King Kong Skull Island - POSTMODERN KINO

Contemporary Color is a better movie

viet cong = king kong in the eyes of samauel l jackson.

Felt like some purgatory hell where soldiers were trapped

"We'll Meet Again" was definitely a Dr. Strangelove reference, not only is that the most likely place that most young people have heard it, but it brings up the idea of nuclear weapons that is apparently central to this franchise

Is this a joke thread? Are you claiming the movie is good because it makes subtle yet obvious references to other movies?

The opening line of this movie was like "there will not be a crazier time in Washington" and everyone in the theater laughed
If that's not kino I don't know what is

>>80299367

>the opening fight between the Japanese and American pilot was a foreshadowing of Godzilla vs Kong

But Kong is not a American citizen

>>80300419

Godzilla is not a japanese citizen.

>>80300356
I think OP is making a statement that the movie is good despite the hamfisted references. I like how they gave Kong actual development. The motion capture actor is probably the best actor in the entire movie.

CGI was too obvious. I liked how they kept the giant rubber hand at least as Kong set down the girl after her drowning and almost becoming a skully snack

>>80300419
He is black.
Americans are black.
Like their ex-president

Godzilla is a cancer ridden millenia old guy.
Like japanese people.

>>80300468
Godzilla just appears in Japan
Kong is forced to emigrate to the USA

>>80300558
>I like how they gave Kong actual development.
Kong always had a fucking character arc, that's nothing new

This movie was great though, the visuals are fucking amazing

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>>80300610
>Americans are black
lol no they aren't. Americans are people.

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>>80300843
If Americans are people, how can they not maintain their cities?

That after credit scene was the best part though, lets be real.

>>80300957
>>80300843
ADVANCED SHITPOSTING

>movie focused on nothing but mass appeal with low end humor and big budget CGI comprising 100% of the films marketing
>cast lead who is a favorite of women
>post modern
>masterpiece

>>80300957
>Detroit
>Full of pavement apes
>He thinks they are people
You didn't get the joke, did you?

SOME FOLKS WERE BORN

>>80302400
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eflX1B6MRfw

I don't get people who hate this movie. It does exactly as it said. Kong: Skull Island is about a creature named Kong on the Skull Island. What more do you expect from this, some deep symbolysm or teaching message to the people? No dammit when I saw a movie poster with big giant ape I want to watch it for the giant fucking ape. Definitely would recommend for a weekend getaway.

>Kong gets absolutely wrecked by Sam L. Jackson and a few drums of gasoline

How is this fucker supposed to step up to fucking Godzilla in 2020?

>>80302728

Mutating and growing up in size

>>80300649
Godzilla was made by something Americans dropped on Japan.

>>80299367
Do you know what post-modernism is?

>>80300957
this is obviously not detroit
fun fact its actually the ancient ruins of Asus

>>80299367

John C Reilly is a massive faggot.

How is Kong fighting Godzilla if he's only like half his size?

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>>80304283
Also Godzilla wasn't even a bad guy in Godzilla 2014. I don't think there will be much of a sparkle between them unless it's a different Godzilla.

>>80304283
Would you fight an ape half your size? It would fucking destroy you.

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>>80299367
>It's 'kino' because it references a bunch of better movies made before it

>>80304352
Godzilla is gonna end up somewhere important, and won't leave, so the Chinese girl and the Black guy scientists (who are now much older and played by new actors) are going to suggest bringing Kong to chase him off because he would possibly think Godzilla is a Crawler. Calling it now.

>>80304369
uh, bro. Not only Zilla is twice it's size but I bet it's about 40x if not more heavier.

unless Kong brings a giant machine gun I'm not seeing how will this be a good match

>>80302793
fire bombs?

>>80304594
Kong can use tools, maybe he's going to bring a giant dildo and fuck godzilla to death

>>80302793
oh. So this explains all the nukes NK is throwing at the Japanese see lately.

>>80304594
Becauser every black man owns a machine gun, you racist

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yfw they bring back 98 GINO to fight Kong and troll all of us. Then Zilla 14 shows up and the two work together to fight Ghidorah.

>>80304594
Kong seems more Agile to me.

Godzilla is like a giant Gator, and yeah those guys can move but not like a Monkey can.

If I have to choose to be around a pissed off Gorilla or a Pissed off Gator I'll pick the Gator, you might have a shot out at outrunning the gator.

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>>80304641
he better bring one for himself too because he ain't using his own kong

>>80304598
Americans planned to drop exploding bats, you can drop more than one thing.

Monarch probably comes up with a way to make Kong bigger. Or maybe lol electricity.

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The Prometheus-joke was pretty good I thought.

>>80305050
Nah the crazy guy says Kong is still growing. That's all they need to say about it.

