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That is some lax parenting .......... also this movie sucks!
posted by aholejonesSTAFFMOD on April 3, 2021 at 5:37 AM
You know Rebecca Hall's character proudly and confidently proclaims "I made a promise.....to protect her" when referring to that little kid who has some kind of asinine special relation with the giant ape. Well, apparently his parenting and protection involves allowing the kid to run around freely on Skull island and letting the kid have private meetings with said ape. Kind of ironic considering that this particular ape has a tendency to go berserk and on wild rampages and also she herself says later in that same discussion "That no-one can keep the reigns on Kong".
I wasn't sure I could stomach this garbage all the way to end but luckily right from the start we are introduced to several strong independent women characters! For some reason their male counterparts aren't portrayed in such a positive light as one is described as a coward, one is portrayed as incompetent and the third is clearly evil. Clearly this is what modern audiences want to see in movies and Hollywood delivers once again.
It's a good thing this movie has a 86% review score on this site. 'The godfather' has 87% and 'The godfather II' has 86% and that is exactly what I was thinking when this watching this movie: oh man this is the Godfather or Citizen Kane of our generation!
Reply by Jacinto Cupboard
on March 30, 2024 at 1:14 AM
Well this thread sure went off the rails fast.
My take is that it is an ok 100 or so minutes of mindless escapism. I gave it a 5, which I guess is a pass. I can't give it any more because even for what it is, there's not a lot of effort or energy that's been put into giving us sympathetic characters, either human or monster. Am I supposed to like these people who are mostly stupid, reckless or morally suspect? Am I supposed to be rooting for Kong or Godzilla? Both? They probably just killed 10s of 1000s of people and destroyed an entire city. I mean, c'mon, take it outside guys.
As for the 'lax parenting' thing, that's sort of necessary in any adventure story involving children. I know 'experts' wrote about a kind of fantasy empowerment this involves when talking about Harry Potter and children's literature generally. And it goes back at least as far as Treasure Island. So why have children in these stories at all? My guess is that it increases the audience pool. And some stories, like Harry Potter, would be really weird if adults were the protagonists, because it's really hard to get onside with adults doing reckless, stupid stuff. Which is kind of what happens in this movie.