Kong Skull Island: Apeocalypse Now

[@nyapiece2807]

This movie is actually a pretty big deal in Vietnam because the majority of the filming actually took place in the country, which is fucking rare since the government is really strict with letting foreign movies, let alone a Hollywood blockbuster be filmed. The director even became a Tourism Ambassador for Vietnam.

[@Windows11Official]

As a Vietnamese, I agree. It was a very big deal. Mission Impossible was planned to show Hoi An but of course the government declined after the read the scripts, forcing them to move to Bangkok. This led a lot of controversial and people kept complaining about why Vietnam wasn't popular for movies yet while Vietnamese movies were overwhelmed with "instant noodles" movies Update: The Vietnamese government is now collaborating with Hollywood studios to film in Vietnam more so there's hope

[@legato7521]

@@Windows11Official Well, blame the gorvernment i guess.

[@What-ish]

​@@legato7521pretty sure he did?

[@PerfectlyUselessComment]

The rest of it, mainly the big monkey skull was filmed at Kualoa Ranch in Hawai'i, alongside hundreds of other movies.

[@aprillies6305]

​@@Windows11Official Lmao, does the gov still let Tran Thanh cook those noodle? not sure if it true but i remember reading somewhere that the aftermath of this movie's production was a shit show. Gov even tried to demolish the set at some points.

[@TyphoonTYUIOP]

*"I hate the smell of Napalm in the Morning."* - Baby Kong (1973) I think I dunno..

[@DinoRicky]

It takes place in 1973

[@TFFAN16]

I always think of the Sodom song when I hear that line

[@m4rc3l0fl0r3s]

c'mon man, you needn't be this funny, i just spat my water onto my laptop! damn

[@lylelylecrocodile2538]

@@m4rc3l0fl0r3s I hope your laptop is ok

[@m4rc3l0fl0r3s]

@@lylelylecrocodile2538 Thanks, thanks! It's alright. No issues as of now. Being that funny should be illegal. 🤣

[@zacharymccoy7091]

I love the reaction that the Skull Crawler gave when he knew the guy was going to blow himself up. Bro sacrificed himself for literally nothing.

[@staidenofanarchy]

Same dude who was just eating an MRE after the heli attack like "that was unprecedented, we did all we could given the situation" lol

[@jacob4920]

I liked that character, so I was always sad when he died like that.

[@legna3407]

It also shows how much bigger of a threat the adult skullcrawler is compared to the smaller juveniles. Thanks to more experience it knew something was off instead of just eating him like a juvenile would

[@B0mbshell_]

@@legna3407 Bro saw the prey walk towards him and immediately got suspicious. Smart boi. Established the crawlers as much more dangerous than just dumb giant monsters.

[@UndeadSlayer5]

And then the actor died as well what a way to go for nothing

[@JonathanMartinez-ei4up]

Fun Fact about the Skull Crawlers, they were built off of a monster from the original black & white film, that was made just to show up in one shot. It was when Kong knocked over the log bridge, and the main hero was hiding on the cliff. They had a two-legged serpentine creature come out of a cave real quick to raise the tension. Than it just went away. Now, its one of the most iconic villain monster designs.

[@AadiKattyayan-ib1jt]

I thought they were the dudes from temple run

[@JonathanMartinez-ei4up]

@@AadiKattyayan-ib1jt good God-zilla, those skull apes from temple run would have fit in perfect, posted up in some ruins on skull island.

[@karpatinefeherklara807]

I love the big one

[@felwalkr_94]

@@AadiKattyayan-ib1jt last I checked, those were weird monkeys with skulls on their faces.

[@AadiKattyayan-ib1jt]

@@felwalkr_94 yeah , but the resemblance is uncanny

[@rossdavis3890]

Look. I don't actually know how much you delved into the director, Jordan Vogt-Roberts. You did go into basically how he hadn't made any new movies since Kong Skull Island. There is a very good reason for that. Besides the gundam and solid snake movie you talked about, which I believe he is still working on, in between those two periods of time, he was a tourism ambassador for vietnam. During that time he...got very heavily assaulted in an attack against a night club he frequented. Afterwards, he had brain damage because of it and when he recovered he kind of just went 'Full-on Batman' trying to get justice for the people who were injured/dead. I will not spoil the journey for you, but it is a very interesting read.

[@M0b1us_118]

Well that explains why the Metal Gear Solid movie is taking so long to come out. Although, to be fair, I have no idea how you’d even be able to tackle making a Metal Gear Solid into a movie considering the numerous exposition dumps that are like 20 minutes long each.

[@naiknaik8812]

holy shit

[@atomic747]

spoil? you act like it's a movie. just tell us.

[@rossdavis3890]

@@atomic747 The reason I say 'spoil' is because it's a history that you get invested into and if I put it all out there, I feel like I'll remove the emotional impact it should have. Suffice to say, it just involves going against big time crime bosses from Canada.

[@Death_Korps_Officer]

Wait, the director became Venom Snake?

[@Truck-kun11]

This film has the most solid scene in the entire Monsterverse in my opinion: Hank returning home. The entire film you think he's going to die or sacrifice himself for the rest of the group as is usual with this type of character, however...That doesn't happen. He survives, he returns home, meets his wife, sees his son for the first time, watches a baseball game with a beer in one hand and a hot dog in the other and gets a deserved happy ending.

[@afunkymonke]

Don't forget that he also basically tells his family to kick rocks so he can watch the game lmao the fact they aren't sitting next to him on the couch was always funny to me.

[@EspenSGX]

That really was lovely, wasn't it?

