'Kong: Skull Island' Director Lashes Out On Twitter
You might be familiar with
CinemaSins, the YouTube channel famous for it’s
Everything Wrong With … series. The series picks apart recently released films scene-by-scene, often pointing out logic gaps and overused cinema tropes. Like characters discussing the point of their journey upon arrival, or failing to be shot by the antagonist’s minions, even though they were right in front of them.
We all know and expect that films are going to be somewhat illogical, that certain sacrifices have to be made for the sake of smooth storytelling. Snarky videos made by the likes of CinemaSins and Screen Junkies are not reviews, but pieces of entertainment, intended to make you laugh. Nobody takes these videos seriously.
But Jordan Vogt-Roberts certainly does. Vogt-Roberts, the director of
Kong: Skull Island, takes them very seriously indeed. Vogt-Roberts took the time to watch CinemaSins
Everything Wrong With Skull Island video, and it made him angry.
He quickly took to Twitter and went on a rant, defending his movie against the video’s specific criticisms, one by one. He even compared CinemaSins to Donald Trump, for some reason, and claimed that these videos “think they’re smarter than you.” Read the full rant
here, it’s hilarious.
At the end of the rant, Vogt-Roberts appeared to realize that his overly defensive public tirade might have been a little bit embarrassing, and
decided to clarify that he wasn’t really bothered by the video at all. “To anyone who thinks this video makes me mad or hurts me. It doesn't. I just wanted to point out a few obvious examples that are just wrong.”
Did you hear that? He’s not mad at all. He just wanted to publicly condemn a satirical YouTube video for criticizing his giant monster masterpiece. That’s all.
What Jordan Vogt-Roberts doesn’t seem to understand is that part of the fun of watching movies, especially with nerdy film friends, is pointing out the inconsistencies within the fictional universe. There’s nothing particularly edgy about these videos; they’re tongue-in-cheek, and unless the film is notoriously bad, are not supposed to be considered genuine criticism.
For what it’s worth, I thought
Kong: Skull Islandwas pretty good. I like monster movies, and that film was made for people like me. The human characters weren’t particularly memorable, but King Kong certainly was.
And the film actually sits at 76% on Rotten Tomatoes; not a perfect score, but undoubtedly a good one. Jordan Vogt-Roberts has nothing to get overly defensive about.
I’ve just joined the virtual orgy of playground insults that is Twitter, and sometimes, looking at all these strangers insult each other, I wonder why. But moments like this make me realize that Twitter can be genuinely hilarious; it's not just a platform that makes humanity despise itself. It exposes thin-skinned celebrities, highlighting their insecurities on the widest public platform imaginable.
Jordan Vogt-Roberts, you just gained yourself a new follower.
