Man, what an intense, serious film. I was totally invested and even shed tears for it. The war background shows the angst of the people as well as the pathos.
It had the intensity of a late 70s Hollywood blockbuster. Kind of like Lucas and Spielberg’s Kurosawa-inspired early work. Nerve-wrecking pure cinematic bliss.
This is the movie I hope Hollywood looks at and goes that only cost 15 million? Not only a blockbuster, but Oscar worthy on top of that, for 15 million.
The sad thing is, unfortunately, if you’re open minded enough to see it from this perspective, the movie industry in the United States is no longer interested in producing art, rather, they are more interested in appealing to political narratives and pushing a lot of subliminal messages. The reason why: control :/
@@JCTBomb Hollywood has always been controlled by politics. Also producers in America have one focus, money. While other foreign producers focus on the product itself. Which should bring money automatically anyways
It takes a non-woke Japan to produce a Universally Loved film that clearly demonstrates the power of Real Film Quality, such as, writing, directing, acting, lighting, and, of course, camera work. No Horrific Shakey Cam Sh¡t here ! Hollyweird is so screwed up that they have to destroy their own movies and shows within just a few years because they can no longer come up with viable ideas for Good Shows, and have not been able to do so for numerous Decades now. Not to mention the multitude of Problems that have Plagued tv and movies for the past several Decades, including, but not limited to : The horrific shakey cam, Scenes that look as if they were filmed with a cellular phone which has no vibration cancelling ability, which is why cell phones should NOT be used to film movies in the First Place, The thousand cut scenes per minute that act like a strobe so as to cause headaches and disorientation in order to obfuscate whatever the scenes are supposed to be about, just to keep the clock running on the tv show or movie run time. Photography so dark that the audience cannot see what was actually filmed 🤪, Scenes shot such darkness that when an "actor" has to use a flashlight, the idiot "director" has them shine it Directly into the Camera Lens, thereby Blinding the audience, Multiple Times, the Background music (?!?) so Loud in the Foreground that one can not even hear the extreamly limited in language usage "dialog", spoken so fast that it is difficult to keep up with the crappy "storylines", with their Get Woke, Go Broke agendas infused so prolifically in them that they are simply unwatchable, and on and on and on, ... ... ... Anyway, since hollyweird made it publicly known, way back in 2018, that No Movie would be Eligible for any of their Mutual Admiration Sycophantic Society Awards unless the movie was artificially, unnecessarily infused with excessivly forced, unneeded diversity, it became Clearly Obvious that No New Movie from then on will ever be Watchable, and you know how hollyweird just Loves to Serve its M.A.S.S.A. ! Evil Can Not Create ! It Can Only Corrupt And Destroy !
Godzilla Minus One is not only a GREAT Godzilla movie... It's a GREAT movie with Godzilla in it!!! Godzilla movies are usually "turn your brain off and enjoy the ride" type movies... especially the older ones (excluding the original).. This was an actual movie with a good plot and well written characters that you cared about.
@@jamesfields2916Yeah I can’t lie for as much as I wanted to roll my eyes at the that fact that Noriko was alive, they were gonna roll through tears. Also to mention a point about the original comment, I find there’s a good balance of turn your brain off fun and deeper thoughts on the themes for a lot of Godzilla movies. It’s like the best of both worlds and it’s the reason I’ve grown so fond of the series as I grow older.
I thought with some of my guy friends last week and really enjoyed it. Yesterday, I brought my wife to see it and she thought it was amazing. I'm going to ask our teenage sons to see if they want to watch it tomorrow. And all-around great film. It's worth the price of a theater ticket to see it on the big screen and with a good sound system.
Godzilla Minus One is the best film I've seen this year, and is now my second favorite Godzilla movie of all time. Thanks for the excellent, in-depth review. Very intelligently done.
I loved Godzilla, and the other monsters (Mothra is my fav) since I was a little girl. The main atomic blast scene is something I will always feel blessed and never forget seeing on the big screen. The music, the sound design, the suspense, the dread of the story and situation. I almost felt myself pass out about 4-5 times just from being so hyped up. I absolutely loved this movie, I couldn’t shut up about it during work. Its immediately become my #1 favorite movie without a doubt. :)
If you want a movie of how post war japan rebuilt and thrived, then you need to watch the director’s trilogy of Always Sunset on third street films. They are amazing stories of human strength and compassion. Also they are hilaruous.
