Quote from: AlienatedPredator on May 06, 2021, 05:20:11 PM
Skull Island is still the best of the bunch.
I think it's an entertaining and beautiful movie with those Tequila Sunrise colors that remind me of Coopola's
Apocalypse Now color palette, a movie that saw the light of day largely because Hollywood studios had not yet been absorbed by entertainment corporations and the executives were true film nerds and not businessmen like today, even though the least thing the US wanted was to see a movie about that lost war. I choose to believe that it was a nice tribute to that director.
The cast is superior to the other Legendary films, with A names like Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, John C. Reilly (I find his character very charismatic
), Brie Larson, Jing Tian and John Goodman. So we're back to this lost world out of time, where the human being has been reduced to live hidden, like extinct rodents, on an island dominated by giant monsters; more or less like when mammals lived hidden in underground dens during the Mezzozic era dominated mainly by dinosaurs and other giant reptiles. Even so we see a lost tribe, civilization or culture in most of the movies that feature the
Skull Island. And unsurprisingly,
Kong has a natural enemy in this installment as well. In the past it was a
T. Rex, then a hypothetical descendant of said creature in Peter Jackson's master remake, and now: a huge two legged komodo dragon-mosasaur thing with a bony structure similar to Cubone's skull from
Pokemon!
The Skullcrawler is definitely inspired by King Kong's two-legged lizard from 1933, which appeared to be an inhabitant of the pit ecosystem, and can beibg seen when Jack suvirved after King Kong destroyed the log bridge. The creature was climbing to reach Jack, but he quickly grabbed a dagger and cut the vine, making the lizard fall into the chasm.
That said, I did like the creatures from the Legendary remake, although I must admit I did miss the dinosaurs a bit. I must be biased since I'm a paleo nerd. There were pterosaur-like creatures, which although not dinosaurs, seem to suggest that life forms similar to the fauna of the Mezozoic could inhabit
Legendary Skull Island, in addition to a triceratop skull, which I imagine is part of the menu of the Skullcrawler species. But gosh! that fictional triceratop must be hugeeeee!
