Originally Posted by
Vakanai
1. Godzilla's characterization was wildly different from the previous film, and his murderous hatred of Kong was never explained in a satisfying way - the hand wave "ancient rivalry" isn't an explanation, it's an excuse to not bother coming up with a reason.
2. Despite being an absolute unjustified asshole and antagonist against Kong the whole movie, he also wins both fights against Kong. The bad guy winning is never satisfying.
3. Despite the fact that Godzilla was an unprovoked asshole who went out of his way to attempt murder on Kong and nearly succeeded, we're expected to believe that Kong is going to save him from MechaG just because the girl tells him Godzilla is not his real enemy (when for a fact Godzilla has been an enemy of Kong the whole film long).
4. That after destroying MechaG Kong doesn't immediately swing his axe into the murder-lizard's skull while said murder-lizard is still down for a bit, and just seemingly not only forgives Godzilla for his unprovoked aggression against him and basically just submits to Godzilla - and we're supposed to buy this is a great outcome.
5. The human plot is straight up the dumbest thing I've ever seen in a Godzilla film. Yes, later Showa was childish, repetitive, cheap and uninspired, but that was because it was aimed at kids of that era - a modern movie being all those same things, but aimed at everyone including adults with the assumption that we're supposed to just turn our brains off because "kaiju films are supposed to be dumb as fuck you guys!" is infinitely more insulting.
6. Not only is the plot stupid, but the world shown in GvK has no relation to the world left by the last two movies. The destruction from King of the Monsters is nowhere to be seen, the other kaiju are just gone, and somehow they jumped from mostly realistic technology to freaking impossible giant super quick robots and weird flying underground jet things and all sorts of out there shit with no explanation and completely out of place with the previous films.
7. The Hollow Earth of Skull Island and KotM seemed relatively grounded to some extent, if largely unseen and just referenced - here it's a completely ridiculous cartoon world of CGI.
8. They really couldn't be bothered with any real or actual storytelling - honestly watching this I got the sense that it was made with the intent that people shouldn't watch it as an actual movie. This is the first time I've ever seen a "film" that seemed to be made for the sole purpose to just watch the fight scenes out of context on youtube. The story seems like purposeless shit because it literally doesn't matter and was just there to pad time and let them call it a "movie." The fights are literally the only point, the only thing anyone put even the most basic of effort into. You're only really supposed to care about the cool fight scenes and not anything else.
9. There's a mistaken belief that kaiju movies are all dumb films, and that the only thing of importance is seeing monsters fight. This is the belief the director obviously held, and it's the belief anyone who sees this film will come away with. It's actively furthering the belief that kaiju movies are dumb to western audiences, which means more western kaiju movies are going to follow this belief, which means we will have to wait a very, very, very long time to get a kaiju film from Hollywood that takes things seriously. Basically Hollywood kaiju movies are where superhero movies once were, easily dismissed as silly stupid popcorn fluff incapable of being anything better.
That was 9 reasons just off the top of my head. I truly, truly hate this film. I will never risk watching a further Monsterverse film. I can only pray that Toho goes back to making their own live action Godzilla films, otherwise I won't get any more Godzilla films to watch. I'm not subjecting myself to another film in the mold of GvK, I just won't do that to myself.