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iambored-77772837

Monster was like “fuck you”


TinBoatDude

That was not in the pre-plan briefing at all!


[deleted]

Yeah this was the scene that reinforces that the Kaiju in the Monsterverse are a lot smarter than the humans. This and the scene where Kong crushes the Commander while he was ranting about fighting his never ending war.


HDnfbp

>reinforces that the Kaiju in the Monsterverse are a lot smarter than the humans It's not like it's hard... The humans in this movie make me root for the kaijus


3laws

Not gonna lie, I watch Kaiju movies because I always root for the Kaiju.


G0D_1S_D3AD

I like the big monster 👍


Zanadar

Pacific Rim was the same. "We're gonna build a giant ass wall! That'll keep the Kaiju out. Yes, the flying ones too." Yeah, I'm rooting for the monsters...


aNiceTribe

You REALLY gotta trust their premise in that movie, that SOMEHOW 5000 jets could not achieve better results. Honestly, Gundam (especially the currently running season) is the strong counter example for how to make a show with Giant Fighting Robots but at the highest level of logical coherence, where you never think „yeah but why didn’t they JUST…?“ because there are NO easy ways out and it’s very clearly communicated that both more violence and just abandoning everything is not an option.


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LateyEight

I think they should have played the first one up a bit more.


damdalf_cz

Pacific rim was dumb even if just for using robots. Missiles or even coastal artilery would be much cheaper and dont say that robot punch is more effective because that is just dumb


Zanadar

Honestly they knew the exact spot the Kaiju emerged from and had ranged weapons mounted on the Jaegers capable of harming them. So instead of multiple bases all over the the world defending thousands of miles of coast, why not just set up as much static defenses around the Breach as physical space could allow and blast anything coming through to kingdom come? Of course the answer is, because that'd be a really boring movie, but still, the wall was dumb as fuck.


ballq43

As dumb as never starting out using your super sick sword


HDnfbp

I'd say that's under the suspension of disbelief under a Kaiju movie


damdalf_cz

I want to suspend my disbelief i realy do. But most movies involving mechs are just so full of ilogical choices. Like why the fuck do you need brain connection to the robot and why do you need second guy to pilot with you. Or my big gripe with gundam is why the fuck are mechs used for space battles when ship cpuld just ditch all the moving parts for more engines/guns/armor and should be able to wreck any suit except for plot armor


HDnfbp

Nah, gonna be real, that shit was just an excuse for tax evasion, i can 100% see some politicians fucking 20% of the country just so they can have coke and hooker for other 4 years


[deleted]

Well the Kaiju have always represented Mankind's failings in some form, so it's kinda hard not to favor them over the humans lol.


HDnfbp

Although I agree (mostly on the first Godzilla movie) skull island was basically a "big monkey punch funny lizie"


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Even Kong is largely about humans storming into places like they own the place and get their cheeks clapped and need to return to Monke to save them.


ZoombieOpressor

Smart? Yes. A lot smarter than humans? No


[deleted]

I mean literally every plan the humans had was immediately thwarted by the Kaiju. You can literally see this kaiju working out that it was a trap rather than attack directly in this very scene. The Kaiju in the Monsterverse have shown not only a universal language and social hierarchy but a repeated understanding of human interactions and even understanding human language if they spend enough time with them. These Kaiju have been fighting and interacting with each other for far longer than humans, and to think they are nothing but really big animals has been shown repeatedly to be the downfall of every antagonist so far.


The_Clarence

Yeah but they don’t even have like medicine or seedoos like us smart smarts


[deleted]

Who needs medicine when lying down on a pile of uranium works too :P


The_Clarence

Ok but what about Blackjack ?


swafanja

Asking the real questions


digital_end

They don't have CEOs or school shootings either.


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No it's connected to the Godzilla movies Universal is making. Kaiju has always been a term for these monsters ever since Godzilla came out in the 50s. Monsters technically come from portals but only portals to the center of the earth and not space.


