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Kong Versus Godzilla

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If you like watching a big ape (not “monkey”) punching a big lizard (and vice versa), does Sonny Bunch have a movie for you.

But notwithstanding the quality of the flick itself, I have to dispute his characterization of his home theater as “decent enough.” A soundbar is easy, but it’s not home theater. I’ve put in 5.1 surround sound, with a Polkaudio subwoofer, and that is close enough to theater quality for me to watch at home. To me the big difference between home and theater is screen size, even with our own 65″. It’s much more immersive when you can’t see much of anything except screen.

20 thoughts on “Kong Versus Godzilla”

  1. What you’re getting is pretty much what’s in the title. You get the big lizard. You get the big ape. You get the 2 of them fighting against each other and (spoiler alert) with each other. It’s your typical big dumb movie. If you want gripping family drama, this one isn’t it. If you want 2 hours worth of Transformers level of entertainment, you came to the right place.

    1. Disclosure: I have own shares in one of those big investment company “index” mutual funds that holds FANGs (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google (listed as Alphabet)) along with a dash of Tesla mixed in.

      I rather look forward to watching a remake of Kong v Godzilla!

    3. I think a lot of the audience it has drawn was simply desperate for something, *anything* that wasn’t relentlessly Woke. Something that was simply entertainment. There’s been very little of late in terms of major relases to scratch that itch.

  3. Sure, I’ll read something from the NeverTrump cucks at the Bulwark. Right after you pay me 5.2 million dollars.

    2. Just do what everyone else does and hover over the link before clicking. Another option is to respond to the piece with criticism or humor.

      There is a 100% chance I wont knowingly click on something from the Bulwark but only a 95% chance for NRO, sometimes I get suckered and don’t check the link first. Jonah is fun to mock but it feels bad, like picking on a kid in a wheelchair.

      Here goes, it took 15 paragraphs for the author to get to the topic and then spends another 17 paragraphs not actually saying anything and repeats things like rilla smash, wow bigga screen besta screen, and oooo awwww loud noises. Their examination of the pre-topic topic and the topic itself lacked any insight to either.

      Commentary on pop culture doesn’t need to have a conservative slant to it, especially on a site that isn’t conservative, but it doesn’t have a cinephile slant to it either. Did I learn anything about Netflix? No. Did I learn anything that would influence my decision to watch or not watch the movie at home or abroad? No.

      1. You need to watch as much Netflix as possible!

        Disclosure: I own shares in one of those big investment company “index” funds.

        1. Just for you, I will subscribe but not watch anything.

          These days, I pretty much only watch youtube because even with their censorship, I can tailor a lineup that meets my interests and cuts out progressive fascist propaganda, except for the warnings youtube places on wrongthink channels.

        2. I dropped Netflix several years ago. Once Amazon got the rights to Top Gear, Netflix became more useless than Disney+. Considering that Disney gives ESPN+ with a subscription, you have to give credit to Netflix for coming up with an even more lackluster product.

  5. I’ve always been fascinated with the Japanese pop psyche of Godzilla. The original. The one with Raymond Burr. Many have said that it is an allegory. That Godzilla, which rises from the ocean from the East, with its atomic breath and giant feet trampling and laying waste to everything in its path represented the United States in WWII. The Japanese military, with their white gloved officers stood powerless against its onslaught, until a young boy (representing the boy emperor, the voice of the crane, Hirohito?) asked for forgiveness for his people, whereupon the monster turned and walked back into the sea.

    So what is the allegory for the original Kong? China? Korea?

    3. “King Kong Died For Our Sins”

      https://tonysokol.wordpress.com/2014/04/27/king-kong-died-for-our-sins/

      A quick Googling turned this up. The piece is too jokey and too padded but it agrees with many of my thoughts about that seemingly simple movie.

      But wait, is that a launch stand King Kong is made to stand upon? Are we watching an allegory for a rocket – a Big Furry Rocket, if you know what I mean – bound to Earth by the chains of pointless regulations that actually increase danger to the public?

  6. I’m not saying anything about anyone saying anything about saying anything.

    I spent a career in Planetariums. Big screens full of big screen projections and big screen illusions.

    Nothing ever compared to my own imagination.

    Saved a lot of $$$ on home theater builds.

    –Gary

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