Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire | Movie Review
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Directed by Adam Wingard
Screenplay by
Terry Rossio
Simon Barrett
Jeremy Slater
Story by
Terry Rossio
Adam Wingard
Simon Barrett
Based on Godzilla and Mothra
by Toho Co., Ltd.
Produced by
Thomas Tull
Jon Jashni
Brian Rogers
Mary Parent
Alex Garcia
Eric McLeod
Starring
Rebecca Hall
Brian Tyree Henry
Dan Stevens
Kaylee Hottle
Alex Ferns
Fala Chen
Cinematography Ben Seresin
Edited by Josh Schaeffer
Music by
Tom Holkenborg
Antonio Di Iorio
Production
company
Legendary Pictures
Distributed by
Warner Bros. Pictures (Worldwide)
Toho (Japan)[1]
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I REALLY hate it when critics compare this film with Minus One.
They are completely different films going for completely different things. The only thing these two films have in common is they both happen to feature Godzilla.
yea..
must be some dumb idiots 🙄.
These guys interview the directors, know almost all the information, watched all the trailers and still say the same issue with this films.
You can have an action packed movie with good writing and good characters. So your comment doesn’t make sense to me. Personally I thought this movie was mind numbingly boring. I’m still glad peoole are having fun with it. I definitely wont waste my time with the next one though
@@123rockfanthat is the difference, Godzilla Minus One is a great movie with good writing and characters. This movie is just about watching Godzilla and Kong fight. There is no reason for that to need good writing, if anything, the less dialogue and time spent with humans and more time with monsters fighting the best.
It’s fine if you don’t like it, and I agree this isn’t a good movie, but it wasn’t made to be good, it was made to be fun and that’s it, as long as it has good fights and people like it, it did its job.
@@andynorck2389 I just have higher standards for movies I guess. If you’re going to have two big monsters fight, I need a reason to care. The New Empire was just empty action scenes with no suspense. I wish I had just stayed home and played video games with my friends for a couple hours.
@@andynorck2389 also saying it wasn’t made to be good is a wild comment. And it’s funny that we’re in the midst of people complaining that MCU is failing because they’re not making good movies
Team Kong! Rewatching Kong: Skull Island a couple weeks ago, I was reminded of how much I enjoy the Monsterverse’s version of Kong. He’s great!
First time I disagree with you my dude…
TEAM GODZILLA ALL THE WAY I CANNOT LEAVE MY LIZARD BOI :D
Kong: Skull Island is still my favorite MonsterVerse movie
Love kong
@@joeyk107Same
@@NinthShinigami You must have cried when Kong pounded G into a coma and dragged him by the tail... TEAM KONG!!!
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Facts
I’m Team Godzilla and even though Godzilla didn’t get as much to do in this movie, I still had a blast. It’s my favorite monsterverse film because it knew exactly what it was and just went for it.
Team Kong! Godzilla is undeniably badass and iconic, but I feel Kong has so much more humanity. And he’s badass in his own right.
Take away the Atomic Breath and Kong would win every time...
lets ignore round 3 of GvK where Godzilla bodied him without atomic breath.@@DMDvideo10
Of course it’s not as good as Minus One! It’s not trying to be! Let us have our dumb fun movies!
Matter of opinion. Minus one was good in it's own way. This film was far more entertaining for me.
@@DMDvideo10 yes! exactly!
I love our boy Kong
But there’s only one true King.
Go go Godzilla
Facts
I've never ever seen anyone call Godzilla "King Godzilla" - King Kong...
You mean GayZilla? The bastard.
Facts loved the mini rematch they had, our boy on top again🙌
Facts
I appreciate the art direction of this movie. Power weapons, relics, Godzilla glowing pink. Very cool 'video-gamey' type stuff
Team Godzilla all the way for me. I really loved this movie. It's an easy 10/10 for me. Kong brings the heart to this movie, and Godzilla was a beast that just wrecked everyone. I absolutely LOVED this movie.
What I don't like about Godzilla in these films is his disregard for humanity. He barrels through bridges and buildings full of people because he's all worked up over territory. Kong is far more intelligent and has the brute strength to go toe-to-toe with G. G always has to revert to the atomic breath to save his ass. You must have loved when Kong pounded G into a coma and dragged him by the tail... I know I did.
@@DMDvideo10 Godzilla proceeded to whoop his ass right after that because the beatdown did like -10 damage
You guys are literally just haters of anything powerful and it's pathetic at this point. First Superman, then Goku, now Godzilla ?
Go accomplish something since you hate winners so much.
