The Godzilla Thread - Plus other giant monsters, no matter how popular or obscure

GxK got that big late Showa Energy but for real. If anything, Wingard understands Kaiju wrestling.
Weakest entry story-wise, but all to have some big dumb monster action. Godzilla suplexing Kong is hype. Complete opposite end of the spectrum for Godzilla films. I fear the oncoming dumb Minus One comparisons.


GxK is still a Kong movie overall, but I feel it used Godzilla a little better. If only for the final fight being a proper tag team fight. Though GvK is better. I do like the small characterization they give Godzilla as well.
The villains were neat, for what they were, but should have popped up sooner then they did.
I heard Skar King was not a threat, but he's more like the Ted Didabse to Shimo's Andre The Giant. Him getting slapped around in the tag team was fun.
Shimo's cool . She's the closest to a Toho kaiju we've gotten if only for her unique blizzard-ass sounding roar.
 
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Islamic Jihad Rocket said:
I’ve seen a good bit of old Godzilla movies, I think the ones from the 80s/90s onward, I think Godzilla vs King Ghidorah is my favorite classic movie for this scene alone:

I’m looking forward to watching GxK when I can, I still need to watch Minus One, which I hear is also really good.
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Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah is such an enjoyably campy film, especially the American dub.
 
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New flick contains high quality monke action. "Plot" is like 45 seconds of exposition and I think I missed half of it.

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There are subs available for all of them
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The "English" in Biollante is something else
 
Time to give my thoughts on GxK.
I found it to be pretty enjoyable. The monster fights and worldbuilding made up for the simple plot and the human characters were servicable. I will say they were not too annoying like in the KOTM or GvK (no Mille Bobby Brown was a plus). Rebecca Hall did fine as the main lead, but I wouldn't have mind if Alexander Skarsgård had returned since his character didn't get much development in GvK. Ironically, Kong's interaction with Suko (the Little Kong) and other giant apes were best since it was all done through body language. I like how it went into the pulp aspect of the Showa era with hidden civilizations and science fiction mixing with mysticism. Skar King was an okay villain but as @Turtles McDougal said, he could been introduced earlier instead of at the halfway point. At least the worldbuilding showed he was the likley reason why the Godzilla and Kong species went to war. Mothra's return was nice given her short screentime in KOTM along with other Titans that were featured in the comics even if Godzilla ended up killing them. It was also ironic that there were more on-screen deaths of monsters than humans (not counting the fights that took place in cities or historic landmarks).
Gaear Grimsrud said:
Saw the new Kong/Godzilla movie.

It's so funny how these movies have these huge final battles in cities where tons of people must have gotten killed, but it's completely ignored and ends on a happy-go-lucky note.
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That always seemed to be case with Showa Godzilla. I saw Astro-Monster again not long ago and after most of the aliens die after an heroing themselves following their failed invasion, the main characters are informed their going back to the alien home planet on a diplomatic mission and they give an "aw man" sitcom-style ending.
 
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Among other monster shenanigans, Godzilla and King Kong fight an orangutan and a wingless cross between a glintstone dragon from elden ring and Lightfury from How to Train Your Dragon. Who isn't really evil, only bad orangutan is. Or something

Much middling CGI was used. Fights were fun despite nothing having any weight, monsters and skyscrapers seem to have no mass but that's been the case the last 3 movies

Godzilla using the Colosseum in Rome as his bachelor pad was amusing
 
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I thought GxK was horseshit and showed that it's time for the Monsterverse franchise to just die. It's nothing compared to Godzilla or KOTM, or even Skull Island, there's no depth or character, it's just average CGI and people move from A to B. The human characters are shit. Crying woman, fat Eddie Murphy, gay vet, and childish scottish guy who sounds like a teenage before being eaten by a tree.
The movie also missed the memorable shots of the previous movie, think HALO jump, Godzilla vs Dragon thing on widescreen with lightning....meh.
 
