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Lobok posted:I wish. Theatre staff here all turn the lights on pretty early into the credits and wait there with their garbage bags for the stragglers to leave. Haha yeah, by the time that happened the lights were on and everyone was standing.
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I like that MONARCH seems to be made of people who were laughed out of academia/gov't for their insane theories and whoever happened to survive running into a monster. edit: at least 3/4 of every team was recruited against their will
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I like this new, bold direction they're taking for the crossover with Godzilla
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Apr 2, 2017 17:46
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I gently caress with that heavily, yes sir
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:I like this new, bold direction they're taking for the crossover with Godzilla Godzilla's gonna have him wearing one of those harnesses on leashes that parents put on naughty children.
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Apr 2, 2017 17:59
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I see a Fastball Special in their future...possibly a dwarf toss.
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Kong could also do one of these:
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Really liked this movie. Sure, it has its flaws, but overall its a great monster movie that is shot beautifully (in my opinion) and really made Kong himself really cool. The shots of him standing with sunsets or fire behind him looked awesome and they nailed the whole 'godlike protector of the island vibe'. Specific cool stuff: - giant water buffalos - giant spider was gross and made me feel squirmy. - chill tree-insect. - Crazy ww2 survivor man was a breath of fresh air. - sam jackson i guess, especially when he said 'bitch, please'. - fps weapon shots. - Kong's easly intro by throwing a tree into the chopper before loving them all up. - film looked gorgeous.. Weird/not good - English male lead guy was boring as hell. He didnt deserve to get the cool samurai gasmask shot. - when they were on the river and had loads of those birds coming at them, four took one dude and then they all suddenly disappeared. Felt a little sudden and out of nowhere. - photographer lady was fine but also not particularly interesting. .
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Haven't read anything about this movie after watching the trailers, which looked pretty good imo. Is it worth seeing at the cinema or can I wait it out?
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Syncopated posted:Haven't read anything about this movie after watching the trailers, which looked pretty good imo. Is it worth seeing at the cinema or can I wait it out? It's a good movie and benefits a lot from a huge screen. Considering you liked the trailers, worth a trip to the theater.
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I'm glad I saw it in theater. Big screen for giant ape.
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Sir Kodiak posted:It's a good movie and benefits a lot from a huge screen. Considering you liked the trailers, worth a trip to the theater. Just saw it and agree, it's a good monster movie.
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Apr 5, 2017 23:42
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I sat a little closer than I usually do when I saw this and things like the full-height shot of Kong against the rising sun were awesome.
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So Kong and Godzilla are going to team up against King Ghidorah in Godzilla vs. Kong, right?
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I always try to sit about 5-10 rows back, so the screen almost covers my peripheral vision, it rules
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Alienwarehouse posted:So Kong and Godzilla are going to team up against King Ghidorah in Godzilla vs. Kong, right? Godzilla v Kong: Dawn of Kaiju
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ungulateman posted:Godzilla v Kong: Dawn of Kaiju Then it turns out both their mothers are named Mothra,which causes them to suddenly become friends. VolticSurge fucked around with this message at 08:17 on Apr 9, 2017 |
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VolticSurge posted:Then it turns out both their mothers are named Martha,which causes them to suddenly become friends. Missed a really good "Mothra" joke, there, guy.
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K. Waste posted:Missed a really good "Mothra" joke, there, guy. gently caress you, K.Was... no, that's perfect actually. 
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Godzilla would absolutely sacrifice himself to convince Kong to rescue Mothra, smdh
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VolticSurge posted:Then it turns out both their mothers are named Martha,which causes them to suddenly become friends. K. Waste posted:Missed a really good "Mothra" joke, there, guy. 
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got any sevens posted:I always try to sit about 5-10 rows back, so the screen almost covers my peripheral vision, it rules Also you're in the sweet spot for the theatre's audio.
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This is great. [edit] Dark_Tzitzimine posted:I like this new, bold direction they're taking for the crossover with Godzilla This is also great. More so because I read somewhere that Kong is an adolescent/teen in the movie. Confirmed by Wreck-it Ralph saying he's still growing. Cutey Kong 
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Was a pretty good movie, thought it was gonna be awful.
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It's really a greatest hits of Hollywood movies about Vietnam (especially Apocalypse Now) with monsters shamelessly doodled all over it. Samuel L. Jackson has tons of napalm and no fucks left to give, John Goodman and John C. Reilly are cool and good too. Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson are just sort of there being generic good looking white people in a Hollywood movie, but it's fine, they're not actively annoying or anything and even do some cool poo poo sometimes.
