The Ringer-Verse - 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire' Instant Reactions | The Midnight Boys

Episode Date: March 29, 2024

It's time to do the monster mash as the Midnight Boys give you their instant reactions to 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire,' then give you their takes on the wacky and, at times, insane monster flick (07:19). Hosts: Charles Holmes, Van Lathan, Jomi Adeniran, and Steve Ahlman Senior Producer: Steve Ahlman Additional Production Support: Arjuna Ramgopal Social: Jomi Adeniran Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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We understand that Yo, I'm 90 years old You don't mean There's nothing that you You guys don't think I've heard these arguments before This shit that you say I've heard this shit that you say This

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People, Ben came in terms of that. That's a 1989-19. Well, actually, the mall, Frankenstein, it's like, it's just,

we called a nigga Frankenstein. You want to know how Washington old. I read Frankenstein before they started banning the books in the fucking high school. So like, relax, dog.

Like, y'all didn't get any to read that shit anymore. They get Mary Shelley out of here? What did Mary Shelley do? I don't know. I just assume all the books I read in school are now banned now. And all they can read is like

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They would think that I'm the host of the Midnight Boys. They would be like this is a DEI operation from the CIA to have black folk integrate themselves into the comic book culture. They should tell me to find new friends. They were all government operatives. They know Van Van is definitely getting paid by the CIA. that's all they know. Whoa, the CIA is never hired in Van, bro.

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Yeah, so let's get the people. prime for that X-Men 97 got the streets talking oh yeah people are discussing it's been written about it's like John Doe sitting in the back of the back seat when Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt are driving what I've done is going to be talked about and written about people are going to remember me you guys never saw seven okay I saw so um on today's show we give you our reactions to Godzilla and Kong, New Empire. It's time to have a little fun.

Spoiler warning right now for all of the Godzilla Fair that has come before. Steve, give it to me. We're getting ready to talk about the movies. You're listening to a reaction podcast. The spoilers are. coming. All right, we have to put you guys in the know so you know what we're talking about. The only person that can do that is Chuck. The only way to do that is the Midnight Manifest. Chuck, take it away. All right, this is your Midnight Manifest for Godzilla, the new

Empire directed by Adam Wingard, written by Terry Rossio, Simon Barrett, and Jeremy Slater, starring Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Dan Stevens, and Kaylee Hodel. Kong is now the king of hollow Earth but doesn't have dental insurance. Godzilla is protecting the planet from Titans and taking naps in the Coliseum. The distress signal comes from deeper hollow Earth. So the human character is Dr. Andrews, Bernie, Trapper, and Gia. Follow said signal to a mystical telepathic tribe that worships Mothra and is afraid of a whip-wielding monkey called the Scar King. Kong finds Didi-Kong and fights the Scar King and his Ice Dragon Shimo. Godzilla then bites a monster and becomes pink.

Kong and Godzilla team up to face a whip monkey and ice dragon. Gia is the Messiah and the telepath people raised their Mothra god. Unalong with Godzilla and Kong. They save the day. And that has been your midnight manifesto of Godzilla and Kong. All right. Instant reactions. We're going to the most positive of us first. Charles Holmes.

Chuck, what did you think? Honestly, if I could even remember what happened in this movie, I might be more negative. But since I can't, I'm just like, you know, cool vibes. Here's the thing. I got to set the scene. I don't know what's going on out there in Hollywood, the movie studios.

I just had to like roll up to a movie theater on Thursday. And let me just tell you, you could hear a pin drop in that theater. I was the only one laughing the entire time. Everyone else looked fucking miserable. And I was like, the moment Kong, the moment Kong gets tired of Diddy Kong shit. And he picks him up and starts wielding him like a fucking nunchuck. I was just like, dog, this is the dopeest shit. I was like, they had Godzilla sleeping in the car.

Coliseum, I'm like, dog, this is the dumbest movie of all time. But it is kind of lit. I can't even fucking... Guess what? I loved it. Yeah. I was so happy. That's great. Guess what? I loved it.

I thought it was fun. I thought it was absurd. It was stupid as hell. This movie's stupid. The movie doesn't do anything to take itself too seriously. every word spoken by a human is exposition. Every word. Yes. Every single.

Except for anything Dan Stevens does. Anything Dan Stevens does is like fun. They said, they looked at Rebecca Hall and said, hey, man, here's about five to ten million. I'm going to just need you to just like explain what's going on the entire time. Have this terrible haircut and just give us exposition.

Hair cut stuff. Honestly, also I got to talk to Brian Tyree Henry's agent. You know what I mean? like, nah, this is the last one these he can do. Yeah, you know,

this, Eternals, like I just, come on, man. I need, we can't keep things. Why can't Brian Tyree Henry do any more of these?

He went to Juilliard. He's too talented. Yeah. Yeah. This is the last one of these he can do. Did his bank account go to Juilliard?

Did, I'm sure, look, well, let him pat, pat the bank account a little bit, do the thing, but in the way

that he played it in this movie. Actually, you know what? I have a thought about this movie. if they do another one of these, they should just let the kaiju talk.

Yeah, and they won't even need to hear. I genuinely was starting to think, I was like, can we just let them talk? I would love to hear them. I think this was just a kaiju movie. It would be the most perfect movie of all time.

I think the humans drag it down to such an extent. The humans drag the movie down. They always do, though. That's what makes. No, but in this one, it is so blatant because I'd be like on cloud nine when like Kong and Didi Kong, would be doing their shit.

And then it'd be like, Brian Tyree Henry would be like narrating his fucking podcast. And I'm like, all right, guys. Come on. Like, let's fast forward this shit. I don't know. I would argue that in this movie, humans are better in this movie than they are

in the previous Godzilla, Kong movie because... They don't get in the way of anything. They don't get in the way. And in this one, like, Brian Tyree Henry is like a live. Dan Stevens is doing something that I enjoy. You know what I'm saying?

When he was putting in his... tooth and he's like singing, I gotcha. Right? Like whatever. In the last, in the last one, they had 11 out there, 11 and the homeboy from Deadpool 2 running around acting silly. I was like, what, like, what's going on? I can't take any movie seriously that had all those scenes with the telepathic, you know, ewee people or whatever they were.

