How does that compare to other movies released during the pandemic?

 

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That's how it is now. If a movie made a lot of money then it's safe to assume it's awful. Avatar, Endgame, Titanic, Star Wars, Transformers, The Lion King 2019 etc. All made money but they all sucked.

 

Seems like it’s doing good for itself considering the state of the world.

 

I'm not following, I thought you said it did bad at the box office.

 

It's a new rule on film critique introduced this century: "Just because the movie made money doesn't mean it's good". Godzilla vs Kong is making money, then it means it's not good.

 

It depends though. I always looked forward to seeing what character Kenji Sahara was going to be playing in the Showa era as he always tried to do something different in each movie.

 

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Not the core, nestled somewhere in the upper mantle above the transition zone, still fairly far down from the top crust

 

Post-credit scene was moved to the actual movie. I think it was the last sequence with Kong in Hollow Earth, and that the movie originally ended with Godzilla disappearing beneath the waves, a callback to 2014.

 

I understand the rational but IMO GvK blew that theory out of the window.

Tbh other than Millie Bobby Brown...my buddies and I don’t know the rest of the cast. I know this may horrify some movie goers but I think it could lead to more creative writing by studios on CGI characters like...Transformers.

I can see where you’re coming from. Tbh with you with regards to human characters, the only one that I looking forward to seeing was the Miki character from the Heisei movies...

Simply because I was curious to her “findings” on the big g. Actors and actresses wise...my bad, not really into them.

 

Yeah. And for me, I often like the humans running around in these movies. Actually, just the western Godzilla movies as I was never able to get invested in anyone from the Toho films. The awful dubbing pretty much killed that, but also most of them just weren’t very captivating.

 

There's your first problem: You watched it in goofy dubs that ruined the original acting talents.

 

Facts.

 

The Monsterverse is now a multi-billion dollar franchise. Holy moly!

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If I were to rank the Monsterverse so far, I'd say...

1. King of the Monsters
2. Kong: Skull Island
3. Godzilla 2014
4. Godzilla vs Kong.

Not that I disliked GvK that much, but when there's only 4 somebody has to be fourth.

Skull Island is difficult to compare because it isn't actually a Godzilla movie - it's a King Kong movie (by comparison, GvK is a Godzilla movie with Kong as a protagonist). I think it's objectively a better movie than any of the Godzilla ones they've made, but like I said; Apples to Oranges.

Of the three Godzilla movies, G14 has the best cinematography and the weakest action. It's the most Americanized of the Legendary movies, but no movie could do a better job of introducing US audiences to Godzilla. The sheer awe of the scale in that movie's scenes make me feel really bad putting it that low.

GvK meanwhile has the best action and the weakest cinematography. The sense of scale is just fully gone so we can get cool helicopter shots of the monsters fighting. For purists it hews the closest to the Toho style, but I liked some of those changes Legendary made.

KotM doesn't do cinematography as well as G14 or action as well as GvK, but doing both of those things decently elevated it to the top of the pack for me.

 

This is kind of the one part I didn't like (amongst a minor number of others) of this movie.

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I loved how the managed Kong to be humanized somewhat, but when he started combo'ing stuff ala Street Fighter, I thought that took that too far. He stopped fighting like gorilla and too human-like. Yeah, I get it that he's smarter than your average bear, but titan or not, he's still a gorilla.

But, then I remember this was a movie and scoffed it up as they "hollywooded" this up, and left it be.

 

With regards to Kong...

Spoiler

according to the studio (?), Kong while designed to look like a gorilla, isn’t one...he’s just a kaiju ape of sorts...

 

That's your first mistake. Outside of Monster Zero being shown in theaters a few year's back and King Kong vs Godzilla, I haven't watched any of these movies dubbed in 19 years. Hell, I've never even seen Godzilla Raids Again dubbed. Though, I have been tempted to at least review the dubs to 54, 85, and Raids Again as a way to revisit these movies since they were apart of my very first reviews when I was still teaching myself how to do video editing and stuff.

In fact, outside of War of the Gargantuas because of the theatrical showing, and then Mothra, Rodan, and King Kong Escapes, I have never watched any of the other Toho Kaiju films dubbed.