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Takashi Yamazaki who was the director, writer, and VFX supervisor for this film was told by Steven Spielberg that not only did he love it, he saw this film in IMAX 3 times.
@@kryzieg hopefully ALL of Hollywood took notes. Because this movie with Oscar wedding visual effects where you can’t tell what’s real and what’s not, it’s an all-around better film than 70% of the big blockbusters that have come out in the past two years. And with a budget of only $15 million, as opposed to $250-$300 million.
"Everyone who survived the War is meant to live." - Noriko ....I have never cried harder. I'm a 6th Generation, Mustang military officer, finally medically Retired. GWoT Marine (2002-2006), Army (2007-2012), and Air Force (2017-2019) Veteran. "Shin Godzilla" was my favorite for a while, but then "Minus One" came in and addresses veteran issues, PTS, and Survivor's Guilt. I never thought I would cry at a Godzilla movie. I saw it 4 times in theatres and was weeping every time. The US veteran's community loves this movie. God Bless America, God Protect Japan. Former enemies, now Greatest of Allies. Redemption! 😇😇😇 May all of our People prosper, be One, and be at Peace, forevermore.
I am a Navy FMF Corpsman veteran that served for five years, and was medically retired after being blown up in Iraq for the second time. I also suffer from major PTSD related issues. Survivors guilt, night terrors, major head trauma that gives me seizures and vision problems, and manic depression. This film had me in tears several times. It was so cathartic to see a representation of PTSD portrayed so accurately and with so much emotion and compassion. I have only seen a few films do this to such an accurate degree, and this movie left me in awe. I think any veteran suffering from PTSD would absolutely feel the same way about this film. Thank you for your service mate, and I echo your words on this film completely.
Thank you both for your service. It's an honor to have you here, and to see a depiction of fighting men treated with the dignity and empathy you all deserve. Those of us who live free... those of us who live... thank God for you, and pray you, too, live in peace, pride, and joy for what you gave. Godzilla is the wrath of Humanity itself, a representation of the darkness we can create with the worst of our actions. And whether he stands as friend or foe in his movies, it is ultimately always we who unite, endure, and rise above that anger and destruction. We are the Monsters. But we are also the Heroes. God Bless all of you.
I love each modern atomic breath, they fit so well with their respective story and tone and all go for something different. Monsterverse is dramatic, exciting, Shin is horrifying and alien, and minus one is slow, unnerving, then violently destructive.
There aren't many movies in my 40 years on earth that drew multiple rounds of applause in the theater, but this was one of them. Absolutely incredible.
Few movies invoke such emotions in their run time. Let alone leave such a strong impression that make you want to rewatch the film multiple times and every single time the anxiety, tension, fear, happiness and joy are as strong as the first viewing. Few films have made me scramble back to the theater to watch them again but I would pay to watch this film in theaters over and over. Minus Color was just as incredible
The way Tachibana comes to realize that Shikishima has been atoning for the deaths on Odo Island is soooo good. Fixing the plane and fitting it with bombs; he understands that Shikishima is ready to die and he forgives him. Telling him to live is his way of telling Shikishima it's time to forgive yourself. Just a masterclass in character development.
The fish in the water look the way they do is because the pressure from being forced to the surface in Godzilla's wake makes their organs explode, that's their stomach bloating out from their mouths 😅
Tachibana was a mechanic for the Kamikaze Suicide Squad. He had been maintaining the flying coffins of his friends who took off and never returned. Although it is not depicted in the movie, I think he must have been very sad. Shikishima was also a member of the suicide squad, but he did not take off. Shikishima tried to detonate himself with Godzilla as atonement for the war, but Tachibana gave him a way to live. Tachibana was finally able to make arrangements for his friends to survive.
It is as the scientists said, their country (as so many) has historically treated its citizens' lives as something too cheap and easily replaceable. It is amazing that this kaiju movie (a genre that almost always does the same) makes a point to say that no, treating life as something cheap just to get results is not a good way of doing things.
Without question. Minus One did what so many Godzilla movies either failed to do, or didn’t do. Treat the human characters as exactly those things, humans and characters in the story, rather than simply POVs for us to experience the kaiju attacks through or just one note vehicles to drive the plot from scene to scene where if they died our reactions would’ve been exactly like the Top Gear meme.
