I finally got a chance to see this and surprised there is no thread. I guess I am the only one 
If it’s still playing near you, it’s a really fun adventure movie. A tiny bit slow in spots but I liked it, although in fairness, the original King Kong is one of my favorite movies of all time so I may be a bit bias.
A head’s up: there is a scene after the credits (and the credits are really really long).
I saw it a couple of weeks ago but didn’t know about the post-credits scene, so I missed it. Meanwhile, I sat through the entire credits for Logan, which didn’t have one.
I thought it was great. Really enjoyed it. Samuel L. Jackson was pleasantly crazy. Movie wasn’t afraid to keep killing characters as it went on, which is good. But John C. Reilly really tied the movie together - it would have been maybe 2/3 as good without him.
www.mediastinger.com has all the info on during/after credits scenes. It’s generally got info on a new movie by the day after release.
Does it give the info without spoiling anything? I just want to know whether I should sit through the credits (which take forever on these movies) or go to the bathroom?
Yes, it will tell you if there’s a scene or not, possibly with a very vague description (e.g. “sets up the sequel”). A more detailed description is hidden behind a spoiler tag.
FWIW the scene just explicitly connects this movie with the Godzilla movie from a few years back (the movie proper just strongly implied it).
I thought it was a glorious comic book of a movie, better than the 2005 version of Kong.
Oh, they come out and say it directly, as long as
You remember that the two scientists chasing Godzilla were from MONARCH as well.
John Goodman even called Kong a Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism.
He
also references how the nuclear “tests” were actually a cover for them trying to kill something, showing one of the pictures used in the Godzilla movie. The connection was quite explicit, I thought, but wasn’t actually critical to understanding or enjoying the current movie. Quite well done, IMO.
Hey, this is a “Seen It” thread, why are we spoiling stuff? Rosebud was Kong’s sled.
Terrible. The monsters are relatively few (compared to the '33 or '05 versions) and completely underwhelming. The people (especially those in the military) are stupid beyond belief. The big ape has almost no personality and is virtually an after-thought in his own film. The Vietnam business couldn’t be more cliched if it tried, and the movie itself is too dumb to work as allegory and too hackneyed to work as a fun adventure movie. I would say the best thing about the film was the coda, but if the other films that might emerge in this possible franchise are as bad as this one, why even bother?
The one good thing about the film is John C. Reilly, and even what they do with his character in the end is pandering and lame.
I liked the movie and the stinger. I believe I identified every creature in the cave paintings.
Mothra, Rodan, Ghidora, Godzilla (the TRUE King of all monsters) and one more that I’m drawing a blank on right now, pretty sure it wasn’t Anguirus.
A bit late, but saw it.
This is the second time in a week I’ve been shocked. The first was Beauty and the Beast, the second is this.
I loved this movie! It was excellent! I’m so surprised.
It was everything that Jurassic World wasn’t.
So impressed. I give this movie 9/10 for sure.
I liked Peter Jackson’s Kong movie, but this was a lot better. I bet Peter Jackson liked this new one a lot.
Definitely just the 4 you mentioned. If, for nothing else, because the credits spoiled the after-credits by saying “Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan and King Gidorah are all copyright of Toho” etc. etc.
So the real question is: Is Gidorah going to be the baddie in Godzilla 2? Or are they going to make him the Big Bad that Zilla and Kong team up to fight in Godizlla vs. Kong?
Saw it today with the kids. Didn’t expect much going in but I surprisingly enjoyed it. There’s not a lot there but it does do a good job of presenting the new universe of monsters. Everyone’s right that John C Reilly is the one that sold the movie.
Still, it made me look forward to the next one in a way that the latest Godzilla didn’t.
Thought it was good and everyone really got into their roles. Except Tom Hiddleston, oy!
Someone should have told him this was a movie role and not a modeling gig. He spent the whole movie preening for the camera. The look in his eyes of “I hope they’re getting my good side, does my hair look perfect, would I look better if I put one foot up on this stump?”
I think he thought he was the star of this movie.
My wife and I cracked up when there was a scene of him basically posing at the front of the boat, gazing off soulfully into the distance with his shirt unbuttoned, etc., and than the time jumps forward a few hours, and he’s standing in the exact same pose. As if he spent the entire river journey glued to the bow of the boat trying to look as pretty as possible.
But I really enjoyed the movie. Most fun adventure flick I’ve been seen in a year or more.
Just seen it. A good passing of the time. The monster right at the end of the credits that Godzilla was fighting, the one with the tentacles, was that Cthulhu?