The Weekly Planet - Kong: Skull Island - Caravan Of Garbage

Episode Date: November 23, 2023

Instead of jumping directly into another Godzilla movie after Godzilla 2014 the inexplicable decision was made to make a King Kong prequel set during the events of the Vietnam War. Completely revamping the character in a new narrative absolutely pays off in what is one of the more more fun, gory and entertaining Monsterverse movies that brings together Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, Sam Jackson and more. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage reviewSUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNHelp support the show and get early episodes ► https://bigsandwich.co/Patreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies The Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 The Weekly Planet Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Got your notes? Got my notes. Thank God. Not that they're bloody worth anything. Oh, come on, mate. Come on, mate. I'll probably put them on eBay. Put them on.

You'll put notes from your phone, screech on on eBay. Yep. Yep. And then I'll probably put them on eBay. Put them on. You'll put notes from your phone, Screech on on eBay. Yep, yep. And then I'll email it to you. No, thank you. What do you mean you'll email it to me? Me? No, the person who wins. Oh, okay, right.

Cool, cool. But if I purchased it, you would email it to me. I would have to, wouldn't I? Yeah, that's the rules. That is the rules and the honor system of eBay, is it not? It is true, yeah. Welcome back, everybody, to Caravan of Garbage, where we're making our way through the modern-day MonsterVerse movies.

That's right. We're on movie number two. We're on Kong Skull Island. Let me tell you this, James. Couldn't make this movie today, could you? Why is that? Because you couldn't afford the cast. Oh, you're not wrong.

What are we talking? Well, look, it's such a Marvel cast, isn't it? Yeah. And by that I mean everybody's in Marvel movies now. Everybody in Hollywood has done a Marvel movie at this point. Here we go. Tom Hiddleston. Yep.

Brie Larson. Absolutely. Sam Jackson. Yeah. John C. Reilly. Shea Whigham. He's in Agent Carter. That's true, yeah.

Corey Hawkins. He's in Iron Man 3, briefly. Now, Brie Larson, to be fair, hadn't been announced as Captain Marvel. Eugene Cordero. He's in Loki. Oh my god! Oh yeah, he is too! Goddamn. Toby Kebbell. Toby Kebbell. The bad Doctor Do movie. That's exactly right. Yeah.

Brie Larson, though, of course, hadn't been announced as Captain Marvel until July of 2016. So, you know, she wasn't Captain Marvel-ing just yet. Oh no, that's what I'm saying. I'm saying that now... That's what I'm no, that's what I'm saying. I'm saying that now. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.

I get it. You've got to say something, don't you? I've got to say something. Well, look at me. I've got a YouTube channel and I make videos. I've got to say something in them. Get over yourself. Sometimes people do say that.

They're like, you talk too much. And it's like, what are you here for? Look at images? Yes. They've come to this looking for a video that says Kong Skull Island, all monster battles. That's it. That's a great point.

Or all helicopter goes past screen or whatever. You know? All machine guns. But look, if you're not here for that, or even if you are. All machine guns reloading sequence. That's it. That's what they want. 10 million views probably.

Probably, yeah. We're in the wrong business is what I'm saying. Yeah, but that's easily replicated. That's why you make something that nobody would possibly want to replicate. That's so true. That's where success is, right? That's right. Anyways, if you think success is leaving a like on this video, which I do,

if you could do that, that would be great. I think this is the most fun of these modern movies. Absolutely, yes. Just a real creature feature. Just a real good, gory, fun adventure time. And you know what, though? It's Jurassic Park sort of these modern movies. Absolutely. Just a real creature feature. Just a real good, gory, fun adventure time. And you know what, though? It's Jurassic Park sort of. It is, that's true.

But it's not Jurassic Park. It's one of the better Jurassic Park sequels. I like this one because it is gory, but it's sort of a lightweight kind of gory. It's not gory in the way that the Peter Jackson King Kong was obsessingly gory. Slippery. And, you know, there's those leech things that suck you right off, you know?

They suck you right off. They got Andy Serkis. They sucked him right off screen. That's right. That's right. Oh, God. Help! I'm getting sucked off by these monsters.

You know? Yeah, but don't. You don't need to rush. Give me a minute. It has a great cold open. Yep. Originally, this was going to be set in like 1917. Okay.

And the director, Jordan Roberts, came in and said, you know, let's make this a Vietnam-era Kong movie. And that's just a terrific idea, right? Yeah. And the imagery alone, Mason. Oh, my God. The music alone, Mason. The music.

