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Post by G✇JI☈A on Jun 2, 2019 2:13:16 GMT -5
This movie has a first,
The first Godzilla film where someone says the F word... “You Gotta Be f***ing Kidding Me” says a Monarch Soldier when Ghidorah emerges. Considering where it’s set, guessing it’s a reference to “The Thing” .. the John Carpenter film... not Mothra.
But I remember in “Ghidorah: The Three Headed Monster” from 1964, when Mothra is talking to Godzilla and Rodan the cosmo twins translate to the humans “Godzilla, watch your language!”.. so the first time it’s been mentioned in English.. guess the Kaiju drop it all the time.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Jun 2, 2019 4:40:45 GMT -5
Saw it in 4DX, so the monster fights were super entertaining. That's about I have for this one.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Jun 2, 2019 10:39:48 GMT -5
It was a ok. Some of the shots were really great. You're getting about what you expect. Nothing I'm rushing out to see again; but it was enjoyable. Am curious of how they're gonna power up Kong--cuz for as much as he's the best monster there ever was, if Godzilla has all the powers he has here, Kong is gonna have to have some gimmick to even stand more than a few minutes. The Kong we saw in Skull Island was already a much better fighter than Godzilla (who just seems to charge right at his enemy), so I'm guessing they'll play up his smarts and technique vs Godzilla's sheer power. And his farts can cause earthquakes or something.
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Post by TWERKIN' MAGGLE on Jun 2, 2019 14:11:02 GMT -5
I saw it and had a lot of fun. That's what I go to Godzilla movies for, money well spent!
That said, in terms of a more metaphorical artsy Godzilla movie, I'll take a Shin Gozilla 2 as well.
Just more Godzilla for everyone please!
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jun 2, 2019 14:54:12 GMT -5
So the film unfortunately underperformed on the already low expectations it had. It was pegged to do $50-$55 million and now is projected to only do $49 million domestic. Almost half the opening domestic take of Godzilla 2014, and also below what Skull Island did.
I know come hell or high water Kong vs. Godzilla comes next year but this might be the end of the Monsterverse.
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Post by adamclark52 on Jun 2, 2019 17:35:00 GMT -5
So the film unfortunately underperformed on the already low expectations it had. It was pegged to do $50-$55 million and now is projected to only do $49 million domestic. Almost half the opening domestic take of Godzilla 2014, and also below what Skull Island did. I know come hell or high water Kong vs. Godzilla comes next year but this might be the end of the Monsterverse. I like Godzilla and King Kong but how many times have they tried to get both “over” in North America in the last twenty-five years and had to walk away?
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Jun 2, 2019 18:47:16 GMT -5
So the film unfortunately underperformed on the already low expectations it had. It was pegged to do $50-$55 million and now is projected to only do $49 million domestic. Almost half the opening domestic take of Godzilla 2014, and also below what Skull Island did. I know come hell or high water Kong vs. Godzilla comes next year but this might be the end of the Monsterverse. I like Godzilla and King Kong but how many times have they tried to get both “over” in North America in the last twenty-five years and had to walk away? well King Kong's not all that much of a franchise in the US. there was the original and its sequel, the 1976 remake and its sequel, and the one and done 2005 remake which despite being given a ration of shit for its run time was critically and commercially successful. so really, they've tried twice: the 1998 Godzilla and the MonsterVerse. and considering they've already completed principal photography for the next one in the series, i don't think they're going to pull the plug on it just because this one did a little less than a million under the low end projection for one country. they're competing in a global marketplace and after five days Godzilla 2 is the 14th highest grossing film of the year
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Jun 2, 2019 19:01:45 GMT -5
So the film unfortunately underperformed on the already low expectations it had. It was pegged to do $50-$55 million and now is projected to only do $49 million domestic. Almost half the opening domestic take of Godzilla 2014, and also below what Skull Island did. I know come hell or high water Kong vs. Godzilla comes next year but this might be the end of the Monsterverse. It's doing decently overseas but yeah, Kong vs Godzilla will likely be it for awhile. Skull Island also opened earlier in the year and was able to put a quietly decent run together whereas this one has basically two weeks to make any more money against X-Men, Life of Pets and Men In Black before Toy Story and Spidey wipe it out altogether.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2019 19:04:05 GMT -5
Much better than the first one!
1) They actually showed the monsters fighting and not just in the last ten minutes
2) Godzilla fought monsters people actually knew
3) The human characters weren’t as annoying as Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch as a married couple with no chemisty.
4) They didn’t kill Walter White in the first 20 minutes
Not as fun as Kong Skull island. I can watch Goodman and Jackson chew scenery all day.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jun 2, 2019 19:27:01 GMT -5
Americans by and large just don't care about kaiju that much.
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Post by Pooh Carlson on Jun 2, 2019 20:59:20 GMT -5
Saw it this afternoon after work. I started to fall asleep from all the dialogue (side effect of going to a movie immediately after work) but the Godzilla roar about a third into the movie I was up for the rest of it!
