is Godzilla Minus One a masterpiece?
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- čas přidán 15. 12. 2023
- Nadia and Jake review Godzilla Minus One (2023).
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one of the most impressive things about Minus One is the way it affects a theater audience. I've watched it several times and each time my audience has reacted PHYSICALLY to so many parts, and fallen COMPLETELY silent at many others.
I heard so many people gasp "NO" when the sound cut out during THAT moment at the end of the Ginza fight. in one screening, a kid in my row lost his mind when Takao was hit with the underwater heat ray, and it was so endearing. in ALL of my screenings (my friends and family have all had me take them to watch it 😅) EVERYONE was COMPLETELY silent when the sound cuts out at THAT moment at the end of the final battle, which is crazy bc I think the silence in that scene lasts for a whole minute. and the ending... God the ending. you could hear people sobbing, cheering, I saw people in my row and in front of me rocking back and forth freaking out. just such a visceral and beautiful film 🤌
I love how we can still get serious and dark godzilla movies and goofy showa-era slugfests in the same year, really shows the versatility of Godzilla
giant monster wrecks shit - you can get a lot out of that formula.
9:30 one of my favorite things about Sumiko's arc is that when she first meets Koichi at the start of the film, she has this piece of cloth in her hand and she uses it to strike him repeatedly while calling him a disgrace. then at the end of the film, when Koichi gets off the ship at the docks, she runs up to him to give him the telegram, and she starts hitting him again, and it feels like she's saying "GO YOU IDIOT, GO GET HER" while holding back tears, bc just like the Captain, everyone else in the cast, and everyone in the audience, she was so sad and scared at the thought of Koichi and Noriko being separated.
Also very interesting because she initially hit him because he was trying to live. And when she hits him in the end, it was because he was trying to die.
@@kaj2225 God I love it so much 😭
There is a reason why Noriko, the heroine, could have survived from the Godzilla's atomic beam. The hint is a black bruise on her backside neck shown in the last scene of her. That means that she have taken in remains of Godzilla's meats in her body at the mess accidentally, and the power of the cell of Godzilla made her cured or regenerated her body. That's why she have survived from the destruction like "Godzilla". I am Japanese and found the behind plot from one of the movie reviews in Japan. I am not sure what would happen to her later on with the cells of Godzilla.
Yeap, I thought outside of movie reality it was also a nod to Godzilla vs Biollante movie just like the closing scene is essentially GMK ending.
People survived the atomic bombs that were dropped. The hurricane force winds didn't kill everyone. Those survivors later died from radiation.
Noriko takin "Godzilla's meats" like a champ 💀
I actually read somewhere that it isn’t “Godzilla’s meats” or flesh. It’s radiation sickness.
Loved this movie! I loved how genuine it was and really appreciated how everyone came together but not because of their government or anything but because they’re choosing to fight to protect their neighbors, their families, and the the next generation.
Also I’d recommend the 2014 Godzilla Gareth Edwards film it’s fantastic and Godzilla is a good guy!
I am fairly certain the mechanic who says he does not blame the protagonist for deciding against going through with his mission was one of the men who die in the attack later that night.
The head mechanic serves as the man who holds the protagonist accountable, both as someone who bails on his duty, and fails to act in the face of danger. Hence why its so powerful that he tells him to decide to go on living.
I definitely think you would both enjoy the original Japanese film and the last film released, Shin Godzilla. They are excellent, speaking as someone who has seen all of the films, from horror story to goofy nonsense to action epics. The two I recommend are closest to this film in tone and impact.
Great discussion!!
I thought it was the head mechanic who said he didn't blame the protagonist for not going through with the mission. I could be wrong. I remember the scene but not with enough detail to say for sure which mechanic it was.