@@Do0mSl4yer95 Man you G fan boys hate it when your lizard gets criticized. The truth is that both of the GK films are more centered on Kong because he's a more interesting character. Godzilla is along for the ride.
@DMDvideo10 True, I love Kong more than Godzilla. Kong has 1 movie, and Godzilla has 2 movies if we don't count Kong/Godzilla Movies
@@DMDvideo10 Are you stupid or challenged ? Godzilla has 2 movies already and they decided to run with more Kong development since he doesn't have more solo movies. You thought you did something but everyone just wants more Kaiju in the monsterverse so everything is welcome.
Plus Godzilla is infinitely more interesting than Kong since they had to use his name to even sell the movie so keep your wrong opinions to yourself. Kong even needs weapons to be a threat. You're funny.
Godzilla is way more badass then Kong and cooler. But Kong is more relatable and has more of a human connection.
Don’t forget Heart. Now matter what challenges he might face, Kong is always willing to fight back and stand his ground 💯
I think the director is obsessed with Gayzilla. He probably fuck her co-director thinking she is Godzilla. Why the hell this bastard gayzilla can kill anyone? Fuck the movie plot. Fuck the bastard who created gayzilla character.
@@toastx_ So is Godzilla... That's exactly why we like Godzilla. He doesn't back down for shit
@@Do0mSl4yer95 I know that’s why I love both of them
13:49. Sean: "Ultimately. This jobs movie was to entertain me"
I think you got your words a little backwards there, Sean 😂
Glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed that.
I love how Kong is always getting the final kill-shot in these films. He delivers big time. TEAM KONG!
Team Godzilla, cooler design, cooler stories, better music, better everything (still love the Monke tho)
Who knew 20 minutes without dialogue would be the best scene in the movie? 💀
I’m EASILY team Godzilla, but I love both and we are so lucky to be getting movies with them together. This movie was an absolute blast
YES
This one felt like the weighing scale of the Monsterverse just lost it's balance after this one embraced more of the silliness
Team Godzilla! There’s a reason he’s king!
He's a god.
King of the monsters🙌🙌
It's a small gripe in the grand scheme of things but I don't like how agile they've made Godzilla across these Monsterverse movies. He was a little more agile in the 2014 film than in the Toho movies but in this one he's sprinting around and leaping through the air like he belongs in the WWE. It doesn't feel like Godzilla to me.
In Godzilla Minus One he's a lumbering, considered, unstoppable machine of absolute devastation. That's Godzilla.
You want a slow and weak Godzilla?
@@HumanB312 weak? If you haven't seen Godzilla Minus One it's absolutely worth a watch.
Godzilla x Kong is the number one movie in the world. 194 million. An Audience score of 90% and a score of 70% on Fresh.
What is the budget now
Is the graphic quality good
This movie was just so darn entertaining!! My favorite of this universe
Spoiler alert…..
Kong got all the power ups…he got a new arm, still got the battle axe, a side kick lil kong, and a whole tribe at the end.
Love it, my 7 year old boy loves it x100. Cant wait to see it tomorrow, we watched all the Monsterverse movies this weeks leading up to this.
Team Kong
I love when Skar King threw everything he had at Kong and Kong just tossed him to the ground and beat his chest. Had to get Shimo involved then.
I hate that some people are hating on these movies for the fun they try to have. Let's not pretend that John Wick, Fast and Furious and the others haven't all asked logical things to be ignored many times. I've been having fun since Kong Skull Island and I'm happy to have more fun with this one soon.
Team Godzilla for life. Always enjoyed Godzilla films more than King Kong films.
Imma say before i even watch the review i love your reviews and i honestly enjoyed this one it was everything i wanted.
I agree man. I can't wait to take it in again...
Loving the reviews sean and I really enjoyed the previous movie so I am excited to watch this!
Hoping to watch this over the weekend. Really excited to see it cuz I have a lot of fun with most of the monsterverse films.
Also I’m team Godzilla all the way.
There’s this one scene in Cairo where we see Kong just walking that I found really cool. Then we see Godzilla take a pool dive to the ocean and I thought that was cool. The scene in Rio when the beach water turned into ice because Shimo was coming was very cool too. It’s basically similar to another scene in the new Ghostbusters movie.
Did you notice when we see Godzilla ready to face Kong in Cairo that Godzilla was much slimmer than he was in the earlier scenes before he got the pink dorsal plates? The earlier scenes, he was still the same size and color as he was in the 2019/2021 films even though we see him jump high and come down like a raptor. It’s like he went through some Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig because he was getting ready for his running scene.
