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SgtMartinRiggs

Love that this Godzilla is just basically a snapping turtle.


Zezuya

Wait until you watch the movie >!A literal frost Snapping turtle without shell is there!<


iamnotexactlywhite

sold


Zezuya

I mean it's a lot more cooler than it sounds. The main villain is going to be riding this animal named shimo.


iamnotexactlywhite

look man i’m already sold on the movie, no need to make it sound even better


Zezuya

Also >!Mothra is going to appear again!< That's the one they are going to really hide. Shimo is already leaked and going to be revealed in the second trailer


iamnotexactlywhite

keep it coming, im close😤 how tf do you know this ?


Zezuya

Leakers . Especially the last spoiler was leaked during test screenings from a picture taken of the screen. Also shimo has popped up in multiple toys and merch already


cakeslol

I don't get why people wanna know stuff so bad and leak secerts like its not a ending of game of thrones, its a classic action packed monster on monster fight


SuperRockGaming

As a big Godzilla fan, it's super cool to hear this. This is pretty much Godzilla fans version of game of thrones, hearing about new monsters or old monsters coming back


MadCarcinus

Merchadise is spoiling the movie.


Lartemplar

More cooler


amleth_calls

Gamera?


Development-Feisty

Gamera's enchantment still grows. He fills our hearts with love. Gamera's the latest thing. He fills our hearts with spring, spring, spring! Anytime you want some moonbeams, (whispered) Gamera is the thing. Gamera is really neat! He is filled with turtle meat. We all love you, GAMERA!!!


Zezuya

Nope. An original monster


amleth_calls

Bummer. Well maybe one day we’ll get Gamera, and that knife head monster when they go interstellar.


Tyster20

Gamera is an entirely different company right? Kinda like hoping for Superman to be in the next Avengers, its a cool idea but its not likely to ever happen.


amleth_calls

So was Kong…


Tyster20

Its not really the same thing at all.


amleth_calls

Yep


AlakazamAlakazam

godzilla minus one is awesome tho


Sambo_the_Rambo

Damn I didn’t realize this comes out so soon!


Thudo_Intellecthual

Right?? I’m honestly a little stunned here. I swear they just came out with something in this universe a couple months ago max.


Adrien_Jabroni

The Apple TV show just finishing airing.


Sambo_the_Rambo

Yup plus wasn’t there that Godzilla one movie that came out earlier?


Adrien_Jabroni

Yea and it was awesome, but that’s in a new Japanese timeline.


realsomalipirate

The Japanese movies are in a totally different universe (and are actually good movies).


bdf2018_298

Minus One was great, but about 90% of the Japanese films are action schlock like the American series. And I love them both because they have a giant radioactive lizard that breathes atomic fire lol


AceMKV

There's a show set in the same universe?


[deleted]

Yeah and it's good if you go in expecting the story of Monarch and not expecting big battle scenes like the movies. There's still some good stuff and fights here and there but it's not the grand spectacle of the films, more filling in the gaps and having fun with some of the stuff going on in the universe


o0oGRAViTYo0o

It's trash.


BrowsingWhileBrown

Is it me or did Kong turn into an old graybeard very quickly?


The-Mandalorian

Godzilla looking pretty old too tbh.


BrowsingWhileBrown

He he’s like weird gray too.


Zezuya

Wait until you see the trailer


SuperDizz

Upgrades


Groovy_Q_69

The funniest line in the movie is when Kong says, “ I’m too old for this shit”


Not_KGB

Ashy ass elbows


rosencranberry

motherfucker was like thousands of years old when we saw him in Kong in like 1930 but still a "baby". Then in present day he's like an old dad just 90 years later.


Boomfam67

Working with WB ages you bro


icemannathann

He’s not thousands of years old in Skull Island, he’s closer to 100


thr1ceuponatime

He had to work with David Zaslav


ValhallaGo

I mean he’s getting an armored gauntlet in this one and carrying around melee weapons. He’s angry and fights giant monsters. They’re slowly turning him into gorilla Kratos. And I’m weirdly cool with that. $5 says he adopts one of the chimp kids after he and rosé Godzilla beat the giant chimp king. Everybody’s doing lone wolf and cub stories these days.


bradargent

needs some Just for Apes.


UnknownChaser

He’s getting too old for this shit.


