Everything GREAT About Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire!

This movie doesn’t have the deepest story, but it honestly does not need one

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How could you not win the detail of Godzilla being the only one not off balance in zero G and in fact being more in his element being able to swim through the air!

Using YouTube’s fucked copyright claim system as a makeshift Shazam is one of the most genius things I’ve ever heard

I like how Godzilla not only uses the Roman Colosseum as his bed, but he also tries to take the path of least destruction. He climbs over the shortest part of the building as best he can, he walks through the river instead of a straight line through the city.

9:18 that's actually super respectful that they avoided littering the forest with fake feathers, all the more reason to love this movie

“He gave Tiamat the old Hawk Tuah” was not the line I was expecting 😅

8:14 Little fun story of my life: I got Dengue literally 2 days before this movie came out, i spent 15 days in bed, with fever and vomit. So i had to block myself from the wider internet to avoid getting spoiled. Now you can imagine how i felt seeing this scene! DO. NOT. LET. A. ALIEN. MOSQUITO. TOUCH YOU!!

The shot of Godzilla and Kong leaping to battle against Skar King and Shimo is one of the most BEAUTIFUL things I've ever seen! The amount of hype at that point was electric!!

4:57 You know Lee is really desperate to know something if he's willing to get a copyright strike! That's dedication, and that's why we love this channel!

Something a lot of people don’t pay attention to in this movie is that almost everyone had an arch, even the monsters. Dr. Andrews learned to respect Jia’s choice whatever it may be. Jia finds that she does belong with Dr. Andrews. Trapper doesn’t have one, but he was great from the moment he was on screen so I didn’t mind. Bernie grew by seeing that recording everything for followers isn’t as important as the lives of others, in this case the Iwi people. Kong learned to become a father to Suko and a leader for his kind. Suko developed by accepting Kong as a father and overcoming his fears of the Skar King’s second in command. Godzilla learned that Kong is not an enemy, but an ally, although Mothra needed to knock some sense into him for that. Lastly, Shimo went from being enslaved for most of her life to finally being freed and making the choice to help Godzilla and Kong defeat her enslaver.

Something I don't think gets mentioned a lot is how this movie manages to avoid the typical "we used to date but it didn't work out so we hate each other" plotline with Irene and Trapper. It's established that they know each other cause they dated in college and made sure to point out that they broke up because he didn't take anything seriously but that doesn't mean they hate each other, they simply don't work that way, they tried but are better friends. Maybe there was some drama when they broke up but it's refreshing to see a film acknowldge that people can still get along despite their history, they were drawn to each other in the first place so it makes sense they still enjoy each other's company but they just didn't need all that relationship stuff to enjoy it.

5:02 — Best guess, it’s a Holkenborg piece that didn’t make it onto the OST selection, which will probably show up on the recording sessions

The best part was how everyone was expecting Suko to be this poor innocent baby and then he turns out to be this vicious little kaiju-Gollum. 😂 Even when he turns over to Kong's side he's still a scrappy little fighter who kills several of Skar King's goons 😂😂😂

I like how at no point in the battle does Godzilla seem like he's actively trying to really hurt/kill Shimo, like he understands that she's not doing this of her own free will.

13:38 Also FYI, Shimo is an ICE LADY, not an ice guy.

I'm still shocked that the filmmakers were able to keep Mothra's appearance in this movie a secret. It was a genuine, and VERY welcome surprise. I've only been to the cinema twice since December. The first time was GODZILLA MINUS ONE. The second one GODZILLA X KONG. Two brand new Godzilla movies in a timespan of less than six months. I feel like I died and went to nerd Heaven.

10:19 I kept thinking "Boy" every time Kong had the axe over his should like that. That was very much the dynamic I was getting - Norse God of War 15:40 I expected her to be back since she died. I mean Mothra once died in the first 5 minutes of a movie. The bulk of he movie there was a giant plant by the coast. Then Mothra came back from the plant. Mothra is magic. She always comes back. This was the ideal situation to bring her back in this incarnation. 16:27 Mommy Mothra saying: "GODZILLA! Stop hitting your little brother and listen!" - I still cannot bring myself to think "Shimo". "Cryolante" seems like a way more fitting name to me.

Are we gonna get an “everything great about Godzilla Minus One” because that movie absolutely deserves one

something I love as a long-time Godzilla nerd is the purple pink shade Godzilla becomes after his cross-country kaiju hunting trip because for as wild as it is, its kind of a Godzilla reference. in Godzilla 2000 and through a lot of the millennium era Godzilla movies, his spikes did become larger and pointier almost crystalline with a purple hue to their tips. its like... whenever theyre looking for new ways to interact and engage with the monsters theyre keeping core elements there from the sources. they're finding ways to reinterpret and reinvent but keeping core elements for each of them to let you know "this is what sets them apart". Godzilla is a fundamental element, he's a force of nature that cannot and will not be stopped, he is constantly finding new wellsprings of power and using it to show how insignificant we are in the grand scheme. everything that comes against him loses and even a defeat is merely a temporary setback Kong is an animal, plain and simple, he needs enough enrichment and social engagement to be kept happy or he will lash out and a big part of ensuring that he is okay is that human element. at our best humanity has the role of caretaker for the animals around us, we form zoos, we form wildlife preserves, we form organisations to preserve and protect animals. however at our worst we displace animals into worlds they no longer recognise and that are no longer made for them. Kong is a reminder that animals and us share a world together. Mothra is a more spiritual element to the forces of nature. that everything lives even after were gone. yes right now we are the dominant species but hundreds of thousands of years ago so were dinosaurs. the roman empire thought it would last forever, the pyramids were built over 2500 years and we are still closer to the death of cleopatra than she was the completion of the pyramids. because Mothra is in a constant state of death and rebirth (much like a phoenix), she reminds us that all things are temporary and that in a moment we can all at any point die. that if we don't take care of the world the world WILL keep on spinning without us