[@Fuzzy_Barbarian]

Happy endings are underrated. Feels like too many writers just avoid them for the sake of avoiding them.

[@naomithornhill2079]

Like if that scene almost made you cry like me😢

[@Moshaaver]

Well, does he survive the horror of Godzilla: King of the Monsters or Godzilla Vs. Kong?? He'd be safer on Skull Island

[@grfrjiglstan]

“Give me a character who loves photographing war crimes.” _sounds of Civil War in the distance_

[@twisted_fo0l]

Its interesting you say that, because to me watching civil war felt a lot like nightcrawler.

[@paulenan9636]

A movie that had nothing to say about Civil Wars but was a surprisingly apt mockumentary about adrenalin junkies

[@darwinxavier3516]

That's the one! I knew we recently had a bad movie with that premise but I couldn't quite remember it.

[@davemac9563]

Yawn, it was boring 🥱

[@Sgt_Joker]

Hey, it's literally me!

[@superiortoall22]

“Is that a monkey?” Is my favorite line from the movie

[@jacob4920]

Yeah, lol. Poor dum-dum couldn't even get the species of Kong right, before he died brutally, minutes later.

[@Marvelfanatic3658]

​@@jacob4920 tbf, literally no one in the franchise has called Kong a Gorilla lol. Some do call him an ape, but most just call him a monkey lol

[@osmanyousif7849]

I also do find it funny how they got two actors who were from Straight Outta Compton, to say the most funniest lines. “We just got attacked by a monkey, the size of a building!”

[@joshjames582]

@@jacob4920 Actually, taxonomically speaking, apes are technically still monkeys.

[@codymcginnis9990]

My favorite line was was King Kong said "it's Konging time, humans" and looked that the camera

[@jwroot]

What's even better is that director Jordan Vogt-Roberts actually got to be featured in Screen Junkies' Honest Trailers to talking about his movie. And guess what? He held no shame in admitting his movie's flaws and shortcomings. His helicopter rant had me *howling* on the floor. I wish more directors did what he did.

[@godzillapark9075]

Him appearing in honest trailers was actually the result of CinemaSin's awful skill Island video, I'm pretty sure his rant about helicopters was a reference to house CinemaSins sined there being a lot of helicopters multiple times

[@grfrjiglstan]

It’s nice to picture John C. Reilly on a couch somewhere during the events of the Monsterverse, watching Kong take down rogue monsters on the TV and going, “I raised that boy.”

[@masterofdoots5965]

Kong was the son he actually got to raise

[@TommasoFirmini]

"Aye son, you see that giant monkey doing the undertakers signature move? I taught him that in the 50s"

[@benwasserman8223]

John C. Reilly's performance in Kong: Skull Island deserves more appreciation. He really is the heart of the movie and way more dramatic than you would expect. The fact that he actually makes it home is a refreshing twist in this genre. And the way the Monarch series retroactively set this film up helps the story too.

[@motherplayer]

Feel the same with Sam Jackson in the film too. By all accounts, he should be in full on cruise mode taking that paycheck, but he actually did a good job in representing his character's frustrations over feeling like he didn't get to put his best foot forward because of the heads, and seeing Kong open that wound again makes him want to do it right, regardless of if he dies or even if he kills Kong. All the same, he'll just feel like he finished the fight proper this time.

[@jasonguarnieri4127]

John C. Reilly deserves more appreciation in general.

[@Marvelfanatic3658]

Ok

[@davemac9563]

When he was working with Paul Thomas Anderson, I feel like that was when he was showing his true acting chops. I love his comedic era, but I feel like he’s at an age where he should go back to more dramatic roles

[@ideologybot4592]

Seriously, he does. Watch Carnage, where he holds his own with Christoph Waltz, Jodie Foster, and Kate Winslet. The man is a talent.

[@申月営無営月無営有申]

The 360 camera movements during the fights in this movie were IMPECCABLE.

[@ryancarter2959]

Honestly the cinematography during most of the action scenes is genuinely great

[@comixproviderftw_02]

It’s kinda funny to see how Kong has more or less became the main character of the Monsterverse in terms of GvK and The New Empire. Not bad for an ape that was best well known for getting shot off of the Empire State Building.

[@anubis8586]

Ehh Godzilla is still the star of the show, no matter how much the movie expanding universe revolves around Kong or has plot revolving around Kong. Godzilla will always be the Main Attraction as much as I like Kong.

[@ChristianEditor337]

The next movie will focus on godzilla

[@iambuhlockay8007]

@@anubis8586That’s not true in terms of box office. Kong always does better in that regard. The highest grossing Godzilla film of all time is GxK, which is a Kong centered film.

[@Icy-Freezer160]

Kotm would've gotten a lot more if it weren't for the competition around that time

[@peterandle]

IT SHOULD BE GODZILLA

[@quattrobajeena8623]

17:43 The Iwis being revealed as people who communicate telepathically in Godzilla x Kong is still one of the wildest retcons I've ever seen

[@Flash-FireCC]

Agreed! Telepathy was reserved for the Mother's twins but now it's not that special anymore. I bet once it gets revealed so many people are gonna say "that's just like Jia" or "didn't Jia have telepathic powers?"

[@quattrobajeena8623]

​​@Flash-FireCC Kinda feels like the telepathy part was just a bullshit excuse to compensate for the fact that they ran out of ideas on what the Iwis are supposed to say or how do they communicate lmao It was prior established that Jia communicates through sign language and she was born and raised on the island so she isn't really a telepath.

[@Flash-FireCC]

@@quattrobajeena8623 Yup and now it's wasted. Hopefully we don't get more of that in the upcoming films.

[@kasaibouF29]

That's not a retcon, that's an addition.

