10 Recent Movies With One AWFUL Subplot

10. Madison & The Conspiracy Theorist - Godzilla Vs. Kong

Though Godzilla vs. Kong mostly felt like a course-correction for the MonsterVerse after Godzilla: King of the Monsters over-indulged in dull, pointless human drama, the film isn't without its own inane subplot.

Young Madison Russell (Millie Bobby Brown) ends up trapped in a terrible side-story where she teams up with conspiracy theorist Bernie Hayes (Brian Tyree Henry) and her friend Josh (Julian Dennison) to investigate Godzilla's rampage.

It is the epitome of lousy, uninteresting human nonsense thrown into a film that, primarily, is about a giant ape and a giant lizard punching each other. That's what people came to see.

The movie already has an overabundance of human characters - enough that numerous prominent roles were cut during editing - so one has to question why this subplot needed to exist at all.

The trio's adventuring inevitably lands them in harm's way, and they even end up having a direct influence on the outcome of the final battle, when Josh...pours a flask of liquor on Mechagodzilla's control panel, allowing Godzilla and Kong to take advantage.

As talented as these actors are, nobody asked for this, and in 2021 the idea of presenting a deranged conspiracy theorist as actually correct is troubling at best.