Kong Skull Island is a great monster movie. I really enjoy all of the pulp archetypes. The fights are great, well lit, and easy to follow. Great miscellaneous creature design - the big ass wooden insect, the spider, and I really like the huge water buffalo.
10/10
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
Shame about the monster design for the primary antagonists of the movie
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I still can't quite 100% believe that they pulled the old Nippon steel, 100 times folded superior craftsmanship samurai sword trope completely straight.
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Yeah, they didn’t really. It fit in with the stranded WWII stuff.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I still can't quite 100% believe that they pulled the old Nippon steel, 100 times folded superior craftsmanship samurai sword trope completely straight.
the boat in the movie is named grey fox of course they did
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
There is a sword in Kong Skull Island but nobody ever says anything about its relative strength or quality, I really don't know what y'all are getting at
A katana being in a movie isn't automatically that trope
There is a sword in Kong Skull Island but nobody ever says anything about its relative strength or quality, I really don't know what y'all are getting at
A katana being in a movie isn't automatically that trope
and Japanese officers' katana were a real, issued thing (even if the vast majority of the ones that made it to the front lines were stamped steel garbage rods)
It's a movie that has no business being as good and heartfelt as it is.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
There is a sword in Kong Skull Island but nobody ever says anything about its relative strength or quality, I really don't know what y'all are getting at
A katana being in a movie isn't automatically that trope
I mean there are two slo mo scenes of our heroes wielding the katana dispatching monsters with single swings and goes so far as to do a one handed toss from one to the other.
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Wasn’t the studio the one that demanded the voice over?
They are. And it was done deliberately poorly in an attempt to get them to not use it, hence some of the complaints in those notes.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Gonna be honest, if I ever got a performance evaluation that mean you would never hear from me again. I would be off living in the mountains making bad decisions about which mushrooms to forage and screaming at anyone who came into eyeshot until they went away again.
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
Wasn’t the studio the one that demanded the voice over?
They are. And it was done deliberately poorly in an attempt to get them to not use it, hence some of the complaints in those notes.
ford was also his usually grumpyass self and didn't wanna put in the work
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Wasn’t the studio the one that demanded the voice over?
They are. And it was done deliberately poorly in an attempt to get them to not use it, hence some of the complaints in those notes.
ford was also his usually grumpyass self and didn't wanna put in the work
In this specific context we have him on record saying that he deliberately did a bad job because he thought the voiceover was, I believe he said, "A stupid fucking idea"
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
I like Blade Runner but I feel like it's not a movie without significant flaws
Being dull for long stretches being one of them
Like as a fan of the movie I have difficulty finding a lot to fault in those notes
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I dunno I found the US military uniforms to be pretty period accurate.
when they fight the aliens, the alien ship shoots like, underhand grenade bombs that look like German potato mashers at the titular battleship
I have just now today realized that they weren't potato mashers
they were the fucking pegs you put on your board.
the boat in the movie is named grey fox of course they did
A katana being in a movie isn't automatically that trope
and Japanese officers' katana were a real, issued thing (even if the vast majority of the ones that made it to the front lines were stamped steel garbage rods)
It's a movie that has no business being as good and heartfelt as it is.
Coran Attack!
Is it rocky but with robots or is it punch-out but with robots
I would argue it's more punch-out but with robots
I mean there are two slo mo scenes of our heroes wielding the katana dispatching monsters with single swings and goes so far as to do a one handed toss from one to the other.
Cool action movie guys did a cool guy action movie thing in this cool guy action movie.
If it had been a cutless from a crashed pirate ship, it would have had the exact same effectiveness.
it's on streaming! I watched it a few months ago
That's Evangelion, you can't trick me
"heartwarming" and "bonding" are two words I would never use to describe Gendo and Shinji's relationship.
You could grab the DVD for like $5. That's a real steal.
It's like Chef, except instead of a food truck they build a big fighting robot
Shinjj get in the goddamn robot
Train, yes. Build, no
They are. And it was done deliberately poorly in an attempt to get them to not use it, hence some of the complaints in those notes.
ford was also his usually grumpyass self and didn't wanna put in the work
In this specific context we have him on record saying that he deliberately did a bad job because he thought the voiceover was, I believe he said, "A stupid fucking idea"
Being dull for long stretches being one of them
Like as a fan of the movie I have difficulty finding a lot to fault in those notes
Please watch it
Steam
WHAT A FUCKING MOVIE
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