@@fixpacifica no, I recall the protagonist leaving to sit on the rocks overlooking the ocean to escape the pressure of the mechanic knowing the truth. And the head mechanic looks pretty upset about it, really close to his face before he walks away
Yeah it was a different character I thought it was Tachibana the first time as well but after seeing again yeah different guy but he definitely made an impact.
the ending to this film is precisely what makes it one of my favorite experiences in a theater ever. it reminds me of a scene in the finale of the only kdrama I've ever watched, called The Glory, in that a lot of people who view films as a puzzle box or a sudoku grid to be solved just couldn't "get" it. meanwhile it absolutely swept away and won the hearts of every normal, non-internet-addicted person I knew - people who don't scroll tvtropes, people who don't engage in discourse about plot holes and cheesiness and all this other weirdly insecure stuff that so many social media accounts tend to bring into media discourse these days.
I remember when the MCU and the Fast and Furious movies were really becoming mainstays, the phrase "turn your brain off and enjoy it" became this derisive staple of media discourse that came to carry a connotation of "this is low-class art". but in the years since, I've seen discourse get to a point where people approach films the way internet debate bro channels approach debates. I see people almost terrified of the possibility that someone online will call accuse them of having turned off their brains when they watched a film, so instead, they're watching the film constantly looking to catch it in a trap. just zero willingness to meet the film at its tempo and give it a fair shake.
I think the reason so many people love Godzilla Minus One is because it DOESN'T concern itself with that whole section of media discourse at all. The characters ARE good people. The story IS simplistic. The music IS incredibly powerful. The ending IS unapologetically happy. And the film is NOT obsessed with what internet film enthusiasts will say about it, so there's no apologetic sense of lampshading its core characteristics. And I love it for it. Can't believe a Godzilla film is going to be in my list of favorite films this year alongside Killers of the Flower Moon, Oppenheimer, Past Lives, Anatomy of a Fall, Suzume, and The Boy and The Heron, but here we are.
I’d love to hear Nadia’s review of Jaws! I agree with the reviewers who have been saying Godzilla Minus One resembles the filmmaking of previous eras like 70s American blockbuster cinema. It takes its time to build relatable characters and uses the spectacle to heighten the emotion
You will enjoy more if you know Japanese secrets of Godzilla. Let me ask you following questions. Q1. Why did Godzilla come to Ginza and mysteriously disappeared from the movie? This is same as the movie Sin-Godzilla and original 1954 Godzilla. In case of Sin-Godzilla, it was Tokyo station, and original 1954 Godzilla, he came to the Japanese parliament building but gone. Why? And why the locations are so important? Q2. After Godzilla died, why the people on the ships saluted him? In the 1954 Godzilla movie, people sang the beautiful music like a funnel and in Sin-Godzilla, end of Godzilla’s tail shows human like figures. All these are related. So why? Q3. Why does Japanese Godzilla walk like a Noh-theater actors? Is it because he is some kind of divine god? To answer these questions, you need to know followings. First of all, there are still many dead Japanese solders bodies not recovered from deep Pacific oceans. We could not even give them proper funnels. We know all of them wanted to come back, but they couldn’t. Godzilla is Tatari-gami(kami:god) of Odoh Island. Tatari-gami is a god of curse and give judgement. In Shinto religion, one of the most important jobs for a priest is to calm Tatari-gami down. Emperor of Japan is a living deity and highest priest of Shinto. Please take a look at map of Tokyo. You see Ginza, Tokyo station and the Japanese parliament building are all in front of imperial palace. Japanese soldiers are emperor’s soldiers and they should be back to Yasukuni-shrine to rest. By the way, Yasukuni-Shrine is locating next to imperial palace. Godzilla is Tatari-gami and spirits of dead soldiers are in Godzilla. However, Godzilla is also cursed by the atomic radiation. So, he finally came back to Japan to rest, but he is a monster now and not welcomed. Godzilla screamed in Ginza. Japanese movie directors want to portrait Godzilla like a divine figure. That is the reason Japanese Godzilla walks like a Noh-theater actor. Entire movie is a ritual and a process to calm down the Tatari-gami (Godzilla), and give him proper funnel. Only problem is Godzilla is curse by US atomic-bomb and the radiation, so he cannot die and continue to be Tatari-gami. Noriko has affected by G-cell. As Koichi’s war ends, but Noriko’s war has just started. This reminds us the suffering of many survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from radiation. Many of them have to live rest of their long life in pain and agony. Question is, did our war truly ended? I think by knowing these secrets, you will enjoy Godzilla movie more.
