Disney has been tailor made for normies following the success of Marvel's The Avengers
The Godzilla Thread - Plus other giant monsters, no matter how popular or obscure
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Just saw it, and it's probably my favorite Godzilla movie released in decades. It's so refreshing just to see a good movie without janky CGI everywhere and no Mary Sue black trans women with neon hair punching down at blue collar hardworking men. It's just serious veterans who got treated like shit during the war banding together to do what is necessary to protect their country and families, without that effort or the people involved (or even America, outside the "we're not getting involved because it will spook the Soviets" thing) being shit on by the movie.
It's also so refreshing not to have all subtext explained for you as if you're 5 years old. I don't need a scene where the neighbor mother explains in simple language to Koichi that her initial hatred of him was misplaced and that she realized her mistake as she put aside her initial emotional shock after the war to help keep his little girl alive—I can see it myself in how the characters interact over time.
No dumb "joking" quips, quirky characterization, campy romance, or emotionally deflating comedy, either.
Of course, the western liberal idiots in Hollywood will never learn from the success of Godzilla. But since I've pretty much abandoned Hollywood and most modern cinema entirely, it was fantastic to actually go back to a theater and feel like I got my money's worth when the credits began. Even if I had to sit through some shitty previews.
It's also so refreshing not to have all subtext explained for you as if you're 5 years old. I don't need a scene where the neighbor mother explains in simple language to Koichi that her initial hatred of him was misplaced and that she realized her mistake as she put aside her initial emotional shock after the war to help keep his little girl alive—I can see it myself in how the characters interact over time.
No dumb "joking" quips, quirky characterization, campy romance, or emotionally deflating comedy, either.
Of course, the western liberal idiots in Hollywood will never learn from the success of Godzilla. But since I've pretty much abandoned Hollywood and most modern cinema entirely, it was fantastic to actually go back to a theater and feel like I got my money's worth when the credits began. Even if I had to sit through some shitty previews.
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That, but it's also apparently an actual cultural thing where they just quietly forgive-and-forget if it means getting along as a community. Knew a girl from church who was in Japan for a couple years who told a story about something like this. Was an older man, so it might be a generational thing, but she was confused as to why when he had gotten slighted had expressed he was never going to talk to her again only a week (think it was a week, might've been longer) later talk to her like normal like nothing happened. There were no apologies given, he wouldn't even allow her to apologize. So I assume that was it between neighbors.
Funny thing is, even a few people that work in Hollywood also loved this movie. Particularly both MonsterVerse directors Gareth Edwards and Michael Dougherty, as well as Guillermo del Toro and Seth Green.
Speaking of theatres, I miss the movies trailers prior to 2012. Most trailers are just as soulless as the movies themselves. Even policy trailers for movie theatres aren't even that good. Regal's policy trailer where people are quoting from movies was the absolute worst.
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The Avengers is one of the last big budget movies made in the old style of a band of heroes going on a quest and fighting ebil. "Good" Hollywood of yesteryear cranked out movies like it all the time. Westerns, adventure films (Jason and the Argonauts type stuff), war movies, etc. The Avengers had some modern tweaks that pointed to the awful direction movies have taken since then but it was very old school in a lot of ways
Avengers, while a good brainless popcorn blockbuster movie of its own (in the same way as a typical Michael Bay or Roland Emmerich movie is a good brainless blockbuster movie you wouldn't mind playing in the background), had turned modern cinema into malware, and it goes to show you that Disney (including Marvel) had ruined a whole generation of cinema.
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Just watched it. Seeing it made me realize that hey, movies actually are still capable of making you feel something and they can have action without being utterly insulting to your intelligence, it's just that they have to be made by slant-eyed orientals.
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Just watched Godzilla Minus One and it feels so weird. I'm not used to movies being good.
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Characters have arcs. The engineer in particular has a very human moment when he realizes he ruined Koishi’s life and genuinely urges him to live for his adopted daughter.
It’s basic shit, but it’s done well. Japanese acting is too theatrical for my tastes (and I like theatre), but it’s only mildly grating and even then it’s a little hammy so I don’t mind it.
I'd say the majority of Japanese acting can come across as a perfect balance of both realistic and hammy. It's why I love the acting in other various languages of countries when compared to the ones made in Hollywood, or to a lesser extent, Australian, British or Canadian English-language acting.
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I also just saw it and thought it was fantastic. The CGI scenes were all right, thought Godzilla looked kind of goofy but I think that's because they really wanted it to look like the original, and that was done incredibly well. The music that went along to him went along perfectly too.
What I really liked about the movie though is that a big part of it was a period piece. There was a huge effort to show what things would have been like right after the entire country got ravaged by WWII and how afterward the US was too busy worrying about the Soviets to care and the new Japanese government was too strained to do anything either. The main cast meeting because they had to sail a rickety wooden boat to go take care of all the mines left over by the war was perfect. Then Godzilla shows up and the characters that were set up perfectly come together to pretty much say, "These fuckers aren't going to help us, if we're not going to get killed by this giant monster we have to do it and on our own terms." Extremely based.
It's also nice to see a cast of characters who aren't Marvel quipping all the time and seem to genuinely give a shit about each other. The freshest breath of air I've had all year.
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Godzilla beating the shit out of everyone at D.C amuses me.
This is not the first time this has happened.
Godzilla got 24 issues where he laid waste to marvel America and kicked everybody's ass. The only flaw in the run is he never fought the hulk.
This is not the first time this has happened.
Godzilla got 24 issues where he laid waste to marvel America and kicked everybody's ass. The only flaw in the run is he never fought the hulk.
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I do like how’s there’s a scene of MacArthur that amounts to “They’re not letting me nuked it because of the Soviets, here’s a warship.”
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Saw the movie tonight and loved it, nothing was wasted and everything came together by the end. I really hope they can manage a sequel carrying the same tone, adding another monster and maintaining that seems like a really difficult thing to do.
Unrelated to the movie but the only bad thing was having to see it in a theater, I naively thought other people were in for the same reason but they seemed to want to just make jokes and be on their phones. Coincidentally the most annoying people were also the ones to fucking clap at the end. Never going to a theater again.
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Well Kiwis Minus One was a great movie to cap off the year, glad we could all enjoy this together. Happy New Years, oh and even the big g craves some McDonalds every now and then.
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Ya some of those sandwiches looked really good, wish American McDo wasn't so shit these days.
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I like when Godzilla is near the Bugle so Jameson handles it as only he can he yells at Godzilla
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I'm comfortable to place Minus One amongst the top 3 best movies I've seen in 2023, just behind Iron Claw and Asteroid City