{"id":40573,"date":"2024-07-19T06:12:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T11:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=40573"},"modified":"2024-07-19T06:13:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T11:13:34","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-855","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/07\/19\/belated-movie-reviews-855\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When I saw this picture, I just knew the sexual overtones demanded this be the picture<\/em> du jour. du soup. Whatever<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire<\/a>\u00a0<\/b><\/i>(2024) is the sequel to Godzilla vs. Kong<\/strong><\/em> (2021), which I wrote off as an execrable mess. Does this second try rescue the first?<\/p>\n

See, a major character is sacrificed! It must be a serious effort!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sorry, no.<\/p>\n

(My alternative review: Kong meets Gypsy Danger<\/em><\/a> and something like sex ensues. It’s not a turn-on.)<\/p>\n

(Also, when a new Titan, a category containing Godzilla and all the other monsters in this little Godzilla offshoot known as the Monsterverse<\/a>, is introduced named Shimo, I read the caption as Shemp<\/a>. I took it seriously for the briefest of moments. Maybe Shimo is a portmanteau of Shemp and Moe<\/a>? Sadly, Shimo lacked charisma, being just another monster.)<\/p>\n

While the CGI is impressive, that’s a low bar to clear these days. The human characters never emerge from their cardboard matrix, and having to repress applauding their demise is not a good sign. In summary, I didn’t care about any of them.<\/p>\n

The monsters? I do like the appearance of the title characters; the others, not so much. But it is necessary to mention that the climactic monster fight, in what seems to be zero or negative gravity, is a challenge, in silliness<\/em>, to the dinosaurs swinging from vines in Peter Jackson’s version of King Kong<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (2005).<\/p>\n

Don’t waste gobs of money on this one, either. I only kept watching it for the review potential and to keep up to date on the Godzilla mythos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire\u00a0(2024) is the sequel to Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), which I wrote off as an execrable mess. Does this second try rescue the first? See, a major character is sacrificed! It must be a serious effort! Sorry, no. (My alternative review: Kong meets Gypsy Danger \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40573"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40583,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40573\/revisions\/40583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}