For Movie Night this week, we sawGodzilla v. Kong: The New Empire (2024).
I didn't actually understand what was going on most of the time:
There was a Hollow Earth, which you can only get to through a space warp.
A Lost Civilization that predates anything on the surface, where people communicate through telepathy and use crystals to manipulate matter and antimatter.
A Chosen One.
A tribe of giant apes that live next to a volcano, and keep a giant glowing stegasaurus captive. King Kong joins them, becomes their leader after fighting an evil dude, and adopts a baby ape.
Another giant stegasaurus, which fights King Kong in Egypt and takes out the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Nearby Cairo is an Orientalist myth instead of a modern city with skyscrapers and Starbucks.
Is that a gay couple?
A giant glowing moth.
A fight between the two dinosaurs and two apes that takes out Rio de Janiero.
I guess you just have to say "Look! Monsters fighting!"
Five people go to the Hollow Earth to check on Disturbances in the Force or something.
1. Mikael (Alex Fern, top photo), the driver of the transport vehicle, who gets eaten by a man-eating plant right away.
2. Ilene Andrews, an expert on the Iwi Culture of Skull Island, where King Kong lived before he moved to the Hollow Earth.
3. Her adopted daughter Ji, the last of her tribe, who doesn't speak.
4. Tripper (Dan Stevens, left), a roguish, devil-may-care monster veterinarian.
5. Conspiracy theory podcaster Bernie (Brian Tyree Henry).
When Tripper shows up, you assume he's going to be smooching with Ilene by fadeout. That's what happens in 300,000 action adventure movies, right?
Nope. He mentions that they were friends in college, but gives no hint of a past or present relationship. Instead, he starts flirting with Podcaster Bernie, who is suspicious at first but warms up to him.
They hug.
More after the break
