Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,429 Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 8 minutes ago, Ollie said: I belong to several King Kong groups on Facebook and Kong fanboys have started an online petition for a sequel where Kong must win. I kid you not. In a way Kong and Godzilla are a bit equals in the movie if you consider that Kong is the one who kills the Mecha who has just defeated Godzilla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 9, 2021 Author Share Posted April 9, 2021 MechaG was Kong's consolation prize. Niktob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkgyver 1,645 Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 3 hours ago, Ollie said: I belong to several King Kong groups on Facebook and Kong fanboys have started an online petition for a sequel where Kong must win. I kid you not. #BlackApesMatter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 10, 2021 Author Share Posted April 10, 2021 Anyone else reckon Kong fighting Godzilla is like watching Arnold trying to fight the Predator and getting his arse handed to him by a huge reptile? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,429 Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 Nah Godzilla is better looking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 10, 2021 Author Share Posted April 10, 2021 Wunn uglyy mudda fukka Raiders of the SoundtrArk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 12, 2021 Author Share Posted April 12, 2021 There was one bit in the GvK score that stuck out like dogs' balls, when Team-G enters the Mechagodzilla test chamber, to me it sounded like something from Harry Manfredini's score from Jason X, which is arguably his worst Friday the 13th score. Seriously? This is what's now regarded as acceptable in a mainstream blockbuster?? The Godzilla visual reference in Friday the 13th Part III isn't lost on me in this instance though. TSMefford and Kasey Kockroach 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 14, 2021 Author Share Posted April 14, 2021 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ryan Unicomb (@itsryanunicomb) Niktob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,392 Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’: Adam Wingard Reveals That One of Kong’s Monster Kills Was Inspired by ‘Jason X’! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bored 306 Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 I take back everything bad I ever thought about Adam Wingard for choosing Junkie over Desplat or McCreary. This man's the most sophisticated and inspired filmmaker of this decade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 24, 2021 Author Share Posted April 24, 2021 4 hours ago, Edmilson said: ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’: Adam Wingard Reveals That One of Kong’s Monster Kills Was Inspired by ‘Jason X’! So... the music similarity wasn't a coincidence? Gosh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSMefford 1,509 Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 #ReleaseTheWingardCut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,340 Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 20 minutes ago, TSMefford said: #ReleaseTheWingardCut Quote Adam was involved with ALL the changes, ALL the decision making and ALL the reshoots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bored 306 Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 I don't know what cut is real anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 24, 2021 Author Share Posted April 24, 2021 The paper cut. Giftheck 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSMefford 1,509 Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 1 hour ago, Falco said: But there WERE changes. Give me the original cut! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,429 Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 #restoretheJJAbramsverse TSMefford 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 24, 2021 Author Share Posted April 24, 2021 gkgyver and TSMefford 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 Shin Godzilla was fantastic, I wouldn't mind a sequel. I know we'll never get one. Here's hoping Toho moves away from the traditional fare and takes a few more risks with Godzilla. TSMefford and Niktob 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 24, 2021 Author Share Posted April 24, 2021 Shin Godzilla might be Toho's most impressive visual achievement, but god I find that boardroom shit relentlessly slow. Kasey Kockroach 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkgyver 1,645 Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 Shin Godzilla is 70% fantastic. The other 30% are borderline unwatchable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,392 Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 Godzilla fans, you're going to like that: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 “We need Ape, the word needs him...” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 27, 2021 Author Share Posted April 27, 2021 https://variety.com/2021/film/news/godzilla-vs-kong-adam-wingard-legendary-monsterverse-1234961718/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthDementous 1,059 Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 On 4/25/2021 at 8:41 AM, Ollie said: Shin Godzilla was fantastic, I wouldn't mind a sequel. I know we'll never get one. Here's hoping Toho moves away from the traditional fare and takes a few more risks with Godzilla. Technically there is a sequel in the works, it was meant to come out this year but is currently delayed indefinitely. Not that it matters that much because it will take a while to get translated anyway. It’s Shin Ultraman, and has some of the same characters and actors of Shin Godzilla. Same production team behind it of course. Wth is this off-brand Godzilla vs. King Kong about? Ape vs. Monster sounds like what would be printed on Chinese bootleg toy boxes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,392 Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 I just watched GvK where it was meant to be watched: the movie theater. Fuck Covid! Ollie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,392 Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 So, Godzilla vs Kong is... surprisingly not horrible. Actually, it's a pretty decent monster movie, with an okay main plot and characters and some well staged monster vs monster brawls. It's probably the best movie of this franchise. About Junkie's score, there's some cool electronic parts here and there and some 80s synths (I believe), but then he scores almost every scene like it was the most EPIC thing of all time, which makes the music very tiresome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giftheck 916 Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 https://screenrant.com/godzilla-vs-kong-monsterverse-movie-future-max-borenstein/ Some more vaguaries with regards to the future of the Monsterverse from Max Borenstein, who wrote the script for Godzilla 2014, co-wrote Kong: Skull Island and Godzilla Vs Kong, and helped with the story of King of the Monsters. The interesting thing is that Borenstein