Godzilla Minus One (2023) * FULL LENGTH REACTION
Added 2024-08-11 17:00:10 +0000 UTCThank you curious cat, our Marble winner from July for this reaction!
This is my first Godzilla movie, but I know it's a big creature, so I wasn't completely clueless going into this 🤣
What a great movie to start the Godzilla franchise, it makes me want to see more. I watched this in Japanese with English subs, which is the way that I prefer to watch foreign language movies. I love seeing a movie in its original language, which I'm not sure how it would do as a reaction since it may be harder to follow along for those watching the edit.
I like that it wasn't just a humans vs monster, there were side stories and a great bunch of characters to build up the story.
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Comments
Your question about the destroyers bumping: in order to wrap the cable of gas canisters, battleship shells, and floaty mattresses around Gozilla, the ships had to cross the cable. This means that one had to go either over or under the cable from the other one. Since Yukikaze was larger than Hibiki, she had the crane. The size of the crane was a trade-off between what they could carry without tipping the ship over and how high they had to lift the cable to clear Hibiki's tophamper (superstructure + masts, antennas, etc.). This dictates how close they have to get. I think the ships were rendered fantastically. 100x better than certain unnamed, lazy-assed, American-made WW2 movies that wasted more than twice "Godzilla Minus One"'s total budget (US$15 mil) just on CGI alone. And the attention to details like the Imperial Chrysanthemum crest on the prows and the way that their deep ride and low freeboard had the decks awash when at even moderate speed was great.
JAKH
2024-08-15 14:27:55 +0000 UTCI agree! The characters make or break movies like this (unless the point is literally just to see monsters destroy things 😁). I thought it was just going to be Godzilla destroying things, so I'm really glad that there was a storyline with characters instead of them just being red shirts
Verowak
2024-08-15 14:01:12 +0000 UTCThis animated short (originally from 1969) was shown in theaters in the US along with "Godzilla 1985" (1985). As a kid I thought it was LOL funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R-rbzcEM8A
JAKH
2024-08-15 14:00:50 +0000 UTCThe 2014+ ones are done by Universal Studios. The older 1998 one was done by Columbia/TriStar. *Opinion Warning* I'd say that the 1998 one is good as a kaiju movie, but not a good Godzilla movie. (shrug)
JAKH
2024-08-15 03:19:18 +0000 UTCI haven’t seen the original so this is easily my favourite Godzilla movie. The 2014 one was ok but not what I’d hoped for from Gareth Edwards (I’m a huge fan of his other “creature feature” Monsters). For me personally, these sort of movies succeed or fail based on the characters, not the monster, although an epic electric blue nuclear breath helps. The beautifully written and acted roles are why I especially liked this one. I’m assuming the “dun dun duuuuuurn” music is a throwback to the original too.
James Hadden
2024-08-14 18:00:59 +0000 UTCThe easiest way to tell them apart is that the original Japanese cut has a release date of 1954, while the re-edit for American audiences has a 1956 release date. The American re-edit is also sometimes called Godzilla, King of the Monsters.
Chris Gronau
2024-08-14 04:49:28 +0000 UTCI think that's pretty common when a movie does well, there is a string of "meh" follow ups. I do assume that there is a bunch of Godzilla movies that are not great, but I'm glad to hear that the 2010s+ ones are at least entertaining lol
Verowak
2024-08-14 01:30:28 +0000 UTCI didn't know the original had an American cut that was more than just a dubbed version. That just means I'll have to watch both (if I can find them of course) lol
Verowak
2024-08-14 01:29:06 +0000 UTCThis is me using the Patreon mobile app to respond to a comment... It seems the app wanted me to just comment on my post instead 😒
Verowak
2024-08-14 01:28:14 +0000 UTCThat scene is amazing!! I didn't know Godzilla could do that
Verowak
2024-08-13 19:04:23 +0000 UTCThis was an experience in the theater. When Godzilla created a mushroom cloud high into the troposphere it was so chilling... I was stunned and I too was clutching at the air like Shikishima 😮😯
Mannygogou
2024-08-13 16:56:55 +0000 UTCThis was a fun reaction to a great movie. I don't know if there can be a spoiler for a movie you've already seen, but if so then this might be one: the director has confirmed that the black splotch growing on Noriko's neck at the very end of the movie is a "Godzilla cell", a plot device used in some of the earlier movies to explain how new kaiju (giant monsters) got created. As for my favorite Godzilla movie, this is probably it. The original would probably be second, although you have to be careful. (Very minor spoilers for the original...) The original comes in two different versions, a Japanese cut and an American cut. And no, the American cut is not just an English language dub of the Japanese cut. I slightly prefer the American cut, but both are very good. The recent American remakes are decent popcorn flicks that are fun to watch, but I'm not sure I'd call them great movies.
Chris Gronau
2024-08-12 03:00:33 +0000 UTCThe original was good, followed by a string of meh ‘Godzilla vs. randoms’, followed by a few reboots (one of which stared Mathew Broderick 🙄). The latest series of five films, which started in 2014, is fairly entertaining popcorn fare which pits him against/with King Kong to save humanity from various kaiju—the CGI is good/excellent (and IMHO better than the 50s-60s man in a rubber suit kicking over tiny model buildings). What sets this one apart from the latest batch is Godzilla is not here to protect mankind. And true to the original, he was a metaphor for nuclear devastation (the black rain following his atomic breath in the attack on ginza).
curious cat
2024-08-11 19:39:26 +0000 UTC