The sunsets alone. The sunsets alone, Mason. The helicopter's going past the sunsets alone. Yep. The guns being reloaded in mason the sunsets alone the helicopter's going past the sunsets alone yep the guns being reloaded in front of the sunsets alone all of that now i i agree with you but i also feel like maybe they tipped their hand a little bit early on king kong like you see him because of the title oh yeah that's true also yeah that probably is the biggest spoiler now that i think about it but i kind of i mean i think the but also, like, I think it would be more interesting in that cold open maybe if the two enemy soldiers

that have been shot down on the island, we see them being stunned by King Kong. We don't see King Kong yet, but they're just like, no, he's King Kong. I guess this is maybe a little reaction to Godzilla 2014. I think almost certainly, yeah. We didn't see him yet. Sorry, we didn't see him for like an hour,

and then they're like, well, you're going to see this guy in the first five seconds. Guess what's mean yeah some of the time yeah yeah it's being mean to you well it's only him it's like all the other creatures that they've got in this so there's the skull walkers which i think are pretty good it's a pretty solid idea i like that the wheel that's a wiggly look yeah it's a snake with arms there's nothing scarier than the idea of a snake with exactly it's a snake but it can punch you nothing scarier than the idea of a snake with arms. Exactly. It's a snake, but it can punch you. That's right. It can give you a rude finger. You know?

Oh, guess what, snake? You can't get me. You can't get me with your venomous fangs. Oh, he's giving me the finger from across the room. Wow. Speaking of snakes, though, some of the creatures that were cut was a giant snake, which Tom Hiddleston was going to fight, and also a giant tiger with antlers, and also a giant ant. But just the creature...

What? I don't... Say the two things before. A giant tiger with antlers and also a giant ant. But just the creature... What? Say the two things before. A giant tiger with antlers and a giant ant. With tiglers. Sure. Okay. With tiglers.

There's a moment where John C. Reilly's like, you see here that bird? That's not a bird. That's a giant ant. It sounds like a bird. Oh, yeah. We never see the giant ant. Yeah, exactly.

We do see a sort of a big spider, but it's got legs that look like bamboo shoots. We see this big water buffalo. It's not a threat, but I quite like that one. There's a big stick insect. I like that they weren't all threats. Because this is an isolated ecosystem, there's just a bunch of stuff here. It's the mother longlegs of the spiders. There's the spore mantis.

There's the skir buffalo. There's the leaf wings, which are the sawbirds. Oh, yeah. There's the log dog. I love that. Which might be the spore mantis. No, it's a search engine from the 90s. Okay, right, yeah.

I'm just going to alter this to something on logdog.com. There's also a squid and a deer. Now, the deer's not great. Yeah. It's just a deer, mostly. And that sequence where King Kong fights that giant squid. Very reminiscent of just me eating spaghetti at a restaurant. Just an absolute nightmare. Well, it's actually very reminiscent. It's intentionally a nod to the movie Oldboy,

2013. No, it isn't. No, you know he eats the live squid? It's 100% that. Yeah, that's for real. That's legit. I don't think you'd seen any other movies that we haven't discussed on this video series that might be true you can't prove otherwise uh my favorite though is definitely that giant spider because you're walking through bamboo my goodness and it's a crab it is very you don't know it's a crab and it's a crab too you get bloody sucked off by this creature up into the sky and you're like well don't don't worry about it because he's just a little spider guy. I can shoot him or stab him, whatever it is.

He's got crab claws. Yeah, yeah. Don't like him. No. I also think Tom Hiddleston proves himself here as a jungle combat man. He's not just a greasy wizard, you know? He can do other things.

Yeah, he can be swarthy. Yeah, you can tan him and blonde him. He can have a little stubble as a treat. As a dessert. Yeah. There is one sequence I think that sort of, it's a little bit too superhero movie for me, I think. Is it the bar scene?

No, it's the sequence where. With the sword. Yeah, there's the sequence where all the green gas goes off and he puts the gas mask off and he picks up the sword and he's sort of swinging through and I'm all like, steady on, mate. Yeah. Leave some for the rest of us, all right?

Yeah, exactly. Steady on. But otherwise, I think you're absolutely right. He's got a machine gun and a triceratops skull. Oh, that's good stuff. Really good stuff, mate. And you know who's really good in this? Go on.

