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.
@Windows11Official2 ай бұрын
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
@legato75212 ай бұрын
@@Windows11Official Well, blame the gorvernment i guess.
@What-ish2 ай бұрын
@@legato7521pretty sure he did?
@PerfectlyUselessComment2 ай бұрын
The rest of it, mainly the big monkey skull was filmed at Kualoa Ranch in Hawai'i, alongside hundreds of other movies.
@aprillies63052 ай бұрын
@@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.
@TyphoonTYUIOP2 ай бұрын
*"I hate the smell of Napalm in the Morning."* - Baby Kong (1973) I think I dunno..
@DinoRicky2 ай бұрын
It takes place in 1973
@TFFAN162 ай бұрын
I always think of the Sodom song when I hear that line
@m4rc3l0fl0r3s2 ай бұрын
c'mon man, you needn't be this funny, i just spat my water onto my laptop! damn
@lylelylecrocodile25382 ай бұрын
@@m4rc3l0fl0r3s I hope your laptop is ok
@m4rc3l0fl0r3s2 ай бұрын
@@lylelylecrocodile2538 Thanks, thanks! It's alright. No issues as of now. Being that funny should be illegal. 🤣
@zacharymccoy70912 ай бұрын
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.
@staidenofanarchy2 ай бұрын
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
@jacob49202 ай бұрын
I liked that character, so I was always sad when he died like that.
@legna34072 ай бұрын
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_2 ай бұрын
@@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.
@UndeadSlayer52 ай бұрын
And then the actor died as well what a way to go for nothing
@JonathanMartinez-ei4up2 ай бұрын
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-ib1jt2 ай бұрын
I thought they were the dudes from temple run
@JonathanMartinez-ei4up2 ай бұрын
@@AadiKattyayan-ib1jt good God-zilla, those skull apes from temple run would have fit in perfect, posted up in some ruins on skull island.
@karpatinefeherklara8072 ай бұрын
I love the big one
@felwalkr_942 ай бұрын
@@AadiKattyayan-ib1jt last I checked, those were weird monkeys with skulls on their faces.
@AadiKattyayan-ib1jt2 ай бұрын
@@felwalkr_94 yeah , but the resemblance is uncanny
@rossdavis38902 ай бұрын
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_1182 ай бұрын
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.
@naiknaik88122 ай бұрын
holy shit
@atomic7472 ай бұрын
spoil? you act like it's a movie. just tell us.
@rossdavis38902 ай бұрын
@@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_Officer2 ай бұрын
Wait, the director became Venom Snake?
@Truck-kun112 ай бұрын
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.
@afunkymonke2 ай бұрын
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.
@EspenSGX2 ай бұрын
That really was lovely, wasn't it?
@Fuzzy_Barbarian2 ай бұрын
Happy endings are underrated. Feels like too many writers just avoid them for the sake of avoiding them.
@naomithornhill20792 ай бұрын
Like if that scene almost made you cry like me😢
@Moshaaver2 ай бұрын
Well, does he survive the horror of Godzilla: King of the Monsters or Godzilla Vs. Kong?? He'd be safer on Skull Island
@grfrjiglstan2 ай бұрын
“Give me a character who loves photographing war crimes.” _sounds of Civil War in the distance_
@twisted_fo0l2 ай бұрын
Its interesting you say that, because to me watching civil war felt a lot like nightcrawler.
@paulenan96362 ай бұрын
A movie that had nothing to say about Civil Wars but was a surprisingly apt mockumentary about adrenalin junkies
@darwinxavier35162 ай бұрын
That's the one! I knew we recently had a bad movie with that premise but I couldn't quite remember it.
@davemac95632 ай бұрын
Yawn, it was boring 🥱
@Sgt_Joker2 ай бұрын
Hey, it's literally me!
@superiortoall222 ай бұрын
“Is that a monkey?” Is my favorite line from the movie
@jacob49202 ай бұрын
Yeah, lol. Poor dum-dum couldn't even get the species of Kong right, before he died brutally, minutes later.
@Marvelfanatic36582 ай бұрын
@@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
@osmanyousif78492 ай бұрын
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!”