PTSD. This cinema is dedicated to troubled soldiers around the world. Not just in Japan, but all over the world. Soldiers who carried out tragic orders, soldiers who witnessed tragic scenes.
And trying to rebuild themselves afterward. That's what I was thinking as well. I knew exactly what was going through their heads because I've been there. This does a remarkable job showing post-combat psychological trauma, better than a lot of more drama based movies. It also shows the veterans being willing to climb right back in to fight the fight and do it gladly, even when it terrified them in the past.
One of the smartest moves they made with this film was scaling down Godzilla's size. It made the humans able to fight back to some extent, but more importantly it made the humans perceptable to Godzilla. In a lot of versions he is so big that his killing of people doesn't feel like any kind of actual attack, but just a consequence of his existence. Which is scary in its own way. But I think this was is much better.
I always found so stupid when in some of those "giant monster" films they pursue humans even if it's isn't profitable at all. Like... you sure a Megalodon will chase a human to the end of the earth just because? It probrably doesn't fill anything
So great, rather than this being a monster movie with humans in it it feels like a human movie with a monster just showing up. Godzilla almost feels like the embodiment of PTSD where he just shows up in random peaceful places and destroys everything around him.
This is a masterpiece. The visual effects are phenomenal, (definitely earned that oscar,) and it's the the first time I've cared for the humans as much as the monster scenes.
I love how humans shooting at Godzilla in any other movie has people go "lmao you dumbasses really think that's gonna do shit to Godzilla" but in this movie it has people go "how could you even realistically defend yourself against that".
The director confirmed the mark on Noriko's neck were Godzilla cells. It's possibly the reason she looks mostly undamaged following that impact. She may have had some of his regenerative properties
I believe that she been trapped under the crumble for days until she’s found. Can’t move and with the will “survive nomatter what” told from her parents, she scraps everything on the ground to eat, that’s where she ate the left over part of Godzilla and gains its cell. It could either be his cell part dropped upon being hit by the tanks
I love Shikishima's character arch: a failed kamikaze pilot returned home in disgrace, everyone dumps everything on him and he feels the extreme weight of his shame, meets Noriko and Akiko and starts taking care of them (while still dealing with the shame), and finally regains his honor and his life in the final confrontation (and shows what a fearless fighter pilot he really was!) and comes home with a real reason to live; Noriko and Akiko (who was soooo adorable, btw!) Like Shin Godzilla, ToHo brings Godzilla back to what he originally was: an enemy of Man. a mindless creature bent on senseless destruction; a metaphor for war itself, and for Godzilla; the threat of nuclear war. I thought Shin Godzilla was the scariest incarnation of him since the original, but I'm mistaken, THIS is clearly the scariest incarnation of Godzilla! maybe half the size of Shin as well as Legendary, but the power of his ranged attack... worse than anything else ever done! Fantastically, brilliantly, amazingly done!
I feel like the "problem" with Shin Godzilla (which isn't so much a problem, just a different take) is that Godzilla felt more like an animal not really knowing what it was doing, it was just protecting itself while undergoing painful mutations It was a good movie but Godzilla just didn't feel like Godzilla to me, he only really attacked when provoked, outside of that he just walked around Godzilla Minus One shows what Godzilla is meant to be: Senseless destruction, with the power of a nuclear bomb.
@@blinkachu5275It's not a problem. It's very tragic. Shin Godzilla is not the enemy of man, but is suffering because of man. I know minus one has that too, since he is created by nuclear fallout, but Minus one Goji was more animalistic and territorial than Shin Goji was. Shin Godzilla had no idea what was happening until its 4th form and was just trying to survive.
I found myself loving this movie as a vet and Godzilla fan. 1. The depiction of the emotional and societal scars of war were very well done. 2. The visceral hatred/rage of Godzilla was actually terrifying.
I love how he said "no green screens here" and this movie had a shitload of green screen. It really shows that good CGI will go unnoticed and it shows why Minus One won an Oscar for VFX.
