The dude behind that is local and apparently also has dabbled in low budget horror (as well as has a 90s-style R&B group). I’m shocked I haven’t met him, and have been meaning to ask around if anyone I know has.
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dude for real i was completely baffled by the whole thing
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can you tell him its okay to be gay he seems to have something hes struggling with
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This started out seeming like it was a take on Dracula but set in Japan, but it winds up just kind of going nowhere, but on the plus side, it looks good and it’s only like, ~70 minutes.
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saw funeral parade of roses with @aislesgrises and I enjoyed it, though it felt like the first half was twice as long as it was.
still some amazingly oriented shots, and the actor interviews actually fit as part of the narrative.
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it’s one of my favourites! and i’m so glad you watched with me
i have a hard time putting my feelings on it coherently, but the interviews, the behind the scenes cuts, the emphasis on the roses which turn out to be artificial, the guevara cosplayer with the fake beard. there’s a common thread of artificiality, and it’s being highlighted in ways that are really fun and beautiful. except, the actors themselves become real, and the interviews make them come across sympathetically, and that’s really beautiful too.
also just really love this outfit! that vest is hot!
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I finally sat down and watched King Kong Presents King Kong in Godzilla vs Kong feat. King Kong and I have to say it was a pretty good King Kong movie
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i am very behind on the monsterverse but i gotta say i was pleasantly surprised by how stupid the king of the monsters movie was. i mean they still do too much to try to make it seem grounded or whatever, but there was not as much of that sort of thing as i expected.
the main problem is still just like they don’t really cut loose as far as the action sequences are concerned. i thought the first rebooted godzilla movie actually did a pretty good job of withholding “the goods” until the very end, but in this one it seems like their promise is they aren’t going to hold anything back for narrative tension, but none of the action scenes are as good as the like 2 minutes of godzilla throwing down we actually get at the end of the first movie.
the closing credits song was too far beyond the pale for my taste, but if it had come at the end of a different movie it might have worked.
on the other hand i found the kong island movie to be totally insufferable and any time a Serious Critic praises it i feel like i’m losing my mind. i guess file that one with The Mummy under “i guess film critics just want their blockbuster popcorn movies to be more racist”
Skull Island gets a pass from people because, despite Kong being older, there’s no pre-conceived idea of what a Kong movie should be. he’s infinitely malleable as a character and a concept
meanwhile everyone has their own ideas of what Godzilla can be and they’re all right because Godzilla has been down every which kind of road over three generations (not Emmerich Godzilla, that one doesn’t count)
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i sincerely love the 2014 godzilla movie, but not enjoyed anything else in that world, not even as dumb fun. i wish i had waited for cinemas to reopen to watch kong vs god, maybe that would have been a better time.
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Not trying to make any subjective judgements in the quality of it but 2014 works fine because it’s a reasonable Hollywood take on the idea of Godzilla as force of nature and the folly of humanity messing around with nuclear power and weapons
The problem is that they sold it as a big dumb blockbuster and people expected big dumb blockbuster Godzilla punch fighting idiot monsters instead of “human drama about a charisma less dude trying to outrun giant monsters”, which is probably why when G barfs atomic down Generic Monster Design’s throat, it’s a fucking cool moment
KotM tries to course correct and instead bungles the human side of it completely instead of partly and there’s not enough monsters slugging it out for my dumb monkey brain so what the fuck
Skull Island may have like, shitty politics and stuff but it gets the cadence of setpieces and monsters doing monster shit right
It’s pretty telling that in The Kong Story guest starring Godzilla the Kong side of the plot takes precedence and is kind of interesting whereas Godzilla is off in some shitty b-plot that involves Stranger Things from KotM falling into Qanon
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i guess this is where i disagree, i think i may just have a soft spot for ridiculous ecoterrorism in hollywood movies though. but i thought the human characters in kotm were more interesting than in godzilla 1
Bryan Cranston did a lot lifting considering I had to spend the rest of the movie with
Uh
Um
…Taylor Lautner?
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the ongoing quest to try and make the fuckin 1930s ooga booga tribesman from king kong more and more “realistic” in each version of kong makes me wonder when they will finally give up and make them like alien dinosaur people or na’vi or something
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If you’re going to go far enough to make Skull Island that hostile a place to live, why not just not fucking have people living there at all
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Anywho, with the plot of Kong v Kong and also Godzilla is there, it’s just a matter of time before Legendary crosses over the Monsterverse and the Pacific Rim Cinematic Universe and everything gets real dumb
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you mean:
Awesome.
Wait until they bring Jet Jaguar back as a sidekick, stack Hedorah 21st century edition + PS3 Ebirah + Mecha King Gidorah onto the plate, and then mic-drop Ultraman out of a rim right into the ring, for the hottest pile of … kaiju battle royale since Giant Monsters All-out Attack.
And I Will Be Alone In The Screening Room Again, Like In Transformers 5 2D On Release Day At 8pm.
yeah the cran man was good, the rest were … not so much.
i think 2014 works so well because it has almost 0 interest in the human characters, it’s basically an ambient monster movie after the opening scenes
yeah, i thought it was much more thoughtful in the way it made the human characters seem small by mostly only showing godzilla from like human-level perspective, but then also kind of keeping its distance from the people. i should probably watch it again. it’s kind of sad how that is one of the only indie director hired to do a major blockbuster things that has really felt like a natural progression from his first movie (monsters, which is kind of corny but i thought still pretty good), but now that he’s in the big leagues or whatever he’ll probably never have a chance to do anything like that again.
the sequel is much less interesting. but i still just liked the antihumanist subplot, and also dr serizawa nuking himself to power up godzilla in atlantis was very good, to me
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