Godzilla Minus One Puts Hollywood Blockbusters to Shame
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Today on the Brittney Reacts Show we reviewed the new Japanese film Godzilla Minus One Written and Directed by Takashi Yamazaki. I haven't seen many Godzilla movies. I've seen Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire but Godzilla minus one is by far the best monster movie I have ever seen.
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One of my favorite parts is when Noriko comes home to tell that she got an office job. Koichi is all hurt and says “Don’t I make enough money for us?” I felt that was the first time for sure you realize that, despite refusing a romantic relationship, he’s come to feel like they’re his family and he’s not hoping to get rid of them someday.
That scene felt so tense I ffelt like it was going to be one of those scenes that would be him just yelling at her about it being a mans job to support the house but gladly it doesnt go that way
True, the story avoided a lot of cliches, while still nailing a satisfying monster-movie plot, can't wait to see it again!
@@diemes5463 we just know that if this movie was a Hollywood movie it would have went down this route.
I didn't think of that, that's cool
Welllllll that's nice "storytelling" and everything, but Noriko is still letting a man give her a home, so she's unfortunately not a girlboss & not fighting the patriarchy. 0/10.
The most amazing thing about this movie is how it has transcended the traditional Godzilla fan base and seems to appeal to such a wider audience than in the past. There are so many more layers to it than most people who haven't seen it would realize.
well what makes the film special. You could take Godzilla out of it, and you still end up with a great story.
I strongly sugest you watch the first Godzilla movie. These themes and concepts are present throughout the whole thing. Godzilla was made to be a deep social commentary
@@benjaminbishop3248 buddy, I'm 56, and I saw the original 1954 Godzilla 40 years ago. I get it, I understand what he represented in his original ideation.
no doubt I didn't mean to come off condacending. I just wanted to point out how Godzilla has always been a very human story. Lol I fight with my friends about how they hate the human stuff in the MV and I'm always yelling that the humans have always been the point of Godzilla. @@shannonchurchill4556
I was fully prepared to dislike the character of Sumiko when she first appeared and berated Koichi for not fulfilling his "duty" as a kamikaze pilot. Later, when she gave up her stash of rice to feed Akiko, I realized that I'd judged her too harshly and that she was in grieving for her children. As the movie progressed... watching her care for Akiko as Noriko went to work and Koichi dealt with Godzilla... I came to have a great deal of respect for her.
Sumiko was played by an Sakura Ando. A very famous actress in Japan😊
Yeah, I have no words. By the end of the movie, I was rooting for her as well. You can see she was so concerned for Koichi, the man she blamed when they first met. She has such a big heart. It made me tear up.
Yeah, she wasn't one dimensional.
Like many Japanese people at the time, she was looking for someone to blame in the wake of the fire bombings that destroyed her life around her - the pilot that failed in his duty (a duty to die in a suicide attack at that) made for a convenient target for her frustrations. It’s only after the child entered the picture that she began to see him as a person again because she had just lost her own children: as she bonded with the child, she came to care for her guardian as well - by the time he left the child with the envelope of cash to her care, she realized that she didn’t want to see him die (a complete reversal of her initial reaction to his return home).
That moment when she gave them her rice.....dude....I about lost my shit. That was such a powerful moment for me. "It's for Akiko, keep her alive." DAAAaaaaamnnnnn.
this movie has its cliches but it just WORKS. You root for the characters, you laugh and cry with them and Godzilla himself truly feels like a threat. Great movie!
Well it was the first Godzilla film where I was glad when they got the SOB at the end.
A lot of cliches were towards the end but by that point it had earned all of them.
Why laugh?
@@pawelgurdziel Why not, there are some genuinely funny moments in the film, such as the ex soldiers deciding they had better odds at defeating Godzilla than surviving WW2
I can't believe I went in a Godzilla movie and end up liking the human parts the most bruh. I went in expecting a dumb lizard movie and left with tears in my eyes
I haven’t cried watching a movie in so long. Didn’t think I’d cry watching a Godzilla movie but I did. I saw some audience crying after the movie finished as well. That when you know the movie was incredible. The theater was dead silent during silent scenes as well. You could hear a needle drop. 5/5 ! Incredible experience!