I have been a huge fan since I was a child in the 1970s, and this is the first I have heard of any of this! Thank you for adding even more contextual layers to this amazing film and seminal franchise.
Since you liked Minus One so much, I would highly recommend watching the original 1954 film. Very similar vibes. Shin Godzilla is also incredibly good. It was directed by the creator of Evangelion. (It is very dialogue heavy though)
If you want to watch the cheesiest, goofiest, most campy film ever made, watch Godzilla Final Wars.
i have no idea if it’s actually good, but final wars holds a weirdly sentimental place in my heart with how insane, over the top cheesy it is. highly recommend
@@slippinndippin1421 It's obviously not a movie with any substance, but it's so unapologetically ridiculous that it's one of my favorites. If you ask me, Godzilla movies need to be either incredibly dark and serious or super cheesy and fun. That's why the new American ones are just kind of ok. They try to do both.
I also loved the movie - im really glad Nadia liked godzilla.
Ive loved godzilla since i was a child and its was so amazing to see it still being taken seriously.
As someone else has echoed here, i think Nadia you should check out 2016s Shin Godzilla. Its another really great slow paced godzilla story (and the creator of neon genesis evangelion is co-director)
Agreed this movie was such a pleasant surprise. 10/10
Is 10/10 appropriate for the phrase "pleasant surprise"??
I like most Godzilla movies that come out but dear God this goes WAY beyond a fun Kaiju films and invokes the importance of cinema and good art.
I felt terror and pity and Awe as well as shedding a few tears and feeling my heart full of despair and hope while watching this film.
One of the best films of the past decade.
“Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack” is genuinely one of the best classic Godzilla movies! 😂 i think you would both enjoy it!
Must Watch Godzilla:
Godzilla (1954)
Destroy All Monsters
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
Godzilla Final Wars
Shin Godzilla
Going to see it here (in the UK) today and going into it pumped but also going to be emotional as I've watched multiple reviews on this film so I can't really say my opinion right now but tonight I will be able to say things about it also you got two cute doggos 😁
I enjoyed it I also think it was movie of the year still can't believe its budget was £15m but I agree it was a lot more impressive as it was lower than that the director wishes it was that high. I was the only one that clapped at the end not sure if I could see a sequel (no spoilers don't worry)
this is the only time I've ever, EVER, seen a movie twice in theaters. and thats saying something, I watch a lot of movies. this shit is literally perfect
Grew up loving the Godzilla v. Destroyah, but this has become my favorite by far. The atomic breath explosion here was shocking and horrifying, not in the fear sense but how ghastly it was
If you both liked this one, I’d be very interested in hearing your thoughts on the original Godzilla from 1954, specifically the Japanese version. It’s one of my favorite movies of all time, and has some of the most interesting history behind it of any movie I’ve ever watched.
Just a recommendation.
I teared up multiple times in the film, the parts where you’re supposed to cry when the actors are bearing their soul. But also when the theme music dropped in on the Giza attack. That scene was so incredibly done. It made me cry at seeing Godzilla being taken so seriously on film again and getting a chance to see such a masterpiece of a film about something beloved from my childhood. They were tears of joy of the privilege of seeing a film like that in the theater. This movie made my inner child very happy! 🐲❤️🔥 The king of the king of the monsters is back!!🐲🐲🐲
Original 1964 Godzilla and Shin Godzilla would be my recommendations for Godzilla films. But if you’re taking recommendations, what I really want to recommend is that if Man is getting Woman to watch more Godzilla films, then Woman also needs to get Man to watch the original Avatar the Last Airbender series.
