Локиправда-236

[Замдежурного]

Бесит, когда Локи не любят только потому, что он, видите ли, образом не совпал с прототипом из мифов. В чем проблема? Просто не смешивайте этих двух персонажей.

рисовалка | Дача | словарик

Первое правило Локитреда: Нарушать все правила локитреда.
Второе правило Локитреда: Кат - для слабаков.
Третье правило Локитреда: Мир, дружба, попа Тома!
Четвертое правило Локитреда: 10 смайликов - это няшно и Локи и Томоугодно.
Пятое правило Локитреда: Одна фотка - один пост, и никаких превью!
Шестое правило Локитреда: Баяном считается запощенное не менее трех раз в одном и том же треде. Все остальное - новые няшные фоточге и интересные новые темы.
Седьмое правило Локитреда: Здесь любят Локи, Тома, всех, кто подвернется под руку и даже Бороду Томме.
Восьмое правило Локитреда: Обнимашге, лучи любви, окровавленный топор и маньячная улыбка - вот наши документы.
Девятое правило Локитреда: Мьеллнир - это не только молот, но и масса лулзов при просмотре фоток Томме.
Десятое правило Локитреда: Обсуждаться может абсолютно все, что угодно. Не нравится обсуждаемая тема - предлагай свою или молча проматывай дальше.
Одиннадцатое правило Локитреда: Несешь ссылку - подпиши, про что. Больше трех не подписанных ссылок на одну страницу треда подлежат выпилу, начиная с первой.
Двенадцатое правило Локитреда: ЛОКЕБОХ!!!!!

Слушайте мою клятву и будьте свидетелями моего обета... Ночь собирается, и начинается мой дозор. Он не окончится до самого утра. Я не пойду в другие треды и на другие соо. Я не буду писать от ника и не буду разводить холивар. Я буду писать и флудить только в Локитреде. Я — анон во тьме; я — Дозорный в Локитреде; я — луч любви, который разгонит регулировщиков; я — обнимашки для всех; я — пикспам, который радует заходящих; я — кат, который охраняет от других тем. Я отдаю свою ночь и сон Локитреду среди этой ночи и всех, которые грядут после нее...

Предыдущие темы:

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Вопрос: А кто это такой красивый по Лондону бегает?

1. Красота по-английски: хорошего человека в любом наряде видно.		18	(10.23%)
2. Что из шкафа выпало, то и надел.		32	(18.18%)
3. Гастарбайтеры-ремонтники все вынесли.		3	(1.7%)
4. Тру-бритиш стайл.		23	(13.07%)
5. Гуччи на слабо взяли.		10	(5.68%)
6. Как платят, так и одеваемся.		15	(8.52%)
7. Всё заработанное честным трудом ушло на Юнисеф.		11	(6.25%)
8. Ахтунг! Джаред Лето кусает людей! Есть первые пострадавшие!		22	(12.5%)
9. По-моему, в этом наряде не хватает ковбойских сапог. Не?		8	(4.55%)
10. ЛОКЕБОХ! Во всех ты, Локидушечка, нарядах хороша.		34	(19.32%)
Всего:		176 Всего проголосовало: 71

@темы: локиправда

Comments

[Гость]

Вот интересно, сколько у Тома костюмов?

[Гость]

с GQ фотошута в коричневых тонах,

Я оттуда все костюмы хочу на Томе. Особенно Луи Вюиттона, в котором он акценты делал. И тот, в котором на диване сидел, подтянув ногу.

[Гость]

Особенно Луи Вюиттона,

Видимо, сейчас будут только шмотки от Gucci

[Гость]

Видимо, сейчас будут только шмотки от Gucci

Это да, контракт.

[Гость]

2017-03-02 в 13:37
Гость
Прогнозы на ВБ для семейства Одинсон.
все плохо

Да не бывает в холивудине, что бы сразу сколько главных персов замочили, ну вы что!

[Гость]

Я помню эти штаны молодыми. Много лет назад они были такими хорошенькими!

он в них к Кориолану готовился...
(если речь про те, что я подумала)

[Гость]

Кстати, о Кориолане.

Появилась новая старая фотка с репетиций

[Гость]

I had the opportunity to attend a screening in San Diego. Which was awesome (though I wish I got a shirt :/).

