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My favorite thing about King of the Monsters is its message. It warns about the destruction humans have caused and serves as a cautionary tale. Ghidorah is the embodiment of the humans' destruction, and Godzilla represents nature fighting back against man.

My favorite Monsterverse Titan is, of course, Godzilla. Both movies gave him incredible designs and he has my favorite Godzilla roar. Additionally, I love his role as the benevolent guardian of the planet. He also has the best action scenes and the most savage kills, most notably the female MUTO and Ghidorah.

I love both monsters so much I struggle to route for one over the other but I think if legendary was going to kill off either monster it would probably be Godzilla since they are likely going to lose the rights to him after 2020 and so they wont be able to use him in future movies anyway

that being said Kong has already won so maybe this movies goal will be to even the score

I personally wouldnt mind seeing them team up in the end as long as there is a definitive winner, like maybe they fight in the movie and there is a winner while the loser escapes to recooperate and then later the winner tracks down the loser so that they can put aside their differences and fight a monster too powerful for either of them alone

just an example of having a fight with a definite winner while still having them team up

I would kinda love to see them be friends because I just think they are both so cool and I'd be sad to see any of them lose in a fight to the other haha 

I've mentioned it before in another topic but what I really like about Godzilla and all the monsters he faces is how many different variations on him there are all different sizes, looks, alignments, powers, origins, personalities etc. 

I especially like how even when he is portrayed as a hero and defender of humanity he continues to be threatening, his looks are deceiving when he is a hero, I love monsters and colossal creatures and dinosaurs and super heroes but it's mostly all of his unique incarnations

If I had to pick one thing it would be the Roar, but I love him so much!

My favorite part of KOTM was probably when all the titans bowed down to Godzilla in the end. I especially liked how Rodan threatened Godzilla, Godzilla simply exhaled, and Rodan bowed down to him. 

My favorite monsterverse titan would probably be Rodan. At first, he was like"Aw crap here we go again" to Ghidorah and bowed down to him after seeing his dominance. Then, went for Mothra at the end seeing her as the weakest there. He may be a destroyer, but he has the brains to think not to attack the same titan twice. 

Btw, the turtle could be Kamoebas 

Wow, thicc Gigan.

i dunno.

Hmm..

I really like the size and scale of Godzilla

Sweet

This film was amazing. There were parts in this movie that stood out to me as poster for example: The First fight with King Ghidorah and Godzilla was awesome to witness. The sky fight with Rodan and Ghidorah was amazing as well. The last scene I really liked was with Godzilla walking towards Ghidorah in the Burning form. Really hyped for Kong vs Godzilla I can't wait until that comes out!

That is so Gamera there is no debating that. The design on the back is so similar to Gamera. Gigan looks pretty crazy though and I would love to see him in a new film. Kumonga is just a spider so yeah.

I first became a G fan in the 90s during the heisi series. I loved the destruction and fighting and I've always loved Godzilla since I was 4 I just loved Godzilla and I still do. 

The part I loved most about Godzilla KOTM was when Mothra hatched, it was so moving to see her on the big screen looking so beautiful!
My favorite monster was also Mothra, she’s been my favorite since I was little! She’s so cute and despite looking delicate is a tough fighter!

Well, I guess I was the poor unfortunate soul who did find comments and reviews like this. I’m glad people are taking this discussion well, cause I felt like the living incarnation of the Anakin What have I done meme.

I think if anything this will pull toho away from the deal, assuming Godzilla vs Kong doesn't kill it Box office wise. They see in their home country there's still an interest for Godzilla, and without the legendary deal stopping them from making movies themselves it seems pretty obvious they would come to the conclusion that them having the rights back would be more lucrative, allowing them their own release schedule.

Is this a complaint the film is having levied against it? I read quite a few reviews since I've seen it and I never saw anything about pedaling an "SJW" agenda.

I have watched Godzilla: King Of The Monsters yesterday with my younger brother.

There are so many epic awesome scenes in the movie. It was really thrilling when you watch the movie in IMAX sounds. It felt like I was really in the movie itself.