says 'it's in good hands' - which might suggest that he has either a much more reduced role in future installments, or no involvement. Adam Wingard is apparently working on a new Monsterverse film, which may be an adaptation of Son of Kong for Legendary. EDIT: Re. the music for Godzilla Vs Kong, it is the weakest score the Monsterverse has produced thus far, a typical fare from Junkie XL mixed with knockoff Akira Ifukube. Desplat created a much more memorable original score for the 2014 film. TSMefford 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,392 Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 54 minutes ago, Giftheck said: EDIT: Re. the music for Godzilla Vs Kong, it is the weakest score the Monsterverse has produced thus far, a typical fare from Junkie XL mixed with knockoff Akira Ifukube. Desplat created a much more memorable original score for the 2014 film. Agreed 100%. Junkie's score for GvK was rather terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giftheck 916 Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 I find Wingard's reasoning for asking Junkie XL to do it perplexing as well. "Well, the original music was meant to highlight the Japanese Godzilla and the tragedy around it, so we won't use it. But, can you make your theme sound like it?" If you're going that far, then just use the original themes. McCreary proved that they can be updated faithfully. If you want original music, then do original music without having to make it sound like a bootleg of a past composer. I literally got told 'well, other composers in the franchise also didn't use Ifukube' when I expressed this. Yeah, but the key there is they wrote their own material that didn't sound like a rip-off. Takayuki Hattori, for example, came up with an entirely original score for the much-maligned Godzilla Earth trilogy. He wrote an entirely new theme for Godzilla. Not one note sounded like anything Ifukube wrote. Same goes for Michiru Ōshima, the composer of Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla and Tokyo SOS. And of course, as previously mentioned, Desplat's score for the 2014 film. Stark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManofDestiny 71 Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 Because of license fee? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giftheck 916 Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 Not what I was getting at. Wingard decided early on not to use the Japanese themes because he felt it wouldn't feel 'authentic'. So he asked Junkie XL to do a knock-off version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giftheck 916 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Apple TV is working on a Godzilla TV series set after the 2014 film. Quote Following the thunderous battle between Godzilla and the Titans that leveled San Francisco and the shocking new reality that monsters are real, the series explores one family's journey to uncover its buried secrets and a legacy linking them to the secret organization known as Monarch. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,392 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Did Warner Bros. sold the rights of the franchise to Apple? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Of course not. The same article mentions the Skull Island show in the works at Netflix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giftheck 916 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 I'm wondering if Toho renegotiated the rights directly to Legendary themselves rather than WB. I couldn't see WB allowing this to go anywhere other than HBO Max otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 The Monsterverse is owned by Legendary and WB Pictures - WB Pictures is a subsidiary of WarnerMedia , of which HBO Max is another division So Monsterverse films will all come out by WB Pictures, but they can put their TV content out to bid to all the streaming services. Likely Netflix offered more for Skull Island, and Apple offered more for Godzilla, than HBO Max did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Pretty bad film esp. compared to KOTM. Edmilson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,392 Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 ‘Godzilla vs. Kong 2’: Dan Stevens Reunites With ‘The Guest’ Director Adam Wingard On Legendary Sequel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giftheck 916 Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 Interesting line here: Quote Per usual, plot details are being kept under wraps, other than following the film’s larger-than-life monsters and then preparing for their next battle against each other. Suggesting that Godzilla and Kong will come to blows again in the future (not necessarily in this film) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 Why do they call it Godzilla vs. Kong 2 in the headline when that's not what the movie is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giftheck 916 Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 Because they don't know what it is yet, aside from being a direct sequel to Godzilla Vs Kong. So 'Godzilla Vs Kong 2' is better than 'Untitled MonsterVerse Movie Starring Either Godzilla, Kong, Or Maybe Both, Or Either, IDK' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 This franchise is exhausted. Time for a reboot! Giftheck 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,498 Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 5 hours ago, Edmilson said: ‘Godzilla vs. Kong 2’: Dan Stevens Reunites With ‘The Guest’ Director Adam Wingard On Legendary Sequel Screw that! THIS IS SPINAL TAP 2?! I'm there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giftheck 916 Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 Maybe they will get it right this time. The last one SUCKED# Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giftheck 916 Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 This is the first time I've seen somebody say Godzilla Vs Kong sucked. I preferred KOTM though, so... 🤷♂️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,392 Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 Sigh They should ask someone other than Holkenborg to write the score. But I don't think that will happen, considering GvsK was the Monsterverse movie with the best critical reception. bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giftheck 916 Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 With Wingard in charge... yeah, we're going to get more of that knock-off music from Holkenborg. It's not like there's already a movie in the franchise that proves you can successfully recontextualise classic themes for this franchise... oh, wait... DarthDementous and JNHFan2000 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted July 1, 2022 Share Posted July 1, 2022 12 hours ago, Giftheck said: This is the first time I've seen somebody say Godzilla Vs Kong sucked. I preferred KOTM though, so... 🤷♂️ Me too. It delivered the goods. Btw the PITCH MEETING vid on GvsK did a great job of dissecting what went wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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