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>>80304697
>GINO and Kang Kong fight in the 90s before Zilla 14
>in the present GINO and Kong wake up again thanks to the '14 MUTO battles
>starts out as a 1v1v1
>Ghidorah, Rodan and Mothra show up
>the 3 of them team up and work together to defeat the new arrivals
>more MUTOs for canon fodder
>mfw

>>80299367
>the opening fight between the Japanese and American pilot was a foreshadowing of Godzilla vs Kong.
is kong american?

>>80300419
American franchise vs. Japanese franchise

Holy shit, are you reatrded?

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>>80299367
>Godzilla vs Kong.
>Kong is fast, strong, intelligent, agile, and is capable of using weapons and his environment to his advantage

Legendary Godzilla is proper fucked unless he can somehow trick Kong into coming near deeper water.

Shin would make for a cooler opponent.

>>80302963
they still make laptops

>>80305284
is godzilla japanese? its not a straight up literal analogy its a bit of foreshadowing, dipstick

>>80299367
The rape scene was a little over the top. A few people walked out of the theater at that point. Overall it's not worth the time.

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>>80300558
>>80299367

you friccin moron, you missed literally the best, most subtle reference.

Toby Kebbel is Kong's Motion Capture Actor. He also plays Chapman, the guy who's brutally eaten by the Skully and has a kid. This mirrors Andy Serkis in Peter Jackson's King Kong, who is the motion capture for Kong and also plays a military dude that gets eaten by those leech things in the bug scene.

(Sidenote: Toby Kebbel also played the villaing in the most recent Apes movie, opposite Andy Serkis as Caesar)

>>80299367
I really liked the FPS videogame shots

>>80302728
> gasoline
Dude it was napalm. Sam Jackson even said so. Napalm is no joke man

>>80305347
Shin godzilla overheats too much.

>>80305726
Toby Kebbell is not the motion capture actor for Kong, he just did some facial expressions and that's it

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>that crazy ass brutal japanese pilot with katana
>is actually played by... this...dude?

I wonder how they'll make mothra not look ridiculous

This movie was legit awesome. I liked Godzilla 2014 but this beats it in most ways.

>>80305726
Would put dick in it

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VIETNAM FUCKING SHITS

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>>80306275
Just make her really cute.

>>80302415
top kek

>>80306388
VietCONG: SKULL PENINSULA.

>>80299367
>King Kong Skull Island
How was Brie Larson? was she I-am-womyn- hear-me-roar?

>>80300558
Kong didn't have a character arc tho...

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Die you mother fu

>>80306687
Nah, she was pretty good, if a little underutilized. The characters is for me the weakest part of the movie, after editing..

>>80304283
they mentioned that Kong is still growing. He's only a teenager.

>>80302728
They mention that Kong is still growing

>>80306687
she was fucking boring.

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>tfw John Reilly's character actually had a happy ending
I was so expecting him to die too

>>80305347
>strong, agile

Desu, Burgerzilla is twice his height and can spew fire. Wtf can a monkey do against that

>>80306687

Samuel L jackson interupts her speech with

"Bitch pleaaaaseee!"

everyone laughed

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>>80307140
Godzilla weight is 90000 tons. King Kong weight is a few hundred tons.

>>80307268
>King Kong needs to grow 200ft just to be anywhere near Godzilla height
Interested in seeing how that plays out

>>80307268
Godzilla vs King Kong movie will have Kong suddenly be the same size as Godzilla and the only explanation will be

>WE
>WUZ
>KANGZ
>N
>KONGZ

>>80299367
>>Tom Hiddleston's character was named Conrad, referring to Joseph Conrad, the author of Heart of Darkness which was more or less adapted into Apocalypse Now. John C. Reilly's character was named Maslow, who is a character in Heart of Darkness.

>John C. Reilly's character was named Maslow, who is a character in Heart of Darkness.

>named Maslow

>Maslow

It's Marlowe you idiot

>>80307268
That's insane, Godzilla is seriously THAT big?

I think John C Reilly's character said that Kong will grow bigger, so it kinda makes sense but a Kong bigger than what we got will seriously be insane

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>>80307268
>apache

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>>80307369
Monsterverse Godzilla is hugeassbig, the size of a nuclear supercarrier

>>80300468
*hits blunt*

>>80299367
so this movie just a bunch of quirky """"omages"""""

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>>80307268
>apache

>>80307268
godzilla was not that big, thats such an over exageration

How big is Kong now? They said in the movie that he is still growing.

>>80308252
He was that big. Then Toho decided they couldn't be one upped so made their Godzilla even bigger.

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>>80308252
Godzilla was HUGE - the size of skyscrapers, much bigger than Arleigh Burke class destroyers.

