Just Watched GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE!! Instant Reaction & Review

the thing with the glove I had a moment  where what causes him to acquire the glove I guarantee you mark my words right now when  you watch Ryan George's pitch beating you are going to hear him say super easy barely  an inconvenience which I'm very torn on because it's really funny to me the the the way  that that is handled but it is the kind of that you will see and you will raise an eyebrow  out wondering why they chose to do it like this citizens of the re reject Nation we are here  at IMAX

HQ once again just got out of Godzilla multiplied by Kong we're going to give you our  full spoiler-free review right now but before we do that I just want to say a big big thank you  to IMAX for having us out movie of this scale featuring characters this darker and it is the  Premier way to see the movies they shot it with IMX cameras too oh did they yeah see some of the  expand aspect ratio CH most of the monster Styles it is larger than life so do yourself a favor and  go get that expanded pi

cture and sound quality in your life Godzilla XCOM what is it about and how  is the movie well we're picking up a little bit into the Future Past Godzilla versus Kong uh there  is outposts established in the hollow Earth there is kaiju activity Titan activity on the surface  and a new threat is lurking from deep within uh some of the Uncharted areas of Hollow Earth and  all that is about to become our problem what you think of the movie G do you like it I would say  that there are definitely Par

ts I either really liked or really loved and there are parts of  this movie that I also feel very strong about that I really did not like stuff that surprised  me about that I didn't like especially after having loved the first movie now right now guys  there is a massive reception going on over there the director is over there really nice guy I got  to ask him a few questions as well staring at us right now we're just over here because it's a lot  quieter part of me is tempted to be like oh he'

s so nice I should only say only positive thing  really makes you want to and getting you know a clipse into how these things are made it does  make you appreciate you know what is being done and achieved however you got to be honest about  the film and there are a lot of things that I really genuinely did love about it obviously you  know it goes without saying the action is great it's bombastic it's allows moments to get weirder  he loves his spinning winding shots in this one represent repres

entative of the hollow Earth  our world being turned upside down often times I think you know some of the more Fantastical  camera movements in these kinds of movies can detract or can make things feel a little less  scopic however in this Ace I really appreciated a lot of the more out there camera choices they were  making especially in one particular sequence that involves unique gravity I will say yeah there  are parts of this movie that kind of reminded me of things that James gun were was g

oing for  specifically with Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 in terms of the tone the music choices some of  the specific visuals that actually Happ happen in this movie as well a lot of the things that  it seemed like Adam Wingard was holding back on in the first one or showed some restraint he kind  of went all out on for certain sequences and the main element like the question that I actually  asked him is there a party that's tempted to make one of these without any humans at all and  just d

o it with the monsters because there are so many sequences in this film that are teasing  the trailer like with Kong and this little ape called uh suko even sequences with the scar King  the other Apes that you see there I really love the dedication to having scenes even a couple of  scenes with Godzilla like the scene when Godzilla and Kong first encounter each other there's a  really funny moment there that doesn't feel out of place and it's it's within the how the characters  respond to each

other that I love those scenes go on they gestate for quite a significant period  of time with no subtitles just body language and behavior you watch character growth happen you  watch emotional changes occur in the scenes you watch relationships velop intensity tension  so much of the actual emotionality that you grasp on to in this film is in these scenes where  there's literally no humans in sight it is strong and it's impressive it's like watching a silent  film almost but you know there's l

ike cool sound design happening or like one of those old Ray  hary hous kind of things where it is just yeah just the beauty of the animation and the creatures  interacting with each other and feeling like even though you're aware that this is a fantasy and its  movie Magic like you're peering in on some kind of sci-fi by Nature not documentary cuz obviously  they're more characterized than that but yeah you feel like you're peering into a forgotten land  of some kind that it's doing them I me I

love the character of suko uh easily the relationship  there is essentially the heart of the movie and while I ultimately didn't think in in isolation  the scar King was that great of a villain uh his first scene with Kong though is absolutely an  excellent scene that I really do feel like a lot of people will be raving about and rightfully  so and I will say too there are surprises that happen in this movie without saying a lot there's  a there's a lot more monsters than the trailers would eve

n have you believe like there kind of a  lot at times it goes maybe didn't e this many but there are but there are a significant amount more  that allow for a variety of different set pieces locations of where to have your fight scenes go  down our sets and whatnot it's pretty cool the main thing you show up for when you want to see  a monster movie and you get the monster Mayhem action it delivers it's like really cool and  there are some surprises as well like I said with certain uh monsters t

hat do appear and  it looks really good all the way around like for as many of these again big CGI effects driven  movies as we see nowadays I am the kind of viewer who often times will see scenes on stuff but  for a lot of this I felt like they realized it and they animated it so much but this kind of an  animated movie that stuff I thought came together cuz yeah there were a lot of great visuals where  the color palette was Exquisite to behold there were many moments too that kind of reminded

