Godzilla vs. Kong

Gray2233 · 31 Mar 2021 at 20:01

Most fun I've had with a movie for a long time.

Don't go into it expecting Citizen Kane, go into it expecting a visually spectacular feast with awesome action. The best of the 'Monster Verse' movies by a long shot, much better daylight scenes without as much of the M.B closeup style problems the earlier movies had. The soundtrack is actually pretty good too, as you might expect the human scenes are simply there for the sake of adding a bit of direction to the plot and are pretty forgettable.

As someone that's sick of every big budget action movie involving men in tights I genuinely enjoyed this.

Kainz said:
Please tell me I can watch/rent this online as I don't really want to goto the cinema...

It's on HBO MAX if you want to watch from home, but you'll need a VPN unless you're in North America.

Edit: It seems it'll be available on UK streaming services from April 1st.

https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/how-to-watch-godzilla-vs-kong-in-the-uk/

Like several of the other films that have been released during the pandemic, Godzilla vs Kong will be available to rent from a range of VOD services including Amazon Prime Video, Sky Store and iTunes from Thursday 1st April 2021.

maun · 31 Mar 2021 at 22:15

It's a turn your brain off an enjoy film. Can't complain, prefer the Kong skull island more but overall enjoyable monster romp.

Smeghead · 31 Mar 2021 at 23:13

I quite liked the previous Godzilla movie quite a bit, and the child in me was looking forward to this, but my God they turned up the ridiculousness up to 11 with this movie.

I quite liked that, for the most part, the previous movies were somewhat grounded in reality (in as much a movie with giant monsters can be), but they practically turned the whole universe into a straight up futuristic science fiction movie with this one, and there were things that kept taking me out of it, like the completely bizzare Tron-like Hong Kong, and they were moving so stupidly fast in some of the fight scenes, some of the punches or hits, speed-wise, looked like it may as well have been humans, except they're supposed to be 400 foot monsters so it looked so dumb.

Oh, and the constant blue/orange or red/green shots contrasting colour shots were so hamfisted. I'm really surprised at the RT score it has.

Gerard · 1 Apr 2021 at 00:02

Anyone else notice what seemed to be a Lethal Weapon reference in the movie?

Gray2233 · 1 Apr 2021 at 01:34

Gerard said:
Anyone else notice what seemed to be a Lethal Weapon reference in the movie?

I thought there might be a Top Gun at one point too, might be wrong though.

cu3ed · 1 Apr 2021 at 02:19

Gerard said:
Anyone else notice what seemed to be a Lethal Weapon reference in the movie?

Lethhal Weapon 2 use of footage comes up in the credits, I don't remember footage, except that one Kong move that made me laugh.

Kainz · 1 Apr 2021 at 06:08

Gray2233 said:
It's on HBO MAX if you want to watch from home, but you'll need a VPN unless you're in North America.

Edit: It seems it'll be available on UK streaming services from April 1st.

https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/how-to-watch-godzilla-vs-kong-in-the-uk/

Cheers man. £15.99 on iTunes to rent. Annoyingly its 1080p and not 4k for that price. How odd.

Bigpig · 1 Apr 2021 at 06:16

Trying to hold on to the weekend

wolfie138 · 1 Apr 2021 at 09:19

Gray2233 said:
Don't go into it expecting Citizen Kane,

not sure anyone would have been.

arknor · 1 Apr 2021 at 10:27

bit uninteresting and slow at times but the action scenes are worth it

2013 · 1 Apr 2021 at 11:06

It was not as good as the last 2 IMO.

doodah · 1 Apr 2021 at 11:13

It seems the litmus test with these films is - how much of the film has the monsters fighting + how long and boring are the human parts.

arknor · 1 Apr 2021 at 12:00

doodah said:
It seems the litmus test with these films is - how much of the film has the monsters fighting + how long and boring are the human parts.

the non action parts are usually terrible and so boring with a poor plot though that's why.

it's like they come up with a bunch of fight ideas that just drop a random plot around them.

this one is more fat fetched than interstellar, I'm supervised the earths not flat

nothing is fleshed out

Somnambulist · 1 Apr 2021 at 13:03

This was the equivalent of the straight to video sequel that didn't have any of the original cast in and the prior films were hardly works of art.

Gerard · 1 Apr 2021 at 15:28

cu3ed said:
Lethhal Weapon 2 use of footage comes up in the credits, I don't remember footage, except that one Kong move that made me laugh.

Same here, didn't notice any footage but when Kong did what he did its what i immediately thought of

cu3ed · 1 Apr 2021 at 15:42

arknor said:
the non action parts are usually terrible and so boring with a poor plot though that's why.

it's like they come up with a bunch of fight ideas that just drop a random plot around them.

this one is more fat fetched than interstellar, I'm supervised the earths not flat

nothing is fleshed out

Well you had three films beforehand building up to this, im not sure how much more "fleshed out" you can have a Giant Ape and Lizard fighting each other.

Gray2233 · 1 Apr 2021 at 16:06

wolfie138 said:
not sure anyone would have been.

You'd be surprised, every time a switch-your-brain-off style action flick comes out I see the strangest comparisons on movie related boards.

I once saw someone legitimately try to compare the story of Transformers to Lawrence of Arabia.

Kainz said:
Cheers man. £15.99 on iTunes to rent. Annoyingly its 1080p and not 4k for that price. How odd.

Same with Amazon, very strange that it only seems to be available in 1080P in the UK.

Plebo · 1 Apr 2021 at 17:49

Gray2233 said:
You'd be surprised, every time a switch-your-brain-off style action flick comes out I see the strangest comparisons on movie related boards.

I once saw someone legitimately try to compare the story of Transformers to Lawrence of Arabia.

Same with Amazon, very strange that it only seems to be available in 1080P in the UK.

It is there in UHD. There are two Godzilla vs Kong options on the menu options. One has options for normal and HD, and the other is for UHD.

arknor · 1 Apr 2021 at 20:21

cu3ed said:
Well you had three films beforehand building up to this, im not sure how much more "fleshed out" you can have a Giant Ape and Lizard fighting each other.

cmon bruh you can flesh it out as much as you like or want.

it's no different to saying well it's 2 humans fighting what more do you want

the tech in this movie goes insane, sshoulda just threw elon in there with some neural link that helps kong talk
no one would bat an eye lid

StriderX · 1 Apr 2021 at 21:05

There are so many inexplicable things in this movie that i'm wondering if it's on purpose or if they didn't care to explain any of it due to the genre?