The makers of these movies still have to map out their monster action to human ratio though.
Yeah I really hate the whole: "i’m here for the monsters, I don’t care about the humans” thing. That thinking has really hurt both Godzilla movies and Kong in some opinions (I actually think SLJ and his platoon were good along with John Goodman. Larson and Hiddleston were surprisingly bad)
The two aren’t mutually exclusive. You can get great, cool monster action and still have good human characters.
The monsters are a set piece, force of nature you need something else interesting to surround them.
I'm completely fine with the date move. I just hope they won't use the time to shove major reshoots down Wingard's throat and create a Frankenstein monster of a movie. It's happened with Suicide Squad, Justice League and (in Fox's case) The Predator, and in none of those cases did it help the material.
Yeah I can’t think of any movies that underwent major reshoots and were saved in post production. I actually looked through a list of Trouble Productions on TVTropes and couldn’t find anything.
I get the studios thinking, but the damage is done. I don’t think they’re going to be able to get that many more viewers with reshoots.
I still think the fatal flaw of this franchise was not releasing Godzilla vs Kong before KOTM. Think about it, the 2014 Godzilla movie was alright, Skull Island did good, they should’ve struck while the iron was hot. After GvK, who could be a credible antagonist for Godzilla? Ghidorah.
But with the releases the way we got them, I’m supposed to believe a pissed off giant ape can put up more of a fight than a three headed space dragon that can cause thunderstorms by flying alone?
They blew their load too quickly IMO.
Nail on the head. I keep saying for most movies, especially franchise starters, if you don’t release a sequel or have a team up film in 2-3 years you’re gonna hurt the movie financially. There are movies that are able to pull it off, but for the most part I think we get so many blockbusters that people’s minds move on.
They should’ve done 2014= Godzilla, 2016=Kong, 2017= GvK
And as you also pointed out, KotM escalated things so much in terms of monster action that I’m very curious how the Kaijuverse can continue and still feel interesting from the stakes. Godzilla has already fought so many monsters, who seem like they would be tougher than Kong...I don’t see how Godzilla vs Kong is that interesting. Especially when there are no human heroes to rally behind.
