Kong: Skull Island | March 10, 2017 | Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, John Goodman | Crosses 500M WW

[Hatebox]

*Checks Jurassic World RT score*

 

God, I forgot what an easy time that film had with critics...

[Lucas]

And now it's a 6.1 average rating...

[aabattery]

If Kong was a dinosaur, the RT reviews would be 5 points higher.

 

Racist critics?

[Lucas]

79%

Average Rating: 6.1/10

Reviews Counted: 28

Fresh: 22

Rotten: 6

[Bishop54]

2 minutes ago, Stormagden said:

I think he means rt score.

No kidding.

[aabattery]

@Jason give rt statistics pls

 

[Cmasterclay]

These reviews are generally pretty positive but they also seem to be praising it as a movie that "gets to the point" and gives people a bunch of giant monsters smashing each other, which is kinda not why I liked the 1930s or 2005 King Kong so much - or 2014 Godzilla's first half, for that matter. So they don't excite me too much. I like the slow burn with well-earned moments of insanity. I'm sick of endless smashing insanity unless the point of the movie is artistic endless smashing insanity like Mad Max or John Wick. These reviews do mean I'll give it a chance, though! 

[Bishop54]

Stuckmann with a kiss of death with a C-. 

[Fancyarcher]

Reviews seem okay. At least the monster action sounds like it might be fun. 

[Cookson]

9 minutes ago, AABATTERY said:

If Kong was a dinosaur, the RT reviews would be 5 points higher.

 

Racist critics?

Lol....

 

It's doing OK. Lots more positive responses from "nobodies" on Facebook and Twitter.

[Cookson]

Back to 80% on RT!

[FilmBuff]

With a cast as strong as this with Brie Larson, John Goodman, Sam Jackson, Hiddleston, Reilly. It's irritating to hear the characters were non existent.

[Lavochkin]

I feel like some critics were expecting this to be some in depth character driven drama or something. I respect their opinion of course but i'm in it for some fun action and sexy visual set pieces, not fully fleshed characters and a screenplay that is Oscar worthy.

 

I'm not overly fussed if the characters are your typical red-shirts or the story is straight-forward. I just wanna see Kong SMASH!! It sounds like it works in the respect so i'm still very excited.

[Lucas]

4 minutes ago, FilmBuff said:

With a cast as strong as this with Brie Larson, John Goodman, Sam Jackson, Hiddleston, Reilly. It's irritating to hear the characters were non existent.

I am extremely irritated by that as well. 

[Cookson]

2 minutes ago, FilmBuff said:

With a cast as strong as this with Brie Larson, John Goodman, Sam Jackson, Hiddleston, Reilly. It's irritating to hear the characters were non existent.

I'm going to wait to watch the film for that conclusion. This isn't a Oscar movie... It's KONG, a giant monster set in the same universe as GODZILLA.

[Lucas]

3 minutes ago, Cookson said:

I'm going to wait to watch the film for that conclusion. This isn't a Oscar movie... It's KONG, a giant monster set in the same universe as GODZILLA.

I hate how people seem to think that just because it's a silly blockbuster, that somehow means it can get away with weak writing.

[Hatebox]

My guess is this was partly course correction for Godzilla's supposed lack of big monster action. Characters didn't get much of a look-in (even though you can have both!).

[Poseidon]

A couple of days I watched Legend of Tarzan and was very surprised, at how much of a fun adventure it was. The critics didn't get that one right, so i'm always cautious with reviews for movies, that want nothing else to be but fun. 

 

[aabattery]

@Gokira2012

[Cookson]

1 minute ago, Lucas said:

I hate how people seem to think that just because it's a silly blockbuster, that somehow means it can get away with weak writing.

I think you need to watch it yourself before you give such a strong sure conclusion.