It's such a good time to be a Godzilla fan! This movie perfectly encapsulates the horror and fear of Godzilla. I really hope you guys consider reacting to Godzilla X Kong cause that embraces the sci-fi, fantasy side of Godzilla and is a ton of fun!
This is Godzilla at his roots. Godzilla was originally made to show the horrors of using nuclear bombs. He was no one's ally, no one's friend. He wasn't good. Godzilla was death and destruction in natural form.
Even in most of the movies where he's seen as the good guy, he's technically not really a good guy, but just a giant animal defending what he considers his territory from perceived intruders.
@@virgoleo81 Yes, but there is a series of movies where they gave him a quirky personality. In these, he was definitely a good guy. He was even raising a son and teaching it life lessons. That series ended with his death, and Godzilla jr took over, who was more serious again.
@@MikkosFree The quirky personality is the goat Showa Godzilla Yes he raised a son but he didn't die Chronologically, his final story is jumping Ghidorah with the other monsters in "Destroy All Monster" Godzilla died is Heisei Godzilla, he doesn't became quirky like showa godzilla
23:10 The black rain scene is based on real accounts of the after-effects of the 2 atomic bombings, when ash would collect moisture in a sudden HIGHLY radioactive rainfall.
The black rain that fell from the sky was not oil, but rain containing radioactive materials that fell after the atomic bomb exploded. Most Japanese people know what ``black rain'' means.
Which also means after the fact...the people that came into contact with that black rain will most likely die in another 5 to 10 years from now because of radiation poisoning. Which make a sad ending one way or another. You see the black line forming on his girlfriend at the end which explicate that she too has been effected by radiation poisoning 😢
@@Commander2021-or3pn Sorry if it ruins your perspective of the ending, but the black line forming on her at the ending is actually Godzillas cells, she was "infected" and the regenerative factor is how she survived. Iirc the director himself confirmed as much.
Fun Fact: So the title Minus One comes from the fact that this is set right after Japan lost the world war, politically economically and socially they are at their absolute lowest they have ever been. And then Godzilla shows up. And THAT’S the Minus One, because just when they thought they couldn’t get any lower, in comes Godzilla. Also, Godzilla‘s atomic breath is inspired by how nuclear reactors work. His back plates are like cooling rods, and when they are pulled out the “reactor“ inside him starts to overheat and as he’s inhaling deeply he’s stoking the fire inside of him, then when the plates drop back in it causes the chain reaction which unleashes his breath. Just like what happened at Chernobyl.
It's dust. It's people, buildings, everything. And yeah some radiation in there too most likely. Blown up into the air by the explosion and then brought back down as the temperature dropped rapidly post-explosion.
@@pumpkinqueen9615 oh wow thanks for sharing that information. So that means she was supposed to be dead, but she must’ve got infected with Godzilla DNA during the city wreckage.
Shout out to Sheera actually recognizing that the boat was pretty much totalled after the mine exploded. Watched a lot of reactions to Minus One and pretty much no one understood why they weren't leaving. Also to be fair, it was a dingy ass boat vs. a close detonation of a mine meant to destroy war ships and Submarines.
"So why do you work out?" "I have this reoccurring dream where Godzilla picks up a subway that I'm in and I find myself dangling 300 feet in the air by a half broken pole." "Neat."
The director confirmed that the thing on Noriko's neck at the end was Godzilla's cells, which also explains how she survived the blast since Godzilla's cells are the key to his regenerative powers
no, it has been confirmed as a radioactive rash, an early symptom of damage to body cells and resulting in gradual death, experienced by many survivors after radioactive explosions.
The floating fish are deep sea fish, disturbed by Godzilla that float to the top and what looks like little balloons coming out of their mouths is there innards expanded due to decompression from the depths.
@@sideways_chip_eater6420 that is possible too, but they wouldn’t blow up like balloons if that were the soul cause of it. Think of all the nooks and crannies on Godzilla‘s body all of the rough scales and spikes when he’s on the bottom of the ocean and the fish gather in those scales and spikes swimming around him and he rises to the surface they get caught in the crevices of Godzilla’s armor and lifted to the surface of the water and they expand from the compressed gases in their bodies and die.
