Godzilla vs. Kong — What the Hell Happened to Skull Island?
The Confusing Moment:
Godzilla vs. Kong is chock full of even more insanity than you might expect from a movie about a giant ape battling a skyscraper-sized atomic lizard creature and his robot doppelgänger — including sub-plots about the logic-defying “Hollow Earth” and how bathing in bleach to disable organic tracking devices might actually be a good idea. But the most confusing details that’s never fully addressed (other than Kong’s conspicuous lack of oversized genitalia) is what happened to Skull Island. In Kong: Skull Island, it was practically a paradise … you know, if you can overlook all the monsters. But in Godzilla vs. Kong it’s a rain-soaked hellhole — so much so that they have to build Kong his own private Holodeck.
We learn that a “storm” killed everyone on the island except for one little girl because … well, we’re guessing because the screenwriter really liked Aliens. Which kind of sucks because the previous Kong movie at least attempted to walk back the franchise’s long, problematic history of vilifying Skull Island’s Indigenous population, but now apparently they were all wiped out offscreen between movies and barely acknowledged. What the hell happened?
The Explanation:
Understanding the missing context for this seemingly important plot point required reading a tie-in comic book prequel called Kingdom Kong. Remember in Godzilla: King of the Monsters how King Ghidorah created a bunch of crazy storms? In the comic we learn that one of them continued to travel across the Pacific even after he died.
While the rest of the Earth isn’t subjected to crazy freak storms (more so than what climate change has already wrought at least) when Ghidorah’s storm hit Skull Island it got “anchored” there because of the vortex present in the gateway to Hollow Earth. So really, it makes total sense when — no, wait, it’s still ridiculous.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood — Wait, Did Cliff Really Murder His Wife?
The Confusing Moment:
Quentin Tarantino’s love letter to 1960s Los Angeles, the career of Burt Reynolds and, of course, multiple actresses’ bare feet, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is jam-packed full of rich character details. One seemingly pretty important detail, which the movie kind of glosses over, is a long-standing rumor that Brad Pitt’s character Cliff Booth murdered his wife with a friggin’ harpoon gun!
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Source: Pinoy Daily News
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