Sorry for resurrecting a two year thread, but I really want to follow up with my recent viewing of the new King Kong movie.
Overall, I thought it was pretty great-- It really balanced the action between Kong and the other monsters that pretty much all of the Godzilla movies has struggled with. The humans also carried the plot where it needed to go and didn't drag things down. It also had alot of great humor
They also had a good Marvel-esque teaser for Godzilla vs King Kong (coming out in 2020)-- that's right, we're getting a remake!
I now want that "tree scene" remade on my 4K screen!
In other news, the
Duke Nukem Forever of movies just got pushed back while giant monsters are already getting sequels.
Also, since I last posted on this thread, I saw the latest Japanese Godzilla movie in the theaters when it came over to the US (known as Shin Gojira in Japan and Godzilla Resurgence in the US) but I have mix feelings about it. For one, I actually REALLY liked the way the humans were handled-- it felt like a very realistic take on how Japan would actually handle a crisis, like Godzilla.
The bad? I'd say Godzilla's design itself. He almost came across as a zombie and had really weird stuff about his offspring in his \ her tail (don't ask! LOL). They gave him also alot more superpowers that he never had before.
My big issue was the stark contrast in the hyper realistic take on the humans (so realistic, it would make Nolan jealous) and the really bizarre take on Godzilla. I wish they either kept the humans the way they were and just gave us a more traditional monster, for realism's sake or threw a really weird godzilla in some kind of cyber-punk environment, like something out of Blade Runner or Akira.
So Shin Godzilla isn't a bad film, but its definitely not on my top 10 list. Also, too many people were expecting less talking and more action from this than Godzilla 2014. But obviously those people have never watched a Japanese Godzilla flick-- they definitely spend more time deciding what to do than any real action. Also, there's only one monster, which is Godzilla in an antagonistic role again. So it had a hard time balancing the dialogue and monster action (as usual).