 The King of the Monsters has arrived and I want to talk a little bit about it. Hey everybody, welcome back to another installment. It's been a while since I've done an in-camera movie review, but you know what? I just had to do it for my favorite monster of all time, Godzilla. King of the Monsters is finally out and oh boy, was it an experience. Very rarely do I just get chills up and down my spine and just geek out for however long that movie was. I think it was more than two hours. I think I want to say two and a half hours, something like that. It was superb. If you like big monster movies, you're just going to have a flat out fun time. Yeah, there's criticism here and there. No movies, perfect. I get it. I really do not care about that stuff. I just want to talk about how great, how much fun, and how epic it all was. I had a blast watching this movie. Of course it follows the monster-verse from this cinematic universe that recently formed back in 2014 with the original American Godzilla movie directed by Gareth Edwards. I was a fan of that one. I still defend it and I still love it. I know a lot of people didn't like it because it didn't feature a lot of Godzilla action, but I made the comparison to a Jaws movie. I liked that approach. It was pretty unique. I enjoyed not seeing my favorite monster for half the movie. I don't know. It's weird, but with this you already had that set up so you can just go all in and have a wonderful time showing fantastic CGI creatures destroying the crap out of each other and the cities around them. Just the spectacle of it all. Of course, after the 2014 movie we had Kong Skull Island and now this movie, the sequel to Godzilla, setting up the eventual Godzilla versus Kong event sequel movie that's coming out in 2020. But before we can get there, we have to talk about King of the Monsters and boy did this movie delivered. If you were one of those people that were upset with the 2014 movie, I think you're going to enjoy this. It's non-stop action, non-stop fun. Yeah, the human characters suffer a bit, but at the same time it comes with the territory that characters behave the way they do in these epic monster clashing sordid movies, these Kaiju flicks. I get it. I don't mind it as much. In the first movie, I did appreciate the fact that you took the time to set up a story with a specific set of characters and how they dealt with the incoming disaster of the Muto and then Godzilla showing up and all that stuff. With this, yeah, it's almost a complete set of new characters. We get the returning monarch business company, whatever, and there are some familiar faces, but for the most part everything's brand spanking new except for the cameos here and there. The movie is intersected between character interactions and monster fights, and I dug that. I didn't mind going in and out of both stories and seeing how Monarch was evolving as a corporation, if you will, in the face of this epic event that happened in 2014. Now it's in the public spotlight and the government is involved in all that stuff, so I really liked it. The characters make some really stupid choices. It comes with the territory. They have some really stupid dialogue, and there's even a scene where they're literally doing like an exposition dump on the audience, but I think people that don't know about other monsters except Godzilla, they will want to see that and get informed of these monsters. I really did not mind because I'd love scenes like that where characters just flat out read entries on characters and explain who this monster is and their origins and all that stuff. I really liked that. I find it fun and part of the spectacle of these sorts of movies. You know what I mean? When it comes to the action, it is a thrill. This is why we go and have fun at the movies. It's summer, big action flick. The Dolby Atmos thing at the theater and the DTX and all that stuff. It sounds really really impressive with all those speakers and Godzilla roaring just sends a chill up and down my spine to the point where I was teary eyed and crying out of excitement of what I was watching. I was so happy. I was so giddy. I was just like even if the bad guys were winning, I was still psyched because man I wish I could go back in time and tell my younger self that this was coming out or to let him see it and get as much enjoyment as possible. I mean I'm a little winded because I had sort of this idea of what was going to happen and the trailers. I wasn't really a huge fan of the trailers. They didn't completely sell the movie even though I knew I was going to like it. I knew it was going to be a blast from all the images and clips and all that stuff and the music. Jesus I'll talk about the music in a couple seconds. I knew I was going to love this but the trailer for some reason was just it needed like something. I don't know what it was but I think it needed like an extra oomph. I don't know if you guys agree with me or not but once the movie kicks in and you get all these fantastic set pieces whether it be in the jungle or in the Arctic or the cityscapes or the island in the Yucatan Peninsula and all that stuff. It's lovely. I love it. Godzilla looked amazing. I love this design. He's chunky. He's tough. He's a tough son of a bitch and he will kill the toughest monster that comes in his way. Ghidorah looked frightening and menacing and beautiful. Rodin my boy the flying turkey bird. I'd love him so much and he was so angry in this. I wanted to see more. That was actually one of the only things I was a little bit bummed out by. I wanted to see more Rodin but what we got was really cool. Of course our queen are my favorite female character of 2019 so far. Queen Mothra in all her beautiful splendor. All her scenes were majestic and beautiful and I'd love the touch of adding bioluminescence to the character. There were so many homages to the Toho Godzilla movies. Yeah it's Titan instead of Kaiju but you know it's the same thing. I didn't mind whatsoever. I'd like seeing those other original designs and for all the other smaller monsters that show up. But for the most part it's self-contained to just Ghidorah versus Godzilla. Rodin and Mothra you know they help out their distinct teams if you will. What more can I say? If you like big monster movies and you want to have a fun time with great visuals, great effects and just monsters and the awesomeness of Godzilla one of my favorite movie monsters of all time you're gonna enjoy this. Even if the character development for the humans is terribly lacking even if they say there's the dumbest things you are still going to have a fun time. Just this is why we go to the movies to have fun right and I cannot recommend King of the Monsters enough and actually one of the things I wanted to really praise was Bear McCreery's score for this movie which is exceptional it is superb and easily a nominated an award nominated soundtrack in my honest opinion. Go take a listen you can listen to it for free legally on the Warner Brothers YouTube page their music page. Every single track just oozes with personality especially the themes for the three main monsters for them four main monsters I should say is just spectacular from the drums to the choirs to all the instrumentality involved with bringing the personality of life through the music even including the original Godzilla theme within this movie's main theme was breathtaking um last movie we didn't have that but for me was a really personal experience to be able to see that in a movie theater because I know Godzilla from TV I sadly I don't know him through the movie theater and I know a lot of people my age my generation have that same experience so I will always cherish the 2014 version because it introduced the character for me in a larger format yes I have loved Godzilla growing up and I've watched many of his movies I love the figures and all that stuff and the mythos and whatever the literature if you will but this is the first time I get to see uh two Godzilla movies if you will on the big screen and they were wonderful experiences I still get a kick and and and just a feeling of nostalgia rushes over when I when I see this version of Godzilla just being a badass and and and being the the hero that we deserve he is he's the best boy lizard boy we we could ever hope for and I am so ready for Godzilla versus Kong it's already starting the marketing campaign for this thing it's coming out in uh March of 2020 and I cannot wait I can't wait to see what they do with this and hopefully it doesn't end there and the monster verse can expand uh to other areas and we can feature more monsters and more stories there was even a talk about doing like a primeval version of the characters before humanity yes please do that I will I will watch that 100 times over but yeah Godzilla king of the monsters I normally do not give scores or ratings or grades to movies I just say whatever I feel and in this case this is this was awesome despite despite its small flaws I wholeheartedly recommended have you seen Godzilla king of the monsters let me know what was your favorite moment down below because I absolutely loved all the scenes involving Mothra and and Ghidorah fighting uh Godzilla and all that stuff so yeah let me know uh down below what you thought of the movie guys as always thank you so much for liking commenting and subscribing to a wiki geek them none of this would be possible without all of you uh find people out there in the interwebs follow me on your favorite social media platform and do all that awesome stuff I've got to go I will catch all of you on our next episode