'Godzilla vs. Kong' Likely the Latest Tentpole to Go to a Streamer

[ThaVirus]

I've actually thought Legendary has done a great job of spicing up these monster battles.

In Godzilla (2014) they had the parachuting scene with the red smoke which was so well done. Plus, I mean, the Atomic Breath down the throat of the MUTO? ****ing awesome.

I thought they did a great job of making the Titans seem almost mythical in King of the Monsters as well. All of those monster fights were top notch.

Godzilla vs Kong was pretty standard but I did really enjoy the part where they had Godzilla on all fours kind of slithering toward Kong like a lizard.

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

I've actually thought Legendary has done a great job of spicing up these monster battles.

In Godzilla (2014) they had the parachuting scene with the red smoke which was so well done. Plus, I mean, the Atomic Breath down the throat of the MUTO? ****ing awesome.

I thought they did a great job of making the Titans seem almost mythical in King of the Monsters as well. All of those monster fights were top notch.

Godzilla vs Kong was pretty standard but I did really enjoy the part where they had Godzilla on all fours kind of slithering toward Kong like a lizard.

2014 was good because Edwards had done Monsters, and had an idea of what he was doing. He focused largely on developing a sense of wonder at the size of the creatures, and their impact, and it worked. But it came at the expense of other things, rather than along with them. Some obvious examples of real problems in that movie are:

• Choosing Aaron Taylor Johnson as the lead
• The design, and use, of the M.U.T.O.s (and this was made even worse when the M.U.T.O. deferred to Godzilla at the end of King of the Monsters).
• The female having about a bazillion eggs, which meant that just one successful lay would result in the end of the world due to the need for food.

That sort of stuff was relatively easy to overlook since it was the first Godzilla we'd had in a while, but it was still there.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

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That sort of stuff was relatively easy to overlook since it was the first Godzilla we'd had in a while, but it was still there.

A lot of people tapped out when Heisenberg died. I was really disappointed myself knowing Kick-Ass was going to carry the movie from that point.

And I thought GVK was perfect at keeping the action/excitement up. If you hated the plot or B plot I don't blame you. If you hated the leads I don't blame you. I can't understand the "lack of action" gripe though.

And I'm with someone else in this thread who mentioned doing something new. Hell, if you know your big bad is going to be cheese hire someone like Nick Cage, Gary Oldman, or Dennis Hopper to just ham it up. Own going over the top.

Have 11 use her Stranger Things powers to "talk" to Godzilla like in the Toho movies.

Have a few cameos from 70's and 80's sci fi and horror TV play bit roles (like Stan Lee did in the MCU.)

I guess I'm saying quit "trying" to make a blockbuster and just have fun. Enjoy the genre...

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by Rausch

A lot of people tapped out when Heisenberg died. I was really disappointed myself knowing Kick-Ass was going to carry the movie from that point.

And I thought GVK was perfect at keeping the action/excitement up. If you hated the plot or B plot I don't blame you. If you hated the leads I don't blame you.

The choices for the top actor slots were Godawful. They had Watanabe and Hawkins, two people who are more than talented enough to have been the human centers of a Godzilla movie. Instead, they went with a quartet of actors (Johnson, Farmiga, Bown, Chandler) who shouldn't have been allowed with 20 miles of even reading for those roles.

Originally Posted by Rausch

I can't understand the "lack of action" gripe though.

I'm not really sure what you mean with this.

Originally Posted by Rausch

I guess I'm saying quit "trying" to make a blockbuster and just have fun. Enjoy the genre...

Exactly. Modern Hollywood kills this sort of fantasy genre by using a terrible combination of "We're going to make this story universe fit into the real world of today" with "We're going to keep the insane plot points of the story universe, and put the kinds of twists on them that make them our own.

Then they end up combining a terrible version of the Destoroyah story line with a terrible version of the Xillien story line (minus the aliens), yet keeping the idea that Ghidorah comes from space, and ****ing everything up 6 ways from Sunday.