Oscars really f'd up on not having the balls to honor this movie with 10+ deserved nominations, and not just FX! Best film, director, screenplay, cinematography, costume design, score, acting etc! Especially Kamiki Ryunosuke! Wow, what a performance!
The Oscars has historically been out of touch. But I would like to see them win in the visual effects category to show the bigger Hollywood FX houses how it's done and without a big pile of money to accomplish it.
fun fact, the fighter plane in the final part of the movie is the J7W1, and the one used on the movie was a complete 1/1 replica of the real thing made by TOHO and is the only replica of the J7W1 and is sitting now at a museum
As you can see video I have a large Godzilla collection and many of them come with little exclusive "extras." I hope for the J7W1 to come with some future incarnation of a Godzilla Minus One figure or statue!
@BatChainPuller having a statue of it diving into godzilla's mouth or flying around it would be incredibly, and even if they dont do it, there is the possibility of using a model kit of the J7W1 and make a diorama using it
Shikishima doesn't specifically mention Godzilla until he sees the deep sea fish again on the mine-sweeper boat, but there is a scene that shows he is still having nightmares about what happened on Odo island. He doesn't talk about Godzilla until it became necessary to tell his colleagues what happened. Even at that, the Captain sorta kinda doesn't believe Shikishima until Godzilla actually attacks the second boat. Then, the Captain is like, "Oh, shit! Let's get the hell out of here!"
I agree. To me it made a lot of sense because who on earth would believe a story like that. It took a scenario where an educated scientist says he’s entertaining the possibility of a giant creature that can destroy a warship. And Shikishima specifically addresses Kenji with his account of Godzilla cause he thinks Kenji is most likely to listen then. And he only tells Noriko because he is finally breaking down emotionally.
My father essentially introduced me to Japanese media/art, Godzilla being one major influence to me. So it was surprising to see and hear him say “yes” to going to see it in IMAX. Man was he amazed by it, it’s something I will remember forever. He was smiling and going “Wow!” Godzilla -one really is a masterpiece.
When you read what the director was going for with the Ginza shots of Godzilla, you understand his movements. He's meant to look like a mountain moving through the city. I believe the director mentioned he was supposed to looks like an Imperial Destroyer from Star Wars... slow and majestic, like a god. The CG is perfect.
@ 10:46 Speaking of that... There is that moment he speaks to Noriko and he is lost in his ptsd and he thinks he's already dead reliving in his nightmares.
So conflicted when godzilla died, elated for the Japanese people but sad at godzillas demise, genuinely teary when noriko was found alive then a huge yes moment when camera pans to godzilla mutating clearly not dead, so many emotions, a truly magnificent film
Great conversation! I had an inkling that there was a failsafe on the plane, because there is a quick moment where the mechanic is looking at the plane's cockpit and we see that it is a German made seat. This was a great movie and loved that by the end we were rooting for the people to eliminate Godzilla. The moment that hit me the hardest is when they kicked off the operation in the bay and the '54 theme kicks on hard. All of the feelings ran through my body and had a huge smile on my face. I'm looking to find time to go see it a few more times. It's tough to break away with two young children. So will you and your buddy go see Minus One without color next week?
Thank you! It was a video of many firsts for me. First time showing my face, first time in the pod cast format with another person, first time publishing a video that was over 30 minutes! Yes, I was locked in from the preparation scene onward. So much so that I suspended all disbelief and was blind to some pretty obvious things that ended up happening. When the operation kicked off I thought it was the main theme from 1962 King Kong vs Godzilla? Was the 53 theme in there too? And, yes we are going back this weekend to check it out Minus the Color!
Hello one thing you missed while watching the movie was before Godzilla attacked them on that small island people had already came in contact with Godzilla and warned them about keeping eyes out for dead fish because that means he is close This is why others knew Godzilla name The pilot wasn't the first to encounter Godzilla
At the island he was thinking if I took the shot all of the men on the island would have lived. You see that when the lead mechanic dragged the bodies and on the boat give him off of their pictures, so he had that guilt as well. I didn't do my job and I costed the lives of all of those men. He just wanted to forget.
i went into this movie with no expectations. i was at the theater on a Friday and saw the poster. it had just been released. a new TOHO godzilla? Wha??!! I loved it. And yeah, the effects looked janky at times but thats just pure budget constraint as usual. looks much better than that classic CGI underwater shot from Godzilla 2000 😂
The budget for the next one will probably be larger because of how well it did. I can't wait to see what they do with it. Or will Disney steal away Toho's talent? 😮
First off, let me say I am 54 years old. I've been a Godzilla fan my whole life. I impatiently waited for over a year for this movie to drop so I could go see it. I purposefully did not watch "spoiler" reviews like I normally do. Most of the time, I don't really care if I know the ending of a movie. I enjoy the journey. As I walked into the theater, I kept saying to myself, "Please, let it be worth the hype." When I got back in my car afterward, I sat there for a moment thinking about what I'd just seen, then grinned and said to myself, "Oh yeah, it was definitely worth the hype!" I've never understood my own fascination with G-man and I'm ok with that. I just enjoy the movies (although the campy kid-centric ones I'd rather just skip) and be in the moment.
Me and my grandmother went to go see Godzilla Minus One (Minus Color) so i could see the 70th anniversary version of it, and it might've been more in touch with her generation, and we both loved it, up until we saw that movie her favorite was godfather 1, but it was so cool seeing the older generation and the newer generations enjoying a movie alike. Its now her favorite movie she's seen up to date, and she hated Godzilla because the first and only movie shes seen up until this one was Godzilla 1998 which left a bad taste on her mouth about the Godzilla franchise, so seeing her favorite movie becoming a Godzilla movie is just amazing to see as Godzilla fan, and was amazing to see myself, especially with all the mainstream trash there's been lately, i loved the monster verse movies, but seeing something that obviously had care and love put into it will always make them seem so much lesser compared to what's been made in recent years.