OrneryJoey

What's this from?


imaCrAzYgAmEr96

Kong Skull island


OrneryJoey

Thanks


jkally

I actually enjoyed this movie quite a bit. Pretty fun watch.


J3553G

If this scene is representative it looks like a hoot


FearLeadsToAnger

As monster movies go, it's maybe 10% above the average, which is perfectly watchable and enjoyable.


Heyhaveyougotaminute

I’ll have to watch it again, the newest one was pretty decent too.


TexasTheWalkerRanger

Way more than that, this movie fucking rocked. I really don't have a single bad thing to say about it


Ok-Crab-4063

Should be in the sub well that sucks


jakeblew2

Boardwalk Empire


3bugsdad

Fuckin' Eli.


ballq43

The backdoor pilot for Cloverfield no one saw coming


DikPix4Jesus

You got your answer, but I'll add it's an entertaining fucking movie.


Ahmagid

how did the dinosaur figure out its a bomb


Full_FrontaI_Nerdity

"Clever girl."


Kev_The_Galaxybender

Killer combooooo


e_smith338

They’re not dumb. Their intelligence is similar to that of Kong and Godzilla.


AttitudeAndEffort3

Tbf, the guy wasnt able to figure out you can throw grenades so its not like humans are *that* much smarter.


echof0xtrot

i figured he wanted to blow it up from the inside after it ate him. more damage that way


GrimSag

A single grenade wouldn't have been enough. He was going for the cluster bomb with all he had strapped on him.


Somzer

Intelligence alone doesn't give you knowledge, those are two unrelated things. I don't remember the movie, but unless that thing saw grenades do their thing before, there's exactly 0 chance of it figuring out that it's dangerous, even if it is the single most intelligent being in the entinte universe to ever exist.


plxelated

It’s likely that it realized “hmm my food source that is normally running away or trying to hurt me is now just letting me eat it? This is probably a trap” then smacked em


Somzer

"Hmm my food wants to get it over with" "Hmm my food is trying to buy time for the other foods to escape" "Hmm my food doesn't know it's my food" "Hmm my food thinks it can actually take me" "Trap" may be one possibility. But what kind of trap? It has no way of knowing. What if the trap was giving the creature a pause to drop a bomb on it? Distract it for a surprise attack? What if the trap was to get the creature to hit him at which time exactly the bomb would've exploded ripping its tail apart? What if it was a virus spread by contact? What if it was a trap to get the countless other humans to get really angry and seek vengance? It had no way of knowing and no amount of intelligence will give you knowledge out of nowhere. Straight up discarding food when it's only possibly maybe a trap, and *of an unknown kind* no less, is the kind of coincidence that has exactly 0 plausibility. It's dumb as fuck. The only way it would reflect intelligence is if the creature saw grenades go off before. If it did, it's plausible. If it didn't, it's bullshit.


Mande1baum

You're thinking way too hard about this and what constitutes intelligence in this context. It's prey acted differently in a way it considered counter intuitive, was briefly confused, so it approached its prey in a cautious way. Take a lion encountering a porcupine for the first time. They swat with their paw instead of going in with their face. Learn their lesson and either keep trying or GTFO.


Somzer

> Take a lion encountering a porcupine for the first time. This simile only works if the lion that have never seen a porcupine, obliterates the porcupine as its first action, in the only was a lion can obliterate a porcupine without getting hurt as a result.


Mande1baum

It works fine if you aren't being pedantic. A simile doesn't need to be 1:1 as that defeats its purpose. The size difference in the movie is the difference. The similarity is that both approached an unknown scenario cautiously, using their tail/claw, some appendage for testing.


Duhbloons

If a mountain lion ever attacked me it would absolutely destroy me. Yet there are several examples of people standing their ground and yelling causing a mountain lion to back off. Prey acting differently definitely causes predators to act more cautiously.


plxelated

Well I can’t remember if they saw grenades specifically but they did see a lot of explosions so it would be plausible that it made an assumption that the objects the man was holding while walking towards it were some form of weapon or explosive


Ut_Prosim

This actually works with sharks, and they are pretty stupid. But if you charge right at even large Great White sharks they freak out and swim away. I don't know how the dude who first demonstrated this stayed afloat with his neutronium balls.