[@EthelJung-j5w]

I think the intro is parodying Vietnam movies. It leans so heavy into that cheesy aesthetic and constant reminder with music. Then what happens? All of that dies after they meet Kong. Soundtrack shifts.

[@theredandblueyakuza]

Personally I watched Kong skull island blind,no trailers no synopsis nothing, I thought it was just going to be about some soldiers who went to the island where Kong was from and basically face those horrors and the dinosaurs but without Kong this time, boy was I pleasantly surprised, so this switch in atmosphere hit me even extra because I thought that Vietnam war style aesthetic with wise cracking soldiers but with an island of monsters was going to be the whole movie then that scene happened when they saw Kong standing in front of the helicopters, my jaw dropped, since then I've been watching thriller and horror movies blind, always enhances the experience when you're just as ignorant as the characters in the movie about what's going to happen

[@m_winewood]

@@theredandblueyakuzait’s the best way to watch. Find out the movie is for you if you like thriller/horror and go in blind with no further information

[@dragonace119]

This is a bot.

[@DutchDecalutzy]

Why did King Kong join the army? To learn about gorilla warfare.

[@c1ph3rpunk]

Quit monkeying around and get back to the video.

[@kingleech16]

You monster. 🤣

[@doctorx2105]

It's just that the enemy was going ape.

[@SixPieceNoNuggets]

See yourself out please.

[@Lumberjack_Linnie]

I hate you for making me smile at something this stupid.

[@jackacartledge1947]

What I love about the Monsterverse is that each movie gets more batshit insane than the last.

[@liamphibia]

Yup. To the point where they forget how grounded their first film started off. Lol. But we're cool with it.

[@justzack641]

One day we might actually be able to see Destoroyah on the big screen again and I can't wait for that peak

[@whathell6t]

@@liamphibia Basically the Showa Era which even Ishiro Honda, Tomoyuki Tanaka, and Eiji Tsuburaya established that path after creating THE essential J-Horror film. They were happy to have the films cater to children which I’m glad they did since music were the best thing to come out of the route. But it didn’t happen overnight. It slowly made the Godzilla franchise be more comical, eiyuu (heroic), and spectacular.

[@3takoyakis]

Its similar to fast and furious Each movie is more crazy than the last At least monsterverse stay to its core

[@marken816]

@@3takoyakis Not sure about that. 2014 Godzilla is grounded catasrophe movie, the one that came out this year, the empire whatever was just goofy as hell

[@dontshootmex5588]

"Viet Kong" is one hell of a thumbnail XD

[@doktor3196]

Bruh!

[@miltonjuniorsantoslordelo5983]

"Viet Kong" "Kong: Apeocalypse Now" Codie went bananas this time

[@Marvelfanatic3658]

World War Kong

[@richardarriaga6271]

​@@miltonjuniorsantoslordelo5983Call Super Mario!

[@osmanyousif7849]

I guess you could say there’s experts in gorilla warfare….

[@treefingers6572]

"There's one." **bird noise** "Sounds like a bird but it's a fuggin' ant." As someone who hasn't seen this movie yet, that's a fucking hilarious gag, really caught me off guard.

[@gluever54]

Neat worldbuilding too

[@treefingers6572]

@gluever54 yeah they don't even have to show the thing for you to imagine it's size, how it sounds up close, and how vicious it probably is. Great world building indeed.

[@jackrider4428]

His editing style gets me crying out of laughter in each video. This man is gift from heaven.

[@LKYHGaming]

Something about the way this movie just has such a distinct directing style that honestly made the movie that much more memorable.

[@seabob337]

It feels joyfully shot to me a lot-like JVR was just going "can we do that? we can? ok great thats in the movie now" Compared to a lot of modern movies where the camera doesn't get up to much Skull Island is just a bounty.

[@hopegalaxy]

We need Jordan Voght-Roberts back In the MonsterVerse.

[@seabob337]

@@hopegalaxy yes we do

[@UG3017]

The size scaling in this movie was PERFECT My personal favorite was when Kong went to drink water. To him, it was just a normal drink... but to us to it looks like a waterfall. That single scene alone blew me away with how perfectly sized up everything was.

[@chance757]

and it was downhill from here. this and pacific rim are some of the best examples of modern monster scaling there is!

[@godzillaandstuffproduction9383]

​@@chance757agreed! I think Godzilla 2014 also handles the scale impeccably

[@Kaiju-bm4ts]

@@godzillaandstuffproduction9383 *looks at godzilla being too big to walk through the golden gate Bridge which would realistically require him to be well over 600 feet tall to do when the water depth underneath said Bridge is deeper than he is tall* 💀....g14 has good cinematography but it too exaggerates it's scaling, all kaiju movies do

[@godzillaandstuffproduction9383]

@Kaiju-bm4ts they also upscaled Kong massively in KSI I believe. It's not a matter if depicting these things only in their canon height, it's depicting them as the incomprehensibly massive creatures that they are. I stand by my statement of G14 being a great example of giving kaiju their weight.

[@joshaboi7467]

Now that Wingard is out, I really hope the next director gets the scale back in order like this again. I don't mind the campy tone, I just want the scale to be consistent and feel big.