I had the same experience! This movie is SO GOOD!!
My youngest brother looked over and said to me..
Who cries in a Godzilla movie ? 😢
I said..
We do .
Right right. I teared up and was like why am I crying. The first movie made me 😭. What a great great movie.
I feel it says a lot that when I think back on my viewing of Minus One it's the human characters that stand out and not Godzilla.....and I've always been a big G-Fan my whole life. My theater cheered loudly twice...first when they showed Koichi's parachute and then when they revealed Noriko in her hospital bed. No one wanted them to die. I can't say the same for any of the human characters in the Monsterverse universe. Godzilla Minus One had way more character development in 2 hours than all of the Monsterverse movies combined thus far.
Toho's best kaiju films, and Daiei too are all Human centric. Kiryu and Irys were some of the absolute BEST Kaiju EVER. They were good because of the Humans. the monsters are a terrifying threat because you know just how much devastation has been wrought as seen by the Humans.
"Goodbye Yoshito" is one of the most moving moments in any Kaiju film... because it MEANT something.
I just saw it last night and you mentioning the ending started me getting teary eyed all over again. Great movie.
Literally THE BEST time to be a Godzilla fan since the fiction’s inception- Toho doing more serious Godzilla films, Legendary doing super fun kaiju beat’em up, the comics doing their own thing.
This film was a masterpiece within the franchise.
I like when the Godzilla movies portrays the realistic casualties, tragedies and intense survival like the original rather than some big funny goofy monster destroying large buildings for fun.
I like to think of Godzilla as just a scared confused animal being the result of the humanity's own fault of radiative waste which portrays him and humanity as both the victims and the villains at the same time without being black and white.
Great review!
Personally, I was really surprised by how much I liked this movie. It is the first monster movie I've seen in a long while where I cared about the human characters.
The human characters ere the best part!
@@Brittney_Reacts_I'm so glad you pointed out how this movie made you care about the characters
So many movies try to make every character a meta asshole or know-it-all bitch and then they use a cheap "redemption" arc to manipulate us into caring
If the protagonists don't care about people dying around them or care about the villian's destruction then why should the audience???
That's a huge reason the Hollywood is failing to gain audiences
@@Brittney_Reacts_ Brittney, you REALLY need to watch the ORIGINAL. Not the Raymond Burr hacked version, but a subtitled version of the true original Godzilla.
It's not a monster movie in the sense people tend to think of them today. It's a disaster movie where Godzilla is the disaster. And that comes through here.
I can’t believe I got teary-eyed at a Godzilla movie lol I totally agree with you, this is my favorite movie of 2023 or even the past five years. Hollywood should be ashamed for constantly feeding us bloated crap.
I really am glad this movie is doing well. I LOVED this. Not even as a Godzilla fan people will love this. The characters are so good. And it’s the first Godzilla movie where I felt emotion for the characters.
They really made you care
you gotta admit you felt for Bryan Cranston in the first 1/3rd of Godzilla 2014 at least
@@Brittney_Reacts_also Godzilla looks like his og version with a modern update
@@Chuck_EL SFX fell apart in the last 1/3 of the movie.
Big Godzilla fan here. I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't narrative. Holy moly. This story was so good. Brittney brought up an excellent point, it's the acting that cements this story as the best this year. It's just so harrowing.
I liked all the actors but I think my favorite was Noda, he was a mad scientist type but for the most part fairly realistic. He (and Noriko somewhat) was the main source of optimism in the movie for me.
You touched on a lot of important points, thank you. Something I caught onto was that, this is a society during a post war period of time, where they lost. A very proud honorable people who lost in disgrace, and were traumatized, not only by two h-bombs, but Tokyo was basically destroyed by a campaign of fire bombings that killed 200,000 citizens, and left 2 Million homeless. So, the team ups, and the citizens uniting... These are even more important to Japanese post war society, because they are rebuilding from the time of the Emperor, from the time when they were being sent to die, for nothing. The film gives us tiny clues about all this, but for audience members who are not as familiar with that time period, and the culture of Japan at the time, it is just another layer for some to relate to easier. Great review, BTW, thanks do much!!!!
i VERY MUCH AGREE!! For those not familiar w/history and/or Japanese culture, the details that this film covers can easily go over their heads. I'm very glad to see how the Japanese people actually react to the aftermath of war. IMHO... It was done respectfully & done very well. And I appreciated seeing that in a Godzilla movie.
