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Also I enjoyed the fortune cookie line specifically because of what came before and after it. Mark made the dumb quip of "did you make that up", and Serizawa likes him enough to not say "of course you moron" but makes that joke instead. And he follows it up with the admission of how silly both of their comments were, "a really long fortune cookie." It's dumb but it's well-composed writing when taken with the scene as a whole and the relationship of the characters, I feel.
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I just saw it with a good friend at the bigass IMAX and holy poo poo yeah I loved it. It's pretty much everything I wanted in this Godzilla series come to fruition. The fact that they threw in so many of the known Godzilla happenings, the twins who care for Mothra, Burning Godzilla going critical, loving Rodan's sonic wind destroying cities, Mothra's sacrifice  , King Gidorah's three personalities, and also that he did in fact come from outer space and was also called Monster Zero, a Super X vehicle, and the list goes on. I'm honestly glad that the mom got killed in the end because she deliberately pushed the button to kill millions and yeah that's not loving forgivable. A great combo of nods to the Showa and Heisei movies, and I'm 100% going to go see it again as soon as I can.Edit: the classic themes being peppered throughout really were great. Edit 2: My top three Godzilla movies are Godzilla, Shin Godzilla, and G vs Hedorah, so take my opinion as you will  Edit 3: I wasn't crying for Mothra. YOU were crying for Mothra!! GATOS Y VATOS fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Jun 4, 2019 |
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Roland Jones posted:I liked Chen's annoyed "Shut up"... Whatever his name is. his name is "Rick", because somebody who should no longer be allowed to write movies decided to base his character off of Rick & Morty
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keet posted:I'd prefer a super deep cut and replace him with Green Man or any of the other obscure toho toku properties. Motherfuckin' Matango, my dude.
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The only real problem with this movie: I just figured he was treading water with his powerful feet and tail. Or he is extremely buoyant by being really fat.
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HannibalBarca posted:his name is "Rick", because somebody who should no longer be allowed to write movies decided to base his character off of Rick & Morty There's a Rick and Morty sticker on the laptop at the beginning. You can't escape it. I didn't mind the nerd scientists and military guys making doofy jokes about Godzilla and the kaiju. Seemed realistic. (Also just realised they probably didn't use 'Kaiju' because it'd sound too much like Pacific Rim)
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Shadowhand00 posted:The only real problem with this movie: He's using the same powers he used at the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Godzilla was fun. I didn't like Mothra in the trailers but she looked alright in the movie itself. I was disappointed they didn't show more monsters randomly attacking, though. Kinda wanted to see the Lost Cause engraving at Stone Mountain be destroyed by a giant anaconda or whatever. edit: or a giant pillbug yeah! Peanut President fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Jun 4, 2019 |
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Squidtentacle posted:1. It was in the control room, where they'd been monitoring everything until then and temporarily weren't around, presumably while doing other Science Stuff. Like they showed that room in multiple points in the movie before, the ORCA never moved until Madison stole it. Thanks for that. I'll be the first to admit I tuned out on a few of things and glazed over. I hate bad acting, bad writing and wooden exposition driven dialogue. That said, still seems like they'd have taken more care to guard the mcguffin seeing as how their entire plan hinged on it. BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Jun 4, 2019 |
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Peanut President posted:Godzilla was fun. I didn't like Mothra in the trailers but she looked alright in the movie itself. I was disappointed they didn't show more monsters randomly attacking, though. Kinda wanted to see the Lost Cause engraving at Stone Mountain be destroyed by a giant anaconda or whatever. One of the complaints I have with the movie is that the amount of time it takes place over feels weird. Some parts feel like they did or should have happened over a period of days at least, while others make it seem like everything happened over a few hours, and the overall passage of time isn't quite clear. I think the movie would have benefited from being a bit longer and having things take place over more time, both for real and in the movie itself. Give us a few days or weeks of Titan-ruled Earth before Mothra emerges from her cocoon and leads everyone to Godzilla, for example. (Or, if there was that much time between those events, make it clearer.) More time for destruction and the characters to start sinking into despair and/or think about how much the hosed up before things start to get better, etc. Someone mentioned that they heard about a director's cut with an hour or so more footage or something, and I can buy that. Some things in the movie felt like there should have been more there, or something was removed and patched over, and we do know of a few things that were either filmed but cut or planned but didn't get filmed. Shame that, if this is true, we probably won't see it anyway.
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BiggerBoat posted:That said, still seems like they'd have taken more care to guard the mcguffin seeing as how their entire plan hinged on it. It didn't, though? They needed it to wake KG up, but past that it was dead weight. In fact, their plan succeeds completely, despite the kid stealing the mcguffin. The eco-terrorists win.
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BiggerBoat posted:Thanks for that. This was already covered by Schwarz but Well yeah. They didn't need it. They used it to wake up Rodan because they planned to wake up all the kaiju one at a time. But then Ghidorah did something they didn't think he could do- he woke up *ALL* of the slumbering kaiju, all at once. Giving the terrorists exactly what they wanted and rendering the Orca, to them, completely pointless. Charles Dance was more than happy to have the whole human race get wiped out and he walks out of the movie the victor in every way.