Godzilla performs a SUPLEX to Kong. 😂 That’s the level of smart writing this movie has. Godzilla seems very ungrateful. Like hey man, thanks for saving me from Mechagodzilla. Instead, he went straight for the fight. It’s Big G’s way of saying hello or thanks to Kong. I did giggle when Godzilla performs a suplex knowing he has shorter arms and smaller hands.
You can tell though that the giant apes really have no shot against the giant lizard dinosaurs with stuff coming out of their mouths. Godzilla and Shimo are just so much bigger and stronger than the two apes. Kong punches Godzilla several times with the BEAST glove and Godzilla isn’t knocked out cold at all. But the real fun was seeing Shimo grab Kong and twirl him around. All the giant apes have are weapons to use against the giant lizards which the giant lizards can easily break.
Now Grace Randolph ranked her favorite kaijus and isn’t into this Godzilla stuff. She even chose Kong over Godzilla in the 2021 movie because Kong went (and died) in NY and she’s from there. But Grace surprisingly picked Shimo as her favorite kaiju from this movie. Shimo is definitely a big girl. Her longer length and height over Godzilla was very obvious. But I guess she’s a good girl all along if she wasn’t enchanted by Skar King.
Perhaps the disappointment from Skar King was he wasn’t as badass as people thought he would be from the trailers. The ending with Suko smashing that ice blade thing gave similar vibes to Arya killing the Night King. It felt like a cheap ending. Skar King should’ve won at least one fight against Kong and maybe knock out Godzilla even once. But Godzilla easily handled that whip he had and broke it.
Skar King really had no shot once Shimo got out of her trance. Then he still had Mothra, Queen of the Monsters, to worry about. That’s 1 vs. 3 in Rio and Skar King is the smallest among that four and with a broken weapon thanks to Godzilla. There are only two things Godzilla does in these MV movies. Fighting or sleeping. I don’t even see him eat like Kong does.
Man, these kaijus really have no concern for human life aka collateral damage. Kong needs to go back to Hollow Earth and Godzilla needs to join him. MV Godzilla is supposed to protect Earth but then thousands of people will die in Rome, Cairo, and Rio by just taking walks around those cities. Like damn, dudes. F you two! Go somewhere else and fight over there. 😂
It was a fun movie at least towards the end. But the disappointment comes from maybe Skar King not being menacing enough. The fight scenes weren’t all that. Very little time for Tiamat. Godzilla being secondary again to Kong for screen time which wasn’t surprising since he’s hardly shown in his own movies. Maybe 10-15 minutes tops? And the cheap finale with Suko doing an Arya.
If we do get more MonsterVerse movies with more dumb kaijus beating the living shit out of each other, I would love to see the bond Kong has with Shimo. I didn’t expect them to join forces in the final scene. That’s the only surprising thing I saw. I thought Shimo would go on her own somewhere else. Kong and Shimo alliance was not something I expected to see at the end. Godzilla seems to be more of an asshole when it comes to team ups and making alliances unless it’s with Mothra. He’s the loner who only sleeps and fights.
The only way Kong could defeat Godzilla in a fight is to grab a supersized Stormbreaker and aim for the head. That’s it. Even punches to the face with a BEAST glove didn’t knock down Godzilla unconsciously. Not that Godzilla is UNKILLABLE. We’ve had several versions of Godzillas and he’s lost fights and has been killed before in his movies. But this MV Godzilla seems very difficult to beat.
I wish MonsterVerse teamed up with McDonald’s and make Happy Meal toys for the kaijus in this movie. Did you see the toys of Godzilla and Kong in this movie? Brian Tyree Henry’s character had one of Kong hanging and another one for Godzilla but seen from behind while recording his podcast. That’s a nice touch like seeing the Minus One crew hold a Minus One Godzilla toy while receiving their Oscars. That’s part of the allure of Godzilla: TOYS.
Kong looks like Harry in Harry and the Hendersons. Not the 1987 movie but the short-lived sitcom of Harry and the Hendersons from the early 90s. Kong looks so coddly in this movie that it makes me want to hug him if he was shrunken to a normal sized gorilla and not the 337 feet he is where his hands would just crush me if he closed them.
I would still buy a toy of Skar King even though the writers gave him a cheap death scene as if he was a red shirt in Star Trek. I mean, c’mon, Shimo loses her trance and then freezes SK after Godzilla hit SK like a baseball ⚾️ with his tail that Kong pitched/kicked to him. The fight became lopsided once Shimo was out of her spell. This was spoiled in the final trailer. Kong already had SK by the neck with his BEAST glove before Shimo froze him.