Really cool detail - the reporters on top of the roof scene is a callback to the first Godzilla movie where reporters were in a radio tower(?) and recording before it collapsed. It’s such a wonderful nod to the original movie
Yes indeed, I also love that part
YES... I'd picked up on that too!!! 🙂
And a really nice nod to accuracy. Normally it is the iconic Tokyo Tower, but that structure did not exist yet in 1947
Omg I didn’t know that wow!
That scene was actually at the time of the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake. Of course no Godzilla. It is tsunami. Ten people from the three storey building have warned the people of the city disaster. The young woman announcer has been transmitting the tsunami to the end in real time by a huge speaker installed on the roof and wire communication. It was still believed that this building was safe at this time. The broadcasting room was on the third floor. This tsunami episode is very famous in Japan. There are a lot of scenes that the director got inspiration from the actual tsunami picture.
Oscar nomination. If any movie this year deserves an Oscar it’s this one. By far better than ‘All’ the one hundred million dollar plus budget ‘trash’ coming out of Hollywood within the past decade or more. Actors getting rich deceiving themselves that they’re ‘box office’ quality with useless scripts. Super hero movies keep Hollywood on ‘life support.’
Thank you for your honest and loving review of the work. I felt the difference between fake reviewers who give negative reactions that seem like they misunderstand the details of the work in order to promote their own high position.
The comments below are almost the same as comments made on other review videos, but I hope you will consider them as supplementary material. As for the wartime story, it is intended to examine the degree to which it is reproduced in the movie, and is not written as a story with trivial malice or grudge.
I'm 55 years old Japanese. This is a story about my friend's (66 year old) father (he passed away a few years ago at the age of 90).
My friend's father, Mr. T, told me about his war experience.
At the end of the war, the area around Ginza, where this movie is set, was bombed. Mr. T had come to Tokyo to take his university entrance exams, but just as he was there, he was involved in an accident that caused Yurakucho Station (located behind the theater that Godzilla destroyed with his tail in the movie) to collapse. Most of the people who had been nearby died instantly. A Japanese officer nearby was still saluting, his upper and lower body torn in half. His mother, who was nearby with her baby in her arms, had disappeared. Several students nearby were alive but buried in the rubble. But even decades after experiencing that hellish scene, Mr. T said, ``I never felt lucky to have survived that place.''
I watched this movie wondering how much hell there was.
It's true that it's a movie, so there are a lot of convenient scenes.
However, when a disaster actually occurs, things that are obvious, for better or worse, do not always come true. For example, it was located not far from the epicenter of the explosion in Hiroshima, and although the building was not very sturdy, some people were able to survive unharmed because it was in the shadow of the building. According to survivors, people across the street instantly turned into charred corpses, others disappeared as if they had evaporated, and some went missing.
I have heard that while there were many tragedies such as wars and disasters, there were also some incredible miracles.
Interesting details about this movie. The hospital that appears at the end is a Christian hospital because the nurses' clothes and the interior of the hospital rooms are unique. Godzilla uses his atomic breath to counterattack the tank's gunfire, blowing up the National Diet Building along with the tank, and the reflected blast from there blows away Ginza. People near Nichigeki were blown down Harumi-dori toward Kachidoki Bridge and Tsukiji Fish Market. In fact, St. Luke's Hospital, which was established in 1901, is located a little further away from Kachidoki Bridge in that direction. This hospital is known as the place where many people were taken during the Aum Shinrikyo subway sarin attack. It's a very realistic setting.
I would like to add one more piece of information that I remembered.
My friend's father, Mr. T, is from Sakata City, Yamagata Prefecture, and his classmate at the same elementary school was Haruo Nakajima, who served as the suit actor for the first Godzilla in 1954.
