Apr 19, 2021

Godzilla v. Kong : Dawn of Kaiju... a rant

 Let me get the Save Mothra joke out of the way.


The movie was decent, not gonna lie here, but it wasn't great... the reason is the same as why Bayformers sucked.

Mediocre director whose focus is flash over substance?

No, not that...

Altering character designs so much that the characters are unrecognizable?

Not that either...

It has Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox?

No! But you're getting closer...

The movie wastes a lot of time in humans with so little dimension aside their key personality trait that they feel like caricatures instead of actual characters?


 And there is another thing...

You're disappointed that Kong loses all the fights against Godzilla and his victory against Mecha-Godzilla feels hollow, even when Mecha-Godzilla beats the living crap out of the big G.


I understand that most Godzilla movies require  a balance between humans and Kaiju... (funny story, Speech to text thinks this is Kaiju) but the humans need to be more engaging. I was honestly wanting a Kaiju to eat eleven and her annoying sidekicks "tap water" and "crazy conspiracy theorist who was right". Eric Northman was also on my kill list, along with everyone surrounding him, except for mute girl and her guardian...

I understand that using the Human characters is a way that they're trying to make us care about the story by relating to fellow humans. It's just that, the humans are dragging the movie down. This seems to be more on the Godzilla side of things... but that's something that stems from Gojira-sama's origins on the land of the rising Sun. It's not from the Westernized adaptations...



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