Godzilla vs King Kong New trailer revealed what we all expected to happen.
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Why not? Worked well enough for the Hong Kong fight in Pacific Rim, and that's imo still the best kaiju battle to date. Also, the neon rainbow is only part of the trailer, most of the rest of which is color graded orange, or teal, or orange and teal aka the most pervasive color scheme in action movies in the past 15-20 years or so.
I love color in my monster fights. I agree; enough with the whole grim and gritty brown/grey shit. It's not the mid to late 2000s and early 2010s anymore.
Let's have some fucking color for heavenly Buddha's sake.
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A reminder that Godzilla and King Kong began as Black and White films.
Also King Kong 2005 had color but it wasn't this rainbow of neon shit that looks like a holiday event in Fortnite.
And?
I don't give a shit what anyone says, King of the Monsters ruled so I'm hype for this.
That was then, this is now! Whatever point you are trying to make there, sucks hard! I do not care. You got enough brown and grey from your Zack Snyder directed super hero films. Leave other franchises out of it. Besides, you want dull, "mature" color palettes that badly, go back to the 360/PS3 era and late 2000s film making. You got plenty to choose from.
Hell even if the movie sucked, that kick ass cover Blue Oyster Cult’s “Godzilla” at the end was worth the price of admission. Fortunately the movie was pretty kickass.
Again, King Kong 2005 was colorful without looking like a Neon Rave Party event in Fortnite.
I know, and I don't care. Not the point. At least KK 2005 had more color than alot of games and films from the late 2000s.
I've seen it in theaters, and I didn't like, Pacific Rim is one of the most overrated movies I've seen.
I've seen more cooler epic Mecha vs Kaiju shit in Dexter's fucking Laboratory and Powerpuff Girls
Well as much as I'm not really a fan of black and white films in general, one benefit that has, as opposed to filming in color, but using very neutral earth tones for everything, is contrast. It's WAY easier to see details and definition in B&W, as opposed to intentionally making everything brown/grey/ash, which makes it very hard for the eye to differentiate objects. And when they did go to color, they were often next to very bright blue backgrounds, simulating a sky, so it's easy to make out who is who, the monsters themselves would have bright patterns, the city around them would be painted with brighter colors, all of which makes it very easy to tell what's going on, and where.
Hollywood Mud-o-vision style coloring, does not do this.
So yes, I'm fine with them coloring up the city.
Also, this is Japan at night.
And while the amount of colors isn't anywhere near as rainbow as in the films, it's hardly out of place, to have a night scene, in a modern day city, be lit up like a christmas tree. So they ramped up the variance of colors a bit. I don't see a problem with that. I mean some of those buildings, are entirely lit up, in a non-white color, from top to bottom. Like a few blue ones in the thumbnail itself. So it's not too far off reality
Blockbusters (live-action) don't know how to do colour anymore. Either you get bland, grey shit, like in Zack Snyder movies, sweaty grease orange, like in Micheal Bay movies, or tooth-aching digital colour noise, like in Ghostbusters '16. There is the rare exception, like Mad Max: Fury Road and Krampus.
We must be watching very different films, as I'm not seeing that so much myself. Having said that, I tend to avoid, Snyder (agree about his misuse of colour from what I have seen), Bay, or the MCU or DCEU
I'm still not sure why you say this is "pulling a Doomsday" ? I mean I saw that trailer, and I just don't get the reference? It felt more just like any other typical "Two Heroes Fight, Who Will Win?!" stories that are way beyond Doomsday.
You didn't see my post with MechaGodzilla seen in Godzilla's eyes at the end of the trailer?