The Evolution and Devolution of the MonsterVerse 

"Kong skull island has no themes or commentary on literally anything" so we lying here huh

Worse take on Kong Skull Island I've ever seen 😭 🙏

The reason why Godzilla didn’t fight any of the classic kaiju in 2014 is because legendary had to buy the kaiju but it wasn’t exactly cheap to do that.

People nowadays should keep their criticism to themselves it’s just very stupid it’s not gonna change the fact that most people gonna love the MonsterVerse either way.

KOTM 'failed' because Legendary paid serious $$$ for the rights for Rodan, Mothra & Ghidorah (along with their themes), & released the film close to End Game. Bitchass Disney then RE-releases End Game because KOTM bit into their bottom line, making it fall just short of Avatar. Ghidorah's head in GvK is the severed head from the ocean battle, seen in the KOTM after credits scene. Yes, it has one. So does Skull Island.

Why must every film summary on the Monsterverse be the most stenchy take ever?

Why do I now see these random Channels who have never talked about Godzilla now talking about how the monsterverse is bad and more shit 💀

Eh I disagree, the flaws in GvK and GxK have become more clear to the fans that do pay attention and don't just turn their brains off. I think the monsterverse movies are gonna return to being a little more grounded like they were in 2014-2019, and they'll go crazy when it comes to the next Godzilla and Kong crossovers or whatever their next big event film will be. Also no people didn't hate the darker tones of the 2014 movie, they hated the plank of wood given the role of protagonist, they hated that the most interesting character (Walter White) was killed off so early and they hated the lack of screen time Godzilla had, I have not seen one person hate the fact that 2014 was a serious toned movie. Godzilla 2019 was a pretty serious movie like 2014 and yet no one has complained about that. I don't know where you got that idea from.

Kevin's head was ripped off by Godzilla when they were fighting underwater. At the end of KOTM they had a post credit scene of kevins head and thats the same head they used to control MechaGodzilla

I disagree about Kong Skull Island being totally empty under the hood. There were definetely some anti-war messaging going on, which isn't much, but still more than an average blockbuster usually have

Truth! But in all honesty, I think G14 and K17 were going somewhere with their more grounded and realistic interpretations of the monsters and characters, but then the next set of films that came out pretty much squandered the continuity of the MonsterVerse. While G14 didn't have Godzilla all that much, they did deliver on the tone and style the trailers were giving off, so that was fantastic. I thought K17 was wonderful and the lore of Kong and his people being taken out by the Skrull Crawlers was interesting. But when we get to the next set of films, the apes were all great at building and seemed more smarter and highly intelligent than we realized and there's no way for even a fraction of a second, that the apes we see in GxK would've lost to the Skrull Crawlers because we see how intelligent and resourceful they are and they all seemed more human than Kong himself was in K17 at the time. I think it's due to the directors, but it just felt off. Maybe that's why we see some of them still alive in GxK because they are way too civilized and powerful to just simply be taken out by smaller creatures. But my main problem is that the tones and styles were changed throughout the films and it instead delved way too much into the more magical and mystical sides of things. I'll probably watch one more film and then call it quits. I agree that the G14 official main trailer is one of the best trailers of all time with it's spilling choir and gritty atmosphere. G19's trailers was fine though. But great video by the way! 💯

11:28 the serious tone was not the problem with 2014. It was the constant lead up to something about to happen only to cut away to undercooked characters

For me it’s getting way WAY better as time goes on

Funny thing is though the Monarch: Legacy of Monsters show retained both the serious tone and family themed storyline from the Godzilla films that everyone complained about but actually managed to make them work a lot better because they have more time to flesh out all the characters and world building which ironically makes the show arguably better than all the movies in this franchise.

Over 70 years we’ve been given 38 Godzilla movies and people are somehow shocked/annoyed that a movie like GxK exists? Guess they better just avoid the majority of Toho produced films then, hell the Monsterverse literally went from two somewhat serious movies to a Heisei style movie with KOTM, the early Showa styled GvK, and the late Showa styled GxK.

