Kong: Skull Island - Caravan of Garbage

Instead of jumping directly into another Godzilla movie after Godzilla 2014 the inexplicable decision was made to make a King Kong prequel set during the events of the Vietnam War. Completely revamping the character in a new narrative absolutely pays off in what is one of the more more fun, gory and entertaining Monsterverse movies that brings together Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, Sam Jackson and more. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review










#Godzilla #KingKong #Monarch

[thomasgood]

The commitment to the awful sucked off bit is why I like these two. Incredible chemistry and incredible series.

[garrettcarter]

The reason why Kong leave Hiddleston and Larson alone is solely due to them are holding hands. Because, as we saw with the Kong skeletons, that is something that Kongs tend to do, so he saw a parallel between them and his dead parents.

It's never spelt out in the movie, but I think I like that level of subtlety.

[lordofthedrums]

Kong deciding not to kill Brie Larson and Tom Hiddelston because they’re too good-looking is such a funny idea.

[fimo]

“It’s a snake but it can punch you”
“It’s a snake but it can give you a rude finger”
I love you guys

[IRONHIDE]

The production designer for this movie, Stefan Dechant, came to my Production Design class in film school to talk about and show us some BTS of the movies he’s worked on. He said the Skullwalkers were inspired by Cubone as well as No Face from Spirited Away, and that the tall, bipedal silhouette of Kong is due to a sketch Vogt-Roberts drew very early on based on Johnny Cash: tall, long legged, broad shoulders.
And a lot of the creatures and giant monsters are inspired by real animals and insects in which they shot the movie, particularly Vietnam, so that the creatures would feel indigenous and natural to the environment

[evan_dood]

The second Jim clip made me realize something I love about this channel that basically no one else does. The editor(s) basically add in a third voice to the video, via the really specific and sometimes shockingly appropriate clips. And all the little blink-and-you-miss-it jokes make it worth actually watching rather than just listening to the audio. Never stop. Corn of Coblin 2024

[camkay]

Nice that a film finally accurately captures the gorilla warfare tactics of the viet kong

[jackcolman]

Having worked on this film I think I could offer some valuable insight. The change to the Vietnam era was met with some apprehension from the studio executives initially but they came around to it but did ask for one scene to be cut. That scene was a classic napalm scene across a Vietnamese village during harvesting season. The unique twist on it was because of the unique flora and fauna the flames would turn blue… which lead to the working title for this film being ‘Blue Harvest’

[anthonyvillanueva]

This movie is my example for where characters can have no real arcs but at least have colorful personalities

[under-._.-score]

Honestly the end scene with john c reilly is probably the most cinematically satisfying moment post-2014 godzilla atomic breathe power-ups in this franchise.

[hideokojimajr]

“Overdosed on MCU quippy snark”
This 10000%. I rewatched Pacific Rim the other day and it was refreshing how straight everyone plays it (with the exception of the doctors and Hannibal Chow, all of whom are perfect).

[_The_Archive_]

Fun Fact: The outfit worn by Bill Randa (John Goodman) replicates the outfit worn by Robert Armstrong as Carl Denham in King Kong (1933).

[hollandscottthomas]

"Help! I'm being sucked off by these monsters!" has got me crying at 9am on a Thursday.

[RandomShinigami]

Something I greatly appreciated in this movie is that most of the CGI heavy scenes (by which I mean, the monster scenes) are in daylight. What I mean by that is, a lot of these CGI heavy blockbusters, including Godzilla 2014, have their big set piece moments in the dark. I assume it's to save some time and money by having an OK model and the darkness is hiding the flaws. In this movie, there's only two scenes where the monsters are in darkness: when Kong meets Tom and Brie, and immediately following that where he's off to attack Sam L Jackson. EVERY OTHER SCENE it's light out, and it was just a nice change of pace from what felt like every other movie trying to hide things.

[gregc]

James and Maso being oblivious that they are simply a vehicle for masterful editing and memes.

[bensneb]

Of all the new “Monsterverse” movies, this one is my favorite. It has the perfect balance of style, fun, cool monster fights, and interesting humans.

[seanmillette]

The most unbelievable part about this movie with giant monsters is that when John C Reilley went home, he wasn't greeted at the door by her husband of 10 years and 2 other kids while they all stand there awkwardly.

[Haysey_Draws]

Man, this movie was just so much fun! They absolutely understood the assignment with it. Kinda wish they'd gotten this director to do Godzilla vs Kong.

[johannesbaumgartel]

The edit of Maso hitting his head on the table instead of his hand is SUBLIME

[risingdawn]

This is by far the best 'movie review' content on the Internet. No self important 'film critics', just two aussies and a film, nuf said