I would love this to keep building momentum. I see it's beating all previous Japanese Godzilla sales by huge margins, but I'd love to see it continue to crush ticket sales... I'm seeing it in a few hours. Can't wait.
Well, even after watching such a good film (or, most of those negative commenters never bother themselves to go out and pay for a film in the first place), it’s about time that the “Anti-everything“ cynical people started to crawl in the comment sections here and there from their dark mind pits. Scroll down/up you’ll see their infestation. The more Godzilla Minus One gets credit and applause, the harder they hate this great Kaiju/human drama whatsoever. Especially, internationally modest and shy Japanese people/creations/history are their longtime favourite targets. Now, the world is somewhat getting understanding about Japan and its culture more than ever, but those ill speakers’ mindset never change. To them, the world is immobile cold place once and forever. I know they have their own rights to speak ill of others (to look away from their unhappy feelings for a moment), but, I hate such anonymous haters (only in my mind, besides this time) and love great films like Minus One. Sorry for being off topic.
I JUST WATCHED GODZILLA MINUS ONE IN 4DX WITH MY DAUGHTER WHO HATES "WAR TIME MOVIES" AND EVEN SHE GAVE THE MOVIE A 9 OUT OF 10!! I THINK IT'S THE BEST MOVIE THIS YEAR AND ONE OF THE TOP 5 KAIJU FILMS OF ALL TIME!
I have a theory that the film is so popular here b/c casual US fans haven't seen an "evil" Godzilla since the original. Either way, happy it's doing so well.
I think its also because of the landscape of audiences nowadays getting tired of the generic stuff Disney & other Hollywood came out with this year, so when Godzilla Minus One came out it truly is a breath of fresh air, and something that combines an old existing IP with something that most movies this year were lacking, and that's genuinely great characters that you care about and want to see them succeed at the end. Idk it could be my perspective on why this movie is so successful, but either way I'm personally happy this movie's doing so well both critically and commercially
I was blown away by this movie. It was beautiful, somthing I never thought id say about a G film. I mean they young girl next to me was crying...thats how powerful and emotional this film is
Saw this movie late last night. It was awesome. Definitely one of the year's best movies. I put it with Super Mario Brothers, Guardians of the Galaxy 3, No One Will Save You and Gran Turismo for me. I still need to see 0:01 Oppenheimer. But Godzilla Minus One: 🔥.
Great review. I offer a little reassessment of the interpretation that he "'inadvertently gets people in his army killed." This scene is actually a microcosm of his Kamikaze dilemma. Godzilla killed the mechanics on Oda. The chief mechanic's order for Koshi go to the plane to fire his machine gun was the same order he received by the Imperial army, to sacrifice himself and would not have killed Godzilla anyway any more than his Kamikaze run would have changed the outcome of WWII. In the end, if he had fired on Godzilla, he would have been killed the same as if he had completed his kamikaze run. For the audience, it was a better way to visualize the impact of not completing his kamikaze mission so the guilt of not firing on Godzilla and not completing his Kamikaze run are one and the same.
This movie goes back to the 1954 godzilla movie the way it started this way in 1954 and it shows that things that nothing has changed that all of the countries have nuclear weapons aimed at each other that each country can be destroyed by each country has a lot of them to shot them all at the same time what each of them can do at the same time that you can taken each other that their is know way that any one can make it out alive
15 million dollars won’t even cover the cost of two leading actors in Hollywood…. It’s not sustainable. Toho created a masterpiece and a model for Hollywood to learn something from.
I think he was growing because at first he was fairly small, but in the up close shots, and from the sky it looked as though he was growing. Remember, this is very early on and opens the door wide open to possible follow up scenarios. I am interested in what was on that woman's neck at the end. Not just Godzilla regeneration. My brother wondered of he "broke" into pieces and perhaps multiples are regenerating which would be huge. Damn awesome movie. Hollywood needs to take notes even though the Legendary versions are great, but this sets a standard in monster movies.
I think Godzilla basically just has to scale to crush the buildings around him. With modern day skyscrapers he needs to be a lot bigger than he did in days of yore.
Loved it. Only thing I wish I knew going in was that it's all subtitled. No reviewers mention that. Didn't matter to me...but I went with family members that I talked into going, and a few of them werent into having to read the whole movie..lol.