So glad you reviewed this! I loved this movie! ❤❤❤
You’re a masterpiece
-Keanu Reeves
Also Check Out Shin Godzilla! That one is also very well made!
Mothra vs Godzilla (1964) is my favourite!
Shin Godzilla was a really fun, well made disaster movie but Minus One felt like a proper story. It almost felt like Godzilla was just a metaphor and the film would’ve functioned just fine without him.
The monster droning sounds when godzilla is out at sea is so unsettling.
Yes, you saw it too! Wasn’t it just awesome! It was so terrifying, heavy, exhilarating, usually I root for him but I just wanted Godzilla to just leave everyone alone. He was so heavy and vicious. 😭 Amazing, everyone should see it!
Finally, my opinion on this movie has dropped.
This is quickly becoming my favorite chill review channel on youtube. Yall’s back and forth is so natural. Whether you have the same opinion on a movie or not, it's so much fun tuning in to hear your takes. And the best Godzilla movie to watch next is "All Monsters Attack." That's a 100% trustworthy recommendation from an expert on the large lizard.
I think the Japanese franchise has that fantasy element of the fairy or priestess that soothe Godzilla. The animated series I think is the continuation of the Broderick Godzilla, where the scientist team tamed Godzilla to fight other monsters.
7:25 just a quick note - I’m pretty sure the mechanic who tells Shikishima that he doesn’t blame him for aborting his kamikazi mission is actually *not* the chief mechanic Tachibana. They all wear the same mechanic jumpsuit so it’s easy to mix them up. I’m fairly certain Tachibana consistently resents Shikishima until the last act
Tachibana is also tough to confuse for anyone else bc he's like 3 feet taller than everyone else around him. Dude's a giant 😂
really? it seems like the entire power of the scene came from the fact it was the guy who resented him for surviving, and you're saying it's just some random nameless character? I would be baffled if this were true
@@helvete_ingres4717 I think you're misinterpreting his clarification. Tachibana is the leader of the oda island detachment of mechanics. He spends the entire movie resentful of Shikishima up until the end, first for lying about his plane being faulty (Tachibana knew this bc his men found no issue with Shikishima's plane) and then later for not shooting at Godzilla as it killed all his men, until he forgives him at the end and tells him to live. The guy that walks up to Shikishima in the opening to tell him that he agrees with Shikishima's desire to live, right before the deep-sea fish appear for the first time, is one of Tachibana's mechanics. This man is killed in the opening attack at night where Shikishima fails to act.
I simply don't see why anyone would prefer the convoluted interpretation that Jake had to this, but even if you did, to call the way the film does it meaningless is ridiculous.
@@johncra8982 I was talking about the scene towards the end where he's preparing the plane and says he wants him to live..after he has succesfully found tachbibana to do it but there's also 2-3 other mechanics, I thought he was saying it's one of them
I can confirm! Watched this movie 3 times lol
Thank you.Really.Thank you.
*GODZILLA*
Love Godzilla since I was 7 but I'm not sure I could ever get into this franchise as others who are diehard kaiju fans. My favorite Godzilla has become MV because it's more accessible to an American audience and MV Godzilla moves realistically like an actual giant creature. But I still don't love MV like other franchises. I compare kaiju films to Jackie Chan's martial arts films but more niche.
After finishing Heels S2 about 3 days ago, the only thing I'm really watching is Monarch: Legacy of Monsters and I'm not really invested with the characters. The only one I like is Lee Shaw (Kurt/ Wyatt Russell) as I find most of the kids annoying specifically Kentaro being a jackass. It's nice to see Godzilla for about a minute but the show isn't about him but Monarch.
