Godzilla vs Kong (2021)

[Drizzle]

I enjoyed it, but this one might be my least favorite of the Monsterverse. Most of the human plotlines were bat**** crazy but the fight scenes delivered and that's really the main attraction. It's more than a little hypocritical to question technology and physics in a movie where I'm also fine with two 400 foot monsters clobbering each other.

 

[Blade Hoarder]

Agreed with some of the criticisms about Kong being too human. He is basically a titanic mute man rather than an ape.

these movies just make me appreciate Jackson’s Kong more. A proper ape that guy was.

 

[Superark]

Cannot say I was the biggest fan. I won't spoil it, but I did not care for the decision of who won the fight. I mean I guess you run the risk of upsetting one fan base or the other but I think they would have been better served to let each get their win and let it be a draw before the inevitable ending.

Also, Kong came across much less fierce in this film and there was far too much attention on the human characters.

I'd give it a 6/10. Enjoyable but did not meet the hype.

But for me it is always going to be difficult to top Peter Jackson's Kong.

 

[Joefixit]

I still found the Hong Kong fight in Pacific Rim more enjoyable than this one. Then again, Del Toro is in another plane as a director.

Yeah, after seeing it in IMAX I can definitely say it’s going to other way with me. This is not King Kong. I guess King Kong and Kong are two different characters, because this was definitely not him. This was just someone’s pet that needed protecting. This movie really didn’t do him justice, they could have just went with King ceaser.

To put it into context, one of the most iconic movie scenes ever is 33 Kong atop the Empire State Building, another was Jackson’s King Kong standing toe to toe with that V Rex and Finally Kong skull island standing tall against that sunlight sky as those helicopters approached. Those films gave you a sense of awe and exactly the feeling that you were looking at King Kong. This movie gave us nothing except for Godzilla being treated with awe and distinction (and it was deserved) where as this animal was treated as just that a pet that had to be protected. This was not King Kong! Maybe they don’t own the rights to King Kong ( thank God) I’m not against the monster verse continuing I just hope that they leave Kong out unless they get someone that can treat him like the icon that he is.

And just to be fair, this is not like what The MCU did to the Hulk or Disney to Luke Skywalker, but it’s not that much better. Maybe it’s just a changing of the guard in Hollywood where as directors don’t respect the old characters that used to be treated with reverence. Maybe they are just stepping stones to build up the most popular thing going at the time.

 

[The Big G]

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[Joefixit]

Cannot say I was the biggest fan. I won't spoil it, but I did not care for the decision of who won the fight. I mean I guess you run the risk of upsetting one fan base or the other but I think they would have been better served to let each get their win and let it be a draw before the inevitable ending.

Also, Kong came across much less fierce in this film and there was far too much attention on the human characters.

I'd give it a 6/10. Enjoyable but did not meet the hype.

But for me it is always going to be difficult to top Peter Jackson's Kong.

Exactly!

 

[Roose Bolton]

Yeah, after seeing it in IMAX I can definitely say it’s going to other way with me. This is not King Kong. I guess King Kong and Kong are two different characters, because this was definitely not him. This was just someone’s pet that needed protecting. This movie really didn’t do him justice, they could have just went with King ceaser.

To put it into context, one of the most iconic movie scenes ever is 33 Kong atop the Empire State Building, another was Jackson’s King Kong standing toe to toe with that V Rex and Finally Kong skull island standing tall against that sunlight sky as those helicopters approached. Those films gave you a sense of awe and exactly the feeling that you were looking at King Kong. This movie gave us nothing except for Godzilla being treated with awe and distinction (and it was deserved) where as this animal was treated as just that a pet that had to be protected. This was not King Kong! Maybe they don’t own the rights to King Kong ( thank God) I’m not against the monster verse continuing I just hope that they leave Kong out unless they get someone that can treat him like the icon that he is.

And just to be fair, this is not like what The MCU did to the Hulk or Disney to Luke Skywalker, but it’s not that much better. Maybe it’s just a changing of the guard in Hollywood where as directors don’t respect the old characters that used to be treated with reverence. Maybe they are just stepping stones to build up the most popular thing going at the time.

