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I’m watching “Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” and this whole thing with monsters bonding with white women will never not gross me out.
I'm about twenty minutes into this film, and I hate it so far. They're brought in characters from the 2014 film, but for some reason, they're making them side characters and centering this random white family.
It's just such a boring formulation. The film so far is overly sentimental. I hope the focus turns to a focus on the implications of the existence of these monsters for the rest of the world as well as the military response. Otherwise, I think I'll really hate this one.
I really don't think I'm in the mood for this. 21 minutes in and they're already used two Black women as side characters who are sidelined by emotional men. And now we're getting a white man's outburst in an official meeting, and we're supposed to feel for him. I don't.
If this was a film about a kidnapping and a family needing to be saved, all of this would make more sense, but this framing is totally unnecessary for a monster film, and it feels like the filmmakers thought people wouldn't connect to the action without a nice white family.
The don't make it clear at all who the main family in this film are, except that they were present during the 2014 attack. They just have power and some sort of general expertise, but the exposition is weak. A lot of this film is built on immediate "natural" connection and trust.
Just give me the fucking monsters!
I don't like Millie Bobbie Brown or Kyle Chandler in this film.
I do like that I can actually SEE this film. "Godzilla" (2014) was fucking impossible.
There's too much suspense and delay in these Godzilla film. The exciting thing about "Kong: Skull Island" is that people were dropping like flies at the beginning, so you never knew what might happen. So far, there is nothing surprising about "Godzilla: King of the Monsters."
In terms of sound, the music is so much quieter than the sound effects associated with the monsters that it ends up feeling disconnected.
Wow. This scene where the Black woman soldier in charge tells everyone exactly what she saw, and no one believes her until the random white man at the center of the film tells them he actually saw the same thing, is really pissing me off. I hate this film so far.
48 and a half minutes into the film, they're finally giving expository information they should have offered at the beginning of the film. All this other stuff was useless.
This woman is basically trying to be Thanos. "We'll be returning to the natural order." We have to save the world from "the human infection." This is more interesting. But this stuff should have happened within the first 20 minutes.
Ugh. They ruined it. They made it about how this woman is delusional, thinking "restoring balance" using these monsters will bring back her son, while her (ex?) husband level-headedly reminds her that what she's doing won't bring their dead son back.
Kyle Chandler's character keeps saying things that it doesn't make sense for the other scientists to not already know, but they frame it like some sort of revelation. Lowkey, this is a form of white supremacist propaganda in film. No one knows obvious things but the white man.
Nearly an hour into the film, we finally get a scene where the military goes up against a monster and people start dying, but the only people dying are unknown soldiers in planes. No emotional connection. No interest.
One cute line: "We must keep out faith in God-zilla."
Are the older films about seeing the monsters as gods?
Oh, Joe Morton is in this. This might get good (over an hour into the film).
Oh, come on! When Ghidorah is introduced, Kyle Chandler's character says, "Ghi what?" And then, the other white male good-guy character says, "I thought she said gonorrhea." That's not even hard to pronounced. This shit is just racist.
There are so many little things in this film that say, "This is a movie for white people!" It's annoying and distracting.
Lol. Tell me they're not going to "save the world" from Fenway Park. Boring.
They have a shot of what seems to be a monster destroying Notre Dame, which burned down about a month before this movie was released. So, that's kind of interesting.
They also have a few lines about the monsters behaving like a pack responding to an alpha male (Ghidorah), and I'm pretty sure alpha male theory has been debunked. So, that's also kind of interesting.
The main Japanese characters just gave a heartwarming speech, and the main white male characters asks, "Did you just make all that up?" And he says, "No, I read it in a fortune cookie once." This movie is definitely for whites only.
They've made this movie all about this white man and his family, but when a character finally has to be sacrificed to save everyone, he isn't the one to put himself in harm's way. Of course.
So, Millie Bobbie Brown's character just walked into Fenway Park and into the control room without anyone stopping her? No sort of security systems or locks?
The music in this film is atrocious.
There are giant lizard monsters fighting in the middle of Fenway Park, and I'm supposed to care about this white man calling out for his daughter? Can this movie stop? Show me the fucking monsters.
Mothra pops up to join the fight, and then another flying monster pops up to fight Mothra, and what do the filmmakers do? They switch over to the humans' reactions to the fighting, and then they dive back into what the humans are doing. No one is watching this movie for them!
Godzilla and the other monsters are literally just background characters in this film.
Now, as Godzilla continues to fight Ghidorah, I'm getting shots of the two main white characters with their daughter in the middle, signaling some kind of family reunification that I literally care nothing about. This film is a waste.
The sound effects they use to show that Godzilla is "heating up" are so terrible. Goodness.
Okay. That film was kind of terrible. I was really excited for it. I thought I'd like it. In some ways, it was actually worse than "Godzilla" (2014), which was very bad.
I guess I like the song they used for the credits...
I also just want to say that Charles Dance was totally underutilized in this film.
I hope the upcoming film, "Godzilla vs. Kong," moves back in the direction of "Kong: Skull Island." There was something about both "Godzilla" and "Godzilla: King of the Monsters" that really just didn't work. But "Kong: Skull Island" was exciting and had great characters.
