Godzilla Minus One (2023)

spronk said:

has a VOD date now

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This is Amazon Prime in Japan. Will need VPN to watch it. Still no US release date.

CaughtCross said:

This is Amazon Prime in Japan. Will need VPN to watch it. Still no US release date.

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At least it should be on the high seas by then.

Sevens said:

Seen this at the theater when it came out here, still not sure what the "Minus One" means or refers to. lol
Great film, will be sure to watch this on prime when it drops.

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I am not sure there is a coherent "canon" timeline for the Godzilla films, but at the very least this one is set before the events of the first film (toward the end of WWII and a little after VS contemporary to the first film release, so 1954). Why not Zero? Maybe they wanted to leave some room to squeeze another film between -1 and 1 ?


PS: I saw it a few weeks back and thought its attempt at being a serious drama just made it boring.

Sevens said:

Seen this at the theater when it came out here, still not sure what the "Minus One" means or refers to. lol
Great film, will be sure to watch this on prime when it drops.

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The teaser explains the title. At the end of WW2 Japan was at zero. Add Godzilla to the mix and they are at minus one.

This is out FYI.

Szlia said:

I am not sure there is a coherent "canon" timeline for the Godzilla films, but at the very least this one is set before the events of the first film (toward the end of WWII and a little after VS contemporary to the first film release, so 1954). Why not Zero? Maybe they wanted to leave some room to squeeze another film between -1 and 1 ?


PS: I saw it a few weeks back and thought its attempt at being a serious drama just made it boring.

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In case you’re not aware, there are multiple timelines for the Godzilla films, MOST of the Japanese timelines assume Godzilla(54) occurs first


so the notable exceptions are Shin Godzilla, which is essentially Godzilla remade as a metaphor for government bureaucracy obstructions in disasters and Godzilla Minus One, which is a pure remake of 54

Pretty good film. I was glad I was able to ff through the baby/love story crap though. I might have walked out of a theater. Those parts were too drawn out and I wanted nothing to do with them. More kaiju please.

blu rays are just japanese audio/subtitles so you have to add your own english subtitles if you watch at home, the credits scroll at the end is all in japanese too with zero english so kinda funny how japan gives zero fucks about international audiences.

enjoyable but really just a one off for me, everything with actually gojira was amazing but its such a small, small part of the movie. Makes sense with a $15m budget movie. Didn't hate the humans like the Legendary movies but was more on the indifferent side than not, I did hate the main protag for most of the movie to be honest.

Its too bad these guys couldn't be given the budget for the monarch TV show and make a proper 8 episode TV show with these ideas and visuals, because that TV show sucked complete ass but they had the actors (Mariko from Shogun!), budget, and lore to do an insane job but they squandered it so badly.

anyways i'd just wait for it to hit amazon prime in the USA unless you really love blurays and collect it or something. its pretty interesting to see the japanese themes of gojira (fuck the government, do it for famiry, horrors of war) vs the western themes in the legendary movies.

Decent movie but I think it was way overhyped.

out on US VOD on june 1st



should be a physical release a few weeks later in the US under a criterion sub brand

out on VOD (itunes amazon etc) but in a big shock its been simultaneously released on netflix worldwide as well. Will be up on US netflix in around 2 hours

Great show. It's criminal how much better it is than the crappy recent monsterverse release.

This was pretty decent. I think the Japanese have a much better handle on dignifying tradition than we do.

The way Godzilla moves and the look of the monster is very much an homage with just the right amount of modernizing the terror of Godzilla with devastating CGI. The monster specific parts of the movie are really well done.

The movie itself suffers from being overly interested in the humanity portion and suffers for it. Bad acting, bad storytelling. Oh well. Godzilla, the namesake, does save it a bit.

7.5/10.

Woulda been a 9 or better if they cut about an hour of the human interest out of it

Also, there is definitely going to be a Godzilla Plus One... or Godzilla Zero... or some shit

EDIT: Also that rear propeller plane was apparently real, and an actual prototype. Which is a cool piece of history.

Khane said:

Also, there is definitely going to be a Godzilla Plus One... or Godzilla Zero... or some shit

EDIT: Also that rear propeller plane was apparently real, and an actual prototype. Which is a cool piece of history.

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What if I told you that the first maned flight was in a rear propeller aircraft:

Burns said:

What if I told you that the first maned flight was in a rear propeller aircraft, is that be something you might be interested in?

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The Cessna Skymaster is going to blow his mind.

Khane said:

This was pretty decent. I think the Japanese have a much better handle on dignifying tradition than we do.

The way Godzilla moves and the look of the monster is very much an homage with just the right amount of modernizing the terror of Godzilla with devastating CGI. The monster specific parts of the movie are really well done.

The movie itself suffers from being overly interested in the humanity portion and suffers for it. Bad acting, bad storytelling. Oh well. Godzilla, the namesake, does save it a bit.

7.5/10.

Woulda been a 9 or better if they cut about an hour of the human interest out of it

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Those human interest parts are probably the only reason they could afford to have the movie look as good as it did on a budget of 15m.

Palum said:

The Cessna Skymaster is going to blow his mind.

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You guys are being obtuse. You guys totally knew the J7W Shinden was a real WW2 prototype? Sure. FoH big brains. How could I forget.

Khane said:

You guys are being obtuse. You guys totally knew the J7W Shinden was a real WW2 prototype? Sure. FoH big brains. How could I forget.

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Yea I've literally got a picture of the surviving piece of one of the prototypes still on my phone