Non spoiler short review…

Go fucking watch it. Its the kaiju movie fans wanted from Godzilla three years ago whilst being more than just action. The narrative of survival is what lends to action which is both jaw dropping and horrifying.

отзыв о фильме с тумблера на английском

Kong… is at his best. He is the stand out character of the film as he is well written and intriguing to see. This is definitely a beast god Kaiju and the film demonstrates that in his role on the island to his rivalry with the Skull Crawlers.

John C Reily might be best character in his role as guide just trying to get home. And despite a large cast most of the characters are like able and well just human. Each person has a quirk or role which leads them to stand out and make you actually care to see them make it out.

Its… the action is fun to watch. But seeing Kong wreck the military while entertaining is masterfully shown as what it is: scary. I’d compare it to the film Predator in which Arnold Schwarznegger and co. are introduced as typical 80s action heroes who are on top of the world but then are hunted down by a foe that is beyond them. It happens earlier but this is Kong: Skull Island, its a Kaiju film disguised as a war film, with a nice commentary on America’s military ego.

Though gratefully, regular soldiers arent made out to be assholes or stereotypical bad guys. They’re every day guys with family, friends, and homes they want to get back to and are damned at their situation in the film. It was refreshing and made me care about these poor souls who simply followed orders fighting Kong and the weird shit on the island.

Oh this movie also has great fan service. Not too on the nose but enough that its appropriate for a film set in the past in a universe where Godzilla (and other monsters) exist. Kong works as its own stand alone feature yes but also manages to have bits reflecting its wider world far better than other studios. Oh and stay after the credits… MCU eat your heart out

This film is still a fantastic block buster. Its also about megafauna that dont exist in reality. Yet its one of the best block busters ive watched in recent years and definitely better than the boring crap that usually comes out early in the year. Go watch the movie and enjoy it, its enjoyment and adventure, and fun.

Kong: Skull Island gets a 9/10 from me.

[Гость]

Появилась новая старая фотка с репетиций

кто-то фоткает, как фоткают Тома

[Гость]

Kong Skull Island movie REVIEW: Monstrously entertaining but Hiddleston is no action star - 3 ★★★

Hiddleston

Hiddleston’s supposedly anti-hero, former British army officer is introduced in a bar, unshaven and beating someone up with a pool cue.

Clearly this is something of a subliminal James Bond audition, whether intended by him or not.

The lanky old Etonion is a decent actor with a varied career, but he’s really no action hero.

He he provides some pretty wooden acting, alongside Larson, who together add nothing to the plot, to the point where you realise if they hadn’t been in the film in the first place, nothing would have changed.

Someone like Tom Hardy or Dwayne Johnson would have been much more suitable for this fun action role, with their much needed B-movie style sass – something the posh, polite Hiddleston, as lovable as he is, just isn’t quite right for.

Another big mistake was his lack of contact with the quirky and amusing supporting cast.
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Then we come to the sсript, which left much to be desired and made further characters aside from the leads basically redundant.
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Nevertheless, while Kong: Skull Island is let down by some of its cast, characters and scripts, it is still great fun as a crash-bang-wallop monster movie and is well worth seeing.
linkis.com/www.express.co.uk/en/lnasu

[Гость]

Movie Review: KONG: SKULL ISLAND(2017) Tom Hiddleston от JoBlo - 7/10

[Гость]

Kong: Tom Hiddleston talks Indiana Jones, romance & football

Skull Island's leading man talks about facing off with King Kong, avoiding romance with Brie Larson and trying his hand at Premier League predictions.

[Гость]

Ну вот, пошли рецензии - Том слишком интеллигентный и недостаточно мачистый для этой роли...

[Гость]

Kong: Skull Island review: an audaciously loopy creature feature - 4 ★★★★

No members of the ensemble cast could be described as indispensable, but that’s because many of them are specifically there to be dispensed with. (Even Hiddleston, who gets star billing, could be easily chopped out of the plot without derailing it.)
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In truth, the whole film is a kind of eccentric retro-artefact with fun at the forefront of its mind: less Heart of Darkness than darkness with heart.

www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/kong-skull-island-r...

[Гость]

Да, при беглом взгляде на британские рецензии приходит в голову, что Том теперь у них "любимый" мальчик для битья.