I saw this in the theater six times!! The first two in IMAX! Boy oh boy was that a magical and terrifying experience 😎🙌🏼🔥 the sixth time they had released a Godzilla Minus One Minus Color version!! It is literally one of the greatest Godzilla films I have ever seen! The BEST VFX Oscar win was so well deserved 😤🙌🏼🔥
Saw this movie in theaters, went into it just thinking it was another Godzilla movie. Didn’t even know it wasn’t in English. But man did we LOVE it. Never thought a Godzilla movie would make me cry. It was incredible in every aspect. The story was just phenomenal. And we fully felt that it not being in English, made it even better! We went and saw it in the theaters again after the fact!😊
As a fan of Godzilla, i love how they came back to the root of its story, that Godzilla is still a monster who destroys lives. The other recent movies made him a hero. I have no problem with that, but I would still like to be reminded that Godzilla is still a metaphor for war and nuclear weapon .
This wasn’t just a great Godzilla film, it was actually a great film. I wish this would’ve been nominated as foreign film at the Academy Awards, but I was so happy that this won an Oscar. 🦖
You can see that the Director was hugely influenced by Spielberg Jaws and Jurassic Park were probably the Only Monster Movies before this that really explored the Human Characters so well and made the Audience care for them
are jaws and jurassic park actually monster movies though? sharks and dinosaurs are just real-world animals, i'd consider them "animal on the loose" movies like lake placid or anaconda
@@funkymonkey2k425the term "monster" is metaphorical here. Jaws and the dinosaurs are the "monsters" of the film, just like Jason is the "Monster" of the Friday the 13th films. Just like a human being that commits terrible crimes can be called a monster. And besides that, that's not even the point of his comment.
Fun fact: Takashi Yamazaki the director of this film is a big fan of Godzilla, he also featured Godzilla as cameo in "Always: Sunset on Third Street" on 2005 and he is the director of "Godzilla the Ride: Giant Monsters Ultimate Battle" which have same design for Godzilla in Minus One
Godzilla first inspired Steven Spielberg to make Jaws, and in return to full circle, Takashi Yamazaki referenced the shark chase scene as a tribute. Also, the Shinden airplane was an actual Japanese tailwing jet prototype from WWII.
The air bubble thing has sunk real boats and swimmers that run into gas erupting from undersea geothermal activity, industrial activity, etc. The gas bubbles lower the average density of the water until you can't float on it. You fall through it like you fall through air.
56:30 I appreciate the small detail of the camera getting splashed with water as it pans around Godzilla and that water runs horizontally across the screen as if it was actually flying around the scene🤌 They visually immerse you into every scene
I saw this in IMAX with my fiance. The scene with Godzilla roaring in front of the mushroom cloud was one of the most powerful scenes in cinema that I have ever seen.
I honestly teared up in theaters at the city being destroyed the first time. Knowing that Godzilla is a metaphor for the devastation of an atomic bomb and its destruction got to me in those moments.
What I love about this film are the actors of Koichi and Tachibana, one is a swordsman under Shishio and the other is a brawler friend of Kenshin Himura.
This film in my opinion is the best Godzilla movie ever so far, I have tears from the beginning that I knew it was on the war time to the end, here I was so invested on the human side of the story I truly felt for all of the characters, I love films that can make me tear up a lot and had such an impact on my being.
fun fact, the Kyushu J7W Shinden fighter was a real WW2 prototype fighter with pusher engine (instead of pulling air at the front, it pushes it from behind) and is the only WW2 aircraft with canard configuration, only 2 prototypes were ever made
I watched it on the big screen and was blown away. The story, the sound design, everything was great and yes, I shed a few tears when his parachute opened.
I don't know if I've ever seen a movie that made me root for literally every single character who walked onto the screen. Didn't matter if it was a main character, or supporting, or a random shipmate.
This is truly the one and only Godzilla movie to make me cry and fully care about the humans. The survivor guilt in this movie is portrayed so damn good👏🏾
Been watching Godzilla since I was a kid. I remember being ~five, when lightning struck a tree outside my mom's apartment while I was visiting, staying up late watching a Godzilla cartoon marathon. I thought we were being attacked, and it cemented him in my memory. This movie.... Not only the best Godzilla film I have ever seen, it is one of the best films I have ever seen.
