Godzilla X Kong (2024)

On this episode of F&F, Ethan and Robbie discuss and break down the biggest kaiju clash of the year in Godzilla X Kong!

Do the big, bad Titans have what it takes to defeat the most villainous threat to date?

Episode Transcript

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And drum roll please, well,well, well, welcome back to another
episode of Flix and Feedback. Iam one of your hosts Ethan lazarro I
am the other host, mister RobbieSeely, mister Robbie Seely. Yes,

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sir, how are you doing.I'm doing really good. You're doing good.
I'm doing great, doing grand sweet? How are you doing? I'm
doing great. We just watched anotherawesome movie, Oh my god, and
I'm very excited to talk. Wedid, Yes, we did, and
bye. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is another one
that we watched the trailer for acouple of episodes ago. Yes, yeah,

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I believe when we reviewed the roomwe watched the trailer for Godzilla x
Kong. But if you haven't figuredit out, folks, Robbie and I
just finished watching Godzilla x Kong,The New m the New Empire, the
newest addition to the modern Godzilla.Oh movie. Yes, yeah, and

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so we will be diving into themost recent Godzilla movies. You know,
I would like to touch upon theGodzilla timeline. Oh yeah, and you
know, of course Kaiju Mayhem,Yeah, monsters. I believe we call
it Kaiju Clash yes, yeah,yeah, but yeah, I'm I'm very
excited Godzilla and the whole monster versusvery near and dear to my heart.

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So I love it very much.I was super excited to watch this with
you, and I cannot wait totalk about it. So shall we just
dive right in? Absolutely? Anduh, you know, folks, this
is a movie podcast, so fromhere on out, spoiler alert. So,
oh my god, Godzilla x Kongthe New Empire, newest twenty twenty

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four installment in the Monster Verse.It was a great ride. It,
Oh my god, was phenomenal.What a beautiful two hour ride. The
movie took a flu and didn't flyfor you because it honestly, like,
I know, we just did CivilWar last month, but I don't know
about you, but like there havebeen times when I've been watching like modern

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most recent movies coming out and theyjust drag. But like these movies,
I feel like fly by Like thisit was, you know, just like
you said, like Civil War.It was a great It had great pacing.
Yes, I love the pacing.I love the writing. It had
just the amount of silly jokes tobalance out the monster moments, and like,

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yeah, overall initial thoughts I love. I think I'm so happy we
put monsters back into monster movies,right because, oh my god, just
the the monster's got so much screentime. Yeah, that they so deserve.
This is the most I think I'veseen, at least, like even
can pairing it to like Godzilla versusKong and then Godzilla King of Monsters,

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Like there was still they were stillon screen for so much more. But
everybody always goes back to Godzilla twentyfourteen. Yeah, where the first fight
we ever see Godzilla in We're watchingthrough a television in the background. I'm
like, all right, chill out, relaxed, just put me on the
front line. Yeah, like putme under Godzilla's foot truly with these camera

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shots, and they they basically andthey did basically did. There was some
really good camera shots. Oh yeah, that I know I will bring up
later once we start going through ournotes, but just, oh my god,
it was. It was a beautifulIt was. It was a very
very like picturesque painting of a movie. Like certainly some good screen cap moments

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that would make for really good likedesktop I was just thinking that I'm gonna
make some of those picks my walk. Yeah that yeah, it was so
so colorful, so bright. Likeeven the dark moments didn't feel dark,
you know, like like there's timeswhen we're in caves and like we're only
lit up by underwater. Yeah,yeah, and we're only lit up by

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like magma. But even then itdidn't feel dark, not at all.
It felt it felt great. Andespecially being like in Hollow Earth, like
under the earth and crust and it'sstill so bright and lit up from the
Earth's core. It looks so good. Yeah. In full disclosure, we
watched this on a big sixty fiveinch screen in my living room. It

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wasn't im it wasn't fortunately, itwas pretty darn clubs. It was really
good. It still felt really good. Yeah, and just yeah, such
a good movie, so beautiful,so bright. I love monsters, bro.
You can't you can't go wrong.You cannot go wrong with monsters.
So let's get to the brass tacks, the basic details. So this was

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directed by Adam Winguard, who alsodirected Godzilla Versus Kong Wonderful. So this
is his second installment within the franchise. He also did VHS the Horror Movie
from twenty twelve. Oh yes,yes, yes, yes, I did
see that on his on his IMDbas well. But yeah, very very

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well done direction wise. I thinkit definitely opens up the floor for new
possibilities if they were to decide tomake more, which I really hope they
are. I also wouldn't hate likea Godzilla like specific series like I know
they have like Monarch, just kindof like everything that's TV. I still

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need to watch it, watch it. I need to renew my subscription,
so watch it. But anyways,not to get two sidetracks. So some
of our are big stars of thismovie. Rebecca Hall reprising her role as
doctor Andrews. Actually three the threemain characters are all reprising roles return from

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from previous movies. So Rebecca Hallis Doctor Andrews, Brian Tyree Henry as
Bernie, and Kayleie Hoddle as Gia. Doctor Andrews was with with was with
Gia in Godzilla Versus cong at thevery beginning, and Bernie was around in

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the all like the past two movies. So King of Monsters, he always
finds himself mixed in. Yeah,he somehow always ends up like being the
scaredy Capit also ends up getting inthe most like dangerous of situations. He
puts himself on the front line.Yeah, it's so funny, but they

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did a very good job. GaKaylee hoddle As Gia is just like want
a delight to watch. Like,one thing I will comment is this definitely
has the least amount of lines ina Godzilla movie. Like the past three
movies this one included. This moviedefinitely has the least amount of lines.

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But that being said, you don'tneed to say anything in order to show
and emphasize what you're saying, right, what you're trying to say absolutely,
which is awesome. That's what I'msaying. So Gia is like communicating via
sign language to cong and all ofthe monsters they can't speak, so they're

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they're just communicating via facial expressions andthey're like, oh, yeah, I
know exactly what you mean. Let'sgo fuck some people up, you know,
yeah, crazy, it's it's notbro. Yeah. So, diving
into the the first parts of thefilm, going back to Godzilla Versus Calm,

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we also opened with a day inthe life of Tong. Yeah,
except the first movie it was hewas in the globe, the Giant dome,
yes that they were hard holding himin, and then in this one
he was in the hollow earths.Roman Free, just Roman Free has all

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the room in the in the wholeworld, quite literally, in the whole
hollow earth. Yeah to just hehe really finally has a place to put
all the zoomies. Yeah right,you know, just to put it in
layman rather rather than a giant dome. Yeah, he's actually just roaming underneath
the Earth's crust as we speak.Like, Oh yeah, I thought that

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was a great opener. I alwaysthought that was cute and funny. It's
always to like an old, likenineteen fifties song to which just really sets
the expectation of what we're gonna see. An overarching theme throughout the film is
the idea of separation, anxiety,and finding your place in the world and

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finding a home, whether that's aphysical place or a person or a feeling
something like that. It's all aboutfinding where you belong in this crazy world
that we're living in. So thefilm opens up with Kong basically wondering where
his family is because he, youknow, from up until this point,

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we assumed that he was the lastof his species, Yes, the last
big ape. So you know,we're we're going into it thinking, all
right, he's the last one,so you know, what, what's he
gonna do? But he's still lookingfor his family, lean for more of
his kind. But the the bestpart of the opener wasn't even just the