>>80299367
>Missed the Metal Gear Solid references

>>80308564
Where?

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a visual representation of Legendary picture's King Kong vs Godzilla

>>80308422
Legendary Godzilla is one of if not the biggest Godzillas and is brolic is fuck. Atomic breathe is OP

>>80299367
I liked this movie. It is a competent stupid monster movie. Just what I wanted desu.

>>80307486
and thats not even really an accurate representation there because most of him is underwater there, he fucking dwarfs that supercarrier

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Oh boy how I loved those kings and kongs

>>80308564
Name of the ship, mainly.

>>80308889
Athena? Or Wanderer? Coz Wanderer was the ship name in the King Kong novellization,

>>80299367
You forgot:
>The boat is called Gray Fox in reference to Vogt-Roberts' next project, a Metal Gear Solid movie.

>story of Icaria

Opening shot before jap and murkan is someone free falling from the sun.


Did no one else notice this?

>>80308966
Icarus*

CAM RIP WHERE?

>>80306996
His wife was not only single but allowed him to stay and his son was not only not a punk from being raised by a single mother but looked 18 lol. Less plausible than a monster island.

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>>80308942
Oh THAT boat? Then it fits.

>>80309013
If you watch this movie as a camrip you might actually be legally retarded.

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>>80307268
>ftfy

they are definitely going to shrink Godzilla down and scale Kong up for their confrontation.

>>80309210
i have bad eyes so it all looks the same to me anyways fampai.

>>80308966
He should have had Pennsylvanian steel wings I guess.

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>Ctrl+F
>Dear Billy
>0 results found
I am disappoint

>>80307346
The explanation is already provided in Kong: Skull Island though.

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>>80300468
The character Godzilla actually is an honorary Japanese citizen

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K O N G

M U S T

D I E

>>80300419
Skull Island was 'discovered' first by americans. Kong was claimed as property and brought back to the US (in previous films, and probably will be in GvK) so that makes him property of the US.

>>80300419
>>80309603
So he is 3/5th a citizen.

>>80306236

>This is a straight guy in Japan

As a dude who only goes for really faggy-looking guys, I'll bet getting premium Japanese boypussy would be a harder task than initially thought.

>>80309715
He is illegal cargo not cleared by Customs

>>80310044
at worst, he'd be a pet, or perhaps an illegal bioweapon.

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>>80310079
>declared endangered species and mascot for PETA
>yfw

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>when you have a cool Moby Dick/Apocalypse Now idea for a Kong reboot but you fuck it up by spending 60% of your time pandering to LOREfags

>>80310213
>kang kong starts working for PETA
>everyone else has to back godzilla so he'll fuck him up

>>80299367
Is it worth seeing in IMAX? Seeing the last Godzilla movie in IMAX was one of the best experiences I've had in a theater.

>>80310664
It's fine if you like action schlock

Dear Billy, this movie was a bigger shitshow than BvS, and I couldn't tell if it was satire or not. I like stupid monster movies, but they need to remember that they're a stupid monster movie and KISS. This tried way too hard and like so many other movies I think it buckled under the weight of head executives giving the orders. I however did enjoy John C. Reilly's character and the flash going off in the monster built SOME suspense

>changes tone every two seconds because it cant decide what it wants to be
>60's songs every fucking minute
>apocalypse now sunset shots out the ass
>first person shooter shots out the ass
>SLIGHTLY TILTED CAMERA ANGLE MEANS HES CURAZY
>muh strong anti war woman photographer who only takes photos of natives and aurora
>expert tracker literally does no tracking, he just tells them to get to higher ground
>samuel jackson BECOMES DA REAL MONSTER with stupid silhouette
>film just fucking ends with no impact

There's a lot more wrong, but you get the idea.

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>>80299367
>postmodern

>>80310723
Confused is really the best descriptor. This film had no idea what it wanted to be, and it just ends up shortchanging everything.

>>80306687
Her boobs were distracting

>>80309447
>>80307346
"Kong's still growin!" - John Reilly's character whatever his name was

>>80304728
A gator will outrun a human in a sprint easily

How did the skull crawlers things kill the other Kongs when they are so much smaller?
>>80310916
Very dangerous over short distances.

>>80308817
>having a satchel bag with the strap between her breasts the entire movie
Kino

>>80309260
thnx

>>80302793
Godzilla was born of American weapons this makes him a US citizen.

was a bretty good movie. I felt like they really could have cut some scenes out entirely.

>giant spider sequence
>brie larson trying to help the wounded monster outside the natives base
>could have shaved down every little scene change montage piece throughout the whole 1st act.