To defend a point you brought up i think the reason godzilla moves slow and janky is because of other than just a throwback to the original, i think he moves slow and janky because he is essentially a burn victim. Remember he basically got nuked which will burn him and he's mutated and it probably hurts. When he was on the island he moved fine because he was in his natural look. Imagine trying to move fine after getting nuked. And even if that's not the case, it's probably also his sheer size. Being a creature a bit bigger than a t rex it makes some sense he could move fast but when he mutated into his giant form he's probably so big he's still getting use to his size. Part of me wishes the movie did say this with a character mentioning it but then again japan doesn't think like Hollywood where they treat their audiences like children and have to spell everything out to them. Still good vid just wanted to raise this point
That's a good "in universe" explanation for the movement and one I could live with tbh. It just came off like an SH Monster Arts toy being limited in its joint movement. And to be fair it was only that ONE shot. Which is probably why it stood out so much to me and feels like a blemish on an otherwise perfectly executed digital monster.
After viewing, again, without reading the subtitles. Historical references to the wheel, in the background; one of mankinds 1st. To the historical references of the fire bombing of Tokyo, with a new war bomb, which killed more people than the Hiroshima Bomb. The Four Japanese warships are historical fact. Not to mention that rear propeller plane. All are noticed after ignoring the subtitles and just watching the film. How 'bout that historical Japanese manufactured Harley Davidson Motorcycle. This film is "Off the Hook!"
i saw the ejection seat coming a mile away. i think it was earlier in the movie someone said that they were buying ejection seats from the germans and then the movie did a close up of the seat and it had german writing on it. then the scene where tachibana is explaining the functions of the plane and then it suddenly cuts away as he says "oh... there is one more thing" and then you can see him pointing to the seat right where the german writing was. So much of this movie was predictable. as soon as i saw the experimental plane i was thinking "please dont fly that into godzilla's mouth that would be too cheesy" but when it happened in the movie, i loved it.... it was really weird.
Yeah you echoed my dude Rick's take on it. Just because something's predictable doesn't make it less enjoyable. I think people conflate being surprised with being good. 😂
Serious question. Would you tell people you saw a dinosaur? I feel like you're really reaching, dude. Everything made perfect sense. The guy doesn't feel worthy of being alive. He feels the guilt for losing the war & for everyone who died on the island. He's tormented. So with all of this going on, he's supposed to say "oh by the way I saw a dinosaur kill fellow soldiers & I was too much of a coward to to help". Come on man 😁
Remember I'm coming off watching every Godzilla movie ever made. And every Godzilla movie ever made (where Godzilla is either showing up for the first time, or returning after a very long hiatus) has witnesses that either try to alert the masses and are being suppressed or mired in bureaucratic nonsense or they are bed ridden, near catatonic. This is a series first that someone sees Godzilla and then goes about their business. However, I even said in the video that "I get it" he doesn't need the added stress of people thinking he is insane on top of being a coward and a failure.
im loving that we have both the big budget shlock of monsterverse and more grounded stuff like Shin Godzilla and Minus One. i love Marvel movies and i also love Martin Scorsese. i have been defending the ant man movies since the first one (not thor Love & Thunder though, i hated that movie)
I'm of the same opinion about Marvel (to some extent.) I LOVED Wanda Vision, and Loki, and really enjoyed Hawkeye, Moon Knight, and She Hulk, but not so much the movies since End Game with the exception of No Way Home and DSATMOM. Glad for the different flavors of Godzilla we are getting though. Us fans are eating good!
The tugboat scene is important. It HAS to be set up so you expect it even if you’re not aware you’re expecting it. Set up is imperative. You’re surprise doesnt con off as contrived because it is set up properly
Holy smokes a Returner callback!!! I bought it on DVD at a Movie Gallery in my small Ohio suburb... I had no idea it was the same director!!! Now i've gotta go digging my DVD's out LOL... thank you!
I believe they did it on purpose. Just because of how many they mentioned how fast Godzilla had grown. I believe they made it that way to show Godzilla still trying to figure out how to walk with his new mass
Toho and Legendary look up Godzilla's ass for money figuratively while some of us fans do so literally… ah, the poetic symmetry 🤣 The seams of the film (in plot and vfx) stood out more on my 2nd watch, including his herky-jerky motion in the side shot you mentioned. I took non-fan friends and family old and young to the two -1 screenings I've attended so far and all left loving it 🖤
I hid money in that imperil Godzilla's ass for so long that I developed a reflex to check whenever I was short on cash years afterwards. 😅 I didn't mention it, but some of the "fierce poses" Godzilla struck seemed a little over exaggerated and cartoonish. But I sorta loved that actually. I also took my wife and son (who famously endure my Godzilla shenanigans) and they both loved it! Minus One seems to be a G film that most people can really enjoy in many levels.
I am believing this was the case after a repeated viewing. The SFX are just too spot on in every other shot for that prominent lingering broad daylight shot to be a mistake or a rushed sloppy effort. It just has to be an homage. It has to be.
Does Godzilla recognize people in this movie? What about their SCENT? It is odd that he goes after the main character’s love interest… Does Goji recognize him from Odo Island? It sure SEEMS that way…
I have a friend who would fall asleep when I brought Godzilla movies for her to watch. She had narcolepsy issues too, but the city destruction scenes were, like perfect white noise for her.
Godzilla is a safe space for some people to curl up and sleep deeply knowing the King is watching over them. 😆 That's a good idea for a asmr video: Distant Godzilla destruction ambiance. Like a thunderstorm.
The script/story was excellent, the acting, directing, vfx were excellent. It was/is the best movie of the past year and the best Godzilla movie of all. Just saw the minus color and the score seems to be enhanced to a more pronounced level to me. It was awesome as well.
Before it was such a success I was thinking we'd get a handful of movies set in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s before reaching present day. But now I think we'll be getting a direct sequel which follows these same characters further in the 50s.
I loved this movie, but not sure if it’s my favorite. Best human characters %100. As you said, good or bad I love all Godzilla. Even the 98 film has a special place in my heart.
The biggest message in the movie is through sacrifice and so called honor(whether it's kamikaze , sepiku, beheading from losing in disgrace)is to live and there is nothing wrong with that... She tells him that, his ship captain tells him that, even the mechanic does...
