Godzilla vs. Kong

In July 2021, I watched the movie Godzilla vs. Kong for the first time at Toho Cinemas Nagareyama Ootakenomori. The monster film was released in 2021.

When I was a child, I was not interested in TV series with special effects like Ultraman because they look childish, so Shin Godzilla released in 2016 is the first Godzilla movie that I have fully watched. Watching it on my television set, I keenly felt that I should have done it at a theater, so I did the latest Godzilla one on IMAX with 3D glasses.

The story describes the battle among Godzilla, Kong and Mechagodzilla.

I first knew that it was the fourth installment in the MonsterVerse series after watching it. Although I had not watched the previous three ones, yet I was fully amazed.

The tough and hard-boiled Godzilla versus the kind of gentle Kong who can listen to his favorite girl. Both giant monsters are impossible to hate. Their battle scenes in Hong Kong was exciting and overwhelming. The powerful CGI pictures were so fantastic that the human dramas seemed meaningless.

I was sorry that Shun Oguri appearing in it looked like an ordinary Asian who was not associated with a Japanese. I felt uncomfortable especially watching the scene, in which the Japanese actor rolls his eyes up into his head, feeling that Asians are taken lightly. I wonder if participating in the movie was profitable for him. It might be meaningful in terms of that experiences are useful, though I doubt that he left an impression.

I laughed at a character seriously talking about Illuminati and some tap water. It was amusing that some Americans seem to believe in such urban legends which some Japanese talk about in a proud tone. I also believe in them a little, though.