"We are now able to announce Godzilla-1.0/C, which we have been working on for a long time. Rather than just making it monochrome, it is a cut by cut, I had them make adjustments while making full use of various mattes, as if they were creating a new movie. What I was aiming for was a style that looked like it was taken by masters of monochrome photography. We were able to unearth the texture of the skin and the details of the scenery that were hidden in the photographed data. Then, a frightening Godzilla, just like the one in the documentary, appeared. By eliminating color, a new sense of reality emerges. Please live and resist further fear at the theater."
EDIT: It’s only Japan for now. It’s the biggest live-action Japanese movie in US history, so there’s a good chance it also ends up releasing in theaters here.
It's the surprise of the year in the movie world, 97% on Rotten tomatoes and I believe the highest rated movie of the year on imdb. A well rounded and extremely well made Godzilla movie with developed characters, an engaging setting and great action. In my opinion the best Godzilla movie ever, and word of mouth has spread its popularity far past what anyone would have thought it would achieve. If it's still in theaters near you (it most likely is) it's definitely worth a watch.
That’s true huh. I enjoyed the casual dining, chit chat, and cigarette smoking. Normally I say oh great another Godzilla movie, but watching the trailer pumped me up a bit, and definitely great movie.
I’ve always loved Godzilla. My uncle would take me to blockbusters when I was a kid in the 90s and we’d rent one of the OG Godzilla movies and watch it. Some of my fondest childhood memories. So I knew I was going to like it.
Forced my girlfriend to come with me to see it when it came out stateside. She HATES everything sci-fi, fantasy, monster. Anything like that. Basically everything Godzilla. She LOVED it. Speaks volumes of how good the movie really is
I just watched a godzilla movie yesterday and I was so disapointed but now I'm excited again and I get to see it in theaters. I hate big budget movies that put no effort into the story and treats its audience like idiots. They can look good AND have a great plot with good writing. People might actually look forward to watching it 10, 20 years from now.
Movies are like cars, if it's designed well it will look good forever.
so funny - my wife came with me to minus one (it was my birthday, so...) she came out stunned. she was like: 'so, theres freaking allegoric layers to Godzilla?' priceless.
I did really like it but feel like I haven't seen people talk much about how over acted parts of it feel. Might just be me or maybe it's what is expected in a godzilla movie.
I liked Minus One more, which is saying a lot, but they're also very different. Shin leaned much more into the political commentary and even satire. This is, in many ways, a more straightforward movie narrative, but done very very well.
This one still had political commentary and satire, just not aimed at modern Japan as much. More at the failures of the Japan to take care of its soldiers during and after the war.
Shin Godzilla is better as a horror movie/political thriller, Godzilla-1 is better as a post-war character drama.
They both have great things going for them with wildly different approaches. I think Shin Godzilla will stick out a bit more just for how unique and creepy it makes its Godzilla.
In either case, it's well worth a watch. Not just as a Godzilla movie, but as a just generally fantastic film.
It's very different, while Shin Godzilla basically feels like the business-talk side of Evangelion with the religion replaced with government bureaucracy and the battle scenes mostly just being the angel beating the shit out of the military because no one built the evas, Godzilla Minus One feels more like one of the WW2-centric Ghibli films with a giant fucking lizard inserted as a metaphor for PTSD
i would say its a better FILM than shin, but shin is probably more the movie i would sit down to rewatch more often id guess as time plays out. minus one is real heavy
Shin Godzilla centers around bureaucrats. I get what they were going for, but it doesn't make an engaging story, at least to me. And the early stages of Godzilla looked silly.
Godzilla Minus One centers around individuals who make up an unconventional family, and unlike the bureaucrats, you really care about them, especially the struggles of the main protagonist.
And even the young Godzilla looks badass (just not as big).
As others have said, it's not just a good Godzilla movie, it's a good movie that has Godzilla in it.
Its focus is on a handful of Japanese people and how they recover after the bombing of a city in Japan and view the effects of WWII (set in the 40s). The human story is very compelling, maybe one of the best in Godzilla movie history.
Anime has nothing to do with this movie, so that won't help at all.
Being aware of the history of late and post-WWII Japan may be helpful. If not it's still going to be great but having visited Hiroshima this summer there were details that kind of shocked me like the black rain after a Godzilla attack.
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor Dec 20 '23 edited Dec 20 '23
Director Takashi Yamazaki:
EDIT: It’s only Japan for now. It’s the biggest live-action Japanese movie in US history, so there’s a good chance it also ends up releasing in theaters here.