Well, he's probably most famously known for playing Fred Flintstone, but John Goodman. I'm just loving John Goodman turning up and just having a go. Absolutely. What a great addition. Yeah. More like John Good actor. Oh, wow. In my opinion. Yeah, I agree. I think if there's one downfall to the casting.. More like John Good actor. Oh, wow. In my opinion.

Yeah, I agree. I think if there's one downfall to the casting. It's not John Goodman, is it? No. Is it because there's too many people? There's too many people in this movie. Is it because that some of the characters that are in it, they barely say anything? That is exactly right.

There's a woman in this who's, she seems important, but she doesn't do anything? Yeah. She's sort of an assistant to a, to a. John Goodman's assistant? No, I think he's, I think she's John Goodman's assistant's assistant. That's what I thought, yeah. Yeah, but then she disappears for like most of the movie

and then she's back at the end and we're like, oh, you're still alive. Yeah. There you go, good for you. Wow, a bird didn't pick you up and saw all your limbs off. Good for you, that's great.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tell you what though. Go on. Kong's first attack on the helicopters, all of that is great stuff. He's a good throw. He's an accurate throw.

He's probably been doing a lot of throws. At what? Birds, I guess. Pterodactyls. Yeah, no, he would be, wouldn't he? I mean, he can use tools. That's the idea, right? That's true, yeah.

That's how he works. So Kong in this. Toby Kebbell, who was of course in this movie, he did the facial capture. He played Cobra in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Oh, yeah. But Terry Notary, he did the body mocap for it. Do you think they had to do it as a team?

Yeah. Do you think Toby Kebbell was piggybacked on top of the other guy? Had to do it together? Almost certainly, yeah. Yeah, yeah, because that's the only way you can get the height. Yes. Now, I think also when you go this big, and we'll talk specifically about the sizes that are going on here for King Kong,

you do run the risk of kind of alienating audiences when he's just he's fucking enormous. Yeah. But I think it really works here like in every in every scene that he's in he's kind of he feels scaled appropriately. Appropriately scaled is he a blood of Godzilla? You know when you see him like walking through the water it feels like Jeff Blige Shadow of the Colossus.

Sure. Like that kind of like movement and the fur and all of that. Yeah. I love all of that. Glowing weak spot

on his head. Exactly. But you can't get to it because you're underneath him. You're underneath him. You can't get to it, yeah. And the emphasis on the design for this was

he's not a gorilla. Okay. Right? If you look at the Peter Jackson one like that's a gorilla. Sure. So this time This guy's more of a Magilla? Yeah was he's not a gorilla. Okay. Right? If you look at the Peter Jackson one, like, that's a gorilla, right? Sure. So this time around. This guy's more of a Magilla? Yeah, he's a Magilla.

Well, yeah, he's a man gorilla, essentially. So he's inspired by the. A man-rilla? Yeah, a man-rilla. Okay. He's inspired by the original King Kong in the sense that, you know, there are human-like characteristics to him. Like, he walks upright.

That's true. He's a great shot, you know? Yeah, he walks that line. He can recognise beauty because there's a moment where he could absolutely kill Brie Larson and Tom Hiddleston

at night time but then it's like the golden hour and he's like, those guys are too beautiful. Pretty sexy stuff actually. Can't kill those guys. Maybe later.

Maybe later. Yeah. Also, did you know about the hidden Kong in this? There might be a second Kong. Second Kong? You know, we see King Kong's parents in this. Maybe later. Yeah. Also, did you know about the hidden Kong in this? There might be a second Kong. Second Kong? You know, we see King Kong's parents in this. They're bones.

So Jordan Vogt-Roberts, I hope I'm saying that right, he suggested that the Kong that was encountered by a young Marlowe at the start of the movie is possibly Kong's father. Oh. I don't know whether that's true or not or that's been retconned because there's been a prequel comic about his parents as well. But that's all good. In the comic, they're just human beings.

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That's sunrisechallenge.ca. today at sunrisechallenge.ca. That's sunrisechallenge.ca. I also think what carries this movie a long way is that there's a lot of fun moments. There's a bit where Shea Whigham is talking about the helicopter attack and everyone's kind of freaking out and he's just casually eating food

and he's like, that was an unconventional encounter. And he says, there's no tactical precedent we did the best we could in this situation which is true yeah i have a note here it just says shay wiggum mvp because he is great in this movie you always enjoy an appearance from from mr wiggum yeah and there is of course a great sequence which is played based on the musical cue you hear behind it it's played as like a real noble sacrifice, but it is so funny.

