - 60s monster movies. Plus, I went with my twenty something daughters and they liked it as well. I know they weren't humoring me since we've seen most of the Marvel / DC movies and they were quite critical of some. So, the above probably added to my experience.
    ;)
     
  21. You must not have seen Terror of MechaGodzilla (from 1975) where MechaGodzilla is controlled by a character called Katsura. Likewise, Millie Bobby Brown was also in Godzilla: King of Monsters and was not cast as some Carrie Fisher look-alike. Where do you come up with this stuff?
     
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  22. Rocker

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    In the original KKvG, Kong was already the same size as Godzilla because it's supposed to be a different Kong that exists in a separate continuity (i.e. it's not meant to be the 1933 Kong).

    Kong wasn't already Godzilla-sized in Skull Island -- considerably smaller, actually. If i recall, a character mentions that he's still relatively young and is still growing, so I guess that's the explanation for why he's so much bigger in the new film.
     
  23. Lenny99

    Lenny99 The truth sets you free.

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    Your correct. In the original KK vs GZ, Kong was mega sized. The original KK movie has him about the size of a TRex; prob 35 feet tall. He fit in a theater. Can u imagine subduing Godzilla as such....,.

    And your also correct about the radioactive breath. If it can melt tanks as seen in various movies what chance does a hairy ape have. He’s a fire ball at the ready.

    To be fair to Kong, he should be much smarter than Godzilla. A mammal’s super large brain vs a giant Reptile (?) brain. Apes have the opposable thumb and are known to use tools. So Kong just might pick up some of the debris laying around ( there’s a lot if that available) and throw it at Godzilla. That would have quit the impact.

    I don’t think it would save him, but it’s a movie.
     
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  24. moops

    moops Senior Member

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    Having not yet seen the movie, I have no idea ...... but it made me laugh for some reason.
     
  25. TheDailyBuzzherd

    TheDailyBuzzherd Forum Resident

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    Count me as a fan of the original. That would’ve
    been a great film to see with the family, but I’d
    guess most fathers wouldn’t be hip to that ...
    there remained here in The States a healthy
    anger towards The Japanese in’63.

    This one takes a serious mood, I like the original
    because it does not. LOTS of little gags: the radio,
    the cigarettes – the biggest laugh comes when we
    see Kong for the first time – WOW! Worst monkey
    suit ever! Epic in every way.
     

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