![]() ![]() ![]() “In terms of the sizes of the monsters, what I will say is that when we were making the movie, I think the asset sizes were about -I think that Godzilla was around 350 feet tall. Kong director Adam Wingard has a pretty good estimate. Next time, someone should let Kong hit the snooze.How tall are Godzilla and King Kong? Luckily for the citizens of Earth, the monsters aren’t real, so it’s difficult to pinpoint their size exactly - but Godzilla vs. By they end, they appear exhausted, and who can blame them? They're likely tired from emerging again and again from the depths to play out our fantasies of destruction. King Kong, born in stop-motion, and Godzilla, once a guy in a suit, have swelled so much in design and texture that they now appear like veteran movie stars who have moved on from their B-movie origins. Shot with a lustrous glow by Ben Seresin, the movie is soaked in the glossy sheen of CGI. Kong” is so much a totem to the powers of advanced technical wizardry. It's not just a predictable foe for the kaijus, who have cycled through countless metaphors over the decades. It covers a lot of mileage only to ultimately fall back where so many action blockbusters do: at the hands of a melomaniac tech CEO. Kong” makes its way, via Antarctica, to the center of the Earth. With a debt owed to Jules Verne, “Godzilla vs. It's a scheme so obviously destined to run afoul and turn a metropolis into ruins that you can almost hear Hong Kong pleading, “Please, no.” When Godzilla makes a seemingly unprompted attack on Apex, a high-tech cybernetics company ruled by Walter Simmons (Demián Bichir), a plan is hatched to use Kong to lure Godzilla to the surface and then track Godzilla to his power source - an undiscovered center-of-the-world realm theorized to exist by “hollow Earth” proponent Nathan Lind (Alexander Skarsgård). Ilene Andrews (Rebecca Hall) and her deaf adopted daughter Jia (Kaylee Hottle). Kong." That sunny morning waterfall, it turns out, is an enclosed habitat for the locked-up ape, who's watched over tenderly by Dr. For the mighty Empire State Building-climbing beast, it's a new, more humble home.Īnd it's home he seeks in “Godzilla vs. I saw it at home, with a five-year-old in the next room asking why the big monkey was so angry. ![]() Kong,” debuting Wednesday, is playing in theaters and streaming simultaneously on HBO Max. One difference this go around: You can see the film immediately on either a Godzilla-sized screen or a salamander-sized one. Kong” supplies appropriately silly sci-fi escapades and a few good rounds of monster mayhem, including, in their first meeting, a ballet of battleships on the open ocean. Wingard ("You're Next," “The Guest”) gives us some solid supporting characters (Brian Tyree Henry as a podcasting conspiracy theorist on the right track is the best of the humans) and some slick sound design. This time, the ultra-heavyweight prize fight between the Coke and Pepsi of the MonsterVerse doesn't break any new ground. (Before the Japanese studio got involved, the original template had Kong meeting Frankenstein.) Godzilla and Kong first squared off in 1962's “King Kong vs Godzilla” (Kong got first billing back then), the Toho Studios film that mashed together monsters both East and West. Kong,” directed by Adam Wingard, follows in the very big but quickly forgotten footsteps of the 2014 reboot “Godzilla," 2017's Vietnam-set, “Apocalypse Now”-tinged sequel “Kong: Skull Island" and 2019's “Godzilla: King of Monsters.” But, of course, the lineage is much longer than that. ![]()
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