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fact that we see his day today life. It's the fact that our
man has a cavity. Oh yeah, we got really that cavity is just
hurting. It was. It was, I can see it. You can
see how like nasty it was.But yeah, it opens up with Kong
running running around his thing, andthen he stumbles across from some trouble some

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trouble some some really ugly wolfy Bigdelethe Skull wolfy looking things and they are
scary looking. They're ugly. Hell, that's kind of something that I like
about the monster versus they're kind ofwell that but also just the fact that,
you know, any director can pickup the Godzilla films and be like,

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all right, I'm gonna design themost grotesque looking creature even if it's
never existed before, and I'm gonnathrow it in and it's gonna work.
It's gonna work because automatically gonna beyeah, exactly, if you just come
up with some sort of name forit. That's all you need to throw
it in the months months Terlipedia.I believe it's Zillipedia, oh thank you,

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or the titan Opedia. Yeah therethere's an actual name. Yeah.
But these things, these wolf motherfuckers, they tried to attack our boy Kong,
and he says no because he's alsogot this badass axe that they just
got he got from Godzilla versus Kong, which is super bad. And uh,

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he sucks them up. And thisman, he's smart as fun.
You know why he set up traps. He set up traps. He trapped
him. Uh, and then hepicks one up quite literally, just like
raw, like raw hand to body, just written apart and guts just like

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monsters. A lot, a lotthat I didn't need to see. But
then you know, he's still hedoesn't have a home, and he's still
sad. I'd made a note specificallythat I tried to wrote sad Kong,
but it auto corrected the sad King. But I think it's still works.
He is a sad kid, isa sad king, unfortunately. And one

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thing that you you commented on,which is the iconic title credits of the
film that have been showing up sincelike even the late eighties late nineties Godzilla
movies, which is like the infodump of like newspaper clippings, articles,

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books, titles, and stuff likephotographs, which I think is so cool,
Like I love like trying to catchYeah, it's a game, Princes
and stuff like that. It's socool, like you you can always find
headlines in something that That's how theydrop a lot of Easter eggs for like
what's going to happen, which isreally cool. It's similarly every time you

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watch a new Marvel movie, which, by the way, when was the
last time someone watched a new Marvelmovie? But you know, you're always
trying to see stuff in in thosenew opening credits as it starts to say,
Marvel, Marvel's exactly like that,Marvel if you're listening anyways, moving
on monster movie talk. One thingthat they also have wanted to comment on

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again from Godzilla versus Kong, isGia and Kong's relationships. They're tight,
They're homies. I'd even go asfar as to say that, like for
a while on kong Skull Island,they were the only family that they had,
so their their relationship in versus wasvery they they were together a lot

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more in that movie than they werein this one where you yeah, where
you go, I go. Butin X they were separated at the whole
beginning of a movie, but theywere still they're still so tight, tight
knit together, deeply connected that evenin their dreams they're even like symbiotically like

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connecting via telepathy, which is socool. I wish we had some sort
of telepathic thing. The closest thingwe got was Dollywood. That was crazy.
If I could just shoot you littlemessages and now you're upstairs, or

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if I could just be like heywithout having to pick up my phone.
Anyway, back to Monster Talk Monstert podcast that probably already is a lot
of monster goods. My next noteis napping in the coliseum, which to
Godzilla is a big angry baby confirmedquote from the movie Angry Baby. Like

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I I love having conversations when Joshtrue about Godzilla because he talks like about
the Kaiju as if they're just likelittle guys. But they actually confirmed it
in this film that Godzilla is infact just a big angry baby. And
yeah, and we get caught upwith Godzilla and you know, he's not

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necessarily protecting the earth rather, he'sjust fighting on the kaiju that are coming
through because he doesn't want him there. Yeah, it's definitely more for him
than it is for Absolutely, becauselike he's just like standing his ground because
he's king Absolutely, because you know, like you reminded me because I sorry,

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I haven't seen Godzilla like Verse Kongin a while, so you don't
watch it every other day like me. No, sorry, it's not quite
a comfort movie, but we arereminded that the portal is just open.
These mother these motherfuckers be coming throughtrying to mess it up, trying to
fight. And then Godzilla has towake up from his little Colosseum naps because

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he's just napping in the colosseum inRome when he's not fighting these monsters.
He has a wake up from thesenaps, fight them all the meanwhile,
Calling is in Hollow Earth trying tofind his family. In the there's a
little Volkswagon ada, Oh my god. Like the product placement was just spot

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doesn't you can't you can't miss it. It's quite it looked like it looked
like a Volkswagon ad. It didlike from from this the the trees were
like forming around the it was likeit was. They're not subtle about it
anymore, like I like, Iliked. I mean when Truman Show was

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like making commentary commentary about it,that was funny. But it's like,
you know, I appreciated, like, you know, just somebody opening a
can of pepsi or like a canof coke and just drinking it and like
but not like holding it to thepoint where the label like they're holding it
away that you wouldn't like hold it, so the label is like awkwardly sticking

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out like it wouldn't be. It'sso stupid. Give me, give me
the subtle ad and product placement likeWayne's World. Yes, yes, yes,
finally, I feel like the actionreally starts to take place because you
know, before like that was justwe were seeing people go to the research
facilities whatever, and we saw amonarch outpost one which is actually it was

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in Hollow Earth, and I guess, you know, humanity just has to
capitalize on every face. I said, let's put a Walmart in there,
save it for the meeting, Andwe see the cameras capture something that is
not quite like calm that destroys theirbase camp. And so then they put

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the team together to to as they'regetting ready to go down to Hollow Earth
to stry to see what's up.Who shows up but our boy Kong coming
through the portal. Why because hehas a toothing and he needs to rely
on the humans to airlift his outfrom his mouth. Yeah, Like,

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did you see how big the canisterof se definitely enough? Yeah, one
hundred. That was a lot ofgoddamn seditives. And so the new character
that's introduced, Trapper Trapper is airliftsbrings in a giant like rocket basically like

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an airship right over Kang. Hedrops down and takes a chain and wraps
it around Kung's tooth nice and tight, and then airlifts it out and he
yanks a whole tooth out, whichI thought was so cool, and I
just I thought it was pretty goofythat, you know, the the juxtaposition

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of big scary monster small small problem. Not that like a toothpaint is a
small problem, but you know whatI mean, like like something to inconvenience.
Yes, yeah, Like how howit's such a big monster led such
a thing like a toothing, Likemake him like change his whole trajectory of

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what he's trying to do is like, oh man, I really miss my
family, but this tooth is lookingI wanna jump through this portal to take
care of this. Did you getthe vibe like this was like an eighties
movie, like you were watching likea Rambo movie or was that just me?

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It might have just been the eightiesmusic that trapper was playing. Oh
absolutely, But like I loved it. It definitely had that vibe. The
vibe is immaculate and all the neon. I feel like there was so much
neon, like like the lights andthe different colors and it's like shapes and
colors so so so so like eightiestype. And I really appreciated it.

