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curl-6 on 09 April 2021
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mZuzek said:
curl-6 said:

Well, speaking just for myself as a kaiju fan who watches the films primarily for the monsters, I still prefer them to come packaged in a full length movie to give the monsters context and establish the world and story around them. I didn't find the human drama in this particular film very compelling but I'm still glad there was some to provide a setup, otherwise it would've felt rather disconnected and incomplete.

One thing about this... from these recent movies, I felt like King of the Monsters was really good at telling a story just between the monsters. They were so expressive and the ways they looked at each other and interacted with one another felt really real, I think if you were to remove the humans entirely, you'd still be left with an understandable 'story'. Can't say I felt the same way about this one.

Yeah KotM was really good at that, which is why I think  I might like it the best of the Legendary Godzilla trilogy, (though Godzilla 2014 is great too) it was a real crowd pleaser and understood that a key draw of kaiju films is the monsters have personality. That said, I personally feel all three films understood and successfully did this, KotM just did it best.

JWeinCom said:
curl-6 said:

Well, speaking just for myself as a kaiju fan who watches the films primarily for the monsters, I still prefer them to come packaged in a full length movie to give the monsters context and establish the world and story around them. I didn't find the human drama in this particular film very compelling but I'm still glad there was some to provide a setup, otherwise it would've felt rather disconnected and incomplete.

I felt completely bored during most parts that weren't fights. And I don't think the context added that much to it. This wasn't the tragic tale of two beings with different ideas on how to create a better world ultimately left with no way to reconcile their visions and succumbing to their violent impulses, all the while losing sight of the world each sought to create. It was more like "you big, me big, let's fight."

Honestly I probably wouldn't pay for it either way (saw it on HBO max), and I likely would have felt a bit ripped off if I paid to see it in theatres. But, if I had to pay to watch either watch a 15 minute version with just the fights or pay the same amount to sit through the fights and everything else, then I'd rather just see the fights then have to sit through the rest.

Except I might accept the scenes with Maia in them. Not that they really added much to the story but she was very attractive.

Different strokes for different folks I guess; I can't say I was particularly enraptured by the human scenes in this film, but as a genre fan I view them as a necessary component of the formula.