[Гость]

‘Kong: Skull Island’ With Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson & Samuel L. Jackson Is An Entertaining Monster Mash [Review] - [B+]

On a purely visual level, “Kong: Skull Island” is a delight. It forgoes many of the pitfalls of large-scale action filmmaking, staying away from quick cuts and jerky camera movements, in favor of more elegant compositions and rhythms. And the screenplay, credited to Dan Gilroy, John Gatins, Derek Connelly and Max Borenstein, has a solid enough foundation that the movie doesn’t wobble as much as it should in the spaces in-between sequences where creatures show up and wreak havoc. There are lovely, tiny moments where Larson will just photograph the other soldiers or, later, the island’s natives, who wear 8-bit face paint and stay (mercifully) away from the tired, racist stereotypes that have hounded the franchise since the beginning.

It also cannot be overstated what an asset Reilly is. The moment he shows up, the movie feels enlivened and energized; his mere presence adds a tremendous amount of oddball charm and humor. Reilly’s performance is so wonderfully weird, it’s amazing that he survived until the final cut. (The other human leads, most notably Hiddleston, don’t offer nearly as much interest, echoing a similar problem that befell “Godzilla” – cool monsters, dull humans.)

[Гость]

'Kong: Skull Island': Film Review

This highly entertaining return of one of the cinema's most enduring giant beasts moves like crazy — the film feels more like 90 minutes than two hours — and achieves an ideal balance between wild action, throwaway humor, genre refreshment and, perhaps most impressively, a nonchalant awareness of its own modest importance in the bigger scheme of things; unlike most modern franchise blockbusters, it doesn't try to pummel you into submission.

Leagues better than Peter Jackson's bloated, three-hour Kong of 2005, this one looks poised for strong returns and potential sequels co-starring hinted-at monsters from movie lore.
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Conrad, the nominal handsome male lead, really doesn't engage in many heroics, perhaps the better to allow Hiddleston's neatly styled hair to remain perfectly in place throughout. And despite his helping Mason out of a jam or two, the expected romantic sparks remain unlit, which may be a sign not only of the times, but of the director's relentless determination to avoid cliches and eliminate the “boring parts,” as kids used to call the inevitably bland love scenes in such films.

Instead, there is considerable emotional investment to be made in Reilly's character, who is no doubt not named Marlow for nothing. Despite his decades of deprivation, he's the best-adjusted character on hand, his relaxed acceptance of his odd destiny becoming palpably moving at times, a reaction never sought or expected in this sort of film. At least as far as the humans are concerned, Reilly steals the film.
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All the requisite elements are served up here in ideal proportion, and the time just flies by, which can rarely be said for films of this nature, which, in a trend arguably started by Peter Jackson, have for years now tended to be heavy, lumbering and overlong.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/kong-skull-isl...

2017-03-03 в 01:41

ссылка на review

theplaylist.net/kong-skull-island-tom-hiddlesto...

[Гость]

Film Review: ‘Kong: Skull Island’
The surprise is that “Skull Island” isn’t just ten times as good as “Jurassic World”; it’s a rousing and smartly crafted primordial-beastie spectacular.
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In many ways, “Kong: Skull Island” is a “Jurassic Park” movie — and if viewed that way, it’s the best since the first. The characters may be a touch minimal, but that doesn’t mean they’re boring; the actors fill them in.

Hiddleston, while top-billed, never takes over the movie, but he’s crisp and hearty (though that accent of his is too posh).

Goodman has become a more forceful presence by playing down his goofy humor, Jackson scores as a humanized bad guy, and Brie Larson takes a generic role and infuses it with vibrance. She’s the one actor on hand who really looks like she’s from the ’70s (she has that desert-flower earthiness), and the movie offers its coolest updating of the “Kong” mystique by connecting her to the big guy in a way that winks at the girl-in-the-ape-fist “romance” of old, minus the coercion (or the tearing off of dress tops). The connection between Mason and Kong seems all the more touching for being so understated. Kong emerges as just the hero we want him to be: noble but raging — a primate god who will rear up and destroy, but only when threatened.
variety.com/2017/film/reviews/kong-skull-island...