Also did anyone else feel that Kongs reveal was way too early? I think it would have been cool to not have gotten a real look at him until he comes eye to eye with Sam L and the end of the helicopter chaos. The characters should have constantly been questioning what they even saw to make the fear of the island more potent.

This film "stars" 13 different people. Who the fuck thought that was a good idea?

>>80311067
Marketing Department.

>>80310531
This movie really did have a monstrous amount of worldbuilding.

>>80311033
He's the angry spirits of dead japanese people that died in war. Or, he's a super ancient dinosaur monster that was woken up by bombs. The US did not birth him in any lore. Merely woke him up.

>>80311057
>Cutting out Kumonga
You faggot, that's the only time he'll ever be in one of these movies.

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>it's a "/tv/ likes Marvel-tier movies when it's not Marvel" episode

How pathetic.

>>80311127
>let's waste a bunch of time on an irrelevant tribe of savages and explaining how this is all just part of hollow earth theory

>>80311067
This film "stars" a giant fucking ape and Samuel Jackson. Everyone else is there to move the story forward.

>>80311160
what's the point of just issuing a complete throwaway scene to a cool monster that moves nothing forward plot wise and has no real lasting impact on the movie itself?

You must have thought Force Awakens was kino, eh?

>>80311191
I like the Hollow Earth theory, monsterverse can literally shit out any Kaiju they want and have its origins explained.

Didn't need to waste so much time on it in the film if you ask me, seems like something that could've been explained in a 5 minute scene.

>>80311197
You're wrong, and that's a big part of why the film sucks so much. Every one of those 13 people gets a personal scene meant to drive their character arc. You can not fit that much into two hours and also have a good action plot.

>>80311235
Anon I just like monsters what the fuck did you think you were getting out of this movie.
>>80311250
I can see that, but I felt like it didn't take too much away from it. The only person who felt legitimately out of place was the chinese woman, she did literally nothing throughout the whole fucking film. Even the whiny indian guy had the mysterious suitcase that he clung to even as he got carried away to his death.

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>>80311250
Bitch please.
It was Sam. It was always Sam.

>"That creature, beyond being a reference to a creature from the 1933 film, is also this crazy fusion of all of the influences throughout my life – like the first angel from Evangelion, and No-Face from Spirited Away, and Cubone from Pokémon."[26]

so this is what millenials are capable of

>>80299367
Just because a film invokes works from the past in order to make complex thematic associations doesn't automatically make it 'postmodern kino'. Literally every movie does this. A good example of actual postmodern kino in the vain of what you're trying to imply is BvS.

>>80311306
>People have inspirations that make their way into their craft
woah

>>80311286
>but I felt like it didn't take too much away from it

Then you're an idiot. It's not about feeling out of place, it's about how much time you have to develop your story and how stupid it is to shortchange everybody this way.

>>80311286
>I think monster movies should just always be mindless action flicks cause LOL MONSTERS RITE?!

you're what's driving shit movies to be made my friend.

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>>80311319
>BvS
Just stop posting

>>80311367
>I like when the monster movies only have the monsters at the very end, and only in the dark
Maybe you're not the target audience anon

Besides, this movie was supposed to mirror Vietnam. The soldiers didn't want to be there and every 10 steps some of them got killed no matter how hard they tried. On an island of monsters, what was going to kill them and be an obstacle for them other than monsters, their fucking relationships with eachother?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=inD6cBrAH9I

Post credits scene is kino?

>>80311522
No, they killed off pretty much all of the good actors, so you get exposition from a chick who barely speaks English and the nerdy black guy who's just bad at acting

>include chinese actress for chink money
>give her romance with the black guy

Will this be cut in the Chinese version, or are they just going to be fine with shooting themselves in the foot this way?

His jacket also was an homage to dr.brule

>>80304283
Kong is a teenager in this movie

>>80307209
I really did not expect that moment. They nailed it on that one.

>>80311625
China hates her (Jing Tian) if you read Chinese reviews for The Great Wall. That's partly why it flopped over there.

Kong might flop for similar reasons, along with just not having a lot of action.

>>80311786
Shit, you'd think with tencent co-producing they wouldn't have fucked that up so hard.

>>80311756
It was as bad as a Marvel quip but you're giving it a pass because you're a pleb

>>80311750

This

"He's still growing"

>>80311816
>butthurt bitch detected

>>80299367
Hiddleston sucked as an action hero. Good thing he's no longer in the run for Bond.

>>80299367
My problem with this film is that
>wrong characters died
Goodman's death was as unecessary as Cranston's death in Godzilla

>>80311949
>set up heroic sacrifice
>nope tail slap

Seriously, why so many stupid deaths?