The deep-sea fish looked like that because Godzilla stirred them up to the surface so fast, their insides expanded like balloons out of their mouths, killing them. Foreshadowing the tactic to be used against Godz himself.
57:23 I love the emotion in that moment, because it’s clear on his face that after working on dozens (if not hundreds) of pilot’s planes, he has NEVER heard that before.
I loved the sequence where they shot the mine in Godzilla’s mouth. No cuts or build up to bullets ricocheting around the mine. Just all of a sudden BAM! Gave it more realism and power. Also the entire theatre when he regenerated had the reaction of “Oooh Fuck!”
Is it my favorite Godzilla movie? Yes. Hell I would make it argument that it's one of the best movies I've ever seen. Everything about this movie was just insanely well done from the Godzilla design right down to it doing what so many Godzilla movies fall short at, giving us human characters we are fully invested in and want to see survive, to the special effects that rightfully won an Oscar, to the music, especially Resolution(that one song that played the most frequently besides the main Godzilla theme). My favorite scene was that final battle, especially when they brought him up and as Godzilla charged up for one final attack everything slowed down and probably the best thing about that moment was the complete absence of any sound only to be broken by Koichi's plane. It was an absolute masterpiece.
For me, this was movie of the year. I wish it could have been added to more ocsar award categories (stupid rules). It should have sweeped up and showed the west how to make great movies again
You guys really should’ve seen this in theaters. I cried for many reasons, the emotion, the immaculate effects, the perfect story, the score, everything, this movie is epic. Next time Toho does G see it in theaters!!!
Everything in this film is so perfect! From the storytelling, to the sound design (the water sounds were so perfect and had my ears in a state of comfort 😱), to the color grading which was so crisp and colorful, to the beautiful cinematography respecting Godzilla monstrous scale, and that awesome atomic blast! Not to mention the greatly orchestrated music! The acting is the best part! Every character is so well done by those who had the fantastic opportunity to portray them 🔥 this was definitely an awesome film to watch and admire in many ways
If you didn't make it to the end of the video - The 'MINUS ONE' refers to Godzilla resetting the rebuilding effort, post WW2 (They were at war since 1931, in China); Japan had been set back to ZERO, with all the people killed during the wars, the horrors commited in China by their government; their cities in rubble; Hiroshima and Nagasaki gave EVERYONE in Japan PTSD. Trust in the government, and support from the government was gone. Then, Godzilla shows up while they were rebuilding. The attack on Ginza pushed Japan even further behind, all the way back to 'MINUS ONE.' The cultural perspective on the fictional monster Godzilla is fascinating. To America, Godzilla is a spectacle and a 'Hero of the People' in the new Monsterverse movies. Then this film comes out, reminding us all what Godzilla represents: terror and destruction incarnate.
To begin; I’m SO ENVIOUS that you got to see this. I won’t ask “how”? However, I saw this FOUR times back in Dec./Jan. I wish I had seen it a fifth. This is a near perfect film, IMHO. If “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie” didn’t become as popular as they were? This would’ve been nominated for “Best Picture” and more. An absolute heartfelt and “human” film. A masterpiece of cinema. Thanks for taking the time to react and also embark on this experience, guys! Suggest downloading the soundtrack, too. It’s fantastic! Cheers!
Honestly. I wonder how it'd be like if it wasn't released at the same year as Barbenheimer. Not to say that both films didn't deserve its flowers, but given the hype of Oppenheimer and Barbie, I think it'd have been difficult to hold G-1's potential (even though it's really, really excellent, one heck of a movie) up. And the darned movie wasn't even released in many Asian countries despite many people *wanting* to watch (no wonder G-1 is now one of the most pirated films now). I think it's bad timing and also lack of proper promotion. I think they simply didn't expect G-1 to be this huge of a success.
Such an amazing movie. There are a lot of great talking points to this movie, but the main one for me is once again, a movie shows how important the musical score is to a scene/movie. There were many scenes where the music hit me in the feels.