The gas isn't used like the oxygen destroyer, it's simply meant to attempt to sink him and let the water pressure implode or blow him up either at the bottom of the sea or on the return up like a diver ascending too fast. The throwback is simply the bubbles in both situations.
Hi. I live in Tokyo, fairly close to Ginza. When my father in law died, we buried him at a nearby temple. Most of the graves around his had a similar marking, that they all died on the same day in 1945. The grave next to his was no different. It was engraved with the names and age of the deceased. It was the entire family, and amongst them there were two children aged six and four. Nowadays, we casually talk about cities that were leveled during wartime. But in reality, it’s not only buildings that are leveled. Human beings are also being squashed, burned and mutilated. Including kids. Godzilla is an artistic embodiment of such atrocities. To be clear, most Japanese people don’t blame the US. But we are the only witness to the destructive force that was the atomic bomb. Nobody in the world should never suffer the same fate. I hope the message that we are trying to get across through Godzilla is something we can all agree on.
Broooo....was so good. Visual effects, all the shots. Fucking GODZILLA was damaging shit dude. Like he's slow and old school but was pure CHAOS!!! 10/10
The American monsterverse is entertaining for the most part and Godzilla looks phenomenal. But the lack of interest or care for the human cast is what really drags the movie down. Minus One blows them out of the water.
There was another review that stated things well by saying, "In every Godzilla movie I've ever watched, I root for Godzilla. But there came a time during this movie where I stopped and said, 'oh wow...Godzilla needs to be stopped.'"
It makes sense that Japan and nations like it do better representing kaiju's. Kaiju's ideally represent an overwhelming opponent that the peoples involved still feel they need to defeat. Japanese felt this way no doubt towards us during much of WWII.
Love this review. However, you're wrong about how huge this Godzilla is. He's actually the smallest one since the original '54. He's only 50m tall, which is half the height and therefore likely 1/8 of the overall size of every other modern Godzilla.
When it comes to Godzilla, sometimes people win the battle but in the end Godzilla always wins the war..this was a fantastic movie and I just heard,the director would love to do the sequel.
To say this movie is the perfect blockbuster is a MAJOR UNDERSTATEMENT. It is the BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR, and, THE BEST GODZILLA MOVIE EVER MADE. Perfectly acted, perfectly directed, and perfectly written. Unlike most GODZILLA movies, where the human storylines fall kind of flat, or worse, this one, the human storyline is the movies is this movies biggest strength. What also makes this movie so great is, Godzilla has never been so brutal as he is here. Yes, they could have shown a little more of the titular character, but, it's better to leave us wanting more, of something great, than to leave us with too much of a really bad thing, for reference, see the 1998 movie TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA IGUANA. It took three large bottles of Listerine to get the bad taste of that movie out of my mouth.
hmmm,... the main character's name, 「Shikishima」, is an ancient name for the country of Japan so when people in the movie cry out his name they are literally screaming " Japan! Japan! " ... the ending is so sad,... when you see the radiation scar on Hamabe Minami's neck you know that she's going to die ...
So me and mum decided I'm seeing Godzilla and she's watching A Nightmare Before Christmas 30th anniversary on December 15th as I'm in the UK (as we both got unlimited cards at our local cinema) then we both watch Rebel Moon on the Saturday given she didn't wanted to see it based on the atomic bomb demolishing Japan in real life and that it's not a happy movie and I've seen great reviews on it
15 million Yen doesn't translate to $50 million USD, it translates to around $100,000 USD given the exchange rate hovers around 70 Yen to the dollar. $15 million USD would be around 2 billion Yen.
Is it a movie for people that wants to see Godzilla? Or will I walk out with the feeling that all the best part of the movie is in the trailer? The rest of the movie are just people walking around to save budget on CG?
Okay, I can appreciate your enthusiasm we can definitely be friends, after all, we got Godzilla in common.... but you keep saying the word "nuclear" wrong, and I'm going to have to click out at this point because it's like nails on a chalkboard. Just saying😇 ... Incidentally, it's pronounced "new-clear"
I think Toho put it in the contract when they allowed America to make Godzilla movies is that they have to suck LOL because Toho is Godzilla.. American Godzilla films/shows are trash
They're just spactacles, there's no heart or real impact to American Godzilla films. Actually, American Godzilla movies should probably be an oxymoron.
