Godzilla Minus One

Really enjoyed this one. The visuals look great, music was perfect including the sound effects. The story is good, and you will root for the characters (that even change and progress as the story goes). Godzilla is scary and menacing. I can't think of anything I did not like. Can't wait for a streaming release to see it again.

A movie that creates fear thru the removal of hope. The instillment of despair.

And the spoon-feeding of hope again.

Amazing direction, brilliant sound design, bold acting

There were moments were I genuinely was scared of Godzilla, hopeless. And moments were I just wanted to hug the main character who was going through so much.

I've seen a variety of Godzilla films from every era and Minus One is hands down the best Godzilla movie I've seen yet. The visuals are spot on, they got the classic look of Godzilla but added all of the gravitas and feeling of weight that the guys in suits were always missing.
The music is on point and they make great use of the Godzilla main theme to punctuate certain scenes.
The story is just so good, we really felt the emotion you were meant to feel in each scene. There were moments where my husband and I were both crying in the theater (he was trying to be so stoic but I saw the wiping of manly tears), and then other points where I could see him about bouncing around in his seat with childlike joy at seeing Godzilla being a bad ass on screen. We really appreciated the setting too, post WW2 Japan and seeing the scars and brokenness that left on the people and then to have them face Godzilla in that state of brokenness made the story and the actions of the humans feel even more heroic and meaningful.
This movie will definitely be a must buy for me when it comes to DVD.

Godzilla minus one is probably the best movie I’ve seen this year. Not only is it an action packed and exciting experience, but it also tells a deeply human story of rebuilding and redemption. And the action scenes are some of the most frightening kaiju scenes I’ve ever watched. Miss it on the big screen at your own peril!

Godzilla: Minus One is probably the only Godzilla movie to get to me emotionally. With human characters you actually care about.
I usually complain when a Godzilla movie has too many human scenes and not enough Godzilla. The story is so engaging and occasionally heartbreaking even. That I didn’t always wonder where Godzilla was.
Since I actually felt like I was watching a masterpiece unfold. Which you never feel while watching the American movies.

Wow, just wow. Tohoku truly surpassed my expectations and Godzilla is the real deal. You feel for the Japanese people in this movie and they lack trust in their government. When this monster shows up at their shores it falls on the bravery of Japanese citizens to defeat the beast.

For a movie with a 15 or 30 million dollar budget it feels like a 150 Million Dollar budget, especially when Godzilla stares directly at you through the screen. What a thrill and amazing movie.

My preferred version. Even more chilling and visceral without the visual aid. Stripped of its external personality a darker, colder core of the film is revealed which for me was more profound.

This is one of those movies that stands the test of time. it's the perfect amount of new mixed with homage to the original 1954 gojira movie. the love that was put into this film is astounding. the attention to detail, the crafting, the aesthetic are all picture perfect.

I even love that for the design they decided to base the look entirely off of the stiff rigid motion of the original suit actor. the face of Godzilla almost looks mildly comical because it's just so cute, and then you see that giant face poking out of the water chasing you and it's no longer cute just downright terrifying. the suspense they are able to Garner out of this film is fantastic.

it also pays homage to all the other great Kaiju movies that Godzilla spawned so it doesn't discount the camp that itself created. and thankfully it also doesn't lean too much into it.

I also find it hilarious that when the director of the 2014 movie saw Godzilla - 1 he was filled with rage and jealousy and said "this is what a Godzilla movie should be"

He's right you know

damn good film

Godzilla vs Kong was a fun, mindless time, but this movie showed me the power Godzilla has as an allegory and terror. Godzilla here is a force of nature and tragedy, a representation of a war and atrocities that took so many lives for no good reason at best and a litany of horrific ones at worst. This movie is about the human nature to not just survive but live in the face of it. It’s about moving forward. It’s about loving when you’ve lost so much and about not just defending your home but refusing some ideal of sacrifice and choosing to live in it after it all.

The cast all deliver. Kamiki shines as the lead, selling his guilt and anguish and making the soul soar when he’s finally overwhelmed not by despair but by euphoria and love. With him Yamada, Yoshioka, and Sasaki all share an engaging and warm bond, with Yoshioka having an especially charming and human presence. And Hamabe gives a performance that immediately makes you root for her and love her, and represents the emotional core and ideal of the theme of love and moving forward. Even smaller parts like Aoki’s I couldn’t look away from. In the modern Godzilla movies I’ve seen, the humans felt passable at best and boring, lifeless distractions at worst. Godzilla Minus One proves it doesn’t have to be this way. The human cast can shine as much if not more than the monster himself if you put the work in to truly synergize them so they strengthen each other rather than distract or detract from each other. It’s the unity of the human and monster element that leads to such emotional catharsis.

The ending left me a mess, obviously. But even beyond the seamless and heartfelt writing, I was completely taken aback by what also left me with chills and tears. Godzilla tearing through that first military ship and his rampage through Ginza was awesome in the purest sense. The weighty and believable special effects, the divinely and majestically chilling score, the scope of the directing and cinematography to make you really feel both Godzilla’s size and horrible capacity fir destruction and all the homes and lives crushed in his uncaring wake… all these elements and more were in such a perfect unison that I got choked up in a way I don’t know I ever have at a movie. In today’s cinema landscape cities are destroyed as a given, explosions commonplace, beams shooting into the sky a fixture of the skyline. Here it felt like it mattered. Here every movement and every piece of destruction felt weighted and real, never forgetting the lives that would be lost or irrevocably changed.

I feel like I understand Godzilla and his cultural weight and legacy so much more now. This film shows why he’s lasted almost 70 years now. It makes me want to check out the original Godzilla, Shin Godzilla, and more. The strength of Godzilla Minus One is that it conveys that Godzilla has an infinite amount of possibility, if you’re willing to go into the depths to experience it.