I mean, he

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saved Godzilla from certain death and was ultimately the one who killed MechaGodzilla. He took down one of the most infamous and iconic Kaiju villains of all time, and the film ends with him firmly established amongst a pantheon of Godlike beings protecting the world.

To me that was more love than what he got in the original films, where the character was just an oversized animal who was cruelly killed by greedy humans.

So yeah, I can’t really see where you coming from.

 

[Joefixit]

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He needed Godzilla’s Help to defeat Mecha Godzilla [ SPOILER]

He was always the most feared creature on Skull Island, but here [ SPOILER] is reduced to an

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animal that has to live in containment for fear he will get killed by Godzilla

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And he needed human help to defeat those dragons [ SPOILER] Any victory he had in this film came

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with help [ SPOILER]

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He couldn’t even beat the dragon creatures without the help of the humans [ Spoiler] Yeah this Kong was definitely not King Kong. Give me any of the previous Kongs over this one.

 

[heatvision38]

One thing that confused me about GvK:

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The base that Godzilla attacks in the beginning is shown to be in Florida. So that's where the podcaster guy is. Eleven goes looking for him and finds him pretty quickly which means Eleven and her friend are also in or very near Florida. Earlier that day Eleven goes to see her father. So he's nearby as well. Then later, Millie, Podcaster, and LOTR all get caught up in that tunnel vehicle that spits them out in Hong Kong. So, how did Kyle Chandler Bing get to Hong Kong so quickly and find Millie?

 

[heatvision38]

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Isn't the whole ancient vault thing setting up some greater intelligent beings? I can't see Kong's species building statues of themselves so it's gotta be something else right?

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Would be nice if they could tie this into the idea that Gidorah was from another planet. I thought that was just treated as a throwaway scene in the last movie. Would be nice to tie it all together somehow.

 

[heatvision38]

Did anyone find that the volume level was much lower than it should be? I have a pretty good home theater and even after turning it to reference level it was still lower than any other movie. Loses quite a bit of the impact.

Yes.

 

[Superhero 101]

5/10

- boring unnecessary human characters

+ good monster fights

my rankings of these films

KOTM
Skull Island
GvK
Godzilla

 

[SomeOldGuy]

10/10. That is all.

 

[Wildcard]

Simply put, this movie was everything I wanted and MORE! I'll go more in-depth later on but suffice to say, everything about this movie made my 10 year old self happy. I didn't even mind the human characters, I thought they served their purpose and were good enough. This is certainly the best of the MonsterVerse thus far (IMO) and man o' man I still have yet to come down from the high I've experienced seeing this.

In hindsight, this is how I REALLY wanted to feel after BvS. I tried to be optimistic about that movie but this is how you do it. This is how you take two legends and show both proper respect without diminishing either.

My goodness...without spoiling anything I just can't get over how damn beautiful this movie is from start to finish. Whatever your gripes may be with the film, you can't deny this is a gorgeous looking film.

Adam Wingard, I love you! (that goes double for everyone else involved with this magnificent project)

 

[KaijuDude1992]

I loved the Kaiju action we got in this and as far as human characters go I liked Team Kong the most, but man the so called villians in this were such a huge waste of time IMO.

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I didn't like how Mechagodzilla was incorporated at all, because alot of it just felt underdeveloped and forced to me and what a waste of a potenitally interesting character like the son of Dr. Serizawa who honestly could have been anybody in this movie and it wouldn't have made a lick of a difference.

Also, I definitely prefer the version of Kong that we got in Skull Island, but I still enjoyed the badass moments he got here and I didn't even mind Godzilla getting all the shine that he deserved.

I thought I really wanted a Hollow Earth series before, but now I want it even more and hopefully HBO Max makes it happen with a proper big budget and everything.

 

[antsman41]

Rad camera POV, dope visuals, fun human characters (for once), and astonishing fights.

