by william newell » Wed Aug 28, 2019 3:22 pm
Picked this up and watched it yesterday...and I'm kind of wishing I hadn't. This movie(for me, anyways)just does not hold up well to repeat viewings, especially as far as the effects go. Now, it's no secret that I was not a fan of Edwards Godzilla, I was not a fan of his directing(or lack thereof), but one thing I'll always agree with, the movie was beautiful to look at. The monsters were handled well and looked quite convincing. Then came Skull Island, a movie I found very entertaining with some equally gorgeous DAYTIME shots. So I expected that this movie(G:KotM)to continue this trend of improvement. As we all know, that didn't happen. As to the story and characters, I found them...adequate? Pretty much exactly what I'd come to expect from the Heisei series of films.(too many characters, too many plot points, ect., ect.) So that, I could look past. The effects, on the other hand, are some of the poorest I've seen in a film in a while. Mothra came off the worst, imo. There are some scenes(especially the larval sequences)where it looks like they used a placeholder and forgot to include the finished effect. She literally looks transparent. Getting overly carried away with her bio-luminescence didn't help, either. The other monsters really didn't fare much better. Everything was just too hard to see and could be quite headache inducing. As to the Blu-Ray itself, it looks about as good as it can, considering the source material. The audio, to me anyway, comes off quite well as I found it a lot clearer than when I saw this in the theater. Don't get me wrong, there are still plenty of instances where the soundtrack gets lost in the action, but the themes(Godzilla and Mothra) came across better than from previous viewings at the local cinema. I haven't checked out the special features, yet. I may look into those tonight. Which brings me to this...I will see Godzilla vs. Kong when it's released, but, to be honest, I won't be terribly sad once Legendary's run is over. Finally getting a chance to see this on my home theater has pretty much solidified that opinion. Oh, and my apologies to all for turning this from a Blu Ray review to a general movie review.