The exit survey ‘Godzilla vs. Kong ‘

Last Wednesday, Godzilla to Kong did not arrive alone save the cinema world, but also to show us what happens when an old lizard and an old primate try to kill each other. After seeing the apex predators pounding each other through Hong Kong – and also traveling to the center of the earth? – the Ringtone employees gave their opinion on what turned out to be a top blockbuster.

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1. What’s your review on the length of a tweet? Godzilla to Kong

Charles Holmes The discussion between monkey and lizard bends to no one.

Miles Surrey God> Kong.

Lex Pryor How do I get onto Brian Tyree Henry’s podcast?

Justin Sayles I can’t believe I was in an IMAX for two hours a truce

Jomi Adeniran It was a fun movie, but um … will Hong Kong be okay?

Andrew Gruttadaro I watch all the monster fights:

Screenshots via Warner Bros.

I watch the rest of the movie:

2. What was the best moment of the movie?

David Lara Ease the battle between Kong and Godzilla in Hong Kong. All the destruction aside, the way the city lights hit the two monsters trying to kill each other, it was actually a beautiful sequence.

Surrey: When Kong, after being revived by the world’s largest improvised defibrillator, uses a building to drop his shoulder back into place. What an absolute … king.

Adeniran: Godzilla crashing King Kong twice was great to me, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t scream with excitement when Kong used a FREAKING BUILDING to keep his shoulder back in place.

Gruttadaro: The cover star of Scientific future– the woman named “The Kong Whisperer” in that same magazine – not realizing that a primate can probably learn sign language.

Pryor: Kong followed his 23andMe all the way back to Hollow Earth. Call me a sucker for a homecoming, but it really warmed my heart to see my husband chilling on his rediscovered throne, finding and recharging ax made from Godzilla’s shell (?), And just generally vibrating in his monkey palace .

Sayles: When Kong and Godzilla screamed in each other’s faces and for a moment it seemed like they were going to kiss.

Holmes:

3. What was your least favorite part of the movie?

Pryor: When Godzilla smashed Kong apart.

Sayles: We need to have a talk about how horribly Kong is being treated. They left my guy in the rain all night before dumping him in Antarctica. If you’re cold, he’s cold. Let him in!

Holmes: Brian Tyree Henry surviving Hong Kong’s destruction and immediately asking Kyle Chandler if he would appear on his podcast was a chilling moment. Of all things Godzilla to Kong is wrong about podcasting, a host who shamelessly hooks up his podcast to a baffled Kyle Chandler is very accurate.

Gruttadaro: No pictures, but why is Millie Bobby Brown in this movie? While that side plot gives us Brian Tyree Henry as a conspiracy podcaster, it is otherwise unnecessary and inexplicable. Why not replace it with more monster battles – or, you know, stop it and bring the running time into a solid 90 minutes?

Adeniran: The Strange things The crew’s only contribution to the film was to pour whiskey on a computer panel to somewhat hinder Mechagodzilla. I would rather have spent that time watching the King Kong shower.

Lara: Kyle Chandler was in two or three scenes and was confused the whole time. I was hoping he would say to Kong, “Bright eyes, full hearts, can’t lose,” but maybe they’ll save that for the next one.

Surrey: That I had to know through Google that the man who telepathically operated Mechagodzilla must be the son of Ken “Let Them Fight” Watanabe. I mean what ?!

Assess Godzilla and Kong’s performance in battle.

Sayles: Godzilla moves faster than I’d expect given its clunky proportions. Meanwhile, Kong would be the smart one, but he brought an ax to an atom-breath-jet battle. Kong is my husband, but I have to give the lead to the big dumb lizard.

Holmes: Godzilla: Relentless, always up for a fight, anyone could catch these lizard hands (and atomic breath), didn’t need an ax. Class A-.

King Kong: Unmotivated, soft as Charmin, left body wide open, needed an ax. Grade: D +.

Adeniran:

Lara: Godzilla is without a doubt the best and strongest fighter of the two (he gets an A), but Kong was pushed into battle for no reason, had to fight Godzilla over water and he held his own. He gets an A +.

Pryor: Listen, I wanted Kong to win as much as everyone else, but there’s no other way to describe his performance than calling it a total failure. He was literal killed by Godzilla. Death. Heart stopped. I needed a defibrillator. Overcome by a nuclear iguana. There is no other way to analyze it: Godzilla simply – unambiguously – washed it. Yes, I saw how valuable Kong was during the Mechagodzilla fight, but being a great tag team fighter has nothing to do with being prepared, in any way, to go solo. Godzilla was just a pro of a pro.

Surrey: Godzilla gets an A – he absolutely destroyed Kong’s shit. Kong gets a B for wielding a cool ax, killing Mechagodzilla, and fighting the reptilian equivalent of an atomic bomb. While Godzilla is the undisputed King of the Monsters, Kong was in fact the protagonist in this movie, which feels like a victory for the great primate.

