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"Why didn't you tell me Kong knew sign language?" "Frankly I assumed that you built the giant technodome he lives in with at least some cameras so you could observe him, as he is the giant ape in there. My bad for realizing you just weren't studying him at all."
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I would have rather had Charles Dance back than the awful Apex CEO guyImpAtom posted:I will take the tiny adorable girl's friendship with King Kong 10 times out of 10 over one minute of any of the awful awful human characters in KotM. Yeah the collective five minutes she was in the movie was cute too bad about the rest of the forty minutes worth of assholes sniping at each other and hacky conspiracy theorist jokes Blockhouse fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Apr 4, 2021 |
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Apr 4, 2021 23:22
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Putting Cranston opposite of Dance would have been pretty great.
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I don't know if Skaaarsgard was in the previous movie but he seemed like a good character here. The hollow earth was his theory, he has a couple of heroic moments like letting Kong free and defibrillating him, had good chemistry with lady doctor though the film was surprisingly restrained enough to not explicitly pair them romantically.
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Sanschel posted:I legitimately forgot Brian Cranston was in the 2014 Godzilla until it was mentioned in a GvK review I saw this weekend, and I can only imagine how much better all of these movies would’ve been if he’d been around for more than those first 20 minutes. His character is the only person in all these movies I felt a connection to.
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Apr 5, 2021 00:49
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They should have brought in MechaCranston
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Blockhouse posted:
You say that like awful human scenes aren't part and parcel of kaiju movies.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:You say that like awful human scenes aren't part and parcel of kaiju movies. They absolutely are but for the most part there's degrees of human scenes. They're all the same level of bad. Mostly they're inoffensive an sometimes actually even fun! There's zero fun in the human bits of GvK., especially in the Madison subplot. Not to invoke the dread name of Michael Bay again but that felt exactly like a human subplot in a Transformers movie in all the worst ways. Good actors in wasted roles, bad comedy, and basically disconnected from the rest of the story. Nothing changes because of what happens in that plotline other than something that doesn't actually make a whole lot of sense in the final fight, to the degree I feel like the entire bit was written in after the script was finished. Blockhouse fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Apr 5, 2021 |
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Apr 5, 2021 02:22
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My personal favorite dumbest part was when the Apex lady was like "Alright let's start drilling for samples" and the bleeding heart scientist lady is like "WHAT NO YOU CANT DO THAT!" Were you...not at the Zoom meetings? What did you think this entire mission was for? The film really falls rear end-first into the pit where the so-called "bad guys" are actually completely in the right but we have to dislike them somehow so we just have to have a scene where they randomly shoot Kong for no reason.
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I'm still trying to figure out why the Bond villain with unlimited resources would send his daughter on a suicide mission.
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The APEX CEO is such a terrible villain I kept waiting for some kind of twist in his motives like maybe he lost someone in Boston and hates Titans now, or maybe if you want to go full capitalist the Titans' rejuvenating effects on the environment is cutting into his bottom line but nope he just.. wants to build a giant biomechanical robot to kill Godzilla, whose last interaction with humanity was literally saving the planet like three years ago. Like there's not even a "what do you do then" that's it that's the end of his plan. Even the most bare bones Showa take-over-the-world alien at least had a "our planet is dead and we need yours" angle.
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His motivation is a little more than that, it's that he wants humanity(and specifically him if you get right down to it) to be the Apex predator. He wants to kill Godzilla because he's loving jealous
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I just think it's weird that the Apex guys were completely upfront and earnest about their intentions right from the outset and then an hour into things the plucky good guys were still like WHAT you wanna build a superweapon to fight the Titans???????? Of course they do! Where did we lose you on this!
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Trying to portray drilling an extremely tiny sample out of the ground and scanning it as some kind of reckless desecration was pretty lol. "You can't just take soil samples from Mars! It's an ancient planet!"
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Lurdiak posted:Trying to portray drilling an extremely tiny sample out of the ground and scanning it as some kind of reckless desecration was pretty lol. You know what's an excellent idea? Let's point guns at the one girl Kong has an unbreakable bond with while he's looking right at us
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I loved that Kong looked into their ship to make sure the little girl wasn't in there and once he confirmed she wasn't. *squish*
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John Wick of Dogs posted:His motivation is a little more than that, it's that he wants humanity(and specifically him if you get right down to it) to be the Apex predator. He wants to kill Godzilla because he's loving jealous
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Drakyn posted:I haven't seen this movie, but from what you're saying here it sounds like the human story would've been improved if they'd made incredibly-bad-wolf-science-guy from the last film fulfill this role. No that would have been absolute nonsense because in the previous movie his entire arc was about not hating Titans anymore. It being a fake Jeff Bezos/Elon Musk was much, much better. E: The real improvement would have been making him and Serezawas kid the same character. Vince MechMahon fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Apr 5, 2021 |
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Vince MechMahon posted:No that would have been absolute nonsense because in the previous movie his entire arc was about not hating Titans anymore. It being a fake Jeff Bezos/Elon Musk was much, much better. I mean, him slowly becoming envious that Godzilla is the 'alpha' over him so he makes a robot monster to unseat/battle/possibly gently caress him would be funny to me, but your point's clear. Drakyn fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Apr 5, 2021 |
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Apr 5, 2021 18:08
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I didn't have a problem with the villain because "Elon Musk gets pissy that there is a giant lizard who his money can't defeat and tries to solve the problem with a poorly designed machine" is 100% something that would happen in real life.
