Godzilla King of the Monsters Speculation Thread [NO SPOILERS]

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gottatalktothefake wrote:So far about 80% of r/movies has given KoTM a 7 or above. And these guys usually hate everything that gets a low critic score.
Huh. No kidding. This IS a surprise.
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Smuggers wrote:
Floroskull wrote:JW was very soulless and felt more like "remember this!" KOTM felt like they understood the source material and built on it
Well, aside from that bit. You know, the part where it seemed like their understanding of the source material was from a book that they read upside down.
What bit?
Spoiler:
oxygen destroyer?
?
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Kaiju-King42 wrote:
gottatalktothefake wrote:So far about 80% of r/movies has given KoTM a 7 or above. And these guys usually hate everything that gets a low critic score.
Huh. No kidding. This IS a surprise.
Go check out the Box office thread, people are LOVING this, the 90% RT score is very close to what IRL polls are getting.
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GoWhaleTours wrote:
Smuggers wrote:
Floroskull wrote:JW was very soulless and felt more like "remember this!" KOTM felt like they understood the source material and built on it
Well, aside from that bit. You know, the part where it seemed like their understanding of the source material was from a book that they read upside down.
What bit?
Spoiler:
oxygen destroyer?
?
Yes. That bit.
Spoiler:
The ODINO. :P
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okay, forget about my last post, me and some family members are going to see it the drive in theatre later on tonight!!! so excited!! :huge:
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Kaiju-King42 wrote:
GoWhaleTours wrote:
Smuggers wrote: Well, aside from that bit. You know, the part where it seemed like their understanding of the source material was from a book that they read upside down.
What bit?
Spoiler:
oxygen destroyer?
?
Yes. That bit.
Spoiler:
The ODINO. :P
So far that is the only instance where I agree the story really rushed something. *That* really REALLY needed proper setup instead of a ten second explaination lol
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Charles Dance has given a brutally honest assessment of his latest film Godzilla: King of the Monsters (in cinemas now) in a hilarious and frank new interview with Guardian.

“I had difficulty staying awake,” the veteran thesp told the broadsheet when asked about his response to seeing the epic blockbuster, before quickly adding: “No, I didn’t say that! I mean, it’s spectacular.”

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3rd Update, Friday Midday: Warner Bros/Legendary’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters is biting off more than he was expected to chew, headed for a $60M-$65M weekend after a $24M Friday at 4,108 theaters that includes $6.3M in previews.

PostTrak exits last night for Godzilla and friends were fantastic with 4 1/2 stars from general audiences and 5 stars from both parents and kids under 12. General crowds gave the film a 75% definite recommend, parents an 80% and kids 88%. Caucasians were less than 50% of the crowd with very good turnout by Hispanic (24%) and Asian moviegoers (13%). West coast business is bound to be very good. Male heavy as expected at 70%, with leading demos being men over 25 (41%), men under 25 (29%), females over 25 (18%) and females under 25 (12%). Interestingly, females like the movie a little bit more than guys, 87% to 84%.

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goji89 wrote:Charles Dance has given a brutally honest assessment of his latest film Godzilla: King of the Monsters (in cinemas now) in a hilarious and frank new interview with Guardian.

“I had difficulty staying awake,” the veteran thesp told the broadsheet when asked about his response to seeing the epic blockbuster, before quickly adding: “No, I didn’t say that! I mean, it’s spectacular.”

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3rd Update, Friday Midday: Warner Bros/Legendary’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters is biting off more than he was expected to chew, headed for a $60M-$65M weekend after a $24M Friday at 4,108 theaters that includes $6.3M in previews.

PostTrak exits last night for Godzilla and friends were fantastic with 4 1/2 stars from general audiences and 5 stars from both parents and kids under 12. General crowds gave the film a 75% definite recommend, parents an 80% and kids 88%. Caucasians were less than 50% of the crowd with very good turnout by Hispanic (24%) and Asian moviegoers (13%). West coast business is bound to be very good. Male heavy as expected at 70%, with leading demos being men over 25 (41%), men under 25 (29%), females over 25 (18%) and females under 25 (12%). Interestingly, females like the movie a little bit more than guys, 87% to 84%.
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I did my part in seeing it twice and spreading the good news far and wide.