I really thought Ghidorah looked terrible. The Game of Thrones dragons looked more real than this guy. There was definitely some great silhouette imagery though.
Also, while it's better than last time, NOBODY CARES ABOUT THE HUMANS. And anybody that has issues with Game of Thrones' fast travel... WOW this is that times a hundred.
Overall the action was great, and there was more monster action than the first movie, so that's better. None of the human side of the story was really good at all for me.
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Post by burdette25159 on Jun 2, 2019 23:27:48 GMT -5
So the film unfortunately underperformed on the already low expectations it had. It was pegged to do $50-$55 million and now is projected to only do $49 million domestic. Almost half the opening domestic take of Godzilla 2014, and also below what Skull Island did. I know come hell or high water Kong vs. Godzilla comes next year but this might be the end of the Monsterverse. I blame it on the counterprogramming (Aladdin's 2nd week, Rocketman, ETC), it's going get crushed next week by The Secret Life of Pets 2 and X Men: Dark Phoenix
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2019 0:12:59 GMT -5
I will say after watching it....someone clearly cut this movie off at the nuts is what it felt like to me.
Because this movie was on the cusp of being amazing...like when Ghidra eats the nuclear reactor or whatever and then blasts Godzilla was f***ing cool as shit but again that was my biggest issue coming out of it...it felt like this was intended to give us everything we wanted in a Kaiju movie but someone uptop told those down below to pull back.
But things I loved were Ghidra's heads having personalities
And the gawd damn soundtrack specifically of course
If they hold back on the fights again in Kong Vs Godzilla they need to give up trying to do any western Godzilla movie and leave it to Japan.
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Post by Rican on Jun 4, 2019 11:06:04 GMT -5
Saw it last night and enjoyed it a lot. The monster fights were awesome, and thats all I was there for. The human stuff was fine. Not great by any means and I definitely could have done with less of it but it was ok.
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Post by Glitch on Jun 4, 2019 20:29:35 GMT -5
It was a fun film. I liked the fact tha Ghidora was an alien, and therefore not part of the natural world that the other monsters belong to.
There was human drama, but I'm glad it didn't linger too long. Although, I dont know why Hollywood keeps trying to shoehorn family drama into everything. No one's asking for it.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Jun 5, 2019 1:26:52 GMT -5
I enjoyed this movie a lot, however there are problems with the human characters.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jun 5, 2019 16:06:41 GMT -5
So the film unfortunately underperformed on the already low expectations it had. It was pegged to do $50-$55 million and now is projected to only do $49 million domestic. Almost half the opening domestic take of Godzilla 2014, and also below what Skull Island did. I know come hell or high water Kong vs. Godzilla comes next year but this might be the end of the Monsterverse. Some of the underperformance could be attributed to the weather and massive floods going on. People ain't going to the movies when constant severe weather is going on, and there's record flooding all over. Just got back from it, I enjoyed it. - There were problems, killing off 2 of the strongest actors was disappointing. Why'd you have to kill of Ken Watanabe and Sally Hawkins? I was glad that Emma died. There's no way you could let her survive and have a happy ending. She'd been getting thousands of years in jail for what she pulled. - Hoping the next one does have better writings for the humans. Kyle Chandler did everything he could. He's one of those guys that might be able to elevate the worst writing. - This has to at least get a nomination for Best Visual Effects. Mothra alone should get them a nomination. Zod damn, Mothra was beautiful to see. - Don't turn Godzilla into a villain, don't you dare even think about it. Keep Godzilla as the protector.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jun 8, 2019 19:20:05 GMT -5
Just saw this... really enjoyed this.
I did laugh at Rodan bowing to King Ghidora.
Also nice use of Ghidora's second name with Monster 0.
Two downsides I had were the following... I did not like the constant references to Kong it felt really unnecessary.... if it just mentioned Skull Island when they went over the sights that'd be fine... and end on just the Godzilla vs. Gorilla image like they did.
Also felt the Mammoth and Spider would have worked better if they were actually things we've seen before like Gamera or Baragon or something.
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Post by Lupin the Third on Jun 10, 2019 23:02:52 GMT -5
Just saw it tonight.
God damn that was a fun movie. I didn't expect to have a great story between the human characters, since I didn't see the first one from 5 years ago. But they sufficed, and I kinda understood everything that was going on with them.
Plus my main focus was the monsters wrecking all the shit. Because that's what I expect in a kaiju movie!
The one complaint I have with it is this:
Rodan was kind of a bitch in this one. He should've been on the same side as Godzilla and Mothra, not fighting with Ghidorah.
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Post by Raskovnik on Jun 11, 2019 3:21:01 GMT -5
If I love Godzilla, but hated the 2014 movie, will I like this one? I just want monsters throwing down but unfortunately the 2014 was literally 94% boring people I couldn't begin to care about and then fat Godzilla kicking ass in the last 10 minutes.
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