House of the Lizard

Khanivore: Cutest beastie in the pit.

Sam Neill

RIP you goat. 😭🕊️🙏

I hope your name is tributed in credits of GxK: Supernova like Haruo Nakajima in KOTM.

In Godzilla vs. Kong, the big bad was a robotic Godzilla clone.

In Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, the main villains were an evil Kong clone and an ice Godzilla clone (that latter one was even more apparent in Shimo's early concept designs).

And now in Godzilla x Kong: Supernova, we have a Godzilla clone again. (Bear in mind, Legendary paid Toho for the rights to use their kaiju twice in the instances above. Of all the ones Legendary picked out of a varied selection with original designs, they went with Mechagodzilla, and then Spacegodzilla.)

Doesn't it seem like the Monsterverse films are getting allergic to using original or even distinct monster designs for their movie villains?

'Cos if they think that original villain designs are why Godzilla: King of the Monsters bombed, then I think they really need to look further back at what Godzilla 2014 and Kong: Skull Island had in them.

MechaGodzilla was an instigator for the Godzilla vs Kong battles, for the most part. One of the reasons why Godzilla was acting out was to destroy it. And wasn't fully unveiled until the very end of the movie. But once it is fully unleashed, Ghidorah is effectively at the helm. You can even heat their roars faintly when it bursts out of the mountain. So in this instance, the similarities to Godzilla were surface level and almost inconsequential at the end of the day.

And Shimo's case is similar as well, because although one of her bases was the idea of an "Ice Godzilla", that was evidently really early in her development, and changed substantially until we reached the final product. And we also have to consider the fact that she wasn't even a full on villain either. Rather, she was an unwilling antagonistic force at the control of Skar King, who himself is also a unique specimen in his own right.

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favorite color: black i do NOT WANNA HEAR IT

currently watching: the oldest view series on youtube

currently reading: … way to call out my reading slump thx (nothing)

current obsession: the 80s actually. YES AGAIN STFU

currently working on: OK I GET IT I’M LAZY JESUS (nothing) i promise i will try to get over my writing slump soon

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favourite colour: green :3 (and also pink and blue)

currently watching: "crime pays but botany doesn't" videos on youtube >:D it's so great; i learn so much; like 101 plant facts and how to insult things in devastatingly hilarious ways !!

currently reading: yeah, also kinda not much tbh...

current obsession: the matrix (it's coming up to a year that this franchise has been rotating in my head lmao) + tomodachi life: living the dream (!!! ah ha ha ha i've been playing it nonstop since i got it (which is why i've been kinda quiet on here lately oops), though it is, in all honesty, partly a vessel for my matrix obsession XD i have started branching out to other things: like, i made team free will from spn and the mane 6 from mlp + the married couples have started having kids so there's just a gang of next gen kids running around lmao) (okay i'll stop rambling about tomodachi life now X3 !! )

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current obsession: Ghidzilla on the mind 24/7, but I'm also dipping my toes in the Dark Crystal fandom.

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Currently watching: Been meaning to watch some stuff too, especially Iron Lung since I wanna see how that one turned out.

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I don't mind the idea of Godzilla being portrayed as an amoral or antagonistic force of wrath - honestly, I generally prefer a villainous or necessarily-evil Godzilla to a heroic one.

What I DO have a problem with is that the Adam Wingard-directed films in the Monsterverse flanderise the same Godzilla that was established in 2014 and expanded on in KotM, ignoring what those previous films' directors said about him, ignoring and forgetting about his established emotive connection to humanity from KotM in particular, and taking much away from his mystique. All to change him from a "last samurai"-type figure into a hotheaded heel.

I honestly think Godzilla being provoked to Tasman Sea fight by the Orca-Z, and stopping his attack when the ship plays dead because the shutdown turned the Orca-Z off, would've been better in more ways than the final take. It would've provided a reason for Godzilla to attack Kong there and then while keeping true to his "last samurai" characterisation from the pre-Wingard films, without flanderising Godzilla into an Ape-hating heel like Wingard's films seem so bent on doing.

Also, the Orca-Z in general would have been a nice way to continue that plotline from KotM and show the repercussions.

On the other hand, I very much think the final film's "Ozymandian" version of Mechagodzilla killing Ren and Simmons was better than the unused alternate version of Mechagodzilla's awakening (where Ren would have deliberately uploaded Ghidorah's consciousness into Mechagodzilla after having Simmons assassinated, and Ghidorah!MechaG would have remained Ren's unwitting pawn all the way to its destruction). The version that we got instead fits much better into the Monsterverse's themes of human hubris and nature being beyond our control than the alternate version does, and it lets Monsterverse Ghidorah keep their agency and uncontrollability which was an important part of their character rerailment in KotM, instead of repeating the "agency" part of Toho Ghidorah's villain decay. The version we got is also more original than this alternate "mastermind Ren" version, since the latter version just sounds like a cheap rebrand of Batman vs. Superman's climax to boot - and from what I've read of BvS's plot, GvK's story already has too much in common with it as is. Also, Simmons' film death is just so amusing! :)

That having been said, I wish the other parts of the Hayworth subplot - him hunting Team Godzilla and being killed by Bernie at Hong Kong - were kept in, especially with the rumours that Hayworth would have been the very same Apex spook who arranged the death of Bernie's wife, making him and his death by Bernie's hands an appropriate part of Bernie's character arc.

* I likewise think they could have kept the unused scene of Ren approaching Nathan at the bar and talking to him about his father, just so that we actually get some characterisation and possible motives of Serizawa Evil-Jr. into the finished film.

Regarding how the KotM Titans would have left the surface for the Hollow Earth due to the Orca-Z instead of because they just backtracked the mass awakening offscreen. While I still would have been frustrated in this unused take that the surface returns to being free of active Titans again after all the advertising KotM gave us of the mass awakening being the "dawn of a new world of monsters" and that Nothing Is the Same Anymore, I wouldn't have been nearly as pissed at this as I was at the "mass awakening just gets completely reversed back into hibernation offscreen inbetween films, as if nothing in KotM except Ghidorah's severed head meant anything at all" final take which we got where instead. :P

They should have kept in the stuff about Madison acting out-of-character due to her KotM PTSD to make her behaviour in the film more sensical and give her trauma more weight. Even if I'm a heathen who thinks on the other hand that the cuts to the Russells' GvK scenes were worth being spared more of Mark spending this film being an insufferable, self-pity-filled twit all over again.

On one hand, after KOTM underperformed, the studio stepped into the making of GvK directly to shift things a bit, making it safer and more assured of success. And this only happened because GvK was already deep into development. Had it not been, chances are they would have scrapped everything then and there and put the franchise to sleep for another decade or so. And because of the "Black Sheep" status KOTM now had, any direct references to it were probably scrapped too.

And on the other hand, you have Wingard himself and his personal policy of not letting his movies hit or exceed the two-hour mark, even to its detriment. He states that he wants his movies to be a dense, compact experience, with every minute of it giving you as much to chew on as possible. And to his credit, this strategy did work, and gave us the two most successful movies in the franchise, but it also prevented us from getting the full scope of the narrative it could have had.