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Last Wednesday, Godzilla vs. Kong arrived not only save the movie business, but also to show us what happens when an old lizard and an old primate are trying to kill themselves. After watching apex predators clash in Hong Kong – and also travel to the center of the earth? – O Ringer the team shared their thoughts on what became a blockbuster.

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1. What is your assessment of the size of the tweet about Godzilla vs. Kong?

Charles Holmes: The speech of the monkey vs. lizard does not bow to anyone.

Miles Surrey: God> Kong.

Lex Pryor: How do I join Brian Tyree Henry’s podcast?

Justin Sayles: I can’t believe I spent two hours sitting on an IMAX for a truce.

Jomi Adeniran: It was a fun movie, but um … is Hong Kong going to be okay?

Andrew Gruttadaro: Me watching all the monster fights:

Screenshots via Warner Bros.

Me watching the rest of the film:

2. What was the best moment in the film?

David Lara: Easily the battle between Kong and Godzilla in Hong Kong. In addition to all the destruction, the way the city lights hit the two monsters that were trying to kill themselves, was actually a beautiful sequence.

Surrey: When Kong, after being revived by the world’s largest makeshift defibrillator, uses a building to put his shoulder back in place. What an absolute king.

Adeniran: Godzilla beating King Kong twice was great for me, but I would be lying if I said I didn’t cry out in excitement when Kong used an AMAZING BUILDING to put his shoulder back in place.

Gruttadaro: The star on the cover of Scientific Future– the woman the same magazine dubbed “The Kong Whisperer” – without realizing that a primate can probably learn sign language.

Pryor: Kong tracking his 23andMe to the Hollow Land. Call me an idiot for a homecoming, but it really warmed my heart to see my guy relaxing on his rediscovered throne, finding and reloading that ax made of the Godzilla scale (?), And usually vibrating in his monkey palace.

Sayles: When Kong and Godzilla screamed at each other and it seemed, for a second, that they were going to kiss.

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3. What was your least favorite part of the movie?

Pryor: When Godzilla gave Kong a beating.

Sayles: We need to have a conversation about how Kong is treated in a terrible way. They left my guy in the rain all night before dumping him in Antarctica. If you are cold, he is cold. Let him in!

Holmes: Brian Tyree Henry survived the destruction of Hong Kong and immediately asked Kyle Chandler if he would appear on his podcast was a noteworthy moment. Of all things Godzilla vs. Kong is wrong about podcasting, a host who shamelessly connects his podcast to a perplexed Kyle Chandler is very accurate.

Gruttadaro: No photos, but why is Millie Bobby Brown in this film? Although this parallel plot gives us Brian Tyree Henry as a conspiracy podcaster, it is unnecessary and inexplicable. Why not replace it with more monster fights – or, you know, cut it down and increase your run time by 90 minutes?

Adeniran: O Weird stuff the team’s only contribution to the film was to spill whiskey on a computer panel to disturb Mechagodzilla a little. I would rather have spent that time watching the King Kong bath.

Lara: Kyle Chandler was in two or three scenes and was confused all the time. I expected him to say to Kong: “Clear eyes, full hearts, I can’t lose”, but maybe they are saving it for the next one.

Surrey: That I had to find out through Google that the guy who operated the Mechagodzilla telepathically was supposed to be the son of Ken’s character “Let Them Fight” Watanabe. I mean what ?!

4. Rate the performance of Godzilla and Kong in combat.

Sayles: Godzilla moves faster than I expected, given his awkward proportions. Meanwhile, Kong should have been the smartest, but he brought an ax for an atomic lightning fight. Kong is my guy, but I have to give the big, dumb lizard an advantage.

Holmes: Godzilla: relentless, always ready for a fight, anyone could take these lizard hands (and atomic breath), he didn’t need an ax. Grade A-.

King Kong: unmotivated, soft as Charmin, left body wide open, needed an ax. Grade: D +.

Adeniran:

Lara: Godzilla is undoubtedly the best and strongest fighter of the two (he draws an A), but Kong was pushed into battle for no reason, had to fight Godzilla because of the water and held on. He gets an A +.

Pryor: Listen, I wanted Kong to earn as much as anyone, but there is no other way to describe his performance than to call him a total failure. He was literally killed by Godzilla. Dead. The heart stopped. You need a defibrillator. Defeated by a nuclear iguana. There is no other way to analyze it: Godzilla simply – unequivocally – washed it. Yes, I saw how valuable Kong was during the Mechagodzilla fight, but being a great tag team fighter has nothing to do with being prepared, by any means, to go it alone. Godzilla was simply a professional professional.

Surrey: Godzilla draws an A – he absolutely destroyed Kong’s shit. Kong receives a B for wielding a legal ax, killing Mechagodzilla and trying his best against the reptilian equivalent of a nuclear bomb. Furthermore, while Godzilla is the undisputed King of the Monsters, Kong was effectively the protagonist of this film, which looks like a victory for the great primate.