Like that was the point in the movie. I was like, the humans, this is bad, bro. No, I actually kind of like that because when they had the like the gigantic like icicle spears or whatever. I'm like, this is dumb. I like the spears. I like the spears. I like some of this stuff.

But all I'm saying is that like, first of all, Kong is a fantastic leading man. Yes. No, he's not. No, he's not. He's the heart of this fucking movie. I've never seen a movie more disrespectful to King Kong than this movie is. Okay.

What are you talking about? Hold on. Hold on. No, first of all, I didn't get a chance to finish what I was saying. Fair. Sorry. He jumped in with negativity. The reality is the reason why Kong works as a leading man is because he's more vulnerable in this movie.

The moment he tries to eat his food and then he has ouch a toothache, you're like, oh, my God, Kong can be hurt. He's not just this behemoth of different things. I'm like, yo, and then he's lonely and he wants to have a pal. He thinks that he hears apes calling out to him. but it's a little stupid frog making a noise. He should have ate the frog. So I started to feel for Kong. Godzilla was pretty one-dimensional in this movie.

He was basically the Thor of the movie just come in and fuck shit up. What was Godzilla even doing it? He literally would just go to point A to Point B. He just wanted to nap in the Coliseum. That's it. What's Godzilla's body count in this movie? How many humans? Insane.

Humans? The Godzilla just kill, stepping on bridges, walking over shit, crashing into shit. Godzilla at least killed 100,000 people in this movie. But here, that's why I don't get. Because Monarch, every single time they go back to Monarch, Monarch be like, without Godzilla, we would have all these titans.

He's the protector of the world. And then they'd go back and Godzilla would just like kill 10,000 people easily. And I'm like, God, like, we... There's a great moment when I think, like, after he fucks up a kaiju, and he's so annoyed that he has to, like, stand in the river to get out of town because it's like, well, we can't have him just toppling more buildings needlessly,

but he looks so annoyed that he has to take the river instead of like toppling over and killing more people. It's so stupid. I'm saying I liked it. I went to the movie. I think my expectations were low. They dropped his motherfucker in March. Their expectations were low.

And so I went to the movie just thinking it's going to be. And then you give me baby baby ape Diddy Kong, loved him. What a punk. In the beginning, I was about to heat that motherfucker into the sky. Vulner King Kong. Bad, slender ape. Slender ape. I called him Cranky Kong the whole movie.

Like, slender ape. What was his name again? The Scar King. Scar King, Bad Scar King. All the whole thing. I was digging that shit, bro. I was digging it. I don't know what the hell y'all.

Didn't also Scar King have like a weird like harem next to him on his throne? Yes, he did have. eight pregnant lady apes. And by the way, he had heirs there. They were holding little babies. He had airs. Why y'all ain't on Skarking? He's, because

he had, what's her name, like, chained up and that was really bad. Yeah, Shimu team. Yeah, she moved up. All right, we got to be real though. There was a point in this movie where I'm like, why they make it fucking Godzilla pink? Why didn't give him King Kong a fucking, like, mechanical fist? They're like, look, we

had a whole project to give ging gong a robot arm and I was like Okay so let me tell you out something Normally Normally I hate shit like that So let's like one of my least favorite tropes I just be honest with you

One of my least favorite tropes In movies is Oh we had these weapons Oh we had these weapons Oh we had these weapons sucks Okay Hey we were making these weapons

In case something else happened We'll go get the weapons Oh we were doing this in case something else that we'll go get them. We were doing this whole thing. I hate, oh, we had these weapons. At this particular time, though, when he goes back and gets the weapons

flying around, could have been flying around the whole time, I guess he just didn't want to fly, okay? He gets the weapons, like, comes in there, dropped it on them. My motherfucker mecks up. Man. How did we, well, how did they know

to create an injection that would heal King Kong? Frostbite? I'm like, how did you know who's going to get frostbite years ago? I think that

the injection is more of a medical injection because that was essentially a battle suit. So if he's wearing a battle suit, I guess you would

think that he would take some damage and then whatever the injection was would help him out with the damage you pump them full of like

fucking adrenaline and shit? I don't know, though. Sure. Also, Mothra is in this movie. Like,

quite literally, how went to the movie And they're like, oh yeah, these people, they worship Mothra. And then Mothra comes down. Mothor's just like, yo, King Kong, Godzilla, let's team up. I love that part of the movie. What the fuck was happening? I love that part of the movie.

Think about it, right? Imagine, like, you, imagine two of your homies is beefing, right? Like, they're not really friends, right? And you got to be like, hey, yo. But you just need them to chill for a minute. Hey, yo, bro. Like, hey, man, like, you know me. You know, y'all both know me.

Y'all don't really know each other, but you know me. Hey, we kind of need to lock in, you feel me? That's not the way I used to handle that. That's not what I used to do. What would Van used to do? Mothra was like a angel. Was he, is he from heaven?

But that's the thing. Mothra is like legendary designed that way. Like she, she is supposed to be like an utmost kind of peacekeeper. Yeah. So like, Toho designed her to never actually kill anybody. Like whatever kaiju or monster she would fight,

she'll never actually kill them. She'll just like, She's very pacifist that way. And so being a peacekeeper amongst Godzilla, because, like, Kong's trying to stop the fight. And Godzilla's just not listening. So, like, she'll, like, he'll listen to her instead, which I thought was kind of funny.

So, yeah, she's known to be that, like, pacifist, like, okay, enough, real protector of nature here. I like this movie. I liked it a lot. Because, again, I went in no expectations. And it was just Kaiju, you know, see Jack Kaiju fights the whole time. Fantastic.

there is a scene though and when you're talking about Godzilla versus Kong where Godzilla is loading up the atomic breath and you could and it cuts to Kong

and you can audibly hear him say huh funniest thing I've ever seen funny thing I was funny because Godzilla turned around like what's the fuck about to he's about to let loose on me

like bro like you didn't two people You guys, I'm telling you right now, Kong is funny in this movie. Kong got swag. Kong. Kong is scared. Kong is a leading man.

Here's the thing. Kong and Diddy Kong were so funny together because Diddy Kong kept trying to fuck over him. And like when Kong comes back with the ripped off head and he's like, dog, like, you got to do better next time. I was like, this is like, look, he's a little dad. He's the homie. He's like, dog. I'm trying to be friends with you. But he's also doing that thing where like, okay, I fucked up the guys that you thought would jump me.

