For Godzilla Fans

ProfMagoo(ret) said:
From what I gather, this film is placed in immediate post-WWII end.
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There are many similarities in the trailer harkening back to the original Gojira of 1954. I don't think that's a coincidence.
If this movie follows the original it could be better than good. In the original movie Godzilla was pretty much a complete ass. He intentionally targets humans with the whole fire breath gig torching them into screaming agony, and destroys entire cities (just because) before he goes back into the ocean for a nap. Total jerk.
Even in 1954 they made no secret of why Godzilla exists. Japan was still pissed about 1945. The damn Americans and their atomic terrorism distorting mother nature ultimately cursing the entire world.
Still one of the best ones, that first one was actually pretty violent. The Godzilla movies that followed the original were way tamer. No more torching people type stuff.
If it's a remake true to the original that would be awesome.
 
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I love Godzilla and am proud to say I got my son hooked on Godzilla from a very early age. That boy, at 25, now has more Godzilla stuff nowadays that I ever dreamed of having as a kid.

The first Godzilla movie he saw was Godzilla 1998, the TriStar movie. From there, I dug out an old VHS tape of Godzilla vs. Megalon and he just about wore that tape out. That was back around 2002, when he was 3-4 years old. He can cite the real names of all the monsters in all the movies and knows the entire history of everything Godzilla.

To this day, I enjoy arguing with him over whether Godzilla 1998 was a "real" Godzilla movie. My argument is "yes", his is "no" (because it wasn't a ToHo movie"). The argument generally goes like this:

ME: It's a real Godzilla movie.

SON: No, it's not. It's not a ToHo movie.

ME: Did ToHo sanction the movie by giving TriStar the rights to make it? Along with two others, which never got made afterwards? And an animated series?

SON:

ME: Well?

SON: Yeeeesssss...

ME: Then it's a real Godzilla movie. The reasons why ToHo refuses to acknowledge this as a "real" Godzilla movie are because Godzilla was the result of French nuclear testing, not United States nuclear testing, Godzilla didn't more closely resemble the traditional Godzilla in appearance, and we waxed his *ss with combat jets that actually shoot real missiles and not sparklers. All this, plus the fact that it wasn't the box office smash everybody was hoping for, even though TriStar didn't lose money on it.

(Personally, I wish they'd have made Godzilla more closely resemble the traditional Godzilla appearance.)
 
Amazing how Toho can do such a fantastic job at monster special effects and absolutely SUCK at fighter jets!
 
Inglis said:
Let us know what the Board review is!
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I thought it was very good. This Godzilla was not the antihero he had been in most of his movies. This one was carnage. His first scene is AWESOME IMO. I recommend it. Great human element that is lacking in most of his movies.

The only cons for me:
1. The CGI is wonky in some scenes. For example you can see it in the way his left leg moves when he is walking in the city in the trailer. But it was made on a $15 million dollar budget and it is still better than some CGI in Marvel blockbusters.
2. I didn't particularly care for the way his arms looked when he was bigger (or the way he was holding his arms I should say). Just my preference
3. Toward the end I was like...Huh? regarding one scene. Don't want to spoil anything so I will leave it at that.

Would I recommend it? YES. Would I see it again? YES. YMMV.
 
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easternnc4me said:
I thought it was very good. This Godzilla was not the antihero he had been in most of his movies. This one was carnage. His first scene is AWESOME IMO. I recommend it. Great human element that is lacking in most of his movies.

The only cons for me:
1. The CGI is wonky in some scenes. For example you can see it in the way his left leg moves when he is walking in the city in the trailer. But it was made on a $15 million dollar budget and it is still better than some CGI in Marvel blockbusters.
2. I didn't particularly care for the way his arms looked when he was bigger (or the way he was holding his arms I should say). Just my preference
3. Toward the end I was like...Huh? regarding one scene. Don't want to spoil anything so I will leave it at that.

