I actually really loved this movie. It had the perfect mix of action, funny jokes, wonderful over-the-top camera direction, and great characters (John C. Reilly especially was fantastic).
This was one of my favorite parts, besides the helicopter attack 30 minutes in.
Fun Fact: The cinematographer who did this movie, is also the guy who regularly works with Zack Snyder. That's why this scene looks similar to the fight scene from 300.
Best theater experience since original Cloverfield and probably favorite monster movie in general
I unironically give it a 10/10 for what it is
>Posting bait this obvious
I won't lie, I enjoyed the hell out of it
You could say it was fun
It reminded me of Borderlands a little.
Movie had some great violent moments but didn't have the emotional strength to back it up. Occasionally you'd get little bits of character but those were few and far in between. John C Riley was the only one that felt like an actual human.
I really wish it were a better movie because when it hits it fucking HITS.
I enjoyed it, and I like most the actors except for Tim Fiddlesticks or whatever his name is.
so hard to watch hiddleson as an "action hero"
not as bad as adrian brody in predator, but unbelievable.
John C Reilly really was the best part.
My dad actually got a little emotional at this scene.
that scene was so good and the perfect close to this Fun Flick
*sniff*
He finally got the beer and hot dog he always wanted... I was smiling so hard at this part.
I dunno if id call it amazing but it had great cinematography for a blockbuster and it felt a little like an 80s movie thag could've used some arnold in it
What the fuck was his problem?
i think they must have cut most of his scenes out or something. The movie has no real main hero at all, and perhaps thats because HiddleLoki was so unconvincing as a tough guy that almost all his scenes were excised.
Kong was the hero
I don't think there ever was supposed to be just one main character. It was a collection of characters experiencing what it was like on Skull Island.
Think of the 1933 film. Who is the main character? Ann? She barely has screentime. Jack Driscoll? No character. What about Carl Denham? All he wanted was to make a movie.
He was attempting to assert dominance over his rival alpha ape on the island.
The good:
>Every moment Shea Whigham was onscreen I had a smile on my face
>John C Reilly's character
>Helicopter porn
>Death scenes manage to be more horrific than most R rated movies despite the PG13 rating
>The John C Reilly credits scene was kino
The bad:
>Anti-military, anti-war, hippie Liberal shit
>Heroine is an anti-war Vietnam photographer and portrayed as morally right
>LOOK AT THE MILITARY DROP BOMBS ON THESE FUZZY WOODLAND CREATURES
>A civilization of people with no boats have a wall meant to hold off giant creatures that raises for boats to pass through
>The entire gas mask katana scene
>Having a token gook with no personality and 5 lines just for diversity
It was okay. Every scene with Whigham and Reilly was fun while every scene with the lead actress made me want to rip my hair out.
I thought Riley's character was the main one. I honestly didn't give a shit about anybody else except some of the soldiers with the bants.
Everyone else wasn't there. Goodman was wasted on a dumb death, Jackson's character was shit. Larson and Hiddleston didn't really did it for me either.
>Bad
>Gas mask scene
>Liberal shit
I mean, I'm 100% against liberals and SJWs, but the Vietnam war was pretty fucked up and pointless.
Also, what's wrong with the gas mask scene?
>Having a token gook with no personality and 5 lines just for diversity
She's a fairly famous actor in China. She was in the film to appeal to their market, not for diversity.
And it worked, the film is CRUSHING it in CHINA
Made me feel really hopeful about the upcoming MGS film.
Yeah, Kong is already on the way to make a little more than Godzilla 2014.
Godzilla vs Kong is going to get over a billion at the box office, guarantee.
bless our chinky friends earning us more monster kino
What's wrong with the gas mask scene?.. you mean the one with the SAS guy with a katana spinning in green smoke cutting up pterodactyls?..
It was really bad and dumb. I'm at a loss for what else to say about it without using buzzwords like "cringey".
Also yeah the Vietnam war was pointless but it was how it was anti-military in general. As said, dropping bombs on Bambi and a piece of shit who is responsible for soldiers getting spit on on their return trip home being the heroine?
The war was pointless but the men who fought it aren't to blame. Fuck hippies.
I could just see the director's agenda in certain scenes, is all. Took me out. And he IS a Liberal/SJW. He went on a rant on Twitter because some guy with Trump supporter stuff was on the same plane as him. Didn't think it'd leak into fucking King Kong, though.
Ah, gotcha.
Doesn't negate the fact she has no personality or development, really. I mean, if it's not diversity, then it's akin to having a Pepsi can as a supporting hero for the entirety of a Godzilla movie.
Only instead of a Pepsi can it's a Chinese chick with the personality of one.
