Godzilla vs. Kong [2021]

Lcomps · 03-04-2021 10:02pm

Do I need to have seen Kong Skull Island or the oreviy two Godzilla's to watch this?

Notmything · 04-04-2021 12:07am

Watched it last night with my kids. As others have said its a decent film and being able to see the two titans fighting was a bonus.

They could easily have cut the kids and the conspiracy guy out, for me any scenes with them were a chore to sit through.

Thought Mechagodzilla was underused, and the way he was defeated was disappointing.

numbernine · 04-04-2021 12:22am

Where is everyone watching? Its not coming up on Prime for me

Need a Username · 04-04-2021 1:32am

Rodin wrote: »

The perfect mindless Covid antidote.. hopefully

I heard it is has some decent monsters brawls but it 40 minutes before monsters cross paths.

Need a Username · 04-04-2021 1:38am

Sirsok wrote: »

Didn't care about the human stuff at all just the lads busting the head off each other....I could of watched 4 hours of a big gorilla and atomic breathe lizard bating seven shades outta each other

Unfortunately the filmmakers and the studio suits don’t understand that.

kerplun k · 04-04-2021 4:54pm

numbernine wrote: »

Where is everyone watching? Its not coming up on Prime for me

Sky and NOW TV, it’s available on the Store.
17e

I enjoyed it.

Homelander · 04-04-2021 10:14pm

Utterly atrocious, somehow worse than the last one.

Complete waste of time, probably the worst movie I've seen in years.

KilOit · 04-04-2021 10:42pm

It was grand, not a patch on Skull island though

brilou23 · 04-04-2021 11:02pm

Loved first 50 mins but it lost my attention more and more as film went on. I was so disappointed in the last fight scene. To many characters and stories.

MisterAnarchy · 06-04-2021 12:46pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGGWC5-q1Ts

Dades · 06-04-2021 2:05pm

Need a Username wrote: »

Sirsok wrote: »

Didn't care about the human stuff at all just the lads busting the head off each other....I could of watched 4 hours of a big gorilla and atomic breathe lizard bating seven shades outta each other

Unfortunately the filmmakers and the studio suits don’t understand that.

Much as I love a good monster fight, I need the human parts. I don't care how thinly realised the characters are, just watching monsters fight would grow old very quickly.

Found it reasonably enjoyable.
However, unlike Skull Island (with decent human characters) I don't see myself watching it again.

Retr0gamer · 06-04-2021 3:46pm

Saw it at the weekend. It's a film of two halves.

The plot and writing are complete scutter. It makes no sense and I just switched off for it as I didn't care and hated all the characters.

And then the Monkey and the Lizard started fighting and I was all on board. Really enjoyed the battles as the sense of scale and destruction was excellent. It's just unfortunate they they were interrupted every so often by annoying humans.

I did like the evangelion references.

Parachutes · 07-04-2021 11:07am

Could of done with an extra 10-15 minutes of Godzilla and King Kong fighting. That sub plot with the kids was totally pointless and could have been cut.

Thought the design for Mechagodzilla was fairly pish as well.

techdiver · 07-04-2021 2:00pm

Watched it last night. I prefer all of the other movies that preceded this one to be honest. Not sure why it is reviewing so well. It's enjoyable for what it is, but a bit of a let-down considering the reviews it has gotten. That's the subjectivity of movies I guess. To me something like The Synder Cut of Justice League is miles ahead of this yet critics like this better (marginally).

Milanative · 07-04-2021 3:42pm

techdiver wrote: »

Watched it last night. I prefer all of the other movies that preceded this one to be honest. Not sure why it is reviewing so well. It's enjoyable for what it is, but a bit of a let-down considering the reviews it has gotten. That's the subjectivity of movies I guess. To me something like The Synder Cut of Justice League is miles ahead of this yet critics like this better (marginally).

jesus christ

Mad_maxx · 07-04-2021 5:28pm

Dades wrote: »

Much as I love a good monster fight, I need the human parts. I don't care how thinly realised the characters are, just watching monsters fight would grow old very quickly.

Found it reasonably enjoyable.
However, unlike Skull Island (with decent human characters) I don't see myself watching it again.

a movie with plastic characters where monsters fight has only worked perfectly once and that was in Pacific Rim , if anything the ropey acting almost adds to the enjoyment as it was such a B movie albeit with a huge budget , Edris Elba being the exception in terms of a passable performance

silverharp · 07-04-2021 6:25pm

would irish cinemas show it during the summer?

