by Giganfan » Mon Dec 03, 2018 1:06 pm
King Ghidorah is the kaiju that I have been most excited to see in a big-budget, Hollywood sequel/reboot ever since they announced his inclusion in this movie. Ultimately, the fact that Legendary decided to go with "the Big 4", insofar as I'm concerned, for their Godzilla sequel is what makes me most happy. And even though I am a Rodan fan (and think they did an AWESOME job with his new look), KING GHIDORAH is the ONE kaiju in all of Japanese kaiju-dom that they absolutely, positively COULD NOT afford to mess up. I mean, would you want to see The Joker in an orange suit, with Ronald McDonald clown make-up in the next Batman movie (or The Joker-origin movie, for that matter, which IMHO, is totally unnecessary)?
So, with that being said, Godzilla's arch-nemesis was the one that I was most worried about...and based on the new design, I believe they ABSOLUTELY NAILED IT! He's gold, he's got huge wings, long horns, looks fierce and purely maniacal/evil...IT'S KING FRIGGIN' GHIDORAH!!!!!!
I'll reserve my ultimate judgement for the film itself, and speak at-length about Rodan (BAD-A**!!!) and Mothra (Meh' I can work with it) in later posts, but for now, I'm just gonna bask in the golden, hell-fiery glow of the "Extinction-Level-Event" that so far, looks like the King Ghidorah that we all know and love (they can always fall on their faces with the music, roar, lightning breath, etc. heaven-forbid), and I am doubly-excited, as a result, because based on the footage we've seen so far, it looks like KG is gonna bring the pain!!!
(On a somewhat related note, I find it hard to believe that, if Godzilla makes it through not one, but THREE of his most popular/powerful enemies/allies in this movie...King Kong does not seem like much of a threat, is what I'm getting at, if Goji has to run the gauntlet against Mothra, the creature with the best win-loss record against him, Rodan, "an H-Bomb with wings" that has smacked Godzilla around a few times in their history, and King Ghidorah, the walking, flying, cackling, lightning-shooting doomsday-bad-a** that he is. "Godzilla vs. Kong" is naturally a marquee-bonanza for Legendary, so I get why they are making it, but perhaps I'm just splitting hairs here, as an all-too-interested fanatic of giant monster movies (just so you know, I expect Kong to win in that movie, 'cuz, well...Kong=USA, Godzilla=Japan, whose making the movie? Just sayin...).
"EVERYONE FORGET YOUR TROUBLES! ENJOY YOURSELVES!THERE'S NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT!" - Gigantis The Fire Monster
"It was HUGE...It was...IT WAS LIKE A MONSTER!!! Suddenly the rocks rose...ALIVE!" - Godzilla 1985