I meant the “(in-)famous” Godzilla vs [King] Kong, series Z movie, and also I’m totally getting the (totally pointless and meaningless, AFAIK) “King Kong Theory” book reference, which is a pillar of broader Queer Theory, which is what most of the puns and jokes in the last many strips are about.
Erratum: I meant the 1962 Japanese movie “King Kong vs Godzilla”, the “Godzilla vs Kong” ref. I found when double-checking is a recent remake, probably even worse than the original one.
Actually it’s surprisingly good, at least if you followed the previous films in the series. Starts and ends with Kong taking his “morning constitutional”. Kong and Godzilla fight for alpha status, then team up against a version of a classic Godzilla-series enemy. Plus, you know how monkeys swing through the trees via branches? For the first time we see Kong do that. Only it’s not through trees, its…you’ll see.
Gorillas are not “monkeys” but great apes and I don’t remember male gorillas “swinging” via branches: great apes are quite land-based quadrupedal (except us who are bipedal and female orangutans who actually live mostly on trees, males not so much: too heavy). You and the director of the movie were probably thinking in gibbons, which are also apes but small and are amazing and brachiation, which is how that kind of motion is technically called (from Lat. bracchium = arm and branch, both).
Great apes can climb, of course, but gorillas mostly live on the ground, while chimpanzees at least sleep on tree branches instead.
Honestly, when I saw the scene of Kong brachiating (if that’s the right term), my *second* thought was “gorillas never do that, and even if they did, Kong’s he’s never done it before because he’s taller than every tree on Skull Island.”
My *first* thought was “That is just too dang cool!”. I’m guessing that was the director’s thought too.
uh-oh! Doesn’t look so good right now…
I think she’s about to go ape.
Nice monkey suit!
And that’s how the legend of Godzilla began?
How does godzilla fit into her being turned into a gorilla?
Think he meant king kong
Meh, a joke that needs ‘splaining is not funny.
I meant the “(in-)famous” Godzilla vs [King] Kong, series Z movie, and also I’m totally getting the (totally pointless and meaningless, AFAIK) “King Kong Theory” book reference, which is a pillar of broader Queer Theory, which is what most of the puns and jokes in the last many strips are about.
You can laugh now, I guess…
Erratum: I meant the 1962 Japanese movie “King Kong vs Godzilla”, the “Godzilla vs Kong” ref. I found when double-checking is a recent remake, probably even worse than the original one.
Actually it’s surprisingly good, at least if you followed the previous films in the series. Starts and ends with Kong taking his “morning constitutional”. Kong and Godzilla fight for alpha status, then team up against a version of a classic Godzilla-series enemy. Plus, you know how monkeys swing through the trees via branches? For the first time we see Kong do that. Only it’s not through trees, its…you’ll see.
Gorillas are not “monkeys” but great apes and I don’t remember male gorillas “swinging” via branches: great apes are quite land-based quadrupedal (except us who are bipedal and female orangutans who actually live mostly on trees, males not so much: too heavy). You and the director of the movie were probably thinking in gibbons, which are also apes but small and are amazing and brachiation, which is how that kind of motion is technically called (from Lat. bracchium = arm and branch, both).
Great apes can climb, of course, but gorillas mostly live on the ground, while chimpanzees at least sleep on tree branches instead.
Honestly, when I saw the scene of Kong brachiating (if that’s the right term), my *second* thought was “gorillas never do that, and even if they did, Kong’s he’s never done it before because he’s taller than every tree on Skull Island.”
My *first* thought was “That is just too dang cool!”. I’m guessing that was the director’s thought too.
Just to inform you. That gorilla form will really impress several furries