[@vaclavmacgregor2464]

Fun Fact:Its the only installment of the Monsterverse thus far to be nominated for an oscar(Best special effects)

[@nopizza4you]

13:45 the thing is, Kong is a teenager in this movie. He did look like suko proportionally when he was as young as suko, except more gorilla than orangutan. Also, take a closer look at Kong in this movie and then in The New Empire, bro’s torso is so massive now compared to what it was in this movie, and his fur is a lot more grey instead of stark brown, which was also how he was in this movie. I feel like there are plenty of changes in kong’s appearance from Skull Island to TNE, it’s just small changes that show the difference between a teenager and a 40-50 year old, which is essentially the age difference we have for Kong in this movie and Kong in TNE, meanwhile suko is an adolescent, a toddler, just without the stress-induced dwarfism that the great apes suffered from on skull, which was a very hostile environment when the skull crawlers were a numerous threat.

[@Emoney1122]

Finally some one explained it that stress/skullcrawlers made him mature quicker

[@hopegalaxy]

*Boy*

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Suko is like a son to Kong, as Robin is to Batman.

[@sheeringobject]

0:27 how is this a rabbit

[@hereticseraphim73]

Because he said so

[@Screamus]

It's comment bait that you fell for.

[@AnonymousYouTubeconsumer]

The worst part about this movie is John Goodman’s death. He’s a super important character for the Monsterverse and if you’ve seen _Monarch: Legacy of Monsters_ you’d wish he didn’t die due to his importance, but also because he’s just such an interesting character with some pretty incredible stories to tell.

[@Kaiju-bm4ts]

Ksi was made when monarch wasn't even made yet. Monarch just grabbed a character who didn't do much in ksi and gave him more of a legacy prior to his death

[@TheMadTurtle]

He was old as shit in this movie, which was set in the 1970s. He would have probably already died from old age when the monsterverse proper started.

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

Bro wrote his comment in MLA format 💀

[@AnonymousYouTubeconsumer]

@@TheMadTurtle not really, John Goodman was probably only around 50-60 years old by the time he went to Skull Island, it’s definitely possible that he could have survived to at least 2017 and seen the events of _Monarch: Legacy of Monsters_

[@camarofish344]

That’s how life is sometimes

[@Jack-sy8mr]

One of my favorite parts was Jordan Vogt-Roberts tearing cinemasins a new a hole and then going to Honest Trailers to show how you actually critique a movie

[@markricheard1870]

Honest Trailers are also Corporate tools but good on them at getting his words out there. They know how to roast the competition.

[@Demigodking]

Wait what happened

[@Jin-1337]

Cinemasins was a joke anyway. they just find random crap to whine about that doesn't really seem like it should even be a problem and then turning it to a problem just to add in a point. All that points does nothing in the end and it's just a number no one really cares or look up to.

[@TheYardninja]

At first they were fresh and funny but then it just devolved into them sinning stuff that they misunderstood or didn't pick up on, and sinning movies for stuff they praise other movies for ​@@Jin-1337

[@JJ-eg4zm]

​@@Jin-1337I think they were fun in the beginning just pointing out production mistakes and the like. Somewhere along they got really meanspirited and nitpicky.

[@TheMonkeygoneape]

"give me a war photographer that loves war" isn't that just Kirsten Dunst in civil war and Dennis Hopper in apocalypse now?

[@M0b1us_118]

Well that and Dennis Hopper probably also wanted photographs of apes in war based on this clip (No worry, this ISN’T the Rick roll): kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5XVnXSChrt4ga8si=rwJ44GgSXW3eH-JC

[@TheMonkeygoneape]

@@M0b1us_118 haven't looked at the clip yet, but please tell me it's super Mario bros

[@M0b1us_118]

@@TheMonkeygoneape Yep.

[@TheMonkeygoneape]

@@M0b1us_118 amazing. A MONKEY!

[@Don-ds3dy]

The "group of people go to location full of monsters and get killed off one by one" is my favorite genre. When I saw the trailer for Skull Island I was absolutely livid cause it was practically like my childhood fantasy

[@Oinker-Sploinker]

They need to do another one exactly like this on a bigger scale, Kong: hollow earth

[@Don-ds3dy]

​@@Oinker-Sploinker meh, the instant teleportation stuff kinda ruined the hollow earth plot for me. and they do get picked off one by one every time they go down there.

[@trinityj1]

I don't know what word you're searching for, but I'm confident you don't want 'livid' unless you were filled with jealous rage that you couldn't be actually in the movie.

[@Specsp421]

There’s a manga by the author of Gundam Thunderbolt based off the video game series Front Mission, called Front Mission Dog Life and Dog Style. It’s a brutally violent anthology where the only reoccurring character is a war photographer otaku guy who absolutely loves war and war crimes. As the manga progresses he goes out of his way to set up soldiers with robots to fight each other with so he further document more war and he monologues about how much he loves it. Good read, I’d highly recommend it

[@seeleagent]

I think the intro is parodying Vietnam movies. It leans so heavy into that cheesy aesthetic and constant reminder with music. Then what happens? All of that dies after they meet Kong. Soundtrack shifts.

[@TherapyGel]

Same! It's a clever subversion of a long-run ing trope. The film just plays into it for a good while.

[@Lysvsyl]

Bad on purpose is still bad.

[@seeleagent]

@@Lysvsyl it’s not bad you’re just overly critical and devoid of joy

[@lweaver2988]

@@seeleagent Yes. the movies annoying opening act deprived us of joy. whether that was on purpose or not is just cope after the fact.

[@jacob4920]

@@lweaver2988 Good thing that movies are more than just their "opening act," isn't it? lol

[@cheech6105]

15:20 i love how this bird getting shot keeps appearing in the video lmfao

[@juliandacosta6841]

I mean that's a pterosaur right?