What I loved most of the movie was the final battle in Boston. It started when Madison was on the roof of the baseball arena using the binocular to watch if King Ghidorah will arrive. Than later the hurricane clouds of King Ghidorah arrives. Madison runs inside and look outside from the windows from behind a desk and than King Ghidorah landed in front of the building on the baseball field. King Ghidorah responded on the ORCA device which Madison used to call King Ghidorah to Boston. King Ghidorah destroyed the speakers on the roof of the arena where the Alpha call cames from. Madison hide beneath a desk and came out of it and King Ghidorah saw here. Madison said: "Holy shit!!!" and runs away and King Ghidorah fire at her with their lighting powers and she escapes but the baseball arena totally destroyed. King Ghidorah sees her again and preparing firing at her and Madison starts to scream and from that moment just at time, the blue atomic ray of Godzilla appeared hitting King Ghidorah and than you heard the iconic original Godzilla roar, from the original Godzilla movie in Japan. Madison turned around and saw Godzilla arriving Boston with a whole army joining him with Monarch and it's argo behind him and beside him. I will scip a bit and go to when the Argo and some jetfighters starting firing missles towards King Ghidorah, but Ghidorah defends himself with his wings and than Godzilla and King Ghidorah started to run toward each other to attack. The 2 collide and causes a wave of energy. Godzilla's radiation started to increase that will cause his death to explode. Godzilla is out of time. Furtherwise the whole battle in Boston reminds me on Godzilla: Final Wars, where in the end Godzilla had to fight off all monsters in the movie. The end of the movie made it even more iconic when all the other titans arrived and bowed for the King Of The Monsters in the middle of a destroyed city and then Godzilla roared and the movie ends.

Godzilla King of the the monsters was the best modern-day example of what godzilla is. A unstoppable force of nature who will fight to the death to protect the world. 

I'm team Mothra because she is the perfect example of a goddess and queen of monsters. She is beautiful and graceful both in life and death. She could go toe to toe with Rodan and even aid godzilla even in death. She is my absolute favorite Titan in the current monstervers. My favourite moment is when she is born in here Imago form. The music and one of the twins watching her wings open up. And her showing the beauty of her wings and sounds. She is truly the Queen of the Monsters.

I wonder how Godzilla II's performance will affect TOHO's dealings with Legendary and Warner Bros.

Obviously, the final verdict will only be solidified fully once we see how Godzilla vs. Kong does, but I do wonder what TOHO's executives are thinking after seeing this film's overall performance. Did well in their home territory, but internationally things haven't been great.

Gmkgoji,
According to Matt Frank they weren't high.

It's also likely they made much more money from the Netflix deal which distributed them worldwide. Chances are the movies probably made money before anyone saw them due to the Netflix deal.

GMKgoji: yes, SO radical I know.

There are just so many awesome, breathtaking, jaw dropping moments in King of the Monsters when it came to the action and visuals. While I won't at all deny that the story with the human stuff was merely serviceable at best, there were one or two moments, ESPECIALLY with Serizawa's final moments with his icon before sacrificing himself for the greater good, it was the deepest moment for a lot of Godzilla fans such as myself especially with the context behind all of it, knowing his origins and how his character was in 1954 alongside everything else is what made moments like that so special to me. While I would've liked it all the more if we had more moments of monster action in the daylight, it is so beautifully shot and stylized to a point where it almost doesn't matter to me. The call backs were also a nice touch, right down to bringing back the Godzilla theme in it's full powerful glory, and even including a remixed version of the Blue Oyster Cult song in the end credits. Speaking of which, while I was admittedly expecting a bit more out of the post credits scene, what we did see from it leaves me kind of excited to see where it goes from there. All in all, THIS was the Godzilla movie I was wanting from Legendary for a long time now, and in my honest opinion, it was well worth the wait. Long live the king!

The theme of Godzilla king of the monsters is healing the planet

I wonder what the budget for the anime films were?

A lot of this movie was GREAT. My favorite moments being first Serizawa's final moments with Big G, it was the deepest moment for a lot of people but for me the context behind all of it, I knowing his origins and how his character was in 1954 almost brought me to tears. I loved all the monster fight scenes, Rodans death by Mothra. Mothra's full adult form revail etc. The most epic scene of course being Fire Godzilla absolutely destroying Ghidorah and watching Ghidorah try to heal up after getting hit etc. I loved the film. The after credit scenes were Great.

I loved nearly everything about that movie. I loved the mixing of old Godzilla movie tropes but how it was not overwhelming to anything new. Also the old roar making a come back was spectacular. The old titans looked true to the material, even Mothra showed personality looking like an actual moth. Then the new titans they showed brought me back to the old 1998 animated series. I definitely need to see it again without my kids!

There are so many jaw dropping moments in King of the Monsters and the most stand outs for me are the insane visuals, cinematography, monster fights, how each main kaiju has its own personality and just how epic the scope and scale is in general. Personally I'm so glad and grateful that my dream Godzilla movie is brought to life with Godzilla: KOTM, to see Godzilla and those Toho monsters in such a high quality CGI and SFX is simply a blessing. 

Also love the fact this movie expands on the Monsterverse, the introduction of brand new kaijus and the depiction of godliness in them.

My most favorite Titan is of course Godzilla, it's the true Alpha titan that bears the symbol power, a true force of nature and how he fought for us in the darkest hour, also love its new design in KOTM, just beastly and godly every angle you look at it.