So now take me back to the dudes that jumped me or else I'll fuck you up. When Kong was whipping Diddy Kong like nunchucks, I was a little like, is this his little homie or is this his bitch now? And they they pieced it up after a while because here's a thing. There are a couple times Diddy Kong saved the big homie at least to her. three times in this movie. If we're being real. Yeah. Kong would have been done out here twice.

Generational numbers. Great rookie season. Like, I liked what I saw. Okay, let me ask you a question. There are such big pauses because there's nothing to talk about in this movie. It's just like. There's not a lot. There's not a lot of like a lot.

It's good. So listen. All right. So the movie was enjoyable. I'm going to throw something to Charles. because Charles, I've been thinking about this little thing for you. Okay. I'm going to start when you don't like something, when you think something is bad,

I'm going to start asking you this question. This is Charles's How Could It Have Been Good Corner? How Could It Have Been Good? So this movie, we enjoyed it. I liked it a lot. This will probably be one of the more rewatchable movies. when this hits like what max i'll probably put this shit on all the time i will never

i probably will this is the perfect movie for van of just be like on a saturday afternoon whatever whatever put it on the tv whatever um charles how could this movie have been good give me a good not a enjoyable not a fun give me a good version of a good version of a Godzilla Kong movie. I mean, the hater in me wants to be like, you know,

it wouldn't exist. That would be the most good version. I actually think the heart of this movie, and I wish they leaned into it more, is that Kong raising little ditty

was kind of the emotional heartbeat, because I do agree with what you said earlier, Van, when you were just like, oh, when Kong has a toothache, he has a little bit of a graying beard, he's alone, he's trying to find his place in the world. I was like, that's actually interesting to me, like Kong trying to be like, who am I when I'm not fighting Godzilla and when humans aren't attacking me? And I think Diddy Kong being such an asshole and seeing him as a father figure, it did kind of remind me of those older King Kong Godzilla movies where you know you got Godzilla Jr.

you got Kong Jr. You have that very campy schick to it. And I think instead of that, they took the camp in the opposite direction where they're like, well, Godzilla was blue,

so we got to make sure he has pink atomic breath now. Oh, like, how do we make something cooler than the axe? Oh, we give him a battle arm. And that's like cool, I think in theory,

but just as like a story that gels together, it's just hard for me to take it seriously. Like, there's not a heartbeat to this movie. it didn't really make me feel anything besides, oh, some shit happens.

But you're criticizing. I asked how you make it better. I literally told you. I do think you had to lean into the emotional crux of the story better. Like, the doctor and Gia's storyline, I actually thought that that was very interesting. You have this girl who is deaf, who is from Skull Island,

she saves the world, she's closer to Kong than any other humans. And now she's being raised by this white woman who honestly is like loves her a lot. And I'm just like, oh, she loves this kid a lot. But she can't connect. I'm like, oh, no, that parallel is interesting. And the Kong parallel with his little guy is interesting.

But none of that gets to be fleshed out because they're like, look at these new animals. They got electricity powers. Look at these motherfuckers. And I'm like, oh, yeah, sure, sure, cool. So I think that there was something about the movie where it didn't want to be sincere. Like I actually think it was afraid of its sincerity. And instead it ran to the like the irony of the movie of like, oh, we know that this movie is kind of bad.

We know that this movie is ridiculous wink wink, which over two hours wears thin on me. So I have a name for this segment. the name of this segment is make it a masterpiece so make it a masterpiece make it a masterpiece midnight like make it a masterpiece midnight like what would you Jomey make this movie a masterpiece oh for me and for everybody because if it's me it's just you have con Godzilla they start fighting right

and then they get to Egypt right again this is like we're like an hour in at this point and they've been fine for like an hour okay just destroying the world okay and then you see some some asteroids coming from the sky oh shit and you're like yo what's going on stop it's the autobots and the optimist prime is like hey yo guys y'all got to chill right we got to protect humanity bro and then space Godzilla comes down and they like yo we was running for space Godzilla Godzilla Kong, stop playing. We need y'all to team up.

You just learned about Space Godzilla yesterday. Don't act like you. See, but you ruin it a bit, Steve. You see what I'm saying? You just, you know what I'm saying? They don't know that. But I know that.

Okay. Space Godzilla come down. They're like, yo, we need y'all to team up so it'll be Space Godzilla. And it's the Transformers, Godzilla and Kong fighting against Space Godzilla to save the Earth. $3 billion.

Legendary. If you, if you're listening, tap in. $3 billion. honestly you know what I was thinking now Jomey's having me thinking outside the box Kong should have taken all those hollow earth fucking Kongs and he should have like gone back to earth and been like Godzilla I'm not living in the ghetto of earth anymore it's time for you to go to fucking that's the problem Kong was afraid of the smoke from day like he was not coming

up to service I mean you have to be we just saw the last movie he got three got three pieces yeah he should have took the other fucking Kongs and been like yo bitch it's our time to rule up top here. Take all y'all lizard ass. Can you imagine Godzilla's versus Kongs? Like all the Godzilla's. Oh, boy. It's Godzilla versus Kongs.

I see the vision, Charles. Yeah, like you see the vision. Yeah, man. Even in the prophecy that the Ube people like saw, like had, they're like, Godzilla defeated all of those apes. And he sent them into inner earth. First of all, there's no way Godzilla is, is beating more than one Kong. No, there's no way.

For sure. I think so. And no, Kong also got the Ice Dragon now. If Kong really wanted to, he could fuck up Godzilla. I feel like... Hold on. The Ice Dragon was... Kong is no match for the Ice Dragon. No, Kong is the leader of the Ice Dragon now. He is the leader of the Ice Dragon now. But if the Ice Dragon ever wants to get gully, he could fuck over Kong. He fucked over Kong pretty quick.

Like, the Ice Dragon, the Ice Dragon, Godzilla is a good match for the Ice Dragon. because Kong, Kong fucked over the Scar King. He beat him. And then the Scar King had to pull out the Ice Dragon. He had to go get the motherfucker chopper. Yeah,

he got to pull up the Tully. He had to pull out the stick. It's like, and it's so funny. Because like when he, the thing is coming out, I'm like, yo,

what's behind here? Like, what's in there? And he's like, yo, nigga, get the stick for this big motherfucker. Yo, fight dude's like this, you shoot him.