[@charinaamparogarrido1922]

nope its not

[@dinojack5567]

@@juliandacosta6841 It's a leafwing

[@burnedacrackerontopofwater2491]

that spider scene has to be one of my favorite moments in the entire film with the soldiers bantering about stupid shit but then the sudden "oh fuck" from everybody seeing that soldier guy impaled was the cherry ontop for this film not to mention the spider design itself- spider legs being camouflaged in a bamboo forest is horrifying idea and iirc the bamboo legs suck in the organs of their victims (who are still conscious through the entire thing) this shit keeps me up at night

[@1989eol]

And yet, I am still more afraid of the spiders crawling into my basement at the end of autumn...

[@osmanyousif7849]

I also love how Colonel Packard (Jackson) doesn’t hesitate when filling its head with bullets. Hard-core man….

[@alicepbg2042]

​@@1989eoltbf... those actually exist

[@1989eol]

@@alicepbg2042 Oh shit, I knew I didn't move far enough north. And I thought it was the onsetting winter depression... 📦

[@MrJakeros]

@@alicepbg2042 And people wonder why I stay inside all day...

[@SirPerfectful]

That tree trunk ripping through an Apache hull really was a tone setter

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Huey ?

[@TobeWilsonNetwork]

Glad someone else remembered the big swamp Buffalo. He is at peace even now, meditating in that bog. He and the Logbug meet up for Bridge games on Wednesday.

[@danielferrieri7434]

Apeocalypse. I’m surprised no one has made a movie with that name.

[@dracodracarys2339]

Apeocalypse II: Gorilla Warfare

[@tonybrewer7536]

Just gonna... Quietly.... Scribbled an unrelated mental note... Don't mind me.

[@fahdrightone7428]

Sounds like a atrocious b movie with a shoestring budget made by The Asylum. I demand it's existence, along with it's four unneeded and progressively worse sequels.

[@KirbyJason210]

Well I guess just add the word "Now" at the end and then that's a movie name.

[@nicklafleur7620]

War for the planet of the apes had "apeocalypse now" written on the walls

[@ktandantaktee7]

The aging thing actually makes perfect sense: kids tend to stop looking like kids pretty quickly when they live in high-stress environments and are subjected to a lot of traumatic events. Look up child factory workers from like the Industrial Age, and you'll see a lot of 10 year olds who look like they're pushing 30.

[@oq1106]

I mean, lil'Kong (I think his name is Suko?) also had a pretty stressful life and literally grew up in the hollow earth equivalent of a stone quarry. Not that I mind them having a couple continuity issues in this series, but if Kong is looking like a man because he's stressed, Suko, the routinely abused rape child and slave laborer of the Hollow Earth Monkey king would too.

[@Oinker-Sploinker]

This sentence would look bonkers to someone who has no clue on the monsterverse

[@emanuelpalomares616]

Loki tried to hire Donkey Kong to be his gang: the movie

[@RSG_TheMonster]

Along with Captain Marvel, Nick Fury & Koba!

[@Optimussucks65]

​@@RSG_TheMonster yes

[@shapuku1674]

@@RSG_TheMonster this is an interesting timeline

[@TheMonkePrince]

​@@RSG_TheMonsterI'll give you Fury but Brie Larson wasn't hated, so obviously it wasnt Captain Marvel.

[@optillian4182]

​@@RSG_TheMonsterAnd James P. Sullivan.

[@Axquirix]

I like that that guy's wasted sacrifice is used to highlight that the Skullcrawler isn't just a dumb animal. It's been chasing these guy down to eat them the whole while, and suddenly one of them just offers himself up as a snack? Something fishy about that. YEET!

[@Lykas_mitts]

21:00 her character was so useless that the Chinese audiences called her a 花瓶 (flower vase); because that's literally her entire role in the film, to stand in the background looking pretty.

[@Bebe_Hippo]

This movie wouldve been better if kong turned into optimus primal halfway through the movie

[@Jack-sy8mr]

“I’m gonna turn into a Monke now” -Optimus Primal

[@leithaziz2716]

@@Jack-sy8mr "Truck, Not Monke!"

[@Flash-FireCC]

"Truck, not kill truck!"

[@Bebe_Hippo]

@@leithaziz2716 i do hope people understand that optimus prime and optimus primal arent the same guy Like originally i thought everyone knew that already but the more people i ask the more im doubting that

[@leithaziz2716]

@@Bebe_Hippo Nah, I know. I watched Beast Wars. I'm just quoting the meme. (If you only know about the Maximals from the film, please watch the show. It's very good once you get past the dated CG).

[@nateds7326]

Whatever you can say about this movie, it didn't make everything Grey and Black like every other block buster from the era. Honestly the cinematography and color grading is really great, and again it puts its contemporaries to shame visually.

[@LtnCorrsk]

King Kong, 4 floors high. Godzilla, twice the empire state building. King Kong: "I'm gonna fight this." Good thing Kong had a growth spurt.

[@jacob4920]

Ten Stories is a lot taller than 4 floors. That being said, yes, he definitely had to grow some, to take on Godzilla. lol

[@Flash-FireCC]

He had to do a few laps around the island to get ready for the big showdown

[@alicepbg2042]

The baby kong from the new movie is actually as tall as kong was in skull island... Kinda funny to think about

[@craigrobbins2463]

I really really would love if the size hadn't updated for Kong. He just Shadow of Colossus Godzilla instead.

[@Beebooks23]

The Empire State Building is wayyyyyyyyyy taller than Godzilla

[@genevievelok9496]

I’m gonna be honest, as a Godzilla fan girl, I think the choice to make Kong the narrative lead is a great balance to Godzilla being the powerhouse due to the fact of the type of movies these are Plus, Godzilla got two solo movies instead of one!