 

[Sithborg]

No electric monke. 0/10

Seriously, I enjoyed it. A lot. But I am going to have wait to give a full review of how much. I know I enjoyed it, but not being able to see this on Imax or even a theater screen has left me sad and a bit angry. Not because of the lack to do it. But because not going to the theaters, with how my states' numbers are, it is the smart and responsible thing to do. So this is going to be a weird movie to parse out my feelings.

However, KOTM OST> GvK OST.

If Godzilla V. Kong does great numbers on HBO Max I can definitely see them considering doing more with the Monsterverse, especially if we aren't getting any more big budget films for a while.

I'm cool with the animated stuff we have been getting so far, but there needs to be more live action stuff as well and it would be a huge waste IMO to just let this franchise die when so much more can still be done with it.

Of course it will all depend on how successful GVK is, but man a Monarch series or a Hollow Earth series on HBO Max could have so much potenital and really change the game for Hollywood as a whole.

Always remember, Warner Bros and Legendary are not the sole deciders of whether the Monsterverse can continue. Though thank god someone was smart enough to delay the Japan release. I think Eva may have won if it went against it.

 

[Bubba Gump Jr]

Watched the film twice, and I gotta say, I loved it. Easily my favorite MonsterVerse film, if not possibly my favorite giant monster film period. There genuinely wasn’t anything in the movie I disliked.

 

[TheVileOne]

One thing that confused me about GvK:

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The base that Godzilla attacks in the beginning is shown to be in Florida. So that's where the podcaster guy is. Eleven goes looking for him and finds him pretty quickly which means Eleven and her friend are also in or very near Florida. Earlier that day Eleven goes to see her father. So he's nearby as well. Then later, Millie, Podcaster, and LOTR all get caught up in that tunnel vehicle that spits them out in Hong Kong. So, how did Kyle Chandler Bing get to Hong Kong so quickly and find Millie?

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I might be mis-remembering, but I think Mark Russell went to China with Monarch because Godzilla was heading there and that was set up midway through.

 

[TheVileOne]

5/10

- boring unnecessary human characters

+ good monster fights

my rankings of these films

KOTM
Skull Island
GvK
Godzilla

Am I crazy? I still think King of the Monsters is the best of this bunch.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

The movie is incredibly dumb. Somehow dumber then the first 3, which was rather impressive to me. But at least it wasn't boring, and I ended up enjoying it overall. It was something different, which was nice considering all the boring military stuff they kept throwing at us the first three movies. Godzilla really got shortchanged in this one. It is like a Kong flick featuring Godzilla. You even see this with the human characters who originated in the Godzilla flicks. Which is not how they advertised it. Moreover, I am not a fan of this Godzilla being so exceedingly different in size and temperament from the dude we saw in his other flicks.

I enjoyed the call back to theme park rides with the POV and the fights were fun, even if they didn't exactly make the most sense. The movie has an energy the others are missing. A bit like Skull Island, but the dumb humans here have a lot more life to them. I just wish the movie didn't feel like it was trying to make Kong "legit" by mistreating Godzilla. It was like BvS in that regard.

 

[Ninjablade]

Just got out of the theater. It was decent. Last half hour of action was cool. I don't really have an interest in ever revisiting the rest of it again. The plot was absolutely insane and felt like two different movies in one, but I kind of appreciated that it was schlock bs and wasn't trying to be serious like KOTM.

My opinions on all the Monsterverse films is pretty mixed. If I had to rank them it'd probably be something like

K:SI
G14
GvK
KOTM

Skull Island still strikes the best balance of everything for my buck.

 

[Da-Scribe]

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“This is the man that saved our lives.”

I damn near spit out my Costco whiskey at that line. This is a movie that assumes you’re probably texting.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

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“This is the man that saved our lives.”

I damn near spit out my Costco whiskey at that line. This is a movie that assumes you’re probably texting.

what I liked about that was:

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They don't do anything in the movie of consequence. The film plays out the exact same way if they are never in it. He had to "save their lives", because they are all idiots. And he didn't even do that.

 

[heatvision38]

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I might be mis-remembering, but I think Mark Russell went to China with Monarch because Godzilla was heading there and that was set up midway through.

Ok, that would make sense. Got there awfully fast.