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OK. Just seemed like an odd thing to leave laying around where any old 15 year old kid could make off with it.
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Shadowhand00 posted:The only real problem with this movie: Pacific Rim also had this poo poo happen where monsters where equally in deep enough water to be fully submerged and swimming and also immediately finding shallow water to stand above the ocean. It’s basically the Jurassic Park “how did the T-Rex escape the pen then 5 minutes later the explorer is thrown off a cliff in the same spot”
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HannibalBarca posted:his name is "Rick", because somebody who should no longer be allowed to write movies decided to base his character off of Rick & Morty This is hardly the worst thing in the world, like they could have had Jim Parsons play a guy named Dr. Cooper
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BiggerBoat posted:OK. Just seemed like an odd thing to leave laying around where any old 15 year old kid could make off with it. I don't think most 15 year olds are in the secret bunker marked as a radiation hazard and full of guys with guns. Probably not high on their list of worries that day, really.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Pacific Rim also had this poo poo happen where monsters where equally in deep enough water to be fully submerged and swimming and also immediately finding shallow water to stand above the ocean. That's because that's a classic monster movie thing Kaiju are just naturally really good at treading water
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Burkion posted:That's because that's a classic monster movie thing As war of the gargantuas best demonstrates, the ocean is basically a public pool, the shallow end is like 5 feet from the part where you dunk your brother til he agrees that you are duke of new york
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DeimosRising posted:As war of the gargantuas best demonstrates, the ocean is basically a public pool, the shallow end is like 5 feet from the part where you dunk your brother til he agrees that you are duke of new york and then a convenient volcanic eruption in tokyo bay/the public pool kills you both
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Ghost Leviathan posted:There's a Rick and Morty sticker on the laptop at the beginning. You can't escape it.
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'androgynous teenage girl blows up Boston' makes my heart ache that Worm is never going to be adapted to film
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Shadowhand00 posted:The only real problem with this movie: 
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One thing that I found really cool, and I'm not sure has been posted yet (though apologies if it has) was a very specific musical callback to a bit from the Godzilla vs. Destroyah score. When Godzilla comes back from near death you get a really sick version of the Godzilla theme, but then as he leans down to eye-up Kyle Chandler and friends the score transitions to what sounds like a piece of music from Godzilla's death and Junior's rebirth in Godzilla vs. Destroyah. This is the music from Godzilla vs. Destroyah (skip to 03:28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yjOZmlbshU) and then here is the moment from the score from King of the Monsters (skip to 01:17) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6FvFfVmngs , seem like the same poo poo to me! Thought that was really cool.
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Roland Jones posted:You're trying to say, "No, my opinion is the correct one," without making it obvious, and it's not working. No I wasn't. Reading is hard though, I get it.
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Y'know, I think why I thought Skull Island worked so well is that it's always been portrayed as a clearing house of palaeontology's fever dreams, and adapting it into the cradle of the insane ecosystem that produces kaiju is a great natural conclusion.
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Just like a jet engine Godzilla has exhaust. The laser comes out the front and exhaust comes out the back, so his toots are keeping him up. Imagine the smoke billows from a space shuttle launch shooting down into the ocean.
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Godzilla and Mothra's relationship was one of the best parts of the movie, hands down.
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Lmao this. Left head : I Think at one point the middle head bites lefty by the horns and drags him over to get him to pay attention. Lefty is also the one that got decapitated by a pre buffed Godzilla, and had to regenerate which probably made him even dumber.
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Panfilo posted:Lmao this. Left head : Oh goodness, and the severed left head was the post-credit stinger... Whatever comes from it is going to be incredibly and entertainingly dumb!
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There is a lot about this movie I didn't love but having the heads have different personalities and having that conveyed in like 5 seconds of actual screen time dealing with it was really really good.
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Dammerung posted:Oh goodness, and the severed left head was the post-credit stinger... Whatever comes from it is going to be incredibly and entertainingly dumb! Hahaha I totally forgot it was Left Head.
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I would absolutely watch a movie about a reborn Leftie, the dumbass dragon.
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Tekne posted:I would absolutely watch a movie about a reborn Leftie, the dumbass dragon. The Three Stooges, but they're a giant three-headed space dragon
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Dammerung posted:Godzilla and Mothra's relationship was one of the best parts of the movie, hands down. There hardly is one though? Godzilla doesn't even care when Mothra dies and doesn't brutally murder Rodan at the end for having fought and beaten her up, instead he just accepts him as a bitch in his harem. Godzilla: Pimp of the Monsters Can someone explain to me what the different eras of Godzilla are and what they signify?
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Showa Era Godzilla: Godzilla Raids Again - Terror of Mechagodzilla Heisei Era Godzilla: Return of Godzilla - Destroyah Millennium Era Godzilla: Godzilla 2000 - Final Wars
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