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I thought it was a cool touchit did. It gave it. It
helped balance out the the like superduper like uh, the the city destroying
scenes, yep, you know becauselike, yeah, it's a monster movie,
but like man, they're just destroyingcities yea, like absolutely leveling these

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these skyscrapers, skyscrapers and just thesethese buildings that people are working and people
live in, and so that youknow that it hurts to see. But
I get it, I get it, I get it. But yes,
so then we fix Kong's tooth,and then we we experienced the flight into
the into hollow. Well, Iwant to comment on something of course,

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before we as Kong is getting hisdentist job done, well Kanng is that
the dentist. That's a crazy sentence. Godzilla wakes up from his Colosseum dirt

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nap and is like, oh man, suddenly I'm like, I'm I got
the munch. I gotta go,like I got I gotta eat, Like
this guy feeds off radiation. Sothis man quite literally just walks all away
from where's the colosseum Rome, Rome, walks all the way from Rome to

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somewhere somewhere and completely inhales a nuclearliterally inhales and destroyed like he dementored it.
Yeah, like he just sucked itup, sucked up all the energy
and became like the same way thathe was in King of Monsters he was

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when he was red. He justgot like even more blue crackling and like
the he was just like irradiating likehis energy and he and don't forget heat
this man. And what really blewme away is that they pay attention to
the goddamn physics. And yeah,he's gotten these monster movies because this man

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was literally Gonzilla aka. This manwas emitting radiation and giving off so much
heat that not only was there likehe waved around him the whole time when
but he then he walks into theinto the water and into the ocean and
it starts boiling boiling, and I'mlike, oh my god, the monsters.
He literally melted buildings. Yes,because he was so he was so

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hot, like so insane. Andone thing that we haven't really seen him
do, Godzilla, what we haven'tseen him do is an e m P
blast. Yes, an e mP blast was established when the the No
Moves in Godzilla twenty fourteen came out, they had the e MP blast.

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I thought the I thought it definitelystarted with him and the Muto's Muto's mutes.
Thank you, Oh my god,no moves, my hero Acadamia myself.
Anyway, clip that clip that mutosthe moo toes. In twenty fourteen,
they had the e MP blast,but they were doing it because of

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their like bacteria and the the they'relike radiation levels. But Godzilla inhaled a
nuclear power plant, so his EMPblast was like one nuclear bomb. Yeah,
it was nuts so but then yes, so then after that, Godzilla
is on the move and they maketheir way back into Hollow Earth, this

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time doctor Andrews, Bernie Gia Trapper, and Mikhail, who is the hardened
veteran war veteran archetype who does notspoiler alert. Yeah, I can't wait
to talk about that. And yeah, just the my way, the highway.

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I'm a jar charge, literally thatI am the captain. Yeah.
So they make their way into HollowEarth and once again it's one of that
those insane sequences hopping from the surfaceworld down into the hollow Earth. Damn
near like interdimensional travel. Yeah.I was gonna say the tunnel in uh

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Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka, but thatisn't even better description. I was gonna
yes, you know what I mean. Though, you know what I mean.
It actually did remind me of Guardiansof the Galaxy, you know,
like when they the ride the movieswhen they jump oh yeah, yeah,

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yeah yeah, space jump like yeahyeah yeah. But like because like the
way it physically affects them, youknow, they like like their eyes pop
out of them, like yeah,go with Morphy and Jiggle. I guess
I thought Bernie was gonna have aheart attime. I thought that was I
thought that was I thought that wasit for Bernie. He was done.
He couldn't handle the G forces.I was gonna say, like you see

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those videos of people trying to takeon G fours, like the way their
faces like age, Oh my god, it's crazy. So one thing that
I said at this exact moment whenwe were watching the movie is the comparison
from one movie to the other ofmonarchs technology, Like how much they've improved

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just within this time period for theirtechnology to adapt to this new world,
meaning hollow Earth. So in versusthey crashed into the hollow Earth not knowing
what to do. But now inX they kind of like, what's the

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what's the word reverse trajectory. Thereverse trajected the force of them flying down
into the hollow Earth and reversed itback up so that they wouldn't like slam
into the ground and they and itjust like floated, which is really really
cool. Yeah, and they havethis really cool they call it a heave.

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Yeah. I don't know what itstands for, the heave hollow Earth
all terrain vehicle. I think itwas just it was it hollo h E
h E A B. It musthave been. Yeah, yeah, that
makes sense something like that. SoI'm not an expert, but like it
was cool, Like, there's thisship. I love the new like not

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quite helicopters, but the cool flyingIt honestly looks like the Guardians of the
Galaxy. That's also what I wasgonna say. The the oh it's right
there, the Milanoyea, except itwasn't bright orient It has gun metal gray.
It quite literally like has claws thatit looked like, yeah, if
you take your hand and you touchyou almost touch your pinky to your thumb,

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and so then the way the shiplooked was the your pinky and your
thumb were kind of like the jetboosters. It's really if you watch the
movie you'll just yes. But yeah, so they now they have cool flying
vehicles. Yeah, and you know, do you think it's because I couldn't
like pick up on like what itactually was, but like, do you

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think they're getting like all new likelike, uh, what's the elements and
ship from Hollow Earth one billion?Like if if they were to combine the
Monster Verse and the Marvel Universe theMCU, they would find they probably make
two or three whole new periodic tables. I was gonna say, yeah,

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like and they would what what's thewhat's the metal in Black Panther, they
would that would be in vibranium.Vibranium, that would be in Hollow Earth.
Like they they definitely grabbed that fromHollow Earth in Black Panther absolutely so
yeah. So now they can flyall across and they can really traverse and

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like they even have like biometric camouflagebecause at one point they were flying with
a bunch of flying monsters or whatever, I forget what they were called,
and they could just hit a buttonand then all of a sudden they had
the the ship had the pattern.They have camouflage with the species. The
they mimic the species like millions,Yes, sir. So they show up

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to Outpost one and it's completely destroyedas if Kong had destroyed it. But
come to find out there's something elsedown there with them that's a big old
hamper. Yeah, that is causingwreaking havoc on on the world. So

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Kong discovers a sinkhole in one ofthe areas of the of the world and
of the Hollow Earth, and weall of a sudden find ourselves in an
area called the subterranean level, thesubterranean realm, or else I like to
call it hollower Earth. Hollower Earth. It really is just a level below

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yeah, which I think is crazybecause now we're getting into like inception levels
of depth and ship. So there'sthe Earth's crust where we are, and
then there's the blank space in themiddle where they're hopping from hollow Earth to
the Earth crust, and then youget to hollow Earth, and then underneath

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hollow Earth is the subterranean realm.And I think that that it was cool
that we got introduced to it beforethe characters did. Like that, it's
like dramatic irony, like we knowsomething that the characters don't. So it's
it's just a whole nother level ofhollow Earth, just cash, you know,

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as if that whole world couldn't getany bigger, right, And with
that, Kong finds himself face toface with none other than another ape.
We are introduced to the little ManMini Kong, Mini Kom Mini Kong fuck

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Mini Kong. But we'll get right, yeah right, we without going too
far ahead, you our perception andthe acceptance of Mini Kong changes quite dressed
again. The movie is a ride. You gotta watch it yourselves. Yes,
So we meet Mini Kong in thismotherfucker he start, you know,

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he he creeps up and he's likealmost up, He's all interested, and
the what does his motherfucker do?He bites Kong's finger, this absolute dumb
ass. He quite literally bit thehand that feeds him. It didn't feed
him yet, though, how dareyou call him an it? I'm sorry
anyway. Anyway, So then awhole brawl ensues because there it wasn't just