You know what I mean? Oh, he got to do with him. What he did, bro? That's literally what he did. He was like, I'm not squaw. He was like, no more, bro.

It was that Indiana Jones just like, man, fuck this. Just shoot him. Yeah, like get the stick. And the ice dragon came out. And when I saw the ice dragon at first, I was like, oh, he's cute.

Like, oh, he looks kind of cute dragon. Like a little dog. Yeah. He was like cute. It reminded me of a baby dragon. The white toothless from how to train your dragon three. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

There's cute. And then he, he hit him with the ice. I'm like, ah, Kong down bad. But look. I think this movie could be a masterpiece if you took the humans out and let the kaijuice talk. Wait, no.

I don't think the kaijus need to talk, actually. They might not need to talk. But if you take the humans out of this movie, I think we can interpret everything that's going on with the kajus. Wait, actually, one human, I would keep one human. The little girl, Gia, she does her thing. She could stand because here's the thing. She's the real homie with, with kong.

Let her be the one that's communicating with them. Yeah, do the sign language in between them. Do the sign language because she can understand everybody. But I got to be honest with you, man. Cutting room floor for Paperboy. Legion was fun. He was cool, but he was in another movie. All right.

Here's the thing. We got to also stop. We got to stop putting podcasters in movies. like I can say this because I'm a podcaster. This is like the least cool job to put in a movie. Anytime they be like, yo, what's your job? Like, I'm a podcaster.

I'm like, nigga, get out of here. It's when he read the insurance commercial ad. Yeah, I was like, come on, bro. Like, just to make him a reporter. That's a bit of world building to know that you got Kaiju insurance. I mean, also what I didn't really like, this made me not like Monarch. I'm like, this black man saved a world already.

And y'all just punking him. She like comes to him as like a last resort. Be like, you're the. the only mind in the world that can help me decipher my daughter's dreams. He lives across the hall from a Chinese restaurant, bro. This nigga doing bad. You know what I'm saying? Like, behind her, like, he doesn't live across the street.

Like, imagine if across the hall. It's just like next door neighbor. Yeah, like he lives, he lives in the same building. They had to walk cooking. The wok is cooking. His shit, he down bad, bro. I bet it smells. crazy in there. It's

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A little seriousness. I do feel like in a healthier, I say this all the time, but I think it's true, in a healthier cultural economy, movies like this, you could just have fun with them. Like, when I say a healthier cultural economy, I mean when the big movies, because if we're being honest, last year was actually a good year for movies. If you look at some of the movies that came out, and that were at the top, the top of the industry. It was probably one of the best in the decade in just terms of movies.

Absolutely. But your popcorn movies are down bad. Okay. And if they weren't, if they had a little bit of a lead or if things were healthier, I think this could be a movie that people could go see and be like, you know what, I have fun. Like, you know what? I kind of dug that. Like, I have fun.

but we're going to over, I think a film like this, which is not taking itself seriously at all, it's probably going to be over-criticized because we're just, we're bereft. We're bereft of popcorn joy. But I was in there having fun.

I'm in Orlando. I watched a movie in a random theater to West Oak Mall in Orlando. How many people were there? Not a lot. It's like noon. Yeah. Wait, so,

More than I thought, though. Do you also think, like, if this movie, it was weird that this movie is the next blockbuster also after Dune Part 2. Because I think Dune Part 2 was such an achievement that this movie almost kind of feels weird because it's, to your point, it's not taking itself seriously.

The CGI, I would not call the CGI beautiful. I would call it, like, you know, it's like they know what they're doing. We're going to make, It's good. It was good, but we're going to make the big lizard and the big monkey look as ridiculous as possible. And I was wondering if this had come out next to another movie, would it have done? Would it have felt better?

I mean, maybe. I think people are still riding at Dune. I might go see Dune again. Bro, I'm telling you, if I have downtime and I'm in another city, because being in another city, I used to be like super exciting to travel, but like I'm around so many different places. Like, I don't want to go out in Orlando. I don't want to figure out what Orlando has offered. I don't.

You don't want to go. But I can do. I don't want to do it. No. No. I started to maybe, maybe see if I could fit in some time and go to Universal Studios,

but I'm not going to. So I can get sick. No. But when I'm in a new city and I have time to kill, like I'm not in strip clubs anymore like I used to be. I'll just go to do.

You're going to strip club solo, Dola? Just your off time when you're in a new city? That's kind of. crazy, I'm not going to lie. 12. 12.30 in the afternoon.

She's rolling up to a strip club. Yep. Get you some lunch. Have a little fun. Make some friends. What show called you've had the best food at? Oh, wow. It's a good question.

Probably King of Diamonds. King of diamonds. Yeah. So, like, well, I mean, look, there's many strip clubs that have food. The strip club food in Atlanta is like, cheetahs there. It's like, it's known for it. But, yeah, you go there. hang out, do whatever you're doing.

You're at the bar, why not be at a bar where there's other things to look at a look at this? Let's not go down this road. The only thing I'm saying is this. I go see Dune now. Dune is a new, wholesome thing to do, Liza Nagaip. Godzilla versus Kong has set a record for previews. Oh. $10 million in previews, the most ever for the monster, for legendary's monsterverse.

Okay. Wow. Okay. It's going well. On track for 135 worldwide in this first weekend. Okay. Is that good? It's not terrible. I didn't think anybody was going to watch this movie, be honest with you. As tough of an act as Dune 2 is to follow for any movie,

I think that this is a very respectable showing. They say 50 million domestic. 50 million domestic for it is probably a win. I'd say so. And especially given that the last one was just a release thrown on Max during COVID. Yeah. I'm going to say that we got to take Godzilla and Kong away from the Americans, though. I think it's time that we just take it out of our hands because we don't really know what to do.

Mildly hot take. I disagree. I think that we can have a separation of those two. I think that the ones that we clearly take seriously now are the Toho Japan joints. And the ones that we actually can like, you know, take our thinking caps off and have a lot more. fun with, not a lot more fun with, but like a bit more of like a fun time at the movies for, definitely you could have these things.

