Comments on: Movies Seen Recently: Kong: Skull Island, The Soldier, At the Earth’s Core https://nathanshumate.com/movies-seen-recently-kong-skull-island-the-soldier-at-the-earths-core/ I make things, and I make things up. Mon, 07 Aug 2017 23:00:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: False Profiteer https://nathanshumate.com/movies-seen-recently-kong-skull-island-the-soldier-at-the-earths-core/#comment-744 Mon, 07 Aug 2017 23:00:42 +0000 http://nathanshumate.com/?p=1861#comment-744 You’re first sentence of the Kong: Skull Island review perfectly encapsulates how I felt about the movie but struggled to articulate. I can imagine an algorithm that based on the setting and plot of your movie outputs exactly which elements need to be included. Vietnam era? Well, throw in a bunch of CCR tunes. You won’t be able to tell it’s the late 60’s without a bunch of contemporary rock music.

I was very annoyed that the titular gorilla did not shake the earth when he walked. A giant gorilla shouldn’t be able to sneak up on people. How do you omit such an obvious detail in a giant monster movie?

The “anti-war” photographer character played by Brie Larson was particularly annoying. She’s especially insufferable in the (spoiler?) post credits scene when she defiantly tells her captors she will tell the Russians about the island. I cant’ think of any reason why she’d want to do that, but given the time period it seems a bit treason like.

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