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Mini Kong. He wasn't alone.There is now a whole other, a
gaggle, a pack pack apes ofapes who have been living down in the
subterranean realm, and they're trying tofuck our boy up. So and I
don't know if you felt the sameway, okay, but I'm sitting here

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and I'm like, okay. Kongwas just all in his emo boy feelings
for the first like fifteen to twentyminutes of this movie. Yep, sad
King and he's like, oh woeis me? I need to find my
family and stuff like that. Andthen he finds his family and then he's
just killing him because just beating theshit out of him. Those motherfuckers were

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not his family. But at thesame time, wouldn't you'll be at least
a little bit like hold on,wait stop, well okay, sure,
but like Min k him and thenattacked him, and then Mini Kong's friends
jumped his ass. So so butif I was but if I was Kong,

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I'd be like, hey, canwe like talk for a second.
Like they didn't want to talk.They just went straight all right, all
right, No, no, Iget it. I get no. But
like I, like I said,I get it, But why why make
such a big deal out of itif you're not even gonna give Kang the
minute to realize, like, ohshit, there's more of me, there's

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more of me. He lived probablythousands of years by himself, thousand years
young and not not seeing another oneof his species, and then one day
you find not one, not toobut a whole fucking army of people that

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are just like you, And youwouldn't just stop for it, Like they
didn't even give him a minute tostare up at the sky and be like
what the fuck is going on?Like no, I'm being serious, Like
he didn't even have a moment oflike clarity, we and taking up with
the writers. Man, did youhave the floor take it up with the

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writers? Yeah, I mean,I mean I just yeah, I thought
that moment would be a bit bigger. Yeah, that's all I'm saying,
not to not to fucking ship onthe writers because you know, what they
did great, but hey, nobody, nobody's perfect. Yeah, but also,
fu Mini Kong. This whips himaround like a fucking base he you

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know, just when you think theseother motherfuckers have the upper hand, he
grabs Mini Kong and just starts whippinghim around by literally Hulk lokis like y
just talks like yeah, and sorryfor all the Marvel references, but there's
a lot of marble, same sameuniverse. So Kong beats up this this

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group of of apes. Will thismilitia if you will? And then we
we go back to our boy uhge z and and he is on his
way up to Antarctica, and he'stracking, he's tracking, he's he's moving,

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he's he's still very irradiated, chargedup. His dude is like locked
and fucking loaded like whiskey cock block. He is fucking ready. I hope,
I hope some of our listeners getthat they should, and we find
out that he's on his way toAntarctica because there is another tightened there's there's

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a few times they're sitting and waiting, but there's one big, one biginte
quite literally a sun flare absorber asthey were describing it. It absorbs all
of the radiation from the Sun andit's like so like basically a walking nuclear
power plant essentially because of like whereit is geographically so close to Antarctica,

(36:25):
it gets like extra the way thesolar positions and ship it just gets extra
radiation from the sun. Crazy.So, come to learn Godzilla is on
his way to knock on Tiamot's doormat. We've never seen never a brand new

(36:46):
well not brand new, but we'vewere seen, yeah, for the on
the screen, maybe in a flashbecause I remember, oh, it must
have been King of Dora, Yes, when they were trying to unleash all
the Titans. Yeah, so wemight have seen it. Then Tamot was

(37:06):
in a graphic novel of Godzilla.So this is the first like live or
animated iteration we're seeing of Tmott,which is a great design serpent with like
the the Delahosaurus, Frills and marks. Oh yeah, it's like no competition.

(37:31):
Tried to put up a fight.Keyword tried, keyword tried. Well.
Before we see the fight scene,we do cut back to Trapper Gea,
doctor Andrews, Bernie and Michael.Oh, yes, yes, and

(37:52):
we you know, they're they're goingthrough the forest trying to see what's up,
trying to see what could have possiblyhave messed up Monarch Post one,
and you know, the walking,they're shooting the ship, they're complaining,
and Mikhail mex a complaint that he'sbeing eaten alive by mosquitoes. And I
heard that, and I turned toyou and I said, hey, man,

(38:17):
I hope he doesn't get me alive. And so then you know,
we keep going, they keep lookingfor this thing. I thought he was
gonna be the villain of the wholemovie, by the way. Oh yeah,
I genuine I genuinely thought, becauseI thought they were gonna pull a
Kong Skull Island where it's like,all right, we're gonna assemble a team,
but somebody on the team is actuallygoing to betray us, saying it's

(38:38):
going to be the reason that thisplan goes to ship. Yeah, I
thought they were gonna do that.He definitely did give off a lot of
bad vibes. Yeah, and butand then you know, they they stopped
to talk in a little opening,to argue about something, and the camera
just focuses too well on Mikhael's standingso centered and so perfectly in front of

(39:00):
what looks to be a crazy plant, crazy goofy oh. And then what
happens. The plant needs absolutely justlike a couple of tendrils, like jump
out and grab them. Yeah,it was like it was like an Audrey
two. It was crazy. Itwas. It was an Audrey two on

(39:22):
steroids. Yeah, And you know, I just thought it was such a
good setup because it was, youknow, usually like when someone says like,
oh, like I'm getting it alie, Like yeah, it's a
very clear foreshadowing. It's a veryobviously loaded gun. But you know,
I thought it would have come alot later, but I thought it was

(39:46):
right there. They knew the shoutout to the writers, Yeah, they
knew what they were doing. Didnot like him, glad he glad,
glad his attitude had to go.And yeah, and then we see we
follow the other four. They persevere, they move on kind of without a

(40:07):
thought in the world about Micaye aboutit, it was like, well,
I think because they hated him,just essentially we did. So they were
like, oh, well, gladhe's gone. Yeah, one less,
one less person to keep track of. Yeah. And they venture forth into
what I like to call oh no, no, we haven't gone there yet.
Start they find ruins. Yes,they find ancient ruins of the Ee,

(40:34):
the Ewe people. Gias a descendantof the Ewe people. She is
they originally inhabited kong Skull Island,and then they eventually made their way down
into into the Hollow Earth. Whichthis is a retcon. They initially said
for the past two three four moviesthat the Hollow Earth was essentially ininhabitable m

(41:06):
HM uninhabitable and unlivable conditions for humansto live in. Now all of a
sudden, they're saying, oh,actually the Ewe people have been here this
whole time. Yeah, okay,all right, sure, let's go with
that, like, okay, whatever, Like, I guess that's fine,
you know, I mean, itworks, it works like plot wise.