What was the last good Godzilla movie? Be real. Last good Godzilla movie outside of minus one? American. American? It's been like 15 years, y'all. People like, I thought this was good. Yeah, the 2014. That was good.

Guys, it's 20. All right. It's been 10 years. 10 years. You know how many movies? But here's what I will say. I would rather us have movies like New Empire rather than movies like the 2014 Brian Cranston Joy. Because I don't think you could...

Yes. Of the times that you try to take those monster movies very seriously and very grounded, it kind of falls flat because you run the risk of making it seem boring. I mean, I'm not that big of a fan of that movie, but I also am not a fan of them doing this like wink, wink, we're making a terrible Godzilla and Kong movie on purpose.

I'm like... Right, but I feel like that's a bit of a step in the better direction rather than being in like, all right, we're going ultra gritty and grounded and you're going to see like, you know, it's going to be like Cloverfield, but with actually Godzilla and like that's like... What's the rise of the planet of the ape's version of these movies?

Like the one where you're just like, what is the version of these movies where... Like, distillation of like camp and self-seriousness? I don't know. I genuinely don't know. It's not too serious, but it, like, the plot lines, like you're caring about the characters, you care about this world. Like, we can go to three movies in a row and be...

What about the one with Aaron Taylor Johnson? Yeah, that's 2014. Yeah, that's the one we're talking about. I like how, I like how Steve said Brian Cranston. He was in a movie for 10 minutes. I know. I remember it for Brian Cranston, though, because that's when he was popping. And he was, like, just showing up in a bunch of shit.

That was 2014? 2014, brother. Why does that seem like, wow. Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver played romantic interests in that movie. Almost in the same year. It was the same year. The next year, 2015, was age of Ultron. I mean, if we're really talking about it,

we're in a monkey movie renaissance right now. You know, Godzilla Kong. Next week is a monkey man. And then Rise of the Planet of the Apes joint is coming out in May. I'm so locked in for playing in. We're in a monkey. It's time for monkey movies.

Steve is oddly obsessed with the rise of the Planet of the Apes movie. It makes me uncomfortable. I love Planet of the Apes. It's like one of my best. There's something about it. I don't like. I don't trust it. It's so great.

Why? Wait, wait, wait. Wait, wait. Wait, hold on. Which rise of the planet of apes movies do you mess with Steve? Oh my God. I mess with almost all of them. Like those shitty ones in the 70s, like I fuck with that too.

Escape from the Planet of the Apes is probably like one of my favorite movies because it's just two apes that go back in time to the 70s and try to make the planet of the apes happen to ensure that it happens while still escaping a nuclear holoca that happens in the far flow future. It's great. I once asked Steve what his favorite movie what the all black cast was

and he said Rise of the planet of the years. Shut up! All right. Fuck. Oh, man. You can tell us a Friday, pro, bro.

No. That's crazy. Also, I will say if I'm like, like, whatever, this movie is fun. Pink Godzilla was like, that did look.

like the fucking Kelly Camden. When he went from icy blue raz to pink lemonade? Yeah, but it was like, here's the thing. Godzilla got fucked over in this movie. I didn't give a fuck about Godzilla. He didn't do shit. He looked really cute. Like, he looked cute sleeping, but Godzilla didn't do shit.

I kind of wish Godzilla suplexed King Kong. What are you talking about? That was crap. Bro. That was crazy. That was nuts. He was nuts. Godzilla supex King Kong off one of the pyramids of the pyramids of the pyramid.

Come on, bro. Brack. I laughed. I was by that. time the movie had me. I texted y'all, I was like, yo man, this shit lit. By that time, by that time the movie had me, bro. Bro,

the Scar King had a whip made a vertebra. With a glowing knife on it. With a glowing knife on it, they, bro, the people that were sitting around off shrooms and in deep, deep, deep in a K-hole, like, thinking about this movie, they didn't

fucking care. They, bro, they, they were like, you know, fuck it. Rebecca alcohol is what she worked probably like 12 days on this bitch maybe i here's what i will say here's what i will say i was surprised at how many sets they went to they went to like weird like fantastical other earth set after weird fantastical other earth set to just be like oh now we got to look at the prophecy oh now we have this these two giant glass pyramids that you got to talk to mothra from oh now we got to go to this like giant like canyon that we can like touch his

fingernail at. I was like, oh wow, they kind of had a couple of... No, no, no. I did not like all that shit. Because when Rebecca Hall started fucking reading about the prophecy

in that room, I was just like, dog, we just doing like a 20 minute exposition dump. She's like, all right, the beginning of time. She did the midnight manifest.

She did the midnight manifest for us. Yeah, bro. I was like, come on, bro. It was like 50 midnight manifest in the movie. She did the midnight manifest, and they did.

And then he, and then Brian Tyree, Henry did a midnight manifest about the people's gravity powers. And then Dan Stevens did a midnight manifest about the monarch. She did another one about the monarch weapons. They did a bunch of different midnight manifest. All the humans did in the movie was explain shit to each other. That's all they did. Was explain shit. Not to each other.

To us. To us. Yeah, they was not talking to us. Nah, because here's the thing. And then, and then Gia, like, I like. the little girl, the actress, but dog where she's like, and she's the Messiah we've been waiting

for. I'm like, all right, niggas wrap it up. I'm like, she's the Lisa Ra'a'a'i. She's the Liza da Gai'i. She's the Liza da Gai'i. She's the more about Rio, bro. I was very upset for Rio. They look like they were having so much fun. I got to

get to Rio again. Like, every time they show Rio, they was plucking, they'll be on the beach. It was playing soccer on the beach. Do you think people from Rio, like, get pissed off? Because, like, every single time you see it in a movie, it's, like, the funnest place. They just, like, everybody's at the beach. Everybody's, like, it bathing suits.

Yeah. And they're, like, really, like, dog, there's more to do here, dog. Like, there's. I'll be real with you. I saw this one video, and it was like, these people, it was 4 a.m. in the morning in Rio and the beach was packed. And everybody was playing soccer, beautiful women and all that? I was like, God, damn. It was crazy.