Even Hideo Kojima gave the director roaring support and wrote an autistically long essay about how it revolutionized the monster genre.
>Anti-military, anti-war, hippie Liberal shit
I fucking hate liberals but it doesn't take a genius to know that the Vietnam war was one big waste of time.
It needed a false flag attack in the Gulf of Tonkin in order to "justify" it. All it did was make (((weapons manufacturers))) even richer while getting patriotic americans killed, leaving thousands of communists at home to live. By invading Vietnam and losing, it helped embolden Marxists to infiltrate every aspect of American culture to create the shitshow we have today.
Asians really do have the best taste in film
Oh yeah, there was a brief joke at the beginning of the movie where John Goodman's character goes
>Mark my words, there'll never be a more screwed up time in Washington.
Fuck you're right, but I still loved the movie.
>watching with dad
Pathetic
You got daddy issues there, user?
At least I have a dad to talk to and spend time with.
I agree but when it takes aim at patriotic Americans is when I call horseshit.
If you want to criticize the Vietnam war you portray GIs as victims and not perpetrators.
The combination of gas mask and kanata is perfect tho
FUCK REALISM I LIKE THIS
>Doesn't negate the fact she has no personality or development
Yeah but they can't do much with her unless they put in subtitles. Having seen her in The Great Wall, her English is pretty bad which prevents her from doing any real acting in a Western production.
Yeah, I noticed that too. First thing that tipped me off on a bit of a political stance being taken.
And yeah as said I thought it was good and definitely enjoyable, I fucking adored Whigham's performance. Just a lot of aspects of it annoyed me a lot.
Did the director watch too much Apocalypse Now and Baraka?
all the complaining about lack of character development can be immediately dismissed.
this was as good or better than every Toho movie. i didn't want to see sappy jurassic world characterizations.
it's a monster movie. make monster go boom.
i love when hollywood invests $185 million into a B movie. can't wait to watch it again.
>spending time with dad
>oh its you with daddy issuses
the irony
>swinging sword with precision
>cut to show he literally can't see
could have been better if they didnt do several cliches like the ahab story line with samuel l jackson. I knew the were going that way just from the trailer and it sucked. Or Shea Wigham;s character pulling a billy from predator in the last act literally right next to the escape boat
little stuff like that felt cliche as fuck, but otherwise it knew what it was doing as far as being an Aliens teir shoot em up monster movie
also too many quirky quips. It wants to be serious and then tosses in a big bang theory teir dialouge out of nowhere and then goes back to being serious. It came of as cringy
its so mediocre, unwatchable twice
Actually, serious question here,
what the fuck was he thinking? Was this scene supposed to be sad or funny?
post yfw the daddy long legs spider scene in the bamboo forest
>mfw
you're taking a monster movie way to seriously user lmao
he thought it would eat him and he'd kill it or slow it down so his friends could get away
he was clearly some PTSD/seen some shit soldier and wasnt ready to re adjust to the real world so he wanted to die in combat. He was my favorite character and I wanted him to live but knew he wouldnt
>what the fuck was he thinking?
Suicide attack
>Was this scene supposed to be sad or funny?
Both
I was enjoying it until Kong picked that photographer up and shoved her entire body down his urethra. Really took me out of it, honestly.
i dunno, but it was great
i don't think i've ever seen a movie before where someone tries to do a big heroic sacrifice, but then just gets completely fucking denied
>Favorite character dies as a joke
DELET THIS
it was supposed to be funny but it was so badly realized it was just cringey
不名誉より死
You ever hear the story of the mouse, the lion, and the thorn?
It was more piss me off-ey and make me sad-ey
Fucking great character. What the fuck.
>cringey
do you fuckwads actually cringe at action movies? is this the famous autism i was warned about?
To be fair a mouse killing a lion with a thorn makes a pretty cool and inspiring story too
>Tenacity and ingenuity defeats all odds
Also, I got to mention, this was pretty hardcore for a modern PG-13 movies.
Most new PG-13 are pretty desensitized compared to older ones, Skull Island actually had stabbings, blood, mild gore, language (fuck, bitch, shit), and that one guy who got his arm ripped off on-screen.
>what the fuck was he thinking?
What a waste of a good actor.
chinese lady, smart black man, muh loki and anti-war whore were the worst characters of the whole movie, and they lived while Shea Wigam's character, arguably the most underused of the cast, along with the guy who missed his son's birthday and maybe John Goodman.
they all died while the 2d characters lived.
John C Reilly did pretty well in this movie, only wished there was some scenes with him and the Jap pilot
This
I winced and squirmed when the guy got thrown onto the helicopter and slowly got dragged into the rotors.