(41:30):
But yeah, still, I think, you know, the whole beauty of
the Hollow Earth is that nobody wasthere. It was quite literally like untouched.
I mean, sure they were verylike respectful of the environment and the
titans that roam did, but thatstill stands like humans period just did not
exist in the place. And somuch like Gia, the rest of the

(41:53):
Ewi tribe communicate via sign language andthey can just talk telepathically, which I
think is absolutely insane because not asingle one of them said a word.
I thought they would. I thoughtGeo was gonna say something. I was
waiting for one of them to saysomething. But but I guess, you

(42:14):
know, like you said, ifyou can talk telepathically, why death do
you think you asked me this?Do you think they're deaf or because they're
not deaf. They can hear.They clearly can hear, they can understand,
but does that mean that they canhear? I guess so yeah,
yeah, like maybe they can't likehear, but they can like feel maybe

(42:38):
like maybe your energy like Bernie,Like Bernie was saying, like describing how
the place is like a monster shipshow. And then the leader of the
Ewe looks back at him and doctorAndrews is like, hey, you can
understand you yeah, and he's likeit's a monster hell is a great place
to you know what played in myhead as mars Ain't the Khana please to

(43:02):
raise your kids? Du So?Yeah, the Ewie tribe, they communicate
telepathically. Why do they keep addingshit? So much shit? Why why
do they keep just like yeah,don't get me wrong, Like I love
the Lord runs deep, the loreruns deep. And I've said this about

(43:25):
Star Wars and I'll say this aboutthis as well. Content is content,
yes, but like I feel Ihave a bad feeling that if they continue
making more movies of this, they'regonna wreckcon everything. Why do I have
to remember so much shit? Toit? Right? Monster? Right?

(43:45):
Like make it simple, That's whatI'm saying. But yes, because they
come to learn that. So originallythey went down into Hollow Earth because there
was sit deep signals that they werereceiving, Yes, and it was like

(44:06):
that's what woke up Godzilla, That'swhat told them to go to the nuclear
power plan, that's what told themto kill tiamat Ye. And so they
go down to the Hollow Earth totry to track this signal. And it
turns out that the signal is comingfrom a giant crystal deep in hollow Earth,
in a place I like to callhollow whist Earth because it's even deeper,

(44:30):
and it's behind this like organic filmthat we we don't it's like it
looks really gross. And then wecome to find out later who made it.
And I was right about it,and the crystal is sending the signals,
and the signal is actually a distresscall from the EE to Godzilla to

(44:54):
help them because they are in need. They just ring that thing like a
absolutely for whom the belt holes andyes, the belt hold for Godzilla as
But now just to backtrack a littlebit, so that way we don't completely

(45:15):
because it jumps back and forth alot, and we've been talking linearly among
the characters, but not among theactual movie. And now, like we
said, Godzilla went knocked on Tiamot'sdoor. Ye, Tiamot fought really hard,
but in the end Godzilla really justyeah, shot his atomic breath spotlight

(45:38):
like disco ballb like just a laseraround and then you see Tiamot's carcass slowly
rise of the ocean, float tothe surface, and just all, my
god, was that absolutely insane?So I thought he was going to just

(45:58):
eat Tiamatt and that was gonna behow he got like his extra edit.
Because we knew from the trailer andfrom toy products like Fungo pops and other
stuff that we've seen in stores,that Godzilla was gonna turn pick, you
know, so we knew it wascoming. And I think this movie trailer

(46:21):
gave away too much. Think Ithink so because there's another piece of it
that will come to in a littlebit that was given away the trailer,
and I think had too much ofa build up in the movie. But
we'll get that back to the Ewisand our main protagonists. Down in the
in the hollowist Earth, they readsome ruins and cave glyphs and carvings that

(46:49):
tell them that there is you know, they locked away Godzilla because you know,
the song was a threat, andthere was this other big monkey that
was not calm, no, thatthey called the scar King, this motherfucker.
And he's still here. Oh,he's still there, this giant army

(47:14):
of great apes. And it turnsout he is in the subterranean realm running
it like a like the goddamn Navy, Navy, more like a prison yard,
like like they were. They wereliterally like you ever see the movie
Prince of Egypt in the opening sceneand it's a great song and it's all

(47:37):
of the slaves like taking stones andbuilding the pyramids. That's literally what it
fucking looked like. And it wasjust a bunch of like slave driver apes
yea, just like going at itlike oh my god, and it was
it was like sad to watch,you know, really interacting with Mini Kong

(47:58):
now because after he fought the pack, he had pulled Mini Kong from a
from a bush and he threw himin front of him and he said walk.
So Kong has had there's a lotof different lines in this movie to
follow, you know what I mean, a lot of plot lines, a
lot of plots, thank you.And so in one of the scenes following

(48:21):
Kong, they're waiting in a pondor in a lake rather, and we
see something under the water causing aripple on the surface, and then it
comes up behind Kong and it turnsout it's a giant sea serpent thing and
it tries to kill him, andyou know, Kong fights, but what

(48:42):
does Mini Kong do? Runs away, runs away, runs away, a
little shit, runs away, andthen cut to Mini Kong shitting his pants
in the forest, and then comesalong the head this the well, Kong
hucks his axe, the Mini Kongtrips and then Kong throws the head and

(49:12):
it is like, let's go,come on, get your get your ass
in gear. You're lucky. Idon't like kill you right now, crazy
ship. So that being said,Kong rolls up on scar King's lair and
it's like, yo, what's something, motherfucker Like, let's let's let's tussle,
like you know, we got wegot beef. And I said,

(49:37):
nice guy Kong can't win. Whenwhen Kong is fighting uh, the the
great Apes in the layer after tryingto save Mini Kong's dad, yes,
yes, because Mini Kong was bringingKong to the this this layer, this

(50:00):
uh like magma pool in the subterraneanrealm to be like, hey, this
big guy is being a dick fighthim. And then Mini Kong finds his
dad there and I'm like, oh, that's pops, you know, uh,
And then you know, and Konggoes up to the scar King well,

(50:23):
first goes up to the the apethat is one of the guards,
one of the guard and just fuckingone punch right to the jaw absolutely and
I thought, you know, becausethe Kong threw that punch. The ape
hit the floor, and I,you know, I thought he was gonna

(50:44):
you know, twitch or whatever,no move because you know, I thought
I was just gonna like a knockoutdead leg. No, that man did
not out like he died dead.Well you buried. Kong confirmed one punch
man, and I that blew mymind just to see that he had that

(51:05):
much power. Kong, not thatI should ever underestimate him. I was
gonna say, Kong, confirm onepunch man, or it's confirmed that one
punch man has the same power asKing Kong on a new perspective, some
may say, anyway, think aboutthat. So then yeah, scar King
comes out and is like, yo, we got beef, and then him

(51:30):
and Kong start going at it,and I, you know, scar King
kind of he looked pretty bad atdesign. He had more reddish fur hair
on the skinnier side, on theskin side, lankier. Here's a lanky
leg. It couldn't couldn't put himon the cover. And and he had

(51:54):
it looked like like a bandolier ofspind Yeah, and that was bad as
ye, But come to find outthat it wasn't just a bandolier. It
was a fucking whip, a spyingspine with a sharp ass fucking crystal like
crystal knife like the like the tipof like like a bandolier for a whip.

(52:16):
And so they're fighting. They arefighting. It's that was a good
really good like I know, welike we're talking a lot about like the
main plots of it, but likethe fight scenes in this world, the
fights really pulled their wi. Idon't think any of it fell short.
No, yeah, no, reallygood tracks of the fight choreography in this

(52:38):
one. Yeah, And I wrotecalm question slave labor. Well, you
know, the way scar was running, it can't say scar because it's not
Scarred scar King, scar King,not Scar from the Lion King. Don't
get it twisted, folks. We'retalking about big monsters here. And then

(53:00):
you know, just when we thinkKung has the upper hand, scar King
grabs the blade, the crystal blade, and then all of his other ape
cronies know what to do. Sothen they move this giant boulder and it
stops like a lava waterfall. Thatis crazy. That is absolute insanity.