SK looks so cool from the trailers and walks like he’s Tupac but then gets the weakest ending and death scene. Where was the huge threat from SK? And his army was getting stopped by Mothra in that floating / no gravity scene. Seemed like nothing was ever at stake. He couldn’t even beat Kong after he injured his left hand. I would be down for a prequel series of Skar King on Apple TV+ and watching him kill people and other apes. They did Skar King wrong here.
I really wish I got more out of Shimo but she got relegated to being Skar King’s Rancor for most of this movie. His pet slave. She’s also like Yoshi where you can just ride on her back. A horse lizard. It’s Donkey Kong riding on the back of a White Yoshi and with Diddy Kong (Suko) on the shoulder of Donkey Kong. Nintendo!! Woo-hoo! I would still get a toy of Shimo. Maybe a smaller toy for Skar King and Shimo.
The entire scene of Jia returning to her people was a big waste of time. Godzilla x Kong is 75% of nonsense from humans and the other 25% WWE kaijus. I do wonder how big their shits are? That triceratops in Jurassic Park had one big pile of shit. Imagine the shits Godzilla and Shimo have? Like a three-story building of shit.
Here’s a question..what would I choose between Jurassic Park (1993) or whatever is the best/fav film from Godzilla or Kong? I would pick Jurassic Park. While Godzilla and Kong would slaughter every dinosaur in those movies, the original Jurassic Park is the ultimate monster movie with those monsters being dinosaurs. I was on the edge of my seat when I first saw Jurassic Park in the theater. I would pick it over Godzilla Minus One and King Kong ‘05.
To Godzilla fans, what type of story or character development do you expect from Godzilla if you thought Kong took up most of the screen time like he did in the previous movie? I knew Kong had to carry the story because he’s the most human-like being an ape. What does Godzilla do in most of his previous movies? Destroy shit or fight other titans. That’s all he really does.
In MonsterVerse, if Godzilla is not sleeping, he’s fighting. That’s all he does in his movies. Go back to KOTM or the 2014 movie, was there a moment where you felt sorry for Godzilla? Nah, because it’s frickin’ Godzilla. He’s practically invincible. It’s like feeling sorry for how powerful Superman is. 😂 Kong is a big ugly ape and Godzilla is a big ugly reptilian dinosaur. Don’t expect Marlon Brando and Al Pacino performances coming out of them when neither one can talk to the audience.
Where MV failed to improve are the human characters. But a lot of us don’t care about that. It’s similar to going into a Jurassic Park/World movie. We don’t care about the humans. We want to see dinosaurs spook us. Godzilla can mean a lot of things to people. He can be serious, he can be campy like the Showa era ones. There’s no right or wrong on how to enjoy Godzilla.
I’ll watch Godzilla x Kong again but I’m fully aware it’s not art. This is not a masterpiece of cinema. It’s closer to a big pile of shit of that sick triceratops in Jurassic Park had if Godzilla, Kong, and the other kaijus weren’t so appealing to watch fight. Let them fight!!
Team Godzilla so disappointed he was sidelined for a lot of the film. I also thought the final battle was too short and predictable. I still give it an 8/10
I had so much fun with this movie. I’m going to watch it again tomorrow in 3D.. maybe it’ll be even crazier.
I’m definitely Team Kong, this movie really showed him as the main protagonist if you ask me. Also as an ape lover it was awesome seeing more giant gorillas in this movie 😂 Also very much appreciated an exploration of Hollow Earth and more lore and backstory of the history of the titans. This movie was a lot of fun and I actually enjoyed it more than the previous film.
The action was pretty awesome, and the visuals were really cool. Also, I thought this was by far the funniest movie in the MonsterVerse so far.
If I had to complain about one thing, I think some characters were underutilized and I think they could have been more fleshed out if the movie was a bit longer.
Overall, I thought that this was a pretty big improvement over GvK, with better characters and better action.
I'd give it a 7/10 overall, and I am team Kong
A Thorough Entertainer
Surrealist Theater experience
Baby Kong is played by Lil Uzi Vert 😅
A Rodan solo film would be awesome. Maybe as an Apple+ release? It could be a comedy where Rodan is the only monster who has subtitles. Even when he interacts with other monsters we only see what Rodan is saying. I think it would be funny seeing one sided conversations with other titans. And may we could get a better insight how the Titans feel about Godzilla and Kong. And in Rodans solo movie he could start out as the villain but by the end becomes an anti hero trying to stop a bigger threat. But the humans can’t interspersed what Rodan is up too so they go ahead and use project “Jet Jaguar” to try and stop Rodan but will end up teaming up with him in the end to stop the bigger threat.
