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Review: Godzilla Minus One » John C. Wright's Journal

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Unlike other longstanding franchises, GODZILLA MINUS ONE is untouched by the social vandalism or prostitution polluting every other popular franchise one can name. The men are portrayed as men, the women as women, with the virtues and vices endemic to each sex.

Nor are there any visible leftwing “sucker-punches,” social comments, or superciliously inserted political commercials or woketastic public service announcements. Lewd and prurient accretions are absent. The moral of the story is actually moral, not immoral. This film was not made by someone who hates you.

It is a sad, sad commentary on the current state of film making in America, that the highest praise mustered for one of the best films of the year must include a triumphant announcement that hectoring wokecrap is absent.

This film heaps shame on all American filmmakers who cannot match this standard. Hollywood has been trampled by the monster.
 
Me. said:
Does Godzilla Minus One stand alone, or are there any other modern Godzilla movies I should watch first?
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It's an excellent stand alone Godzilla movie. But if you really want, watch the 1954 Godzilla movie so you can see where and how they pay homage to the original movie.

If you watch Minus One before all others, then go back and watch the original 1954 movie. Either way you do it, you'll appreciate it.


After that, watch ALL the Godzilla movies. Because Godzilla.

There are almost 40 so far. I'm sure my son could lay them out in chronological order and discuss every aspect and nuance of each. I like to get under his skin about the 1998 Godzilla movie, the American version (TriStar Pictures) that was Toho sanctioned and was supposed to be part of a three movie series. Toho essentially considers this movie to be Godzilla in name only and not an actual part of the Godzilla franchise. This is my son's position: I nag him on this by asking of Toho sanctioned the movie...which they did, and therefore this makes it a "real" Godzilla movie. (In truth, it just didn't have the spirit of the Godzilla movies. You'll understand if you watch many of the other Godzilla movies and then watch the 1998 TriStar movie.)
 
RetiredUSNChief said:
It's an excellent stand alone Godzilla movie. But if you really want, watch the 1954 Godzilla movie so you can see where and how they pay homage to the original movie.

If you watch Minus One before all others, then go back and watch the original 1954 movie. Either way you do it, you'll appreciate it.
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Absolutely.

RetiredUSNChief said:
I nag him on this by asking of Toho sanctioned the movie...which they did, and therefore this makes it a "real" Godzilla movie.
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Godzilla Minus One wins Oscar

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How âGodzilla Minus Oneâ Won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects

âI wanted to remind audiences that Godzilla was a metaphor for the atom bomb and war, to some degree,â director Takashi Yamazaki said.
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I haven't yet seen it, but from what I've read, it should have won the Oscar for "The only coherent and grounded film to be released in the past decade."
 
That's more than the big fat zero The Marvels won!

And wildly profitable, too. Almost ten times the cost of the movie at $107 million for a $10-12 million movie.
 
RetiredUSNChief said:
Ahhh! I wondered what they were doing! Everybody was geared up for Round 2 between Godzilla and Kong and it's going to be a team up instead!
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You want ever see a G vs K and have a clear winner. Too many fans on each side that wouldn't stand for either to be defeated.
 
Some old school Godzilla fans might like the series I mention over here...

GARO：Heir To Steel Armor

There's a new Garo, a fun long running Japanese series about knights vs demons who possess people. The new one would make more sense if you watched the old ones first, but there's quite a few of those. Looks like they're all on YouTube now. New... First https://mydramalist.com/list/47aPAvAL
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The second youtube link is a remaster of the original series from 2005. Some of the demons are guys in rubber monster suits that remind me of the good old Godzilla.
 
I'm eagerly awaiting this one.

The only two Godzilla movies I've seen are the original (both the original without, and the American version with Raymond Burr) and the 1998 remake. The "Godzilla vs. ..." movies and the versions where Godzilla is a good guy never interested me. None of them appeared to be faithful to the theme of the original, which I see as "the $#!¥ has hit the fan, what do we do now?" (i.e., the protagonists are, at least at first, utterly helpless in the face of an unimaginable threat). In that regard, the original Jaws is closer to the theme of Godzilla. In Jaws the arena was much smaller, but its isolation in the middle of the ocean eliminated the possibility of outside help and maintained the "us vs. a mindless destructive force" theme.

I recorded the original Godzilla and the original King Kong on DVDs back when they were available for free. They, the original Frankenstein, and the original The Day The Earth Stood Still, in all their black and white, non-cgi glory, are among the very few movies I would watch more than once.
 
Have they mentioned when this will be released on streaming/DVD? I missed it in theaters.
 
Fly to Japan (or use a VPN) and watch on Prime video on May 3rd. No word on US release.
 
I watched Godzilla x Kong this past week. Caught it right before they yanked it out of our local theaters.

It was very entertaining. The human plot was kinda hokey... the only worthy character of any interest got eaten by a tree pretty quickly. But Kong is awesome.

Godzilla? Yeah, I guess he was in the movie too.
 
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