@joshjames5822 ай бұрын
@@jacob4920 Actually, taxonomically speaking, apes are technically still monkeys.
@codymcginnis99902 ай бұрын
My favorite line was was King Kong said "it's Konging time, humans" and looked that the camera
@jwroot2 ай бұрын
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.
@godzillapark9075Ай бұрын
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
@grfrjiglstan2 ай бұрын
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.”
@masterofdoots596512 күн бұрын
Kong was the son he actually got to raise
@TommasoFirmini11 күн бұрын
"Aye son, you see that giant monkey doing the undertakers signature move? I taught him that in the 50s"
@benwasserman82232 ай бұрын
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.
@motherplayer2 ай бұрын
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.
@jasonguarnieri41272 ай бұрын
John C. Reilly deserves more appreciation in general.
@Marvelfanatic36582 ай бұрын
Ok
@davemac95632 ай бұрын
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
@ideologybot45922 ай бұрын
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2 ай бұрын
The 360 camera movements during the fights in this movie were IMPECCABLE.
@ryancarter29592 ай бұрын
Honestly the cinematography during most of the action scenes is genuinely great
@comixproviderftw_022 ай бұрын
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.
@anubis85862 ай бұрын
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.
@ChristianEditor3372 ай бұрын
The next movie will focus on godzilla
@iambuhlockay80072 ай бұрын
@@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-Freezer1602 ай бұрын
Kotm would've gotten a lot more if it weren't for the competition around that time
@peterandle2 ай бұрын
IT SHOULD BE GODZILLA
@quattrobajeena86232 ай бұрын
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-FireCC2 ай бұрын
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?"
@quattrobajeena86232 ай бұрын
@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-FireCC2 ай бұрын
@@quattrobajeena8623 Yup and now it's wasted. Hopefully we don't get more of that in the upcoming films.
@kasaibouF292 ай бұрын
That's not a retcon, that's an addition.
@EthelJung-j5w2 ай бұрын
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.
@theredandblueyakuza2 ай бұрын
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_winewood2 ай бұрын
@@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
@dragonace1192 ай бұрын
This is a bot.
@DutchDecalutzy2 ай бұрын
Why did King Kong join the army? To learn about gorilla warfare.
@c1ph3rpunk2 ай бұрын
Quit monkeying around and get back to the video.
@kingleech162 ай бұрын
You monster. 🤣
@doctorx21052 ай бұрын
It's just that the enemy was going ape.
@SixPieceNoNuggets2 ай бұрын
See yourself out please.
@Lumberjack_Linnie2 ай бұрын
I hate you for making me smile at something this stupid.
@jackacartledge19472 ай бұрын
What I love about the Monsterverse is that each movie gets more batshit insane than the last.
@liamphibia2 ай бұрын
Yup. To the point where they forget how grounded their first film started off. Lol. But we're cool with it.
@justzack6412 ай бұрын
One day we might actually be able to see Destoroyah on the big screen again and I can't wait for that peak
@whathell6t2 ай бұрын
@@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.
@3takoyakis2 ай бұрын
Its similar to fast and furious Each movie is more crazy than the last At least monsterverse stay to its core
@marken8162 ай бұрын
@@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
@dontshootmex55882 ай бұрын
"Viet Kong" is one hell of a thumbnail XD
@doktor31962 ай бұрын
Bruh!
@miltonjuniorsantoslordelo59832 ай бұрын
"Viet Kong" "Kong: Apeocalypse Now" Codie went bananas this time
@Marvelfanatic36582 ай бұрын
World War Kong
@richardarriaga62712 ай бұрын
@@miltonjuniorsantoslordelo5983Call Super Mario!
@osmanyousif78492 ай бұрын
I guess you could say there’s experts in gorilla warfare….
@treefingers65722 ай бұрын
"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.
@gluever542 ай бұрын
Neat worldbuilding too
@treefingers65722 ай бұрын
@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.
@jackrider44282 ай бұрын
His editing style gets me crying out of laughter in each video. This man is gift from heaven.