I only came to realize recently that when you say Showa, Heisei, and Reiwa Eras, it's based on the Japanese emperors. I used to think they were production studios like the Shaw Brothers Studio in Hong Kong. Now I know. I'm still learning a lot of this Godzilla stuff on the fly and I find it to be the most fun part over actually watching the 30+ Toho Godzilla films with guys fighting in heavy, rubber suits.
Favorite Godzilla film: GvK (2021)
Favorite Godzilla design: 2019/2021
Favorite Godzilla roar: 1962
Some MV fans prefer the 2014 design but I prefer the 2019/2021 designs thanks to the larger dorsal plates. I know he looks fatter thanks to a bigger body which makes 2019/2021's head look smaller, but I've grown to like them more. The one we see in Monarch's Episode 6 is closer to 2014 since it's only a year after G-Day.
My second favorite Godzilla design is coming from the 1991 one called GhidoGoji. There were two suits used for it as one of them got stolen and was damaged when it was found. The one I like is Shinjuku over Hokkaido. Suit A/land over Suit B/sea. Shinjuku has a statue of that head from the 1989/1991 Godzilla.
SH MonsterArts released a figure for it this year. The 1989 and 1991 are close in design and that's how I always pictured Toho Godzilla in my head. Heisei Era had the best Godzilla suits while I prefer 60s Showa's roar. I prefer 1991 over 1989 because he's taller, bigger, and I prefer larger dorsal plates. His face and dorsal plates are the most important aspects to me for Godzilla figures.
I consider the two best Godzilla films ever made coming from 1954 and 2023. Minus One went back to the core and more serious themes from the original. They're not my favorites but they're the two best. Minus One would rank my 3rd favorite behind 2019/2021 and 1989/1991 when it comes to Godzilla designs.
Best Godzilla Films
1. Godzilla Minus One (2023)
2. Godzilla (1954)
3. Godzilla (2014)
Favorite Godzilla Films
1. Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
2. Godzilla Minus One (2023)
3. Godzilla (2014)
Favorite Godzilla Designs
1. Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
2. Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)
3. Godzilla Minus One (2023)
If I can buy two more Godzilla toys since I already have the Hiya 7" KOTM Exquisite Basic one, I'd get one for 1991 Shinjuku and one for Minus One. But I don't like SHMA overpricing their stuff and I prefer smaller figures below 7". My Hiya one is the max size I would go although my old Imperial Godzilla stood at 12".
I've seen a 1989 one from Art Spirits at only 3.5" and it's priced at $35 on eBay. I may get it. The 1989 is close enough to the 1991 suit and I would rather pay $35 for a 1989 than the $100+ that SHMA is asking for their 6.3" 1991 Shinjuku one. And SHMA has QC issues. They're asking for $140 for their Minus One figure. I love Godzilla but not that much to buy an overpriced plastic lizard toy.
Godzilla is absolutely cute in the scenes where his following the plane lol.
As for good Godzilla movies?
Shin Godzilla
Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah, Giant Monsters All Out Attack.
And the original Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla, where Godzilla is unambiguously a hero.
Godzilla was terrifying in this movie
As good and fun as Shin Godzilla was, it was essentially Godzilla-as-technothriller. It's hard suss any message out from it past "old bureaucrats need to get out of the way of creative-minded experts and otaku!" Minus One is really driving deep into Japanese participation in WW2 and, while still being sympathetic, is as close as these films have gotten to hinting towards Godzilla as divine retribution for everything that nation had been doing the prior nine-ish years.
I'm gonna pretend me commenting to see Godzilla every week was the cause of this episode
End of episode addition: Nadia, watch Jaws
Check out ANIMAL released this week.
Best R rated film this year
Yes
The original Godzilla (1954) is a must watch. A bit outdated but such a great film. A literal expression of japan's trauma with the atomic bomb and the fact that they couldn't talk about it before because of the american occupation. More than a Godzilla film, the original represent a massacre done by an overwhelming power held by irresponsible individuals.