[@goldfishmentality]

I always laugh just thinking about how unbelievably unsustainable skull island is. All of the predators can cross the entire thing in like 1 minute, but somehow they can naturally grow to those sizes, and the skull crawlers are ironically the reason Kong even has enough food to stay alive

[@pacoramon9468]

They feed on Hollow Earth radiation.

[@CoracaoAcidental98]

I mean, this the Monsterverse. No creature in this is actually an animal. Basically, all of them sustain themselves with radiation and are something very vague thing from even before life on Earth actually existed. And I am not defending it, is honestly pretty shallow overall.

[@Kaiju-bm4ts]

​@@pacoramon9468 no he doesn't. He isn't like godzilla, he actually feeds on creatures he hunts occasionally. Even skull crawlers despite he hates how they tasted. This is literally explained in the gvk novel and kingdom kong

[@Kaiju-bm4ts]

​@@CoracaoAcidental98 Actually...kong is one of the few exceptions a titan NEEDS food to substain himself. He actually eats animals to stay alive.

[@comradecameron3726]

@@CoracaoAcidental98Honestly hate how they feed on radiation. A: How do they grow bigger then? B: How do they not die of super cancer??? . None of this is intended as a slight against you.

[@tommykaung5882]

I think people really forget how important a good movie with a standalone story within a cinematic universe. I can recommend Kong: Skull Island to my cousin before he even knows about Godzilla or the monsterverse. MCU used to have those before Avengers Age of Ultron.

[@devilmaycryfan7681]

A small detail i really liked about Kong's introduction, he only attacked the helicopters in self defense/defending the island, if they hadn't dropped the bombs they'd all be alive.

[@DavidAnderson-m5c]

Iron Man: We have a Hulk. Loki: I have a Kong.

[@Oinker-Sploinker]

Kong: I have an army

[@EthelJung-j5w]

As someone who's first King Kong film was the Peter Jackson remake, Skull Island remains my favorite purely because thr big ape gets to survive in the end.

[@Kokong]

Can’t believe they made a live action donkey Kong movie

[@bigslorbsofkyrgyzstan5541]

17:39 I remember people hearing about this point in the movie when it came out and were like "wait that sounds so much more interesting, why isn't that a movie instead?"

[@cliffdavidson5096]

Maybe could work as a comic.

[@RemySchrader]

They did, it’s a 1985 sci-fi film called Enemy Mine

[@kingbash6466]

As someone who's first King Kong film was the Peter Jackson remake, Skull Island remains my favorite purely because the big ape gets to survive in the end.

[@IsaiahINRI]

Thank you so much for reminding me that the "Dark Universe" was a thing. That concept is one of my favorite things ever.

[@ajbolt7]

Wholeheartedly agreed John C Reilly’s return home at the end is a genuinely emotionally stirring scene and one of my favourites in the monsterverse movies

[@King63Kobra]

It's really insane to me how, at least on some level, this movie has a driving theme that actually tackles the Vietnam war. The characters you care about are motivated by something to do with war, Kong being pissed off is in a way symbolic of the war, every brutal death as well. It's pretty impressively potent for a movie about big monkey fight, and the visual direction makes this astoundingly clear, too. Speaking of visual direction, coming off of Godzilla 'I can't see' 2014, it was a fucking awesome to see a kaiju movie of this quality with such distinct visuals.

[@thierrydecker8110]

24:21 "Like an angry crocodile" describes it so well in Godzilla x Kong. I haven't watched many of the monsterverse movies, but the way they did him there was extremely funny to me. I personally feel like Godzilla works best as something in between a force of nature and a protector of the earth's natural balance (not that other versions of him can't also be interesting/fun), which is what I think they were kinda going for. But the way it contrasts to Kong is just hilarious.

[@Deepseashark]

yeah because to be fair the spider was wrecking shit before godzilla comes to put in its place. really i feel godzilla had the message something is coming in his head and that he needed more power but wasnt told what was coming so he just kinda attacked everything. he just needed his wife to point his anger in the right direction

[@Flash-FireCC]

That was the point in Godzilla's first two movies but ever since Wingard took over his personality has been completely changed to a raging monster, which is not a good comparison when your frienemy is a smart monkey. Before he was more thoughtful and reserved like how he only used his atomic breath when he really needed to but now he just spams it.

[@boshwa20]

​​@@Flash-FireCC On the other hand, you see with Scylla and Tiamat desperately trying to keep Godzilla's mouth closed that his atomic breath is a big enough threat for them because they know for a fact they cant tank it Plus, the dude is juiced up with more and more radiation with each passing movie. He has the supply for it, and he KNOWS it

[@Flash-FireCC]

22:48 You hit right on the nail with that one. KSI was the ideal way the Monsterverse should've gone with. Great action, plenty of monster screen time, and most notably likable humans and more. Its end credits gave a massive tease for what was to come making Godzilla fans ecstatic for the future and boy were we hyped. I do hope we return to this style because while GvK and New Empire are fun, they seriously lack in substance.

[@thesteelsquid863]

I do agree with most of these, but in terms of raw action I do think gvk still holds the title

[@Flash-FireCC]

@@thesteelsquid863 What I meant was choreography. GvK has some of the best battles for sure but it can't compete with Skull Island's incredible camera work and combat.

[@KlementtM]

15:49 get log bugged

[@whatisoven5225]

Honestly, I prefer this format of content to the alternate history stuff. I really enjoy the alternate history stuff, but I really enjoy hearing you talk about the things you like. And the gags are really really funny. Keep this up man.

[@Gigan007]

Next stop: A mutant lizard allying with a giant moth (Mothra) against a three headed dragon and a pterodactyl.

