The Godzilla Thread - Plus other giant monsters, no matter how popular or obscure

[Tsukasa Kadoya]

So this version is much like the GMK one? Nice.
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Not AS demonic but still evil. It goes out of its way to kill and destroy.
Theres a shot near the end (I won't spoil the context) but he's charging his breath and he just looks TERRIFYING.
While a few shots look incomplete (like maybe 2) overall this Godzilla feels angry and murderous. You actually WANT the humans to defeat him near the end.

 

[CHARizard]

Without major spoilers, is there a hint to this being the start of a new series? Heisei era is one of my favorite movie series ever and I would love for another movie line like that.

 

[draggs]

Without major spoilers, is there a hint to this being the start of a new series? Heisei era is one of my favorite movie series ever and I would love for another movie line like that.

There are a couple sequel bait moments

 

[Shekelslovakia]

All this film is is a rehash of GMK (without any of the other monsters), Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla (that final scene definitely) Shin Godzilla. I'm going to save you the time and money so you don't get disappointed.

Kōichi flies the plane into Godzilla's mouth, destroying its head and overloading its atomic breath, which destroys the rest of its body. The crew assumes Kōichi sacrificed himself to stop Godzilla's atomic breath but look above to find that he has survived. They cheer and salute him, knowing he ejected from the plane. Back at the port, Kōichi receives a telegram and heads to the hospital with Akiko, where he reunites with Noriko, who survived the destruction, albeit with what appears to be radiation sickness.

Meanwhile, a chunk of Godzilla's remaining flesh sinks to the bottom of the ocean and begins to regenerate.

There I saved you a movie ticket.

 

[Turtles McDougal]

I'm still stewing about Minus One. I will say it's a good companion piece to Shin Godzilla's more government-focused film. I do like that the movie shows that they were WW2 soldiers who weren't completely on board with the Japanese military's insanity.

Spoiler: Let me get a nitpick(s) out of the way.

I'm not a big fan of the movie dropping the tragic element of Godzilla for this. Not that I'm against a pure asshole Godzilla, GMK is one of my favorites, but that element is one of the things that made the '54 film a step above. I'm not so much asking for "oh poor baby", but more so Godzilla's war isn't over either. The fake line of "That monster will never forgive us." when too hard, I suppose.

One other, the pre-nuke Godzilla scene was a little jarring. I understand the purpose of it, give Koichi his big bucket of PTSD and raddle off Godzilla's origin, but they probably could sprinkle the Godzilla legend through the film till his reappearance, but that's just backseat directing and I'm probably in the minory.

 

[TVB]

All this film is is a rehash of GMK (without any of the other monsters), Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla (that final scene definitely) Shin Godzilla. I'm going to save you the time and money so you don't get disappointed.

Kōichi flies the plane into Godzilla's mouth, destroying its head and overloading its atomic breath, which destroys the rest of its body. The crew assumes Kōichi sacrificed himself to stop Godzilla's atomic breath but look above to find that he has survived. They cheer and salute him, knowing he ejected from the plane. Back at the port, Kōichi receives a telegram and heads to the hospital with Akiko, where he reunites with Noriko, who survived the destruction, albeit with what appears to be radiation sickness.

Meanwhile, a chunk of Godzilla's remaining flesh sinks to the bottom of the ocean and begins to regenerate.

There I saved you a movie ticket.

this you rn?

 

[Love Machine]

The new godzilla movie was really good.

 

[Godzilla1984]

And here I thought that the drive-bys in the vtuber thread were lazy.
I'm still waiting on a cam torrent to come out for minus one since I ain't driving eight hours to the nearest showing.

 

[Anti Snigger]

I was really on board with the monarch show, but this latest episode was bafflingly mediocre. I'm still gonna see it through but it was a noticeable dip in quality.
On that note, seeing minus one with my best friend this evening, so that's going to be a great time.

 

[mouthnotbigenough]

worth seeing minus one in imax. the first time he charged up the laser was fucking hype.

 

[Elite Miko]

I was really on board with the monarch show, but this latest episode was bafflingly mediocre. I'm still gonna see it through but it was a noticeable dip in quality.
On that note, seeing minus one with my best friend this evening, so that's going to be a great time.

