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You have a point generally but underestimate how loathed the 1998 film is.
The 1998 movie sufficiently disrespected the values around Gojira that Toho has been incredibly cautious about licensing since. There are many contractual limits on how the Toho Kaiju can be used, especially Godzilla.
American interpretations have leaned too much to the younger male audiences who are just interested in big monsters fighting and threatening humans. Not so much interested in morality stories about humanity’s relationship with the natural world.
Legendary Entertainment has tried to bring a more character driven human centric version to US and international audiences. However, the films after Kong: Skull Island had a different creative team and became more focused on spectacular fights than storytelling or messaging.
M:LOM is helmed by the original creatives. They seem to be successful overall in balancing more character driven storytelling but whichever way they lean, there will be some dissatisfaction.
Thanks for elaborating. I did not consider the change in creative staff post Skull island. That's an interesting element to the way the Monsterverse has developed, particularly on the big screen.
I don't think the recent Godzilla (and Kong) cycle has been as terrible as the 1998 movie, but IMO they're gradually getting worse for each sequel... Whereas Skull island was messy, but at least interestingly so.
It will be interesting to see whether the film part of the franchise can ground things more again.
The cinematic release scheduled for 2027 Godzilla v Kong: Supernova, reported to feature Spacegodzilla, sound like it will continue to go in a different direction than the new television franchise with Apple that aligns more closely to the first two movies.
I'm not optimistic about how grounded a film can be if it's called Supernova and has Spacegodzilla in it... but if they let go of all the Hollow Earth and tinfoil hat theory, maybe there will be a few minutes for human scale drama? 🤔
I really prefer the work by the team that’s now in charge of the television side. But they received a lot of negativity for K:SI so it seems the television medium is a better fit.