I think the movie was very good, but the biggest weakness was how little the female characters had to do. Doesn’t ruin the movie, but I’d have liked just a smidge more of Noriko interacting with people other than Koichi and his friends. (Just, as a female viewer… still a very good move, though. Just, how to make it *perfect*.)
Its because the movie is about post war Japan and its volunteer navy. Westerners don't get it. FYI volunteer means volunteer as in no pay. 90% of Japans army & navy are no pay volunteers hence how they get around military caps! Godzilla is just the metaphor for the new Japan yet all these movie reviewers haven't a clue. Remember the lines about thin tanks, disarmed navy, gov cant protect us. Fight to win not throw away lives. Get it now?
@@tuscanyjc I consume lots of Japanese media. I’ve watched every Godzilla movie, plenty of Akira Kurosawa’s works, anime and manga stretching back into the 1950s. I do get it, I would just like a movie made in the 2020s to let the female characters do more. Emiko in the 1954 movie felt like she was allowed to have more initiative than Noriko in Minus One. (Again, still a good movie, but that is a weakness it had keeping it from being perfect.)
The victims are the innocent. When governments wage war, people suffer. The past is in the past. It cannot be changed, no matter how much we want to. We look back and learn from the mistakes, so we will never repeat them. The sins of the past should not be blamed upon the people of the present and future, as they are not the ones who committed them. How long will you continue to open old wounds, instead of letting it heal? You enjoy scenic views in Korea? You know who also enjoy beautiful views? People…even the Japanese people who you bear resentment towards.
Lol it was awful the "king of the monsters"gets his head blown up by a lone kamikaze pilot. God-jobber. And the Japanese nationalism makes it arguably one of the worst pieces of on the nose propaganda ever made. Skip it folks.
What an idiotic take. This Godzilla was never a king of the monsters, instead a monster to be vanquished. It's also not nationalistic, The main character and the entire story is around deciding not to die for the country, and to not sacrifice your life, but rather to live for yourself and those you care about.
I think their plan was in the end was to stop his cells from regenerating and he was weakened so much that the plane explosion in his mouth was enough to blow him up without regenerating
Man, what an intense, serious film. I was totally invested and even shed tears for it. The war background shows the angst of the people as well as the pathos.
It had the intensity of a late 70s Hollywood blockbuster. Kind of like Lucas and Spielberg’s Kurosawa-inspired early work. Nerve-wrecking pure cinematic bliss.
This is the movie I hope Hollywood looks at and goes that only cost 15 million? Not only a blockbuster, but Oscar worthy on top of that, for 15 million.
actors in the US ask for 50mil+ a film. just paying a single actor would cost more than this entire film
@@tackywacky99 100%
The sad thing is, unfortunately, if you’re open minded enough to see it from this perspective, the movie industry in the United States is no longer interested in producing art, rather, they are more interested in appealing to political narratives and pushing a lot of subliminal messages. The reason why: control :/
@@JCTBomb Hollywood has always been controlled by politics. Also producers in America have one focus, money. While other foreign producers focus on the product itself. Which should bring money automatically anyways
It takes a non-woke Japan to produce a Universally Loved film that clearly demonstrates the power of Real Film Quality, such as, writing, directing, acting, lighting, and, of course, camera work.
No Horrific Shakey Cam Sh¡t here !
Hollyweird is so screwed up that they have to destroy their own movies and shows within just a few years because they can no longer come up with viable ideas for Good Shows, and have not been able to do so for numerous Decades now.
Not to mention the multitude of Problems that have Plagued tv and movies for the past several Decades, including, but not limited to :
The horrific shakey cam,
Scenes that look as if they were filmed with a cellular phone which has no vibration cancelling ability, which is why cell phones should NOT be used to film movies in the First Place,
The thousand cut scenes per minute that act like a strobe so as to cause headaches and disorientation in order to obfuscate whatever the scenes are supposed to be about, just to keep the clock running on the tv show or movie run time.
Photography so dark that the audience cannot see what was actually filmed 🤪,
Scenes shot such darkness that when an "actor" has to use a flashlight, the idiot "director" has them shine it Directly into the Camera Lens, thereby Blinding the audience, Multiple Times, the Background music (?!?) so Loud in the Foreground that one can not even hear the extreamly limited in language usage "dialog", spoken so fast that it is difficult to keep up with the crappy "storylines", with their Get Woke, Go Broke agendas infused so prolifically in them that they are simply unwatchable,
and on and on and on, ... ... ...