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The scenes where Hiddleston is suddenly an action hero are so jarring because he basically does nothing for 80% of the movie.
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well why not posted:The scenes where Hiddleston is suddenly an action hero are so jarring because he basically does nothing for 80% of the movie. It felt like the scriptwriters forgot his character was in the movie, especially since he just steps in and takes a weapon from someone else. "Hey we established that this is your specialty weapon but watch me go!"
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Yeah it feels super clumsy and unearned in that scene. I feel like they could've simply removed or reduced the two "leads" and it wouldn't particularly damage the film. But, I guess hollywood needs to have two very attractive leads who might kiss in every single movie.
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Perhaps they were establishing those characters so they could carry across to some of the other films? If not then yeah, apart from "Needs attractive leads with sexual tension" I don't know why they were written in. I guess maybe they could have established some sexual tension between Samuel L Jackson and John Goodman and I'm 100% those guys would have been up for that but I guess the audience isn't ready for that quite yet. Edit: the entire point of having a Sexy Female Lead in a King Kong movie has always been to complete the triangle between the Courageous Male Lead and Kong but I guess they felt they'd take this film in a different direction and have Kong battle Some Other Guy for dominance and territory. Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 11:14 on Apr 12, 2017 |
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I'm not certain they were written with a view to be carried across to other films - next time Kong appears will be v. Godzilla and that's presumably set in around 2020, making those characters very, very old when that happens.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Perhaps they were establishing those characters so they could carry across to some of the other films? If not then yeah, apart from "Needs attractive leads with sexual tension" I don't know why they were written in. I'm pretty sure the only sexual tension in the movie was between Samuel L. Jackson's character and Kong.
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Apr 12, 2017 11:17
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I dunno, Marlo / Gunpei ...
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Mason weaponized an Imco Triplex and was a perfectly decent character even outside that great moment. Conrad was also a decent character if one remembers that both were supporting cast. Packard and Marlow were the definite leads so I'm not sure why people are complaining that secondary roles weren't as prominent.
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well why not posted:Yeah it feels super clumsy and unearned in that scene. I feel like they could've simply removed or reduced the two "leads" and it wouldn't particularly damage the film. But, I guess hollywood needs to have two very attractive leads who might kiss in every single movie. Omitting the photographer would have drastically weakened one of the film's major themes.
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Serf posted:I'm pretty sure the only sexual tension in the movie was between Samuel L. Jackson's character and Kong. I cannot wait for the porn parody version
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It felt like the scriptwriters forgot his character was in the movie, especially since he just steps in and takes a weapon from someone else. "Hey we established that this is your specialty weapon but watch me go!" You have it backwards. Reilly was not well-trained with the sword; he simply respected the cultural significance of it. Hiddleston, on the other hand, was actually very skilled with bladed weapons (as established early-on, in the barfight scene). The point of passing the sword, like Larson using Hiddleston's lighter, is that they work as a team. The complaints that the two characters don't do anything are misguided, because Larson spends the whole film carefully observing events - which eventually leads to her decision to give up pacifism. Larson, on the other hand, gives Hiddleston a cause he considers worth fighting for. That the film ends with the production of a couple, and they now work to dupe the population, is the Snyderesque joke. "I really do like movies that ride that fine line, the razor’s edge between parody and supporting the fake movie part of the movie."
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Edit: the entire point of having a Sexy Female Lead in a King Kong movie has always been to complete the triangle between the Courageous Male Lead and Kong but I guess they felt they'd take this film in a different direction and have Kong battle Some Other Guy for dominance and territory. I'm really, really fine without that, it's the worst aspect of any Kong movie.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:You have it backwards. Reilly was not well-trained with the sword; he simply respected the cultural significance of it. Hiddleston, on the other hand, was actually very skilled with bladed weapons (as established early-on, in the barfight scene). The point of passing the sword, like Larson using Hiddleston's lighter, is that they work as a team. I definitely agree with you about Larson, but Hiddleston is just kind of there. He theoretically at least has some kind of specialty, but he doesn't really ever use it, and just spends most of the movie looking pretty. There's even a pretty easy to miss joke, that he gets lost before the big climactic battle, even though he's the wilderness survival expert. It's a different take that it's a man playing a role that traditionally would be a female character, but I think it trends towards being a pretty useless character regardless of the gender roles.
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Simplex posted:It's a different take that it's a man playing a role that traditionally would be a female character, but I think it trends towards being a pretty useless character regardless of the gender roles. You should check out Queen Kong and King Kong Lives.
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