Imma be honest, I hate the human element in the show. A lot of the female characters are written as stuck up and leading everyone outside of Kurt Russell

 

[draggs]

Saw it at the first showing today at the closest theater

Fucking banger

Godzilla isn't 100% evil... at first. More like an aggressive wild animal attacking what he instinctively reacts to as threats invading his territory on the island then at sea. Then the humans fight back at sea and he's like okay fuck these things, gonna kill em all and starts stomping Japan and enjoying the shit out of it

I'm not one of those people who are like OMG MY GIANT MONSTER MOVIE NEEDS INTERESTING HUMAN CHARACTERS AND STORY. Godzilla brutally killing thousands of people in the streets of Tokyo is enough to give me feels, and Minus One does that way more intensely than any Godzilla movie before including the original. But the movie does make a decent effort with the characters and their stories

Maybe the best human vs Godzilla set pieces ever. The way they beat Godzilla at the end being ripped straight from the climax of Independence Day

Spoiler

fly a plane into the huge laser cannon / Godzilla's mouth just before it fires making it overload and backfire

makes me laugh in retrospect but watching it, it was pure kino

 

[Strange Wilderness]

Just saw the movie. Pretty good, destruction scenes were cool, liked how they put their own spin on classic elements of the franchise such as the Atomic Breath or the horrors of the war coming back to haunt Japan. Like how at least half of Godzilla's scenes are him in the ocean swimming around and destroying ships. Nice little mix up to him being mostly on land destroying cities. Human drama was interesting, you could easily strip out everything Godzilla related and have the basis of a post WWII drama about guilt, regret, loss, how society is changing, and the different perspectives on the war. Biggest laugh in the theater came when the MC saw the minesweeper he was going to be working on was a rickety piece of junk.

Maybe the best human vs Godzilla set pieces ever. The way they beat Godzilla at the end being ripped straight from the climax of Independence Day

Spoiler

fly a plane into the huge laser cannon / Godzilla's mouth just before it fires making it overload and backfire

makes me laugh in retrospect but watching it, it was pure kino

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of Independence Day when that scene happened.

 

[Illuminati Order Official]

Without major spoilers, is there a hint to this being the start of a new series?

It ends similarly to Shin and GMK - that is, "it's over but maybe, just maybe, not."
But I can't imagine a sequel being as good as this one.

 

[sneedem&feedem]

People should definitely see Minus One if they can. It's very good. Took a friend who has only seen the recent Legendary films and he liked it a lot.

I enjoyed the usage of the setting and its limitations compared to something like Prey. And if we're just gonna be redoing and referencing past psuedo sequels to '54 then it's about as an appropriate time period as it can be set in. Liked all the performances given. I was very impressed by the CG given the budget and how behind the times Japanese CG in particular can be. It's definitely better CG than say any Marvel movie in the past 10 years. I'm sure there's some nitpicks I'll have with the story but those likely won't come up till a rewatch. Oh also I wasn't particularly huge on some of the liberties by the subtitles. Nothing that ruins the movie but there were times when the subtitle script was waxing poetic at an emotional scene where no human being would be talking this way.

The babe from Shin Kamen Rider was in the movie, as were a few of the live action rurouni kenshin actors. Literally, no one gave a bad performance.
I won't spoil the movie too much.

I tried to keep myself in the dark as much as possible on info on the movie. Was happy to recognize lots of faces. And one man in particular who seems to be gunning after Kane Kosugi's feat of being in Godzilla, Ultraman, Kamen Rider and Super Sentai (as separate roles obviously). And yes I know two others after Kosugi have at least accomplished being transforming heroes in 3 of the 4.

 

[Anti Snigger]

What in the God damn fuck just happened to me?
I knew I was going to enjoy myself, but I didn't expect this to casually become my favorite Godzilla film in the series.
I'm just glad me and my homie didn't bring his kids like we initially planned.

It should be illegal for Toho to casually just drop a golden, diamond encrusted turd like this.

 

[insensitive]

i still have one question about the movie that maybe i missed and im hoping someone else could answer
spoiler warning
how the fuck did that woman survive that blast? It killed like 30,000 people and it made it seem like she should have at least been killed by the debris.