Yeah, 4 a.m. is it 4 a.m. It's probably bullshit. but I'll say this they came and fucked Rio up quick. Godzilla does not like human monuments. All he wants to do is destroy human monuments.

Fucked up the Coliseum. I was wondering if he was going to step over the Coliseum and cleared successfully. Fuck no. Fucked it up. Ficked over the pyramids. The pyramids, bro. Fucked over the pyramids. Storming out. I just knew Jesus of Rio de Janeiro

was gonna catch a straight I knew it I knew it was arm was gonna fly off or something but he they spared him but at least

bro you can't tell me at least 20,000 people died in Rio bro they weren't ready they didn't have time to evacuate

actually probably more they didn't have time to evacuate and they just crushing buildings they crush in buildings this movie could have gone two ways

because with my like make it a map masterpiece thing. Like you have to split, like, they tried to split the baby too much here because they're like, okay, we have to like actually world build in an idea where like, Earth is now accustomed to Titans and Kaiju and Godzilla existing. Okay, so coastal tourism and cities gone. Nobody should be here. Nobody should absolutely like anybody in Rita de Janeiro, leave now. If anybody has any chance of like being near an open body of water or an ocean, get to mainland. Like, that's it. You're done. The idea that there's an.

economy of like insurance policies that you can take out in case your home, let alone you die in a kaiju attack, like whatever. Like I like to have like an idea where that exists can be fine and exploring that in a movie seems interesting. But you can't tell me that the world has had like two possibly three big monster movies where we know that big monsters exist and people are still living in millions upon droves in Rio de Janeiro for a liability to just happen. Why aren't there any like barriers on the coast? To be like, hey, buy us a little time.

Let people get out of here. I think, yeah, I think it's tough for Godzilla, ultimately. Like, Kong, you can regulate where he comes from because he comes from the hollow earth. Whoa, whoa, whoa. These motherfuckers have flying fucking spaceships and shit. they can build big fists for fucking Kong to be more powerful, but they can't do anything to protect these cities more?

No. At least an only warning signal. No warning signal at all. That wouldn't have helped for Rio, I don't think, because they literally, nah, because remember, they come through that little,

that whole thing, that little thing that just came anywhere. Why would you make next to one of those holes, though? They don't know. They don't know what that's going to emerge. They don't know what that's going to emerge. They can just like literally, It can pop up in your crib right now.

Yeah, Hollow Earth portals happen anywhere, it seems. But, like, Godzilla just comes out of the water. It might not help the first wave of people, but the second wave of people, man, get out these buildings. I guess they would have heard all the crash and stuff anyway. Any mass populated cities in their body of water, get them out of here. Why? By the way, that's another thing.

Why are people just chilling knowing I'm not going to the beach? Yeah. I'm not, I swear to God, I'm not going to the beach. I'm not going to the Coliseum, because you know where God, you know where fucking Godzilla never shows up like Smallville, Kansas, Jacksonville, Wyoming.

Like he never, he never shows up there. Like, you don't see him there. And guess what? Property value going crazy high in the flyover's now. I love I said Smallville,

like that's a real place. Like he never, like he never, he never shows up there. Whenever you see him, Rome, Rio, France,

fucking New York, fucking L.A. He got the same booking agent as the Fast of Fury. Only the exotic locales. Bro, no, funny. I'll be thinking, they ain't be real

cis bat. This bass is fast five, bro. It's really, it'd be great if you just see Dom like dragging the bank safe across and Godzilla's running away. They just cleaned up after that,

brother. They just fixed the streets, bro. I would tell you all the story of when we all went to the movies to see the fast, fast and furious movie,

and then the dinosaurs, the grass and part, trailer came on, but I thought it was the beginning of the Fats of the Furious movie. I was like, yo, bro, is Domino about to fuck with dinosaurs? That's the only thing that Dom and them

have left to do. Combine the worlds, but it's universal though, so they can't do it. Like, combine the worlds. Put them each other. I'm telling you how Transformers Godzilla-com, man, it's coming through. I don't think Transformers can do it. I think it's more of like a... Combined with G.

G. Joe now. That's true. That's just true. black. I do. I think it's kind of morbid to think about, but you go back to Rio in a couple years. You see, there are some people on a date and they're like, yo, you have any siblings? It's like, I had a brother, but I lost him when Kong spiked the other ape into the ground when he was ice and he turned to dust. It's tough. It's completely tough. But don't worry, his little kid's going to help out later. Yeah, it's all good. Yeah, you know. It happens.

We need a Diddy Kong. We need a Diddy Kong spin off, y'all. No, we don't. What? I need to see more Diddy Kong. I need to see him. He got heart. Here's the thing.

He's the dude who destroyed the crystal. He's the real Earth saver. Fucking Kong's getting worked. Like, if we're going to be real. Again, that's why I'm like, I think that I really think that Kong just gets played out this entire movie. I mean, his thing. He never really wins a fight by himself.

He's going against superior opposition. That's not true. Here's the thing. Kong is old in this movie. He got fucking gray hairs. Kong is getting older. That's the first thing. But Kong beat up Scar and then Scar King had to go get the stick for him.

You're wrong. And by the way, Kong was also beating the shit out of Godzilla if we being honest. No, let's not do that. No, but here's the thing. Here's the thing. Fucking Kong, Kong had to use a bunch of traps now. Like, he's like old Batman, bro. Like, he just turned hollow earth in a home alone movie.

Yeah, bro. He had like spring traps all over the. place. Which, by the way, the apes just like walked right over that. Y'all was so full of shit. Kong is showing he's resourceful. I'm, you know what? I'm not saying, I'm not discreet

with you. I just think it's funny that Khan was like, hey man, if there are two burglaras come home or come to my house when nobody else is home, let me lay down some traps. Godzilla, Godzilla ain't going out like that. Godzilla don't need no fucking traps. He's taking everybody one-on-one.

You hire your hitters? I hire sitter. Yeah, he's like he's a nuclear bean. Yeah, he's a little. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. They could easily make a movie that would run up, run it up, but they're not going to do it. Next movie is

Donkey Kong country. Just do it. Just do it. Just make Donkey Kong Country. Just do it. Just do it. Just just make the movie. Donkey Kong Country is a wondrous, fantastic, amazing

game. It is. We've played. He's got his own Diddy Kong. They live in a hollow Earth world. Just fucking do the movie. You know what I'm saying? Does Kong inherit? My last question is, does Kong inherit the harem? Like, are those

his lady combs now? You know what I'm saying? I think that's a bit of an awkward, like... It's problematic. Okay, so where do we go now? I don't love that. I don't love it. These are This is guerrilla rules. Like, gorillas don't listen to fucking human rules. They follow whoever is the like fucking silverback.

