Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - It Is What It Is 

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Kong is there

@@prod.Chopper what?

The next step is having the Human characters even less screen time

My friends couldn't stop laughing at Godzilla taking cat naps in the Coliseum.

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That’s fair

Can't say it any better than that

This is goofy Showa/Heisei Godzilla, which is basically the WWE with sci-fi framing devices. Shin Godzilla/Minus One/OG/1985 are a different breed of movie.

My take is in a 6 month time frame we literally had TWO Godzilla movies and both are literally breaking records Yeah marvel and Disney. Audiences are bored of sequels and old IP. Right?

it knows what it does more than modern Disney ever could know about itself and its franchises

I agree. I've seen enough Godzilla movies over the decades to be able to take nearly everything a studio tosses at me. Godzilla X Kong was freaking great. I liked it more than Godzilla vs. Kong, as did the rest of the family. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that I loved it. Hell, I probably liked it more than Godzilla Minus One, which I also liked. After seeing the movie, I told a friend that it was awesome. I even said, "It had a giant Gorilla that knows Kung Fu. I don't know how it learned Kung Fu, but it did, and it was awesome." Does it make sense? No. Did it register something in my brain that detected it was dumb? Yeah. But I quickly told that part of my brain to shut the Hell up because it was so much fun.

Why does it sound like Drinker himself wrote this comment? Lmao. Well put.

Hey. Some guys from the 30s can STILL Look Good!

And 99% of all the characters in The Lion King Remake.

that would mean tobin kebel acts better than 99 percent of hollywood actors

@@rcguitarcovers8614 Well...when enough Sound Films go into the Public Domain with A.I. Voice Recognition in play...

@@liamphibia yeah... using realistic looking felines to try to convey complex human emotions was a brilliant call, wasn't it?

😂😂😂😂

Have you watched "Godzilla's revenge"? That is my benchmark for how plastic Godzilla's canon can be...

You can kind of do that with almost any character as long as the story is good

I wish they would give him an oscar.

Yeah, I loved Minus One and I'm sure I'll enjoy this one, too. They are basically opposites, but both can be appreciated for what they are just like how I can enjoy McDonalds and a well-seasoned steak. I just don't fool myself that they are of the same quality.

I’m surprised he didn’t do the “DESTROYS HOLLYWOOD” nonsense most cynical grifters do. And I mean that as a compliment

Because the movie totally delivers what everyone want: Giant Ape and Giant Spiky Lizard fight another Giant Monsters together. Ain't nobody have time with the humans unlike in any Transformers movie where the humans are always there for plot.

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Nicely said

Totally

it's weird how every defensive argument made for this movie is "its supposed to be stupid, don't think about it." like if a movie is bad but it never said it was going to be good, then it's ok I guess. it's a bad argument.

Best way to put it tbh

Wholesome ❤

When we got home my son talked his mom's ear off about how cool the movie was 😂 we've got 3 other kids so me and him going to see a big dumb monster movie was a core memory he'll hold on to for the rest of his life even if he doesn't remember the movie itself

I don't necessarily disagree with many critics that downplay this movie but when I hear countless stories about children having the absolute time of their lives watching this film, I can't help but think that's the most important aspect of this movie as a whole. You want the new fans to be young and inspired because they will be the ones to carry the franchise in the future.

That's all that matters.

5 year old children is the audience the film's aimed at. I won't be going, but I hope those that do enjoy it; I enjoy story, and plot, and good acting more than bright lights and spectacle. Which means I'm in a very tiny minority it seems!

Yet it still has "the girl who is the key to everything", a now so predictable element appearing in a number of "girl power" oriented "modern" (progressive) productions. Modern feminism into action.

You COULD also draw some very slim conclusions about Scar King being an oppressor, enslaving the BLACK gorillas, when Kong comes to liberate his fellow apes from such a ruthless leader. A girl who's the key, wearing a cape, saving the day, pulls mothra out her ass (another female titan) to save the monster day.. The movie sure has some very slim feministic signs in it.