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Lurdiak posted:Trying to portray drilling an extremely tiny sample out of the ground and scanning it as some kind of reckless desecration was pretty lol. Oh yeah let's throw a laser and a drill at it brrrrrrr
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Apr 5, 2021 18:22
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All they need was one tiny rock. The villain lady could have just said "Oh ok I'll stop drilling, no problem", the drat thing pretty much had the rock already.
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Apr 5, 2021 18:46
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ImpAtom posted:I didn't have a problem with the villain because "Elon Musk gets pissy that there is a giant lizard who his money can't defeat and tries to solve the problem with a poorly designed machine" is 100% something that would happen in real life. In real life mechagodzilla would have to be recalled because it keeps exploding, though.
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Apr 5, 2021 18:52
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No, in real life they'd just put out videos of Mechagodzilla exploding and triumphantly exclaim that they got so much data from this explosion, you guys don't even know
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I love that the movie starts with Godzilla attacking Pensacola, destroying a ton of poo poo, killing several people and injuring dozens(lol at that by the way) and the moral position of the film is this was provoked and justified self defense. Tell that to random janitor's family, Millie!
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John Wick of Dogs posted:I love that the movie starts with Godzilla attacking Pensacola, destroying a ton of poo poo, killing several people and injuring dozens(lol at that by the way) and the moral position of the film is this was provoked and justified self defense. It's independent contractors on the death star. They knew what they were signing up for. Even if they didn't know they were making a mechagodzilla, they were still working for a sleazy military contractor.
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Apr 5, 2021 19:21
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ImpAtom posted:I didn't have a problem with the villain because "Elon Musk gets pissy that there is a giant lizard who his money can't defeat and tries to solve the problem with a poorly designed machine" is 100% something that would happen in real life. Well, can't rely on pedo-ape to do it
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Retro Futurist posted:Well, can't rely on pedo-ape to do it Kong loses the lawsuit and responds by throwing a giant turd at Musk, crushing him to death. A happy ending.
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Vince MechMahon posted:Kong loses the lawsuit and responds by throwing a giant turd at Musk, crushing him to death. A happy ending. I think cloning Musk is a bit too much even for a kaiju movie.
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Vince MechMahon posted:Kong loses the lawsuit and responds by throwing a giant turd at Musk, crushing him to death. A happy ending. Yes, Kong lobbing Jeff Besos at Musk and both of them turning to mush from the impact would be a good ending.
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John Wick of Dogs posted:I love that the movie starts with Godzilla attacking Pensacola, destroying a ton of poo poo, killing several people and injuring dozens(lol at that by the way) and the moral position of the film is this was provoked and justified self defense. The characters in all of these movies seem so unconcerned with the massive loss of life. As long as not everyone dies it's a huge win and let's have a party. Kong just uses a boat with dozens of people on it as a stepping stone, clearly killing everyone inside, and we're only supposed to care about the 5 people on the big boat who might drown because they're played by actors who get lines. Godzilla kills thousands of people because he was "provoked" by people turning on glowy things that he doesn't like. Oh no Mecha-Godzilla don't kill the nice monkey and giant lizard who've killed more people than 9/11!
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No Godzilla only killed like 6 people and injured dozens, did you not see the headline on screen
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You people are joy-less. 
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Apr 6, 2021 12:38
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Godzilla’s giant brain calculate his every move around humans so he wouldn’t kill anyone. Even the jets were hit in such a way that the pilots were able to eject.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Godzilla’s giant brain calculate his every move around humans so he wouldn’t kill anyone.
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FilthyImp posted:You people are joy-less. I get plenty of joy, just from other places.  Although to be clear, I don't really care about the collateral damage and incidental deaths in kaiju films, at least not ones that are very silly. But it's a little strange that none of the characters do, either. Happy Noodle Boy posted:Godzilla's giant brain calculate his every move around humans so he wouldn’t kill anyone. Even the jets were hit in such a way that the pilots were able to eject. 
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The Kong is dead. Next time you craft a spear and see your dome is a fake sky, don't throw to it. Consider this mercy.
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Apr 6, 2021 13:12
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Lurdiak posted:But it's a little strange that none of the characters do, either.
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Apr 6, 2021 13:12
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Godzilla obliterates Elon Musk in approximately six seconds like he does American Godzilla in Final Wars.
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JordanKai posted:Godzilla obliterates Elon Musk in approximately six seconds like he does American Godzilla in Final Wars. And still to a Blink 182 song.
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