 

[Anti Snigger]

i still have one question about the movie that maybe i missed and im hoping someone else could answer
spoiler warning
how the fuck did that woman survive that blast? It killed like 30,000 people and it made it seem like she should have at least been killed by the debris.

Spoiler: answer

it's a very quick and reserved shot, but you can see the skin on her neck has some bubbling and dark fluid moving underneath it, the only thing I can read from this is that she somehow absorbed goji dna and regenerated

 

[(((I am NOT a jew)))]

Just got back from watching Minus 0.

Dear god was it fucking amazing. Despite almost 99% of reality sucking the fattest off ass right, I do think I'm in the best timeline to be able to live to see great new American and Japanese Godzilla films in theaters, this being my first Toho experience (Missed Shin).
Holy shit.
I'm just going to have to sperg for a second because FUCK.
First off,

This is easily the best looking Godzilla film in the series. The cinematic value is insane. I love the franchise, but a lot of the films have a very similar look and direction style. The fact that this is a period piece and has all seemingly accurate dress-styles and costumes ontop of that muted but still colorful direction style does wonders. The shots especially towards the end out at sea are really damn arresting.

I really love this Godzilla. They incorporated the best of the Heisei and Millenium designs for a really great look. He's still a little too "spikey" for me at times but I really like this return to form. Also, I don't mind Godzilla being an asshole on occasion. It makes him a lot more terrifying and it works overall for the theme of the story.Also his beam is fucking amazing. I love the fact that they made it less of an atomic ray and more a projectile atomic bomb. That to me works so well with the WWII pathos they're going for. I still love the "cutting through butter with a hot knife" ray they've done with recent Godzilla, but this one has a very unique feel that works better for the movie. Also like that they give him some nerf by making the blast so strong it technically fucks him up a bit, kind of really driving the point home that "this guy IS LITERALLY the atom bomb".
We're in an era where Japanese cgi is finally around the same level as American stuff and it's great. It's fantastic to finally see a movie I can show normies to to get interested in Godzilla where they won't bitch about the "goofy effects" or man in a suit.

I loved the characters. So many Godzilla films try to have interesting characters but for the most part, a lot of the film is padding. This one Godzilla shows up probably less than even the 2014 Legendary, but I didn't mind so much because the characters are really captivating. Thank fucking God we only had one fucking conference meeting.
I love that despite Anno directing Shin, this film straight up feels way more like the type of film Anno would make.

This film is really just about survivor's guilt. And oh boy does our boy suffer. This is some anime, Shinji/Guts-level trauma and conflict going on in this dudes' life. Also his surrogate daughter was downright the most adorable kid I've seen in any film. By the time we make it to end, you're just happy the dude's made it to the other side.

Also, this film unironically has one of the best messages for the time we're in, and is very much a Japanese post-WWII idea:
No government is going to help us because they don't give a shit about us so it's up to us to save our own damn country.
The fact that this is very much a film about how communities help eachother survive catastrophe and unrest way more than their elected powers is kind of something way more people need to take heed to.
I know this is a fucking Godzilla movie I'm talking about, but I legitimately think it worked as a human story about overcoming trauma and building ties to your neighbor.

Only things I "slightly" didn't like:
I wish we just got a little more of Godzilla in action. His screentime is VERY minimal. But I also think if they gave this nigga 10 more minutes Japan would be fucking gone, so I think it works.
The GMK/"THE END??!!11!!" sequel bait ending just didn't work, because 1) I don't think this film is going to get any sequels and 2) I was actually happy with them just killing off this Godzilla for once and would have been fine with a completely happy "humanity wins" ending. It feels a bit cheap but it's a Godzilla movie, they'd have to keep him around. Still the overall conflict in the movie is resolved and I honestly hope they just end things here.

Overall, I am so happy with the way this turned out. Hearing that demonic roar and the musical suite on the big screen was downright beautiful. Surprisingly our theater had a lot of people show up and I think everyone really enjoyed it.
I think this is one of the best in the series.

EDIT: You can tell I loved this film so much that I forgot it's fucking title. I keep thinking it's Godzilla Minus 0, which makes no fucking sense.

 

[Anti Snigger]

I really like that they brought back the heisei design elements, seeing that feline look to goji felt so fucking good m8