I didn't get that impression while watching it - in fact, it seemed to me that there was a lot more that had to have been scripted and shot, only to have been cut. I don't actually know if that's the case or not, much less at which stage all that would have been cut, but frankly I don't care. Godzilla vs. Kong has been the only MV movie I've enjoyed since the 2014 film, mostly for the reasons I've already stated.Vakanai wrote: ↑Sat May 15, 2021 8:49 pm If that was the characterization/plot gutted, agreed. But that's not what I meant. I wasn't talking so much about what got cut in filming or editing, I meant the script/plot itself was written without a care for narrative or characterization, and the direction doubled down on that. There should have been better stuff written in and provided for. It was gutted before filming began. The gutting was part of the process. All to dumb the movie down. And god(zilla) damn it, it worked for the GA.
Could GvK been a better movie? Absolutely. But it wasn't. One of my personal rules for evaluating entertainment is to focus on what it is, not what it isn't. GvK wasn't a lot of things (including a conventionally good movie), but nevertheless I was satisfied by it once it was over. In the end, I think that's just enough for me.