>>80311989
>Set up heroic sacrifice
>It doesn't work because the monster is smart
I don't know why people shit on this

>>80311989
That was even worse. That guy was more likeable than the two protags. Should've been him finishing off the giga Skullcrawler than Brie

>>80311989
I like that big one was smart to see through the plan.

>>80312012
Because it's a stupid waste. What was the point of that scene?

They could remove Tom whatshisface and Brie whatsherface and the movie would still be th same

I loved Godzilla 2014 and Shin Godzilla. Will I like this?

>>80312052
This is true for the vast majority of the cast.

>>80306687
She hits a bullseye with a flare gun from like 1000 yards, winning the day. It's bullshit.

>>80312084
That's not true since they all have their own quirks and personalities except those two

>>80302517
>What more do you expect from this
Secret Nazi base building Nazi Mecha to take back on the world.

>>80312084
Bullshit, this movie wouldn't have been as entertaining without the soldier parts.

>>80302728
>>80304283
He still isn't mature yet. They say he will still grow.

>>80312128
Soldier grunts should have been folded into two characters that you actually care about. Non-Goodman scientists should have been cut entirely. Iwi village should have been cut.

>>80312118
>since they all have their own quirks and personalities except those two
along with the glass nig and the chink as well, those two could've been killed off and nothing would change

I like how they had literally every Vietnam song EXCEPT It Ain't Me.

>>80312036
To show that the monster was smart? You think they'll never use the Skullcrawlers again?

>>80302517
I thought the parallels to the Vietnam war gave it plenty of 'symbolism' and 'message'.

>>80312218
You're much stupider than you realize

>>80312069
>I loved Godzilla 2014 and Shin Godzilla. Will I like this?
Yes

>>80312194
I love when movies build in narrative waste for the sake of nebulously potential future films that will likely be equally bad

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>>80312323
The movie was better than expected

>>80312347
I can't imagine going into a movie with as low of expectations as you must have had

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Packard did nothing wrong.

>>80312550
he didnt push the button

I really hope that these movies don't make a habit of killing their character that is played by an well liked actor.

Should I see this or Logan?
Kong seems like it has more meme potential.

>>80312611
>not seeing both
Seriously though, why not?

>>80312611
Logan's the better film

>>80312287
For the plebs of course.

>>80312670
I have a job.

>>80312750
What kind of shitty fucking job do you have? You don't have to see them on the same night you know.
>>80312714
This is true.

>>80312187
That's how you know the director is a redditor

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This was a pretty creative death.

>>80312187
It Ain't Me it's a pretty shitty song, so who cares?

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>>80307268
>apache

>>80311057
>Cutting the Giant spider scene
>Eliminating the scene that gives characterization to Kong
>Thinking that Kong showing early is a bad thing
Come on

>after credit scene
>close up of a phone as it starts to ring
>King Kong picks it up
>Godzilla roar

So stupid. How did Godzilla get King Kongs phone number ?

>>80313666
The entire plot should have been rejiggered without the iwi village. Other scenes to humanize Kong could have been effective.

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>end credits
>"hey you like sitting in the dark like that?"
>Mothra
>Rodan
>King Ghidorah
>Your face when you saw Godzilla and King Ghidorah fighting at the end credits

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>>80313804
>mfw

>>80313804
I got hard

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>>80313804
>mfw

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One of my few issues with this movie is a very superficial one, and it's that this monsters was ignored.

>>80313929
I thought it was kind of qt

>Legendary's explanation of how Kong is gonna be as tall as Godzilla it's that the will grow up because in the 70s he was just a teenager
>Kong's height in the 70s is 30 meters
>Godzilla's height in 2014 is 108 meters
>Kong is supposed to grow at least 60 meters in the next 40 years

>>80308935
Gray Fox

>>80314040
Kong doesnt have to be the same size

Just enough to put up a fight

Kong can be like 80 meters and it will be believable

>>80299367
>kino = REFERENCES

>>80313516
King was a big ape

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>Americans doing an antagonistic kaiju with a good design
This is weird

>>80314940
You are literally the first person on /tv/ to say this was a good design.

>>80314979
Well, then /tv/ has a bad taste in Kaijus then. The absence of legs makes the Skull Crawlers look genuinely unique. Not only that, in the movie they show a more diverse behavior, vomiting the things they ate and actually using his tongue as something useful.

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>>80299367
>>John C. Reilly's jacket was supposed to reference the jackets worn in Akira and the insignia on it was in reference to Travis Bickle's King Kong Company patch in Taxi Driver


John C Reilly's jacket was clearly a reference to his magnum opus character Dr Steve Brule though.

>>80315118
>Repeated 2 times "then"
Maybe i'm the fool.