[Гость]

«большинство первых отзывов на приключенческий боевик студии Warner Brothers «Конг: Остров черепа» носят положительный характер, называя фильм отличным развлекательным блокбастером: ярким, бодрым, стильным и сумасшедшим в хорошем смысле, без особой заявки на что-либо серьезное.

В целом, критики отмечают, что картина достаточно шероховата, персонажи слабы и сюжет сильно предсказуем, но когда в кадре появляется сам Конг, который мочит всех и вся, то фильм буквально расцветает на глазах.»

[Гость]

KONG SKULL ISLAND Movie Review (No Spoilers)

Kong: Skull Island spoiler-free movie review: "an epic, fun ride packed with monstrous action, fantastic beasts, off-beat comedy, eye-catching visuals, and a great cast who give some stand-out turns."

[Гость]

“[Brie and I] both agreed that people had seen [romance] and it was uninteresting and it would have felt shoehorned into this film where it didn’t belong.”
- TH

[Гость]

Kong: Skull Island | (Non Spoiler) Movie Review (2017)

Kong shines bright in his new film. Check out this SilverScreen Analysis spoiler-free review.

[Гость]

Kong: Skull Island: EW review - B-
All told, there are about a half dozen too many characters to keep track of once the film gets underway.
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...(a daffy John C. Reillly, who does a comic riff on Kurtz and is easily the best thing in the film)

Hiddleston and Larson are especially let down by the sсript, which wants to be jokey in the way that something like Predator was, but can’t pull it off. The same lack of care goes into the period-specific song choices that have as much imagination as a Time-Life Songs of the ‘70s set.

... Meanwhile, Reilly and the monsters are left trying to save the picture. And mostly, they succeed.

Jackson barks his great vengeance and furious anger.
Hiddleston smolders and briefly wields a samurai sword.
Larson takes surprisingly few pictures for a photographer, but she does get her Fay Wray moment. And Reilly delivers sorely needed punchlines between exposition about Kong’s reputation as the king of the island.
ew.com/movies/2017/03/02/kong-skull-island-ew-r...

[Гость]

KONG: SKULL ISLAND REVIEW
...While Vogt-Roberts and his technical team do an effective job at following up that first sequence with other interesting, and continuously different set pieces, none quite measure up to the group’s first run-in with Kong. It is an adrenaline-fueled montage of carnage and destruction that King Kong fans have likely been waiting their whole lives to see. Unlike director Gareth Edwards’ 2014 Godzilla, Vogt-Roberts wastes little time introducing Kong, showing off the character’s power and design with a confidence that only makes this version of Kong seem that much more terrifying and dangerous.
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If that sounds like the kind of monster movie you’d want to see, then Kong: Skull Island is for you. There are moments when it feels more like an amusement park ride than a traditional monster movie origin story, taking full advantage of the set piece and stylistic opportunities available -- it’s a thrill ride for people ready to kick off 2017 with a big bang.

The film’s characters and emotional moments don’t match up to the visual and stylistic aspects of the film, unfortunately, and a lot of that can be attributed to the fact that Skull Island has more main and supporting characters than any other, non-superhero blockbuster film in recent memory. Brie Larson, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, and John Goodman all turn in fine performances as the film’s main characters, but one of Skull Island’s more prominent flaws is how much more interesting and fleshed out the supporting characters around them appear to be.
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The film’s pacing can be spotty at times, especially near the middle...
www.ign.com/articles/2017/03/02/kong-skull-isla...

[Гость]

'Kong: Skull Island' review: Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson and Brie Larson prove bigger is better in action-packed flick
But, as colourful as the performances are (and I include John C. Reilly as a crazy, marooned WWII airman), this is one of those movies where the people are essentially the McGuffin.
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This is a monster movie for the nine-year-old kid in all of us, and the filmmakers take it as un-seriously as that suggests. The dialogue seems deliberately prosaic at times, and goofy at others (Reilly’s character gets the funniest lines).
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And if it all seems at times to be pointless sound and fury, well, yeah. That’s the point.