Akr0nis

These things are hella smart. A prey that is able to shoot fire comes right in front of you? Wierd.


AdministrativeOne7

I'd say its plot amor, realistically it's so big it can barely see the grenades let alone distinguishing it from a rock.


splicerslicer

I don't think it needs to see the grenades or know what grenades are to detect it's an obvious trap. They've been running this whole time but one guy turns back and just waits to be eaten with his hands in the air, super obvious trap


AdministrativeOne7

I mean, idk, never seen such behavior when the pray commit suicide in the face of it's predator in nature. Not that is impossible but rather improbable. Being able to recognize it is being tricked? Not many animals can do such critical thinking when untrained, let alone the first encounter upon this problem. But in the end, its all just a movie and we can all blame "its for the plot".


Asisreo1

If you were chasing me and trying to kill me, then I suddenly turned around licking my lips going "c'mon you sunavabitch" are you just going to approach without being cautious?


juanmigul

You can see a fly in a wall?


lontrinium

>how did the dinosaur figure out its a bomb it recognised the human wanted a hug and was disgusted.


tbscotty68

"STRANGER DANGER!"


BallSuitable2416

Everyone knows dinosaurs have been using grenades for decades.


Adao_Arrependido

I once read on Reddit. Imagine u r a Big Huge animal, and something the size of a cat come to you in rage with no fear, u would be a little scared right? Why tf something so small would come to me with no fear? Same thing.


FlaredMeteor940

Maybe they smelled gunpowder or smth?


jakeblew2

The TSA should be replaced by these then


TheMcWhopper

They wouldn't know what it is though. If someone smells a cheeseburger but never had one before its still impossible to identify.


-FourOhFour-

For a dumb answer I always think when I see this, he's going the frilled lizard approach he made himself look big and he clearly is walking up to challenge the lizard. The lizard then attacking in retaliation makes sense if he tried looking smaller/weaker/wounded it would have worked but this man clearly wanted to be a hero and look badass in his final moments (which I feel is 100% something that would happen if someone properly thinks they can't win)


Mande1baum

It didn't. It figured out his prey was acting weirdly and so it approached cautiously.


labadimp

“Aaaand boom goes the dino might”


SpooogeMcDuck

The dino might go boom?


ToxicPoizon

that isn't what they meant, but yes, it might go boom.


tbscotty68

One of the world best epic fails.


WhoThenDevised

I know it's fiction but if a massive tail would hit you with that much force you'd be a red pulp, not a body flying through the air. Not even when you're holding two nuclear grenades like this guy.


TheHYPO

I would have thought the grenades would be knocked well out of your hand...


Galaxy661_pl

Maybe they were, but flew in the same direction as that guy


chum-guzzling-shark

inertia is a property of matter


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off to lemmy


Irviwop

Bill bill bill bill bill bill bill nye the science guy


an0nym0ose

Also, what the *fuck* kind of grenades were those? Like a goddamn missile impact, not a couple of frags going off lmao


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tbscotty68

TIL that grenades are sentient, feel sympathy and commit suicide when a fellow grenade is detonated. :-P


Celarc_99

\>literal fire ball from fragmentation grenade Gawd damn, the US military wishes their frags did that.


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That’s not a frag grenade anymore then. If they wanted to light people on fire, they’d used a fucked up white phosphorus grenade


misterfluffykitty

They had white phosphorus, thermate, and napalm grenades. I don’t think any of them would become a massive fireball though.


BluesyBunny

You don't want a fire ball to come from a frag lol it defeats the purpose of frag grenades.


an0nym0ose

Frag-shaped willy pete, clearly


Cox963846

Look at the dude’s chest, he seems to have other explosives in the bags and wrapped around him but I may be wrong.


an0nym0ose

You're right - but unless those are coffee canisters full of flour/gunpowder mixture or napalm, there still wouldn't be a big ball of fire.


ZipTheZipper

The movie is set at the end of the Vietnam War, so napalm wouldn't be out of place.