Would I recommend it? YES. Would I see it again? YES. YMMV.
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I can not wait to see it!
 
NOTE:

This is a movie you should not miss out on experiencing on IMAX!

My son and I went out Saturday night to see this. He saw it Wednesday, so this was his second time. I asked him before we went if the movie actually showed people getting killed. He laughed and said it came as close to his idea of the perfect Godzilla movie as it was possible to come on this subject without being gory. "What's your perfect Godzilla movie?" "People exploding like ketchup packets when Godzilla steps on them."

😆 😆 😆

(For the record, I can recall only one Godzilla movie which ever really showed people actually being killed and with any kind of gore: Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster (Hedora). In this 1971 movie, Hedora flew over crowds of people who collapsed, died, and dissolved away to gooey skeletons.)


For the Godzilla fans out there, this movie pays deep homage to the first Godzilla movie. Godzilla is NOT a "good guy" by any stretch of the imagination, very much like the original 1954 movie. If you've seen the first movie, you'll most definitely see direct parallels, right down to the buses flying through the air, the train, and even the Japanese reporter broadcasting live.

The movie cost $15 million to make, and the CGI is fantastic considering this. And trust me...where you notice it lacking, it will absolutely not detract from the movie itself. For me, it was the dramatic "pause" between every step, but that wasn't CGI...that was just how they portrayed Godzilla walking. I could have done without so dramatic a pause between every step.

We've all pretty much seen the scene where Godzilla blows away the city with his "heat ray". But when you see how they did the special effects for what happened to the city/people BEHIND Godzilla when he cut loose, you'll be amazed!

As my son said, this movie would have been a great movie WITHOUT Godzilla in it simply for the portrayal of the aftermath of WWII in Japan with respect to its effect on the Japanese people. The human interest side was FANTASTIC. People who lost their families, PTSD effects, people who saw glory in the war vs. people who saw it as a horrible, tragic event that others should be proud NOT to have been involved in, distrust in government, etc.

And for all the Godzilla fans out there, THE MOVIE IS SUBTITLED! This is a huge appeal to all of us fans!

I knew immediately what aircraft Shikishima was going to use as soon as they alluded to it. But then, I'm a geek like that, as one of my older brothers was in the Air Force and for a long time I was into all kinds of really cool and unusual aircraft. I won't say what it was here (because some might consider such information to be spoilers), but it is very much a real aircraft, developed by the Japanese towards the end of the war, and it would have been one hell of an interceptor for the Allies to deal with had it been available in quantities early enough to have been put into play. Only two prototypes were actually built, one taken by the United States and the other destroyed. A replica was later built "by a then-unknown production company" and unveiled at the Tachiarai Peace Memorial Museum in July, 2022. It was, of course, later revealed to be Toho Studios who built it for Godzilla Minus One.

Is the movie hokey?

Not in the way the vast majority of Godzilla movies were, especially for a couple decades after the first Godzilla movie came out. The way they decided to kill Godzilla, yeah. But then, as my son said "It's a movie about a 50 meter tall, 20,000 ton atomic fire breathing lizard." Belief: suspend thyself! It was easy to insert myself into the scenes, like in the boat scene with Godzilla chasing after the mine sweepers on the old run down half-rotted wooden boat.

It is very well worth your time to watch. And I intend to go see it again before it leaves the theaters. I RARELY EVER see a movie twice in the theaters when the come out, but this one is worth it to me.
 
RetiredUSNChief said:
NOTE:

This is a movie you should not miss out on experiencing on IMAX!

My son and I went out Saturday night to see this. He saw it Wednesday, so this was his second time. I asked him before we went if the movie actually showed people getting killed. He laughed and said it came as close to his idea of the perfect Godzilla movie as it was possible to come on this subject without being gory. "What's your perfect Godzilla movie?" "People exploding like ketchup packets when Godzilla steps on them."