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>>80313804
>mfw

>>80299367
>John C. Reilly

Hell yea

>Samuel L. Jackson

trash

>>80300649
So Kong is an euphemism for the black people forced to come to the US as slaves then.

>Good actors wasted on nothing roles the movie.

Just look at the fucking cast they had.

>>80315832
This is a common and serious interpretation of the original film, yes.

>>80316061
The director is just shit, as far as I can tell. Every actor gave a bad performance except the ones, like John C. Reilly and Samuel L Jackson, who don't need direction to play their part.

>mfw he will cast Sam L Jackson as Vulcan Raven
>mfw Hiddleston as Liquid Snake

glorious

>>80316160
Except it will be still be directed by this hack

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>>80299367
Bloody postmodernists

>>80299367
The Japanese guy is the Japanese guy from Unbroken.

>>80306236
In case you didn't mention it

He played in Unbeoken, Angelina Jolie's Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

I guess this is to make up for it

>>80316061
WTF
> Samuel L. Jackson
> Brie Larson
> John C. Reilly
> John Goodman
> Toby Kebbell
> Shea Whigham
> Eugene Cordero
> Corey Hawkins
> Thomas Mann
> Marc Evan Jackson
> Richard Jenkins

Literally how? The cast is great and yet none of them have fucking anything to do bar Jackson and C. Riley

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>>80313804
tfw the credits Copywrite notice to Toho spoils the after credits scene 15 seconds before it happens.

>>80316135
How can someone be this autistic?

>>80316481
You're seriously going to try and defend their performances? Even Goodman seemed lost in most of his scenes.

>>80316525
No I just enjoyed the movie because I'm not autistic. It was a lot better than that Godzilla movie, that's for sure.

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>>80316599
>it's now autistic to criticize bad acting and directing

>>80316634
I enjoyed it. What constitutes bad directing exactly?

>>80313722
walked out of the movie at that point

>>80316783
Getting bad performances from your actors, for one. I'm genuinely confused as to how this is even a question since it's been in every one of my posts in this little exchange.

>>80316838
>bad performances from the actors

The actors in Kong were bad? They seemed pretty good to me, but I was comparing them to the actors in Godzilla.

>>80316907
Godzilla had such appalling acting...

>>80316907
You sound like a woman

>>80316992
lmao

>>80316994
You sound autistic.

>>80316462
>>80316061

A sad reminder: good actors make shitty characters in shitty movies all the time we just don't bother to see them

>>80317050
Did you know that autism is a real thing with obvious signs and not just a buzzword to throw at people who make you mad?

>>80309284
This. Godzilla will look the same as 2014 but will be smaller and no reason will be given, and Kong will be bigger. They'll both be about two hundred feet I think.

I'm fine with this. Godzilla was way too big in 2014, he would have fucking sank through the Earth if he had ever stepped on land, not to mention there's no way he could keep his body fed.

>>80317097
Did you know that you have autism?

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>>80317164

>>80317187
You need to be 18 to post here.

>characters that dont get any sort of development
>elementary school tier humour
>very anti-climatic scenes when people die
it was entertaining but the film was really mediocre if you dont count visuals and action scenes

>>80317366
The cuts were mostly too quick as well. I spent some time counting and was averaging something like 3 seconds a shot for everything that wasn't CGI.

>>80317366
>if you don't count the visuals and the action scenes

Which are like 75% of the movie.

People forget
>Kong has lizard killing training like every day of his life, and a bunch of other monsters. Godzillas ratio is probably way way less

>Kong is smart as fuck. He threw with precise aim, got rid of branches to make a baseball bat, and figured out what a whipmace was. He's a problem solver.

>>80317445
A 75% is a C, anon

>>80317527
It's a movie, not math homework.

>>80317648
You're right, a C for movies is more like 85%

>>80317522
>implying Godzilla is your average giant monster

He's literally known for being almost impossible to kill, anon.

>>80317688
Try again.

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>>80317688
Better than video games I suppose.

So did you guys like State Management Godzilla?

>>80317721
>even by this metric BotW is a good game

You win this time Nintendo

>>80311989
Vietnam. American soldiers were cocky, but more importantly romanticized.

Kong is a metaphor for man and the goodness of, skull island is a metaphor for >>80317690
Vietnam. They go to skull island completely unprepared, and jacksons madness pushes the war beyond reason into self destruction (destroying Kong despite him being the only thing holding the island together)

>>80317925
Nice bullshit. It almost justifies a really terrible scene.

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>>80317268
kek

>>80317690
He will not kill Godzilla. Both must not die since people like them. They will fight and then an external threat will happen and they both will team for the collective jizz explosion of the audience.

>>80317690
To monsters. Humans have killed Godzilla.

