Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Dec. 10th, 2025 05:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
varidogGodzilla: King of the Monsters ought to be a shoe-in for an awesome Godzilla movie. It's not.
The script was a fuck-up from end to end, but at least there was a multi-monster fight. Worse yet, it was boring, and I kept checking on the time. I don't know how you can make a giant monster fight boring.
I could go over every stupid-ass stupid thing that the script did, but I'd be here forever. How something this fucked up got green lit, I have no idea. This script is more of a notion of a script than a script itself, it's own clumsiness repeatedly taking it into absurdity.
For example, after Monarch has one of its bases seized by terrorists, the remaining bases proceed to fail at basic base security. They've got to be the worst managed secret organization ever.
If you're going to fail, then fail big, and that's the mantra behind this film. I applaud them for that. There's no way that you're ever going to fully explain giant monsters, so give up and charge ahead.
The ultimate problem with this film is that the producers thought that kaiju films were spectacles, when underneath, they're not that at all. We got a spectacle, but the underlying story of people was all together missing.
If you're checking off films in your Godzilla bucket list, then by all means, sit down and knock this out. If you're playing a drinking game, or love making fun of films, then this is fruitful fodder. For everyone else, this is a pointless experience.
The script was a fuck-up from end to end, but at least there was a multi-monster fight. Worse yet, it was boring, and I kept checking on the time. I don't know how you can make a giant monster fight boring.
I could go over every stupid-ass stupid thing that the script did, but I'd be here forever. How something this fucked up got green lit, I have no idea. This script is more of a notion of a script than a script itself, it's own clumsiness repeatedly taking it into absurdity.
For example, after Monarch has one of its bases seized by terrorists, the remaining bases proceed to fail at basic base security. They've got to be the worst managed secret organization ever.
If you're going to fail, then fail big, and that's the mantra behind this film. I applaud them for that. There's no way that you're ever going to fully explain giant monsters, so give up and charge ahead.
The ultimate problem with this film is that the producers thought that kaiju films were spectacles, when underneath, they're not that at all. We got a spectacle, but the underlying story of people was all together missing.
If you're checking off films in your Godzilla bucket list, then by all means, sit down and knock this out. If you're playing a drinking game, or love making fun of films, then this is fruitful fodder. For everyone else, this is a pointless experience.