The scene of Shikishima screaming with overwhelming grief and rage after Godzilla destroyed Ginza is absolutely heartbreaking. Everyone in the packed IMAX theater I saw this in was crying at that scene.
@@jaylenharris343 Fun Fact: So the title Minus One comes from the fact that this is set right after Japan lost the world war, politically economically and socially they are at their absolute lowest they have ever been. And then Godzilla shows up. And THAT’S the Minus One, because just when they thought they couldn’t get any lower, in comes Godzilla.
12:18 Godzilla was not growing. He was already fully grown, and old enough that the Odo Island locals had legends about him. The nuclear testing during Operation Crossroads mutated him. That's how the original Godzilla was created. 15:24 And he's still nowhere near the tallest. Minus One is actually one of the smaller Godzillas at about 50 meters tall. Heisei, Monsterverse, Shin, and Ultima are all about twice as tall. Godzilla Earth is three times as tall as them. 15:44 Credit to the Takao and her gunners. Even as the entire upper section of the ship is ripped apart, fire control utterly destroyed, and the entire command staff killed, they still manage to fire a broadside point-blank into Godzilla's flank. 16:27 Burnt his skin to a crisp, and foreshadowing. 21:00 Funny thing, these tanks (Type 4 Chi-tos) were made IRL. Well, they were prototypes, only one was made and the chassis of a second was partly done. (Two completed) They were driven into a lake when the war ended. I guess they fished them out and made more after hearing about Godzilla, and due to American military support being unavailable. The Americans probably sent the materials needed to help make these tanks. 24:56 In layman's terms, it's like how deep sea divers need to stop at points so there body adjusts to the pressure. You ever watch the Meg? In the scene where Jonah drops his sub like a brick to the bottom of the sea to rescue his ex-wife and her colleagues, he gets a bloody nose from his sub dropping so fast, because of the pressure being applied to his submersible. Godzilla had to deal with similar things diving into, and ascending from, the depths 26:35 So? Monsterverse Godzilla weighs five times that. Actually, I think he's gotten heavier. 27:10 The J7W Kyushu Shinden. The only prototype that did a flight test flew the same day the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It was designed to combat American B-29s, the same planes that fire bombed Japan's cities, that's what killed Shikishima's parents, and what nearly killed Shizue in Reincarnated as a Slime. 36:15 Every tugboat in Tokyo Bay. These things were built to guide destroyers, battleships, and barges filled with ore. 38:21 Not just that. Tachibana saw Shikishima kept the pictures from his buddies on Odo Island, a picture of Noriko, and Akiko's drawing. He kept a reminder of the past, but hope for the future. [EDIT: As of a recent discovery, I found out that Shikishima was, by word of Minus One novelization, upper-class, or at least the lower rungs of the upper-class. His family had a large and beautiful house, he was an only child, and was an ensign in the navy, meaning, at his age, he had gone to high school, or even university, which most Japanese at the time couldn't afford the large amount of time needed to study for. And anything else in parentheses is an edit)
This is a masterpiece. The visual effects and cgi are phenomenal, especially the atomic breath, and it's the the first time I've cared for the humans as much as the monster scenes.
This is the difference between this and Monsterverse version. I don't care at all about the human elements in Monsterverse. They can literally be erased from the plot and the movie would still be coherent.
movie was mid, all deaths didn't mean shit. the main character, his lover and Godzilla himself died, these were all set up as major plot points. but in the end they all miraculously survived. and btw the CGI in this movie is worse than in Godzilla king of the monsters, which is not that good of a movie either, at least it has better CGI.
@@The_Belgian_Wafflethe cgi here is actually better. Esepcially when it comes to water and monster fx, the wonky parts are the interactions with humans. The movie being set in broad daylight highlights the flaws more compared to KoTM set in either firestorms, darkness or underwater. Even GvK has a sloppy daylight fight that looked weightless af. Btw the deaths of characters being reversed doesn't detract from their plot points if their survival is only revealed after the events happen. It can lessen the initial impact but the motivation is what matters, and even if Noriko did initially survive the motivation for revenge still makes sense because that's twice Shikishima nearly lost everything. In ww2 plenty of Nuclear and Firebomb attack survivors were listed dead only to be alive but heavily injured or even not at all. So even from a realism standpoint it isn't set in stone.