I feel like, we're so woke now. We're just like, oh no. You can't follow the out. Charles is like enough with the woke BS. Why is the harem of gorillas? What? What is problem? Charles is like, is that?

Charles, bro, think about, yo, yo, yo, I want y'all think about where we are. We're literally talking about, like, Kong. And, like, and then Charles goes, like, you, Charles goes, is that problematic? What's that problematic? What the fuck are we talking about? What are we talking about? It's not a bunch of apes living under the ground. I'm just saying because

Whoa, because Kong is smarter than the rest of them So I don't know if he's trying to like Yes He definitely is Definitely is They were just under a tyrannic ruler before What the fuck are you doing? What is this anti-Kong agenda?

This is starting to bother me I don't know why Like what are you talking about Like what why are you so down on him What did he do wrong towards you? It's not that he did anything wrong I just feel like the like the movie Isn't taking Kong seriously

get the fuck out of here Steve. I feel like this is the most seriously. They've taken call in a second, actually. Okay, all right. That's fine. He, bro. He's the protagonist of the whole movie. Oh, the whole movie.

He's not the stepfather. He's the father that stepped up. Stepped up. He did come into that family. Yes. That Godzilla fans are going to be disappointed. Yeah. Yeah.

No, they won't. He didn't lose. He didn't lose. He didn't do shit. He didn't do it. So I'm in the theater. he's swimming toward the Arctic and they're like, yo,

they got Tiamud out there, man. Don't get, or Tiamat, don't get caught up. I'm like, hey, this fight seems going to be crazy, man. I can't wait. Two seconds. He bite his head off. In like, three seconds, I was like, oh, okay, cool.

Oh, he's just going to hide in the ice for a little bit. Oh, okay, cool. Back to calm. Take a little nap charge up. Literally the first, what, 60 minutes of the movie are spending time with con. What's Kong up to? How's Kong living?

Oh, man. He's this tooth. He's got no family. Oh, meanwhile, Godzilla's on a world tour trying to suck up radiation. We cut to him every five minutes. All right. He's over in France. Suck up radiation.

Suck up radiation. He's not really what he does. I don't know how he does it. It is what he does. All right. Bricked up brothers. We're fucking relaxed. I don't know what else.

Maybe absorb radiation is a way to say that. I think. Suck up radiation. I mean, quite literally. Who is this nigga radiation that you're talking about? I'm slurping up the radio. Who is this dude? Who is this nigga radiation?

I didn't see radiation. Where was he in the movie? Suck up radiation is crazy. It might have been the pink shoddy. You know what I'm saying? Could have been. He was in that room for a long time. We didn't see him.

He was just like. And then he pops out. It was the post credit scene. Y'all missed it. Yeah, that's true. Was there post credits? Because I was gone. No.

I'm out of there like, phew! Oh, no, I was, I, man, I darted. Last question. We're having a lot of fun. Is there room for movies like this? Seriously. I don't know. It's got to be, man.

There's got to be, bro. I think so. I definitely think so. No. No, no. Because we do this every year when the Oscars comes out, and we have, like, the intellectuals versus the, I don't want to say, regular.

folk, but like, for everybody else? The Normies, right? We're like, they're like, yeah, man, look at this movie. There's like eight, there's like eight best picture nominations, and six of them are the most depressing movie you've ever seen. And you leave the theater going, man, that was, wow, great movie, but my chest hurt. Like, what happened to having fun? And then there are movies like this where you can, like, have a good time, enjoy it.

You know what I'm saying? Go there. I don't want to say shut your brain off because that feels like an insult. But ultimately, like, man, I don't have to think to. too hard about this. And when the movie's over, get to leave with a smile on my face and enjoy myself. I think there's absolutely room for both.

Not everything needs to be like, man, I'd left the theater dog and I just like, what does death mean for my family? You know? Like how will I live on when I'm no longer here? This is exactly why Sean Fantasy thinks that it's like light work over here.

I just like stuff like that. I'm saying there's absolutely room for both though. We don't need to do this all up to time, bro. No, no. No, they, you don't have to do this. Motherfokers didn't even give us tickets to a screening. You don't, like, you don't have to carry water like this. First of all, they did give us tickets.

Y'all didn't go. I went. I was the one who went. Nah, man, you don't have to do this, bro. Come on, you're better than this. At least with Figey, the checks clear on time. Like, come on, man. Shout up in Fige.

I like it. I think that these can, as a rational Godzilla fan, I think both of these movies, uh, or I think movies like this can absolutely exist. how much did this movie cost it's got north of 100 sure 1,135 million I'd say no higher than

150 no I'm looking at it right now it's 135 million to make this budget yeah 1st come on the world's burning we could we could have fed a couple like a couple million people with that with that money come on like we don't

shut up come on bro if that's the case then no movies need to be because we yeah I mean if we want to be real if we want to be real you know, our children will probably be like, they probably should have sacrificed the cinematic experience for our well-being. Charles wants us to go to theater every Friday

and watch Iron Claw. Just 52 days a week. Just 52 days a week. Whoa, whoa, wow, am I the bad guy? Because I just like good movies. Iron Claw is a great movie. Right now. It hurts.

All right, the oink alert, guys. I want to have fun, dog. I see what time it is. All right, cool. I like the Iron Claw. Iron Claw was fantastic. Iron Claw got fucking Van to change his whole personality up. It got him back in love with fucking wrestling, dog.

He got a mess of media next week. That's the power of cinema, y'all. Iron Claw is, is, it changed me fundamentally. By the way, completely overlooked during awards time. Honestly, if we're going to be honest, if A24 comes out with like a stylish biopic about Pinky, I don't even want to know what Van's going to do. you know what I'm saying? It's just good.