@@perseusjoppa426that isn't as bad as everything else but let's forget about her

​@JoulieRodgers literally no one ever believed these comments and never will. Why would your parents give a fck about your likes on a comment.

@@Rcls01and that's just how apes work if none of them were strong enough to overthrow him they wouldn't try

dont forget "can they kill another giant monkey and lizard", another huge theorem unanswered throughout time

"We are all just monke in the winds of time"

The answer has and will always be "let them fight", and maybe later figure things out.

😂​@@dhanu_4539

That is perfect

I love both takes of Godzilla.

It’s a perfect balance.

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Always the best audience

Movies

I mean it’s always had an audience just look at franchises track recorded from each era

@@Nightlizard1564 I know that's what I said. It can be the most braindead movie in the world and it'll still draw in an audience, because it knows what they want and gives them that precisely

He had a profesional makeup artist i guess.

Dude even going Super Saiyan Rose by turning from Blue to Pink

The human story is the problem

That part alone probably boosted it above Versus for me. The previous movie had a dialogue problem. We had 2-3 groups of humans to follow, and the deaf girl had a bit to much time having her words spoken back to her. I like what they did with her and her people in this movie. Their all telepathic and they don't have to explain jack shit to the rest of the characters. It was kinda funny.

Yea I loved this part as you could easily get the interaction and not word needed to be said.

Exactly. Drinker bemoans how little the humans do in the movie when the narrative weight is actually lifted by King Kong. Kong is the "star" here, having the most problems to resolve (and aging tooth, a search for family, an evil opponent, trying to *reason* with Godzilla...)

@@lkose7880 why? because godizlla minus one had less godzilla and more compelling human drama? go watch minus one then and leave gxk alone, while us real fans will enjoy both.

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Mothra: "Mothra, that's right"

"To protect the world from devastation" wait, not that. I just had the imagery of a little nerd boy sucking Godzilla into a pokeball.

Shimo: "To protect the world from devastation!" Mothra: "To unite all peoples without our nation!"

Kamata-kun: “Just wait til I evolve into my final form”

That's because trend chasers hopped onto the Minus One bandwagon. People who now pretend to be Godzilla fans because a Godzilla movie won an Oscar and so it's now a hip and cool franchise that should be exactly the same as Minus One, ALWAYS!!!!

How about: "We want good human drama that doesn't feel like an afterthought!"

@@TheRockerX You have that in Minus One. How about you stop trying to force all Godzilla movies to be exactly the same??

They should at least pull a Godzilla Final Wars and have the human cast be dripped out like a bunch of rejected Metal Gear Solid concepts. Human characters in Monsterverse from GvK onward feel like, Disney Channel sitcom-tier and I'm kind of over it.

Too few human drama wasn't the problem, too little human scale was. Kong interacting with the other apes could've very well been a scene from some Planet of the Apes iteration. Without humans, there was no clue about how big they are.

And the reason why the monster movie especially Godzilla roars at the box office back to back where he wins the Oscar’s for Minus One and receiving a large Box Office hit with Legendary’s New Empire with a recorded history shows how versatile he is to everyone can enjoy both or one way another and it works. I can proudly say this is the Golden Age for Godzilla.

GvK was not a bad movie per say, but it seriously was the most ridiculous movie I have seen since I watched Spy Kids 3 when I was 10.

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Minus one lol

minus one was more of a social comentary about japan government than the actual fight, considering the director.

we shouldn’t get into the habit of comparing every Godzilla film from now on to Minus One. it completely takes away from any kind of variety or different themes and ideas

@@willlashley1378 and they serve different purposes

So very true. We haven't seen batshit crazy yet in the modern era compared to Showa

They should go to space in the next one. Maybe set it thousands of years in the future and follow Suko and an evolved Godzilla as they prepare to fight an interplanetary threat. Cough cough... Spacegodzilla

Good luck finding an astronaut suit in his size!

