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Watched King Kong Skull Island so you didn't have to. It is an instant classic bad film science film #badscifilm. SPOILERS thread incoming!pic.twitter.com/gca1zL5H7K
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King Kong Skull Island is a cautionary tale about how much of a bad idea it is to blend colonialist science with a bad script.
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Film opens with two fighter pilots who crash land on Skull Island. One is American & the other is Japanese. Guess who survives?
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Trick question LOLFOREVER!
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Ah yes the familiar white savior. Dances with Wolves, last samurai, avatar...
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Where would we be without the White Saviour? Probably still in CAVES afraid of our own shadows!pic.twitter.com/I06ANEH7au
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We jump decades & it's the Vietnam War. John Goodman (Bill) is a "scholar" & Corey Hawkins (Houston) is a geologist...
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...We accept them as scientists because they are going around begging for research funds & no one likes their field work.
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I mean that's not inaccurate hahhaha
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Most realistic part of the film. Their funder has been avoiding them for weeks and groans when he sees them.
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omg academic reality in a film!
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Houston, an ERC, has written a paper on Hollow Earth Theory- in reality is a conspiracy with zero scientific validity. Except in
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Houston also sets off seismic bombs as soon as they land on Skull Island, having done no geological surveillance. Good idea.
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Another scientist is San (Tian Jing) who is a biologist. She speaks 10 lines in the film. Asian women scientists are so pretty!
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I want to watch every
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