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user-inactivated  ·  539 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 5, 2022

    Fuck society. Live by your own rules.

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” ~Marcus Aurelius (allegedly)

If you’re talking about Power Rangers with Elizabeth Banks, that movie was fun. Haven’t seen the Pattinson Batman, but Pattinson is actually a good actor.

Godzilla vs Kong though? Bad writing. Like, every five minutes you’re like, “Dud anyone take time to clean up the script? Anyone at all?” Let me throw some examples at you.

Bryan Tyree Henry’s character is infiltrating a corporation to expose them for their evil craziness, and does so by video blogging the whole thing. No disguised face. No disguised voice. Nothing. Like, you expect me to believe he’d be doing that for any length of time and not get caught?

There is a battle in the ocean where at one point, Godzilla tries to drown King by dragging him down to the depths of the Ocean and everyone is like “We gotta help that dang guy? What do we do?” Well? What do they do? They drop depth charges!. Literalky in the previous film, Godzilla was at ground zero of a nuclear explosion and survived unharmed, but depth charges are gonna help? And I’m Kong: Skull Iskand, Kong got hurt by conventional weapons, and you guys expect him to survive depth charges? Are you sure? Like, cmon!

Oh yeah, and in the climatic battle, King suffers a heart attack, and how is he saved? A geologist somehow magically knows how to fly an experimental antigravity hover craft thingy AND turn it into a giant defibrillator? Are you serious guys?

Look, I’ve seen literally EVERY Godzilla film and quite a few of them ask for a bit of give on the part of the audience to make them enjoyable. But when you have s movie where, every five minutes, EVERY FIVE MINUTES, you expect me to give up on reasoning to enjoy it. No. No. It’s badly written and I want a written apology from Warner Brothers and basically everyone involved in this film. It’s bad. It’s terrible. I wanna watch it again only to remind myself that no, I’m not crazy, it really was that awful the first time through.