@LKYHGaming2 ай бұрын
Something about the way this movie just has such a distinct directing style that honestly made the movie that much more memorable.
@seabob3372 ай бұрын
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.
@hopegalaxy2 ай бұрын
We need Jordan Voght-Roberts back In the MonsterVerse.
@seabob3372 ай бұрын
@@hopegalaxy yes we do
@UG30172 ай бұрын
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.
@chance7572 ай бұрын
and it was downhill from here. this and pacific rim are some of the best examples of modern monster scaling there is!
@godzillaandstuffproduction93832 ай бұрын
@@chance757agreed! I think Godzilla 2014 also handles the scale impeccably
@Kaiju-bm4ts2 ай бұрын
@@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
@godzillaandstuffproduction93832 ай бұрын
@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.
@joshaboi74672 ай бұрын
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.
@vaclavmacgregor24642 ай бұрын
Fun Fact:Its the only installment of the Monsterverse thus far to be nominated for an oscar(Best special effects)
@nopizza4you2 ай бұрын
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.
@Emoney11222 ай бұрын
Finally some one explained it that stress/skullcrawlers made him mature quicker
@hopegalaxy2 ай бұрын
*Boy*
@SlapstickGenius23Ай бұрын
Suko is like a son to Kong, as Robin is to Batman.
@sheeringobject2 ай бұрын
0:27 how is this a rabbit
@hereticseraphim732 ай бұрын
Because he said so
@Screamus2 ай бұрын
It's comment bait that you fell for.
@AnonymousYouTubeconsumer2 ай бұрын
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-bm4ts2 ай бұрын
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
@TheMadTurtle2 ай бұрын
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.
@goldenfiberwheat2382 ай бұрын
Bro wrote his comment in MLA format 💀
@AnonymousYouTubeconsumer2 ай бұрын
@@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_
@camarofish3442 ай бұрын
That’s how life is sometimes
@Jack-sy8mr2 ай бұрын
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
@markricheard18702 ай бұрын
Honest Trailers are also Corporate tools but good on them at getting his words out there. They know how to roast the competition.
@Demigodking2 ай бұрын
Wait what happened
@Jin-13372 ай бұрын
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.
@TheYardninja2 ай бұрын
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-eg4zm2 ай бұрын
@@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.
@TheMonkeygoneape2 ай бұрын
"give me a war photographer that loves war" isn't that just Kirsten Dunst in civil war and Dennis Hopper in apocalypse now?
@M0b1us_1182 ай бұрын
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
@TheMonkeygoneape2 ай бұрын
@@M0b1us_118 haven't looked at the clip yet, but please tell me it's super Mario bros
@M0b1us_1182 ай бұрын
@@TheMonkeygoneape Yep.
@TheMonkeygoneape2 ай бұрын
@@M0b1us_118 amazing. A MONKEY!
@Don-ds3dy2 ай бұрын
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-Sploinker2 ай бұрын
They need to do another one exactly like this on a bigger scale, Kong: hollow earth
@Don-ds3dy2 ай бұрын
@@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.
@trinityj1Ай бұрын
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.
@Specsp4212 ай бұрын
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
@seeleagent2 ай бұрын
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.
@TherapyGel2 ай бұрын
Same! It's a clever subversion of a long-run ing trope. The film just plays into it for a good while.
@Lysvsyl2 ай бұрын
Bad on purpose is still bad.
@seeleagent2 ай бұрын
@@Lysvsyl it’s not bad you’re just overly critical and devoid of joy
@lweaver29882 ай бұрын
@@seeleagent Yes. the movies annoying opening act deprived us of joy. whether that was on purpose or not is just cope after the fact.
@jacob49202 ай бұрын
@@lweaver2988 Good thing that movies are more than just their "opening act," isn't it? lol
@cheech61052 ай бұрын
15:20 i love how this bird getting shot keeps appearing in the video lmfao
@juliandacosta68412 ай бұрын
I mean that's a pterosaur right?