@@shuttittuppitt9355 well, hey, they made him a special unique special-fit neural-interface glove as a lark. A poofy spacesuit should be no big deal

@@Samuel-us5tz Oh god , dont give em ideas , LMAO🤣 still have trauma from the F9 movie going to space 😅😂 its the sort of wacky nonsense that doesnt work 😆👍👌 But nonetheless, i kinda dig the idea at the same time 👍😆♥️ (which is very conflicting for me😂)

Excatly, unlike Disney what they done to the Lion King (2019) it butchered what makes the stories made to be. Here in GxK we can see their expression of kong shocked seeing other Great Apes enlsaved by Skar King. You can understand how pure evil Skar King is. You can feel the pain of the Great Apes oppresion and Shimo when they were enslaved. Where Legendary Pictures make these characters in the Monsterverse more alive and connected than what Disney had ruined it in the name of "realism"

Reminds me of final wars. Godzilla just hits zilla and then incinerates him😂😂😂

That's tokusatsu in general kaijo or henshin heroes The suit actors stay the same the rest changes show by show different adaptations with different themes that's pretty much normal supersentai and Kamen rider do this too

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Loving it so far

Yeah, GvsK went overboard making Alexander Skaarsgard the weak, white male character so Rebecca Hall could repeatedly sign to The Girl Who's the Key to Everything what a coward he is _ALL THE DAMN TIME_ even though he was the one who figured out the pathway to the inner Earth and volunteered to go. I like to think GvsK was the reason he went off to make The Northman and enfuse it with brutal, full-on masculine energy as an FU to the makers of GvsK.

Trapper was my favorite character in the Movie. I hope they bring him back in a Sequel.

@@tigermask3831 Heck yeah. Pretty much every scene of Stevens and Tyree Henry interacting with each other was comedy gold, the perfect counter for the seriousness/emotion that Hall brought.

And Godzilla X Kong has a rather nice heart to it as well.

Yes all that with non of the politics and absurd agendas of todays weather

It didn't pull any deep gritty message about complicated topics, it was just plain honest-

@@headwreak1768 which is good in some ways

Oh god not the “atleast its not woke” argument grow up man

@@chapman2001 if woke is the only way you think a committee can ruin a movie, you need to do some growing up yourself.

There are some shots of sign language being used so it's not completely wokeshit-free

It’s weird how many times that happens with Godzilla films

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Grounded for now lol

True. That’s the one thing about this movie that I had a problem with. The showa vibes don’t really work with the Mv when u look at how it started vs how it’s going. If they leaned more into their heisei roots I think it would’ve been a little better

​@@Terriblyexplainingcomicsdidn't really happen with the heisei films.

Wow okay

Crazy

Always makes me think about how each generation has their own Godzilla. Cool to know that in the future this will be the one he references that he grew up with🥹

@@StarShopping69exactly!! That’s the beauty of Godzilla ever generation grows up with different versions and new Godzilla fans are made. just like my 4yr old son

@@Soulreaper-1129 I'm 28 but have so many fond memories of watching the older movies on VHS with friends when I was younger. Just getting to see these titans in cutting edge CGI is amazing even if the human plot is lacking at points.

The writers understood the asignment ❤

Exactly. It was kongs movie and if made me like him a LOT

CGI Kong had a better story arc in this movie and gave a better performance than any strong independent woman from the MSheU ever has.

@@nickamalfitano3613black widow would like a word

this movie should have just abandoned the human plot at that point... Kong, Godzilla, Skar King, and Shimo were the main characters. have humans exist... but unless they are actually going to be important... I don't care. Godzilla Minus One still the GOAT

There was definitely some messaging though. All the leaders of everything were women/of colour. Modern movies are really predictable. Bad guys are usually white, all leaders of the good guys are usually women or POC or both. Hollywood can't escape this anymore.

I feel like people who aren't really Godzilla fans don't understand that Godzilla is just a canvas that can become whatever the writer wants him to be. At this point, it's as if Godzilla is not a character but rather an archetype. Like you can have so many different forms of a "cowboy" movie or a "superhero" movie, it's just defining the visual tropes but not the actual tone or story of the film. In the same way, a "Godzilla" movie just means a movie featuring a giant lizard with certain abilities, the actual story and character can be anything.