It's really funny. He primes two grenades, hoping that one of the skull walkers will eat him and then explode, but then it just tail whips him into a mountain and it explodes. Fun stuff. But this movie, interestingly,

is played, for the most part, very sincerely. Yeah. You know what I mean? Maybe it's just we've overdosed on kind of MCU quippy snark. Sure sure but most of this is just like uh you know like straight ahead people are being they're keeping it real you know yeah in trying circumstances definitely and they're limiting the quips to certain characters like another mvp john c riley's great in this yeah what an addition he is uh he's an american soldier who uh who crashed on the island before the end of World War II

and then over the intervening decades has become a real weeb. He's learned how to handle a traditional Japanese sword. He knows the blade. That's right. He studied the blade. That's right. If he'd landed on this island a little bit later, he'd know everything about Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Which would be helpful i think fighting kong oh my god so helpful yeah he's just got a lot of great little moments in this and um he's got a really i feel like he's ending where he gets to go home to his wife and his son it's all good and emotional and he gets what he wants you know yeah he just wants to have a hot dog and a beer while watching the big game yeah but what's notable i think about that scene or what struck what struck me is that uh he's just on the couch by himself like he's he's shown back up and and in his his wife you know is surprised and he meets his son for the first time and then he's just like you two get out i'm gonna watch the game do something else i don't know absolutely i think another standout moment in this, well, all of the Kong stuff is really standout,

but that battle at the end is great. And he's using, he uses weapons. There's a moment where he strips a tree of all its branches. That's great. He uses a propeller on a chain. That's really good stuff. That whole final battle is just really, really terrific. And then he whips the Skull Walker's entire string of internal organs out through its mouth.

So good. Cool as hell. Then he saves Brie Larson. He goes, come on, Brie Larson, I'll take you home. That's right. I'll take you to the shore. I'm not taking you home. This is probably a reference to a previous King Kong movie.

That's why I'm doing this. Yeah, yeah. Because you're a lady and I've got to... That's right. You're a little lady in my big hand and here we go. This is one of the only King Kong movies, I think, where he doesn't die either. Oh, or climb a big building.

And then die. And then die, yeah. Yeah, that's right, yeah. So the post-credits, though, of course, it hints towards what's next and it's going to be a big Godzilla battle. You have to wait a movie and then they'll do that. Sure, sure, sure, yeah.

Obviously. It's going to be an okay movie after this one. The director comes out and goes, look, we didn't have the time or the budget to give you another movie at the end of this movie, so you're going to have to wait. You're going to be an okay movie after this one. The director comes out and goes, look, we didn't have the time or the budget to give you another movie at the end of this movie, so you're going to have to wait. You're going to have to wait a while. That's right, yeah.

But let's do this section of the show that we're going to be doing every week. Oh, yes. It's called How Big Is It? Oh, nice. Talk about scale and size. Now, Peter Jackson's... Sometimes related to the movie, sometimes not.

Just in general, yeah. Battleship's big. Agreed. Bigger than a man. You can fit many men in them. Battleship the board game? Smaller. Smaller. Can. Bigger than a man. You can fit many men in them. Battleship the board game, smaller. Smaller, can't fit any men in that. Can't fit no men in it.

Peter Jackson's King Kong, by comparison, was only 25 feet or 7.6 meters tall. That's the coward's height for a giant monkey. Agreed. That's nearly Mighty Joe Young height. Blurk and yark. This movie, though, features the tallest incarnation of Kong at the time. Oh, yeah. Oh, in an American movie, at least.

Standing at approximately 32 meters or 104 feet. James, that's not going to be big enough to fight Godzilla, is it? You're right. Let's cancel the movie. Okay. We can't. Okay. Let's cancel talking about it then.

Okay, great. Yeah, yeah. Anyways, it's time for Kong Skull Trivia. I love that. So, director Jordan Vogt-Roberts admitted that he was strongly influenced. He admitted it. We got it. We got it, folks.

He was strongly influenced by video games from his childhood. So this is why there's a number of references in this, including the point of view shot of guns being fired like a first person shooter. The shot of the helicopter making a 360 degree spin towards the ground was inspired by a similar scene from a Resident Evil game James, I've got to stop you here this is starting to sound like

the director of this movie is like a young person young and vital and has made a movie whereas we've done nothing and it's really starting to make me feel a little bit upset I think sometimes older people like, who's the guy who did Halloween? John Carpenter, right? he loves video games, that's all he wants to do who did Halloween? John Carpenter, right? He loves video games.