@charinaamparogarrido19222 ай бұрын
nope its not
@dinojack55672 ай бұрын
@@juliandacosta6841 It's a leafwing
@burnedacrackerontopofwater24912 ай бұрын
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
@1989eol2 ай бұрын
And yet, I am still more afraid of the spiders crawling into my basement at the end of autumn...
@osmanyousif78492 ай бұрын
I also love how Colonel Packard (Jackson) doesn’t hesitate when filling its head with bullets. Hard-core man….
@alicepbg20422 ай бұрын
@@1989eoltbf... those actually exist
@1989eol2 ай бұрын
@@alicepbg2042 Oh shit, I knew I didn't move far enough north. And I thought it was the onsetting winter depression... 📦
@MrJakeros2 ай бұрын
@@alicepbg2042 And people wonder why I stay inside all day...
@SirPerfectful2 ай бұрын
That tree trunk ripping through an Apache hull really was a tone setter
@williamchamberlain22632 ай бұрын
Huey ?
@TobeWilsonNetwork2 ай бұрын
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.
@danielferrieri74342 ай бұрын
Apeocalypse. I’m surprised no one has made a movie with that name.
@dracodracarys23392 ай бұрын
Apeocalypse II: Gorilla Warfare
@tonybrewer75362 ай бұрын
Just gonna... Quietly.... Scribbled an unrelated mental note... Don't mind me.
@fahdrightone74282 ай бұрын
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.
@KirbyJason2102 ай бұрын
Well I guess just add the word "Now" at the end and then that's a movie name.
@nicklafleur76202 ай бұрын
War for the planet of the apes had "apeocalypse now" written on the walls
@ktandantaktee72 ай бұрын
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.
@oq110622 күн бұрын
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-Sploinker11 күн бұрын
This sentence would look bonkers to someone who has no clue on the monsterverse
@emanuelpalomares6162 ай бұрын
Loki tried to hire Donkey Kong to be his gang: the movie
@RSG_TheMonster2 ай бұрын
Along with Captain Marvel, Nick Fury & Koba!
@Optimussucks652 ай бұрын
@@RSG_TheMonster yes
@shapuku16742 ай бұрын
@@RSG_TheMonster this is an interesting timeline
@TheMonkePrince2 ай бұрын
@@RSG_TheMonsterI'll give you Fury but Brie Larson wasn't hated, so obviously it wasnt Captain Marvel.
@optillian41822 ай бұрын
@@RSG_TheMonsterAnd James P. Sullivan.
@Axquirix2 ай бұрын
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_mitts29 күн бұрын
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_Hippo2 ай бұрын
This movie wouldve been better if kong turned into optimus primal halfway through the movie
@Jack-sy8mr2 ай бұрын
“I’m gonna turn into a Monke now” -Optimus Primal
@leithaziz27162 ай бұрын
@@Jack-sy8mr "Truck, Not Monke!"
@Flash-FireCC2 ай бұрын
"Truck, not kill truck!"
@Bebe_Hippo2 ай бұрын
@@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
@leithaziz27162 ай бұрын
@@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).
@nateds73262 ай бұрын
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.
@LtnCorrsk2 ай бұрын
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.
@jacob49202 ай бұрын
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-FireCC2 ай бұрын
He had to do a few laps around the island to get ready for the big showdown
@alicepbg20422 ай бұрын
The baby kong from the new movie is actually as tall as kong was in skull island... Kinda funny to think about
@craigrobbins24632 ай бұрын
I really really would love if the size hadn't updated for Kong. He just Shadow of Colossus Godzilla instead.
@Beebooks232 ай бұрын
The Empire State Building is wayyyyyyyyyy taller than Godzilla
@genevievelok94962 ай бұрын
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!
@goldfishmentality2 ай бұрын
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
@pacoramon94682 ай бұрын
They feed on Hollow Earth radiation.
@CoracaoAcidental982 ай бұрын
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-bm4ts2 ай бұрын
@@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-bm4ts2 ай бұрын
@@CoracaoAcidental98 Actually...kong is one of the few exceptions a titan NEEDS food to substain himself. He actually eats animals to stay alive.
@comradecameron37262 ай бұрын
@@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.
@tommykaung58822 ай бұрын
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.