Damn that's awesome 👌 dad moments are awesome

This movie definitely had the message in it. “If this is what makes my 13 year old daughter happy then I need to go along with it to be a good mother.” I’m glad you had a good time, though. Family time is important.

I get a similar feeling from movies nowadays. With Hollywood actively lowering audience expectations with continuous, abhorrent wastes of at least half an hour, seeing these films that are honest, to the point, and respectful of their audiences, especially when viewing them with your family, is legitimately the visual equivalent of a sigh of relief. The average Hellywoke feature nowadays is just like modern art: Hideous, loved by critics, hated by normal people, and always vomiting some repulsive, aggravating, satanic leftist message. GxK, in my opinion, is like a stick figure: Not much thought was put into it, but even if it’s not an articulate masterpiece, there is a certain charm in its simplicity that some enjoy immensely. Overall, I’m glad you enjoyed spending your time watching this with your family!

It's like the movie equivalent of "Hold My Beer".

It’s a Kong movie.

John Wick 4 and Godzilla Minus One were my favorite movies of 2023, and GxK: The New Empire is already one of my favorites from this year. I also enjoyed the FNaF movie and the Super Mario Bro’s movie. Sometimes you like deep, interconnected stories and sometimes you just want to watch pretty colors on the screen.

Goku and Vegeta

Same every Godzilla is amazing in its own way!

Agreed. Me and my churren cheered.

I'd say i got my moneys worth at the Suko nunchuks, everything after was a bonus

Bonus points for Godzilla going "I fits, I sits" with the Roman Colosseum.

Godzilla canonically knows Judo. I’m not kidding.

@@RRed19Indeed, his judo flip of Kong in Godzilla vs Kong before he yeeted Kong across Tokyo was epic. That whole beat down was beyond savage. Good times.

I see it the same as the Fast franchise. We know exactly what it is and what to expect and they deliver on that.

Are you telling me that a strong, independent minority didn't swoop in at the last minute and become the source of the plot!?!?

@@thatoneguychad420 No, the movies after 4, were unwatchable

@@VitaminCBable godzilla is a minority cuz, you know, is the last of his kind 💀

@@VitaminCBable You must have been sleep since that girl has been in the franchise for a while now.

Except the Japanese are free to make super-serious Godzilla movies, *Shin Godzilla*, *G Minus One* with the dividing line that American's will make the Pro-Wrasslin' Godzilla movies. It works.

And the truth is there's only about 5 or so "serious" Godzilla movies out there.

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Pacific Rim lol

not wrong, but they’d either have to buff the Jaegars massively or nerf the MV titans even more. Godzilla alone could probably take on about 10 Jeagars and hard break a sweat purely because of the fact he weighs about 50 times more than a single Jaegar

There is a RU-vid channel that does the hypothetical match ups. Think it's gojicenter. If not you should be able to find it by jaegers vs monsterverse

I would go watch that movie twice lol. Fuck it why not? It'll do a billion!

People have been making some pretty rad fan art of this flick and it’s awesome.

True, Kong and Godzilla working together will be a core memory to me as a Godzilla fan. Wished they ping-ponged Skar King a bit more just to show how Kong and G-man can work devastatingly well together.

That meme of the gorilla yelling at Kong and he knocks him out....that's never getting old...

My brother in Christ am pretty sure you yourself have already forgotten the plot of this movie

@@blackhand441 Watched Kong x Godzilla during easter can still remember the plot pretty easily , its not amazing but still easy enough to remember, Drinker has L takes 50/50 of the time dude just gotta roll with the Ls some times

You are absolutely correct! As a kid i absolutely lost my mind when Godzilla did that ridiculous flying kick! Him and jet jaguar where awesome! In fact i would love to have Jet Jaguar and Megalon in the next film!

A fellow based Kaiju flick enjoyer! I tip my hat to you, good sir! And I very much agree that we’re entering the Showa-era for the Monsterverse. No overly complicated plot line, just a good monster blockbuster for everyone to enjoy! And that’s fine by me

We been living in a golden age as Godzilla fans

The Japanese did better the social commentary in the modern movies and the american productions seem to be focused on the action part of classic Gojira movies.