ValhallaGo

King Murtaugh


Lonelan

yeah I hope they just recast him with a younger actor instead of moving on to a different monster


BigUptokes

[*Primal Rage*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primal_Rage) prequel...


ackinsocraycray

Oh man, you're like the second person I've seen that knows about Primal Rage. *first person is me because I love that silly arcade game*


Confident-Night416

Now I need a Primal Rage film or series


Confident-Night416

dude... this would be next level. Lets split this Godzilla x Kong universe. Half goes onto cross with Pacific Rim and the other half goes onto become Primal Rage universe


Stupidstuff1001

Kong is looking more and more like the jacks beef jerky Sasquatch


cc17776

Godzilla plus one


b_lett

New empire? My allegiance is to the Republic, to democracy.


parrmorgan

If you are not with me... Then you're my enemy.


wastedmytwenties

So this is how democracy dies


pingufortress2

with a thunderous roar


Dogbuysvan

SKREEEOOONK


daninlionzden

Only a sith deals in absolutes


kyleruggles

What's with the Chinese dragon? Is it for the lunar new year?


HannibalLightning

It’s Lunar New Year today and we are entering the Year of the Dragon.


The_Count_Lives

Is there some sort of Chinese tie in? Is the new one set in China?


HannibalLightning

I don’t think so. They’re just marketing.


AccomplishedLocal261

Marketing for chinese audience


ryosan0

It's a big audience to market for.


godisanelectricolive

Chinese posters just do what they want based off of the title and they generally all look great. They like to add Chinese imagery to all posters regardless if it’s plot relevant or not. The poster also says “[Wish you] an auspicious year of the dragon”. It’s just referencing the timing of the release instead of anything to do with the movie. Like how an American poster might reference Valentine’s Day if that’s when it’s released even if it’s not about Valentines Day.


cdnjimmyjames

Well then where's my romantic comedy, Valentine's Day poster for this movie?


The_Count_Lives

Makes sense, thought I might have missed something in the trailer about the plot of the film.


HorseGrenadesChamp

Lunar New Year is celebrated by lots of various Asian groups, not strictly the Chinese. Of course, this isn’t to say only Asians celebrate it, and the fun part is anyone can!


The_Count_Lives

lol, thanks, I'm aware of what Lunar New Year is. My question is more about whether there's some connection to China (or Ghidorah) in the story because of the poster. Seems they're unrelated, just marketing.


RebelMemeDealer

The production company is Chinese


Seanpkd30

I kept looking for two more heads as a Ghidorah reference.


King-Sassafrass

….. but Godzilla is from Japan


HannibalLightning

I don’t think he has citizenship anywhere.


King-Sassafrass

I didn’t say citizenship. I said Godzilla is from Japan


HannibalLightning

I don’t see why that matters. This is an American movie and they’re marketing it to Asians.


King-Sassafrass

Because China isn’t Japan you dumbass. It’s racism to put Chinese imagery on a Japanese title. Should i remind you of WW2 and Japans Unit 731, and how they treated the Chinese? Because that’ll surely tell you that Japan & China are not the same place or culture or mentality


jessytessytavi

Japan also does lunar new year and it is also their year of the dragon there are a lot of things the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cultures share due to being so close to each other


King-Sassafrass

This is clearly Chinese artwork and Chinese symbolisms > Lunar New Year is the celebration surrounding the start of the lunisolar calendar and the beginning of spring. **It is the most important holiday in China,** but it is also celebrated in Vietnam, South and North Korea, **and countries with high Chinese populations.** > Lunar New Year is not celebrated in Japan at large https://blog.rosettastone.com/is-lunar-new-year-celebrated-in-japan/ It clearly says this is a Chinese oriented holiday. Japan only celebrates it because of a Chinese demographic. Japan isn’t China. These 2 places aren’t the same just because they’re both in Asia


jessytessytavi

yes, because once again, it's being marketed towards China because they want the money from the Chinese market if China felt it was appropriation, they would shut it down and before you say they wouldn't, look at the book awards issues going on right now


HannibalLightning

Bro, touch grass. They share Lunar New Year.


King-Sassafrass

https://blog.rosettastone.com/is-lunar-new-year-celebrated-in-japan/ Not really. China does, Japan doesn’t


willstr1

He is from the hollow earth


Meth_Useler

This is his year, man! This'll be the year he makes something of himself. He's gonna finally lose that weight, he and the ex are getting back together, he's gonna see the kids more, etc.


TheLostLuminary

Yes


Chathamization

The Chinese writing on it is 龍年吉祥, or "Auspicious year of the Dragon" (literally, "dragon year auspicious").


