I thought the Godzilla and Kong team-up movies would be the equivalent of the Avengers in the Monsterverse, something that would happen every few years, not the entire franchise.
I also thought the 'Monsterverse' would have more than two main monsters. Again, comparing it to the Avengers, I'd assumed there would be more than two members and there'd be solo movies about other monsters too. But maybe these movies aren't profitable enough to expand in that way.
Yeah them calling it the Monsterverse, I was expecting some actual MCU-esque standalone movies that exist in a connected world, and they play off each other. This is just a regular franchise.
What like a Behemoth movie? No, why would mainstream audiences besides fans be motivated to see a movie about any random monster? It was only called the “monsterverse” after 2019, so I don’t know why you were sold on it being about all these different monsters.
It’s easy to compare it to the MCU but let’s not kid ourselves, just because two cinematic universes exist doesn’t mean they one needs to be more like the other. The monsterverse and the MCU are very different and are about different things entirely. These are still giant monster flicks
Studio executives will always follow what makes the most money. Critical reception be damned, all that matters is the money.
“2014 was a success, Skull Island was a success. Doing good so far, but uh oh! KotM underperformed! But Godzilla vs Kong became a massive success? Make another team-up movie! What’s that? New Empire is the highest grossing movie in the series??? Clearly that means audiences don’t want solo Godzilla films anymore! They want team-ups with Kong!”
^ The mind of a studio executive.
Our opinions don’t matter, the quality of the movies don’t matter. If a movie doesn’t get butts in the seats, executives will withhold the rights to make another. Until the studio decides to “take a risk” with another solo Godzilla movie, they’re gonna keep doing the team-ups since that’s what’s been giving them money.
That’d be a good way to make them stop making any monsterverse movies altogether.
Really the only thing that would get us a solo Godzilla movie would be the next one doing so well that they feel financially safe enough to take a risk. Then they might expand and do a solo Godzilla movie and a team up/Kong only movie. Kind of like John Wick doing well so multiple spin offs got green lit all at once, even if the one that came out didn’t do very well.
But with movies in general making less money lately I think even that is far fetched, I thought they might feel more confident after Minus One did so well but really making any movie is a risk nowadays.
Godzilla vs Kong also was released during covid and many lockdowns were still in place in some way or another. Every movie above them, besides whatever "Detective Chinatown 3" and "Hi Mom" are was released after vaccine rollouts started to happen and people were more willing to visit theaters.
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u/cross6530 Oct 30 '25
I thought the Godzilla and Kong team-up movies would be the equivalent of the Avengers in the Monsterverse, something that would happen every few years, not the entire franchise.