Godzilla is 165ft tall and weighs tons upon tons. A sea creature so agile in the water would walk exactly like he walked in the movie. A lumbering beast moving clumsily through town.... Takashi Yamazaki explains it in articles about how he wanted Godzilla to move and it came out perfect....no janky shots...that's how a multi metric ton lumbering gargantuan creature would walk ..mmm, perfecto...
I do think the director was deliberately trying to emulate SUITMATION with the Tokyo land shots. It seems too intentional to be an accident or coincidence.
Good, bad, or other, I liked Godzilla '98. It wasn't a *bad* movie; it just wasn't a good *Godzilla* movie. If it had been called **anything** else, it would have become an awesome, cult-followed monster B-movie classic.
I LOVED the first 30 minutes of 98. The build up had Close Encounters of the Third Kind, late 70s Spielbergian vibes. But once Godzilla was playing Cat & Mouse in the city with piles of fish and helicopters I checked out. The quippy dialogue was also grating. Then they started cribbing heavily from Jurassic Park with their baby godzillas. It ended up being superficial dumb fun. I learned to enjoy it. But over the years I really REALLY started to appreciate the design.
@@BatChainPuller well, my movie preferences have often been called questionable. I do like stupid movies (just not stupid people, but that's for another video👻)
...Strange enough I do remember the movie Returner, well I didn't even remember the title, but I do remember the guy weridly fixated on pasta, like he goes to a shop to buy the pasta and the store owner is like "you really like pasta don't you" and it just looks like he is eating it with no sauce on it. ...and I don't really remember anything else from it, vaguely that it had time travel.
You remember more than I do! I never saw the film, but after Rick mentioned it, and I was looking up footage from it during editing, I remembered the trailer. I remember the trailer WELL because it played automatically at the beginning of one of my Godzilla DVD's! 😆
Nah, should have found a person who has never purposely seen a Godzilla movie, but great concept. It's also unfair, that this is just a great film transcending the subject.
Anyone I know who deliberately avoids Godzilla films probably wouldn't be hip to coming on my channel to all about Godzilla. I found this is a sweet spot between disinterested in the character and still game to give his two cents in a constructive, watchable way. But if I find someone like that, I'll be sure to consider getting them on here for the perspective.
Yep. If it can be seen it's worth mentioning. And it's quite possible it was intended and designed that way. It was noticed. And despite this, and nostalgia aside, this film has become my current favorite Godzilla film.
I thought his rigid locomotion was on purpose on land. He's too big to actually exist with real world physics. He is obviously in great pain and anguish. When he attacks he is blind with rage and overcomes the pain and physics of the situation in short bursts of smooth action. So he's lumbering around when on land until he explodes in bursts of anger and then back to lumbering pain, goes into water for relief from gravity. I am onboard for a sequel, I don't think Toho needs a 3rd one off film in a row. I did also like how they used G's weird buoyancy (from most movies that he is in the water) that he is middle of the ocean acting like he's aground. I felt like that was sort of a riff / tongue in cheek look back at his movie history.
I felt like Shin Godzilla was perpetually in pain, but not necessarily this new Godzilla from Minus One. He seemed vicious and vindictive from the get go. On Odo Island before the bomb. His physics were definitely changed once he reappeared in Japan but I was never under the impression that he was in pain from it. He never seemed to use his Heat Ray unless in retaliation to a ranged attack. (The War Ship, The Tanks, and at the end.) In terms of Godzilla's buoyancy, I've always imagined him as a mega sized water fowl. A Mallard, Goose, or Swan, cross with a crocodile.
About your theory of Godzilla being all in his mind - yeah, Godzilla was the closest to an afterthought as he's ever been, in this movie. Even the way he was animated. It gave me MechaGodzilla vibes. That being said, I still think it's a good movie. I just have no desire to watch it again.
This may be a metaphor for a dictatorship that is holding nuclear war hostage by invading other countries militarily without warning and unleashing destruction and carnage.
Ripped from today's headlines. That's the great thing about silver screen monsters (large and small.) There is no shortage of metaphorical parallels to the real life monsters that we have to deal with and ones we become in order to protect ourselves.
The only Godzilla Movies I’ve seen are Godzilla Minus One, and Godzilla 2014, and that was great, but I just couldn’t bring myself to liking it as much as minus one. Minus One, is up there in my top five movies with Jurassic Park and Jaws.
If you enjoyed the street level perspective and scale of 2014, and the serious, dramatic tone of Minus One - I recommend and encourage you to watch Shin Godzilla as well.
I kinda agree with the gripe of not talking (or no scene) about Godzilla during the "peace" part. With the movie being about dealing with ptsd I imagine that the MC just didn't want to talk about it throughout his phase of getting over the war and building the family. I think maybe a remedy to that criticism could've been a brief interaction between MC and the Kid (Shiro) where the Kid asks about the war cause he feels bad about not being in it and Shikishima vaguely mentions Goji being a beast that no-one could overcome tying it into the trauma related to war.
I’ve been a Godzilla fan all my life and have lived in Japan for the last 18 years. I am still afraid to watch Godzilla Minus One after the travesty that was Shin Godzilla.
Oh man! Personally I enjoyed Shin Godzilla. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't take my advice and see Minus One. Minus One is great! I consider it the best technical Godzilla film which also happens to be a great movie even when Godzilla isn't on screen.
After watching several reactions to Minus One, I have noticed at least 3 different sub-title variations that slightly alter the information provided. ❤
@@BatChainPuller thanks! I have looked around for it but it’s super expensive. I recently got the SH Monster Arts Minus One figure which was also pretty hefty price wise but totally worth it
Before the plane took off in the third act I thought for sure the "bomb safety" was going to be the ejector seat. The mechanic's way of both forgiving the main character and forcing him to continue living On rewatch and retrospection having an actual ejection lever puts the choice on the main character to cap his character arc
I really liked this movie but I didn't love it and I'm a huge Godzilla fan. Just think Toho could of put a bit more cash into the film and it could of been awesome as I found all the action scenes were very rushed plus the film dragged in the middle. Good film, tad overrated though IMO.
