Year: 2021
Director: Adam Wingard
In the dark cinema and in a very comfortable reclining seat, I had a moment that I think will make me a happier person all round. You see, I was drifting off during a quiet bit…and my brain concocted an everyday work scenario where something disastrous was happening and it was all my fault. This anxiety was created partly by my imagination and partly by Godzilla going nuts.
When I came to, I realised that worrying about things influences real life situations about as much as it influences the future behaviour of Godzilla. I realise that this is about as profound as an estate agent’s linked in post, but it was a bit Damascene for me, that moment. I truly believe I am going to worry less and be happier.
My companion was my 12 year old son who is three years too young to see the film -but we Celebrations are rebels, right? I checked with him that he wouldn’t be too shocked if there was a rude word. There are 4 utterances of “shit” – I know this because each time he reacted with exaggerated shock for my benefit.
What’s that, Sooty? The readers want to know about film itself? Right, well, we’ve established that Godzilla is in it and one night, she just loses it, man! KK is on Skull Island in a kind of captivity-type situation and he brought in to sort it all out. There are more nuances than this and talking about them starts to move us into spoiler territory.
This isn’t a film where it all builds up to one big fight at the end; there’s plenty -don’t worry about that.
Plot-wise we are looking at young people seeking to destroy sone kind of evil power source and it involves USB sticks and impossibly fast computer typing by the film’s nerd character. Also, Godzilla’s been stomping around fur about an hour – Kong arrives. Why oh why oh why would there be people still in restaurants. So there’s a lot of cliches but it’s Godzilla vs Kong, not The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
It’s good fun. The natural home of Kong and Godzilla is a bit of a head-scratcher but just go with it and you’ll be fine.
Might appeal to people who enjoyed:
Carry on Roaring! , The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Don’t diminish that realisation, BC. In reverie/trance (which sounds like where you were) we’re in a far more appropriate state for true learning. Inter-hemispheric integration some might say. Purely doing things from a cognitive perspective (ie logical, left brain) really isn’t as effective, and can often lead to frustration and shame (‘I know rationally what I should be doing but I just can’t do it! What a loser I am!’ etc). I probably shan’t be watching the fillum, mind.
For me, your wise analysis is only flawed by the fact that, whenever something disastrous is happening at work it almost always is entirely my fault.
I try to spend my whole waking life in a trance/reverie state – till my wife or daughters tell me to snap put of it.
If it doesn’t include a Japanese businessman looking behind his shoulder and screaming “Aieeeee!! Godzilla!!” , well, I’m just not bothering with it.
Both Godzilla and Kong are basically good guys who are misunderstood by society, so the premise of setting one against the other reeks a bit of cock fighting. My money’s on the hairy guy.
“cock fighting. My money’s on the hairy guy” – for this delightful mental image, many thanks.
There almost certainly going to be a rumpo-centric version of Godzilla vs Kong. It almost “writes” itself.
Boobzilla Vs Dong.
I know, I missed my vocation.
Gobfiller v Schlong
That’s the same thing twice. There has to be a suggestion of feminine pulchritude. Unless it’s the gay version, which isn’t my specialism. This side of five pints, anyway.
Godzilla v Kong 2, wherein Mothra shows up to repair the washing machine, and one thing leads to another…
I wasn’t thinking that such a version featured the monsters *themselves* in sexy situations. “Ooh! (giggle) I seem to have caught my bra on this skyscraper – can you, er, help me with it, Kong? (Heavily eyelashed wink)
Most enjoyable film review of the decade so far! Brilliant. I had no intention whatsoever of subjecting my teeth to a bucketfull of mixed sweet and salt popcorn with added random filling-cracker bits in order to experience this particular cinematic work, but now I think might actually take the chance. For a laugh. I’ll bear in mind the possibility and efficacy of the mental health improvements evoked by nodding off at points.
@barry-blue makes me think that there might be a portal of enlightenment in the film that specifically beguiles middle-aged men. For that reason alone, I think it’s worth a trip to the pictures to see it:
We all love a beguiling portal!
Oh I say.
It’s total preposterous bollocks (the movie, not the post!) but oh my word, what magnificent bollocks it is.
This is much shorter and possibly more entertaining
Splendid! That about sums it up.
Loved it. Delivered exactly what I wanted in spades. Two iconic monsters smashing the shit out of each other. Then threw in another legendary giant metal bad ass for good measure. The hollow earth looked like a Roger Dean album cover come to life. Most importantly made me forget what a crap period of time we are all going through for a couple of ridiciously overblown hours. Can’t ask for more than that.
” legendary giant metal bad ass” – John McCoy is in this film??
@moose-the-mooche
That’s M.A.D.
I was careful not to mention those things cos (possibly) spoilers but you’re right – well worth watching for those bits of it too.
I’m looking forward to seeing this in the cinema once cinemas open again.
This.
Bloody eel market…
Possibly this. In Canananada.