me of  of a bunch of different Sci-Fi movies I was even talking about Beneath the Planet of the Apes at  one point moments that felt like sci-fi B movies feels like Journey to the Center of the Earth  not to punt it up but like Hollow Earth does have this really fun Fantastical science fiction  kind of majesty about it that feel like one of those old ventro movies also a little Temple of  Doom in here little Temple of Doom a little bit of Peter Jackson's uh King Kong movie as well here  are my g

pes for this movie that sound like you're beating a dead horse at this point cuz you kind of  hear this with all the movies at the monsterverse the question with every monsterverse movie is the  same question and each one comes out with a wildly different balance between the answer Godzilla  versus Kong the first one I really love that movie The only thing I really don't like about  it the storyline with Brian tyon Henry and Millie Bobby Brown like I really hate those characters in  that movie i

n particular I pretty much think it's a near Perfect movie for for what they're aiming  to achieve and there's a great buildup happening and now enough has been revealed over the many  many months in marketing that ah this is going to be like a team up movie with it's that's why  it's called Godzilla xcong they're going to have an enemy that a common enemy they have to fight I  really felt like the human storyline in this one was especially cumbersome okay I get you're trying  to infuse a little

bit something here like someone gave you a note to try to give more emotionality  here with Rebecca Hall and guia make it more of a motherdaughter relationship let's get Dan Stevens  in here to give it a little more levity and while everyone is is technically like they're they're  showing up it really just bored the hell out of reality it takes up so much of the movie and  it can get so boring that it made the action less exciting cuz you have two and a quarter of  a plot that eventually conver

ge whereas the last movie well while there's a lot of human stuff in  there it's intertwined in a more focused way with Godzilla and Kong throughout whereas here it  takes a while before it all coalesces so a lot of the journey can kind of feel a little boring  the balance I thought was really off I thought the first movie was more focused like it's a solid  buildup in that first film and here the main plot that's teased in all the trailers that you maybe  you've already heard about you know wit

h having to fight the scar King that comes in like so late  into the it feels like past the halfway point and then by the time you get to the the team up part  of it it just feels like we I'm like weird I feel like they rushed a plot here well it doesn't  feel doesn't feel like they built it doesn't feel like the movie is building toward that  or is about that threat in particular until kind of late in the movie where it appears that  oh yes this will be the kind of main big bad we got a EV or w

hatever yeah it just becomes like  a little unnecessarily complex with a bunch of humanity mythology that just Falls so flat in its  Exposition it seems to be working really hard to justify uh the existence of God's Zilla and Kong  teaming up for a few minutes Godzilla where he's definitely like not the main character in the last  one he's definitely the the supporting character his presence looms always and here they cut to  Godzilla randomly a lot just blowing [ __ ] up or doing something godi

lla in this movie reminded  me of Scrat in the ice age for a lot of it because it does feel like you're watching like some  animated movie where there's this like silent sea plot that you cut back to every once in a  while to be like a comic strip to compliment everything else but yeah just kind of you're taken  back by that fact when you're like oh yeah we cut to Godzilla for like a minute and then we cut away  for 20 he essentially feels like an extended cameo in this movie I don't feel like G

odzilla is trly  a supporting character in this movie and by that standard that part of it is certainly a let down  for a god being a Godzilla fan that that part is a let down it does feel like we had to have Godzilla  in here but I really feel like from what we saw here from what Adam Winger has especially talked  about that his interest don't really lie with with the human characters I think it shows in both of  these movies like they really dive deep into the mythology of the humans at uh at

habit Hollow  work but that's all it is it's just a bunch of exposition in a very kind of mundane sort of way  like I didn't find any of it really to something very familiar and the components that kind of  flesh out that whole plot line are very much like not to spoil anything but yeah it's very  much like a chosen one special kind of we need you to be the link between two societies and and  it's something that is played well by the actors but isn't really that interesting in scripting and  whi

le you're hearing this right now going okay but the things that you're saying are are the things  that are supposed to be like what I'm showing up to this movie for you're saying they're great and  that's all it matters humans are always boring the difference is the for me on this go around the  time dedicated to the humans just really felt bogged down the movies pacing and overall energy  where it felt like unnecessarily conver deluded what it's not really that complicated but it  feels complic

ated it makes it yeah it's weird it's like there's a lot of stuff in now nowadays  especially I think you're apt to just kind of look past because sci-fi mumbo jumbo we all get  it and yet there's something about the way this movie plays certain elements that do like cause  you kind of to go wait a minute though how like in a way that you don't want to be thinking about  because I think a lot of people want to look past that stuff and it may be like this cuz it can be  they could go for the fun