I understand where you are coming from. Sometimes the biggest fans have the biggest expectations. I threw my "head script" out in the third act and just relished what was bombarding me. While it might not have been "as fun" as some of the other entries, it certainly was the overall best Crafted Godzilla film as a whole (to me anyway.)
Godzilla on Odo island wasn't a baby, it was fully grown before the Americans nuked the bikini atoll and gave it super cancer, which then caused it to start growing in size _rapidly_
I have a feeling that the reason why Godzilla looked so stiff in most shots was due to their budget, but also due to the fact that Godzilla is typically a guy in a suit, not completely cgi.
Don’t think the mechanic installed the ejection seat; the plane was an advanced model with on built-in from the factory. And yeah, Minus One was a 2023 top three movie.
I am filled with a lot of disappointment because I did not see Godzilla Minus One. I was unaware of how much people are enjoying this movie. Both color and black and white I missed out on. I would see either one. Why did it leave so fast? People were still going to see it - some multiple times, I found out.
It was a limited release (in the US) but it was given about a month extension in theaters because of the numbers it was doing. The black and white version came to theaters and stayed about a week or two in some cities. Don't worry! It will probably be out on Bluray and streaming THIS YEAR.
The reason Godzilla running gets to me is because he’s literally ran before in the prior movies and he doesn’t pump his arms in those scenes (this refers to the monster verse version of Godzilla and the new trailer)
See I can get pic about this movie but I don't because considering what they used how to use it the money that was involved it was a great movie. As far as Godzilla 98 let's talk about the better said. I do love introducing Godzilla to new people and I love finding out their take on the different types of Godzillas I love this concept that you're doing here I'd like to see more of this for other movies not just Godzilla's but that would be great too.
To be fair, in the original they theorized that Godzilla was some sort of dinosaur remnant that was mutated by nuclear testing. And then they outright showed Godzilla's origin (as Godzillasaurus) during the time travel aspects of 1991"a Godzilla vs Ghidorah. So there is a history of that. Plus, it's a giant monster movie.
I unapologetically adore that imperfect piece of early 90's cash grab. But I can see how people wouldn't like it. The original was just so perfect. But that's another video! 😆
Your gripes are trash, man. Your friend is right. Ppl think they know what trauma looks like, but that’s just bc they’ve mostly experienced it through movies. He played that role SO well. It’s not that he thought he was going crazy, at least not entirely. Like your friend says, he WOULDN’t be talking about it. When you’re in that type of environment, your subconscious doesn’t bother with alerting anyone bc at any given moment, anything can wipe out entire cities, so it’s not a priority, specially when knowing something the general public doesn’t might give you a survival advantage. And how can you call yourself a fan?! The movement you say was weird was a reference to Shin Godzilla- that’s how he moved! 😅 Watch it again, man. Be serious.
That would be pretty dark if true but I think it's actually just instant corruption of the sky from immeasurable amounts of charred and burning debris.
@@BatChainPuller that makes a little more sense. The only reason I was saying that because I saw it in black-and-white. So to me all my friends, we thought it was blood but still doesn’t change the fact that that scene was still awesome and probably the best destruction scene in a movie that I’ve ever seen I saw that and was like what could they possibly do to kill Godzilla
I took my 73 yr old mother to see this . She loved it and still talks about it.
That's the Godzilla Minus One review I want to see! That's awesome.
My grandma loved this movie as well
This was the best one ever... In my years of watching Godzilla since a kid
My hart was beating so hard for 20 minutes after the movie.
Oscars really f'd up on not having the balls to honor this movie with 10+ deserved nominations, and not just FX! Best film, director, screenplay, cinematography, costume design, score, acting etc! Especially Kamiki Ryunosuke! Wow, what a performance!
The Oscars has historically been out of touch. But I would like to see them win in the visual effects category to show the bigger Hollywood FX houses how it's done and without a big pile of money to accomplish it.
*uck the Oscars
Oh but it’s not American and it’s about a big monster
The Oscars are a bad joke.
@@Dookieman1975ya know a Korean film won Best Picture and Best Director in Parasite yea? Right... good talk
fun fact, the fighter plane in the final part of the movie is the J7W1, and the one used on the movie was a complete 1/1 replica of the real thing made by TOHO and is the only replica of the J7W1 and is sitting now at a museum
As you can see video I have a large Godzilla collection and many of them come with little exclusive "extras." I hope for the J7W1 to come with some future incarnation of a Godzilla Minus One figure or statue!
@BatChainPuller having a statue of it diving into godzilla's mouth or flying around it would be incredibly, and even if they dont do it, there is the possibility of using a model kit of the J7W1 and make a diorama using it
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Shikishima doesn't specifically mention Godzilla until he sees the deep sea fish again on the mine-sweeper boat, but there is a scene that shows he is still having nightmares about what happened on Odo island.
He doesn't talk about Godzilla until it became necessary to tell his colleagues what happened. Even at that, the Captain sorta kinda doesn't believe Shikishima until Godzilla actually attacks the second boat. Then, the Captain is like, "Oh, shit! Let's get the hell out of here!"
I agree. To me it made a lot of sense because who on earth would believe a story like that.
It took a scenario where an educated scientist says he’s entertaining the possibility of a giant creature that can destroy a warship. And Shikishima specifically addresses Kenji with his account of Godzilla cause he thinks Kenji is most likely to listen then. And he only tells Noriko because he is finally breaking down emotionally.
As a military maintenance guy, we do talk to the locals. It's believable that he heard of the legend
My father essentially introduced me to Japanese media/art, Godzilla being one major influence to me. So it was surprising to see and hear him say “yes” to going to see it in IMAX. Man was he amazed by it, it’s something I will remember forever. He was smiling and going “Wow!” Godzilla -one really is a masterpiece.
Nice, I wish I had kids to take to see it
I took my mother and sister to Godzilla minus (they don’t like Godzilla like at all) and they told me it was amazing and they even cried !
The Bambi vs Godzilla animated short was a deep cut I didn’t expect to be mentioned again.
