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Post by mindboggled on Feb 12, 2024 15:40:54 GMT -5
Not super excited for this. Maybe it'll be a fun popcorn film. I am somewhat optimistic after finding out Max Borenstein is no longer involved with the writing of this film series, his writing stinks. Rumour has it another trailer will be releasing within the next couple of days.
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Post by Von K on Feb 13, 2024 16:54:52 GMT -5
Much too cgi heavy for my taste. Is it just me or does the trailer seem to give away the essentials of the plot? Seems to be more of a conceptual movie with not much to relate to at the human level - unlike Minus One. But as you say it could be a decent popcorn cgi spectacle type movie for those that like such.
I am however looking forward to comparing it's reception at the box office and critic's feedback with Minus One.
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Post by mindboggled on Feb 14, 2024 12:31:46 GMT -5
I am of the same sentiment. Not a fan of blockbuster cgi fests. And I agree with you that the movie looks like an excuse to animate monster battles with a bare-bones plot and characterization. They could have just made this a cartoon for 1/10 of the budget instead of making a movie that looks like a cartoon. It looks incredibly artificial and inconsistent in quality.
Trailer two has dropped. Doesn't make the movie look any better. A lot of Hollywood trailer clichés in this one.
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Post by Von K on Feb 14, 2024 17:16:40 GMT -5
Thanks mindboggled. A tad more of the context and world building in the 2nd trailer. The monsterverse is what the producers call it.
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Post by Jason Aiken on Feb 14, 2024 17:48:39 GMT -5
It looks good enough to check out, but not in theaters. I'll catch it on MAX.
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Post by bonesaw on Feb 21, 2024 10:24:59 GMT -5
I'll probably take the kids to see it. I haven't bothered to watch the trailer(s) more than the first one once. It struck me as the monsters moving too quickly and in the environment losing the "size" factor that's supposed to feel titanic and ominous. More like a couple of regular-sized monsters running around. This is something that Godzilla Minus One did exceptionally well- every step Godzilla took when on land registered like an earthquake at the perfect, slow pace.
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Post by mindboggled on Feb 27, 2024 13:26:12 GMT -5
Perhaps my initial judgments are unduly harsh. I've seen great trailers for bad movies, and I've seen bad trailers for good movies. Mayhaps this is the latter case, and not the former. There are some very nice shots of the monsters in this collection of new tv spots that feel very weighty.
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Post by mindboggled on Mar 2, 2024 17:16:00 GMT -5
Some new footage in this trailer as well. I think these may be unofficial leaked trailers as they are not listed at all on the official Legendary YouTube channel.
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Post by mindboggled on Mar 28, 2024 21:08:16 GMT -5
Like Mothra to a flame, I was unfortunately drawn to an advance screening of this shit fest of a film. There a few good sequences with King Kong that feel as if they are from a far superior movie, but beyond those, the film is boring and uninteresting. For anyone going into this thinking there going to be getting none stop balls to the walls monster action—your not going to get it! A sizeable chunk of the film is dedicated to the unengaging human characters. The action is also inconsistent in fight choreograph and cinematography. I really don't know why Godzilla is even in this. He's got less then ten minutes of screen time. Godzilla is also annoying, he roars none stop whenever he is on screen. His cgi is all over the place; defiantly worse then Minus One, which is ironic considering the gigantic budget differences. This film doesn't commit entirely to being ridicules or over the top. It stays somewhere in the middle.
Save your money. It's not worth the price of admission.
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Post by mindboggled on Mar 29, 2024 10:27:23 GMT -5
What irritated me the most is quit a lot of the Kong sections of the film felt so much better then anything else in the film. This could have been the greatest Kong movie ever if it were simple about Kong rearing the small ape and dealing with the threat by himself using brawn and brain. No mediocre humans and no Godzilla. Just ninety minutes of dialogueless story telling inspired by "Primal".
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Post by Von K on Mar 29, 2024 21:52:22 GMT -5
What irritated me the most is quit a lot of the Kong sections of the film felt so much better then anything else in the film. This could have been the greatest Kong movie ever if it were simple about Kong rearing the small ape and dealing with the threat by himself using brawn and brain. No mediocre humans and no Godzilla. Just ninety minutes of dialogueless story telling inspired by "Primal". Thanks for the feedback mindboggled. Sounds like they needed a voice like yours at the table when they were brainstorming the concept for this movie.
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Post by bonesaw on Apr 1, 2024 11:21:51 GMT -5
Save your money. It's not worth the price of admission.
Thanks for the review. I wasn't excited to see it, but now I will likely take your advice and skip, especially if there was too much of the human character element done wrong in it. It was for my kids anyway and the one condition was that it was at least filled with mindless monster fighting.
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Post by mindboggled on Apr 1, 2024 21:55:34 GMT -5
Thought I'd post a few reviews I've watched for this film...I enjoy film critique.
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