The funniest review of this movie is someone calling it “non-political”.
The message is simply “If your traditional value told you to kill yourself, then maybe those value is not worth following” but yeah, it’s totally NOT political.
Watch the original Godzilla movie from 1954
Watch Jaws
Good advice. Will not be able to take Nadia seriously without having seen early Spielberg
@@somecontrol268Duel
I recommend to watch Son of Godzilla
10/10 holy shit award
Never seen Jaws?!?
And Jaws is not really about the shark as Mark Kermode is fond of saying. This Godzilla is not really about the monster
As a somewhat big Godzilla fan, I would recommend:
Gojira (1954)
Shin Godzilla (2016)
Godzilla vs Biollante (1989)
Godzilla vs Destroyah (1995)
GMK (2001)
Godzilla X MechaGodzilla (2002)
Mothra vs Godzilla (1964)
Godzilla vs Hedorah (1971)
BABU
Yes.
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Watch shin godzilla! Godzilla is not nice but he is biblical and its another japanese based very serious take on the series
I much prefered Shin Godzilla, but I still really enjoyed this film.
Both explore different aspects. What I love most about Shin is that it treats Godzilla as a natural disaster and the whole thing is about emergency response and all the beurocracy which is slowing everything down. The film is also subtely funny, like for instance the titles of officials get longer and smarter as the movie progresses but in fact nothing was accomplished. Or when a group of people changes room to start another meeting - the same people room, different room = different comittee :-)
I didn't know MCT was married to a fellow Bangali!
I think she’s Nepalese
I just dont understand some of the people putting their reviews out here. They will go on and on enthusiastically about the greatness of this film and how they love it and then give it, as the guy said, "I'd give it an 8 or a 9." REALLY??? And you also said it was one of the best of the year. Why are some people unable to give a film...THIS film a 9.5 or 10? A masterpiece isnt an 8 or 9 film.
I’m starting to wonder if this movie is overrated now.
I liked the move, but I felt like some of the dialogue and the imagery contradicted the overall message of valuing life.
Also the main character's arc didn't really work for me. It lacked agency toward the end.
I would definitely recommend watching the very first Godzilla (1954)
Since a lot of hollywood movies focus on diversity and woke shit, Godzilla minus one was a fresh of air
I did really like the movie, but I think it felt a bit too much like wish fulfillment for the Japanese psyche after ww2. In the real world there wasn’t anything admirable to put their efforts towards to justify the ptsd of the war, but in the movie Godzilla gives them that. I do wish there was something like that in real life - but in reality, without Godzilla there, all these characters would have just been struggling with their trauma. So my feeling is that this movie kind of whitewashes history by making something that was entirely traumatic into something Japanese can look back on with more pride.
If you are going to use a buzzword, at least use it properly. Here the word you are looking for is just "change", not "whitewash". How is it white washing when the movie is Japanese produced, japanese acted, japanese written, and made mainly for the Japanese market ?
Now, to respond to the core of your comment: I completely disagree.
You have to understand that for Japanese society, World War II is a void period, they don't talk about it at all to the point where successive government have wiped traces of Japan's involvement in some of WW2 worst atrocities from history books. They are a deeply revisionist society that paints their country under the best light every chance they get.
Given this context, it is easy to see how Godzilla Minus One is kind of groundbreaking and "modern" by Japanese standards because it's a mainstream movie that doesn't give Japan a pass for what it did in WW2, even if it's just passing comments sometimes. There's also the underlying commentary on the inefficient government of Japan that needs to be saved by its population.
Godzilla in this movie can be interpreted in a lot of ways, but the way that makes most sense to me is that it is the embodiment of the Shadow of War, always lurking in the depths, but sometimes surging to unleash further misery and destruction on populations going about their lives. And that if we want to win against the concept of war itself, everyone in society needs to work together and find solutions.