(53:24):
They evolved that much. And likethe traps that we see, Klong said
up and this is crazy. There'sthere's smart motherfuckers, dude, I gotta
give him credit. They they stopthe flow of lava and behind it comes
this white crystallized ice godzilla looking yeah, yeah, like it's some sort of

(53:49):
like lizard like quadruped. Did Iuse that same word scrabble? Could be
a an ice lizard quadruped that looksa lot like a white godzilla that walks
on all fours. And we cometo find out from the Elie tribe that

(54:13):
that is this is a creature knownas Shimomo. And scar King uses the
crystal at the end of his whipas like a remote basically to control Chimo
using like I guess because it's theit. I guess he took it from
Chimo, And so it became like, you know, if you have the

(54:36):
crystal of a Chimo, you're ableto like control it or whatever. So
yeah, I thought that was prettycool. And then that Chimo caused the
last ice age. Yeah, andI thought that was a really cool detail
that they included in the in likethe not to recap the story, but

(54:59):
the story story from the rooms.Yes, yes, thank you, because
it really showed just how deep likethe connection between the Titans and the human
and the humans are like just howthey like I feel. Words are not
my best my strong suit. Butin a similar vein that, like the

(55:22):
Romans and the Greeks thought the godscontrolled their ship, Yes, Titans really
did control I guess a lot ofparts of life and nature for a lot
of human civilization in this Monster verse. Yeah. And I thought that was
a really great way of of tackingit in there because I was actually reading

(55:44):
up on on Godzilla today and watchingvideo Yeah, watching video essays, and
uh, one of the videos wassaying how in an interview, the modern
directors were like, we don't wantto We don't want to make it like
the originals where Godzilla is an allegoryon the atomic bombs. Yea. They

(56:06):
want to make it so that heties into like nature. Yes. So
within the ruins of the Ewe Templewe find out that a person born of
Kong Skull Island in the prophecy isgoing to bring back Mama Mathra herself.
Oh and we love MafA. Luckilywe have a descendant of Cong Island.

(56:32):
We we have our right, likejust so happened, We just so happened
to have one at our disposal.So We're going to use Jia to bring
back Mathra in order to get Godzillato help Kong in the battle against Skar
King and Shimo. Oh yes,so uh that's exactly what they do.

(56:55):
Jia brings back Mathra and all herglory. She spreads those wings big stretch,
and she she flies off to thesurface where Kong is already trying to
get up in Godzilla's ship. Theythey go all the way from Uh from

(57:17):
Gibraltar to Cairo, Egypt. Godzillamakes his way all the way from Gibraltar
and goes to Cairo, Egypt,where Kanng is and they get into a
fistfight, but Kanan is like whoa, whoa, whoa wait wait wait wait
wait wait, and then cong Godzillais having and just like wallops because we

(57:44):
find find out in the beginning thateverything is fine only because Kong is in
Hollow Earth and Godzilla is on thesurface world taking down the Titans that are
still going around. Yes, andif I may be, you up just
a little curse. Going back toKong fighting in the subterrdinan room, he

(58:07):
is able to not die to scarKing, and so you know, scar
King is using Chimo to fight Kongand it's getting really bad because Shimo has
crazy strong ice breath, like thisship has to be like zero kelvin because
it is not immediately melting next tothis to these lava pools and ship and

(58:30):
lava falls, and so unfortunately,our boy King Kong gets hit with some
of the ice breath on his likeit's it's his right hand. He has
right arm and cross cross by upto the like up to the elbow almost
and so yeah, but he's ableto get out of there by by the

(58:52):
skin of his teeth with the helpof man, with the help of Mini
Kong. So going back to goingto ride at Mini Kong, you know,
he he earns a couple of pointshere because he points out a little
tunnel for for King Kong to useto escape, and King Kong does and
he is able to make uh traveland run and get all the way and

(59:15):
meet up with our main protagonists atthe ev civilization and they like open like
the the organic door for for Kongwhich was made by which we later find
out is made by baby girl MathraMama Ma sorry and yes, and so

(59:37):
now Kong he is getting help fromour protagonists and Trapper has an idea because
he's like, hey, that armlooks really bad. Uh and if he
has any chance, we need touse we Uh hey, doctor Andrews,
do you remember Project Powerhouse? Andshe's like nah, dude, She's like

(01:00:02):
are you are you You're crazy?Are you sure? And he's like,
I've never been more sure, neverbeen more serious. It's still it worked
up until they pulled the funding forit. Yeah, exactly. And lucky
for them, it was already alreadyjust so happened. It was already down
there in hollowe It just so happensthat what they prototype had been sent down

(01:00:24):
to Hollow Earth for testing. Andwhat what is this prototype, Robbie.
It's essentially it's you know, mechanicalglove, a gauntlet if the gauntlet,
if you will, that is essentiallya Nintendo Power Glow. Yeah, it's

(01:00:45):
it's really it's really the Infinity Gauntletlike it pretty much like it does a
lot of like the similar things.It had like electricity coming out of it.
It healed his arm somehow, hadlike medicinal like and it's like this

(01:01:06):
yellow, robotic like metal arm andit heals and Kanan like smashes down with
his fists and it's like, oh, it was such a cool such a
cool element to add to it.I think out of anything they could have
done with it, I think thatwas probably the best. And this that
power Glove brings me back to Ithink there was too much given away in

(01:01:29):
this trailer because for them for Imean, okay, but because now I'm
gonna argue with myself because just youknow, they were just like, I
don't know, I just think itwould it would have been way cooler with
that reveal the way they did itin the movie where they were like Project

(01:01:52):
Powerhouse. Yeah, like what isthat? So if they didn't show the
glove in the tailor, I wouldn'tbecause when they say, I honestly kind
of forgot about it. That's crazy. I just remember just being there,
honestly his arm and I was like, how do you get this glove?
Yeah? This Nintendo power glove.And then because once they said Project power

(01:02:15):
that that's my problem with it isthey said Project Powerhouse and I was like,
always arm is hurt. I knowwhat this is. Yeah, So
that's I just had to talk myselfthrough it. That is my problem with
it. Yeah. Anyways, movingon back to uh uh Kong goes before
that, Okay, before that somuch fun. So there's a Throughout this

(01:02:37):
whole time, Bernie has been recording, taking pictures and doing like voice recordings
of like, you know, hisexperience down in Hollow Earth, because like
he was known for his podcast talkingabout theories and all of the stuff that's
going down with the Titans, andhe just wants people to believe him.