A few years before the war began, when the two were in elementary school, Nakajima ate Mr. T's bento without permission and they got into a big fight. Mr. T. remembers that scene well, and said that every time he saw Godzilla, he fondly remembered Mr. Nakajima, who stole his bento and ate it. ``Mr. Nakajima was a strange person,'' Mr. T said, but he heard that in his later years his Alzheimer's disease progressed, and while in the hospital he was often plagued by hallucinations of being engulfed in air raid flames. When I heard that story, I was horrified by the fact that even after more than half a century, the war experience remains with us until we die.
Sorry for the long long post.
I hope Google Translate reflects it correctly.
The only film out right now that is worth seeing on the big screen..
The budget of this movie is the budget for the catering for a marvel/disney movie LOL This movie was perfect in every aspect. The first real monster movie aside from 1954, that had a story outside the monster/destruction you cared about and was invested in 100%. I seen it 3 times and it was just as impactful and awesome every time.
it is in my top 11 for the year and i too think it should be in the oscar conversation.
Definitely! I loved it!
Why I never found your channel before is beyond me. Need to check other reviews, but in this one i saw, how deep you dive into analyze things in a movie , and talk about little things that are crucial for the final picture. Thumbs up!
Thank you!
Yep. This Godzilla is a different beast. Like a Kurosawa movie, but with a monster in it. Outclasses Hollywood blockbusters and makes them look like toy commercials.
Totally agree!
Been a long time godzilla fan. Watched a lot of the old 70s films as a kid. I've seen every movie now to date. This film took me by surprise. It's not just an amazing godzilla movie, it's an amazing movie period. I'm so glad to see the franchise return to its roots and take itself seriously again. I can finally recommend a godzilla film to anyone.
Yeah you know something is wrong when (As a Godzilla fan) When the Big G turns up and stomps stuff, you just want to get back to the story being told by these characters
Great review Brittney! Saw Minus One last night and it was fantastic. As one of the few huge fans of Godzilla King of the Monsters I didn't think another G movie would come close, but this one surpassed it. I loved a lot of the older movies with the big monster fights and of course the 1954 original, but Minus One did something that all the others failed to do by merging practical effects, CGI, story, and believable human characters in a way that no other Kaiju movie has done before. I saw that someone in your chat mentioned that they weren't sure if they would see it because Godzilla has been around since her grandma was watching movies; do yourself a favour and skip the Hollywood bullshit movies playing right now and go and see this. Just because something has been around a long time doesn't mean that it can't be reimagined, and the cast and crew of Minus One have created a bonafide masterpiece. Go see it!
ABSOLUTLEY!!! I took a friend of mine, who has some insight of GODZILLA & doesn't like subtitles. However, even he was surprised how much he liked this film. It blew him away!!!
I can’t say enough good things about this film! The human element was amazing. I loved it. It could have been 30 minutes longer without another second of Godzilla and it still would have been awesome. That’s how good the characters were. You actually care about the characters and you can relate to them. I miss this in film. If you don’t shed a few tears while watching this film there might be something wrong with you😊.
If the Barbie movie can be nominated then Godzilla Minus One damn well should be too! Your take on the movie and the universal themes that are so relatable to the average person is exactly why I liked it so much. Japanese movies can be pretty bizarre from an American pov but this one was so easily watchable, the characters so likeable, and the redemption arc was perfect.
This movie is my personal vote for movie of the year & definitely without a doubt in my top 5 of all-time, the story telling went above & beyond, the action was there when being displayed, when Godzilla was on screen you could just feel his presence & see the fear he instills on whomever witnesses his destruction
Loved this movie. Godzilla was an accent piece in this movie, coming in to raise the damage level up to the next level. Godzilla wasn't the main character, the humans were.
Great movie and great review. I dragged a couple friends to it who were leery because of subtitles but both loved it and “overcame the 1-inch tall barrier of subtitles to be introduced to an amazing film” (paraphrasing Parasite Oscar acceptance speech)
This movie had subtitles. You know this movie zoned you in when you don't want to miss any subtitles. This is how good it was.