Anyway, since hollyweird made it publicly known, way back in 2018, that No Movie would be Eligible for any of their Mutual Admiration Sycophantic Society Awards unless the movie was artificially, unnecessarily infused with excessivly forced, unneeded diversity, it became Clearly Obvious that No New Movie from then on will ever be Watchable, and you know how hollyweird just Loves to Serve its M.A.S.S.A. !
Evil Can Not Create !
It Can Only Corrupt And Destroy !
Godzilla Minus One is not only a GREAT Godzilla movie...
It's a GREAT movie with Godzilla in it!!!
Godzilla movies are usually "turn your brain off and enjoy the ride" type movies... especially the older ones (excluding the original).. This was an actual movie with a good plot and well written characters that you cared about.
Gotta admit I got teary eyed when the little girl was standing in the alley with the envelope and the babysitter found her.
@@jamesfields2916Yeah I can’t lie for as much as I wanted to roll my eyes at the that fact that Noriko was alive, they were gonna roll through tears. Also to mention a point about the original comment, I find there’s a good balance of turn your brain off fun and deeper thoughts on the themes for a lot of Godzilla movies. It’s like the best of both worlds and it’s the reason I’ve grown so fond of the series as I grow older.
The homage to Jaws scenes were thrilling
Saw it in imax and will go see it in 4dx this week. Best film of the year.
I thought with some of my guy friends last week and really enjoyed it. Yesterday, I brought my wife to see it and she thought it was amazing. I'm going to ask our teenage sons to see if they want to watch it tomorrow.
And all-around great film. It's worth the price of a theater ticket to see it on the big screen and with a good sound system.
This can legitimately be considered the best film of the year.
Can't believe I'm saying this .. movie of the year .. and yes top 3 Godzilla movie all time so far
I loved all the old music cues that were throughout the film. I know I heard Mothras' theme.
Godzilla Minus One is the best film I've seen this year, and is now my second favorite Godzilla movie of all time. Thanks for the excellent, in-depth review. Very intelligently done.
I loved Godzilla, and the other monsters (Mothra is my fav) since I was a little girl. The main atomic blast scene is something I will always feel blessed and never forget seeing on the big screen. The music, the sound design, the suspense, the dread of the story and situation. I almost felt myself pass out about 4-5 times just from being so hyped up. I absolutely loved this movie, I couldn’t shut up about it during work. Its immediately become my #1 favorite movie without a doubt. :)
If you want a movie of how post war japan rebuilt and thrived, then you need to watch the director’s trilogy of Always Sunset on third street films. They are amazing stories of human strength and compassion. Also they are hilaruous.
I would love this to keep building momentum. I see it's beating all previous Japanese Godzilla sales by huge margins, but I'd love to see it continue to crush ticket sales...
I'm seeing it in a few hours.
Can't wait.
Well, even after watching such a good film (or, most of those negative commenters never bother themselves to go out and pay for a film in the first place), it’s about time that the “Anti-everything“ cynical people started to crawl in the comment sections here and there from their dark mind pits.
Scroll down/up you’ll see their infestation.
The more Godzilla Minus One gets credit and applause, the harder they hate this great Kaiju/human drama whatsoever.
Especially, internationally modest and shy Japanese people/creations/history are their longtime favourite targets. Now, the world is somewhat getting understanding about Japan and its culture more than ever, but those ill speakers’ mindset never change.
To them, the world is immobile cold place once and forever.
I know they have their own rights to speak ill of others (to look away from their unhappy feelings for a moment), but, I hate such anonymous haters (only in my mind, besides this time) and love great films like Minus One.
Sorry for being off topic.
I JUST WATCHED GODZILLA MINUS ONE IN 4DX WITH MY DAUGHTER WHO HATES "WAR TIME MOVIES" AND EVEN SHE GAVE THE MOVIE A 9 OUT OF 10!! I THINK IT'S THE BEST MOVIE THIS YEAR AND ONE OF THE TOP 5 KAIJU FILMS OF ALL TIME!
The only movie this year that I just can’t get enough of it!
Great movie.
When the music hit in the theater 🤌
Who’d a thunk that a movie with REAL characters, great script, great FX(for 15 mill, no less) that people would want to see it and love it!