(01:02:57):
And something that Trapper said I andI think it goes for us as well,
is like if he if he goesand shows everyone the Hollow Earth,
it's not special, it's gonna loseits spark. And and I think that's
a great example of like our ideaof like expansion, where you know,

(01:03:22):
we make jokes about let's just puta Walmart in the middle of the Grand
Canyon, but that's essentially what they'resaying is if they show the world the
Hollow Earth, then it's not goingto be like it's better. Sometimes it's
better to believe than no. AndI say that all the time, Like
I get into arguments with people aboutlike theories and people are like, it's

(01:03:45):
not real, obviously, that's notreally I'm like, yeah, but like
if even if it is or ifit's not, it's good to just have
something to believe in, you know. So I thought that was that was
a cool thing to touch upon forespecially considering it's a Godzilla movie. There
was there tens I mean, atleast in the recent Monster Verse movies,
there's a good balance of monster monstermonster fight fight, fight, yeah,

(01:04:10):
balance with human moments, you know. And I know that's something that the
the fandom has problems with, youknow, that they're very critical of,
like it's a monster movie, monstermovie, give me the damn monsters.
But then, you know, forthe average moviegoer and not just monster fans,

(01:04:30):
there has to be something else init for them too. So I
think they did really good this timearound. That being said, back to
Cairo, Kanan is gloved up andMini Kong runs over to Kang and is
like, hey, hey, youand the guys that and by the way,

(01:04:53):
and the things and the fighting,the fighting, yeah, they're they're
going up is So they make theirway up to the surface and Kang and
Godzilla are going at it. Kongdoes not want to fight, but Godzilla
is just right hook, left,hook, uppercut, elbows like yeah,

(01:05:16):
atomic breath, He's like gassed up. Oh, he's gassed up, right,
He's pink. He's pink. He'spink. He's because he didn't just
kill Tiama for the power. Don'tworry, I got you. But he
before he emerges in Gibraltar, wefind him. They show him he was

(01:05:38):
in Tiamat's layer, which was whereTiama was I guess, gathering all the
super radiation. And so not onlydid he charge up at the it's a
nuclear plant, he doubled down.He went all in and he absorbed the
super radiation from Tiamat's uh layer dwelling. And so he is pink. He

(01:06:05):
is charged up. He is raringto go, and so he gets into
a fight with Kanan right as rightas Kang's about to take Godzilla down into
the hollow Earth, he fires uphis atomic breath, fires it at Kang,
and right as Godzilla is about tostomp Kong to death, Mathra swoops

(01:06:31):
in and it's like, hey,babe, so you know, stop,
we kind of got to take careof this thing. And once again Godzilla
is like fine. And so itwas a great shot of Godzilla, Kong
and Mathra in the middle on thePyramids like doing their their respective wars and

(01:06:58):
chance to get ready to go.But I do not want to glaze over
this pyramid fight because it was nuttyand I know it's gonna be a long
one. Sorry, But that Godzillafreaking suplex cong oh my god, the
tightened super grabs them, and justlike in absolute WWE textbook definition suplex,

(01:07:28):
I couldn't. I couldn't just passit by. All I was thinking was
his dorsal fins were probably stuck,like I can't. I can't get it,
I can't get Yeah, I didn'tthink of it. Yeah, yeah,
they don't. They're not very awareof and nothing I care because this

(01:07:49):
whole movie, every time God's becauseGodzilla he travels a lot. In this
one, he was all over thehe was all over I feel like every
other scene was here's where we arenow, Here's where we are now,
And it was always a few countriesover ye yeah, yeah, and then
all over Europe yes. And sothen we dive back in to Hollow Earth

(01:08:11):
and we see the EWE people.They are working to put together this plan
to stop scar King because they knowscar King's on the way. They know
he's gonna try to break through withhis other Kong his smaller Kong's army and
Shimo to get through those portals becausethe portal is at the top, like
above the temples and stuff that leadto because they were undiscovered up until this

(01:08:39):
movie. So that's how they gotto Cairo. And it was crazy to
watch a new portal form on thesurface. Yeah, that was nuts.
That was a really good detail.And then all hell breaks loose because scar
King shows up with the army.They absolutely tear through the biofilm barrier.

(01:09:04):
And this happens just as our protagonistsin the EI, because like there's like
giant crystals down there that control thegravity and allow them to to be basic
crawl up the ceilings basically. Yeah, and the way if they move these

(01:09:26):
crystals they can lower or add gravity. But if because imagine two pyramids like
on top of each other, butyou know, like a couple of feet
a couple of inches apart. Butif those tough, forgive me, if
the tips touch then we never saidthis was PG. Absolutely, these are
label These are label explicit vers.These are raw and unfiltered. Just as

(01:09:56):
the EWI are trying to get theirplan and action to keep them for reaching
the portals up top. Scar Kingshows up and Chimo shoes a nice blast
to keep forgive me to keep thetips from touching. No, but that's
that's what they did. That's whathappened the movie. This is what I
saw. And then all help breaksloose. Godzilla flies in through the portal

(01:10:25):
and crashes crash lands and just startsfighting everyone in his path. Kong shows
up. They go back to backCharlie's Angel style and they're they're going at
it with star King and the othergreat apes. I'm not standing. Why
is my apple watching? I'm standingand there they are just going like fist,

(01:10:49):
the cuffs, whips, the axe, the power glove, like frost
breath. It is all over thelike Mathra has got like spiderwebs like she
was because so not only so.At first you know they're fighting on the

(01:11:12):
ground, and can we not glazeover the shot of the four of them,
the four going at it. Itwas Sibo and Godzilla jumping at each
other and Kung and scar King.Yeah, it was so good. But
then the ice breaks, the icebreaker and the tips of the pyramids crashed

(01:11:32):
together and everybody starts floating anti gravityblast and this it was jarring this anti
gravity fight. I could not believeit because, like you said, Mathra
was using the the like Spider Manweb. She was good, she was

(01:11:54):
cruising. Everybody else was kind oflike wall and she was sticking them to
rocks. Awesome, but they arestill managing. Scar King was like smarty
man. Yeah, the way hewas maneuvering around those rocks and like jumping

(01:12:15):
off them, I was like,oh my god, who who he is?
Surprising surprisingly agile for probably never havingdone this before. He was a
laky motherfucker. And yeah, andwith that anti gravity fight, they they
make their way up to the surface. Yes, and scar King, Godzilla,

(01:12:36):
Mathra, and Kong are all fightingin Rio de Janeiro. Yes,
and they are just leveling. Icouldn't have said it better myself, Robby,
like leveling these cities, like justthere's nothing, nothing left, nothing
and no nothing to stop them,No, not at all. And uh

(01:12:58):
and like we had said at thebeginning, like they're the monsters have gotten
an awesome amount of screen timeout thewhole time they they were, you know,
in it from the beginning. Theythey started it and they ended it,
you know. And so they're they'reon the surface and they're fighting,
they're going at it, and thenstar King's whip breaks due to Godzilla,

(01:13:24):
and there's this like cat and mousefight with the crystal to control Shimo because
that will change the time of thebattle. Like it's almost yeah, it's
if you have Shimo on your side, Like that's such a big advance,
That's what I'm saying. So Ilike Simo. Why he kind of adorable
though? Yeah, he c orshe they're cute. Scar scar King and

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Kanan are fighting over the crystal andKanan ends up trying to grab it and
then Mini Koan comes in with consasand just smashes, smashes the crystal to
pieces, and then Shimo wakes upout of it. It's like subconscious minda

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and it's like whoa, oh hey, how's it going and looks at scar
King and is like, oh man, fuck this guy. So Kong's holding
scar King by the neck and Chimojust before scar King gets caught by King
Kong. Scar King's running around tryingto you know, get out of there,

(01:14:35):
and all the while Godzilla is tryingto shoot his atomic breath at him
while he's running around. But whydid Godzilla have the aim of a fucking
stormshooper plot armor and just absolutely andlike I get it, like I understand
the choreography of it, but itwas just so funny that Kong could not