If they had shown a spray of blood it would've lost that effect.
wow that guy had serious overbite, he needs to see an orthodontist
sorry, deleted that post since i fucked up the grammar, here it is again
>PG-13 thrillers are often more 'horrifying' than R-rated ones in the classic sense. They can't show explicit gore and violence, so they hint at it instead -- but the details your mind fills in are scarier than showing it outright
>A well-made R-rated movie will make use of this effect too, but when it comes to the average blockbuster, the implicit imagery from PG-13 movies tends to stick with you longer
>If you want to criticize the Vietnam war you portray GIs as victims and not perpetrators.
They were both.
this movie didn't portray the military poorly. user is just assblasted.
No it really wasn't. Almost everyone phoned it in performance wise, the only good convo was the one about what john c. missed while he was on the island, and the only thrilling scene in in your OP pic.
I really don't know what everyone found so spectacular.
I honestly cant tell if you guys are joking when you praise the movie.
It was fucking shit. The pacing and story was off. Not to mention the fact that only one member of the cart had any closure at the end.
What happened to the rest? Did they get killed or should we just forget about them?
It was fucking Bay-tier directing were it simply relied on action scenes and nothing more.
3/10
I still maintain that this was only a slight step above being Bayformers tier because of how well it's shot.
>Almost everyone phoned it in performance wise
Samuel L. is just getting annoying in general. He's in too much shit, and he always acts the fucking same.
After credits scene bro
Oh, lay an egg
Which Resident Evil movie is this?
Looks like all the haters showed up.
>a billion
>not a gorillion
I don't like it nearly as much as others seemed to, yeah.
I really liked this movie. I enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed the new godzilla, but for different reasons.
Godzilla was great because it was realistic, dark, gritty. The monsters looked and felt so fucking real, the way they shot and lit them was fucking INSANE, one of my favorite visual/audio combinations in film of all time. Could have used more monster time and the humans were meh but I was able to live with that.
Kong was different, even though the way they showed kong and the fights weren't as well shot, I actually really loved all the characters. I feel that Kong was much more character driven despite having lots of fun action moments with giant monsters fighting as well.
overall both are 8.5/10 bretty gud
When it's a movie as bad as this there's gonna be a lot of people who didn't like it.
Adrien Brody is a ham planet in Predators. He manages to eclipse Laurence Fishburne as a kooky survivor, for fuck's sakes. He is perfectly cast and it is in my honest opinion, his best role.
Fuck anyone who hates on that movie.
How many token chinese characters will we see in Kong vs Godzilla?
I can already imagine how mad the Japanese are going to be when NONE of it takes place in Japan
>Has like 3 or 4 lines tops
>Best role
Wait wrong movie
My bad, friend
He only knew war. War was home.
>Godzilla was great because
stopped reading there
>he didn't like the new godzilla
this my friends is how to tell if someone has SHIT TASTE
>could have been better if they didnt do several cliches like the ahab story line with samuel l jackson.
Negro, please. Samuel L. Jackson being a irrationally vengeful hardass military guy was one of the better things about the movie as far as the humans were concerned.
Which new Godzilla are you talking about?
That scene was terrifying.
never saw the weeb one, looks pretty dope though from the trailers, the monster design at least anyway
western godzilla was amazing, that fucking HALO jump scene... just fantastic
Brie Larson felt completely pointless, like she was only there because a woman character had to empathize with Kong. Other than that, I have little complaints.
it's called shilling
watch kojima's twitter, he does it about any major US release. he's a westaboo desperate for acceptance
...
fuck no, shill
this movie was shit at keeping the tone right, some scenes felt out of place and trying too hard to be stylish, that cringy humour (skullcrawler's name joke). At least Godzilla 2014 tonally felt more balanced
I was asking ironically because they're both shit.
So, me loving a movie automatically makes me a shill
k
confirmed shit taste
you're one of those fags who unironically hates everything reddit enjoys, aren't you?
I'm not aware of reddit's movie preferences, so no.
2014 american godzilla was unironically a top tier film though
dare I say, it was... kino?
Did reddit like Godzilla 2014?
Godzilla 2014 was unironically a very well-crafted blockbuster. It's not a masterpiece, but as a monster movie, it's fantastic.
If Godzilla 2014 is a top tier film then Kong is a fucking book.
It was total garbage.
It managed to make me like the 2014 Godzilla even more.
The only redeeming feature was the visuals.
It had shit monster design, shit characters, shit acting from a stellar cast and couldn't even keep continuity. There were shots where the characters should have been demolished by Kong like where he's essentially making tidal waves in the final fight and yet somehow the team is unaffected.
yes
well some of them didn't because it didn't have enough godzilla
name a better monster movie other than pacific rim (you can't)