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| Tuesday, April 6, 2021 07:06 PM |
| On the Viewer - Godzilla Vs. Kong (2021) |
 by Fëanor |
This is another live-tweet compilation! I hope that's okay! There are some spoilers in here, so beware.
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[Thread #1]
"Kong bows to no one."
:Thumbs up: :COOL:
#GodzillaVsKong
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I like that each monster has a girl as his advocate. Also, spoiler: the scene where Kong talks is real good. I came in a much bigger Godzilla fan, but they're selling me on Kong here.
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It's interesting how the military guys just wordlessly do whatever the scientists say. I guess that is generally what happens in these movies, but it seems like at least in American movies there's usually more friction.
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Also, I strongly suspect we're going to see Mechagodzilla, and I'm HERE FOR IT!!!
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Can you really break into a secure electronic door by breaking open the keypad and jabbing it with a screwdriver that you licked the end of? I mean, I'm asking, maybe you can.
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Bro. HOLLOW EARTH! So cool.
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It's just a tad hard to believe that these three yahoos could just wander into this extremely secure, top secret area without anybody noticing or challenging them. But whatever, I'm here for the giant monsters.
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MECHAGODZILLA!! Called it! Yeah!
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Kong, axe in hand, on his throne, in an ancient hall in the center of the hollow earth. That is freaking cool as hell.
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Ghidorah's skull as a living psionic super computer. Damn, they just threw all the crazy ideas into this, and I'm loving it. The visuals are fantastic, too.
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Taking a break for tonight, but I feel like this movie has captured more of the spirit of comic books than a lot of movies I've seen recently that are supposedly based on them. The wild invention, the crazy colorful visuals, the epic scale, the rivalry, the big brutal fights.
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[Thread #2]
Picking back up where I left off with #GodzillaVsKong !
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I'm not totally clear on why they only need a tiny little sample of the hollow earth magic power rock, and boom, they're good to go. In fact, they don't even need the rock itself, they just need the data download about it. How does data let you produce enormous amounts of energy?
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Godzilla shot a hole into the middle of the earth with one blast of his radioactive breath?? Dang.
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Why did the hollow earth temple start falling apart anyway? Because of the tiny sample they took? Or because Kong switched the thing on with the axe? It seemed to start happening before Godzilla zapped the hole in...
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So, no massive gravity anomaly on the way out of hollow earth? That's only on the way in. Like the toll into Philly from Jersey.
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I love how colorful the movie is. Maybe partly a reaction from having recently seen the incredibly gray and drab Snyder Cut, but it's just beautiful.
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Did they consider a possible theme park ride based on this? The ship flying around between the battling titans is making me imagine a Star Tours type experience...
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Kong hanging off the top of the skyscraper is a nice callback.
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Not sure I ever remember seeing Godzilla crawling around on all fours. That was different.
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So, mechagodzilla just immediately starts thinking for itself once it's charged up with replicated hollow earth magic rock energy? Okay. Man, they're really asking us to swallow a lot here.
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Now we're gonna use the underground spaceship as a giant defibrillator paddle to restart Kong's heart. Sure!
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Okay, cool fight. But I feel like it would have been more interesting if people had actually been in control of Mechagodzilla, and if they hadn't just been crazy bad guys. I mean, there's a sane argument that can be made for destroying the Titans to protect humanity.
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A fun movie. It's interesting that it's really Kong's movie. He's basically the protagonist. I didn't expect that.
I'm a little bummed there are no post-credits scenes. They couldn't give us a little tease for the next movie? Maybe a little Gamera or something? Ah well. |
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