[@DarkKnightofAnime]

Which is also my personal favourite among the Monsterverse movies although Skull Island is a very close second

[@liamphibia]

And a flying fire turkey too, who's basically the Starscream of the Godzilla universe.

[@Halinspark]

​@@liamphibiaIf you mean Rodan, thet was covered under "pterodactyl"

[@emiriye]

@@liamphibia I didn't know Rodan and Starscream comparison was something I needed and I am glad to be inflicted with this revelation.

[@richteffekt]

22:37 - is everything I never knew I needed. Actual Art.

[@ethanchin805]

A monster’s head getting blown up is the new “I’m an inventor.”

[@RemySchrader]

Guy That Exploded didn’t drop those grenades in flight. Respect 🫡

[@chancegivens9390]

You know... you make a good point about Kong not changing much. I just assumed he was one of those dwarf apes that happened to have gigantism, and I figured in Skull Island he was his species equivalent to a black back( teenage male gorilla) that was about to turn Silverback..... I love the fact that you brought up all of these awesome points throughout the video and showed the character respect. You're definitely one of my three favorite movie reviewing channels, along with Brandon tenold and Decker shado.

[@yserareborn]

This might be my favorite movie in this run; I’m glad you’re covering it!

[@Marvelfanatic3658]

Agreed

[@claytonrios1]

Ah yes. The movie with Brie Larson that didn't cause people to hate everything she was involved with in any capacity.

[@MrMcGrawAndTheBigFeathers]

Why are you pre-firing on brie Larson in the big monkey video Ed: 100 replies in this shit goddamn y'all need to like jog or something find that hobby

[@electricfeverx976]

She must've lost all her PR managers after this film cause man did her public image tank. It's as if the moment she joined Disney, her new team told her to be as confrontational & aggressive as possible.

[@SlapStyleAnims]

I never even realized it was her lol

[@comixproviderftw_02]

Captain Marvel gave her a big ego boost. It’s no wonder why she never became the next Iron Man to lead the MCU.

[@ADR69]

She's a block of wood

[@keinname2481]

18:23 im gonna quote this line IRL

[@trig1582]

Yeah, that end credits scene hyped me up hard. I didn't know that's was actually one part of a whole universe and when I saw those Toho monster drawings my jaw dropped.

[@Dinoslay]

Fun fact, the Skullcrawlers were actually based on a creature that appeared in the original black and white King Kong film, a two legged lizard that crawled out of the chasm that Kong shook the log and the sailors into.

[@BR-jw7pm]

I love the constant Donkey Kong references! Now we need Bowser as Godzilla! 😂

[@EspenSGX]

Honestly, of all the shared universes that followed the MCU, the MonsterVerse is the only one to really succeed. It didn't start straight away with slapping "It's all connected!" on it and the movie that expands the universe, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, is actually a pretty great movie for what it is. Sure, that might be personal, but I loved it. (Maybe also because that movie is as close as we'll ever get to a B.P.R.D. movie.)

[@Stealth86651]

Honestly I love the plot/idea of just monsters in a largely populated area. Could be one big monster, bunch of smaller monsters, both a-la Cloverfield, whatever. For whatever reason I just really like horror in an urban and populated setting I guess.

[@Oinker-Sploinker]

The bad anime Godzilla trilogy had a book where a horde of 1998 Godzillas swarmed France, I hope that they do something like that with the skull crawlers, they are too cool to be left aside as fodder for future monsters.

[@Marsuvee]

I'm a recent year lurker. Gonna pass this video since you reminded me this is actually worth a watch in the first few minutes. I'll be back in a week or two, but do diligence with a comment. Hope it's been a good one.

[@TheAweDude1]

I think the idea of Kong being more... mindful than Godzilla actually aligns to their overall characters. Godzilla is not just a character, he is a force of nature, an event, a nuke to be precise. Everything about Godzilla is primal and animalistic. Kong, being literally more humanlike, is great to have ideas and objectives.

[@Echo-a74]

The soldier returning to his family is my favorite scene from the whole movie

[@Marvelfanatic3658]

Cringe

[@Kaiju-bm4ts]

​@@Marvelfanatic3658 like your comment?

[@MageOtter27]

@@Marvelfanatic3658With a name like that, im not surprised about what happens in your head.

[@Marvelfanatic3658]

@@Kaiju-bm4ts obviously. Ik I'm cringe so I can tell when others are as well.

[@Marvelfanatic3658]

@@MageOtter27 good for you ig

[@eliasbladevolt]

Love ya cody, been watching you since childhood please keep up the good work

[@idgafos1051]

Been watching since 2015. Cody fan 4 life 💪

[@concept5631]

Cody the GOAT

[@doktor3196]

You picked a good one to stick with. He's presenting his childhood to yours!

[@aegis6485]

​@@idgafos10512015? His oldest video was two years ago?

[@noahyoung2910]

​@@aegis6485 Hey buddy, you just blow in from stupid town? He has another channel that came first called AlternateHistoryHub, and the first video was posted like 11-12 years ago

[@blocviking]

One of my favorite scenes still til this day is Kong standing up and blocking out the sun. The helicopters flying in were awesome.

[@LeonBes]

This movie is so much better than all the other ones in the Monsterverse (including the stand alone Godzilla ones), I really wish they had kept the same creative team for future films. I like the Kong vs Godzilla movies for their batshit insane moments, but Skull Island at least tries to do something with its theme (however heavy handed the Vietnam allegories may be) and is one of the most visually unique big budget films we've had in the past few years.