Love your enthusiasm on your review of Godzilla Minus One. 🙌🏽
I legitimately cried at the end of this movie. So good! Lifelong Godzilla fan here but this movie just hit harder. I agree with pretty much everything you said in this review.❤
You should watch Shin Godzilla if you liked this one. Serious movie with a lot of great political satire. It also cleared the Japanese academy awards. The original Godzilla itself was also very serious, among the most depressing movies I’ve ever seen but very good
Even this movie tops the Shin Godzilla movie. And even the Shin Godzilla movie was better than any movie coming out of Hollywood within the past ten years.
@@Cornbread-gi6ktToho’s been on a role. Both Shin and Minus One are phenomenal and didn’t cost them $300 million to make lol
@@jeremiahmorales222 Just like in the automobile industry, they didn’t invent the automobile, they just made the automobile better.
I haven’t watched it but it makes me happy to see it’s doing well cause there’s two actors I really love there. Ryunosuke Kamiki and Yuki Yamada are actors I’ve really liked since watching their live action anime adaptation and other films they are featured. So seeing this movie getting well received, makes me happy for them!
Kamiki is the voice of Taki from 'Your Name' and he's also voiced a lot of Studio Ghibli films.
As a side note, Yuki Yamada's father is
He was a former professional baseball player for the Chunichi Dragons
This film has no political agenda.
No unrealistic scenes.
Great writing and acting.
Those that judge anime.. this is what anime gives you.
No political agenda?!
The entire movie was immensely critical of the imperial government and of war in general. Just because it didn't include people you don't like doesn't mean It wasn't an extremely political movie.
No political agenda my ass, like this movie wasn't anti-American and Japanese government.
@@MistressChara nice try troll.
I do enjoy the human characters so much in this film. Which is something the Monsterverse lacks. But Monarch Legacy of Monsters does have set of interesting characters.
I enjoyed the humans in the MonsterVerse.
I agree 100%. It deserves the best film of the year consideration.
I am a researcher of Japanese folklore. I watched Godzilla Minus 1 four times. I think this is a masterpiece of Japanese cinema rather than a Godzilla movie. However, none of my friends have seen Godzilla Minus 1. The wonders of Godzilla Minus 1 are still not as well known in Japanese society as Miyazaki's anime.
Godzilla is the most diverse franchise of all time. It has drama, horror, comedy, camp, war, time travel, spies, ghosts, aliens, robots, super heroes, mystery, politics, action, adventure, & now noir. It has something for everyone. & this film is undoubtedly the best of them.
When that lady looked outside of the train and she said Godzilla, they showed Godzilla, and the classic theme song came on, I got goosebumps
So excited about this movie! Wasn't interested in the least and have never watched a Godzilla movie but everyone is loving it like you have! Bought tickets for this Friday
Also I love your channel! Been watching since the Velma days lol
Thanks!
Hey Brittany. It was and IS a VERY good movie. Doubt any of us "Older" Godzilla fans saw this coming! For me? I'm very happy that the younger generation of movie geeks enjoyed it! 😂 Its definitely refreshing, and the "surprise nga!" refreshing movie! Not the best ever, but dang sure worthy, to be considered in a category as such. On a smaller budget that those "other" big companies had, and created movies with very lackluster results. Godzilla Minus One, rocked it. And rocked the name and 70 year name VERY WELL❤!
It's not so much trauma, but it's his guilt that haunts him. He was a kamikaze pilot who failed to do his mission due to his fear. And then again on the first island where we see Godzilla. Now he needs to redeem himself for that.
Awesome review! You touched on so many good points. I honestly don’t know how they got this made for 15M just shows the waste and inefficiencies of Hollywood.
It's an excellent post-war drama that happens to have a really pissed off Godzilla.
Just a tidbit regarding the reporters on the roof of the building: It is a reproduction of a shot from the original Godzilla (1954). In the OG shot, the reporters are on a broadcast transmission tower.
No tears, but boy did I get goosebumps watching this film. Everything was masterful. I didn't care that it wasn't in English. I am glad it wasn't dubbed because the acting was so perfect. Best movie I have seen in a while.