Gruttadaro: Kong thought his days of fighting were over. He was retired, sleeping in, basically a monstrous version of Jay Cutler. It feels unfair to rate him in a fight he was thrown into. That said, the man was destroyed – Kong gets a C; Godzilla gets an A. The only reason Kong isn’t dead is because Godzilla let him live (and before that, because a super high-tech ship exploded on his heart).

5. Who is the MVH (Most Valuable Human) in Godzilla to Kong

Adeniran: Oh yes, there were people in this movie! Alexander Skarsgård was outstanding as the man who called the winner of each round, Rebecca Hall reprized her role as Maya Hansen from Iron Man 3, but the movie’s real MVH was Jia (Kaylee Hottle). In a film that could just have been two titans hitting each other for 90 minutes, she brought ethos and factual meaning.

Sayles: If you expect me to say the podcaster because Spotify writes my checks, you are wrong. (It’s the little girl.)

Pryor: There is no other answer than Jia, right? She’d talked about it with Kong because Lord knows how long, saved his life by noticing his heart stopped and even reminding Kong that Godzilla wasn’t his enemy until they finally teamed up. Her distrust of everyone but the giant ape was desperately needed in a movie full of naivety and (depending on how much you care about things like dialogue) zero logic.

Holmes: This award should go to Jia because he was the youngest person in a room of supposedly brilliant scientists and still the only one to notice that Kong was smart enough to communicate.

Gruttadaro: The only correct answer is Jia, but if I force myself to look elsewhere: Dr. Nathan Lind from Alexander Skarsgård. He was right about Hollow Earth, he wasn’t rude to Kong, he successfully flew – and without any training – a state-of-the-art, never-before-seen airplane through the earth, and he revived a dying Kong. Every other person was the dumbest person I’d ever seen in a movie.

Surrey: No one understood their mission better than Demián Bichir, who spends most of his filming time with a glass of whiskey in hand, saying ‘Godzilla’ in an almost sensual way.

6. If you had the opportunity to communicate with Kong, what would you say to him?

Surrey: Don’t trust people unless their name is Jane Goodall.

Holmes: Do not bring an ax to a nuclear death battle.

Adeniran: You have opposable thumbs, how are you manipulated by a lizard? To be better.

Lara: I would ask him if he needs a social media manager. There’s money to be made, man. Let’s go get it.

Sayles: I’d do the only sensible thing: get him Jay-Z’s verse on “Monster.”

Gruttadaro: Don’t help these damn people anymore, bro.

Pryor: Do you have any ideas on how to get on Brian Tyree Henry’s podcast?

7. Does that podcast fill your head with garbage?

Gruttadaro: Absolutely. I should are at school now.

Holmes: Yeah, but that’s kind of the point of podcasts.

Surrey: That’s exactly what Big Brother want you to think. Kyle Chandler is just another sheep mindlessly following the herd. Keep your third eye open and always take showers with bleach.

Pryor: I am offended by the suggestion.

Adeniran: It’s a personal rule of mine not to listen to podcasts hosted by people making their own hand sanitizer.

Sayles: Godzilla to Kong made me realize that Bill Cooper would have had the most enlightened podcast imaginable.

Lara: No. In fact, I am in the process of bringing the Titan Truth Podcast to The ring signal straight away.

8. What is your biggest question about Hollow Earth?

Sayles: I have some! Where is the sun? Who built the staircase in the throne room? How did Godzilla Kong feel thousands of miles away and inside the Earth when he couldn’t feel him in the Superdome? What do the real Hollow Earth Truthers think?

Lara: Is there pollen? Because the pollen from this earth is kicking my butt and I would be willing to move to Hollow Earth if there is no pollen.

Holmes: Are the great apes in Hollow Earth good at masonry? Are we to believe that huge gorillas can build a throne room? Who is Hollow Earth’s contractor and what is her preferred payment method?

Gruttadaro: How did they know there was breathing air below? Because really, those people must have flown out of those planes, helmets off, like a bunch of idiots.

Pryor: I don’t understand where the light comes from. I’ve tried to make it sense but it just won’t work.

Adeniran: How does something work? Light, Gravity – How Would Anything Survive in the EARTH CORE? I know it’s my fault for thinking too hard about the lizard vs monkey movie, but this almost got me out.

Surrey: How soon before Hollow Earth is commercialized with fast food chains, hotels and a Kong safari exhibition?

9. Who should Kong and / or Godzilla fight?

Gruttadaro: The patriarchy.

Sayles: Zack Snyder die.

Surrey: If the MonsterVerse doesn’t bring Pacific Rim Mechas in the Fold (in a movie directed specifically by Guillermo del Toro), we revolt.

Lara: Debt for student loans.

Adeniran: I say we are going ahead with the MCU certification of Hollywood. In the next Godzilla movie, I would have Kong appear at the start for 15 minutes. They kick a titan ass, give a secret handshake, and we wonder why Kong is gone for the rest of the movie. Than in Godzilla vs Kong 2, we discover that Kong was in space to reach his ancestors – but what comes back to him? SPACE GODZILLA.

Holmes: I need Dominic Toretto and the Fast Family to fight some alpha titans with just their car, their “mi familia” spirit, and some post-apocalypse Coronas.