Yeah, but if you... man, we're getting into weird analogy territory, like if you disintegrated Superman's arms he wouldn't be able to go "fool! Little did you know that my arms and I are one and can be remade from me!" and will his arms back into being from pure nothingness. - Pendaran
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Presumably, the MUTO wasn't holding a brightly glowing target to between them and Godzilla to blind and reflexively aim at instead, like how the purpose of Batman's traditional bright yellow chest decal is canonically supposed to be to make people instinctively aim towards the bright splotch of color that just happens to be the most heavily armored part of his outfit while he's otherwise jumping around as a blurring shadow, or how I can punch a guy in dim light just fine but will have my aim screwed up if they were holding up a flashlight at the same time.
Mind you, I haven't watched any of the new Godzilla movies and am mostly just spitballing a plausible charitable potential explanation for why something like that scene might actually happen.
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The point is more, a Godzilla who can't see anything and is being outmaneuvered was still able to smack something moving very quickly with his tail.
It's also not been shown to be a hindrance, him opening his face and vomiting atmoic fire everywhere so "stipulating" what's essentially nonsense to justify a poorly written scene is nonsensical.
Yeah, but if you... man, we're getting into weird analogy territory, like if you disintegrated Superman's arms he wouldn't be able to go "fool! Little did you know that my arms and I are one and can be remade from me!" and will his arms back into being from pure nothingness. - Pendaran
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Godzilla aiming at the axe once does not make the entire scene badly written
To be honest the entire scene feels predicated on the axe being a big equalizer for Long to have a chance. That does make the scene feel kind of dumb on the whole. Had they showed the atomic breath curving off it's trajectory into the axe this would have been solved and I'm not sure why they didn't just do that. Possibly because the film didn't trust that its audience would understand that. Kind of like how PaperBoi was releasing his secret podcast without even using a voice scrambler.
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let's be honest here, using the axe to help make Kong relevant in this and not just get completely curbstomped is still a big step up from him ass pulling lightning powers out of no where
To add to this, when you have to rely on nerfing the competence of one of the combatants without any reason (IE, Godzilla deciding to be stupid despite multiple instances of NOT being stupid), to give the other combatant a chance, it's bad writing.
As Morgan points out, a simple change to how the axe operates completely changes the fight and makes it not stupid.
As it stands, it's just a poorly written fight. Still looks cool, but spectacle isn't everything.
Yeah, but if you... man, we're getting into weird analogy territory, like if you disintegrated Superman's arms he wouldn't be able to go "fool! Little did you know that my arms and I are one and can be remade from me!" and will his arms back into being from pure nothingness. - Pendaran
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You know what this thread needs? Some WOG.
*runs off to question the director*
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