A Mildly Long MonsterVerse retrospective...
sonictiger
MemberGiganFeb-26-2021 3:28 PMTo be honest, I've always had mixed feelings about WB and Legendary's MonsterVerse. Sure, it sounds ambitious to bring together some of the greatest movie monsters of all time into a shared universe. But I guess what Warner Bros is doing right about the marketing for Godzilla Vs. Kong is that they're largely sidestepping all the connective tissue of the franchise. Some elements do remain like Titan-Hunting organization MONARCH, Madison Russell, and Mark Russell but it's largely a standalone movie (besides the fact that Godzilla: King Of The Monsters and Kong: Skull Island might need to be watched). But anyways lets get to the retrospective. I never watched Godzilla 2014 because Godzilla barely shows up until the third act, and who wants to watch that??? So onto Kong: Skull Island, that movie is not only the strongest MonsterVerse offering but also it has the most original plot. It definitely is vastly different due to the fact that this isn't just the same King Kong story again. It's a new, unique take on a popular character and therefore it works. There's almost nothing wrong with this movie and therefore is the best MonsterVerse movie. Onto Godzilla: King Of The Monsters. This movie is good, but not great. The dialogue is bad, the human characters are total dinguses (besides Madison), and the fights are a bit repetitive. But this movie has a lot of good going for it as well. It has an ambitious story (even though it sucked), the family drama element is executed pretty cleanly, and the CGI is great. This movie did a good job of setting up Godzilla Vs. Kong, and it also was more fast-paced and better at doing the non-monster scenes than the previous two entries. But anyways on the divisive response to the series, it is a lot of weight to pull for GvK and hopefully it will be good. My verdict so far is that it had a choppy road to Godzilla Vs Kong, but hopefully the movie is great. Because that's what the MonsterVerse needs in order to survive. A massive, kaiju-sized success.