And then maybe an end credit scene that shows the same humans that were working on Jet jaguar are rebuilding the mecha Godzilla (from Godzilla vs Kong) talking about preparing for a threat from outer space !!
Where we see Godzilla team up with mecha Godzilla to take down Space Godzilla
What would make sense for the next movie would be world governments radicalize their military to take over Monarch and the Hollow Earth in response to all these natural disasters.
The humans literally go to war with the titans and try to… Destroy All Monsters.
Seeing it tomorrow! Very excited!
This was a really good movie!! Just left the theater. It aligns so well with Monarch from Apple TV and the other movies. Mini Kong stole the show haha. Loved the mechanical arm. Team Kong all the way !!
“This jobs movie was to entertain me while I was in the theater” great review
13:48 "this jobs movie" haha
This movie filmed here on the Gold Coast and I’ve met a couple of people who worked on it.
I’m really looking forward to this one, and am going to see it later. We were spoiled with Minus One, and now, we’re just back to the good old dumb Kaiju fun :)
Team Godzilla all the way!!
I love every part of this movie EXCEPT... that Godzilla feels like a cameo. because of that this movie isn't a 10, but I'll give it 9.5/10. it's my favorite MonsterVerse movie so far!
I Am With Team Godzilla! (Still Love Kong Tho) This Movie Is Perfection Its Pretty Much Better Than Godzilla 2014 Which That I Also Love Too Godzilla Vs Kong Is Great So As Kong Skull Island But King Of The Monsters Is Disappointing (Its Just My Opinion Tho) But GxK Is Indeed The Best Monsterverse Movie Its In My Top 3 Others In My Top 3 Its In 3rd With Godzilla Minus One In Number One And Return Of Godzilla In Number Two Im Hoping Adam Will Make A 3rd One So Yeah An Awesome Movie!
Punctuation, my friend.
Sean your analogy game is unmatched
My family and I saw it last night in IMAX. It was a killer popcorn movie!
Sean I work at a place called Subzero nitrogen ice cream in utah and we made flavors based on this movie! I'm seeing it in just a bit here I'm so hyped!
I had fun with GvK, look forward to that with GxK. Glad to hear it's more Kong sided and that humans take the back seat. Thanks for the review as always!
I saw it yesterday in 3d and the fight scenes were awesome 🎉
Godzilla deserves character development and personality in future movies
Team Kong for life!!! I’m going to go see it this Sunday in XD at my local Cinemark with my cousin Arrin.
Kong always needing Godzilla’s help team Godzilla all the way
Only because Kong saw the challenge and is smart enough to reach out. Same with GvK...
Team Godzilla since I can remember. It’s one of my favorite pastimes. I was introduced to the Japanese made Godzilla films when I was young by my dad. We would watch them together.
Baby Kong > Kong's battle axe
9:11 well… to be fair, would you rather a few city blocks be destroyed or several cities?
This movie honestly pissed me off. Garreth Edwards did so much to make Godzilla a spectacle and in this movie, that's completely lost.
Battle scenes were EPIC!!!👍🏻👍🏻
Kong was hella badass in this movie, like HELLA BADASS
Also I’m fine with this film being different than Minus One. There’s room for both campy monsters and social commentary monsters. :)
Team Kong!
The disrespect for Godzilla was crazy
#TeamGodzilla
As a lifelong fan whose greatest passion to this day is still probably Godzilla, I had an absolute blast with this movie. The Monsterverse version of Godzilla has became my favorite iteration of the character a few years ago. I’ve really liked or loved every MV flick and while King of the Monsters and Godzilla 2014 are still my favorites, it’s The New Empire right after that for me.
While I prefer the Monsterverse obviously Minus One was great in its own way. Being the die hard fan I have been the franchise has always enjoyed a rich variety of stories and styles since the 60’s. I think it’s great we still get that today. There’s room for both and the part of the “fandom” acting elitist over their preferences is ridiculous and immature. There’s always been room for both.
I know you don’t see Godzilla and all this on the deep level I do as we’ve talked about before (which is fine) but I’m just glad you can still have fun with it too. It just does me happy and the past decade has been such an unexpected golden age of being the fan I have been since I was a baby.
Thanks for the vid as always Sean!
I of course am aware of the logic issues but the movie is too, it fully knows it. It definitely comes across as a modern Showa era inspired kaiju movie in spirit.
And honestly to me if a movie is self aware and is made to entertain and it does, I still see it as a good movie personally.