Finally got the chance to see this movie and was flabbergasted. Godzilla Minus One is a master class of "Show, don't tell." Everything you said.... ditto! Your insights made me appreciate the movie even more. I'm Japanese-American born in Tokyo and I kept imagining my parents being in the crowds after WW2!.
Gojira 1954 was very serious. Also one you might want to watch.
I recommend seeing Japanese Toho Studios made Shin Godzilla from 2016. It's also $15M and looks amazing. The theme in this movie is bureaucracy is Impotent
Thanks for your comment.
I’ve never thought that I would cry watching a Godzilla movie.
Glad to hear you liked GM1, Brittney! I’m not a fan of monster movies either but so many UA-camrs are recommending it so I’m soooo interested! The lead actor is Ryunosuke Kamiki who also does a lot of voiceover work in anime - in fact he did the voice of Taki in the anime Your Name. He is a fantastic actor here in Japan!
I was so shocked that he's so grown up now because I got so used to him as a little kid. He's been an actor for so long. Such a talented guy.
I wouldnt say its the most best movie of all time but i would say movie of the year.
The best G -1 review so far. Good job !
Thanks!
The reporters on the roof! 😳I don’t often talk out-loud in a theatre, but I was urgently telling these guys to “Run! Get off the roof!! Why are you still ON THE ROOF?!”
I remember after watching Godzilla vs Kong talking about how we need another solo horror film that makes you afraid of Godzilla and actually take him seriously rather than having you root for him or the monster he’s battling, I really wanted a film where it was just him against mankind, killing everyone in his path and we finally got that, thanks to Takashi Yamazaki, it’s the Godzilla film I have been hoping to see for so long, it was absolutely brilliant, the action with scenes Godzilla were intense as fuck, I saw it in RPX and I felt every footstep, roar and explosion and the atomic breath scene was just astonishing, I felt so much for the humans, I was on the verge of tears for Koichi and I felt terrible for the adopted daughter Akiko when she started sobbing, it just shows you how much of a horrible monster Godzilla was. Toho did a phenomenal job with this movie, it left me in awe.
As a Godzilla fan I believe this is the best Godzilla/kaiju movie I’ve ever seen
I just watched it and it was really really good. Definitely one of my top favourite movies of the year. I cried at a few scenes so it was very emotional. Literally a masterpiece movie I loved it so much 😭
Godzilla started as a serious movie and still is once in a while. I recommend checking out Shin Godzilla if you liked Minus One.
Godzilla minus 1 was so good seeing it at imax theater!!! I not gonna lie im a men took my girlfriend out seeing the movie i gotta hold back my tear lol
The beauty in Godzilla is the fact that the first movie came out 9 years after what happened to Hiroshima, and I highly recommend Godzilla 1954 it's a grim movie a cautionary tale about nuclear warfare & keeping in mind that it was still new at the time.
I read somewhere that many people praised it and many others thought it was too soon and disrespectful to the victim, I hope no one thinks it's disrespectful but I can't throw my hat in that ring.
Another Godzilla I'd recommend is Shin Godzilla it's a social commentary on Japanese politics because of how they handled the nuclear waste
When she asked ‘is your war over?’, that got to me.
I went in as a GODZILLA FAN. I had No Idea it was in subtitles and it was my first subtitle movie at the novies!! I WAS BLOWN AWAY. People complain about Bay formers and Monsterverse because the story is STUPID and the human characters are even STUPIDER. Im watching a Godzilla movie and Im actually concerned about the humans!! Also I love war movies. And this movie over actual war movies displayed life in Japan post WW2 post as in months or a year later!! I hope this movie wins best picture and they did it with 15 MiL Budget when Hollywood spends 100 to 200 MIL on a movie like this. Thankyou Japan for reminding us how to make a monster movie
Love your channel, I look forward to hearing your thoughts on things! Keep up the good work.
Thanks!
I'm guessing that most of the recent Hollywood film budget went into catering.
I just kinda saw it on a whim and it's basically my favourite movie of the year. Not the most technical or deep but the heart in this movie is so compelling. And sitting with character that's a kamikaze pilot and lives with guilt is such a unique perspective. The depiction of PTSD is so good yet equally so frustrating and heartbreaking. You kinda keep thinking come on man just comfort the child yet he can't, and he does want to yet he feels so fundamentally broken he can't allow himself to be human.
