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Well, it has to be an improvement over the 1962 King kong vs Godzilla movie. That thing was terrible.
Yeah, but I think you may have hit on how this remake is happening: Some studio exec with a degree in Marketing and Brand Management whose favorite movie of all time is Weekend at Bernie's looked at their Godzilla property and said, "Hey, we own the rights to both Kong and Godzilla. Someone did a Kong vs. Godzilla movie 50 years ago. We should do a Kong vs. Godzilla movie!"
I am NOT a big fan of letting the fans dictate content. But whoever is conceiving these movies ought to be someone with a true and genuine love of the genre and stories. With movies like KONG: SKULL ISLAND and KONG VS. GODZILLA being greenlit, I get the impression that the people making these decisions don't have a clue.
Yeah, but I think you may have hit on how this remake is happening: Some studio exec with a degree in Marketing and Brand Management whose favorite movie of all time is Weekend at Bernie's looked at their Godzilla property and said, "Hey, we own the rights to both Kong and Godzilla. Someone did a Kong vs. Godzilla movie 50 years ago. We should do a Kong vs. Godzilla movie!"
You're probably right about that.
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I am NOT a big fan of letting the fans dictate content. But whoever is conceiving these movies ought to be someone with a true and genuine love of the genre and stories. With movies like KONG: SKULL ISLAND and KONG VS. GODZILLA being greenlit, I get the impression that the people making these decisions don't have a clue.
I finally and recently watched Kong: Skull Island, but only because I found it in the $5 miscellaneous movie bin at Walmart a few weeks ago. It was okay and I liked it for what it was, but it was too much of a rewrite of the original Kong story which was basically ignored. I don't particularly feel the need to watch it a second time.
I would like to see the new Kong vs. Godzilla movie, but I'll probably wait until I find it in the cheapo movie bin at Walmart.
I finally and recently watched Kong: Skull Island, but only because I found it in the $5 miscellaneous movie bin at Walmart a few weeks ago. It was okay and I liked it for what it was, but it was too much of a rewrite of the original Kong story which was basically ignored. I don't particularly feel the need to watch it a second time.
I had much the same reaction. It's not a terrible movie. But it's not a great movie. It is meh. I saw it once and didn't hate it, but I have no desire to see it again.
The gators in LAKE PLACID should mutate and turn out to be titans so that the studio can plan the sequel: KONG VS. GODZILLA GO TO LAKE PLACID.
Rodan's emergence from the volcano and subsequent swatting of fighter jets like gnats was instantly one of kaiju cinema's highlights — sixty-plus years' worth.
And that's exactly how it should be: Humans don't stand a chance against kaiju. Nukes are farts. That oxygen destroyer was akin to a bad sneeze. They're here, and we're effed. "Special of the day," indeed.
Not really. Godzilla was devastated and needed a nuke to revive him. Ghidorah wasn't because it is an alien. That was what I got from the oxygen destroyer.
Not really. Godzilla was devastated and needed a nuke to revive him. Ghidorah wasn't because it is an alien. That was what I got from the oxygen destroyer.
Godzilla did need to regenerate, but the thing didn't vaporize him, either. Think how much more advanced technology is now than it was in 1954. One nuke charge later and he was BACK. IN. ACTION.
And while I agree with that, the problem is that the audience needs to be about 300% bigger for this to be the hit the studio wants.
Which is why I added the caveat that maybe five years is indeed too long a gap. I enjoyed Kong: Skull Island for the beasties but was nowhere near as invested. They piggybacked that overgrown chimp on Godzilla's restored hype. They should have left Kong on the shelf and released KotM in 2017.
As I said, studio suit skullduggery is the root cause.
Saw the movie this afternoon. So, was that really Atlantis, officially? Too bad they ended up nuking it to recharge Godzilla.
It was the Hollow Earth --- or at least part of it. They said in other places that Godzilla was using the tunnels to travel "throughout the globe," so just because they nuked this part of the Hollow Earth civilization doesn't necessarily mean they nuked all of it.
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