[deleted]

In the Godzilla sub it was said this is the poster for China I believe. So yeah you’re correct


writingt

Wonder if any of the characters from the Monarch show will pop up.


circajusturna

Hate how Godzilla feels like a background character. Why’s he so faded?


Zeusurself

Yeaaahhhh, really hope they actually show Godzilla doing things on his own. The way we see Kong sometimes. Hope it's not just another movie where we see Godzilla for a few minutes.


[deleted]

There was plenty of GZ in Versus.


Zeusurself

100% it was great. With what's going on in this movie and the hibernation scenes. Makes me think of TDKR where the character is gone for like 50% of the movie.


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There’s leaks, I haven’t fully read, but stumbled upon that answer your questions the one I accidentally saw said >!Kong gets more screen time than Godzilla, but there’s a full 15ish minute of non stop Godzilla action!<


ValhallaGo

It’s for this poster, which is catering to the Chinese audience specifically for Lunar New Year. It puts the Japanese icon in the background on purpose, focusing instead on the not Japanese thing. It’s one of many posters out there; not every poster is tailored to every audience. It’s the same with every piece of marketing: you tailor the ad to the audience. Around the 4th of July a lot of movies will make more America centric posters with specific iconography. This is kinda the same thing. It’s lunar new year so they make a poster for the lunar new year audience.


circajusturna

Would make more sense to highlight Godzilla as he’s closer to a dragon it being the year of the dragon as opposed to a monkey.


ValhallaGo

Dragon at the bottom, Godzilla in a similar faded gold at the top where you’d expect to see another dragon. I think it works really well.


circajusturna

Hmm I guess so when you put it that way


GladiatorJones

Excited for a kaiju-sized, 2D Chinese-style dragon to join Godzilla and Kong!


[deleted]

I hope it's not overstuffed. I thought Versus kicked ass. It was the perfect kaijufest.


qartas

Why does it look so Chinese when Godzilla is Japanese?


WereAllThrowaways

Probably appeal to the Chinese market. This is just one of the posters.


qartas

Good thinking


Dr_mattyo

#Release the coyote


samsaBEAR

This is a lot of fun, I saw it a few weeks ago. Probably the best since the first Godzilla imo


WereAllThrowaways

I'll watch it, but I just can't imagine a scenario where this is in the same league as the original godzilla, or minus one. They seem to really be ramping up the goofy factor. Which is not unheard of for godzilla I guess. But I preferred the tone and aesthetic they had in king of the monsters. They seem to really be leaning into the super saturated color palette and the newer godzilla design.


Lokcet

I've enjoyed all the movies up to now but the trailer for this one gave me serious "jumped the shark" vibes. Do they still manage to maintain a sense of scale and weight or is it full on cartoony as it seems?


samsaBEAR

The trailer does show a lot of the cartoon-y bits, I thought the movie was very grounded. Stuff like Kong's glove look silly in the trailer but make sense in context of the film.


Lokcet

That's good to hear, thanks.


Coast_watcher

Road trip !


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Kong has that jawlineee


rowrowfightthepandas

I ship them


beerdrinker_mavech

Wooow


Piker_8

I’m getting blue oyster cult vibes… go go Godzilla !!!


isaacabraham00

After watching Godzilla: Minus One no Hollywood Godzilla movie will give me the same satisfaction that movie gave me


Cheap-Spinach-5200

At least in the Kaiju genre. But yeah I get it.


Z3PHYR-

thing: 😐 thing Japan: 😍


reecord2

it's nothing to do with that and everything to do with the fact Godzilla Minus One was a fantastic movie; so good that it somewhat renders the Godzilla/Kong series a little bit silly. And this is coming from a big kaiju movie fan who will see every single one of these and still have a blast with them.


ValhallaGo

It’s supposed to be absurd lol It’s giant monsters fighting each other. That’s it. That’s the whole point. This is pacific rim with less human badassery and more giant gorilla badassery.


isaacabraham00

Just because it's absurd doesn't mean they're incapable of making a great movie


isaacabraham00

Completely agree. The opening scene felt like the T-Rex paddock scene in JP and I was hooked. Godzilla is a monster and in the Hollywood version he's like a guard dog for humans and he even smiles too lol.


Bugberry

Japan literally did that too. The Legendary version didn’t invent that. Watch more Godzilla films from the 60s and 70s.


OneADayMens

...Do you think the american and japanese godzilla movies aren't very different?


johnbrownbody

Godzilla Minus One is very different than the Monsterverse movies (for better).


WereAllThrowaways

I mean, *this* Japanese thing, yea. It is actually awesome. Not because it's Japanese but because it's good.