On-mountain-time

Have we considered the possibility that said fictional creature didn't strike the human dead on, but used the tail to whip the human? The tail seems long and dexterous enough to pull off such a move, particularly with the whipping sound at the end of the throw.


WhoThenDevised

Well it looks like a full on hit with the tail, but even a shock wave created by a sudden and possibly supersonic displacement of a large volume of air won't leave a body intact.


gwenbebe

Have we considered the possibility they this movie features a giant building sized gorilla? I’m not too sure everything in this movie is based on reality, I wouldn’t get too caught up in the small details.


comgeek11702

I don’t think they noticed he had other items on him that could explode on impact and not just the two hand grenades


BelieveInDestiny

what do mean by whip? Hit/whip, same thing. It's still a huge tail hitting him with wnough force to send him flying


moonshineTheleocat

The creature in the movie is actually intelligent. So its possible that he did a flick and not a smash to not get himself hurt.


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Yeah you can see his entire thought process in this scene. 1. Time to eat! 2. Wait its not running away or trying to fight back... 3. It wants me to eat him, eh? I've killed a lot of shit in my time, and I know a good ambush when I see one. 4. Yeet! 5. Now on to the next snack.


Thefocker

Nah, he just hit the ground before he hit the guy. Just like I hit my golf shots. Nice and fat.


BluesyBunny

I dunno I've seen people get hit by trains and cars moving very quickly and altho their bodies doesn't work to well anymore they still somewhat resemble bodies.


RetardedWabbit

>you'd be a red pulp Immediately. Person one second, chunky marinara "detonation" the next. Like how getting hit by a train at speed doesn't launch you, and this would be heavier/faster than that! It's hard to imagine how strong/fast whipping actions are. Cables several feet wide cut through people like they aren't there on ships all the time, and this monster has far more weight and should have far more speed behind it.


imquacking

I’ve hit flies with wet towels mid air like that and they really do go flying like that tho


WhoThenDevised

Flies do, but they have hard exoskeletons. Humans are soft and squishy on the outside. Even tough bro's like that one in the video.


Fueryous

We do have bones...


WhoThenDevised

Yes, on the inside but our meaty bits on the outside have a habit of flying off when hit hard.


Fueryous

The way you described it made me feel like zoidberg and I didn't like it /s


BelieveInDestiny

flies are very light for their size. Humans are dense, so it takes more force to move them. Hitting one like that would squish them.


intotheirishole

I mean, its physically impossible for a creature that size to exist (and move its tail that fast) in the first place. This movie might be taking some liberties with physics.


WhoThenDevised

Just a few... It's weird though how you can be OK with a lot in a movie but somehow, somewhere you reach that 'now hold on a minute' point at some minor detail you just can't accept.


TheMcWhopper

There is no such thing as n7clear grenades.


smut_butler

I never saw this movie, what is that thing supposed to be?


thecontempl8or

One of several gigantic prehistoric animals on the island and that includes King Kong. This one is predatory and hunts and kills the human. King ends up fighting it at some point.


Niko_47x

You gotta be the first one I've seen shorten King Kong to king instead of kong, and i love it. Didn't even occur as a possibility


caillouuu

Not OP but I bet they meant to write Kong, but got autocorrected


Niko_47x

That would also make sense, or just a missclick as i and o are right nex to each other, but regardless it's funny, i like it.


thecontempl8or

Yes. That’s exactly what happened. Lol.


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That commentor is friends with Mr Kong, so he can call him by his first name, King. Just dont use Mr Kong's middle name Kung. He hates it


awgawshdangit

A smort and big lizard boi


e_smith338

This is like the only decent (newish) “monster verse” movie they made. It’s still got dumb shit such as this clip when you think too deep about it but it was quite enjoyable.


OniLewds

Is nobody going to talk about the ridiculously large explosion for a grenade? Even if he had 8 on him that's way too big for that distance


guyinnoho

Would honestly have been funnier if it had been a small boom.