ThePott · 07-04-2021 7:15pm

silverharp wrote: »

would irish cinemas show it during the summer?

Probably depends on the level of releases by the time they open. Could see it happening though, when cinemas did re-open the last time there was plenty of the films that went to VOD during the lockdown.

techdiver · 07-04-2021 7:29pm

Milanative wrote: »

jesus christ

?

greenspurs · 08-04-2021 3:11pm

terrible movie, same as Bobby browns 'acting' ......

I fell asleep twice during it, but what i saw was scutter.... 12yr old kinda enjoyed it though .......

MisterAnarchy · 08-04-2021 3:14pm

Mad_maxx wrote: »

a movie with plastic characters where monsters fight has only worked perfectly once and that was in Pacific Rim , if anything the ropey acting almost adds to the enjoyment as it was such a B movie albeit with a huge budget , Edris Elba being the exception in terms of a passable performance

Thats harsh, I thought the acting in Pacific Rim was pretty decent.

Mad_maxx · 08-04-2021 10:45pm

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Thats harsh, I thought the acting in Pacific Rim was pretty decent.

i love that movie , the ropey acting didnt take from it at all

bogmanfan · 09-04-2021 1:29pm

Effects were incredible, but everything else about this was pure drivel.

I get that most people are going to watch a movie like this for the action scenes, but they could have spent more than 5 minutes on the plot and script.

mrcheez · 09-04-2021 11:08pm

Will it be released on 3D BluRay?

Or just pancake?

Actually the 3D theater release sounds amazing

https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2565226/to-3d-or-not-to-3d-buy-the-right-godzilla-vs-kong-ticket

Giruilla · 10-04-2021 12:14am

Boring.

Drumpot · 10-04-2021 9:07am

I thought it was grand, some people need to learn to switch your brain off for these movies. Popcorn for the eyes, the human characters , dialogue and story is not important.

On a different note, Out of curiosity I was looking at when the Godzilla movie was released in 1998. Armageddon was number 1, saving private Ryan 2 and there was nothing remotely like this kind of blockbuster anywhere near it. When you look at all the marvel , DC, transformers and other fantasy movies available on any given year then I think we are spoiled for choice these days.

razorblunt · 10-04-2021 9:54pm

Absolute shîte.
The mute kid was the best child actor.
Millie Bobby Brown is awful and the less said about the Aussie that plays the same role in every movie the better.

Brilliant fight scene it has to be said.

Glebee · 11-04-2021 12:18am

That was a dissapointing film. 3/10 is being generous.

Mr Crispy · 11-04-2021 3:26am

Jesus, that was arse water. The visuals were good, and the fighting was enjoyable enough I suppose. But everything else was insultingly bad.

MisterAnarchy · 11-04-2021 3:16pm

Mr Crispy wrote: »

Jesus, that was arse water. The visuals were good, and the fighting was enjoyable enough I suppose. But everything else was insultingly bad.

I stopped reading after arse.

Mr Crispy · 11-04-2021 3:38pm

How clever of you.

Gbear · 14-04-2021 11:53am

I don't see the point in having giant monsters fight each other and destroy a city, and then shoot it as if the cameraman is also 600ft tall, so it just looks like normal-sized things fighting. These sorts of films repeatedly fail their most basic goal, which is having giant monsters fighting each other feel like giant monsters fighting each other. As it is, it's glorified Power Rangers from the 1990s, with less cardboard-y buildings.

But aside from being terrible, I think that in a year where there's a bunch of loons denying the effects of a deadly pandemic, and conspiracy theorists tried to murder the US government, having one of the good guys be a conspiracy theorist, anti-vaxx type, and be proved right, wasn't a great look.

Homelander · 14-04-2021 2:46pm

Can't agree enough with the above. There's zero sense of scale with the movie, no sense of them fighting in a living, breathing city, or any establishment of any stakes and consequences of all the destruction. It's precisely like an episode of Power Rangers....completely empty, meaningless CGI-driven beat 'em up.

Mad_maxx · 14-04-2021 8:19pm

King Kong was always a fraction the size of Godzilla

huge artistic licence being used here ?

razorblunt · 14-04-2021 8:55pm

Homelander wrote: »

Can't agree enough with the above. There's zero sense of scale with the movie, no sense of them fighting in a living, breathing city, or any establishment of any stakes and consequences of all the destruction. It's precisely like an episode of Power Rangers....completely empty, meaningless CGI-driven beat 'em up.