[Гость]

«Критики ругают в первую очередь персонажей (из которых положительно выделяют Джон Си Райли), но, как верно подметил рецензент от Entertainment Weekly, "мы шли на «Конг: Остров черепа» не за развитыми и прописанными персонажами, а за чертовой грязной обезьяной", в чем, как отмечают журналисты, режиссёр Вот-Робертс и специалисты ILM весьма и весьма преуспели»

[Гость]

'Skull Island' Review: King Kong Kicks Butt In This Gorgeous Pulp Adventure

Hiddleston is in full dashing/brooding rogue mode, even if he gets one moment of almost comical heroism.

Box Office:

Kong: Skull Island opens in North America on March 10, 2017 courtesy of (among others) Legendary and distributor Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc. The film, budgeted at around $185 million, is both the start of its own would-be new franchise and something of a backdoor pilot for what the Dream Factory hopes will be a cinematic universe involving the likes of King Kong, Godzilla and other unconfirmed famous beasties. We’re getting Godzilla: King of the Monsters (a sequel to the 2014 Godzilla) in 2019 and Kong vs. Godzilla in 2020. So as you can see, there is more at stake than a single movie.

That’s the inherent risk of this whole expanded universe game. If Kong were merely intended to justify itself, then it would merely be responsible for making enough money to justify its expenses and inspiring enough audience approval to justify further installments. But, since it’s now the backbone of an expanded universe, a responsibility that Godzilla did not share, it has the extra burden of justifying and creating excitement for what comes next. Once again, Mr. Kong, we ask too much of you.

The good news is that, should this film do well and/or get decent reviews, it will go that much further in dispelling the conventional wisdom that Warner Bros. is a house of horrors due to whatever is or isn’t going on with the DC Comics movies. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them earned $811 million worldwide and earned mostly positive reviews while The LEGO Batman Movie earned raves and solid box office. If the Skull Island is a well-received hit and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword avoids utter embarrassment, there is frankly only so much grief we can give the studio no matter how good or bad Wonder Woman and Justice League turn out to be.

The Review:

Kong: Skull Island is high-quality pulp fiction. The picture is a briskly paced and character-driven adventure that just happens to be a big-budget monster mash and part of a would-be cinematic universe. The film has a game cast amid stunning visuals and gorgeous cinematic sights. It may not be the eighth wonder of the world, but this King Kong revamp is often quite beautiful.
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this is an utterly beautiful motion picture. The naturalistic visuals, imbued with a particular hot orange vividness, gives the film an absolute authenticity of time and place and at least the appearance of realism even when we are clearly watching special effects work.
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His major introductory beat is a superb action sequence, even if it’s structured more for action-adventure thrills than horror or intensity. The film manages to humanize its main monster without being overly patronizing.
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Said MIA (John C. Reilly) provides comic relief, a surprising poignancy and plenty of exposition. Reilly quickly becomes Skull Island’s MVP.
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Hiddleston is in full dashing/brooding rogue mode, even if he gets one moment of almost comical heroism. Goodman is superb, as always, although Booker and Tian fall back a bit once Reilly’s scene-stealing go-between enters the frame. Larson is fine, even if she is somewhat hobbled by being the only major female character.
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there are any number of gorgeous moments of vivid cinematic beauty and iconic imagery.

Kong: Skull Island is a rock-n-roll action spectacular that offers large-scale monster mayhem, moments of cinematic poetry (like the grand moments of Kong standing tall amid the sun-drenched carnage) and memorable character work by a cast of overqualified thespians giving it their all. The movie is thrilling when characters are talking, and it is thrilling when giant monsters are attacking in exquisitely staged and edited action sequences, which makes the film the very definition of a complete package. While the movie exists due to its IP and hopes for a larger cinematic universe, it justifies itself as high-quality popcorn entertainment and works as a piece of pop art unto itself.
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Kong: Skull Island is a confident, pulpy, character-focused, big-scale adventure story that just happens to be a backdoor pilot for an expanded universe.

www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2017/03/02/...

2017-03-03 в 02:25

ссылка на review

www.torontosun.com/2017/03/02/kong-skull-island...