When you read what the director was going for with the Ginza shots of Godzilla, you understand his movements. He's meant to look like a mountain moving through the city. I believe the director mentioned he was supposed to looks like an Imperial Destroyer from Star Wars... slow and majestic, like a god. The CG is perfect.
@ 10:46 Speaking of that... There is that moment he speaks to Noriko and he is lost in his ptsd and he thinks he's already dead reliving in his nightmares.
So conflicted when godzilla died, elated for the Japanese people but sad at godzillas demise, genuinely teary when noriko was found alive then a huge yes moment when camera pans to godzilla mutating clearly not dead, so many emotions, a truly magnificent film
I hope you have a chance to see Minus Color, it's only in theaters this week for a one-week run. :)
Our showing is in two hours!
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What did you think?!?
Great conversation! I had an inkling that there was a failsafe on the plane, because there is a quick moment where the mechanic is looking at the plane's cockpit and we see that it is a German made seat. This was a great movie and loved that by the end we were rooting for the people to eliminate Godzilla. The moment that hit me the hardest is when they kicked off the operation in the bay and the '54 theme kicks on hard. All of the feelings ran through my body and had a huge smile on my face. I'm looking to find time to go see it a few more times. It's tough to break away with two young children.
So will you and your buddy go see Minus One without color next week?
Thank you! It was a video of many firsts for me. First time showing my face, first time in the pod cast format with another person, first time publishing a video that was over 30 minutes! Yes, I was locked in from the preparation scene onward. So much so that I suspended all disbelief and was blind to some pretty obvious things that ended up happening. When the operation kicked off I thought it was the main theme from 1962 King Kong vs Godzilla? Was the 53 theme in there too? And, yes we are going back this weekend to check it out Minus the Color!
Hello one thing you missed while watching the movie was before Godzilla attacked them on that small island people had already came in contact with Godzilla and warned them about keeping eyes out for dead fish because that means he is close This is why others knew Godzilla name The pilot wasn't the first to encounter Godzilla
I'm seeing it again "Minus Color" on Sunday so I'll keep an eye out for that. I remember the fish but not that dialogue in the way you describe it.
At the island he was thinking if I took the shot all of the men on the island would have lived. You see that when the lead mechanic dragged the bodies and on the boat give him off of their pictures, so he had that guilt as well.
I didn't do my job and I costed the lives of all of those men. He just wanted to forget.
Yes, and not just those men, but all the people on future attacks, especially Noriko! He feels responsible for her death now too. 😢
i went into this movie with no expectations. i was at the theater on a Friday and saw the poster. it had just been released. a new TOHO godzilla? Wha??!!
I loved it.
And yeah, the effects looked janky at times but thats just pure budget constraint as usual. looks much better than that classic CGI underwater shot from Godzilla 2000 😂
The budget for the next one will probably be larger because of how well it did. I can't wait to see what they do with it. Or will Disney steal away Toho's talent? 😮
Godzilla stepped on a Disney. How prophetic!!!!
The 'Godzilla Guy' is less happy about this movie then the 'Non-Godzilla Guy'... Strange!
First off, let me say I am 54 years old. I've been a Godzilla fan my whole life. I impatiently waited for over a year for this movie to drop so I could go see it. I purposefully did not watch "spoiler" reviews like I normally do. Most of the time, I don't really care if I know the ending of a movie. I enjoy the journey. As I walked into the theater, I kept saying to myself, "Please, let it be worth the hype." When I got back in my car afterward, I sat there for a moment thinking about what I'd just seen, then grinned and said to myself, "Oh yeah, it was definitely worth the hype!" I've never understood my own fascination with G-man and I'm ok with that. I just enjoy the movies (although the campy kid-centric ones I'd rather just skip) and be in the moment.
Me and my grandmother went to go see Godzilla Minus One (Minus Color) so i could see the 70th anniversary version of it, and it might've been more in touch with her generation, and we both loved it, up until we saw that movie her favorite was godfather 1, but it was so cool seeing the older generation and the newer generations enjoying a movie alike. Its now her favorite movie she's seen up to date, and she hated Godzilla because the first and only movie shes seen up until this one was Godzilla 1998 which left a bad taste on her mouth about the Godzilla franchise, so seeing her favorite movie becoming a Godzilla movie is just amazing to see as Godzilla fan, and was amazing to see myself, especially with all the mainstream trash there's been lately, i loved the monster verse movies, but seeing something that obviously had care and love put into it will always make them seem so much lesser compared to what's been made in recent years.
Wonderful conversation! I look forward to seeing more from you guys! I'm glad to see others enjoyed the movie as well.
We have a few ideas Godzilla related and beyond. It's interesting to have perspectives from both sides of the fandom.
I thought Godzilla Minus One was a masterpiece.
I have been a Godzilla fan since I was five years old, that was sixty years ago.
To defend a point you brought up i think the reason godzilla moves slow and janky is because of other than just a throwback to the original, i think he moves slow and janky because he is essentially a burn victim. Remember he basically got nuked which will burn him and he's mutated and it probably hurts. When he was on the island he moved fine because he was in his natural look. Imagine trying to move fine after getting nuked. And even if that's not the case, it's probably also his sheer size. Being a creature a bit bigger than a t rex it makes some sense he could move fast but when he mutated into his giant form he's probably so big he's still getting use to his size. Part of me wishes the movie did say this with a character mentioning it but then again japan doesn't think like Hollywood where they treat their audiences like children and have to spell everything out to them. Still good vid just wanted to raise this point
That's a good "in universe" explanation for the movement and one I could live with tbh. It just came off like an SH Monster Arts toy being limited in its joint movement. And to be fair it was only that ONE shot. Which is probably why it stood out so much to me and feels like a blemish on an otherwise perfectly executed digital monster.
