depends what you're going for. if you're going for Godzilla to see the Kaiju's fight and all the lore it's worth checking out. It feels much more like a classic Godzilla movie. You can certainly nitpick the script but in my opinion, it's on par with what Godzilla fans expect from a Godzilla movie.
The film wasn't perfect but if you're going for the Giant monsters it should satisfy you. Cinematography and special effects are great.
2014 probably had a better more succinct plot, but that movie literally had less than 10 minutes of Godzilla and a lot of fo fans felt cheated. King of the Monsters and much more Godzilla and monsters overall.
I'm very interested to see the next film in the series. I'm here for Godzilla for Kong I think it's going to be great.
The J-man
KotM 2019
King Ghidorah: 12m
Godzilla: 11m
Mothra: 5m
-Imago: 2m 45s
-Larva: 2m 15s
Rodan: 4m 30s
Scylla: 45s
Female MUTO: 45s
Methuselah: 30s
Behemoth: 30s
Male MUTO: 15s
King Kong: 5s
The average time Big G is in a Godzilla movie is 11 minutes over his whole career. How they shot and filmed the movie makes it feel longer. The longest he's ever been in a movie was Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II at 27 minutes. He's often the 2nd or 3rd most shown monster in all his movies.
KotM has more total monster screen time than Destroy All Monsters, Final Wars, Tokyo SOS, Ghidorah, Monster Zero, All Monsters Attack and GMK: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack but less than Gigan, Megalon, Terror of MechaG, and Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II which are all the battle royale movies.
"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
I don't know how people complain about the screen time in King of Monsters. It was like Chrsitmas came early after the 2014 version, where they were like trying to hide him from the audicnece for 2 hours.
The J-man
Despite the fact that Godzilla had less screen time in the 2014 film, the fact that that last 15 minutes gave us a lot of long, uninterrupted, clearly framed shots of Godzilla meant that by the end of the film you felt like you had seen him a lot. In contrast, Godzilla: King of the Monsters features monster scenes that are almost all in obscuring smoke or weather and was very choppily and sometimes confusingly edited. Even though Godzilla was on screen longer, I felt like... I couldn't see him very well?
Of course, Skull Island hit the sweet spot by having a ton of footage of King Kong in broad daylight, unobscured, and with wonderful action and fight choreography!
The 2014 film we only get a good look at Godzilla when it was dark aside from the ending where he wakes up and walks away. We see his back in the old footage where they test the nuke. We see him very briefly where he faces the male MUTO. Then his back swimming by the ships and the bridge. The final confrontation. Plus through the whole movie, we follow this boring plain Jane character. Not Dr. Serizawa or Brian Cransont's character, not even David Straithaim's character. I like watching the 2014 Godzilla clips on youtube but actually paying and watching the whole movie was very disappointing.
I didn't go crazy over King of the Monsters but it scratched the itch and at least met the expectations fans had of a Godzilla movie, namely bad@$$ monsters and stupid humans.
I'll agree with you Kong: Skull Island is probably my favorite from this Monsterverse. The human cast was enjoyable. Only two to three characters have real arcs the rest are kind of one-note, but they have personality and good chemistry, enjoyable overall to me. The action and the fight scenes were epic. The movie made Kong very intriguing and Skull Island was really interesting I want to explore it even more. Most importantly the film had long meaningful fights. I think I was just happy they made a different Kong movie for once. Otherwise, that film was really straight forward great cinematography as you said, and a solid plot. I really can't wait to see him and Godzilla on screen together again and see how big they make Kong.
The J-man
First footage of Godzilla vs. Kong was shown at Cinema Europe Conference.
The storyline teased was East vs. West and that there will be a "definitive" winner.
The only note made was the VFX looked amazing even though they were unpolished.
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supposedly Godzilla isn't allowed to be killed in Legendary's contract with Toho....so take that as you will
The J-man
Godzilla is 'Monster of the Month' on Turner Classic Movies. That means every Friday night this month will have a marathon of Godzilla movies with a few other Toho kaiju movies sprinkled in.
We are 20 minutes in to the first Godzilla movie right now!
My main problem with the movie is that it kind of wasted many of the human characters on a sort of "disaster movie plot", especially towards the end. Miley Bobby Brown was pretty much wasted in the usual daughter with estranged parents role from those kind of movies.
Kind of ditto with Sally Hawkins, kind of reminded me of the way Liwen was killed off in Pacific Rim 2.
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So here is a link to a spoiler image from a 3 second clip from Kong vs Godzilla
Reminder this is a spoiler image, so click only if you dare
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also for the person I was arguing with a long time ago in this thread about Kong, his age, size etc. welp.................. I WAS RIGHT!
The J-man