The guy that did the last two won't be doing the next because scheduling problems. This happened about 3 days ago or so now...

There are themes in the new empire. It shows how people like Skar King take advantage of others for their own selfish need representing the worst of humanity.

To clarify, the ghidorah head in gvk was the one Godzilla ripped off in the ocean fight.

I think its a perfect homage to the showa era

Why are all these damn channels coming out of nowhere, never having ANY connections to the mv, hating on the movies. Damn, I loved Minus One, but people have to realize, Godzilla movies aren’t always serious

Boston was evacuated before the fight between the titans.

The "X" in the new title is silent it means to pause when saying the names basically When verbally saying the title, the 'x' is silent-so it's pronounced 'Godzilla "pause" Kong.

People who aren’t fans of the Monsterverse will struggle to appreciate and truly understand the films, and your take on Skull Island pretty much proves my point. But to say Skull Island had no themes is crazy to me. I’ve been a fan of the Monsterverse since 2014 so maybe I just have a good eye for the themes in the Monsterverse, but I thought they made it pretty clear. If you don’t usually watch Monster movie I guess I could see someone missing the theme, since Skull Island was pretty action packed, but definitely rewatch the movie and you’ll for sure spot the things you said were missing in Kong: Skull Island.

Bro lost me at 2014 and from that point forward got some missinformation and the carelessness in his voice is hella apparent, bro called shimo "ice godzilla" oml.

Glad to see you're still working! A few thoughts: - Agreed on the general quality and direction of the franchise. - Agree that KotM is the weakest in the franchise, but I would liken its strengths & weaknesses almost symmetrically to Pacific Rim. I don't understand the appeal of PR, as I find that movie's leads (Hunnam & Kikuchi) insufferable & the whole "drift" plot-device baffling. - KotM ironically seems to be the most liked film by traditional Godzilla fans (i.e. fans of Toho's Godzilla), because it perfectly encapsulates all those older, classical movies' both good & bad traits. - I'm fine with this series continuing the Showa Era (1954-1975) tone of fun blockbusters because we have contemporary Toho Godzilla for the introspective stuff (i.e. Shin Godzilla, G-1, etc.)., and unlike most comic book movies, these MVerse films aren't exhausting and are unpretentious.

A descent analysis. But you lost me at "so dumb it's practically immune to criticism." Nothing is immune to criticism. Especially if it's that dumb.

The subterranean unmapped region was a prison that was made by the main villain to imprison and control any of the Ape's or monkeys that get found if not killed...

Another Doctorskipper detected

Mothra always reancarnates that’s why she is back in the new empire.

i watched all the monsterverse movies for the first time recently and this video pretty much echoes my thoughts exactly; godzilla 2014 is the closest one i'd call to a "good" film, but godzilla vs kong was undeniably the most fun of them despite (or perhaps because of) how brain-meltingly dumb it is, while king of the monsters did the monsters better than the rest and then everything else in the movie is so goddamn poorly done that it dragged the great monsters down. i literally had to rewind during godzilla vs kong when kong goes through the hole godzilla blasts in the earth because i was like "wait, did he just climb back to the surface in like two seconds?" lmao plus it was the first of the films to have the monsters fight during the day! that counts for something! and yeah, godzilla x kong is just there, being wild and having human characters for absolutely no reason lol

Look, Ghidorah is an alien meaning things like his skull might contain a consciousness.

The way they both were confirmed in the same universe was in the post credits from kong skull island. And they did it really good. They only showed cave paintings of Godzilla and they show the monsters from kotm and at the end you can hear godzillas roar. And at the end of kotm they showed a cave painting of Godzilla fighting kong, wich lead to gvk.

Did bro watch Skull Island with this eyes closed???

Interesting perspective but I just totally disagree, 2014 had so much potential that was squandered with "monkey punch lizard" -- why can't we have both some serious movies and the bottom of the barrell action nonsense too.