WOW!

Gigan!

I feel like they will make a biomechanical kaiju mixed with DNA of Ghidorah and MUTO. They will make him the kaiju that will keep Skull Island in check until he breaks free of human control due to his Ghidorah DNA. Well, this could be a new origin story for Gigan. He shares the red eyes with MUTO so why not. He can also possess enhanced EMP to neutralize any energy attacks from other kaiju. 

OOO

Yeah, they released the film around way too much competition. KOTM would have made a lot more were it released in march.

I have a feeling the bottom image is concept art for other titans, that spider may have evolved into scylia (something like that) which we see in KOTM. and as for Gamera, I don't think TOHO would allow them to use Godzilla and Gamera at the same time. But that is undoubtedly Gigan!

I became a Godzilla fan when I was about 5 years old. my first movie was Godzilla VS. Space Godzilla. I Remember my dad just randomly putting it on and I was hooked. after I watched it he just slowly introduced me to the other kaiju monsters and by the time I was 8 my ultimate favorite was Mothra. She will Always be My Favorite out of all of them. I think the other monsters are cool as well but I'm a Mothra Fan forever.  

So... was the giant spider titan that we saw in KoG not  the "Kumonga" of the monsterverse??

The more interesting question for studios now is whether they have any strategy to counter the power and influence that RT have over moviegoers. Don't get me wrong, film criticism have their place in academia and among the general newspaper readership, but to let it have such a hold on decision-making for moviegoers...not so good.

The only idea studios seem to have is to delay the lifting of review embargo as late as possible. But that in many cases would just seem to back-fire, as it will confirm for the audience the movie will get bad reviews. 

Maybe releasing at least a week earlier could've helped.

Would've had to deal with Endgame's legs, but it might have been manageable before the other films started to really release.

I kinda agree in that a March release would've been beneficial. Even releasing it alongside Dumbo and Shazam would've helped gained the movie some solid ground since neither really shook the box-office.

At this point, audiences have seen way too many movies in theaters in the last month. And we have Toy Story 4, the next Spider-Man (now a lot more bigger after the impact of Endgame) and The Lion King. Like someone pointed out, most people decided to strike off Godzilla from their list.

The Rotten Tomatoes scores only helped make their decision easier. Had the scores been higher, we probably would've seen an uptick on Sunday as well as the second weekend.

There are three things I absolutely loved about Godzilla: King of the Monsters and they contain spoilers so ... 

First, the parallels with th 1954 original Gojira were very respectfully done, especially the relationship between Serizawa and Godzilla. In both movies, the two "die" beside each other with the Oxygen Destroyer bringing suffering to the monster. In Gojira, Serizawa dies killing Godzilla while in KOTM, Serizawa dies reviving Godzilla. The relationship has evolved and more truly reflects his character while simultaneously honoring the legacy of the original. And Bear McCreary's rendition of Akira Ifukube's iconic theme was faithful to the core.

Second, the motivations of Emma Russel and Alan Jonah were interesting. An eco-terrorist who wants to cleanse the world of polluting humans so that mankind can co-exist peacefully with these Titans who will restore natural order - Mike Dougherty wasn't kidding when he said the movie will tackle serious themes. There are debates about humanity's role in the wake of these monsters and people side with either thought but those conversations are interesting amid the scale of the movie, even if some didn't come across as well as they could have.

Finally, the cinematography in some places is jaw-dropping. Whether it's Ghidorah's arrival to Godzilla and Ghidorah squaring-off and the resulting landscape shots, or Mothra flaunting her majestic wings or Rodan escaping the volcano or Ghidorah healing himself atop the Volcano ... the movie is full of visuals that deserve to be in as big an art-book and seen in as big of a screen as possible. Just the sight of Godzilla rising with the original theme hearing will give you goosebumps.

So those were the big takeaways from me. Many other interesting things as well but I guess I've already written long enough.

I had godzilla 1998 on VHS as a kid, I would watch it in bed at night as I failed to sleep due to insomnia, I was too lazy and indecisive to pick a new tape to watch every night so I would just rewind the same godzilla tape and rewatch it every night, it was my favourite movie for my entire childhood (coincidentally it is on tv right now as I type this)

then a little later in life around the age of 10 I saw King Kong vs Godzilla on a movie channel and I loved it though thought it was cheesy and terrible but I loved it all the same, that same channel would play that one godzilla movie constantly and me and my grandmother would watch it together, laughing and cheering during the fights

in the end though what really won me over and made me seek out the rest of the Toho godzilla movies was seeing all the different incarnations of the monsters and seeing how many unique monsters there were, it was like pokemon but giant and I loved that