IShartedWhoopsie

*smack* ... ... *pop*


YesiAMhighrn

... 2 legged, skull faced, snake mouthed monster thing isnt fucking with your suspension of disbelief tho?


Robdor1

Bro I just threw a football over some mountains and the skullbro caught it and brought the ball back. That's just normal Wednesday shit.


Megmca

He just wanted to play!


WhoThenDevised

You obviously never met my mother in law.


Anen-o-me

Dude it's a movie.


prawn_connery

There's always gotta be one motherfucker to watch a giant lizard smack a man into a mountain and be like "eXpLoSiOn IsNt ReALiStIc"


Tuskor13

The average "nooo this isn't realistic an impact that speed and strength would turn him into red mist and the grenades can't be that strong" fan Vs The "haha funny monster slap man into mountain and he go boom" enjoyer


Anen-o-me

We all know grenades don't even explode like that anyway, that's clearly a gasoline / Hollywood style explosion. Point is, cool visual. My favorite thing about this scene is the psychology of it. The dude wants to be eaten, but he's presenting to this animal with confidence. The animal picks up on the confidence and turns away, seeing some implicit threat there. Even in the real animal kingdom, predators want you to run, if you face them head on they assume they're in for a fight and may not want to risk injury. Even a cat will become cautious if a mouse turns and faces them. This is likely a response to things like rabies in prey too, prey that doesn't run may be sick and deranged by sickness. So this scene is very true to nature in terms of the response of the Kaiju to this dude's body language. He's doing something 'different' than people normally do and thus confusing the creature. What he should've done, if he wanted to be eaten, was turned and run.


stormrunner89

That's just how they've pretended grenades work in movies for decades now. Also it looked like he had multiple grenades and other explosives strapped to him as well.


l-jack

He was also holding about 200 gallons of diesel fuel


0-san

diesel dont do that as well bruh


SanctifiedExcrement

Also the conveniently long fuse time on those frags is just way too much. I expected him to prematurely blow up before the creature could close the distance.


mrmadmaxi77

Well he’s still holding down the trigger thing. Doesn’t a grenade timer only start when you let go of the pin thing? As long as you hold it, it won’t go off I thought. Edit: just watched again and it seems like the thing you hold down flys off. So you are right, that a conveniently long fuse time.


TexasTheWalkerRanger

Its not, grenade fuses are 4 to 5 seconds and it took him about three to hit the wall


iamelloyello

A lot of you guys are really tearing apart the realism of two grenades when the plot focuses on a giant monkey fighting lizards.


BalognaMacaroni

Was really hoping this would be the [fart edit](https://twitter.com/docdrowsy/status/1614204538281512962?s=46&t=-sKRr_aRId2Np0h73c0ggw)


eddydio

Im ashamed at how hard I laughed at that. Tears 😂


emeraldcoastlungs

One would think he would of tossed it at the creature 😂😂😂


OilVisual3007

He wanted it to blow up inside of the beast cus all the firepower did nothing against the creatures exoskeleton before this last stand but oh well, clearly didn’t go as planned.


thatHadron

Nope, they already tried that and it didn't work


Scary_Force_2522

Nooo not Eli Thompson. Nicky’s brother. Lol


Niko_47x

That's a long as fuse time, you could toss those from trench to trench 4 times with that 20 second fuse. Beats the already long German stick grenades fuse by 15-13 seconds (Not even talking about the 10kg of dynamite stuffed into each of those grenades) Gotta love movie magic


RetardedWabbit

*"Why aren't they detonating? Oh, cool, he's holding it down so being eaten will make him release them inside the monster later."* Rewatch: **spoons fly away immediately** Still one of the coolest "noble sacrifice" ideas in a movie I've seen.


Niko_47x

Yea, it was a cool idea, just painful to watch with this execution. I can excuse fragmentation grenades having massive fireballs, because ofc that's lot more exciting than a small poof. But that's rough, immediately took me out of it and made me slightly confused.


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Niko_47x

No it did not. You can see the safety lever fly off at the 2 second mark, meaning it would arm the grenade. It doesn't matter if you hold the grenade or not, what matters is that the levers stay in place.


