Godzilla vs. Kong

Hey you know what this is all around pretty fun. Still don’t really care about Molly Willy Silly Filly Billy Pilly Bobby Brown’s part in the movie but at the very least the film isn’t centered around her. I genuinely really love the relationship between Rebecca Hall’s Character, Jia, and the giant monkey I think that’s all super well done. Making Kong the central monster for this one feels right because with Kong you can insert a ton of personality into him and it doesn’t feel out of place because primates in and of themselves already have a ton of personality. Kong being able to communicate through sign language really doesn’t bother me at all I actually really like that, I remember the first time watching this and thinking how stupid it was the kong uses a weapon now it just makes sense. You can’t throw an unarmed gorilla into a fight with someone armed with a laser canon and that’s essentially what Godzilla is in comparison. The hollow earth was such a joy to see finally after at least two movies theorizing about it and I even think it’s mentioned once in the 2014 movie it’s nice to see it’s real and just as much of a “do whatever” region you’d ever want it to be. Gravity’s inverted in spots, there are places where the gravity is just lighter, up is down and down is up at times, all sorts of weird new creatures that we’d never see above ground because there’s no way in hell Godzilla wouldn’t just wipe the floor with them so they stay down there protected by the outer earth. I would like to know if we found these tunnels to hollow earth or if we made them and if so… how? Because it’s explained that once you reach a certain point in the tunnel gravity inverts and you’re basically ripped inside out in an instant so I’d assume if we built these tunnels either people would get far enough that they’d stop or some poor bastard had to go in there alone and people on the outside would monitor how far he got before he got atomized. Something so science fiction like that doesn’t really matter when you’re here for the monster fights but I know if this was made in the 60’s era of Godzilla there would be a 20 minute conference room scene where they break down all the science jargon into digestible information for the audience to understand. Though times are different now and people don’t want to get talked at they want to see things moving and moving this do in this. I think bringing someone in like Adam Wingard was a great choice because it’s clear he had such a vision for this movie. I know the director doesn’t really have anything to do with the big CGI battle scenes but I would like to believe Adam was responsible for the final fight being at night and being illuminated by Neon because that’s already just his style for his movies (the guest, you’re next). Can I also say, bravo to those CGI artists that put their blood sweat and tears into this movie because my lord is it amazing. All the water splashes, waves, and partial effects during the water fight are breathtaking. The building destruction, lighting effects, how detailed Godzilla’s face is, how detailed Kong’s face is, how much each hair moves on Kong all of it is text book perfect. It’s not every day I watch a big CGI heavy movie and feel the need to point out how good it is because it’s just so commonplace now that it almost always looks pretty good but my lord this stands out as a shiny example of how far we’ve come in computer effects.  All in all, I think this movie may be looked upon as “too stupid” for general audiences because we now are really officially going off the deep end with all the technological advancements since the 2014 Godzilla and with how grounded that movie is I can see some people getting turned off by that. For me someone who has seen every single one of these god damn movies, watched Godzilla go from bad guy, to savior of the world, to children’s icon, to dancing in space, to fighting monsters controlled by aliens, to fighting a sludge monster made of pollution, to even time traveling this movie isn’t as far fetched as it can get. I also like how we get a definite who would win scenario with Godzilla winning the Godzilla vs Kong fight but then both of them becoming allies by the end of the movie and teaming up to fight Mechagodzilla. (The Mechagodzilla design in this movie is really good too I wanna point that out, just not as good as Kiryu)