Tag: godzilla vs kong

GeekTyrant reports that they’re tapping GODZILLA VS. KONG director Adam Wingard for another monster flick. GeekTyrant also reports that they’re unsure precisely why. To which I have to say: 75/91 on Rotten Tomatoes, and $400 million box office in a world where movie theaters exist in this sort of sporadic, half-alive half-dead state.

Seriously. Rocket science, this ain’t. Of course they’re going to make a sequel! They made one after GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS, and that one bombed among people who weren’t me! Admittedly, they had this flick in the can already, and were just waiting for a moment to uncork it, and it turns out that the first gasping breaths of air after the country thrashes back to the surface of the COVID pool was a wizzo time to light that particular candle.

And how was all of that for a mixed metaphor?

I guess Honest Trailers doesn’t wait anymore, when it’s streaming. They also understand the fundamental thing about GODZILLA VS. KONG: this movie cannot be judged by the usual criteria. It is about spectacle, pure and simple. They also picked up on the retro-conspiracy theory, which I kind of wish this series would go and run with. I like me a good Merovingian fish-man plot movie…

Short version: gloriously absurd.

…On the small screen, alas. Or not alas: I have a horrible habit of pausing movies, when I can. The button’s always right there, promising me the decadent joys of watching films at my speed. Oddly, I don’t miss it when I’m in the actual theater, but give me a change to indulge myself and I’ll take it.

Now watch: I’ll see GODZILLA VS. KONG and decide to run out to see it right away in theaters. God knows when I’ll have the time, though. It’s gonna be a busy couple weeks…

How nice for me. And possibly for the rest of you, but mostly for me. It is my demographic which is the one being pandered to, and I doubt that I will ever be this specifically pandered to again, so I’m gonna enjoy this last hurrah of the Time Before:

That’s the subtext here, at least. Now, I know what you’re wondering. You’re wondering, “But Moe! GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS made less than four hundred million on a two hundred million dollar budget! How can there be a sequel, with numbers like that?”