Goliathon (1977)
4/10
Chinese King Kong, Kinda Strange
18 October 2020
This movie is an obvious rip off of king kong, I dont think its trying to hide that, is it at least a good rip off? I dont think so. Every character in this I dont care about at all, if you took out the dialog in the first 40 minutes of the film you could still probably follow what was going on, that's how little the characters matter. One of the only female characters in this is literally just there to be looked at, she doesn't really add anything and her outfit is ridiculous, and when she is given regular clothes she still refuses to wear them. For some reason she has like super powers, she can control the animals and I have no idea why this is a thing. The star of this is the peking man of course but sadly he doesn't really do anything interesting until the last 30 minutes of the film, for the rest of the film whenever he is around he just carries the main characters around, and at the beginning he destroys a village for some reason, but the end is why you would watch this, spoilers if you care, but the military absolutely destroys the peking man in a gory fashion, it actually made me feel bad for him and is the only moment in the film I cared about what was going on. This movie isn't good but it's not the worst, there is enough ridiculousness throughout to hold you until the end, like when the main woman swings a jaguar over her shoulders and starts spinning in circles, there is a whole montage of the man and woman characters falling in love with this really stupid song in the background that made me laugh. Not a movie to be taken seriously. Edit: this film is a rip off of king kong yet it doesn't have that sense of adventure like king kong does, when i watch kong it takes me to this mythical world on this forgotten island, in this film we just go to somewhere in Indian with some lame uninteresting characters. No sense of the unknown, and I dont know anything about the pekeing man or his lore which was what I was most disappointed in
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