But I guess there's something underlying the rest here: why shouldn't Japan be proud of how it managed to rebuild itself after the near total destruction of its main cities ?
Sure, there's a lot that doesn't work in this country, like any other, but if you want a monster movie that talks about that, I recommend Hideaki Anno's Shin Godzilla rather than Minus One. That one deals with the utter absurdity of Japanese administrations, its reluctance to change and its sometimes misplaced reverence of seniority in every aspect of their lives.
But again, like in Minus One, people working together is what saves the day, because that's core to Japanese culture as a whole.
@@arenkai whitewash is “a deliberate concealment of someone's mistakes or faults in order to clear their name”. Regardless of my opinion, I don’t feel that you needed to attack me, and im happy to disagree :)
@@jacobkatzeff Wow I didn't even know that word existed. I've only ever heard of the concept of Whitewashing in the context of debate around erasure of people of colour in favour of white people in media.
I apologise then. That part of my comment was uncalled for, and you are correct that there was exasperation while I was writing the comment which led to me being sarcastic.
Please disregard the first paragraph, it's completely irrelevant to your comment.
The rest still stands however, as I don't feel I've been aggressive in the rest of the comment.
Imo no matter how Japanese wanted to view ww2, it was still a traumatic event for them in every sense of the word. Much of their country was levelled. Their economy devastated. Most people in Japan did not make the call to go to war. They just answered it and went along to participate. There's a point for debate here: whether Japanese civilians should be blamed but another day perhaps.
I agree with the comment above that Japanese society has coped with the fact that they started the war in a fairly regressive fashion. Omitting key details of their soldiers heinous conduct overseas etc. Thus their failure to own up to the brutality of their war time actions in the global perspective is reprehensible. It stands in stark contrast to how Germans shouldered and took responsibility from top to bottom.
However, this film is not directly about ww2. But the aftermath of ww2 and the resilience of Japanese people against world annihilating threat. Damage from ww2 was done. They were now going to prevent more from Godzilla. Yes it was a bit like wish fulfillment where Japanese imagined a victory they didn't get in ww2. But who cares? People cope one way or another, and try to look best doing it one way or another. If Japanese people keep coping with the past by producing films of this caliber, I say all the power to them. Whitewash away.
The over-the-top CZcamsr reviews of Godzilla Minus One have been silly. The big Godzilla Takedown Climax was a massive let down. The last terrifying thing Godzilla does is throw a flaming boat across the screen. After that, he's completely toothless. He steps out of the ocean as I would step out of the shower and all the boats put to sea .. no problem.
Despite proving earlier in the film that Godzilla was an adept swimmer capable of taking out naval war ships .. that Godzilla doesn't show up at the end of the film. The ending Godzilla stands in deep water (apparently) flailing his arms as roaring. He shoots a nuclear blasts and it only splashes water on the boats trying to encircle him. The entire ending just wasn't very well done.. They even had Godzilla freeze, mid atomic breath, so they Koichi could deliver the Kamikaze bomb plane.
I went back and watched the endings to all Monsterverse movies and EVERY ONE was able to create more spectacle and a better climax that raised the stakes, the dread, and the peril. If this is anti-woke .. it's terrible. It's a group of men playing t-ball and getting big hits. Everyone glorify the men. It's worse than Hollywood woke.. it's misoginist woke.
Give me a frick'n break...
Godzilla was lured into firing his atomic breath twice in a short period of time, which caused damage and he needed to regenerate. He is quite smart in the movie but not that smart to understand that he was in danger when they were encircling him. They were not shooting at him or anything. After he was drowned and re-emerged he was in no condition to fight, he needed to regenerate after being squeezed and then subjected to decompression. Still he would have won, even though his was very slow due to his injuries, if Koichi hadn't blown him up (which did not kill him after all but that's another story :D)
As to the last point - the movie which shows men in a positive light - oh, horror.