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Yeah my mom actually really liked surprisingly, she said she was afraid it would be all monster fights. She liked the mom and daughter relationship

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gottatalktothefake wrote:So far about 80% of r/movies has given KoTM a 7 or above. And these guys usually hate everything that gets a low critic score.
Ok, now this is a Shyamalan level twist lmao. Out of all critic groups I expected the r/ "experts" to bash it the most. Looks like we might have a surprise hit after all lol.

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gottatalktothefake wrote:So far about 80% of r/movies has given KoTM a 7 or above. And these guys usually hate everything that gets a low critic score.
Not to rain on your parade or anything, but the amount of people this constitutes on /r/movies is actually quite small because it only amounts to people who have already seen the movie and cared enough to vote in the poll. It's currently at 860 votes which makes up about 6% of the 14,000 members currently online, 80% of the poll voters equating to 4.9% of people online. If we include the recommendation section of the poll, currently 499 are saying yes (with no caveats) which is 3.5%. If we compare the number of votes to a John Wick - a pretty successful recent release that's had some time to breathe, it comes out at almost 5x the amount of votes so far. Might be a little too soon to call it an anomaly because right now the takeaway from this for me is that only a proportionally small amount of them have seen the movie and that the majority of the votes could have yet to arrive, so it might be a while until we get something more definitive.

It's only Friday, we're still in the early early days of people seeing this movie. I just think that the people acting like the dust has settled one way or the other are jumping the gun a bit.
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KingKaiju wrote:
Kaiju-King42 wrote:
KingKaiju wrote:
To be fair, they weren't wrong. Most of the reviews I see praise the film, anytime Godzilla and the kaiju were on screen, but beyond that it was very cringey.
Eh, the only thing that was "cringey" to me was the
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Oxygen Destroyer
and some of Whitford's lines. The rest was pretty standard kaiju movie stuff, no worse than Rampage or Jurassic World's plotting and characters. Certainly better than anything Skull Island did.


Saw the movie, loved the kaiju, but the humans needed some work.

So while it wasn't a GREAT film, I think there's a pretty fair degree of "wrongness" in a lot of those reviews.
Exactly, and Rampage and Jurassic World 2 were terrible. Everything involving the kaiju were excellent, beyond that... It just wasn't a very good movie.
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Smuggers wrote:
gottatalktothefake wrote:So far about 80% of r/movies has given KoTM a 7 or above. And these guys usually hate everything that gets a low critic score.
Not to rain on your parade or anything, but the amount of people this constitutes on /r/movies is actually quite small because it only amounts to people who have already seen the movie and cared enough to vote in the poll. It's currently at 860 votes which makes up about 6% of the 14,000 members currently online, 80% of the poll voters equating to 4.9% of people online. If we include the recommendation section of the poll, currently 499 are saying yes (with no caveats) which is 3.5%. If we compare the number of votes to a John Wick - a pretty successful recent release that's had some time to breathe, it comes out at almost 5x the amount of votes so far. Might be a little too soon to call it an anomaly because right now the takeaway from this for me is that only a proportionally small amount of them have seen the movie and that the majority of the votes could have yet to arrive, so it might be a while until we get something more definitive.

It's only Friday, we're still in the early early days of people seeing this movie. I just think that the people acting like the dust has settled one way or the other are jumping the gun a bit.
Get a job Smuggers.

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Hey all, I know the movie's out now but please put spoilers in the tags or just discuss the movie in the spoiler thread so people who haven't seen it yet don't get spoiled.
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goji89 wrote:Get a job Smuggers.
If it makes you feel any better, I didn't actually work out those percentages myself. ;)
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GodzillavsZilla wrote:Hey all, I know the movie's out now but please put spoilers in the tags or just discuss the movie in the spoiler thread so people who haven't seen it yet don't get spoiled.
I know I said this to another mod, but you guys should give warnings for that instead of a slap on the wrist.

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Tru Fans should have already seen this movie :P
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At the theatre now with brother and friends! Super excited, just getting some food and drink and then headed in! Guys I’m so fucking pumped right now, I’ll leave a review when I get out! :mrgreen:
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Smuggers wrote:
goji89 wrote:Get a job Smuggers.
If it makes you feel any better, I didn't actually work out those percentages myself. ;)
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Especially the Debbie downers criticizing the movie and saying how it sucks without having seen it.

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