It's just a good damn movie.. hats off to TOHO studies. They nailed this time
Right on. Thanks for sharing.
I have a theory that the film is so popular here b/c casual US fans haven't seen an "evil" Godzilla since the original. Either way, happy it's doing so well.
It's a great movie. Gotta give them credit. They got a ton of bang with their buck.
Yeah its just a very accessible movie. If it had been bad I don't think him being evil would've garnered nearly as much praise.
I think its also because of the landscape of audiences nowadays getting tired of the generic stuff Disney & other Hollywood came out with this year, so when Godzilla Minus One came out it truly is a breath of fresh air, and something that combines an old existing IP with something that most movies this year were lacking, and that's genuinely great characters that you care about and want to see them succeed at the end. Idk it could be my perspective on why this movie is so successful, but either way I'm personally happy this movie's doing so well both critically and commercially
This movie raised me, challenged me, and inspired me.
I was blown away by this movie. It was beautiful, somthing I never thought id say about a G film. I mean they young girl next to me was crying...thats how powerful and emotional this film is
Saw this movie late last night. It was awesome. Definitely one of the year's best movies. I put it with Super Mario Brothers, Guardians of the Galaxy 3, No One Will Save You and Gran Turismo for me. I still need to see 0:01 Oppenheimer. But Godzilla Minus One: 🔥.
This movie is ' Best Years of Our Lives' meets 'Godzilla'. Take Godzilla out of it it is still a great movie.
Great review. I offer a little reassessment of the interpretation that he "'inadvertently gets people in his army killed." This scene is actually a microcosm of his Kamikaze dilemma. Godzilla killed the mechanics on Oda. The chief mechanic's order for Koshi go to the plane to fire his machine gun was the same order he received by the Imperial army, to sacrifice himself and would not have killed Godzilla anyway any more than his Kamikaze run would have changed the outcome of WWII. In the end, if he had fired on Godzilla, he would have been killed the same as if he had completed his kamikaze run. For the audience, it was a better way to visualize the impact of not completing his kamikaze mission so the guilt of not firing on Godzilla and not completing his Kamikaze run are one and the same.
This movie goes back to the 1954 godzilla movie the way it started this way in 1954 and it shows that things that nothing has changed that all of the countries have nuclear weapons aimed at each other that each country can be destroyed by each country has a lot of them to shot them all at the same time what each of them can do at the same time that you can taken each other that their is know way that any one can make it out alive
Great review Summed it up perfectly
15 million dollars won’t even cover the cost of two leading actors in Hollywood…. It’s not sustainable. Toho created a masterpiece and a model for Hollywood to learn something from.
Robert Downey Jr. made $80,000,000 for playing Iron Man in Endgame.
For Godzilla's size, hes actually one of the smallest Godzillas! The thing is that he was framed perfectly to give a massive sense of scale.
I think he was growing because at first he was fairly small, but in the up close shots, and from the sky it looked as though he was growing. Remember, this is very early on and opens the door wide open to possible follow up scenarios. I am interested in what was on that woman's neck at the end. Not just Godzilla regeneration. My brother wondered of he "broke" into pieces and perhaps multiples are regenerating which would be huge. Damn awesome movie. Hollywood needs to take notes even though the Legendary versions are great, but this sets a standard in monster movies.
It's worth multiple watches, like Shin.
He's a rather funny 50.1 meters tall. They just had to add the point one lol. So basically his og size.
I think Godzilla basically just has to scale to crush the buildings around him. With modern day skyscrapers he needs to be a lot bigger than he did in days of yore.
@@antonyshannon2276I believe all of the showa Era was 50 meters
To be fair, Japan made Godzilla a hero way before America got a chance to make a Godzilla movie.
Thank you.Really.Thank you.
Loved it. Only thing I wish I knew going in was that it's all subtitled. No reviewers mention that. Didn't matter to me...but I went with family members that I talked into going, and a few of them werent into having to read the whole movie..lol.
I am SO on the same page: Godzilla is Japanese, and Japanese Godzilla movies are the best Godzilla movies!🙏
Thanks for the review! It’s not showing around me so I’m watching reviews lol😂
The gas isn't used like the oxygen destroyer, it's simply meant to attempt to sink him and let the water pressure implode or blow him up either at the bottom of the sea or on the return up like a diver ascending too fast. The throwback is simply the bubbles in both situations.