[@jackhughes8585]

I think Kong looking like a grown ass man ape dispite being a lil kid monkey is like with those medieval paintings of Jesus where he looks like a grown man-baby creature. So, Kong is Monkey Jesus

[@Kaiju-bm4ts]

Or...kong is battle hardened cause he had to fight since day 1 meanwhile suko didn't?

[@Oinker-Sploinker]

Op has a cooler backstory he wins

[@TheMMMification]

I am down with this interpretation

[@JurassicKM]

John Ortiz's character's death is one of the biggest audience reactions I've seen, because no one expected his death to be that graphic.

[@jmace2424]

I don’t care about the character names other than to say that Conrad is a nod to the author of Heart of Darkness.

[@Oinker-Sploinker]

2005 King Kong made a reference to that with Hayes and Jimmy

[@thelastholdout]

The one disappointment here is that you didn't mention how absolutely fucking *hype* the Comic Con trailer was. It had an incredible backing track that isn't at all in the movie, but still built the tension and set the tone for the movie perfectly. It's one of my favorite trailers of all time.

[@Rocketboy1313]

You illustrating the scale of this stuff and how mind-blowingly off it all is. Gold Star.

[@BugsyFoga]

if the metal gear solid movie is anything like this I hope it still gets made .

[@Beanibirb]

Im still holding out hope for that Gundam movie

[@chrome6089]

the POV shot of the soldier shooting up at the spider was just so supreme

[@waywardlaser]

I say this as a lifelong Godzilla fan: this is the best MonsterVerse movie. Easily.

[@kurosakikun96]

As another lifelong Godzilla fan, it's pretty sad that all the good MonsterVerse movies are the ones where Kong is the focus

[@TheYardninja]

​@@kurosakikun96 hopefully the next one will be better, who knows maybe destroyah or spacegodzilla or a new monster that they NEED the Big G for

[@Oinker-Sploinker]

They need an excuse to keep Kong, his army and Shimo out of the picture though cause even if you revived Ghidorah and all the surface monsters teamed up with him they would still get curb stomped by Godzillas allies.

[@liamphibia]

Speaking of GxK, I'm really happy I'm not the one who couldn't help but notice how much Kong and that little orange ape (Suko) resemble *Kratos* and *Atreus.* Lmao

[@jasonaugustine3370]

Your videos are absolutely hysterical

[@TeguTheJester1954]

The guy who failed to sacrifice himself was actually so sad to me, because he thought he was going to get horribly eaten cause the babies did that with reckless abandon but Ramarak was sadly smarter than that

[@Oinker-Sploinker]

Yeah I don’t know how people hated it or didn’t take it seriously maybe I just get attached to random characters easily who knows?

[@TeguTheJester1954]

@@Oinker-Sploinker I guess we have the same problem lmao

[@hopegalaxy]

RIP.

[@Fuzzy_Barbarian]

I genuinely love this movie. It's fun, tense, and well-made with some good characters. Had no attachment to Kong before this but I loved it.

[@williamcook391]

17:48 my dad loves this movie because of John c reily he says he always tears up at the end when he finally gets his hotdog and beer then watches the baseball game.

[@fish_birb]

I just love how Monsterverse is basically a cinematic universe in which movies were made as batshit insane as it could, and it is literally the entire point. You can just turn off your brain and enjoy how batshit insane the movies are, in a good way.

[@ryujii9643]

I'm a die-hard fan of Godzilla, and I wholeheartedly agree with you making Kong the MC just works in the monster verse. But seeing Godzilla just Kick butt and chew bubblegum and well he is all out of bubblegum just works xD IM ALL IN FOR IT !!!

[@HieMan-g1n]

Waste of license. Not ok with diminishing Godzilla because Kong is in the same movie.

[@ryujii9643]

@ShHeMiLeRe Waste of a license is a bit harsh, to be honest. Watching these movies even with Kong being the center focus, I have not once thought Godzilla as an after thought bear in mind we still got Space Godzilla and Destroya to go throught and they are not hollow earth monsters so the ecosystem they will fall into is Godzilla's with that in mind we know who the focus will be in the next films. But I respect your opinion and a sliver a me actually wants to agree.

[@Nonexistentbystanderhere]

Cops when: 1:11

[@AugieOjeda-xo9ku]

😭

[@michaelreimer1111]

😂😂😂

[@aedancroy4219]

💀💀💀💀

[@gamerguy19981]

"Watching Forrest Gump was my personal Vietnam." I'm gonna need more details about that

[@Oinker-Sploinker]

Forrest “settled for cuck” gump

[@ricardonb6375]

I think it must've involved his mother, who doesn't like Forrest Gump's character.

[@mixtape9123]

You like orange huh? You're destined to play Project Wingman

[@felps_4500]

Damn it, beat me by 1 hour, lol

[@mixtape9123]

@@felps_4500 Predictable

[@aacmbirdzilla2343]

I'm mostly a Godzilla fan, but Kong's entrance is the hardest scene in the monsterverse, that shot of Kong with the sun behind him with the helicopters in slow-mo is art

[@Balmarog]

I am always so happy to see a new Pointlesshub video 🧡

[@MeizrRoeni]

The thing I adore most about the Monsterverse is how insanely good each film gets in comparison to the last.

[@RSG_TheMonster]

I'm not sure if you know this Cody, but the 'Ape-pocalypse Now' title has already been taken by 'War for the Planet of the Apes'!

[@justinthewarrior9165]

Oh man, let me tell you this movie is one of my favorites. I absolutely freaked out when the first teaser trailer came out. I loved it and watching the movie. I actually really loved it. Sure at the 2005 was also my favorite. But this one was actually my favorite, too. I still love watching it. It's a lot of fun I would give this movie a eight out of ten