The foreshadowing is next level. Those fish, they way they looked was that those deep sea fish surfaced so quickly that their insides puffed out of their mouths from decompression.
One of the things that works so well for this movie is the musical score. It creates such different moods and emotions. Some of the music is downright ominous, creepy and suspenseful. While the other half is remarkably beautiful, somber and haunting. I also love the use of choirs in this one as well. They feel godly and sublime. Of course, the film wouldn’t be complete without Godzilla’s theme. In this movie, it’s played 3 times and each time, you can hear the differences. My favorite is the 2nd suite that played during the final confrontation. That was about as close to the original theme as it could get!
This version of godzilla was amazing. I love how they focus more on the human side of things, and I loved how old school yet terrifyingly awesome it looked.. definitely one of my favorites.. 😊 thanks for the reaction guys
I genuinely have no words for how phenomenal of a movie Godzilla Minus One is. I am immensely proud to say that I've been a huge Godzilla fan since I was a kid. This movie deserved its Oscar and so much more
If you noticed... he had in his hands a letter from his parents when he returned home. His guilt was two fold, one was not "fulfilling his duty" by Kamikaze and the second was following his parents wishes that he returned alive from the war.
tachibana’s arch is amazing and the whole kamikaze side of the story is an amazing way to tell the story (i just realized the movie starts with him deciding to not leave the girl and ends with him deciding to not leave her)
Yamazaki is no Godzilla rookie. He first directed a comedy/drama, Always: Sunset on Third Street series, the second of which he incorporated a CGI Godzilla, during a daydream sequence in which the daikaiju destroys Tokyo in a most epic way. You can totally see how Yamasaki’s experience would lead him to direct Minus One so perfectly , in that despite such a short sequence, he was able to deliver a great depth of character and heart. Yamasaki also directed the film aspects of Godzilla: the Ride, for the Seibu-en amusement park. The star of Always: Sunset on Third Street 1-3, Hidetaka Yoshioka, plays the ex-navy weapons engineer Kenji Noda. It was awesome seeing him in that role.
I wasn't expecting Noriko to have survived. If the impact of hitting the ground after that shockwave from the Atomic Breath didn't kill her, the radiation surely would have. It was a very pleasant surprise that she was still alive, don't get me wrong.
I didn’t see it coming, but the little girl they raised reminded me so much of my niece, that it made me emotional to see her sad and cry😭. And I was so happy to see the girl survive Godzilla’s atomic breath explosion. I hope they actually settle down and get married and he calls the little girl his daughter. And they all live a happy life together❤️🏠
Us Godzilla fans are eating well these months! First Minus one and then A New Empire. Two different directors delivered us 2 different films in different tones that resonated with the Big G. Loved the Interview between Adam and Takashi!
I cannot remember the last time that a film had me on the edge of my seat in the movie theater, the scene where he’s flying at Godzilla for the final moment had me frozen with intensity, got me emotional! Minus One is tremendous and I can’t wait to buy the movie on 4K.
This movie also deserves to be nominated to cinematography, best sound or sound mixed, and also to best score... i saw this on theaters and the sound and sound effects was amazing. I left the cinema feeling my throat so tight, make me cry in some scenes
They need to hurry up and make this available in America (without a VPN). Japan already has it on Blu-ray and on Prime, but America has nothing. We gave you an Oscar! 😆
I was digging through comments to find any hints as to how on earth these guys managed to watch it. I've searched and searched for *any* American source and came up with nothing.
@@robertjustice3814 Apparently you can trick Prime Video with a VPN. You have to create a new account for the Japanese site, but that's all it is I guess. I've heard there's no subtitles though, so I have no idea where RR got this copy.
Blame Legendary. They have a deal with Toho that prevents their films from being released in the same year. It's possible we may not get it until 2025.
That atomic breath charge up and release is absolutely the very best implementation of it in any Godzilla movie so far. When the back scales snap back into place and he releases the beam you genuinely feel the force of it. The jaws of everyone in the cinema screening I was in were collectively on the floor at that point.
I started to watch this on another reaction channel but I came out, when I see these guys I knew this was the one I was waiting on. And John having me crying with him