After viewing, again, without reading the subtitles. Historical references to the wheel, in the background; one of mankinds 1st. To the historical references of the fire bombing of Tokyo, with a new war bomb, which killed more people than the Hiroshima Bomb. The Four Japanese warships are historical fact. Not to mention that rear propeller plane. All are noticed after ignoring the subtitles and just watching the film. How 'bout that historical Japanese manufactured Harley Davidson Motorcycle. This film is "Off the Hook!"
i saw the ejection seat coming a mile away. i think it was earlier in the movie someone said that they were buying ejection seats from the germans and then the movie did a close up of the seat and it had german writing on it. then the scene where tachibana is explaining the functions of the plane and then it suddenly cuts away as he says "oh... there is one more thing" and then you can see him pointing to the seat right where the german writing was.
So much of this movie was predictable. as soon as i saw the experimental plane i was thinking "please dont fly that into godzilla's mouth that would be too cheesy"
but when it happened in the movie, i loved it.... it was really weird.
Yeah you echoed my dude Rick's take on it. Just because something's predictable doesn't make it less enjoyable. I think people conflate being surprised with being good. 😂
@@BatChainPuller There can always be surprisingly shit in a movie. So good story telling is good story telling. Wheather it surprises you or not.
It seems most German fighters didn't have ejection systems.
1943年8月31日、ドイツ占領下のフランスのブレスト軍港に、一隻の長大な潜水艦が入港した。それは日本から来たものだった。当時、世界最大の潜水艦で、「伊号」クルーザーだった。彼らは貴重な物資やジェット技術等の交換を行い、サンプルを積み込んだ。この時、射出座席を積み込んでも不思議ではない。同年12月21日、この潜水艦は日本に帰還した。実に54000kmの旅だった。
Serious question. Would you tell people you saw a dinosaur? I feel like you're really reaching, dude. Everything made perfect sense.
The guy doesn't feel worthy of being alive. He feels the guilt for losing the war & for everyone who died on the island. He's tormented. So with all of this going on, he's supposed to say "oh by the way I saw a dinosaur kill fellow soldiers & I was too much of a coward to to help". Come on man 😁
Remember I'm coming off watching every Godzilla movie ever made. And every Godzilla movie ever made (where Godzilla is either showing up for the first time, or returning after a very long hiatus) has witnesses that either try to alert the masses and are being suppressed or mired in bureaucratic nonsense or they are bed ridden, near catatonic. This is a series first that someone sees Godzilla and then goes about their business. However, I even said in the video that "I get it" he doesn't need the added stress of people thinking he is insane on top of being a coward and a failure.
im loving that we have both the big budget shlock of monsterverse and more grounded stuff like Shin Godzilla and Minus One.
i love Marvel movies and i also love Martin Scorsese. i have been defending the ant man movies since the first one (not thor Love & Thunder though, i hated that movie)
I'm of the same opinion about Marvel (to some extent.) I LOVED Wanda Vision, and Loki, and really enjoyed Hawkeye, Moon Knight, and She Hulk, but not so much the movies since End Game with the exception of No Way Home and DSATMOM. Glad for the different flavors of Godzilla we are getting though. Us fans are eating good!
This video is awesome!
This is the type of video I would watch 10 15 years ago. Very well done
Thanks! Think of these videos as keeping you connected to your younger self.
The tugboat scene is important. It HAS to be set up so you expect it even if you’re not aware you’re expecting it. Set up is imperative. You’re surprise doesnt con off as contrived because it is set up properly
Holy smokes a Returner callback!!! I bought it on DVD at a Movie Gallery in my small Ohio suburb... I had no idea it was the same director!!! Now i've gotta go digging my DVD's out LOL... thank you!
I believe they did it on purpose. Just because of how many they mentioned how fast Godzilla had grown. I believe they made it that way to show Godzilla still trying to figure out how to walk with his new mass
Toho and Legendary look up Godzilla's ass for money figuratively while some of us fans do so literally… ah, the poetic symmetry 🤣
The seams of the film (in plot and vfx) stood out more on my 2nd watch, including his herky-jerky motion in the side shot you mentioned.
I took non-fan friends and family old and young to the two -1 screenings I've attended so far and all left loving it 🖤
I hid money in that imperil Godzilla's ass for so long that I developed a reflex to check whenever I was short on cash years afterwards. 😅
I didn't mention it, but some of the "fierce poses" Godzilla struck seemed a little over exaggerated and cartoonish. But I sorta loved that actually.
I also took my wife and son (who famously endure my Godzilla shenanigans) and they both loved it! Minus One seems to be a G film that most people can really enjoy in many levels.
I think the "janky" shots of godzilla were definitely nods to older films. Maybe even Shin?
I am believing this was the case after a repeated viewing. The SFX are just too spot on in every other shot for that prominent lingering broad daylight shot to be a mistake or a rushed sloppy effort. It just has to be an homage. It has to be.
Does Godzilla recognize people in this movie? What about their SCENT? It is odd that he goes after the main character’s love interest… Does Goji recognize him from Odo Island? It sure SEEMS that way…
I have a friend who would fall asleep when I brought Godzilla movies for her to watch. She had narcolepsy issues too, but the city destruction scenes were, like perfect white noise for her.
Godzilla is a safe space for some people to curl up and sleep deeply knowing the King is watching over them. 😆 That's a good idea for a asmr video: Distant Godzilla destruction ambiance. Like a thunderstorm.
The script/story was excellent, the acting, directing, vfx were excellent. It was/is the best movie of the past year and the best Godzilla movie of all. Just saw the minus color and the score seems to be enhanced to a more pronounced level to me. It was awesome as well.
This movie is about human tragedy, survivors' guilt, grief and ptsd, that happens to have Godzilla in it.
Need a minus one sequel but set in a more modern time so we can get Godzilla vs king ghidorah
Before it was such a success I was thinking we'd get a handful of movies set in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s before reaching present day. But now I think we'll be getting a direct sequel which follows these same characters further in the 50s.
I loved this movie, but not sure if it’s my favorite. Best human characters %100. As you said, good or bad I love all Godzilla. Even the 98 film has a special place in my heart.
best godzilla movie to date imo😊 saw it 5 times!
The biggest message in the movie is through sacrifice and so called honor(whether it's kamikaze , sepiku, beheading from losing in disgrace)is to live and there is nothing wrong with that... She tells him that, his ship captain tells him that, even the mechanic does...