@devilmaycryfan76812 ай бұрын
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-m5c2 ай бұрын
Iron Man: We have a Hulk. Loki: I have a Kong.
@Oinker-Sploinker2 ай бұрын
Kong: I have an army
@EthelJung-j5w2 ай бұрын
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.
@Kokong2 ай бұрын
Can’t believe they made a live action donkey Kong movie
@bigslorbsofkyrgyzstan55412 ай бұрын
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?"
@cliffdavidson50962 ай бұрын
Maybe could work as a comic.
@RemySchrader2 ай бұрын
They did, it’s a 1985 sci-fi film called Enemy Mine
@kingbash64662 ай бұрын
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.
@IsaiahINRI2 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for reminding me that the "Dark Universe" was a thing. That concept is one of my favorite things ever.
@ajbolt72 ай бұрын
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
@King63Kobra2 ай бұрын
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.
@thierrydecker81102 ай бұрын
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.
@Deepseashark2 ай бұрын
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-FireCC2 ай бұрын
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.
@boshwa202 ай бұрын
@@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-FireCC2 ай бұрын
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.
@thesteelsquid8632 ай бұрын
I do agree with most of these, but in terms of raw action I do think gvk still holds the title
@Flash-FireCC2 ай бұрын
@@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.
@KlementtM2 ай бұрын
15:49 get log bugged
@whatisoven522522 күн бұрын
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.
@Gigan0072 ай бұрын
Next stop: A mutant lizard allying with a giant moth (Mothra) against a three headed dragon and a pterodactyl.
@DarkKnightofAnime2 ай бұрын
Which is also my personal favourite among the Monsterverse movies although Skull Island is a very close second
@liamphibia2 ай бұрын
And a flying fire turkey too, who's basically the Starscream of the Godzilla universe.
@Halinspark2 ай бұрын
@@liamphibiaIf you mean Rodan, thet was covered under "pterodactyl"
@emiriye2 ай бұрын
@@liamphibia I didn't know Rodan and Starscream comparison was something I needed and I am glad to be inflicted with this revelation.
@richteffekt2 ай бұрын
22:37 - is everything I never knew I needed. Actual Art.
@ethanchin8052 ай бұрын
A monster’s head getting blown up is the new “I’m an inventor.”
@RemySchrader2 ай бұрын
Guy That Exploded didn’t drop those grenades in flight. Respect 🫡
@chancegivens93902 ай бұрын
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.
@yserareborn2 ай бұрын
This might be my favorite movie in this run; I’m glad you’re covering it!
@Marvelfanatic36582 ай бұрын
Agreed
@claytonrios12 ай бұрын
Ah yes. The movie with Brie Larson that didn't cause people to hate everything she was involved with in any capacity.
@MrMcGrawAndTheBigFeathers2 ай бұрын
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
@electricfeverx9762 ай бұрын
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.
@SlapStyleAnims2 ай бұрын
I never even realized it was her lol
@comixproviderftw_022 ай бұрын
Captain Marvel gave her a big ego boost. It’s no wonder why she never became the next Iron Man to lead the MCU.
@ADR692 ай бұрын
She's a block of wood
@keinname24812 ай бұрын
18:23 im gonna quote this line IRL
@trig15826 күн бұрын
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.
@Dinoslay2 ай бұрын
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-jw7pm2 ай бұрын
I love the constant Donkey Kong references! Now we need Bowser as Godzilla! 😂
@EspenSGX2 ай бұрын
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.)
@Stealth866512 ай бұрын
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-Sploinker2 ай бұрын
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.
@Marsuvee2 ай бұрын
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.
@TheAweDude1Ай бұрын
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-a742 ай бұрын
The soldier returning to his family is my favorite scene from the whole movie
@Marvelfanatic36582 ай бұрын
Cringe
@Kaiju-bm4ts2 ай бұрын
@@Marvelfanatic3658 like your comment?
@MageOtter272 ай бұрын
@@Marvelfanatic3658With a name like that, im not surprised about what happens in your head.
@Marvelfanatic36582 ай бұрын
@@Kaiju-bm4ts obviously. Ik I'm cringe so I can tell when others are as well.