I’m team Kong heard by alot of reviews and you that Kong is the main star brings music to my ears head the movie fun and wacky and son of Kong very likable can’t wait to see it
Team Kong here forever and ever! I loved the movie. It was so much fun and the theater I was in went wild during the fight scenes. It was so thrilling that I’m actually going to watch it again tomorrow night 😂
*Team* *Godzilla* *or* *Team* *Kong?*
Hmm.. 🤔 That’s a tricky one for me to answer. I grew up loving both since I saw King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) on TV back in 1987-1988 when I was about 7.
Now I think Godzilla is cooler. He’s really a kaiju that Kong wasn’t intended to be back in 1933. The original King Kong stood at 25-30 feet. OG Godzilla ‘54 or Minus One G23 at 164 feet would just step on Kong to kill him if he stood at 25-30 feet like he did in 1933 and 2005.
If let’s say I’m a toy collector, I would pick Godzilla. He’s the more interesting creature to collect toys of. And I know a lot of guys when they were younger enjoyed dinosaurs when they were little kids, so Godzilla is like the ultimate dinosaur to them. He’s this atomic-breathing dragon with Jaws-like dorsal plates.
However, I did grow up watching more Kong movies as a kid as it’s catered more to American audiences. I saw the 1976 and 1986 movies of him as a child. King Kong Lives actually made me cry at the end as a kid. I saw the 2005 movie in the theater. I frequented Universal Studios Hollywood many times and would see Kong every time I took the tram tour. I would see a Kong sign at the CityWalk.
It’s tough for me to choose. Can I just say I’m on both teams or I’m neutral? I did order hats from Redbubble which says Team Godzilla and Team Kong which both arrived on the same day. I’ll wear a Godzilla shirt with a Team Kong hat. Or I’ll wear a Kong shirt with a Team Godzilla hat. I have their 2021 figures standing next to each other on top of a shelf in my room.
If you put a gun on my head and I had to choose only one, then it’s probably Kong. He does have the better personality. He’s a nice guy. He didn’t want to see those other apes enslaved and getting beaten. He also can connect with a human girl. If both existed in real life, I would rather have Kong protecting me than Godzilla. I think you could at least rationalize with Kong. While Godzilla could go berserk and kill every living person in the world.
I thought when Godzilla charged at Kong in Egypt, it was a dick move by him. Kong wasn’t looking to fight and where’s Godzilla’s gratitude after Kong saved Godzilla’s life against Mechagodzilla from 4 years earlier as GvK was set in 2024 and GxK is set in 2028? But I did grin when Godzilla performed a suplex on Kong. That was fun. And I did enjoy Kong using Suko as a weapon. It’s the campy and super cheesy Showa era done in modern times.
It’s pretty obvious Godzilla would destroy Kong in a straight up fight but that doesn’t mean I enjoy Godzilla more as an actual *character* with multiple layers to his personality. It’s like Batman v Superman. I’m a Batman fan all the way. But I know he has no shot at beating Superman unless he had Kryptonite gas as seen in the 2016 movie. If Superman wanted to kill Batman, he would use his red lasers and Bruce would instantly be dead.
Even in the good Godzilla movies from ‘54 or -1, what complex personality did Godzilla ever have? Yeah, it’s probably Team Kong for me or at least during the last two MonsterVerse movies. But I do prefer Godzilla slightly more overall since I’m one of those guys who grew up loving dinosaurs as a kid. Now if I had to choose between watching let’s say Godzilla Minus One or King Kong (2005)? I would choose KK05. That Peter Jackson movie might be over 3-hours but it’s highly rewatchable.
Good thing I like both Godzilla and Kong, so I don’t really care. I’m not a one-sided, one-dimensional fanboy. Enjoy them all. I enjoyed Sega and Nintendo when they went at it in the 90s. I’m also a big fan of Mechagodzilla and he’s kicked Godzilla’s ass several times in previous movies. Mechagodzilla has defeated Godzilla the most among G’s opponents.
