Amph "There's More Than One King" - The MonsterVerse [Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire]

this is an excerpt from the book I haven't written yet. It's called The story of the movies I loved, by Rylo Ken.

Chapter One:

I saw King Kong vs. Godzilla probably around 1972. They used to have after-school movies on the local CBS affiliate pre cable in my hometown. It was my favorite movie until my parents took me to see The Three Musketeers with Michael York, Oliver Reed etc. And that was my favorite movie until Star Wars came out in 1977.

King Kong vs. Godzilla >> Three Musketeers >> Star Wars

 

I agree. That being said, I'm planning on seeing this movie in the theater in hopes the movie surprises me and wins me over.

I feel we are at the thresholds of what could be a revival of the kaiju/monster flicks that were pretty big in Rylo Ken's day , which Power Rangers due shortly after Kong and with Godzilla 2 and Pacific Rim 2 in the works.

 

Exactly. I grew up on After School Movie and Friday Night Horror Movie Godzilla, Rodin, Gozilla vs. the Smog Monster, etc. I really wanted Pacific Rim and all the recent Godzilla movies to be good.

I don't know if it's just that I no longer have the capacity to enjoy these movies, but I thought Cloverfield was good harmless fun. I'd go see Cloverfield 2 as long as it wasn't a completely different movie with a faux marketing tie in to Cloverfield.

 

I think you're a few years older than, and I don't think you lost the capacity to enjoy these flicks. Godzilla was a frustrating movie for many old school fans as there were too many cut away scenes, like the first one in Hawaii were Godzilla fights the Muto. Pacific Rim was a nice film, but it was lacking in that it did not shine a bright spot light on the Jaegers. Both Godzilla and Pacific Rim focused too much on the human characters rather than what the people that bought tickets paid to see, and that's the monsters. Seriously, the monsters have been the MacGuffin of the movies instead of the focal characters.

So, I think that's a plus with Kong: Skull Island. They're not trying to hide or tease Kong, at least not in the trailers. It seems like the humans are the supporting characters to Kong, which is how these movies should be. Peter Jackson's King Kong was long, but Kong was a character in the film and not just some plot device to move the story forward.

 

Jackson's Kong contains segments that are nearly perfect, but overall it's a frustrating experience. It's like Spielberg's War of the Worlds, only longer and more frustrating.

 

I'm actually excited to see this stupid movie. Any movie with giant monsters catches my eye.

 

so this is a Godzilla-sized Kong. How much taller than Jackson's Kong? And don't tell me it doesn't matter.

 

I have no desire to see this, I haven't even watched the trailer. And yet I keep coming in here to read every post.

 

My only interest is to see if there's a movie with a larger collection of acting talent that I like still resulting with me having no interest in seeing it.

I'm not sure I'll find it.

 

Is THAT was this is? I'm already over the whole "SomethingVerse" crap that's going on these days, but I know that it's going to continue being a thing based on Marvel's huge success with that formula.

Oh well. Count me out and uninterested.

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Yeah sure. I'll go see it. I'm always up for monster movies.

Wait, what is John C. Reilly doing in this movie?

 

Such Godzilla hate. That movie friggin rules!

I will go see Kong, it looks cool, but the trailer looks like the creators might not have given it the same TLC as was done with Godzilla.

 

Given that Google is saying Naomi Watts is 5'5",

That would make Jackson's Kong about 26-27' tall.



Judging from the Kong Skull Island trailer where he's standing in front of Tom Hiddleston and Alison Brie...

Tom Hiddleston is 6'2, meaning that this Kong's head alone is about 24' tall from chin to the top of his skull.

And since this is the "Man in a Suit" Kong that looks stupid by walking upright....


I'd say he's about 150-175' tall.

 

We've all been waiting for the day Bullet Time Typewriting would return to the big screen.

 

I'm actually surprised by alot of the responses. Probably the main reason a thread wasn't created yet. I like Kaiju movies and was very pleased with both 2014's Godzilla & Japan's recent Shin Godzilla movie

 

The director says Kong is 100 feet tall

The pic above with Hiddleston, considering a head to body ratio of about 7.5 would make him between 160 and 190 feet tall, roughly as you say. So, somebody is off somewhere. Gonna be hard for that to fight a 350 foot Godzilla, unless perhaps there is more than one Kong.

 

Yeah, I don't know if they've given it an official designation ala Marvel Cinematic Universe or Universal Monster Cinematic Universe, but it's a shared universe thing-a-ma-what-chit.

 

It's called the MonsterVerse. That's the official title.

 

I approve of the verse.

 

Points off for a lack of creativity, but it's hard to argue w/the logic.

 

I am. Looks good, Tom Hiddleston will make a good lead and I love Sam Jackson.

 

Beautiful new IMAX poster released in the spirit of Apocalypse Now.

 

This film is looking better.

 

Japanese poster for the movie;