That being said, I think thematically what works best is if Kong wins the battle but loses the war. Let me explain:
The Godzilla Kong dichotomy is usually divided east versus west, but what if we think of their actual thematic purposes?

Godzilla represents a force of nature, karma meant to reap what is sown. He is God. Kong is a humanoid (remember: he's not a gorilla, he's something else entirely) primate that starts as the a strong leader from the islands and reaches the modern world and climbs to the highest point as king. He is destined to die by flaws not unlike humans: hubris, love, and wrath. Kong is man.

With it being man vs God, it makes sense for Kong to temporarily win but be destined to die and Godzilla lives to fight another day. It's basically what happened in the original film. it's the most poetic answer to the matchup.

That's not gonna happen though, it's gonna be batman vs superman so they can fight Ghidorah

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>>80318099
>half an hour for this

Step it up bro, I'm only here for another 20 minutes

>>80307346

50 Years will pass from 1970 to 2020. Plenty of time for King Kong to grow more. He doesn't abide by how we understand growth in real life animal. So he could be Godzilla's size when they finally fight.

Anyone else hoping this flops and we can finally stop making these movies?

>>80313929
is the log insect neutral or was he just running because of the crawler behind the soldier?

>>80306687
I thought she was pretty good. There are great scenes with her taking pictures of the island's natives that are very comfy

>>80318352
You DON'T like giant monsters?

>>80318620
I don't like creatively bankrupt reboots

>>80318653
New Godzilla is far from what I would call creative bankrupcy.

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>>80318653
Do you suck dick?

>>80311247
>seems like something that could've been explained in a 5 minute scene
but that scene was 5 minutes, or less probably

>>80318694
It was a bad retread of the original movie, not unlike TFA.

>>80317982
Imagine being this autistic

>>80318826
The schizophrenic editing and bureocratic narration was part of the original?

>>80316464
I noticed this too but figured it was referencing some background easter egg earlier in the cave

You know, with how a "teenage" (aparently) Kong was easily able to kill those things, it feels like a bad written copout to say that they were strong enough to wipe out his species.

>>80318870
No those were the bad things they added in, along with there having to be other monsters for some reason.

>>80318936
I think we are talking about different films. I'm talking about the one directed by Hideaki Anno just one year ago. Definitely check that out if you want a fresh perspective on how to do monster film.

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>large swathes of /tv/ actually enjoyed this film

>>80319192
>people enjoyed something I didn't like

>>80319227
I'm mostly disappointed to realize just how many plebs' opinions I must be giving real weight to.

>>80319287
Yeah, I hate it when people like things I don't like too.

It has some of the flattest "humor" I've ever heard in an action schlock flick

is there a good copy out somewhere?
only one I can find has russian audio and I'm not russian.

>>80314940
>He hasn't seen pacific rim

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post yfw armond comes in and calls this true patrician kino

>>>80305347
Shin Godzilla has atomic breath that cuts through buildings like butter and an independent-thinking tail laser.

He's too OP for anyone to fight.

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>>80313804
>two year wait for based Dougherty's Ghidrah remake

We need more monster movies, not 10 capeshit flicks a year.

>>80308632
Legendary Godzilla's atomic breath is fucking flaccid as fuck and is more or less a vapor that needs to be rammed right into a monster's innards to do any damage otherwise it's just an annoyance
Legendary seriously needs to unfuck that fat bastard if they wanna impress anyone especially after Shin Godzilla humiliated them.

>>80307268

>Apache

>>80311057
>Also did anyone else feel that Kongs reveal was way too early?
No, I think they made the right choice considering the bullshit Godzilla '14 pulled. They cannot afford to pull that kind of thing twice in a row.

>>80318826
Godzilla '54 was in no way at all similar to the original movie. It was it's own thing.

This is literally: Reddit's got a bad feeling about this: the movie. Some of the dialogue in this shit sounded straight out of the lethal weapon movies the Gang from it's always sunny makes. Great cast, but shit tier writing relying on trite action tropes and comic relief. Writers couldn't write a single complex character. John c. Reilly was the saving grace of this film. The references to how "political turmoil couldn't get any worse" and the cubs winning the World Series were just cringeworthy. Peter Jackson at least made a tasteful blockbuster.

>>80318390
Well he probably got pissed off because buddy was shooting him. Getting away before the crawler munched the Major was a bonus.

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>>80313804
>King Ghidorah

When did it become get the "King Ghidorah"?

Because when I was a kid (in the 70s) it was just "Ghidorah".

>>80299367
>steve brule was the greatest character in a fucking kaiju movie

who would have known

>>80314839
For (You)

Is this movie a good weed movie?

>>80307268
How was the bamboo spider shorter than the log bug?

