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This movie delivers exactly what it advertises. There are two or three faceoffs between Godzilla and Kong (depending on how you define where a fight starts and stops). Each one is full of monster body slams and copious property destruction. They're also beyond ludicrous and over the top, but it's clear the moment Kong starts hopscotching across destroyers on his way punching Godzilla atop an aircraft carrier that the filmmakers are fully embracing the absurdity and don't mind one bit.
Humans, on the other hand, are unremarkable and boring, spending their time alternating between overblown acting tics and staring agape at some far off special effect.
The movie certainly looks great. This isn't due to the CGI, which is competent but not all that exceptional. Instead, it's due to director Adam Wingard's use of strong colors and contrast. Godzilla and Kong might be smashing up another city, but they're doing it at night in and amongst brightly lit neon buildings that capture all the shattering glass, smoke and atomic breath wonderfully.
The sound mix is, unsurprisingly, LOUD. REALLY REALLY LOUD. Even at our lower-than-reference volume, this puppy kicks, and I definitely had some audio fatigue when it was all over. In 7.1 (no Atmos) the sound field is very aggressive, with lots of attention grabbing surround use and a very powerful and active LFE. It's quite a sledgehammer of a soundtrack. There's a particular sound cue about midway through that goes from extremely intense noise to absolute silence in a split second. It can easily fool one into thinking they just fried the sound system. There's a lot of "wink wink nudge nudge" in this movie, and I sometimes wonder if the mixers did this on purpose just to punk theater owners and projectionists.
Is it a good movie? I don't think movies like this can really be evaluated on the classic "good/bad" scale. Does it deliver monster smashing, city wrecking, fire breathing, giant axe wielding, ear bleeding mayhem? Absolutely. Does it deliver anything dramatically surprising or compelling? Nope. Does it do what it sets out to do without stepping on it's own feet? For the most part, yes. So at the very least it makes Godzilla Vs. Kong a success, if that makes any sense.
Just bring your earplugs.
Humans, on the other hand, are unremarkable and boring, spending their time alternating between overblown acting tics and staring agape at some far off special effect.
The movie certainly looks great. This isn't due to the CGI, which is competent but not all that exceptional. Instead, it's due to director Adam Wingard's use of strong colors and contrast. Godzilla and Kong might be smashing up another city, but they're doing it at night in and amongst brightly lit neon buildings that capture all the shattering glass, smoke and atomic breath wonderfully.
The sound mix is, unsurprisingly, LOUD. REALLY REALLY LOUD. Even at our lower-than-reference volume, this puppy kicks, and I definitely had some audio fatigue when it was all over. In 7.1 (no Atmos) the sound field is very aggressive, with lots of attention grabbing surround use and a very powerful and active LFE. It's quite a sledgehammer of a soundtrack. There's a particular sound cue about midway through that goes from extremely intense noise to absolute silence in a split second. It can easily fool one into thinking they just fried the sound system. There's a lot of "wink wink nudge nudge" in this movie, and I sometimes wonder if the mixers did this on purpose just to punk theater owners and projectionists.
Is it a good movie? I don't think movies like this can really be evaluated on the classic "good/bad" scale. Does it deliver monster smashing, city wrecking, fire breathing, giant axe wielding, ear bleeding mayhem? Absolutely. Does it deliver anything dramatically surprising or compelling? Nope. Does it do what it sets out to do without stepping on it's own feet? For the most part, yes. So at the very least it makes Godzilla Vs. Kong a success, if that makes any sense.
Just bring your earplugs.
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