You wouldn’t mind but they’re causing carnage and destroying buildings and killing thousands of people yet there’s cars happily driving around in light traffic and people heading to work.

Tazzimus · 14-04-2021 9:35pm

Japan are used to Kaiju, it's just background noise to them at this stage.

The White Wolf · 14-04-2021 9:56pm

I thought the destruction in Japan was in spirit of the Toho films. As in the ludicrous nature of the fight in a deserted city was just like the monster fights of the original films.

Parachutes · 14-04-2021 11:12pm

It's literally a film about a dinosaur and a gorilla kicking seven shades of ****e out of each other, what were you expecting?

luketitz · 14-04-2021 11:55pm

razorblunt wrote: »

You wouldn’t mind but they’re causing carnage and destroying buildings and killing thousands of people yet there’s cars happily driving around in light traffic and people heading to work.

Yeah, there was a scene where they bashed through a glass office building where staff were busily working away normally despite a titan war right raging outside, wildly destroying all around them up until that point!

Pile o' poo from start to finish. 7yo loved it though!

CastorTroy · 30-04-2021 11:43am

I suppose should've seen this coming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezSgXkKEsuE

pixelburp · 30-04-2021 11:51am

^^ Sometimes you gotta admire the brazenness of it; you have to imagine everyone on that production knows what they're doing and are at peace with it. That it's just another job.

And you know it's a quality feature when Eric Roberts appears for a classic "I'm half-drunk and filming this in my spare room" cameo.

CastorTroy · 30-04-2021 5:04pm

The lizard reminded me of 98 Godzilla

MisterAnarchy · 30-04-2021 5:15pm

CastorTroy wrote: »

I suppose should've seen this coming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezSgXkKEsuE

Why do those low budget knock offs get made.
They surely aren't profitable ?

Agent Coulson · 30-04-2021 7:58pm

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Why do those low budget knock offs get made.
They surely aren't profitable ?

The Asylum say all there movies make a profit anywhere between $125k to $250k.

Then you would have the likes of Sharknado that would make them a lot more than that.

I'd guess they make most of there money selling them as TV movies around the world and to the streaming platforms who want and need content.

They also have there own channel on Pluto TV which will bring in ad revenue.

pixelburp · 30-04-2021 8:01pm

Yeah these films are made for nothing, even by low budget TV standards. And when every now and again you get a true viral, hoho ironic hit like Sharknado, it's probably pure profit for them on top of the usual blind curiousity the "mockbusters" like the above receives.

MisterAnarchy · 15-05-2021 11:29pm

The global box office stands at 422m dollars now, which is bloody impressive.
Warner Bros. have kicked off development on a fifth MonsterVerse project with GvK director Adam Wingard at the helm.
Variety points out that the fourth colossal entry in the shared monster universe "surpassed revenues for its predecessor, the poorly reviewed, mega-budgeted Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
That film, which was released in 2019, tapped out with $386 million."
Skull Island is the franchise's highest-grossing movie with $566.7 million

Sandor Clegane · 26-06-2021 1:23am

If you can forget about how bad the acting is and the absurd plot and plot holes then it's an enjoyable enough film.

It had some good action and fight scenes, but everything else was terrible, I no the acting and the people always play second fiddle to the monsters in these movies but this was by far the worst one acting and plot wise...just total nonsense from start to finish.

Slydice · 03-01-2022 2:19am

Gave this a watch! This was great! Story writing seems to have leaped in quality since King of the Monsters!

I never was less than 100% on Godzilla winning an all out fight with Kong but this story handled that proper solid!

Like the creation of

MechaGodzilla and how it all got away on them! Classic! 😁

They'll never learn!

Good fights and cool universe building. Glad to see the audience has it at 91% on Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/godzilla_vs_kong

and that there's plenty more planned in the future section of the wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_vs._Kong#Future

I can imagine that this was really good in the cinema. Ah well.

Still, I didn't quite feel any scene topped the meltdown scene in King of the Monsters.

Might as well give that a quick rewatch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BxqahE0fu8

Awe yeah! Now that.. THAT was epic in the cinema!

Godzilla vs. Kong [2021]

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