Godzilla Minus One - December 1, 2023

[Khev]

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.

Shoot. I watched whatever the first trailer was a few months back and nothing since. If that one gave most of the action away it had thankfully left my mind by the time I finally saw it today.

I can't believe how into it the audience was. People were dead silent during the quiet scenes.

I've always been more of a casual Godzilla fan but man when the classic score kicked in during the Ginza attack I was grinning ear to ear like a little kid.

 

[JAWS]

Did I misread this...?

You did

 

[Khev]

It would have really tainted the movie if

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Noriko had really died. Thank God she didn't.

 

[jye4ever]

Plus EG Portals scene and ANH trench run.

EG Portal are you referring to the tug boats?

Help me with the trench run lol

 

[JAWS]

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 .

I fully enjoyed KvG

It’s dumb but I have fun with it.

I am not a huge fan of PJ’s KK. It’s over bloated pretty much everyone but Naomi Watts was miscast

I would have preferred a more faithful LK remake and not have included the 70’s version “love” story between Anne and Kong

I like it ok but it’s just got too many silly moments… That Dino Stampede is the worst.

 

[Khev]

EG Portal are you referring to the tug boats?

Help me with the trench run lol

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Yep tug boat portal scene and ANH pilot having to make the one in a million bombing run right as the superweapon was about to fire.

 

[JAWS]

It would have really tainted the movie if

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Noriko had really died. Thank God she didn't.

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khev and his happy endings. It was a cheat and will have much less impact the next time… but I’m overall ok with it cause I loved her. lol

 

[JAWS]

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Yep tug boat portal scene and ANH pilot having to make the one in a million bombing run right as the superweapon was about to fire.

I’m struggling with EG portal and tug boats lol

 

[Khev]

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khev and his happy endings. It was a cheat and will have much less impact the next time… but I’m overall ok with it cause I loved her. lol

I don't WANT it to have impact, lol, he had already gone through so much, that would have just been a bridge too far.

 

[jye4ever]

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Yep tug boat portal scene and ANH pilot having to make the one in a million bombing run right as the superweapon was about to fire.

Asian general Dodonna even had his briefing lol

 

[Khev]

I’m struggling with EG portal and tug boats lol

Come on those poor guys having spent all their tricks against an invincible unkillable foe and then their buddies all appear behind them from out of the blue (literally, lol.) I see it anyway.

 

[jye4ever]

Since my wife is half Japanese I asked if she could change her name to Noriko I gave her the night to think it over lol

 

[JAWS]

Come on those poor guys having spent all their tricks against an invincible unkillable foe and then their buddies all appear behind them from out of the blue (literally, lol.) I see it anyway.

Oh…. You mean The Rise of Skywalker scene

 

[Khev]

JAWS is all "compare Minus One to Endgame one more time..."

 

[Wor-Gar]

If they can make a good Godzilla movie with no budget, what is every other movie's excuse...?

 

[jye4ever]

I’m super happy with Shin and MO.

If I want a super hard-core government focused procedural multinational reaction to Godzilla I watch Shin.

If I want a deeply personal character driven story with an emotional core i’ll watch MO.

But MO does best out Shin with Godzilla screen time.

In Shin he literally takes a nap lol

 

[Khev]

MO has already more than doubled its budget in global earnings? Nice!

Lol Marvels.

 

[davejames]

It would have really tainted the movie if

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Noriko had really died. Thank God she didn't.

It seemed like a MASSIVE stretch that she survived the blast... but at the same time it felt so unnecessarily cruel for the movie to kill her off the way it did, and I wanted to see this couple get together so bad that I can forgive it in the end.

 

[Wor-Gar]

The horrors of "the blast".

 

[Khev]

It seemed like a MASSIVE stretch that she survived the blast... but at the same time it felt so unnecessarily cruel for the movie to kill her off the way it did, and I wanted to see this couple get together so bad that I can forgive it in the end.

Agreed.

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It was a far-fetched survival to be sure but I'll take that stretch over the cruelty of her being lost. The main guy had just been through so much and he really needed a win at the end instead of going out in a blaze of sadness and depression.