This godzilla is actually one of the smaller ones toho has done at 50.1 meters. The heisei era was initially 80 meters and he grew to 100 meters
I like all types of Godzilla.
An American studio needs to give the director of Godzilla 50 million dollars to make whatever film he likes.
Best GODZILLA Since 1984 🇯🇵
Hi. I live in Tokyo, fairly close to Ginza. When my father in law died, we buried him at a nearby temple. Most of the graves around his had a similar marking, that they all died on the same day in 1945. The grave next to his was no different. It was engraved with the names and age of the deceased. It was the entire family, and amongst them there were two children aged six and four. Nowadays, we casually talk about cities that were leveled during wartime. But in reality, it’s not only buildings that are leveled. Human beings are also being squashed, burned and mutilated. Including kids. Godzilla is an artistic embodiment of such atrocities. To be clear, most Japanese people don’t blame the US. But we are the only witness to the destructive force that was the atomic bomb. Nobody in the world should never suffer the same fate. I hope the message that we are trying to get across through Godzilla is something we can all agree on.
Broooo....was so good. Visual effects, all the shots. Fucking GODZILLA was damaging shit dude. Like he's slow and old school but was pure CHAOS!!!
10/10
こちら日本！
観に行って下さってありがとうございます！
From anime to live action, Japan makes amazing films!
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この感動を共有でき、大変嬉しく思うと共に、幸福です！
有難うございます！！
The American monsterverse is entertaining for the most part and Godzilla looks phenomenal. But the lack of interest or care for the human cast is what really drags the movie down. Minus One blows them out of the water.
There was another review that stated things well by saying, "In every Godzilla movie I've ever watched, I root for Godzilla. But there came a time during this movie where I stopped and said, 'oh wow...Godzilla needs to be stopped.'"
This movie just used its atomic breath on Disney and the MV.
I saw this movie 4 times and everytime I felt more attached to the cjaracters
Really like what you had to say about the film
It makes sense that Japan and nations like it do better representing kaiju's. Kaiju's ideally represent an overwhelming opponent that the peoples involved still feel they need to defeat. Japanese felt this way no doubt towards us during much of WWII.
I finished watching this movie just now.
I think Godzilla Minus One is WAR movie and very good movie.
Love this review. However, you're wrong about how huge this Godzilla is. He's actually the smallest one since the original '54. He's only 50m tall, which is half the height and therefore likely 1/8 of the overall size of every other modern Godzilla.
It's "one of the best" films 🎥 of the year...(Reckless to make that claim with Oppenheimer's HUGE success...🙆🏽)
When it comes to Godzilla, sometimes people win the battle but in the end Godzilla always wins the war..this was a fantastic movie and I just heard,the director would love to do the sequel.
To say this movie is the perfect blockbuster is a MAJOR UNDERSTATEMENT. It is the BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR, and, THE BEST GODZILLA MOVIE EVER MADE. Perfectly acted, perfectly directed, and perfectly written. Unlike most GODZILLA movies, where the human storylines fall kind of flat, or worse, this one, the human storyline is the movies is this movies biggest strength. What also makes this movie so great is, Godzilla has never been so brutal as he is here. Yes, they could have shown a little more of the titular character, but, it's better to leave us wanting more, of something great, than to leave us with too much of a really bad thing, for reference, see the 1998 movie TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA IGUANA. It took three large bottles of Listerine to get the bad taste of that movie out of my mouth.
Woah, what movies were released this year that rival the quality of minus one?
hmmm,... the main character's name, 「Shikishima」, is an ancient name for the country of Japan so when people in the movie cry out his name they are literally screaming " Japan! Japan! " ... the ending is so sad,... when you see the radiation scar on Hamabe Minami's neck you know that she's going to die ...
I thought it opened before the bombs fell?
Does anyone remember the actual month in 1945 where it opened
He isn’t dead btw.
Yeah he ain't dead 😅😅. Can't killed dude. Hopefully a series for thus one 🙏.. I put the trust in this one than any other godzilla movies!!!
“…he returned to his village which was destroyed.” Tokyo? A village?😅.
(Sorry, I couldn’t help myself correct a nothing particularly important).