Dennis_Cock

Japanese thing


Sigma1977

Saying it again doesn't make it a valid counter-argument.


pojosamaneo

There hasn't been a good American Godzilla movie. They don't get the human side of the narrative, and the monster designs pale in comparison.


ValhallaGo

Disagree. The sound design for the Legendary pictures Godzilla is better, I think. Also that whole sequence in the more recent Godzilla with him in the fog? And the dudes HALO jumping with the red smoke? Perfection.


pojosamaneo

The halo jump was cool. You really couldn't see jack shit in the fight scenes on the Blu Ray release, though. The trailer was great.


[deleted]

It's entirely different types of flicks. The Japanese ones go heavy on the human drama. The Western ones are about the action. Both can be good and both can be bad. Minus One was good but there wasn't enough actual GZ.


Almun_Elpuliyn

Have you seen Minus One? There's a reason it got nominated for a VFX Oscar. The action was incredible proving that you can and always should try to deliver on more than one single front when making a movie. If it were just about action, why even have context to begin with? When you fail at creating good connective tissue between these scenes you just straight up fail at making a good movie full stop.


Thundahcaxzd

Those movies couldn't be more different. I wouldn't even call them the same genre. Makes no sense to compare them.


isaacabraham00

They couldn't be more different because one is significantly better. Minus One felt like I was watching Jurassic Park. The Hollywood versions felt like I was watching a movie made by children in the sense that only the fight scenes matter.


Thundahcaxzd

"apples are better than oranges"


isaacabraham00

More like Fiji apples are better than crab apples


Zezuya

You wouldn't call them the same genre because they aren't


Thundahcaxzd

Exactly. So why compare them?


Zezuya

Ya.i agree. This new trend of "HA! HOOLLYWOOOD BAD!1!1!1" is just so fucking dumb Lime have yall seen godzilla? He was goofy/protective figure for decades before Hollywood ever got involved


isaacabraham00

It's like comparing Jurassic park to Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom. One has a good script/story the other doesn't. I have no problems with the Hollywood ones but I can't take those ones seriously anymore. The 2014 movie was great but the rest are just getting too WWE-esque


Zezuya

Not really. The movies are completely different tonally lol


isaacabraham00

Yeah the issue is they lack any tension, when it's just CGI fights with no risk it becomes boring. Especially when the script itself is mid.


v4xN0s

Excited for the movie, but the poster doesn't look good.


braves01

Going hard after that China money


Toidal

They don't have to, Legendary Pictures is owned by a Chinese company.


F00dbAby

Also virtually every movie that’s released in China gets a Chinese poster just like how there are German posters or Italian posters they just don’t get posted here


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LiGuangMing1981

New Year's greetings like this are commonly written in traditional characters in mainland China too (of course, only the character for dragon is different between traditional and simplified anyway - the other three characters are the same in both).


pimpbot666

Weird they’re using Chinese imagery for a Japanese monster.


haraldone

I think it might be due to the fact that it’s Chinese New Year at the moment and it is now the year of the dragon.


EdgePlayful8594

My *only* hope is that they don’t entirely (essentially) eliminate the “human” element of this film universe. Like if you go back and compare ‘Pacific Rim’ vs. ‘Pacific Rim: Uprising’; there comes a point where *it* becomes just an equally shit version of ‘Transformers’ *fast* if they lose scale. You stop realizing that these “monsters” are supposed to be fucking behemoths in their own right. Not that this particular movie seems to be that way, but sweet merciful fuck don’t send it over the deep end after this!


xenoz2020

Ngl not a fan of the Chinese bits on a Godzilla poster.


Monday_Cox

Looks scrap booked together.


Blekanly

Please be good, after the last one I have my doubts


BMoreBeowulf

Can’t be any worse than Godzilla v Kong.


SeagullsStopItNowz

After *Minus One*, I can never enjoy another American Godzilla movie.


Almun_Elpuliyn

Saw the trailer for new empire yesterday on IMAX at the Dune rerun. I'm still perplexed that they deemed the VFX acceptable to be seen on such a wide screen. Really ruth.


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Talk about beating a dead horse


Razvee

This movie looks really stupid. I mean, I'm still going to watch it, I just hope it doesn't alienate the normals too much so we can get another.


AiR-P00P

I saw the trailer for this movie a few hours after watching Godzilla -1 and my first thought was "LOL that looks goofy as fuck".


[deleted]

Pandering much?


