"MONSTERS:2: DARK CONTINENT"

[Hybrid Gojira]

I've never had a trailer talk me out of seeing a film I wanted to see in the first place.

Until I watched the trailer for Monsters 2.

[MekaGojira3k]

[tbeasley]

I just watched the first film again, and in a way I found it to be a more structurally sound movie than Godzilla. It makes me think Edwards should have done a movie in-between his debut and a large-scale, Hollywood blockbuster, perhaps this very Monsters sequel with its more action oriented set pieces. On the other hand, maybe it means if he sticks around for a Godzilla sequel it'll be more fine-tuned.

[Cookie]

Holy crap that trailer was garbage.... Wow.

[JordanGLC]

[MouthForWar]

I still think it looks alright. Maybe looking a little generic, but it could be fun.

[Gargantuan Gargantua]

It looks like it is shot well just like the first one and will touch on some social issues mixing it with the monsters.

i will see.

[MekaGojira3k]

Looks fun.

[klen7]

i'm cautiously optimistic

[Psycho Soldier]

[klen7]

Another review with similar criticisms...
http://filmschoolrejects.com/reviews/mo ... tinent.php

i'll probably still see it, but the expectations are pretty low for me now

[Ernesth100]

So who's going to see this?

[klen7]

theres already a thread for this
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=17758

[Ernesth100]

[Zack Metoyer]

[planetxleader]

[jellydonut25]

[Ernesth100]

[Zack Metoyer]

[jellydonut25]

[AVERY GUERRA]

It's on demand now!!:

The film starts it's limited theatrical run on April 17th.!!:

http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/93066/ ... pril-17th/

Here's the distributor(Radius/TWC)'s official TV Spot for the film!!:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U7ZrSkM6pUA

Official Theatrical Trailer:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BAfYPog0pWc

[AVERY GUERRA]

Official artwork;

http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/94740/ ... -premiere/

[jellydonut25]

I was moderately interested/excited about this, as I could picture it kinda being like Aliens to Alien, and just be a sequel that doesn't attempt to replicate the original but does something different with the premise and goes to different places with a different dramatic thrust.

But after the teaser trailer, which was solid, everything else was bad. The full trailer was awful, the early reviews were bad, and MouthForWar saw it and gave me a bit of a blow-by-blow and it sounds terrible. I haven't been in any kind of rush to check it out. It sounds like there's as few scenes with the aliens as there were in the first film, but with way worse characters who talk about buying their wives sex toys while they're in the service and making sure to get the black-guy versions to keep their wives satisfied and prevent them from cheating. I'll get to it eventually, but I'm in no rush at all.

[MouthForWar]

Yeah, this wasn't all that great.

The main characters are all from Detroit and are all fake thug types. When they get shipped off to the military one of them gets in a fist fight and says "I'm from Detroit, you better back off!" If you want a giant monster movie where a military general talks about high powered sex toys, this is for you.

The monsters from the first one aren't even in this, they all look totally different. It has me wondering if this was even written as a Monsters sequel. Did they just slap the name on this? I know Gareth Edwards and Scoot McNairy are listed as producers but that's more than likely an honorary credit since they produced the first one. It really does feel like a fake sequel and I can't imagine Edwards or McNairy would give this a real stamp of approval.

It DID drastically improved in the last half after our obnoxious idiot characters die. There are actually some very well done dramatic beats. The bad news is this is all well past the hour mark of a 2 hour movie so it's too little too late. And unlike the first movie, the monsters don't really drive any of the character action or even have a presence as a backdrop at all. The monsters may not have had a lot of screen time in the first film, but their presence is what was driving the characters and the story. Here, they are literally just entities in the background and nobody in the story is affected by them one way or the other. If the first movie was Lost in Translation with monsters as a backdrop, this one is The Hurt Locker with monsters BARELY as a backdrop.

I'd sat it be worth a one time watch for fans of the original or giant monster movie aficianados, but otherwise, I'd say skip it and stick with the original movie.

[Psycho Soldier]

I might skip it despite liking the original. It sounds like a disappointment, and a far cry from what made the original interesting. On the other hand, since it supposedly gets better at the halfway point, would it be worth skipping through the BS to get to it? Or does too much important stuff happen in the first half?