Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) - Part 1

[redhawk23]

I didn't think Rogue One felt like A New Hope. It felt like a grittier war movie within the SW universe, which was....what it was marketed as.

That's what it supposed to be. That's not really what it ended up being.

 

[Roose Bolton]

They will keep making Godzillas, no doubt. What I am kind of sad about is not getting these type of films. It is just kind of cool to see the cooler Godzilla art come to life.

Can only hope they splurge big time during one of the anniversary films. People forget it’s the longest running film franchise.

 

[MbJ]

That's what it supposed to be. That's not really what it ended up being.

The tone feels uneven at times. You had those scattered little dark moments of moral ambiguity like Cassian brutally executing an informant so the Imperials can't get to him, but then most of the movie still plays out like a typical Star Wars film, complete with longwinded speeches about the power of hope overcoming all.

Not that that's bad. I liked the film overall. But it's definitely one of those cases where I could see there being a lot of cooks in the kitchen (I'm shocked the Cassian thing was even left in the final film, all things considered).

 

[MbJ]

BTW, did anyone else get the sense the studio was banking on setting up a

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Mothra spin-off with Zhang Ziyi's character

.

Probably not gonna happen now, but it's what I thought leaving the theater.

 

[Ninjablade]

I didn't personally, but I can see where you could get that impression.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

The tone feels uneven at times. You had those scattered little dark moments of moral ambiguity like Cassian brutally executing an informant so the Imperials can't get to him, but then most of the movie still plays out like a typical Star Wars film, complete with longwinded speeches about the power of hope overcoming all.

Not that that's bad. I liked the film overall. But it's definitely one of those cases where I could see there being a lot of cooks in the kitchen (I'm shocked the Cassian thing was even left in the final film, all things considered).

It wasn't just left in the final film. They added it. Rogue One was always meant to be a more of a "war" movie. But it was also always meant to be a Star Wars movie as well.

 

[Roose Bolton]

BTW, did anyone else get the sense the studio was banking on setting up a

Spoiler

Mothra spin-off with Zhang Ziyi's character

.

Probably not gonna happen now, but it's what I thought leaving the theater.

Yeah, and Dougherty even said there were plans for another credits scene that would have completely set that up.

 

[flickchick85]

Why am I only just now realizing Kyle Chandler's about to have been in 2 totally unrelated Hollywood King Kong films? What a world.

 

[Sithborg]

Why am I only just now realizing Kyle Chandler's about to have been in 2 totally unrelated Hollywood King Kong films? What a world.

Thanks for the reminder.

 

[kguillou]

Interesting how the international market’s not eating this up. I guess the old “foreign markets just like big spectacle and ‘splosions” rhetoric isnt so true, after all:

 

[MbJ]

They're all big Vera Farmiga fans who were upset her writing turned out to be @$$.

 

[Schlosser85]

I was more disappointed by Charles Dance getting royally wasted.

 

[JimThompson]

Interesting how the international market’s not eating this up. I guess the old “foreign markets just like big spectacle and ‘splosions” rhetoric isnt so true, after all:

Didn't show New York or Washington getting crushed. That would have brought overseas folk out!

 

[Roose Bolton]

I was more disappointed by Charles Dance getting royally wasted.

This was certainly no Alien 3.

 

[Schlosser85]

I was disappointed 99% of the global catastrophe took place offscreen. That shot of a devastated Washington makes a great gif, but it goes by in two seconds.

Never has a global apocalypse felt so small.

 

[Schlosser85]

This was certainly no Alien 3.

Where he was the only halfway interesting character besides Ripley, and also the first to get killed off.

Sadly he was even more wasted here than he was there.

 

[Roose Bolton]

Where he was the only halfway interesting character besides Ripley, and also the first to get killed off.

Sadly he was even more wasted here than he was there.

He turns in a really underrated performance in that one too.


Though I did notice one of his soldiers in this was rocking the Alien 3 Ripley look. And his right hand man was named Ash...

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

I just think it’s a bummer that we won’t get to see an American version of Godzilla vs Destoroyah since...

Spoiler

This movie sets it up so perfectly with the Oxygen Destroyer scene.

Get some higher profile Asian stars to be the Yamane family, raise the stakes with Burning Godzilla and you’d have a movie that apparently only the fans would love.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

I was disappointed 99% of the global catastrophe took place offscreen. That shot of a devastated Washington makes a great gif, but it goes by in two seconds.

Never has a global apocalypse felt so small.

I’m actually upset that the military in that movie couldn’t take out a giant spider. A three headed dragon causing thunderstorms is one thing, but a damn spider?

Come on man.

 

[Roose Bolton]

I just think it’s a bummer that we won’t get to see an American version of Godzilla vs Destoroyah since...

Spoiler

This movie sets it up so perfectly with the Oxygen Destroyer scene.

Get some higher profile Asian stars to be the Yamane family, raise the stakes with Burning Godzilla and you’d have a movie that apparently only the fans would love.

Could still happen in Godzilla vs Kong

 

[Sithborg]

I'd rather not.

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Given how much they wasted and dismissed the importance of the Oxygen Destroyer, I would rather not have it brought up again

 

[Roose Bolton]

I mean,

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if Destroyah shows up he would be only partially tied to the Oxygen Destroyer itself... it would be more tied to Ghidorah’s legacy.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

This was certainly no Alien 3.

But then again, what is?

 

[TheVileOne]

I don't know. I just rewatched it and I don't think it's a complete tonal betrayal.

Like the trailer showed a serious take and that's what the movie gave us.

Now the Kong Skulls Island Comic Con trailer, that was a complete farce in terms of tone of the actual movie. Or the Transformers teasers

Edwards outright said Godzilla would be like a natural disaster and the words he used were "the punishment we deserve."

Also, this Godzilla had really nothing to do with nuclear weapons or testing other than they tried to blow him up in the bikini atoll test in 1950s which did basically nothing.

 

[Binker]

Saw the movie, loved it. They did a good job. Anyone who hasn't seen it, go see it. And if you did, see it again.