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I saw Godzilla X Kong last night and I really enjoyed it. Human characters weren't amazing but they served their purpose and didn't piss me off. The monsters were, of course, the highlight of the film.

Kong was easily the best character in the film. He managed to convey a lot of emotion even without a single line of dialogue and it was nice to finally see him find other members of his kind.

Scar King was essentially just a kaiju pimp and Shimo was just a big dog he enslaved. Kong even keeps her by the end of the film. Neither of them came across as a world ending threat like Ghidorah, but that was good thing. No need to try and turn this shit into a shonen anime with endless escalation.

Godzilla himself was kind of an asshole. He was either killing shit or sleeping.

StevieLasVegas said:
Godzilla suplexing Kong was great, but Kong using Baby Kong like a club to beat other apes was fucking hilarious.
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Kong using pocket sand on Godzilla was also pretty funny to.
 
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Kong at the end of GvK:
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Kong at the end of GxK:
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Mac Monster said:
Neither of them came across as a world ending threat like Ghidorah, but that was good thing. No need to try and turn this shit into a shonen anime with endless escalation.
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But were they kind of a world-ending threat with the exposition dump saying Skar King used Shimo to cause the last Ice Age and before the final battle, Shimo used her ice beam to create clouds that blocked out the Sun?

It seems GxK did better than projected at the box office, taking in $80 million domestically. This entry may be a good conclusion for the MonsterVerse since Kong now is the new king of his species in Hollow Earth while Godzilla remains King of the Monsters on main Earth. The major Toho IPs have already been used and having the next antagonist be a similar cataclysmic threat would be repetitive.
 
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Minus One satisfied my Godzilla itch to such a degree that I didn't really feel the need to see this one. Am I off base? Am I missing out?
 
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It seems that some last minute changes were made to GxK, in response to test screening feedback...

Mothra's role was originally filled by an donut steele named "Fosfera", but the audience hated it so they paid Toho to use Mothra again. Might explain why Mothra shows up out of nowhere for no raisin and doesn't do much.

The Nothingness said:
It seems GxK did better than projected at the box office, taking in $80 million domestically. This entry may be a good conclusion for the MonsterVerse since Kong now is the new king of his species in Hollow Earth while Godzilla remains King of the Monsters on main Earth. The major Toho IPs have already been used and having the next antagonist be a similar cataclysmic threat would be repetitive.
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I thought KotM didn't leave much for sequels, and then I thought GvK didn't leave much for sequels. I'm sure they can come up with something. Do one on Planet X.
 
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Should have made this a Kong only movie with Godzilla as a cameo at the end or something.

The Nothingness said:
But were they kind of a world-ending threat with the exposition dump saying Skar King used Shimo to cause the last Ice Age and before the final battle, Shimo used her ice beam to create clouds that blocked out the Sun?
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Hollywood doesn't know how to make small scale movies (granted this is a monter movie) with low stakes anymore, this could easily have been just a small scale Kong adventure, going to the Hollow Earth and freeing his people.
 
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The Nothingness said:
But were they kind of a world-ending threat with the exposition dump saying Skar King used Shimo to cause the last Ice Age and before the final battle, Shimo used her ice beam to create clouds that blocked out the Sun?
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The cloud she made didn't seem as a impressive as Ghidorah's storm which flooded DC. In fact, I can't remember if her cloud actually did anything in the film.
The Nothingness said:
It seems GxK did better than projected at the box office, taking in $80 million domestically. This entry may be a good conclusion for the MonsterVerse since Kong now is the new king of his species in Hollow Earth while Godzilla remains King of the Monsters on main Earth. The major Toho IPs have already been used and having the next antagonist be a similar cataclysmic threat would be repetitive.
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The director has stated that he wants to do a third film that focuses on Godzilla, so I'm betting we will get atleast one more. Since they embraced the silliness, I really hope that they do an alien invasion story like Toho loved to do back in the Showa era.
 
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