This movie really opened my eyes to how far hollywood has fallen.. turns out kicking out everyone who is white, a man, likes Trump, (real talented, creative, experienced) and filling it up with untalented, unexperienced activists, (who pay themselves, and the friends they bought in, crazy high amounts of money)..turns out that doesnt work, these people havent lived a real life, so cant write or act like a real human.. and it shows.. G-1 is truly the best mobie ive seen for years, and im going back tonught , for another screening
You're reaction was amazing. I totally agree with you. The human characters are so relatable to average people. No super heroes, no badass people fighting off 75 assassins at once. Just regular people coming together for each other. And the subtitles made it even better IMO. And Godzilla. OMG this Godzilla was angry, frightening, and no friend to humanity. True to original intent. I loved it, start to finish.
This movie was PHENOMENAL. Seeing it a third time this weekend after convincing my bro to go
I just watched this movie today and I think it deserves some awards. The music, the CGI, the ACTING. Wow, what a human story. While I can nitpick on a couple things in the movie. It simply was incredible. I am SO GLAD that it was released in the US and I went to see it in the theater. This is by far my FAVORITE Godzilla movie ever! I'm still excited about it!
Saw it today, Great Movie.. Best new movie I've seen in a very long time.
The music that comes out when Godzilla appears. Such a classic it gave me chills. Awesome movie
I saw the movie Sunday. I loved it. Real people with flaws working together.
Today's Hollywood actors don't know how to act.
The moment that touched me was when Godzilla unleashed his breath and you can see a mushroom cloud similar to the atomic bomb rising over the city scape and the woman said "Please not again"
This was a terrific drama that just happened to have a Kaiju mixed into the plot. Think about this, a kamikaze pilot returning home from the war and has PTSD. If that isn’t twisted enough. 😵💫
@@P.90.603 part of the plot was redemption and a realization by him and others that they were sacrificing themselves for a government that didn’t care about them. It was an interesting insight into Japanese culture.
I think the difference between this movie and other godzilla movies is that this isn't a great Godzilla movie, it's just a great movie period.
So is the 1954 original
I read a terrible comment on X saying that the movie is racist and anti-imperialistic in its message because she believes Godzilla is an allegory of the US and all the pain it inflicted to Asians as a whole. Why people can't watch movies without the rosy-lenses of politics clouding their appreciation for a good written story? 😮💨
Asians as a whole ? The USA liberated China, Philippines, Burma, Korea, Indo-China and Japan. No country inflicted more pain on people than Japan, Just look at Nanking !! (except maybe Germany.) Also in the film they spoke about how Japan disregarded it's own people and told them to fight to the death.. People make up history the way they want it to be.
People make me sick ignorantly changing history and calling everything racist.
Funny that in the movie they never really send knocks at america in the movie like all they say is america is busy and all the characters just accept it. Also theres the fact that they end up getting allowed to use decomissioned ships that the japanese didnt even own anymore. Id honestly say this is one of the least anti america japanese godzilla movies.
@@Deepseashark I almost don't understand the comment above from spamkromite, what does anti-imperialistic mean? Don't people know what Japan did in China, Korea and The Philippines.. I suppose not.
@@Michael-Philip plus this movie calls out Japan's die for our country point of view in ww2 so I'd say this movie is way more anti Japan in its messaging
Thank you! Thinking the same thing about under acting.
So not only a fantastic period drama, but a solid Godzilla movie? Sold!!😊
If you are into gaming, you should play Yakuza/Like a Dragon series. The voice acting (Japanese Dub) in these games are superb, especially in Yakuza 0, 7: Like a Dragon, Like a Dragon Gaiden and the demo for 8: Infinite Wealth.
This movie has not yet been released where I live; however, this is the best review I have yet seen of this film. I will try and see this movie ASAP; but you earn my subscription. Great work!