@pramusetyakanca1552 you're too kind! I tip my hat to you as well! I think we entered the Monsterverse with the gritty and more grounded Godzilla (2014) and we are now with the Showa Era style movies from KOTM to GXK... although the Monarch series is a great grounding for the Universe as well. Shoot, I say let the Monarch Series stay grounded, let us have our bombastic fun with the regular continuity of Monsterverse movies, the dramatic cinema of daikaiju eiga from Toho Japan, and that we end the Monsterverse on a bang with the feature appearance of Destoroyah. We now have our Trinity of Godzilla movie masterpieces of Gojira, Shin Godzilla, and Minus One. Long Live the King Of The Monsters, the Showa, Heisei, Millennium Series, the Reiwa Era and Monsterverse!! What a time to be alive!! 😃

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Literally so fun

Yeah, and the music transition as they flew into the portal was neat. The whole thing with the convenient metal arm kinda felt forced though. That part coulda used more thought into it. But then again - big monke punch big lizard movie

That dude knew EXACTLY wtf movie he was in. And god damnit we all did watching him haha

Dude he was great I loved him

I appreciate the drinker's honesty.

Definitely. Here in Germany (and I mean, we are infamous for complaining about everything ^^) most reviewers are up in arms against this movie because it's "dumb", has no decent story etc. Like, did they expect a Shakespeare adaption from this film or what? :D

That is honestly I can give him a respect.

And that is the irony of this review.. what are the movies in japan that were hte most popular Godzilla ones? - its not hte serious ones i can tell you that.. it was the ones that sold toys.. it was the fighting ones.. just like all the sentai shows why you see monsters fighting Kong x Godzilla is what japan WISHED they could do but don’t have the budget to even dream about that.. thats why these legendary movies do well in asia.. peopel don’t wan tot see drama.. they want to have fun with drama.. and you dno’t have to turn your brian off to enjoy this movie.. to say that is so insulting to the vfx and animators.. I hate how they praise zeros vfx but doen’t even mention the ones here that were spectacular especially the volcano scene.. It just shows hits is bias.. and the likes to this video shows. This movie was awesome.. and this movie is going to bank in japan like it is in china.

They stuck to the source material. I hate woke but I have to point out that the people who telepathically connect with mothra are called "fairies". The girl from skull Island is a "fairy". Hence why she was a key to the prophecy. Because women have always been the ones to connect with mothra. Watch some of the old films 😊

It's the new damsels in distress

However, she's a very nice character. Perhaps the best human character of the monsterverse so far. But I understand your point, and I agree.

Good one ☝️

Im glad Im not the only one who noticed that

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Literally so true

Nicely

@@prod.ChopperWhy are you replying to literally every single comment with multiple pointless and empty comments like "wow" and "okay" and "fair"? Are you having a stroke?

@@lbds954He didn’t take his pills today, it seems.

Speaking of "THE MESSAAAAAAAAAGE", didn't every one of these movies have at least one hammered in since 2014, until this new one wisely ditched it to embrace the campy spectacle?

@@louisduarte8763 That's exactly my point, bro.

🎯

Not really.

​@@mattstorm6568yes it is

@@user-ku8zp6sv8e You guys are nuts, these films are a disgrace to the original films, and yes, I also say the goofy 60's/70's films were an embarrassment as well. The low bar all of you set is a shame, believe it or not even giant monster movies can be something more than some brainless cgi orgy.

It's definitely better in IMAX 👍🤘

I will agree it is at least better 😂

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Yes, it’s worth it

It can be both, look at Minus One.

Not yet broke even but will eventually get it

​@@randomshiba779or Shin Godzilla.

I love the analogy even though I've only watched Minus One so far and I loved that!

In N Out fries suck, my dude.

STEAK. I'm not eating any wooden stake dude.

Oh man, such a shame you missed out on Fury Road cinematic release.

I fucking loved that suplex