>>80305347
Shin Godzilla falls apart in a fight since slow, and he's absurdly powerful and can just shoot out 50 laser beams that go through everything
He works as a natural disaster, not as a creature in a monster movie fight

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>>80324938
Can confirm from experience
Lots of great cinematography and some good Holy Shit moments to catch you off-guard
Enjoy

>>80311949
Seriously
>Chink whose name I absolutely cannot remember with 6 lines of dialogue and no character lived
>Black Ivy league guy who can't act lived
>Black Platoon guy who can't act lived
>The other literally who's lived
>John Goodman, the only one who knew what was going on from the beginning and had genuine, explained motivation died
>Chapman dies off on his own for no real reason
>Soldier guy with the farmer's rifle, pretty much the only soldier who wasn't Sam Jackson to have something that resembles a character, dies in a very tonally confused scene
Goodman's death more than anything is the one that confuses me, he's ostensibly the main character but he gets unceremoniously offed like he's some guy we barely know

>>80323171
King Ghidorah was referred to as either "Ghidrah" or "Ghidorah" in the American versions of his first three movies, Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, Invasion of Astro-Monster and Destroy All Monsters, presumably because they sounded more like "hydra." He wasn't referred to as "King Ghidorah" in an original American release of one of his movies until Godzilla vs. Gigan.

>>80323171
The American dub used "Ghidorah" for his first three films. It was "King Ghidorah" in Japan from the start

Just saw it. I loved it even though it was a disjointed mess.

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Rate Kong's design
I give him a 7/10

>>80326483
Same
The writing was bargain-bin tier but if nothing else, they knew how to throw together some pretty background for those action scenes, even if they go a bit heavy on the olive green and sunset orange. Between this and Godzilla '14, I'd say they're improving ever so slightly. At least this movie knows to just give you stuff you want to see instead of teasing you for an hour and a half

>>80326644
Kong's design is 'big gorilla.' As long as its not overly fake looking, its a pretty generic look. Why bother to rate it at all?

I had no problems with the characters of the movie. Though, I thought Sullivan's death was way too unnecessary but then I thought that he wouldn't do anything relevant in the rest of the movie

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>>80326711
are you retarded or what? Do you not see any differences between 2005 and Skull Island?

>>80310962
Kino indeed. she was so fuggen hot in this

>>80312611
Hmmm

>Monkino
or
>Capeshit

Monkino all the way baby

>>80327034
I think we're talking different things here, I was suggesting his 'design' in comparison to other Kaiju is rather generic, in that it is pretty much "big animal" without any flourish.

You may have meant to compare it against other versions of King Kong, and in that, there isnt a grade scale, it'd be more of a ranking system. Unless you set a grade scale (such as 1 being godzilla vs King kong maximum derp suit, and 10 being literally a trained gorilla)

>>80327100
>Monkino
kek
>>80327163
Well, this Kong has some noticeable scars in his chest.

>>80326711
Was he even a big gorilla? He doesn't walk or act like a gorilla, Jackson's Kong was more of a big gorilla

This Kong is a gigantic Bigfoot

>>80327233
True, he's much closer to the original clay-mation Kong than Jackson's which I did like. I think that version of Kong works better cinematically. Even still, he's got all the physical features of a gorilla, which, when you compare it to 3 headed golden wiggle dragons or bipedal alligator monsters with dorsal spines, its a bit plain (not that that is always a bad thing).

>>80299367
I didn't see it because the writer of the movie was a retard on Twitter.

Also, holy shit, is John C. Riley wearing blackface?

>>80327402
dirt and spray on tan to imply he's lived in a jungle for years.

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>Godzilla 2 happens
>post credit scene
>man: How the fuck are we suppose to deal with these monsters if they go out of control? None of our weapons actually work, and if Godzilla ever decides to turn on us, we are fucking dead! How are we suppose to deal with him?
>Monarch man: Don't worry, We had just obtained a monster of our own.
>A person walks into the room
>Everyone is surpised, they saw his plane get destroyed. No signs of being ejected. For all intent and purpose, he should be dead
>Guy: How are you alive
>The man says nothing just smiles
>You see his reflection in the mirror, but instead it's a silver and red man standing in his place.
>fade to black
>SWUATCH

>>80327480
Not gonna happen. They're combining these Godzilla movies with Pacific Rim.

So is Skull island going to just be the world's "monster island"

>mfw, Skull island is an actual monster itself

>>80327739
source? I mean I'm okay with that, but that's hard to believe.

unless the Kaiju comes from the world of Godzilla/Kong

>>80327739
How? in Pacific Rim, it's heavily stated that the first time humanity entered in contact with a Kaiju was in 2013, there's no mention of MONARCH and there's not mention of Godzilla or Kong.