(01:14:58):
hit I mean, Godzilla not hita shift. No, he could not
hit a shot for his fucking life. So eventually scar King ends up running
into King Kong, where King Konggrabs him and just holds him there,
and Shimo delivers the fatal blow offreezing completely and utter like we've seen like

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body parts be frozen, but theycompletely had to scar King, and we
all knew what was gonna happen.Robbie called it. I knew it was
gonna happen. They they cut toa close up of scar King and you
can see like like in his face, you see the eye move just behind

(01:15:39):
the ice, And I was like, then, like we said, we
knew what was gonna happen. Kanfucking smashes smashes scar King to bits to
add a piece and keeps going.He's like banging on a like he wanted

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you kidding me. And that isthe last battle. That is the final
battle. Shimo and Kang and Godzillaand Mathra they all part ways except Kang

(01:16:23):
Shimo and Mini Kong. They goback to the Hollow Earth and they go
back to the Lair of scar Kingand they liberate the the Great Ape Army.
Mathra builds back the Ewez Land.Godzilla goes back to his dirt napp
in the Colosseum, and then ourheroes that are still in the in the

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Hollow Earth. Jia, who isthroughout this whole time has been having a
phenomenal experience being with people of herown kind, and doctor Angerews, who
has basically been a mother figure toGia on and off screen. It's basically
like, you know these are yourpeople, like you know, you have

(01:17:10):
a home. I understand this,can decide to stay. Yeah, I
support and uh, Gia says,you are my whole with the oh my
god, my heart, my heartshattered. There was I came close to
crying. Yeah I didn't though,Yeah, get back in their tears and

(01:17:33):
it was it was again another sucha touching moment because you always gott to
end it. It was the perfectcherry on top really and yeah, and
that that pretty much wraps it up. That was the movie. Again,
Like I love this franchise with allmy heart. I don't care what they're

(01:17:59):
pumping out. As long as Isee some good monster fights. That's all
I care about in my mind,Like, I couldn't ask for anything more
other than Godzilla and some other bigmonsters to go toe to toe and just
battle it out. I loved it. It was great. I thought it
was a great movie. I reallydid a couple of plot things questionable.

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But if you're not a die hardfan, it's still a great watch.
And if you are a die hardfan, get over it. Enjoy it
for it, enjoy that we seebig monsters on screen. Yeah, And
what more could you ask for?Truly, nothing, nothing, but yeah.

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I just wanted to touch upon thetimeline because I think god Godzilla's just
so bad and cool man. Andthe first one went all the way back
to nineteen fifty four, was whenthe very first Godzilla movie came out,
and then the first movie came outin fifty four. Yeah, yeah,

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Godzilla nineteen fifty four, Oh yeah, And then there's many many installments after
that. They just kept pumping themout. Oh yeah, like they didn't.
They didn't understand like marketing or likehow like like timing for movie works,
like movies work so they kind ofjust like kept going in the different

(01:19:30):
like the Shoute era and stuff likethat, Like they just kept pumping them
out. Yeah, and so Ifeel like now they've kind of gotten a
good grasp of like, all right, a Godzilla movie basically like every two
three years something like that. Basically, it was nineteen fifty four, nineteen
fifty five, fifty six, thefirst three came out back to back Wow,

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and then the fourth installment, OurBoy Kinkong was introduced in nineteen sixty
two. Uh Mama Mathra was introducedin nineteen sixty four, The Three Headed
Monster King Godora, nineteen sixty four, Astra Monster, and then after Cadora,

(01:20:15):
it starts to get into like thethe lesser, no more, the
more obscure ones like Astro Monster.I freaked out for a second because I
thought we were gonna get Desta royYeah. Yeah, for a second thought
we were gonna get I thought wewere gonna get it, and I was
gonna lose my absolute ship. Yeah. They teased it really well, we'll
get it, look at it,well, we gotta build up. We

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got a lot we gotta we've gottabuild up. And then Our Boy Mecca
Godzilla was introduced in nineteen seventy four. Uh, and yeah, he he's
a menace. He's a goddamn menace. We saw him in Godzilla verse con

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in the using the remnants of Kingadora, Yes, which was crazy. Yes,
And then there's a whole lot ofthem. Wasn't there a Godzilla two
thousand, nineteen ninety eight? Myfriend ninety eight, nineteen ninety eight,
And a lot of people don't likethat one, no, because they don't

(01:21:23):
like the way Godzilla looks. Butthat one holds a little special place in
my heart because I used to watchit at my grandparents house when I was
younger school, before I really gotdeep into the Monster verse and watch what
I really know. But yes,there also was a Godzilla two thousand millennium,
So that was a crazy one.And then you know, they keep

(01:21:45):
pumping them out and three two thousandand four. But Godzilla Final Wars came
out in two thousand and four,which was I believe the thirtieth movie.
Wow. Up until then, throwinga couple of anime movies and there.
Yeah, yeah, they had there'sa trilogy, I believe. But after

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that two thousand and four, weget a ten a decade long break.
That's how long it was until Godzillatwenty fourteen. That's crazy. Actually,
oh wait, no one, becausethat is including the Japanese movies, so
wow, holy crap. Yeah,that's insane. I mean, I still

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think twenty fourteen was a good movie. I went to go see that in
theaters. Dead with God What wasthat? That was freshman year of high
school? Yeah or eighth Yeah,no, freshman year, that freshman year,
and I saw them in theaters withfriends back then, and I thought
that was absolutely it was. Thatwas a great movie to see in the

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theaters. There was a lot ofgood shots in there. My first Godzilla
movie in theaters was Kingdom Monsters.That was my first one. That's a
good one. I wish I'd seenmore of them in theaters. And then
yeah, and then shin Godzilla intwenty sixteen, which we've gotten more sequels

(01:23:14):
for recently. Gozilla Verse Kong cameout in twenty twenty one. Godzilla Minus
one came out last year, whichI heard was amazing, really fantastic watch.
And I think I definitely want towatch shin Godzilla and Godzilla Minus one
just because they looked crazy good andAt the time that this article was written

(01:23:36):
by I g N. They knewthat there was an untitled Godzilla Verse Kong
sequel coming in twenty twenty four,but they did not know it would be
Godzilla This fantastic movie X X Kongthe New Empire. And that was a

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lot of talking, a lot that'strying to compile like like century like it's
basically a century decades of basically tryingto compile decades of lore and information into
into one episode, but talking aboutthe most recent of the of the iterations.

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So thank you all so much forlistening. Go see this. Well,
I don't know if it'll be intheaters when this goes up, but
it is now streaming on We watchedit on YouTube on YouTube plus, that's
not what that streaming service is called, but we we rented it on YouTube.
Yeah, so go go see itif you can still have an opportunity

(01:24:44):
to see it, but then checkit out on the streaming services coming soon.
Check out the most recent episodes ofFlicking Feedback, Shooting the Ship,
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b will be coming as soon aswell. Oh yeah, be on the
lookout for new episodes of Flix andfeedback because next month is going to be

(01:25:06):
a very patriotic episode, oh yes, as we gear up for the most
patriotic season of the year unless you'rea Pats fan than Patriots Season all ye,
yeah, sorry Pats fans. That'srough here, but but yes,

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I'm out of words, dude,how about you see alright please