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I just got back from seeing Godzilla minus one and it was spectacular. I felt more for the human characters in this move than I ever felt for the characters Godzilla 2014 kong and godzilla king of the monsters et cetera
Time to watch some of the toho films because you’ll definitely get good out of those
私がこの映画を見て印象に残ったのは、「俺の戦争が終わってないんだ！」という言葉です。
The acting, writing, pacing, and beats are so harmonious. Nothing is forced. There's no forced emotions or action. There was no forced relationship or flirting. Nothing is overdone. Action, drama, horror, relationships, a little bit of comedy, none of the forced tension or adversity we get from Captain Marvel or the cheap laughs and quips. When the little girl cries because mom isn't coming home it hurt to watch.
Another thing I really enjoyed about the movie is everyone had to constantly change their plans because Godzilla ruins them. When they're clearing mines they come across a damaged ship and they're ordered to take care of it. Little do they know Godzilla is lurking below the waters. Then Godzilla bursts out of the water and they abandon their mission.
I'm watching the movie again today with another group of friends. Easily the best movie I've seen a while.
I liked it a lot but the overacting of certain characters did take me out of some scenes, I’ve heard this is just how Japanese movies tend to be but shin Godzilla had very few moments of overacting imo.
Best scene by FAR for me was when Godzilla was slowly pursuing the main characters on the little dingy, the tension and fear was so palpable it was even more frightening to me than jaws
Yes and YES!
I'm amazed at (first if all, the budget) but of how many people think these are Oscar worthy performances. Hollywood's been starving people of competent acting so bad.
I grew up on old Godzilla and missed much of the new stuff, but the atomic spikes and the boat-scene are excellent additions I haven't seen before in this franchise.
And I need to see Shin Godzilla.
you call it overacting, I call it acting. Compared to hollywood where the acting is just being snarky.
@@gateofdestiny no dude I’m comparing it to real life people, fuck what movies tell you acting should be, in my mind, good acting is any acting that makes me forget its acting at all, you feel me?
You can’t tell me with a straight face the one they called kid who kept making Jim Carrey facial expressions felt as real as the lead
what i love about this movie is how it really harkens back to the original messages and themes from the FIRST godzilla movie, a tone that frankly hasn't been highlighted in many godzilla movies ever since (save for a few bangers like shin godzilla)
i saw it 4 times! perfect movie imo and this is definitely the best movie of the year!
I'm right there with you. This has actually gone up to my top 5 movies of all time. I watched it twice. Once in a tiny theater and once in Imax last night. This movie has hit every plate for me.
I didn't exxpect Eren Yeager from Attack on Titan to show up in this movie to cry, whine, and pity himself so much, but you are right, this has got to be one of the best movies of the year, although I also liked the Creator, hahahahahahaha. Also, I am on a million film channels, and subscribe to about 6-7 of them, but I watched your entire review till the end *clap* clap*
.. i almost cried like 5 times watching this film.. it was/is way deeper than i was expecting
Best movie to come out since top gun maverick
I love this movie! I really wish I could get "normies" to go see this, but they hear the word "godzilla" and dismiss it. I don't want to give them an "elevator pitch" and give anything away. I just want everyone to go see this movie! The less you know going in the better.
MC actor is a child prodigy in acting and won many acting awards...
You definitely need to watch several Godzilla films & the OG film. Godzilla can be fun adventure & action but has also crossed into hardcore drama & seriousness before. Even the MonsterVerse has with how its protagonists are affected by Godzilla / other kaiju.
Nice review, Brit. Just subscribed!! Your voice is lovely and sounds wonderful. Do you work with kids? You sound like a professional narrator/teacher. Anyhow, great review! I frickin' LOVED this movie. Besides "Shin Godzilla", which I think is Hideki Anno's greatest work so far, Evangelion aside, this might just be the best one since the original.
“Subtle acting” is partially due to excessive use of CG, which places actors in blank rooms devoid of any surroundings with which they would normally interact. This requires them to be largely immobile, and creates flat scenes with little emotional investment.
I seen it twice now and still cant believe how fantastic it is. It akes you on an em,otional journey on every level. best film for years
Just saw it on IMAX for the second time. It's brilliant. I rarely leave the home theatre. It gave me surprise goosebumps like when I saw Star Wars for the first time. No joke.
who knew to make a badass Godzilla movie, you put in a human centric story