Movies GODZILLA MINUS ONE (98% Rotten Tomatoes Score)

[Deleted member 577981]

On a scale of Nazi Germany to Netflix, how woke is this movie?

not remotely woke in any way.

 

[moonwolf]

Is it continuation of the movie with Kong? Or a Japaneese subtitled movie?

japanese movie w/ eng subs
Like shin godzilla

 

[moonwolf]

Same universe. They’re tied together as part of the “monsterverse”. All recent Kong and Godzilla movies along with the tv shows are intertwined

Incorrect

 

[DoctorTaco]

Incorrect

This one isn’t tied in at all?

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

This one isn’t tied in at all?

No, this is a Japanese movie from Toho studios. The “Monsterverse” is exclusively the Godzilla, Kong etc movies made by Legendary.

The next movie in the Monsterverse is Godzilla x Kong: the New Empire which comes out in late March.

 

[GoodBadHBK]

8/10 which is Great on my scale

 

[DoctorTaco]

No, this is a Japanese movie from Toho studios. The “Monsterverse” is exclusively the Godzilla, Kong etc movies made by Legendary.

The next movie in the Monsterverse is Godzilla x Kong: the New Empire which comes out in late March.

This actually tracks pretty well. I’ve enjoyed the monsterverse movies but none of them seem to of been as critically acclaimed and well received as this one

 

[moonwolf]

This actually tracks pretty well. I’ve enjoyed the monsterverse movies but none of them seem to of been as critically acclaimed and well received as this one

Shin Godzilla (Toho's prior Godzilla movie) was fantastic as well, though it only received a limited 2 day screening in the states (at least where I am). The success of Shin led to this one.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

Legit happy for you, bro.

I remember when I used to feel like this about MCU movies...

I was like that with MCU movies, too. Comics (and especially Marvel) is my other "thing" that I've been a fan of for as long as I can remember, although I'm not as diligent with them. Partially, it's bc of the movies changing the dynamics of the comics, the films are dictating what's written, where it used to be the other way around.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

I can’t wait to hear what you think about it.

I feel like this was a period piece drama that is probably very personal to the Japanese people. Themes of sacrifice, reactions to failure, redemption, pulling together as a people...all classical Japanese themes and values. It feels like thoughts and feelings the writer had had that could have been explored in  any film, it just happened that it came out while tasked to write one about Godzilla. Godzilla mostly in the background, but when it shows up destruction follows. Godzilla showing up at any point is meaningful, it signals a test for Japanese society, every time.

I understand why this has been lauded. It wasn't what I was expecting, at all, but I don't say that in a negative way. What we were given was masterful. Finally, the human element matters.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

you’re gonna fuckin’ love it, buddy. i’m happy for you that you get to experience this one on the big screen. you’re gonna feel like a kid again, i guarantee it.

if you don’t get chills the first time Godzilla uses his atomic breath (on land), i’ll eat my hat.

Re: atomic breath

Dude... I wasn't expecting that. I hadn't looked into a lot of footage, bc I wanted to be surprised, and I was. They made that breath matter again. In the 90s it got to where he was blasting that shit like 20 times a min. Now it's like if he uses it everyone is fucked. If he decides to use it, it is every bit as deadly as an atomic blast. That ups the desperation level. It was a nice touch, and, yes, goose bumps.

 

[Zookeeper Gabe]

Re: atomic breath

Dude... I wasn't expecting that. I hadn't looked into a lot of footage, bc I wanted to be surprised, and I was. They made that breath matter again. In the 90s it got to where he was blasting that shit like 20 times a min. Now it's like if he uses it everyone is fucked. If he decides to use it, it is every bit as deadly as an atomic blast. That ups the desperation level. It was a nice touch, and, yes, goose bumps.

So many subtle touches in this movie, the black rain?

 

[GoodBadHBK]

Might be the best film of 2023 that came out in 2023 I saw at the theater.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

So many subtle touches in this movie, the black rain?

Yeah, I noticed that, too. Raining ashes. The reactions every time he tells someone he was a kamikaze pilot, bc they understand he failed at his duty and shouldn't be there. The call for human life being important... The human aspects of the film, which outweighed the monster aspect, were as human as it gets. Losing bonds with loved ones, but forming new bonds with those who also lost. That scene where Godzilla shows up in Ginzu, and we see our protagonist endure another loss, it was gut wrenching.

This was a very well written and well made film, objectively.

 

[GoodBadHBK]

Yeah, I noticed that, too. Raining ashes. The reactions every time he tells someone he was a kamikaze pilot, bc they understand he failed at his duty and shouldn't be there. The call for human life being important... The human aspects of the film, which outweighed the monster aspect, were as human as it gets. Losing bonds with loved ones, but forming new bonds with those who also lost. That scene where Godzilla shows up in Ginzu, and we see our protagonist endure another loss, it was gut wrenching.

This was a very well written and well made film, objectively.

I never knew Godzilla had a bad ass theme song

 

[HenryFlower]

Re: atomic breath

Dude... I wasn't expecting that. I hadn't looked into a lot of footage, bc I wanted to be surprised, and I was. They made that breath matter again. In the 90s it got to where he was blasting that shit like 20 times a min. Now it's like if he uses it everyone is fucked. If he decides to use it, it is every bit as deadly as an atomic blast. That ups the desperation level. It was a nice touch, and, yes, goose bumps.

absolutely. when Godzilla was charging up, dorsal fin by dorsal fin, i was holding my friggin breath. then to have the atomic blast be as devastating as it was, from the explosion to the blast wave, solidified the threat Godzilla has always been meant to pose to humanity. this movie was able to visually capture everything Godzilla was originally created to symbolically represent for the Japanese all the way back in 1954. i feel like this movie was a love letter to the original.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

I never knew Godzilla had a bad ass theme song

 

[Bobby Boulders]

absolutely. when Godzilla was charging up, dorsal fin by dorsal fin, i was holding my friggin breath. then to have the atomic blast be as devastating as it was, from the explosion to the blast wave, solidified the threat Godzilla has always been meant to pose to humanity. this movie was able to visually capture everything Godzilla was originally created to symbolically represent for the Japanese all the way back in 1954.

Idk that an American production company could ever convey the character as was truly meant. I enjoy the Legendary stuff, but Godzilla was always personal to the Japanese people. A representation of what they went through during and after the bombs went off. A writer from the States would need to go back to 9/11 and precipitate every thought and emotion from that place, and it still wouldn't really be representative of what Japan went through after the atomic bombs. The man who made this movie has great vision, bc he wasn't alive back then, he can only precipitate what he conveyed through the accounts of others. Speaks much of the level of talent that man possesses. That was an emotionally driven film, through and through. I'm interested in reading about what the Japanese people think of it.

 

[GoodBadHBK]

Also.....

 

[Bobby Boulders]

Yeah, there is that. But any fan of Big G knows the real theme song is the Frigate March.

How in the fuck were you not aware of the Godzilla theme? It's almost as iconic as the character. Pharoahe Monch making songs out of that theme and shit. You're a strange guy, Ace. Now how about some more of that gum?