I mean, I keep saying that. Seriously, though, there hasn't been a really awesome movie that explores like black porn. I think we need to write it. I'm telling you guys. Dog, the black boogie nights. Oh, my gosh. A boogie nights for 90s black porn would be crazy. Be crazy.

Like the Torkin Knights. Torquen night Oh man Torquen nights Who are you casting Who's leading the movie It's a good question I don't know

I want to disrespecting the actresses by saying that they would be porn stars I don't want to do that Because they'll be so mad Why do you want to see somebody And who you want to see who you want to see Because the lead The lead would have to be

A lady this time You know Look let me tell you something Midnight meter All right Scale of 1 to 12 Scale 1 to 10 10 and 12

being, it's not on the rundown. Oh, yes, it is. Okay, let's do this. All right. Time for the midnight meter. Midnight meter is our scale of 1 to 10 ranking films and TV shows. Second 11 and 12 reserve for pivotal game changers.

All right. Chuck, start. Uh, two. What? Come on. Stop. Well, guys. I need you to take this seriously.

Come on, Charles. I need you to take this seriously. You're not playing this with Madam Webb. Come on. I don't know. I didn't give Madame Web a two. You gave Madam Web a one. Yes, so this is a two.

This is one notch above Madam Web. This was twice as enjoyable as Madam Web. Twice as enjoyable. So it gets a two. Joe, what happened to shame, man? Christ alive. I got to give it a five. Had a great time.

Sure. I had a blast like Tom again. You know, hey, put this on. Fast forward through the human parts. Watch God's Godzilla Suplex Con on HBO Max. when they come out. Solid. It's a, it's a six for me.

Perfectly passable. I had a completely fine time. And more of a fun time talking about it with my friends. It's the definition of a six. It's a perfect six. 60%. So perfect six. Okay.

That's what it is. You pass. The two is disrespectful. How is it disrespectful? Yeah, no, I don't know what I like about y'all. Because let me stand on my shit. Let me, grade my shit. Y'all grade your fucking shit.

Because here's the thing, at the end of the year, we all know who comes out on top. So like, stay all stay over where you all at. You're just going to remember this movie. Wait. Did I say five or six? You said five. I meant six. I'm sorry. You meant six. I'm so sorry. Now we already flip flopping.

No, no, no, because I told Arjuna, I told Arjuna on yesterday, I told him it's a six. That's on me. We are. It's a six. Okay, well, I would say, okay, so we got to break it up. I would break it. up the three sixes. You can go ahead and do it. You can pick it five if you want.

I do think it's a six. That's me. It's cool. That's on me. Charles, we don't always agree with you. Because sometimes with the Mulligans, the scores go up. Like, never forget

the Matrix. Never forget. Charles, would you like to explain to me, would you like for me to explain the six cycles of Zion before? Let me explain one more time. I'll leave the podcast right now. I'll turn my record.

Y'all not getting no rhyme at the end of this shit. Y'all barely gained my fucking vocals. Nah, fuck all that shit, bro. It's a Friday. Let's wrap this shit up. Let's go. All right, Chicago, that's a wrap. On Monday, Min Edition returns to build their kaiju bracket.

Tuesday, House of R brings you their spring height meter. And Thursday, the Midnight Boys return. Finale of Vincible. More on X-Men 97 and on Shogun. Credits, our credits. Our producer is Steve. Yark-ticked on him. Jome me a dinner on on social.

Hashtag. Joe. Jomey the defender of Rio. Jomey defender of Rio. Defender of Rio is a great hand. See, that's great. I might have to start using that to type, Defender of Rio.

Like Rio Morales or Rio de Janeiro? Ria de Janeiro. Zamba Supreme. Samba Supreme. Suplexing people off the Jesus of Rio. Yeah. Is that what it's called? It's called Christ the Redeemer.

God. Christ the Redeemer. You know, be respectful. This how I know y'all weren't watching the 2014 World Cup. That's how I know y'all weren't locked down. Oh, yeah. Sorry, I missed that. Additional production from our junior rhyme to pal.

Charles, please take us out. Diddy Kong is the man. Lizards and monkeys need mediation. We pop in these bottles and sucking on some radiation. Ninety-six. two of my homies, two of my older homies, it was beefing over a girl. It was over at the crib.

It started messing up the, I would name names here, but they're going to hear this and then it's going to kick up a whole bunch of bullshit. So clearly they're not over it. For guys like this, it's never truly over. Oh, wow.

For guys like these guys... He's happening in 1996. What are you talking about? So we used to play Madden after school. It was 30. Play Madden. come to the house, play Madden. Play Madden, play Coach Kay.

Play all the fucking games. Play NBA Live, 95. Play all the games. They can start beefing over a girl, and then it was either me playing games with one of them or me playing games with the other one. And that's not a good video game rotation. Because that's just a one V1.

You just do it a 1v1 the whole time you got to play a series. Okay, let's go to 21, let's go to 7, let's go to whatever. That's not good. You need the other person so somebody else could watch. So I called them both over to the house. house. I was like, y'all get it out your system.

Scrap. And they thumped on each other. And then we played the game. After the game, I baked biscuits. I baked some of those biscuits in the can. Pillsbury? Yeah, yeah, where you go? Yeah, I baked some of those biscuits in the can and I served them biscuits. I mean, I had two black men fighting in the house and then I served them biscuits. Was the woman bad enough to ruin the friendship. She was a god. I'm not even going to lie with you. I'm not even going to lie with you.

I'm not going to phone with you. And I actually, I had known her. So I actually told her, I was like, why are you doing this? Like, why are you? Oh, she was encouraging this. Or like, she was like, she was playing both of them. She was playing both of them. This is one of the most scandalous stories of my.

So these two guys were very handsome. They used to do their thing. She was beautiful and had a reputation of being beautiful. I remember at a few people. at a football game she started talking to one of them whatever and then some weeks later she started talking to the other one and I was like hey you know they run together right because they went to different schools but they both lived in the neighborhood

so they come to my house I was like you know we all run together right she's like I don't know I just I'm gonna talk to them both and see which one I like I'm like wow it's gonna go back but by the way whole thing ended up going bad afterwards I was like yo they had a fight I never forget she went who won And I was like, oh, oh, man, toxic. Nah. Oh, man.

So I'm not like Mothra. I'll just say fight it out and then we move on. But Mothra didn't do that.