Continuing after the events ofKong: Skull Island(2017) andGodzilla: King of the Monsters(2019), we find Kong has matured into an adult and is on a quest to discover his true origin with the help of human supporters. One of them is Jia, a young orphan girl who has formed a strong, ...
Kong: Skull Island, then, is dodging some familiar tropes. But it is also part of a very modern trend: not just a kickstart to one dusty franchise, but a way of breathing life into a shared universe, a world also inhabited by another giant of the screen: Godzilla. The breadcrumbs have...
or that future monster movies need to pick a better film to lovingly rip off. However, by playing with conventions and including a few interesting tropes,Godzilla: King of MonstersandGodzilla vs. Kongcan at least separate themselves from the rest of the effects-laden blockbuster crowd by providi...
and how they are used to tame Nature, from the huge wall constructed hundreds of years ago by the tribesmen on Skull Island to the airplanes used to knock Kong off his final perch. It also deals with many common science fiction tropes — ...