Godzilla is 165ft tall and weighs tons upon tons. A sea creature so agile in the water would walk exactly like he walked in the movie. A lumbering beast moving clumsily through town.... Takashi Yamazaki explains it in articles about how he wanted Godzilla to move and it came out perfect....no janky shots...that's how a multi metric ton lumbering gargantuan creature would walk ..mmm, perfecto...
I do think the director was deliberately trying to emulate SUITMATION with the Tokyo land shots. It seems too intentional to be an accident or coincidence.
Good, bad, or other, I liked Godzilla '98. It wasn't a *bad* movie; it just wasn't a good *Godzilla* movie. If it had been called **anything** else, it would have become an awesome, cult-followed monster B-movie classic.
I LOVED the first 30 minutes of 98. The build up had Close Encounters of the Third Kind, late 70s Spielbergian vibes. But once Godzilla was playing Cat & Mouse in the city with piles of fish and helicopters I checked out. The quippy dialogue was also grating. Then they started cribbing heavily from Jurassic Park with their baby godzillas. It ended up being superficial dumb fun. I learned to enjoy it. But over the years I really REALLY started to appreciate the design.
@@BatChainPuller well, my movie preferences have often been called questionable. I do like stupid movies (just not stupid people, but that's for another video👻)
...Strange enough I do remember the movie Returner, well I didn't even remember the title, but I do remember the guy weridly fixated on pasta, like he goes to a shop to buy the pasta and the store owner is like "you really like pasta don't you" and it just looks like he is eating it with no sauce on it. ...and I don't really remember anything else from it, vaguely that it had time travel.
You remember more than I do! I never saw the film, but after Rick mentioned it, and I was looking up footage from it during editing, I remembered the trailer. I remember the trailer WELL because it played automatically at the beginning of one of my Godzilla DVD's! 😆
@@BatChainPuller I think it was pure luck I found it, I was in college and had time and saw it at the rental store type deal.
Nah, should have found a person who has never purposely seen a Godzilla movie, but great concept. It's also unfair, that this is just a great film transcending the subject.
Anyone I know who deliberately avoids Godzilla films probably wouldn't be hip to coming on my channel to all about Godzilla. I found this is a sweet spot between disinterested in the character and still game to give his two cents in a constructive, watchable way. But if I find someone like that, I'll be sure to consider getting them on here for the perspective.
Just remember, this movie was done on a less than $15 million budget
Exactly! Old CH supposedly got paid $20MM for Love and Thunder.
Dude you are picking up spikes moving out of place? Cmon man. This was better than any Godzilla ever graphic wise outside of monsterverse cheat codes.
Yep. If it can be seen it's worth mentioning. And it's quite possible it was intended and designed that way. It was noticed. And despite this, and nostalgia aside, this film has become my current favorite Godzilla film.
It just goes to show you that old tropes done well still work
G is definitely not for everybody. Esoteric. Liked the vid. No doubt would like 2c retrospectives/reviews on movies.
I thought his rigid locomotion was on purpose on land. He's too big to actually exist with real world physics. He is obviously in great pain and anguish. When he attacks he is blind with rage and overcomes the pain and physics of the situation in short bursts of smooth action. So he's lumbering around when on land until he explodes in bursts of anger and then back to lumbering pain, goes into water for relief from gravity. I am onboard for a sequel, I don't think Toho needs a 3rd one off film in a row. I did also like how they used G's weird buoyancy (from most movies that he is in the water) that he is middle of the ocean acting like he's aground. I felt like that was sort of a riff / tongue in cheek look back at his movie history.
I felt like Shin Godzilla was perpetually in pain, but not necessarily this new Godzilla from Minus One. He seemed vicious and vindictive from the get go. On Odo Island before the bomb. His physics were definitely changed once he reappeared in Japan but I was never under the impression that he was in pain from it. He never seemed to use his Heat Ray unless in retaliation to a ranged attack. (The War Ship, The Tanks, and at the end.) In terms of Godzilla's buoyancy, I've always imagined him as a mega sized water fowl. A Mallard, Goose, or Swan, cross with a crocodile.
Yes! Night Flight Dynaman! You’re wheels are real cherry!
About your theory of Godzilla being all in his mind - yeah, Godzilla was the closest to an afterthought as he's ever been, in this movie. Even the way he was animated. It gave me MechaGodzilla vibes. That being said, I still think it's a good movie. I just have no desire to watch it again.
This may be a metaphor for a dictatorship that is holding nuclear war hostage by invading other countries militarily without warning and unleashing destruction and carnage.
Ripped from today's headlines. That's the great thing about silver screen monsters (large and small.) There is no shortage of metaphorical parallels to the real life monsters that we have to deal with and ones we become in order to protect ourselves.
The only Godzilla Movies I’ve seen are Godzilla Minus One, and Godzilla 2014, and that was great, but I just couldn’t bring myself to liking it as much as minus one. Minus One, is up there in my top five movies with Jurassic Park and Jaws.
If you enjoyed the street level perspective and scale of 2014, and the serious, dramatic tone of Minus One - I recommend and encourage you to watch Shin Godzilla as well.
@@BatChainPuller it does look good
Godzilla was part of his shame so why would he want to bring it up to anyone???
I will try to convince my friends to see the black and white showing
I'm going on Sunday. Pretty excited to see how it enhances the experience.
I kinda agree with the gripe of not talking (or no scene) about Godzilla during the "peace" part. With the movie being about dealing with ptsd I imagine that the MC just didn't want to talk about it throughout his phase of getting over the war and building the family. I think maybe a remedy to that criticism could've been a brief interaction between MC and the Kid (Shiro) where the Kid asks about the war cause he feels bad about not being in it and Shikishima vaguely mentions Goji being a beast that no-one could overcome tying it into the trauma related to war.
I’ve been a Godzilla fan all my life and have lived in Japan for the last 18 years. I am still afraid to watch Godzilla Minus One after the travesty that was Shin Godzilla.
