Godzilla vs King Kong

And the first trailer is up.



They're clearly going for a Black Panther vibe with the music soundtrack.

A lot of choices have changed in my lifetime. I think the worst one is do I want to risk thirty dollars to see this in a theater with a potential bunch of idiots to do I want to risk a slow death of drowning in my own bodily fluids because of the idiots I see this in the theater with and spend thirty dollars to do it.

Hollywood is going to have to do a lot better to get me to sit around with a bunch of idiot mouthbreathers talking through the movie and spreading their disease all over me for 2.5 hours to get me back in the theaters.

See you at the red box.

As I've said, I stopped going to theaters a couple years before COVID was a thing. Too many idiots. But this looks like two hours of pure awesome. I'll catch it on stream.

And then you look at your fellow moviegoers . . .

I don't really care to go a theater anymore, even before Covid as well. Similar reasons, too many idiots, at times really can't enjoy the movie the way I want, people acting stupid, sometimes can't hear the movie, so miss something potentially important. And as I've posted before, my set up is a damn good set up. I have an awesome TV, and the audio system kicks ass. The picture is better than what I see at a theater, and the audio is pretty much what I'd hear in the theater. And even better, I can have a beer or a drink, along with snacks or food without needing to miss any of the movie to get them.

Pretty sure COVID has either killed or will dramatically shrink the theatre-going experience.

Hollywood will adapt, although it will be fun to watch them flop around like a fish out of water until they figure it out.

What's happening now with filmed entertainment is similar to what happened with the music industry and the advent of Napster (and later iTunes).

Oh, and as to the movie...

Was that Mothra?!?!?!?

I thought they were friends in the last movie?

I enjoyed Godzilla, Kong and King of the Monsters. Zero fucks given about the last one's tomatometer rating.

No, it was a different critter. You're talking about the winged serpents that Kong is shown fighting, right?

That...was the most lucid thing you've said in weeks.
Gold star.

Rumor has it that:

Impressive.

A guy I know says he's disgusted by the idea that watching two animals trying to kill each other is considered entertainment, and we may as well watch a dog fight or a cock fight.

What does he think of action movies in which imaginary people get hurt or killed?

"No REAL animals were harmed in the making of this motion picture."

What if it's MAOHS versus a cute lil mole but he can't do it and the burly guy next door has to while he waits in the shed going "but it's SOOO cute!!" with the girl he was trying to impress by saying he'd whack it?

Ooooh, deep dive into da archive!!!

Most impressive.

Kong famously dies by being shot a buncha times. Godzilla is immune to bullets and indeed artillery.

A new Chinese Godzilla vs Kong trailer includes tons of additional footage.

Does he know the story behind the creation of the original film? One of the guys involved in the production was an adventurer/bullshitter and got to talking about komodo dragons, and he and another guy discussed the idea of having one fight a gorilla. They realized that there was no way they could film such a thing (already animal rights activists were getting to have some influence in the world), so they latched onto the idea of having a giant gorilla fight a T. Rex.

Never heard that one, no. A disturbing background for such a silly film.

Silly film? Bite your tongue, sir. The original King Kong was a groundbreaking cinematic and special effects MASTERPIECE in its day, and I say that totally unironically.

Yes, it was, but we weren't talking about that, we were talking about the original 'Godzilla vs King Kong'.

Ah. You might have been and perhaps Tuckerfan wasn’t aware, as the origin he described was actually relevant to the original 1933 King Kong.

Ah. He didn't make that clear. Never mind.

hard pass. It looks ridiculous.

Really? A movie about a giant radioactive dinosaur fighting a giant gorilla looks ridiculous? Are you sure?

maybe I'm but it looks excessively loud, and full of special effects that seem like a video game. Just not my cup of tea I guess.