Gruttadaro: Kong thought his fighting days were over. He was retired, sleeping, basically a monster-sized version of Jay Cutler. It seems unfair to classify it in a fight in which it was launched. That said, the guy was destroyed – Kong got a C; Godzilla gets an A. The only reason Kong is not dead is because Godzilla let him live (and before that, because a super high-tech ship exploded in his heart).

5. Who is the MVH (Most Valuable Human) in Godzilla vs. Kong?

Adeniran: Oh right, there were humans in this movie! Alexander Skarsgård was excellent as the guy calling the winner of each round, Rebecca Hall reprized her role as Maya Hansen from Iron Man 3, but the real MVH of the film was Jia (Kaylee Hottle). In a film that could have been just two titans punching each other for 90 minutes, it brought ethos and real meaning.

Sayles: If you’re expecting me to say podcaster because Spotify writes my checks, you’re wrong. (It is the girl.)

Pryor: There is no other answer but Jia, right? She was talking to Kong for lord knows how long, saved her life when she realized that her heart was stopping, and even reminded Kong that Godzilla was not her enemy before they joined in the end. Your mistrust of everyone besides the giant ape was sorely needed in a film full of naivety and (depending on how much you care about things like dialogue) zero logic.

Holmes: This award goes to Jia for being the youngest person in a room of supposedly brilliant scientists and still being the only one to realize that Kong was smart enough to communicate.

Gruttadaro: The only correct answer is Jia, but if I am forcing myself to look elsewhere: Dr. Nathan Lind from Alexander Skarsgård. He was right about Hollow Earth, he was not rude to Kong, he successfully – and without any training – flew in a state-of-the-art aircraft never seen before across the land, and he revived an agonizing Kong. All the other humans were the dumbest humans I’ve ever seen in a movie.

Surrey: Nobody understood his mission better than Demián Bichir, who spends almost all of his exhibition time holding a glass of whiskey and saying “Godzilla” in an almost sensual way.

6. If you had the ability to communicate with Kong, what would you say to him?

Surrey: Do not trust any human unless your name is Jane Goodall.

Holmes: Do not bring an ax for an atomic deadly fight.

Adeniran: Do you have opposable thumbs, how are you being worked on by a lizard? Be thou better.

Lara: I would ask if he needs a social media manager. There’s money to be made, man. We will get it.

Sayles: I would do the only sensible thing: to rap Jay-Z’s verse on “Monster”.

Gruttadaro: Stop helping those damn humans, bro.

Pryor: Do you have any idea how I can get on the Brian Tyree Henry podcast?

7. Is this podcast filling your head with garbage?

Gruttadaro: Absolutely. me we must be in school now.

Holmes: Yes, but that is the goal of podcasts.

Surrey: That’s exactly what Big Brother he wants you think. Kyle Chandler is just another sheep following the herd without thinking. Keep your third eye open and always shower with bleach.

Pryor: I am offended by the suggestion.

Adeniran: It is a rule of mine not to listen to podcasts hosted by people who make their own hand sanitizers.

Sayles: Godzilla vs. Kong made me realize that Bill Cooper would have the most enlightened podcast imaginable.

Lara: No. In fact, I’m working to bring the Titan Truth Podcast for The Ringer right now.

8. What is your biggest question about Terra Hollow?

Sayles: I have many! Where’s the sun Who built the steps to the throne room? How did Godzilla feel Kong thousands of miles away and into the earth when he couldn’t feel him in the Superdome? What do real-life Hollow Earth checkers think of this?

Lara: Is there pollen? Because pollen from this land is kicking my ass and I would be willing to move to Hollow Land if the pollen is not there.

Holmes: Are the great monkeys of Terra Hollow good at masonry? Should we believe that huge gorillas can build a throne room? Who is the Hollow Earth resident contractor and what is your preferred payment method?

Gruttadaro: How did they know there was breathable air down there? Because, really, those humans ran out of these aircraft, without their helmets, like a bunch of idiots.

Pryor: I don’t understand where the light comes from. I tried to make it make sense, but it just doesn’t.

Adeniran: How does it all work? Light, gravity – how would anything survive in the EARTH CORE? I know it’s my fault for thinking too much about the movie lizard vs. monkey, but it almost took me away from him.

Surrey: How long does it take before Hollow Earth is marketed with fast food chains, hotels and a safari exhibition in Kong?

9. Who should Kong and / or Godzilla fight with next?

Gruttadaro: Patriarchy.

Sayles: Zack Snyder stans.

Surrey: If MonsterVerse doesn’t bring circle of fire strands in the fold (in a film directed specifically by Guillermo del Toro), we revolted.

Lara: Student loan debt.

Adeniran: I say that we must continue the MCU-ification of Hollywood. In Godzilla’s next film, I would have Kong showing up for 15 minutes at the beginning. They kick some tit asses, give a secret handshake and we wonder why Kong is gone for the rest of the movie. So in Godzilla x Kong 2, we found out that Kong was in space trying to reach his ancestors – but what comes back with him? SPACE GODZILLA.

Holmes: I need Dominic Toretto and Fast Family to fight some alpha titans with just their cars, their “mi familia” spirit and some post-apocalyptic Coronas.