and the weird but then it could feel tonally in conflict with itself when  it is just with our really boring human storyline here I really feel like it lost sight of its main  story it's like it's a simple main story at its core Kong found a home but he's lonely he finds  suko and a bunch of other oppressed apes and he has to free them but that comes in so late into  the movie and ultimately again like I keep saying loses his Focus that emotional connection to  Kong throughout the first one is w

hat helps ground that film and here loses sight of what  it's aiming for its emotional Center to be and that little bit goes a long way to actually making  the entire film like how the last one proved an enjoyable experience throughout and it makes the  action more engaging and rewarding as well and I loved all the things when it was just with the  monsters it's just I I want to looking back on the experience I I was so annoyed by you see you  feel like you had had the experience I had watch Kin

g of the monst because that's the one for me  that that aggravated me watching the hum again I can absolutely see how you would feel that way  I thought all the actors did a good job but I think the characters don't bolster it's like with  GDK they found a way to make it so that like it seems almost aware that yeah no one's here for  the humans but they're able to bolster what's going on in an appropriate feeling way whereas  here it does feel like we're going to focus on these people and their

Journey until a point  where you realize like not really where this movie's hard end anyway so it feels like they're  kind of patched and there are moments where you feel like oh you know their discovery of Hollow  Earth maybe there's a way that these two stories can synthesize in a very satisfying way and even  the stuff with Gia and Kong while still endearing here you know loses some of that because it's  not as ingrained into the DNA of the story well that was the part that gave the last movi

e heart  with the with the humans was the relationship with Kong and Gia and like one thing I wish this movie  really carried over was because I thought the last one really did have just enough heart and more  importantly had a surprising dose of a sense of wonder where here they are clearly infusing some  plot stuff attempting to replicate that feeling but it's it's just not quite hitting and can at  times feel more like a a note because it's what the last movie did to hit rather than than a  g

enuine beat they sort of supplement that with the storyline with Kong and suko which has a lot  of surprises in there there actually some really nice surprises of what they did I was like this is  playing playing out at all like how I thought it was going to play out cute merch character isn't  just cute merch character it was a nice surprise like there's a real growth in trajectory with  those two characters that I thought was excellent you don't get Gia and Kong you get suko and Kong  overall

I'm like no it's absolutely worth watching IMAX because when you get when you get the visual  pop in the sound I'm like wow this is really great to look at and if you can see it with like a  crowded house that's Jack to be there I have a feeling this will be really fun still yeah and  the final battle everything like yeah and and sure is the wow factor a little bit over because  it's like when you watch Avengers the first time you watch Age of Ultron and you're like yeah I've  seen The Avengers

coming we know it's possible so w factor is a little bit diminished definitely  prefer the first one but there the elements that they brought here with just the visual story  telling I'm like wow I I I didn't realize I was going to have such a massive takeaway with  how strong stuff is really striking and I and I and I do like Adam Wingard overall take on this  world you know even again with the gripes that we do kind of share with this movie to one degree  or another I still like his take and h

is Vibe about how he chooses to color things and needle  drops that he chooses whatever and and ways that certain things are characterized I would love  for him to do a third one and like do no humans honestly I think people would actually op for that  like of course you want to see more monsters but at times it does become a little bombastic to  to the degree where it never got there but it was almost at a Transformers level for me where  it's like all right we're cutting into Godzilla and some

thing fighting I don't know what's going  on here but sure why is that thing too like you're used now the further we get into time and Cinema  the the more used you are to seeing you know Big Stuff smashing other big stuff there were times  when I was afraid I was going to slip into that for the remainder and it would frequently pull  me back with something exactly that movie that's what I mean I never the movie I never got to a  point where I was like you lost me I'm checked out like it would b

e a back and forth I was having  and that's where the dichotomy is happening for me right now there's still stuff in here I would  love to see Contin or expand exactly exactly I I really do think the the action again great even  if it's at times I'm like okay A little little much but brain is turning into liquid yeah I feel  like my brain's getting smashed but the visual storytelling I thought was excellent I'm done John  I give it a s out of 10 s out of 10 that's not bad I think I might I might

agree with you I'll go  7.28 what did you think of Godzilla X Kong where would you rank it among the uh legendary Warners  monster verse films what mathematical symbol are you looking forward to Godzilla and Kong doing to  each other next leave it all down in the comments that might be 6.5 uh oh we should I know I'm  hovering we should do check back in review I'm thinking about what I don't like something like a  6.5 I feel very strong about what I really liked and I feel very strong about what

really bored  me and and that's the one emotion I really don't like feeling is Bored yeah that's the worst thing  especially movie like this annoy is second worst Bor is top so to me I'm like bored is the worst  so so uh yeah and I I was I I I will say I was I was bored at this man the R I was like man  I love this cat you I can St [Music] rejecta