Oh man! Personally I enjoyed Shin Godzilla. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't take my advice and see Minus One. Minus One is great! I consider it the best technical Godzilla film which also happens to be a great movie even when Godzilla isn't on screen.
They did so much with a low budget!
After watching several reactions to Minus One, I have noticed at least 3 different sub-title variations that slightly alter the information provided. ❤
Which Godzilla Minus One figure is that? It looks huge!
It's actually from Godzilla the Ride which was the precursor to the Minus One design. It's by Xplus and is in the 30cm scale.
@@BatChainPuller thanks! I have looked around for it but it’s super expensive. I recently got the SH Monster Arts Minus One figure which was also pretty hefty price wise but totally worth it
Before the plane took off in the third act I thought for sure the "bomb safety" was going to be the ejector seat.
The mechanic's way of both forgiving the main character and forcing him to continue living
On rewatch and retrospection having an actual ejection lever puts the choice on the main character to cap his character arc
I really liked this movie but I didn't love it and I'm a huge Godzilla fan. Just think Toho could of put a bit more cash into the film and it could of been awesome as I found all the action scenes were very rushed plus the film dragged in the middle. Good film, tad overrated though IMO.
I understand where you are coming from. Sometimes the biggest fans have the biggest expectations. I threw my "head script" out in the third act and just relished what was bombarding me. While it might not have been "as fun" as some of the other entries, it certainly was the overall best Crafted Godzilla film as a whole (to me anyway.)
Godzilla on Odo island wasn't a baby, it was fully grown before the Americans nuked the bikini atoll and gave it super cancer, which then caused it to start growing in size _rapidly_
I’m Glad his parents didn’t come back…
What a great discussion
I have a feeling that the reason why Godzilla looked so stiff in most shots was due to their budget, but also due to the fact that Godzilla is typically a guy in a suit, not completely cgi.
Don’t think the mechanic installed the ejection seat; the plane was an advanced model with on built-in from the factory.
And yeah, Minus One was a 2023 top three movie.
I am filled with a lot of disappointment because I did not see Godzilla Minus One. I was unaware of how much people are enjoying this movie. Both color and black and white I missed out on. I would see either one. Why did it leave so fast? People were still going to see it - some multiple times, I found out.
It was a limited release (in the US) but it was given about a month extension in theaters because of the numbers it was doing. The black and white version came to theaters and stayed about a week or two in some cities. Don't worry! It will probably be out on Bluray and streaming THIS YEAR.
The reason Godzilla running gets to me is because he’s literally ran before in the prior movies and he doesn’t pump his arms in those scenes (this refers to the monster verse version of Godzilla and the new trailer)
See I can get pic about this movie but I don't because considering what they used how to use it the money that was involved it was a great movie. As far as Godzilla 98 let's talk about the better said. I do love introducing Godzilla to new people and I love finding out their take on the different types of Godzillas I love this concept that you're doing here I'd like to see more of this for other movies not just Godzilla's but that would be great too.
Why would he talk about seeing Godzilla ? Who gonna believe him.
Get him to watch Godzilla King of the Monsters (recent version)
I'm making a list. He may not be too happy about this. 😆 But we'll see where it goes.
...l had a problem with Godzilla being so small and suddenly growing gigantic...
To be fair, in the original they theorized that Godzilla was some sort of dinosaur remnant that was mutated by nuclear testing. And then they outright showed Godzilla's origin (as Godzillasaurus) during the time travel aspects of 1991"a Godzilla vs Ghidorah. So there is a history of that. Plus, it's a giant monster movie.
If he has talked about Godzilla early on prior would have thought he was crazy
He's a coward for not killing himself? Wtf dude?
Dude on the left was too picky for my tastes lol. Super godzilla fan btw.
The entire movie cost $10-15 million. So, I would give them some slack on the FX.
HEDORAH!!!!
My personal favorite Godzilla villain! He deserves a comeback!
神風部隊の最後の歴史を告げよう。最終的には、「カミカゼ」に使用する戦闘機が不足 した。このために、訓練の為の飛行機が集められて使用された。これは「赤トンボ」と呼ばれた「複葉機」だった。信じれるかい？ 第一次世界大戦の話では無くて、第二次世界大戦の末期だぜ！ このゼロ戦の半分の速度の骨董品の複葉機に、250kg爆弾を抱えて、飛行場を飛び立って、帰還する飛行機は1機も無かった。
I'm a big Godzilla fan... and I honestly wasn't very blown away by this movie. I found it slow, predictable and no stakes...
Predator 2 sucks. He's right.
I unapologetically adore that imperfect piece of early 90's cash grab. But I can see how people wouldn't like it. The original was just so perfect. But that's another video! 😆
God of Monsters.. not some weak king!
Let him see shin Godzilla
Your gripes are trash, man. Your friend is right. Ppl think they know what trauma looks like, but that’s just bc they’ve mostly experienced it through movies. He played that role SO well. It’s not that he thought he was going crazy, at least not entirely. Like your friend says, he WOULDN’t be talking about it. When you’re in that type of environment, your subconscious doesn’t bother with alerting anyone bc at any given moment, anything can wipe out entire cities, so it’s not a priority, specially when knowing something the general public doesn’t might give you a survival advantage. And how can you call yourself a fan?! The movement you say was weird was a reference to Shin Godzilla- that’s how he moved! 😅 Watch it again, man. Be serious.
Godzilla/Kong looks stupid
Movie is overated. That 15m went to paying off UA-camrs to hype this shit
Like it. U 2 do more movie reviews
We did a Minus Color review which is up. And I think we'll for sure continue doing reviews of both Godzilla and non-Godzilla films.
Isnt the rain after the atomic blast actually blood from the amount of people thrown into the air and destroyed
That would be pretty dark if true but I think it's actually just instant corruption of the sky from immeasurable amounts of charred and burning debris.
@@BatChainPuller that makes a little more sense. The only reason I was saying that because I saw it in black-and-white. So to me all my friends, we thought it was blood but still doesn’t change the fact that that scene was still awesome and probably the best destruction scene in a movie that I’ve ever seen I saw that and was like what could they possibly do to kill Godzilla