Kong: Skull Island - Part 1

[Loden Greatstorm]

One of the problems I had with Godzilla was that it was often too dark to see what was going on, this was made even worse on Blu Ray. Kong seems to be taking place more in daylight.

Yes, this is a welcome relief.

 

[P Supreme]

whoa! that looked impressive kong looks massive

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Kong is a pure monster! Love it.

 

[nightwing06]

Looks good cant wait to see the full Kong and the rest of the creatures that inhabit the island

 

[P Supreme]

is it me or SLJ is in everything kind of getting bored with him does he ever say no lolol

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Looks good cant wait to see the full Kong and the rest of the creatures that inhabit the island

What other creatures do you think we will see on the island?

 

[harryoscop]

I hope Neca makes a Kong figure

 

[Lord]

It certainly seems to have a more interesting premise and a stronger cast.

While i can't disagree about the cast, Godzilla seemed out of this world from the first few posters and the trailers. Those were some of the greatest trailers i've seen for a movie. The the film ended up being just average.

Kong's trailer was great, bust considering what happened with Godzilla, i will remain much more cautious this time.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Well I guess then you gotta go back to the directors and their strengths. Edwards has a great eye but he lacks in character quite a bit even in Monsters. Roberts, while I haven't seen Kings of Summer, I've heard the character work is great in that.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Getting Kong himself right is the most important for me, then the characters come 2nd, as most of them are there to die anyway.

For me Jacksons movie got Kong spot on, you cared for him, despite some of the horrible things he did, you understood him doing them. Hoping for the same here.

 

[the last son]

Can anyone tell who made score or where to hear it other than trailer? I'm assuming it's for the OST, but maybe not.

 

[VelcroWallet]

I hope Neca makes a Kong figure

They definitely will.

 

[redhawk23]

Don't know if this was posted. Here's the full panel.

https://youtu.be/26_F09RR8cI

 

[Gold Samurai]

is it me or SLJ is in everything kind of getting bored with him does he ever say no lolol

When the day

SLJ doesn't do a shark movie (Deep Blue)

Gary Oldman doesn't do a Robocop movie

Morgan Freeman says no to sandal epic(Ben Hur) or scifi movie (Oblivion) or action movie (Olympus Has Fallen) or Lego movie




That will be the end of movies

 

[redhawk23]

It is interesting to me that I haven't really seen too much reporting about the fact that Hiddleston gave a plot synopsis at comicon.

As he described at the panel, 1970s NASA has early mapping satellites but due to weather systems can't get good coverage of what turns out to be Skull Island. They send a team of soldiers, surveyors and photographers to explore the Island.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

They definitely will.

 

[Gort Baringa]

It seems that this Kong will be way too big and heavy to get to civilization!

 

[Lighthouse]

I'm assuming that, like Godzilla, he's a hell of a swimmer.

 

[Marvolo]

It is interesting to me that I haven't really seen too much reporting about the fact that Hiddleston gave a plot synopsis at comicon.

As he described at the panel, 1970s NASA has early mapping satellites but due to weather systems can't get good coverage of what turns out to be Skull Island. They send a team of soldiers, surveyors and photographers to explore the Island.

Why would NASA care about a random island?

 

[Arachnerd]

Well, it's possible Skull Island had either been undiscovered before or an urban legend.

 

[divan]

Well I guess then you gotta go back to the directors and their strengths. Edwards has a great eye but he lacks in character quite a bit even in Monsters. Roberts, while I haven't seen Kings of Summer, I've heard the character work is great in that.

Yeah. People give ATJ a (somewhat deserved) beatdown but frankly, what other character was there that felt interesting, in terms of either direction or script? Bryan Cranston perhaps, but script-wise he seemed like a one-off, he was just there to setup the plot and be killed and the fact he gave the best performance says more about the actor himself than direction behind him. ATJ's character is every person in a disaster movie ever, Olsen was a similarily generic disaster spectator and KW, who at least had a (written) backstory, lacked motivations and looked stoned for the entire film.

 

[Arachnerd]

Actually I found Serizawa more interesting, though that's more likely just because of the way Ken Watanabe portrayed him. You could tell his character had seen some stuff.

 

[Schlosser85]

So I take it this is civilization's first encounter with Kong, and the "original" story never happened in this continuity?

 

[Galactus123]

So I take it this is civilization's first encounter with Kong, and the "original" story never happened in this continuity?

It looks like it. This has no continuity with the old movies.

 

[P Supreme]

It looks like it. This has no continuity with the old movies.

good let the classic sleep it's time for new stories with the King