I saw #GodzillaXKongTheNewEmpire last night, and I definitely had mixed feelings about it, especially given how much I love Godzilla Minus One. Late into the movie, I had a thought-shift in understanding that they're very different things. Godzilla Minus One is very much more of a psychological film delving into the trauma of having been on the receiving end of nuclear bombs. #Godzilla#KingKong#GodzillaXKong /1
This most recent TitanVerse is just a throwback to the old monster movies, with them fighting and destroying things. There were actually a few nuggets of story that were interesting and could have been developed more to make it a full-fledged movie. The destruction of multiple cities and the obvious mass-casualty loss of life being completely glossed over and ignored was a bit hard to stomach, though.
There is one appearance that I was pleasantly surprised about. /2
My only complaint about these films is that whomever is in charge of this universe clearly heavily favors Kong. In all his movies, whether solo or with others, he gets a lot more character and story development. Godzilla gets zero character exploration, and in the case of Godzilla vs. Kong, it was total character assassination. /3
In this movie, again, there's definitely more of a sympathetic and purposeful story arc for Kong than there is for Godzilla. We're made to understand and connect with Kong but Godzilla is always presented as "other".
So I hadn't really paid attention to the title of the movie, but I kept hearing people say Godzilla "ex" Kong because of the "x" in the title. /4
In looking at it today, I think they mean for it to be Godzilla "times" Kong, like a math equation, where the two of them together makes them exponentially more powerful. #Godzilla#KingKong#GodzillaXKong#GodzillaXKongTheNewEmpire /5 end
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