Bro keep making videos, I deadass thought you were like, a ginormous review channel, you're gonna hit it big with reviews like this.

I mean there are stuff that needed to be worked on and still does but the moment they introduced skull island and king of the monsters we should've already knew we'll go for a thrilling goofy ride and that's that

Wait till he hears about the entire Japanese Godzilla movies

This is all why gorzilla as a eholr franchise has lasted for over 7p years now. Compare a franchise that has dumb films and serious films to king kong films, which have been the same thing for ovr 90 years. Godzilla franchise foes something no other franchise has ever done, and that is consistent dumb and serious films. Thr franchise woudlve died off years ago if it weren't for that. And in fact, without the monsterverse, there would have never have been a minus one godzilla film. The monsterverse proves to everyone that it can work as anything. Serious, or dumb, its keeping itself alive. And has for over 70 years.

Bros never seen the Heisei Era and it shows

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I also think the G19 post credits was stupid because the whole plan of the villains in that movie was about creating a more smaller and balanced civilization and in a way *"saving"* the planet and ecosystem, but in GvK, it's implied those same villains gave the skull to the apex company that would build MechaGodzilla. But that makes no sense because those villains wanted to make sure humanity continues to evolve and become the alpha species of the planet, which was different than what motives the previous villains had in G19, which just shows you how GvK sort of squandered what came before and that the motives of the villains between movies was completely different in every way possible. I like the quote that the trapper character uses in GxK. *"While we're throwing random shit at the wall..."* Which is meta and funny because I believe G19 to GxK is when they were starting to throw random shit at the wall and not in a good way either. This series is all over the place and I am not sure what story elements they'll even use to keep it going as a franchise. I kind of miss Gareth Edwards and his take on the films and monsters as well. 💯

43:43 Oh yes, the 2nd best Transformers movie (no irony), even though this scene is rotten

The mini Kong’s name is Suko.

Ion like how Godzilla always need help with the big fights , he should’ve fight ghidorah 101 and never got beat up by his robotic counterpart but movie still good 🔥🔥

I understood where this franchise was headed thats why i did acid for the last movie and you know what?.... It started to make sense lmao

This review is bad, godzilla as a franchise tries things differently every motherfucking time. The monsterverse has never fallen like you assume, by your logic every godzilla era has fallen because they all follow a similar formula. Also stop comparing minus one please, your like the millionth person to make that mistake and I'm starting to get pissed.

The inner earth in the new movies exists in a dimensional fold within our planet that is links and ties both dimensional planes like symbiosis to one another... Basically It is not in our spacetime dimension...They are basically going through an Einstein-Rosen bridge when using the portals. It's also the same fold in spacetime that allows the creatures to travel across our planet in an instant when they use certain wormholes basically that don't go to the inner plane just ride along the fold before popping up in another location on the planet,....

Ngl these criticisms vids are getting kinda annoying. Further more. One big thing is’ This guy talks so much on the franchise yet doesn’t take the time to do the PROPER research on the lore of the franchise to fully understand anything. No off he’s completely entitled to his opinion. But this is just giving me dokter skipper levels of uneducated 😭🙏

How is gxk dumb

I disagree the mutos are amazing

Godzilla KotM and GodzillaxKong are definitely the worst ones out of the monsterverse. Only good parts are anything to do with the monsters themselves. The writing is atrocious and especially with the human involvement in the films.

Gxk is my fav in the monsterverse

Sounds like you're doing a video on a universe that u really don't like. KTM was a gr8 movie. Millie was horrible in it with that dumb smirk. Lol I don't think you really watched these movies. The last 2 movies are too cartoonish. You'd probably like that. And layoff the DCEU.

Troll 2022

Didn't realize they give degrees for yapping

don't let him cook ever again

Bros speaking fluently yappanese 💀

Hater

In my opinion Godzilla x Kong is the worst monsterverse movie.

Sounds like you hate all the movies… Just stop watching them if they’re so damn bad. Jeez! 😂