@Marvelfanatic36582 ай бұрын
@@MageOtter27 good for you ig
@eliasbladevolt2 ай бұрын
Love ya cody, been watching you since childhood please keep up the good work
@idgafos10512 ай бұрын
Been watching since 2015. Cody fan 4 life 💪
@concept56312 ай бұрын
Cody the GOAT
@doktor31962 ай бұрын
You picked a good one to stick with. He's presenting his childhood to yours!
@aegis64852 ай бұрын
@@idgafos10512015? His oldest video was two years ago?
@noahyoung29102 ай бұрын
@@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
@blocviking2 ай бұрын
One of my favorite scenes still til this day is Kong standing up and blocking out the sun. The helicopters flying in were awesome.
@LeonBes2 ай бұрын
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.
@jackhughes85852 ай бұрын
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-bm4ts2 ай бұрын
Or...kong is battle hardened cause he had to fight since day 1 meanwhile suko didn't?
@Oinker-Sploinker2 ай бұрын
Op has a cooler backstory he wins
@TheMMMification2 ай бұрын
I am down with this interpretation
@JurassicKM2 ай бұрын
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.
@jmace24242 ай бұрын
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-Sploinker2 ай бұрын
2005 King Kong made a reference to that with Hayes and Jimmy
@thelastholdout2 ай бұрын
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.
@Rocketboy13132 ай бұрын
You illustrating the scale of this stuff and how mind-blowingly off it all is. Gold Star.
@BugsyFoga2 ай бұрын
if the metal gear solid movie is anything like this I hope it still gets made .
@Beanibirb2 ай бұрын
Im still holding out hope for that Gundam movie
@chrome60892 ай бұрын
the POV shot of the soldier shooting up at the spider was just so supreme
@waywardlaser2 ай бұрын
I say this as a lifelong Godzilla fan: this is the best MonsterVerse movie. Easily.
@kurosakikun962 ай бұрын
As another lifelong Godzilla fan, it's pretty sad that all the good MonsterVerse movies are the ones where Kong is the focus
@TheYardninja2 ай бұрын
@@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-Sploinker2 ай бұрын
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.
@liamphibia2 ай бұрын
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
@jasonaugustine337014 күн бұрын
Your videos are absolutely hysterical
@TeguTheJester19542 ай бұрын
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-Sploinker2 ай бұрын
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?
@TeguTheJester19542 ай бұрын
@@Oinker-Sploinker I guess we have the same problem lmao
@hopegalaxy2 ай бұрын
RIP.
@Fuzzy_Barbarian2 ай бұрын
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.
@williamcook3912 ай бұрын
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_birb2 ай бұрын
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.
@ryujii96432 ай бұрын
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-g1n2 ай бұрын
Waste of license. Not ok with diminishing Godzilla because Kong is in the same movie.
@ryujii96432 ай бұрын
@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.
@Nonexistentbystanderhere2 ай бұрын
Cops when: 1:11
@AugieOjeda-xo9ku2 ай бұрын
😭
@michaelreimer11112 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@aedancroy42192 ай бұрын
💀💀💀💀
@gamerguy199812 ай бұрын
"Watching Forrest Gump was my personal Vietnam." I'm gonna need more details about that
@Oinker-Sploinker2 ай бұрын
Forrest “settled for cuck” gump
@ricardonb6375Ай бұрын
I think it must've involved his mother, who doesn't like Forrest Gump's character.
@mixtape91232 ай бұрын
You like orange huh? You're destined to play Project Wingman
@felps_45002 ай бұрын
Damn it, beat me by 1 hour, lol
@mixtape91232 ай бұрын
@@felps_4500 Predictable
@aacmbirdzilla23432 ай бұрын
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
@Balmarog2 ай бұрын
I am always so happy to see a new Pointlesshub video 🧡
@MeizrRoeni2 ай бұрын
The thing I adore most about the Monsterverse is how insanely good each film gets in comparison to the last.
@RSG_TheMonster2 ай бұрын
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'!
@justinthewarrior91652 ай бұрын
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