{"id":7415,"date":"2021-04-26T19:17:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T01:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=7415"},"modified":"2021-04-26T19:17:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T01:17:51","slug":"godzilla-vs-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=7415","title":{"rendered":"Godzilla vs. Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"After three previous movies, one of which I didn’t see, the second of which<\/a> I liked pretty well[1], and\u00a0the third of which<\/a> I liked less, since it was so closely related to that first movie I never saw… after all those movies, it was inevitable that I would eventually see the capstone movie where the two main titans clash it out[2].<\/p>\n

So yes, I saw Godzilla vs. Kong<\/a> (at home, even though we’re seemingly in the home stretch), and yes, I liked it, because y’know… monster fights! But I didn’t love it, because of how I spotted basically the entire plot within the first ten minutes, and also because of a spoiler regarding characters[3]. But the set pieces were pretty great, and the monster fights!, and did I mention footnote one?<\/p>\n

I think it’s because I like to root for the underdog, and, despite physical appearances, that’s who Kong has always been, in every role he’s garnered.<\/p>\n

[1] But then, I’ve always liked Kong movies
\n[2] To be fair, I like Godzilla movies okay too, even if I did miss that one somehow.
\n[3] See footnote four, below the cut[4]<\/p>\n

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[4] I understand this ruins the last act of the movie, and not incidentally pretty well ensures Kong’s death, but… I think it would have been a better movie if there hadn’t been any villains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After three previous movies, one of which I didn’t see, the second of which I liked pretty well[1], and\u00a0the third of which I liked less, since it was so closely related to that first movie I never saw… after all those movies, it was inevitable that I would eventually see the capstone movie where the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[464,1331,1333,430],"class_list":["post-7415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-action","tag-hbomax","tag-monsterverse","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7415"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7421,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7415\/revisions\/7421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}