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Back to the Future Part II jacket 1/25 ✅
Switch OLED 1/26 ✅ (sold 2/1) ❌
Art Spirits HSS Kong 2021 figure 1/26 ✅
Shenmue III on Steam 1/28 ✅
LA Clippers pendants (2) 1/29 ✅
Switch OLED slim travel case 1/30 ✅
Nintendo Online membership 1/30 ✅
Red Dead Redemption on Switch 1/31 ✅
MK8D Booster Pass on Switch 1/31 ✅
TVA hat 1/31 ✅
Bill & Ted hat 2/5 ✅
Switch Lite 2/6 ✅
Back to the Future hoodie 2/7 ✅
Godzilla (XXL) shirt 2/7 ✅
Steam Deck LCD 512 GB 2/17 ✅
Rock Hard Ten 🏇 hat 2/17 ✅
The Witcher 3 on Steam 2/17 ✅
ACIV: Black Flag on Steam 2/17 ✅
Batman: Arkham Collection for SD 2/19 ✅
Kingston 512 GB microSD 2/22 ✅
Batman hoodie 2/24 ✅
Back to the Future hat 2/24 ✅
Team Daemon hat 2/24 ✅
Indiana Jones hat 2/28 ✅
The Goonies hoodie 2/29 ✅
Top Gun: Maverick hat 2/29 ✅
Back to the Future Part II hat 3/1 ✅
Loki hat 3/2 ✅
Godzilla (4XL) shirt 3/4 ✅
Kong (4XL) shirt 3/4 ✅
TomToc (black) case for the Deck 3/4 ✅
OUATIH shirt 3/6 ✅
Loki shirts (2) 3/11 ✅
FF7 Remake Intergrade on Steam 3/14 ✅
Uncharted 4 on Steam 3/14 ✅
DuckTales: Remastered 3/14 ✅
Final Fantasy VII hat 3/15 ✅
Shenmue hat 3/15 ✅
Yakuza 0 on Steam 3/15 ✅
Hasn’t Arrived -
Andor hat
Indiana Jones hat
Back to the Future hat
Loki hat
PlayStation hat
^ These hats which haven’t arrived are from Printerval and not from Redbubble or AliExpress.
Steam Deck (512 GB / LCD)
Date of purchase: February 17, 2024
Price: $250 from OfferUp
Current Steam Deck library -
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Batman: Arkham City
Batman: Arkham Knight
DuckTales: Remastered
Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade
Shenmue III
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection
Yakuza 0
Hope to get these games within 2 years -
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater
Hat Rankings
1. Black Clippers with gold LAC
2. Black House Targaryen sigil
3. Black Bill & Ted
4. Black Philippines flag w/ red visor
5. Black Philippines flag
6. Black Rock Hard Ten
7. Black Top Gun: Maverick
8. Black Jumpman
9. Black Air Jordan
10. Black Filipino
11. Black Back to the Future
12. Black Andor
13. Black Team Daemon
14. Black Team Kong
15. Black Team Godzilla
16. Black Loki
17. Black Indiana Jones
18. Black PlayStation
19. Black Dreamcast
20. Black TVA
21. Red Clippers
22. Blue Clippers
23. Red SF 49ers
24. Red Chicago Bulls
25. Black Back to the Future Part II
26. Black Final Fantasy VII
27. Black Shenmue
^ The last two came out so bad that I demanded a refund.
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Buddy is waffling 😂😂 he was more time on his hands then me thats for sure
Take away the atomic breath and Kong would crush Godzilla.
I loved this movie! The action scenes were brilliant, well done and gorgeous. The movie had lots of heart. The emotional scene at the end with the mother and daughter made me cry. Pretty good film
The entire point of King Kong’s character and story arc is that he has a connection with another person. So the fact that these movies don’t have this element is kind of baffling. They didn’t show why the girl cared about Kong at all. Watching two creatures fight in a videogame looking environment is just incredibly boring IMO
Excellent Review!! Definitely loved this movie
I watched this today, and I loved it. It's giant creatures brawling, so why not embrace the wacky nature of the concept and go goofy too? I'm team Kong all the way, and I'm so glad this was a movie with Kong very much at the heart of it's focus. As far as Godzilla's 'sidequests' are cconcerned, I'm failry certain its because he felt the signal from Hollow Earth too - Dr Andrews mentioned he *maybe* could feel them, so I'm fairly certain it just wasn't fully explained but the pieces were there to solve the puzzle
I appreciate your opinion/review, but I gotta say, I think with this movie there is such a thing as over-analyzing, lol. Godzilla is written to do his part in this overall plot/story, this is a Kong focused story, and that's fine. The signal they were discovering came to fruition in the beginning of the third act, and the end battle felt earned. The glove was because he had frostbite from Shimo, which is fine, his arm got messed up due to Scar King controlling Shimo and her releasing her ice breath. This movie was fine, it was fun, and when you try to analyse it with logic, you lose credibility as a critic. This is a good movie, it's meant to be fun, not to over-analyse, it's monster fights, it's not Schindlers List 😂 so when people attempt to dump on this movie, it's those people who come across looking a bit silly, because the movie is silly, so discrediting it for its silliness is null & void. The only review this movie should get is 2 camps: you either like this stuff, or you don't. It's as simple as that in my opinion.
