This was so trash it’s unreal I’d give anything to watch this with Gareth Edwards and the Minus One team
What the last few films severely lack is a sense of human characters as collateral damage. All of the humans we follow are safely away from the danger during the battles (minus the ocean battle in GvK). This causes us to miss the scope by not including human POV and to not really feel any distress during a moment when we should be feeling distress. The monsters are battling in our cities! I enjoy the battle in 2014 because Ford is in the middle of it and we constantly get a feel of how disastrous it would be to get caught in these conflicts. I would have loved to a human POV of Kong punching Scar King in the face. Wingard did a good job with showing more of Kong as a character in his response to Scar King’s cruelty. The way Scar King would lean back reminded me of Negan, however.
I thought Dan Stevens character was god awful and BTH’s was annoying as hell again. And the way they go to hollow earth with one security guy, a dentist and a podcaster is so stupid.
I’d say it’s still worth seeing on the big screen if you like these movies at all but it’s pretty bad.
There is a seven and a half hour gap between my hotel checkout and my flight time. Should I see the monsters fight or go to the World War II museum?
I slept through most of the middle. The Bradley Cooper look-a-like was doing a Guardians of the Galaxy impression, right?
I always like when they show some of the most famous landmarks in the world to establish location but then they still put it up in big font just in case.
On the one hand, Godzilla and Kong: Skull Island did better worldwide than any of the films after. On the other hand, I imagine the current style makes it easier to market merchandise to kids.
Is the logic of these films is that modern military technology couldn't easily kill the titans themselves?