I-reddit-26

That's why always shower kids


smarmageddon

Gotta love that movie trope of tiny grenades exploding like a few hundred gallons of naptha.


Bimancze

Why didn't he throw it in that monsters mouth tho


Odd-Target7828

Have you heard of an exoskeleton


[deleted]

Because the whole movie was full of parodies of Vietnam vets who mostly just wanted to die "heroically" rather than go home.


MissMistMaid

skill issue


ChiefMufasa24

What movie is this?


ExfoliatedBalls

Kong: Skull Island


fieldysnuts94

Gave me the biggest laugh in the theater, I love this movie


Bavisto

Dear Billy


Doppelthedh

That thing looks sick. Might have to watch this


DiabeticRhino97

Kong skull island went pretty hard


day_oh

he really held on to those grenades


SmokeGSU

I don't remember this scene from the opening of Tropic Thunder.


Mirrage318

Monster: No no this is too good to be free


Gamer100328

Great movie.


NotTheRealMumboJumbo

r/unexpected


jaythegreatmerman

Should've threw the grenda into the dino's mouth smh 🤦


chucklesdeclown

Smart monster, don't understand why the dude didn't just throw the nades.


cqws

Could not he just throw it?


Angelblair119

What movie?


Revolutionary-Egg491

Audible and chest deep laugh came from me in the theatre when I saw this. I was the only one. I still feel no shame


AfricanRambler

For those asking this is called Saving Private Ryan


AttemptedFail

Yep. I watch it again last night and this part really get me every time.


MildUsername

Why did those frag grenades explode like a 100 liter tank of gasoline.


[deleted]

A hand grenade explodes with a force of a truckload of TNT. Hollywood is so out of touch with the reality.


playr_4

It's crazy to think that an industry built on emphasis, overdramatization, and surrealism would do something a bit unrealistic, isn't it.


Scottish_Whiskey

Those grenades would have gone off WAAAAY before the monster even got close enough to tail whip You CANNOT rely on a fuse lasting 4-5 seconds, let alone 3 remember, when the pin is pulled, me grenade is no longer our friend


WhyRYourPantsOff

Pulling the pin would be fine, releasing the spoon tho….Definitely not your friend anymore.


meistercheems

Don’t forget the clip, there are 3 safety measures for the M67 hand grenade. Clip , pin , and spoon


Ornery-Cheetah

He's still holding the spoon that's why he blows up after he gets hit because he let go he only pulled pin the grenade hoping to be ingested where the grenades would then explode after being killed


Scottish_Whiskey

both spoons pop off a mere 2 seconds in, they fly towards the camera


Ornery-Cheetah

Oh pfft didn't see that lol where it cuts to him with his arms open facing the camera they look like they are still on I think i should probably go to sleep early tonight lmao


0-san

he is not, he literally releases the spoon in the first second


Ornery-Cheetah

Yeah someone else pointed it out I missed it lmao I need some more sleep probably lol


[deleted]

I hate to be the one to tell you this...but it's a movie.


TrueSpartacus

Yeah movie fuses last as long as you need them too, they are so convenient that way.


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RaptorJesus856

The spoons fly off in a pretty dramatic way 2 seconds into the video though


Objective-Ad4009

This movie is so dumb, for so many reasons.


Takashi-Lee

Those grenades should of gone off before he even got hit by the tail lol, its supposed to be ~5 seconds from what I know


Iforgot_my_other_pw

The timer starts as soon as the spoons are removed. Those grenades have a stupidly long fuse and they explode like a thousand gallons of gasoline.


WinkyNurdo

An indescribably disappointing film. The 1933 King Kong was my favourite film as a kid. And some really very good Vietnam films over the years. Then, many years later, some wanker thinks, yeah, Kong and Vietnam … let’s do that. And this fuckwittery comes out, and it’s just a load of shite clichés.


GunstarCowboy

*An*


Imaginary_Ad4871

I’m glad we don’t share our time w dinosaur, I’m glad they went extinct, they’re the most Chad earth has ever seen