But Sean, I love your channel, I think you're great, always happy to hash it out with movie fans, and please don't stop what you're doing because you're a legend 💯🤙
Take care m8
People complain about humans in the movie as much and then when they don’t people get mad
Was slightly tempted to go see this. But if there's yet another 'obligatory quip character' then nah.
I wish films would go back to actual suspense, emotion and meaning. Rather than everything having to be all about the visuals and 'funny' jokes to keep an audience 'entertained'.
Update: went to see it, because my son wanted to. He enjoyed it. It was just as shallow, low stakes and pathetic as I thought it would be. Until this sort of crap is panned by people, we'll continue to get dreck.
Team Godzilla, the cinema goat!!!
Team Godzilla all hail the king🗣️
Team Kong and being that team, I'm glad the monsterverse films have focused on Kong and the Motion Capture for Kongs face is so well done. I went to see it today and This film is my version of monster movie where I buy the ticket to watch giant monsters punch each other and brawl. I haven't seen Minus One but will eventually check it out and see a human centered Godzilla film. The last 40 minutes of this film is what I signed up for. Definitely has a chance to be my Taco Supreme of the year. Might have some competition with Twisters coming out this Summer.
Team Godzilla: I still loved this film any time i got to see our big destructive lizard it makes me happy. awesome design for him However i would like to have more Godzilla backstory in the next one.. will i get it probably not but that's what i would like.
Would you coinsder doing a review of late night with the devil its a fantastic horror movie
This movie was the definition of dumb fun. No nuance or subtlety, but that’s ok. Team Kong and Dan Stevens!
Team Godzilla all the way. He just absolutely does not give a shit and I love that about him 😂
It would probably be better for me if Godzilla was more in the movie.
I’m not really a person to complain about the human characters in Godzilla movies, but I’m waiting for a monsterverse movie to have a human story like Pacific Rim so that way nobody can complain
Team Godzilla! So yeah, kinda disappointed in this one. Kong is just fine for me. This one felt way too silly, moreso that Godzilla vs Kong. The collatoral of fighting was ignored in the MCU until Civil War for the most part, so hopefully a future Monsterverse movie dives into that.
*Minor spoiler below!*
Poor Rio probably just got done rebuilding from Rodan and Ghidora just to get leveled again 😭
Seeing it today! I’m cautiously optimistic. I’m a bit turned off by all the dumb human side stories that have plagued some of the more recent entries, but they’re at least entertaining. I’m also disappointed to hear once again it’s a Kong-heavy film with Godzilla taking a backseat again. I don’t mind Kong but Godzilla is a Kaiju on a whole other level and I didn’t like how they portrayed him as being a bit of a bully in the last one. He was far more benevolent in his first two movies. I prefer that.
Big Godzilla fan, but longs scenes were almost just as good as godzillas!
"Stupid. But fun" is the shortest way to describe this GxK movie.
Would love top 20 Taco Bell movie ranking. Would love to hear your gold standard for these kind of films
There are some criticisms. The humour feels forced and doesn't always land. You don't care about the human characters (but thats ovbious because its the case with every monsterverse movie). The story doesn't flow that well because you are always shifting between Kong, Godzilla and the humans although it does come together nicely in the third act. Also maybe scar king should have shown up earlier and Godzilla doesn't fit as well into the main story, it is focused on Kong.
But lets cut to the chase. This movie fully delivers on why we all go see these films, which is the crazy monsterverse action. That's the most important thing, thats what we care about and thats certainly what we get. The visuals are incredible and the action is phenomenal. I personally preferred this over Godzilla vs kong. It was dumb but man it was awesome and that's what i wanted 🤣. The movie also significantly expands the lore and mythology of the monsterverse, specifically hollow earth. P.s. Shimo is epic!
Awesome
Love this
Team Godzilla stands up
Godzilla x Kong The New Empire (still a ridiculous title!) could best be summed up as the cinematic equivalent of eating a bowl of ramen noodles!
It will fill you up but it’s not exactly a thrilling or memorable experience.
Team Godzilla, Saw the movie this afternoon, Was pretty disappointed as a Goji fan but it was a decent Kong movie
Hi guys
Love that T-shirt 👕 👍
Team Godzilla. Excited to see the movie tomorrow night.
Team Godzilla
Team Godzilla! Where my Godzilla fans at?!
Guess I'm going to have to watch this one in theaters. Loved Godzilla v Kong (despite the annoying people).
Godzilla minus one is king