...up again to save the others, like in Agent Carter?
Fighting a religious war is like fighting over whose imaginary friend is better.
Right when he's about to do it, Kong will drop in for the save.. classic misdirection.
You are what you choose to be. You choose. Choose.
That could be the case because it looks like the giant Skull Crawler is actually beginning to step back. I can see Whigham is prepared to make his self-sacrifice but then Kong arrives and the Crawler steps away with caution.
shareIt was readying itself to pounce.
Fighting a religious war is like fighting over whose imaginary friend is better.
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Respect.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Guess I got it right.
shareThis is a funny post. You definitely called it.
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No, you did not.
shareJust saw the movie and laughed out loud at this scene. Shea's character just randomly decided to sacrifice himself for no reason (why not have him badly burned from the previous Kong fight at least and feel he's slowing them down?), and the guys he's buying time for completely waste his sacrifice by not making a run for it. And he dies totally pointlessly because the monster doesn't even try to eat him and whacks him away with its tail to explode?! It's not even played for tragedy, just a momentary beat before more Kong vs monsters CGI.
I found it especially funny though because poor Shea, ever since Boardwalk Empire, seems typecast as "sad sack" characters who end up either dying tragically or bottoming out as life's losers. It's just become funny to me that the moment he shows up in something, you can almost predict a pathetic end to his character. A shame, because he's a great actor and to be honest his character is Skull Island is one of the few that actually stood out (aside from Jackson wonderfully chewing the scenery). I wish they'd paid off his mouse/elephant story instead.
I made this post before the movie came out, just based on the trailer. Had no idea they would make the scene so anti-climactic.
shareI figured that (I don't recall the trailer, but assume the shot was Shea pulling the pins and holding out his arms wit the two grenades?), but I agree it's amusing that he blew himself up twice now in similar ways, both arguably avoidably but "heroically". I always kind of wished he'd landed on some woman with a baby in a pram in Agent Carter, just because that would have been fitting for how much of a screwup he always is! The fact his Kong exit played out like something I'd similarly jokingly say ("goes for the big sacrifice but the grenades go off early or the monster doesn't eat him") speaks volumes about Kong's script! :)
shareI was disappointed with that scene, too. He was my favorite character in the flick next to Sam Jackson, who nailed the Ahab part perfectly. I do wish they would have made it where the explosives went off to damage the Skullcrawler. One of the foreshadowing elements of the film was how they kept going on about how the Skullcrawlers killed the Kongs, and that a full grown Kong was no match for a full grown Skullcrawler, and yet a damaged, beaten, bruised, and burned Kong (who was still a teenager) was able to partially stand up to a full grown alpha Skullcrawler in the movie. It made no sense.
I would have preferred it if Jackson's explosives partially damaged it, and if Shea's grenades at least did some damage, this way it would have made more sense how Kong could have defeated it.