[Гость]

KONG: SKULL ISLAND IS BIG, RAUCOUS MONSTER FUN (REVIEW) - 3,5/5

One of the problems with the movie is that there’s just too many characters for all of their stories to fully pay off. Some of them want to kill Kong, some of them don’t; that’s really the only major thing we need to know. Reilly is easily the best and most sympathetic character in the mix. However, there’s some terrific performances from the army folk, namely Shea Whigham and Jason Mitchell who have a really funny and touching rapport. Toby Kebbell who plays Jackson’s second in command seems woefully under-served by his human role, but he also did performance capture for Kong, and in that way he’s the star of the show.
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The action and the way it’s shot are really what stood out to me, as it begins to feel like a ’70s comic book, in the best way. Stuff happens for the sake of badass-ness and certain camera moves feel totally in service of a damn cool shot, which following the impressive but often po-faced Godzilla feels like a breath of fresh air. Not every big tentpole movie needs to be an uber serious endeavor. Sometimes you just want to see a giant ape beat the crap out of a giant lizard-bird-skull thing and have a good time in the process.

It’s certainly not a perfect movie, and a lot of the characters feel like sketches more than full fledged people, but it roars along enjoyably from start to finish.
nerdist.com/kong-skull-island-is-big-raucous-mo...

[Гость]

Film Review: Kong: Skull Island This Vietnam-era update of the Kong legend is stylish and surprisingly brutal throughout

Hiddleston runs around in a gas mask killing flying creatures with a sword.
The game cast isn’t asked to do as much lifting as the visuals, especially given the talent on hand, but Skull Island understands the Aliens argument for having memorable actors in even the smallest parts of a good action movie. Few of the characters are built upon any more than their introductions, but the rapid survival-adventure cadence of the film makes this less noticeable, especially when the most memorable creation emerges a bit later: Hank Marlow (John C. Reilly), ... Reilly plays the part with a spot-on mix of mania and sorrow;
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The others are fine, but stick to expected beats: Goodman growls and deadpans, Jackson fills his eyes with rage, Larson brings an understated kindness to her underwritten empath, and Hiddleston runs around in a gas mask killing flying creatures with a sword.

The cast and film feel overstuffed at points, even after Skull Island takes no shortage of great pains to cull the group throughout, but the film is the kind of monster movie that predominantly works because of its understanding of the genre

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Movie Review – Kong: Skull Island (2017) - Film: ★ ★ ★ ★ / Movie: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

would question why actors of Hiddleston and Larson’s caliber would take on a ‘stupid popcorn monster flick’, but they both clearly saw something in the terrific sсript and wonderful direction from Jordan Vogt-Roberts, who delivers some spectacular visuals.

The first hour of Kong: Skull Island is incredible and remarkable filmmaking, a lesson for all action filmmakers in a modern age.

This also allows for the actors – many of which are highly regarded in critical circles – to chomp into their roles and deliver something more than just reading lines and running away from empty air that will be CGI’d into terrifying monsters at a later date.

Jackson in particular gives one of the best performances of his recent career, and could be argued as being the main character and antagonist to Kong. This extends into his supporting cast, who blindly follow his every word even though they know what he is doing is wrong.

John C. Reilly brings some real warmth and lightness to the proceedings. His comedy relief is never intrusive, and tonally works with his character. While every one else could be seen as an avatar for the audience, exploring this unknown island and encountering these strange and sometimes deadly monsters, Reilly’s Hank Marlow is a wondrous addition and source of exposition.

It’s then sad to say that Hiddleston and Larson aren’t given the same amount of screen time to fully explore their characters – though you can read between the lines of their performances. But even with this, they’re still giving it 100% of their effort.
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would question why actors of Hiddleston and Larson’s caliber would take on a ‘stupid popcorn monster flick’, but they both clearly saw something in the terrific sсript and wonderful direction from Jordan Vogt-Roberts, who delivers some spectacular visuals.
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Those who like to see giant monsters fight other giant monsters and all the gloriousness that comes with that will be pleased to know that Vogt-Roberts provides some of the best set-pieces in recent memory.
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There is so much to enjoy in Kong: Skull Island, and even more to love. It’s a fantastic action-adventure that never sags, never lulls and always entertains.
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With such a long linage of films – including the groundbreaking original – it seems almost impossible to say this is the best of the lot, but Kong: Skull Island really is the best Kong movie ever. It has all the missing elements of recent monster efforts like Godzilla and Pacific Rim with its brilliant characters and performances, with the best of modern action blockbusters. It’s epic, brilliant, wonderful and one of the best pictures of the year so far.
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