😆 😆 😆

(For the record, I can recall only one Godzilla movie which ever really showed people actually being killed and with any kind of gore: Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster (Hedora). In this 1971 movie, Hedora flew over crowds of people who collapsed, died, and dissolved away to gooey skeletons.)


For the Godzilla fans out there, this movie pays deep homage to the first Godzilla movie. Godzilla is NOT a "good guy" by any stretch of the imagination, very much like the original 1954 movie. If you've seen the first movie, you'll most definitely see direct parallels, right down to the buses flying through the air, the train, and even the Japanese reporter broadcasting live.

The movie cost $15 million to make, and the CGI is fantastic considering this. And trust me...where you notice it lacking, it will absolutely not detract from the movie itself. For me, it was the dramatic "pause" between every step, but that wasn't CGI...that was just how they portrayed Godzilla walking. I could have done without so dramatic a pause between every step.

We've all pretty much seen the scene where Godzilla blows away the city with his "heat ray". But when you see how they did the special effects for what happened to the city/people BEHIND Godzilla when he cut loose, you'll be amazed!

As my son said, this movie would have been a great movie WITHOUT Godzilla in it simply for the portrayal of the aftermath of WWII in Japan with respect to its effect on the Japanese people. The human interest side was FANTASTIC. People who lost their families, PTSD effects, people who saw glory in the war vs. people who saw it as a horrible, tragic event that others should be proud NOT to have been involved in, distrust in government, etc.

And for all the Godzilla fans out there, THE MOVIE IS SUBTITLED! This is a huge appeal to all of us fans!

I knew immediately what aircraft Shikishima was going to use as soon as they alluded to it. But then, I'm a geek like that, as one of my older brothers was in the Air Force and for a long time I was into all kinds of really cool and unusual aircraft. I won't say what it was here (because some might consider such information to be spoilers), but it is very much a real aircraft, developed by the Japanese towards the end of the war, and it would have been one hell of an interceptor for the Allies to deal with had it been available in quantities early enough to have been put into play. Only two prototypes were actually built, one taken by the United States and the other destroyed. A replica was later built "by a then-unknown production company" and unveiled at the Tachiarai Peace Memorial Museum in July, 2022. It was, of course, later revealed to be Toho Studios who built it for Godzilla Minus One.

Is the movie hokey?

Not in the way the vast majority of Godzilla movies were, especially for a couple decades after the first Godzilla movie came out. The way they decided to kill Godzilla, yeah. But then, as my son said "It's a movie about a 50 meter tall, 20,000 ton atomic fire breathing lizard." Belief: suspend thyself! It was easy to insert myself into the scenes, like in the boat scene with Godzilla chasing after the mine sweepers on the old run down half-rotted wooden boat.

It is very well worth your time to watch. And I intend to go see it again before it leaves the theaters. I RARELY EVER see a movie twice in the theaters when the come out, but this one is worth it to me.
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So…. How did you like Godzillas first scene?
 
Can't view the video right now (blocked at work).

But I went to see Godzilla again with two of my kids and thoroughly enjoyed it the second time, as well.

Not just because "Godzilla" (and I've seen all the Godzilla movies multiple times), either. I'll say it again: this movie would have been good WITHOUT Godzilla simply by the way it portrayed Japan in the aftermath of WWII. (Obviously wouldn't have been a Godzilla movie, though.)

My son said his dream Godzilla movie would not only show Godzilla stomping on people like a real life 50 meter tall lizard actually would (and this movie DOES show that), but it'd also show them squirting like ketchup packets when it happens (which this movie DOESN'T show).

😆


Anyway, my son says there is a plan to release the movie again in black and white. I'd love to see that version, as well.
 
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I grew up in Washington NC. The old Turnage Theater in downtown would show Godzilla (and other low budget / low cost movies) on the weekends. The fancy theater by the mall showed the expensive, new releases. Needless to say there were many bike rides to downtown (nobody locked their bikes) to watch Godzilla movies.

I'm a big fan. We saw Minus One last month. I enjoyed it.
 
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