As this is the third Godzilla entry and second Kong title in Warner’s Monsterverse series, I was quite looking forward to it. I found each successive film better than the last.

This entry did so for the most part. The Monster fighting was better than I expected as Kong holds his own for the most part versus a flamethrower. (I’ll leave it at that and will discuss more down the line sometime.)

Now the human subplots aka filler between the Monster brawling seems different than before. No waste of time like Bryan Cranston’s role in 2014’s Godzilla. Not a lot of recognizable stars in this one.I actually missed David Strathairn’s stoic Admiral directing traffic/resources in this one.

One revolves around a scientist who oversees Kong, her young charge who communicates with him and Alexander Skarsgard as the hunky Scientist.

The other revolves around the return of Millie Bobby Browns character Madison Russell, the fat kid from Deadpool 2, and a brother who could be the black guy from the Lone Gunmen from X-Files. Kyle Chandler from Godzilla King Of The Monsters picks up a quick check not adding much to the goings on this time.

I’m hesitant to go into further details but I’ll leave it at this. If you’re a fan of Giant Kaiju films, you’ll like this film. I had a buddy who watched 20 minutes and posted that it was trash so far. I mean what did he want a square off between the title protagonists to start the film?

I’d like to make a comment about something that happens every year.  How the monkeydicks* who run the Oscar ceremony always leave someone of note off. This year’s notable omissions (to me anyway) were Sid Haig, Jan Michael Vincent, and Billy Drago. Of course they led off the montage with Kobe Bryant because they’re nothing if not trendy in Hollywood. At least they remembered John Witherspoon, I’ll give them that.

I don’t want to knock the agents,  costume designers, producers, etc I’ve never heard of as I’m sure their contributions were indeed valid and they should be included , but come on at least make the segment longer! Having a longer list online at the Oscars.com site kinda makes up for it but when I see this statement I get a little incensed -” The Academy receives hundreds of requests to include loved ones and industry colleagues in the Oscars ‘In Memoriam’ segment,” the statement read. “An executive committee representing every branch considers the list and makes selections for the telecast based on limited available time. All the submissions are included on Oscar.com.” (Billboard.com)

They should have a note onscreen afterwards noting that “a complete In Memoriam list is on Oscars.com.” I understand that there’s a time limit of sorts (I was surprised that this year’s came in under 4 hours. Maybe going without a host works.) , but who does/doesn’t get included seems to be more political to me than it should.

That being said, lets have a look at an Oscar themed version of Cancel Culture : https://youtu.be/OWVNxKJDcTc

(* idiots, jackasses, snooty twits, fools, oxygen thieves – take your pick)

• Did the Jonas Brother that looks like Uncle Joe from Petticoat Junction really have to kiss his wife in the middle of the song?
• That Aerosmith/Run DMC joint started off shitty, but got better as it went on. Sound was eeek!
• Tyler the Creator won? Yeah the Grammys AIN’T fixed. I knew the fix was in when he performed. I did like his acceptance speech.
• Where has Ellen been hiding those ears? Jesus. I still like her though. I thought her jacket was fire though. I bet she bought it on Dyckman.
• Alicia Keys is trying to make me miss ole lip licking LL as host. At least she can sing.
• Issa Rae still has a shot on my Baby Mama fantasy team.
• I loved Lil Nas X and friends performance, but you’ll never convince me the boys from BTS were actually singing. They lip snyched better in the Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade.
• I was never a big Demi Lovato fan, but after her song tonite I’m rooting for her. I hope she beats her demons.
• Apparently Kirk Franklin performed during the Nipsey Hussle tribute, but he got about the 10th of the screen time as screamer DJ “Papa, what you want on your chop cheese?” Khaled. They played* him. (*https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Played)
• Why the fuck did Puffy get a “Salute to Industry Icon” Grammy? For what? Ripping off artists? My haterade is 100 proof. I’ll never forgive him for nearly getting Bruce Halverson arrested.(Long Story)
• When i worked for Anderson Merchandisers we used to have a weekly conference call. My district manager Gasper, used to butcher the artists names something awful sometimes. I still remember him calling Wale “Whale”, bless his heart. I thought about that when wondering what idiot thought it would be a good idea to have Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne present for Best Rap/Sung performance.