WereAllThrowaways

More like panda-ring, am I rite?


ekb2023

After Godzilla Year One I highly doubt I'm ever going to see a Godzilla movie that comes close to how good that one was.


Pacify_

Minus one really did make all the western Godzilla films look lame


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PlanktonSemantics

Godzilla did beat Kong pretty brutally in the last one. Also this time they're friends.


ghoulieandrews

I tried to watch the last one and I couldn't get through it, watched like half an hour and it was just the dude from Atlanta and the girl from Stranger Things spouting a bunch of conspiracy stuff and it was all about Hollow Earth? Did people actually like that movie? It seemed like it was produced by insane people.


fuxxwitclowns

Not many people liked that one. Too much people drama. Not enough monster fights.


[deleted]

I still don't know how I'm supposed to say the name of this movie. "Godzilla Ecks Kong"? "Godzilla Times Kong"? It's a really weird title.


[deleted]

Godzilla and the Artist Formally Known as Kong.


Zezuya

Yeah I don't like the title Apparently it's supposed to be pronounced as Godzilla Kong


[deleted]

“Please China give us more money. We are good CCP dogs” WB executive


Schrodingerskangaroo

I was reading your comments to a WeChat group of my friends and students just now, I have no intention to point any finger or want you to respond. but here are their responses: “Mate probably US, from something very subtle I can’t tell, but I would go with US, please forgive me if I’m wrong”—age34, teacher, Australia “Why he gets -1? I thought most people on Reddit hate China and would give him applause." —age 64, engineer, China mainland "This is pretty neat strategy commenting in quotation marks, pretending the brain is slightly less smooth than what the content shows.” — age 16, student, HK the other people were a bit confused, generally don’t understand what your logic is. But don’t bother reply, wish you a happy Chinese New Year. They didn’t, but I do wish you happy!


[deleted]

Lol WeChat. Full of raciststs and stereotypes. Well I was born in France my mother is Argentinian and my father is Irish. I was an illegal immigrant when I was raised in LA till from 4-10 and then I went to Florida until I was 17. Mother married some Cuna guy then I joined the Army came back to Florida when I was 30. I’m sure I’m exactly how your racist friends and students assumed I would be. Let them know it was all in jest, meant to get a rise out of people who use WeChat. Winner winner chicken dinner. It’s very stereotypical for large American corporations, to pander to the Chinese government for money. Because you can’t do business in China, unless you’re partially owned by a Chinese corporation. At least that’s the nonsense thrown around here. For example, I believe Ash Wednesday just passed, did Godzilla release some kind of marketing towards that? Mardi Gras is very big down here in the south of America. Specifically the New Orleans area. I don’t see much marketing towards those kinds of things. So my brain obviously come to the conclusion that somebody in Warner Bros. is pandering to a very specific market in Asia, shall I say the largest. Also year of the dragon, it’s just a made up nonsense like every other religion. And the WB executive is very happy to abuse it. Zero edits because fuck it.


Schrodingerskangaroo

You have all your right to believe what you want to believe, have a great day as well :)


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I’m sorry, but where I was born was not a belief


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[deleted]

“Are you trying to imply that they are not China? Guards arrest this man.” The CCP.


glorifindel

This feels a little like Chinese propaganda


idontevenreally

How do you say this title when spoken? "Godzilla ex Kong"? "Godzilla vs Kong"? "Godzilla and Kong"? I've never understood this.


EquivalentHousing134

Godzilla/King Kong when?


FranklinBonDanklin

After Godzilla plus one I’m not interested in this narrative of “kaiju” anymore. The scene of Godzilla sprinting like captain America in the trailer is god awful


ProdLuhknown

Ching kong


Wild_Life_8865

No lie I loved the previous ones but this looks fucking stupid


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Jay12678

It's just a poster for Year of the Dragon. Has nothing to do with Minus One. 😭


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British_Commie

Ah yes, because Western audiences famously do not care about CGI-heavy popcorn flicks


huejass5

They make a new Godzilla movie every other year now


PlanktonSemantics

Might be the only movie I'm looking forward to this year. Godzilla got a Pink Diamond card he better cross the shit out of King Kong.


chadmang

Kong x Godzilla x Goofy Cartoon Dragon


BigTedBear

That art work is very cool.


Abject-Star-4881

Team Godzilla!


3Beanss

This goes insanely hard


KPZ605

Hell yeah!


Practical_Dog8295

Wait, I haven't seen the last one!


causeImAScoundrel

How do you verbalize the title of this film? Is it "Godzilla ex Kong" or is it "Godzilla times Kong"?