Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2021/01/25/godzilla-vs-kong-trailer.html
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My kids a HYPED.
There is nothing quite like the passions of an 8 and a 7 year old.
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I can see why they dumped a kid into the plot, Lucas-style. As an adult, though, my response to this trailer is:
I mean, have some fun with this silliness. But nope.
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I dunno. The fact that they’re using up tempo hip-hop as hype music for it makes it less serious to me.
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Isn’t this a time for us all to come together, and not destroy a city over petty differences?
Possibly the wrong thread, who knows.
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It’s what it is: a big-budget kid’s monster movie. That’s fine. 9-year-old me would have eaten it up. Adult me just sees it as evergreen IP + Michael Bay + post-1994 Lucas + whatever cynical studio executive greenlit and packaged “Battleship”.
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I don’t have kids, but doing some simple math, I am now, let’s see, about 6.571 7 year olds combined, and EVERY DAMN ONE of them is HYYYYPED.
My poor wife.
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So, they (re-) made a movie that has giant (CGI) monsters battle in and mostly destroy a (CGI) city with deafening screams and (CGI) explosions while playing a too-loud soundtrack… And about the only thing the few humans in this movie will do is scream and run (and possibly die).
Considering the world as it is today, I imagine I could have found a better way to spend those $180 million.
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I wonder if they’ll finally give the people what they want and do a rom-com version this time.
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I love kaiju movies, and I don’t ask much of them. But I do wish trailers would show less of the movies they are advertising. The trend for years now has been to basically show a two- or three- minute version of the movie. It doesn’t pique my interest, it makes me wish I had never seen the trailer.
I first wondered if it was kind of a nod to the Mothra pixies.
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Even the worst Godzilla movie (such as the 1998 one) is better than the Planet Godzilla anime that came out 2 years ago.
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i actually like the kid angle – it’s much better than the original “big ape falls for beautiful woman” thing. having a kid who can connect with an animal, no matter their relative size, makes it all about empathy, not sexual, which is an improvement to me.
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Even the worst Godzilla movie (such as the 1998 one) is better than the Planet Godzilla anime that came out 2 years ago.
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The big twist will be when they both discover that their mother’s name is Mothra.
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You win the topic!
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I’ll be watching with my kids
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The 35th one too many
I thought Godzilla was much larger than King Kong.
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