Godzilla 2: King of the Monsters

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SpeedBash

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187 months

Saturday 21st July 2018
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Russian Troll Bot

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227 months

Saturday 21st July 2018
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Oh hell yes. The previous film certainly wasn't without it's flaws, but it was beautifully shot and very enjoyable.

pidsy

7,989 posts

157 months

Saturday 21st July 2018
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Mothra and hydra!

I’m in.

ajprice

27,477 posts

196 months

Saturday 21st July 2018
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Is it next summer yet? biggrin

dai1983

2,912 posts

149 months

Sunday 22nd July 2018
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I squelled like a girl when Gozilla unleashed the atomic breath at the end of the more recent film.

My 7 year olds getting into his monster/kaiju/mecha films so can’t wait to show him the trailer.

dai1983

2,912 posts

149 months

Sunday 22nd July 2018
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I squelled like a girl when Gozilla unleashed the atomic breath at the end of the more recent film.

My 7 year olds getting into his monster/kaiju/mecha films so can’t wait to show him the trailer.

Russian Troll Bot

24,980 posts

227 months

Monday 23rd July 2018
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The Comic Con poster looks like it could be a Dio album cover. Hell yes.


eltawater

3,114 posts

179 months

Monday 23rd July 2018
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Hopefully someone remembers where the exposure dial is in this one. The last one one was so dark it was impossible to see anything happening in the fight scenes.

irocfan

40,439 posts

190 months

Wednesday 25th July 2018
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now the 'Dio poster' looks great - however I watched the preview and have to, regrettably, say that I'm just not feeling it frown

Killer2005

19,640 posts

228 months

Thursday 23rd May 2019
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Well the new poster is cool. Also Japanese.

Guffy

2,311 posts

265 months

Friday 31st May 2019
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Had low expectations for this, but i really enjoyed, it was like a theme park ride, would have been awesome at a decent IMAX, the sound effects are a big part of it too, perfect popcorn / brain-out movie...7/10.


SpudLink

5,784 posts

192 months

Friday 31st May 2019
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Not seen it yet, but not heard good things from a couple of people that have. Apparently you really do have to leave you brain at the door.

I’ll be interested to read a few more reviews on here.


Guvernator

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165 months

Friday 31st May 2019
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eltawater said:
Hopefully someone remembers where the exposure dial is in this one. The last one one was so dark it was impossible to see anything happening in the fight scenes.
^^^^ This, I think there was a decent monster film in there somewhere, especially with Bryan Cranston chewing the scenery for all he was worth, I just wish I could actually see it.

From the trailers I've seen though, this one looks just as dark.

RemyMartin81D

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205 months

Friday 31st May 2019
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SpudLink said:
Not seen it yet, but not heard good things from a couple of people that have. Apparently you really do have to leave you brain at the door.

I’ll be interested to read a few more reviews on here.
Really???!!!

What from a film about a giant dinosaur fighting a three headed dragon?


SpudLink

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Friday 31st May 2019
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RemyMartin81D said:
SpudLink said:
Not seen it yet, but not heard good things from a couple of people that have. Apparently you really do have to leave you brain at the door.

I’ll be interested to read a few more reviews on here.
Really???!!!

What from a film about a giant dinosaur fighting a three headed dragon?
Well, there’s suspension of disbelief, which I have no problem with. And there’s “silly but fun”, which I can enjoy if done well. But I’ve been told it’s worse than that.

RemyMartin81D

6,759 posts

205 months

Friday 31st May 2019
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I just want some King Ghidorah action...

Mastodon2

13,826 posts

165 months

Friday 31st May 2019
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King Ghidorah is the star of the show here. I've never been 100% sold on the latest Godzilla design, in a few shots his legs look really weird and I preferred the late 90s / early 00s design where he had an actual neck and head.

Thankfully it's a lot brighter than the last Godzilla film. There are some great shots, such as Ghidorah on the mountain and the sound is great, they really make good use of the subwoofers to impart the feeling of scale of the monsters.

The story is kind of stupid even by monster movie standards, mainly because of the human characters acting in unlikely ways. Chronologically, some bits and pieces don't make sense. For example, in one section they fly out to sea for about ten minutes in a jet, then the camera shows the plane from the front and they're only a few miles out from the shore.

I don't understand how the next film is going to work. They throw a few lines in to set up Kong vs Godzilla but I don't see how that fight can even work as Godzilla is about three or four times the height of Kong and maybe fifteen or twenty times the body mass. One jet of atomic breath and that monkey would be a charred mess. Are they going to shrink Godzilla or scale Kong up?

Overall it's a good monster mash movie if you're into that sort of thing.

croyde

22,898 posts

230 months

Friday 31st May 2019
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Just come back from seeing it with my 16 year old. My 13 year old refused to come along.

I wish I’d taken his advice.

I love a good brain out movie and have even seen and enjoyed all the Fast and Furious films but this was just dirge.

I fell asleep for half an hour but hadn’t missed anything. It just was so boring.

MissChief

7,110 posts

168 months

Saturday 1st June 2019
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Mastodon2 said:
King Ghidorah is the star of the show here. I've never been 100% sold on the latest Godzilla design, in a few shots his legs look really weird and I preferred the late 90s / early 00s design where he had an actual neck and head.

Thankfully it's a lot brighter than the last Godzilla film. There are some great shots, such as Ghidorah on the mountain and the sound is great, they really make good use of the subwoofers to impart the feeling of scale of the monsters.

The story is kind of stupid even by monster movie standards, mainly because of the human characters acting in unlikely ways. Chronologically, some bits and pieces don't make sense. For example, in one section they fly out to sea for about ten minutes in a jet, then the camera shows the plane from the front and they're only a few miles out from the shore.

I don't understand how the next film is going to work. They throw a few lines in to set up Kong vs Godzilla but I don't see how that fight can even work as Godzilla is about three or four times the height of Kong and maybe fifteen or twenty times the body mass. One jet of atomic breath and that monkey would be a charred mess. Are they going to shrink Godzilla or scale Kong up?

Overall it's a good monster mash movie if you're into that sort of thing.
They said in the last Kong film that he was still quite young and would still grow more so could become bigger again.

frisbee

4,979 posts

110 months

Saturday 1st June 2019
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croyde said:
Just come back from seeing it with my 16 year old. My 13 year old refused to come along.

I wish I’d taken his advice.

I love a good brain out movie and have even seen and enjoyed all the Fast and Furious films but this was just dirge.

I fell asleep for half an hour but hadn’t missed anything. It just was so boring.
It was really quite poor. I think the actors were actually more wooden than the monsters.