The real reason this film could be awful is their choice of director. Edwards and Dougherty are both great directors, but turned in somewhat subpar Godzilla movies (and yes I like seeing monsters fight, but you also need characters you care about to balance it out). Vlought Roberts was an unknown that kinda completely killed it and created the perfect ode to Kong (even if it had an overly large ensemble cast that was literally cut down to half after Kong used a helicopter as a baseball bat to hit other helicopters lmao). Wingard’s history is, messy? People love you’re next, but it’s not one of the greats and definitely has its issues, same with the The Void. Blair Witch and Death Note were both rightly panned for not being great adaptations, which GvK technically is, and seemed to fumble on the basics of translating the themes and tone of each franchise (insert clip of falling wonderwheel in a death note movie). He definitely has his strengths in a lot of the visual storytelling that he does, an important aspect to any monster movie, but I feel it could very likely lack the important emotional edge of some of the more fondly remembered monster movies (King Kong 05, Frankenstein, etc). I’d definitely prefer to see this in theatres once the pandemic is over, since it seems to have very large scale action and effect heavy sequences, which can really look like trash on a non-adjusted HD TV. I genuinely hope it’s good, but I think this will be the last nail in the Monsterverse coffin. I love Godzilla and Kong, but they aren’t characters that can carry a serialized franchise in which they are the stars. Thats why, like them or hate them, you need the human characters to connect with, or else there’s no actual investment in the franchise.