So me and mum decided I'm seeing Godzilla and she's watching A Nightmare Before Christmas 30th anniversary on December 15th as I'm in the UK (as we both got unlimited cards at our local cinema) then we both watch Rebel Moon on the Saturday given she didn't wanted to see it based on the atomic bomb demolishing Japan in real life and that it's not a happy movie and I've seen great reviews on it
15 million Yen doesn't translate to $50 million USD, it translates to around $100,000 USD given the exchange rate hovers around 70 Yen to the dollar. $15 million USD would be around 2 billion Yen.
Amazing movie , only movie paid to see in the cinema in over 6 years better then any of the trash Hollywood is spewing out latley
had to change your upboat to a downboat when you tried to say we can't relate to the main characters due to the time period...wrong wrong wrong
Couldn't care less about Kong. Love the old school Godzilla movies.
Is it a movie for people that wants to see Godzilla? Or will I walk out with the feeling that all the best part of the movie is in the trailer? The rest of the movie are just people walking around to save budget on CG?
Okay, I can appreciate your enthusiasm we can definitely be friends, after all, we got Godzilla in common.... but you keep saying the word "nuclear" wrong, and I'm going to have to click out at this point because it's like nails on a chalkboard. Just saying😇
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Incidentally, it's pronounced "new-clear"
I think Toho put it in the contract when they allowed America to make Godzilla movies is that they have to suck LOL because Toho is Godzilla.. American Godzilla films/shows are trash
Why film is Subjective. They don't suck but not for everyone
They're just spactacles, there's no heart or real impact to American Godzilla films.
Actually, American Godzilla movies should probably be an oxymoron.
Bro, why you spoiling all over this review. Put that shit in the title if you're going to do that.
Dude! It’s pronounced NU-CLE-AR. Say it.
It is people who make up what the movie is about that you can not have a movie with out the people are just has important has godzilla
I'm gonna be a crazy minus one video edit to wicked music! Like I did got Shin Godzilla! Check it out tsunami!
Monarch is terrible.
I think the movie was very good, but the biggest weakness was how little the female characters had to do. Doesn’t ruin the movie, but I’d have liked just a smidge more of Noriko interacting with people other than Koichi and his friends. (Just, as a female viewer… still a very good move, though. Just, how to make it *perfect*.)
Its because the movie is about post war Japan and its volunteer navy. Westerners don't get it. FYI volunteer means volunteer as in no pay. 90% of Japans army & navy are no pay volunteers hence how they get around military caps! Godzilla is just the metaphor for the new Japan yet all these movie reviewers haven't a clue. Remember the lines about thin tanks, disarmed navy, gov cant protect us. Fight to win not throw away lives. Get it now?
@@tuscanyjc I consume lots of Japanese media. I’ve watched every Godzilla movie, plenty of Akira Kurosawa’s works, anime and manga stretching back into the 1950s. I do get it, I would just like a movie made in the 2020s to let the female characters do more. Emiko in the 1954 movie felt like she was allowed to have more initiative than Noriko in Minus One. (Again, still a good movie, but that is a weakness it had keeping it from being perfect.)
the japanese playing the victims once again
The victims are the innocent. When governments wage war, people suffer. The past is in the past. It cannot be changed, no matter how much we want to. We look back and learn from the mistakes, so we will never repeat them. The sins of the past should not be blamed upon the people of the present and future, as they are not the ones who committed them. How long will you continue to open old wounds, instead of letting it heal?
You enjoy scenic views in Korea? You know who also enjoy beautiful views? People…even the Japanese people who you bear resentment towards.
Lol a lizard film
Big lizerd movie
No flaws, it sucked
Lol it was awful the "king of the monsters"gets his head blown up by a lone kamikaze pilot. God-jobber. And the Japanese nationalism makes it arguably one of the worst pieces of on the nose propaganda ever made. Skip it folks.
What an idiotic take. This Godzilla was never a king of the monsters, instead a monster to be vanquished. It's also not nationalistic, The main character and the entire story is around deciding not to die for the country, and to not sacrifice your life, but rather to live for yourself and those you care about.
I think their plan was in the end was to stop his cells from regenerating and he was weakened so much that the plane explosion in his mouth was enough to blow him up without regenerating
Plus Godzilla isn’t dead either , he’s slowly regenerating
You never actually watched the movie
This is a movie about human huberous and the heroes' journal for redemption and not about the "king of the monsters." Holy crap, did you miss that!!!!