That's all he wants to do. It's probably a John Carpenter type thing. It's probably that. This guy's probably a real old fogey, you know. He was probably 50. Oh, I remember playing Resident Evil. Okay, Grandpa. All right, mate.

The character named Mason Weaver is taken from the video game Call of Duty Black Ops where there are two different characters. One is called Mason, one is called Weaver is taken from the video game Call of Duty Black Ops, where there are two different characters. One is called Mason, one is called Weaver. And the design of the skull crawlers, that came from the Pokemon Cubone. Wow. So folks, if you're out there, if you own any of those intellectual properties, it's lawyer time.

We're going to get this guy. Lure a bitch. He admitted it. He admitted it, we got him. With Cubone, can you take the skull off that thing? I don't know. With Pyramid Head, can you take his pyramid off? What's under don't know. With Pyramid Head, can you take his pyramid off? What's under there? Some sort of psychosexual thing, probably. Look out.

Probably a sex thing. Steady on. Just get over yourself, Pyramid Head. Do you also remember... I think his name's Triangle Face. Do you also remember this director went on a tirade on Twitter concerning CinemaSins' critique of this movie? Do you remember this? I do remember this, yes.

Yeah, and look, man, he makes some pretty valid points. I'm not here to go in on other YouTube channels, but he basically talked about how they either misinterpreted or didn't understand or just got things wrong about this movie. And he said, mystery science theatre built something artful. I guess he'd also mean that we're doing the same thing, right? This is artful. No, this is... You don't think this old man would think this is artful. I guess you'd also mean that we're doing the same thing, right? This is artful. You don't think this old man would

think this is artful? This old crank? Yeah, who knows? All he knows is it's not soup and he hates it. Mystery Science Theatre built something artful, endearing and comedic on top of the foundation of other people's work. It has merit to itself. Things like Cinema Sins simply suck the lifeblood off other people and are often just wrong about intent or how cinema works. It's terrible. Now, of course, though, he did co-write the Honest Trailer,

which is obviously a different YouTube channel. So, yeah, he's not against online YouTube film criticism. James, if I do have a Cinema Sins here, and it's only tangentially related, but I only have one note left, so I thought I'd just throw it in there. There's a moment where a couple of the Marines, they learn that a particular patch of the island is flammable because one of them says to the other,

hey, there's no time to smoke a cigarette. And he throws the cigarette down and it blows up. And I'm like, imagine anyone from the 70s, let alone a soldier in the US Army saying there's no time to smoke a cigarette. I don't believe it. Ding! Now, apparently there was an alternate opening

that was initially going to take place during World War II where soldiers are fighting on a beach and a massive ape, which was similar to 2005's King Kong, attacks them and is immediately gunned down. However, then the real King Kong emerges and is many times more massive and threatening, but the studio told Jordan, old man Jordan, that you can't do that.

Wow. They said, who's this other frigging ape? Yeah. And Jordan was like, I don't know, man. Just another ape? Yeah. I can't invent another ape? And they're like, you cannot.

It's in your contract. Anyways, in terms of box office, this had a budget of $185 million and a return of $566.6 million. Not bad. Which was up on Godzilla's $529 million. That's a slight increase. This is great.

What a fun movie. I agree. Yeah. And not because I don't want to be Twitter tiraded, Mason. I would love to be drawn into a Twitter tirade. One of those Twitter twirways. Yeah. Wow, yeah.

But I just think he just understood the assignment. I agree of those Twitter tirades. Yeah. Wow, yeah. But I just think it's, he just understood the assignment. I agree. Good bit of fun. Yeah. I've seen a good creature feature and we've seen a few recently, not as good.

Which one specifically? Meg 2. Oh yeah, the Meg 2. That's got a bit at the start where you think it's a big thing and then the Meg shows up or whatever. You're like, oh my God, it's a T-Rex. But then it's a Meg.

Yeah. Or something. Pretty. Yep, good, great. They made it. They sure did. Yeah. As far. Pretty. Yep, good, great. They made it. They sure did. Yeah. As far as I know, unless I dreamed it.

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No. But we could. Oh, my God. Just hang out here, folks. Hang out here, man. Just hang out in the lobby. Yeah, hang out in the lobby. Real Habbo Hotel situation.

What's your gamer tag? Yeah, tell us your gamer tag. Tell old man Jordan. That's right. He'll play a game of bloody Pitfall with you. He might just. All right, thanks, everyone. Grab that gem, you guys.

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