Godzilla Minus One - December 1, 2023

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The "Monsterverse" is so stupid. The MCU-ification of everything is genuinely the worst thing to happen to pop culture.

I'll stick with Peter Jacksons King Kong :dunno.
I enjoyed GvK as a one-time viewing and will probably feel the same about GxK, but I agree with both of these points.

King Kong 2005 is a masterpiece. Everything about it, especially the hour before they get to the island. Not trying to be provocative, I just love me some well-done world/character building.
 
Yes he said JAWS and JP were his favorite inspirations.

Can it be that you, me and Khev all pick Minus 1 as our favorite movie of the year! :thud:
Absolutely. I was so excited for John Woo's Hollywood return but Silent Night was 6/10 at best. Woo just hasn't been himself since the 90's. :(

That said there's still The Boy and the Heron but that still guarantees that the best film of the year will come from Japan.
 
I do believe I will love it more when I watch it again and know what kind of film it is.

After all Jaws is my fav film and the director of this film obviously loves it also. :)
I'm good with the amount of Godzilla action we got.

Opening island
First boat scene
Ginza attack
Final showdown

Each one had its own punch and identity (man did they set the tone spectacularly with the Odo Island) and he never wore out his welcome.
 
Back from 2nd viewing.

I was already enamored with it after the 1st but now I am firmly convinced that it is my favorite movie of 2023, Godzilla movie and honestly a masterpiece at least for TOHO standards.

The crazy part is that I no longer felt like I needed another Godzilla rampage scene that’s how much I was invested in all of the characters not just the main.

Even the freaking side characters had complete arcs!!!

They literally shoot Godzilla in the mouth with him chomping down on a mine just like in JAWS with the air tank.

You can just make out the first musical note from JAWS in that scene.

The slowed down air raid siren as background music during that early chase scene in the ocean was creepy.

Dial of Destiny ocean scene sucked.

Minus One ocean scenes were spectacular, all of them!

4k steel book instant purchase.
This was 100% the "Dark Knight" of Godzilla movies, but without a cringy speech at the end.
 
Well Godzilla has always been the message that war mongering is bad and really not about the human arrogance to freely use destructive weapons that many think it’s all about, which for sure will eventually lead to our undoing if fully deployed.

That’s a far better message than literally destroying a movie by hypocritically forcing agendas into the narrative.

Godzilla 54 had that message just 9 years after imperial Japan lead their society into nuclear catastrophe.

You know that many people think Japan is lecturing the USA about dropping the atomic bomb with the creation of the Godzilla character when in reality TOHO is calling out its own war mongering imperial dogma for leading them down that destructive path.

Oh yeah Godzilla is a message about self and not about blaming others for their horrific outcome due to war mongering.

USA had no choice BUT to use that weapon.

Now is the USA guilty of war mongering themselves since then….YUP!

There are many forms of bombs that are not explosive in nature.

Look at fentanyl, look at covid.

Bombs in their own way.

Keep forced social agendas out of scripts and we end up with your Die Hards and Minus Ones etc etc.

And no i’m not a hardcore Trumper that thinks he is a deity and savior of mankind and he can do no wrong far from it.

What I am is a rational person that doesn’t need others to think for me and ruin my damn entertainment, leave my escapism alone dammit!
Well said. This film was about redemption and actually pulling together and moving PAST horrors instead of wallowing in them. And they could have pointed a finger at the US but they specifically showed that G was created by Bikini Island testing and not Nagasaki/Hiroshima.
 
I'm good with the amount of Godzilla action we got.

Opening island
First boat scene
Ginza attack
Final showdown

Each one had its own punch and identity (man did they set the tone spectacularly with the Odo Island) and he never wore out his welcome.
Yeah hearing about the ultra low budget I wasn't expecting to get nearly as much incredible Godzilla action as we got. I figured he would be more of an off-screen threat like the martians in Spielberg's WOTW.
 
Is it the best movie of the year?

Finish the trifecta with Jye and me :)
Absolutely!

I'm in shock, I was NOT prepared for a film of this quality. After I saw jye raving about it in another thread I took at a peek at RT and saw that it had 98%/97% critics/audience scores but just figured that meant it'd be a romping stomping good time.

I see people talking about tearing up at the end but I found myself getting emotional just on account of it being such an amazingly good truly old-fashioned film. I'm still having a hard time believing that this movie is actually a reality.
 
I'm good with the amount of Godzilla action we got.

Opening island
First boat scene
Ginza attack
Final showdown

Each one had its own punch and identity (man did they set the tone spectacularly with the Odo Island) and he never wore out his welcome.
It would have been nice for a little more destruction before he followed the plane out to sea.

At least that’s how I felt on first viewing…

But the trailers did let me down by showing too much. If I did not watch those I would have been completely satisfied. Stupid trailers showed almost all the cool stuff in Tokyo.
 
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