Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)

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Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 06-02-2019, 01:16 AM:

CINEMA: Regal East Warren, Wichita, KS
AUDITORIUM: 14, SEAT: G15
PRESENTATION: Warren GRAND standard slope seating auditorium with Regal Orange is the New Crown Roller Coaster Vision
PRESENTATION PROBLEMS: None [Cool]

RATING: Two stars (out of four)

THE PLOT: A teen burns the bacon. Wackiness ensues.

There’s a whole lot of WTF going on here (even one of the characters points this out) until the movie takes a breather about 30 minutes in to explain itself. After that, at least we understand what’s going on, but it’s not much fun to watch. The monster battles are vague at best and the battle footage keeps getting interrupted by cutting to human melodrama happening in the background as if they were undercut on the special effects budget and they had to fake it.

Mothra makes an appearance. Poor Mothra deserved better than this.

Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 06-06-2019, 11:24 PM:

This movie suffers from the malady that a lot of ensemble movies have. The filmmakers have to find something interesting for each of the characters to do and that's not easy to accomplish with a cast of (in this case) 17 monsters.

I found the story rather hard to follow, too.

But there's sure a lot of stomping around and roaring going on.

A one-word description of this movie would be Bombastic.

A lot of people around here want to see it, based on the number of people who have been talking about the poster and pointing it out to each other. Hopefully they'll actually come to the movie.

Posted by Jonathan Goeldner (Member # 4854) on 06-25-2019, 11:24 PM:

honestly the best moments of this were the knock 'em sock 'em scenes between Ghidorah and Godzilla, Rodan versus the jet planes was pretty rad too, but everything else was just peanuts. 3D was okay and the Atmos sound rocked, was I entertained? oh yes!!