What’s really terrifying about this is that while previous versions of Godzilla only attack people when provoked, Minus One’s Big G *wants* to kill humans.
Dude got burned so badly by a nuke and his regeneration out of control because his body was trying to heal him from all that radiation and mutated. When you look at him closely, he looks scarred and burnt and his bones in his legs looked as if they’re permanently stuck to forever walk like that and he has to stand up straight to support his weight.
Not close but great, Shin Godzilla is still the best modern Godzilla movie, and Ishiro onda, Godzilla is still one of the most realistic and impactful Godzilla ever.
@@temshoppingi kinda disagree. The storytelling of shin is more engaging because not only it's really heavy political based and there are clearly made the japanese government so incompetent. Littéraly a scene where a shot of prime minister and noodle, there's more danger and the fact that shin evolve it, helped a lot. But hey i still like minus one, my only problem is from someone that i watched practically all the Godzilla movies, what the movie brings, we got a serizawa (. Talking about the og 1954 one), a soldier, Godzilla , an analogy of despair and war, just the VFX is the new thing and even that one, shin used puppet and CGI so that's why I'm kinda conflicting, it's a great Godzilla movie but nothing new that brings
I'm a citizen of Hiroshima Prefecture. The temperature at 8:15 a.m. on August 15, 1945 was less than 30 degrees, but it became 3000 degrees after the atomic bomb was dropped. The situation at that time has been revealed in a follow-up survey that can be said to be the obsession of Hiroshima City. People within a radius of 1 km from the hypocenter instantly boiled blood and died instantly. People within 1 kilometer outside it were caught in a collapsed building and were stuck and burned to death while living due to the fire. In addition, in the outer 1-kilometer area, people suffered and died for three days and three nights in the radioactive rain that fell immediately after the atomic bomb. About 90,000 citizens died at this moment.
I would want to say sorry for what happen to Japanese, but Japanese also colonialized my land for 3,5 years with ridiculous cruelty, lots of my ancestors were R4P3D, k1lled and b3headed by Japanese. So karma motherf*cker? Is it safe to say it like that?
@@notthatguy7578 but it's obvious that u could care less and his point of the comment was to give people a reality check of a nuclear bomb. Americans like u cry over something like 9/11 but are always ready to justify the deaths of half a million innocent citizens in an instant just because the other side was too crazy and wouldn't have given up easily lol. Shut up clown 🤡
Godzilla 2000 Millennium also had fast regeneration, his cells’ regenerative abilities is part of why the Millennians sampled his cells and accidentally created Orga.
That scene of Koichi going from rage to sadness after Godzilla's atomic breath was chilling. Igenuinely felt bad for him throughout this movie. He was struggling with survivors guilt and having dreams of his allies telling him to die. And just when things were starting to look up for him, Godzilla shows up.
To clarify, the government disguising attempts to kill Godzilla with atomic weapons as 'tests' is the lore of the American films. The Japanese Godzilla lore is that Godzillasaurus was a surviving dinosaur from the Cretaceous that grew to monstrous proportions when he was exposed to American nuclear testing.
When he got hit by the nukes, he probably almost died from it, but the radiation mutated him before he died and gave him regenerative abilities on top of increasing his size. And when he started crumbling after his head got blown off, it was probably due to the fact that he was charging as it happened, and his weakened body couldn't properly contain all that energy with his brain no longer managing how the energy would flow through his body, which is why he fell apart. So the thing that was left that was regenerating was probably his heart or the core of his entire being.
@@Arashi257 According to the official novelization, Godzilla already had regeneration capabilities which is what allowed him to survive the nuclear blast, but also absorbed the radiation which caused his natural regeneration abilities to go haywire and grow him into monsterous proportions.
So is the lore that Godzilla was immortal from his healing rate, or that there was a species of Godzilla-dinosaurs that survived the meteor, but only Goji survived the bombs/became mutated?
@@tylermiller5904 Depends on what lore you're following. In Minus One's case, Godzilla isn't immortal at first, but does have strong regeneration abilities. When he survived the necleur tests, however, the radiation mutated his cells making his regeneration ability to go into overdrive, making him bigger, regenerate faster, and close to immortal.
21:47 Because physics is a thing. Noriko with lower weight, weaker strength and no momentum step couldn't just slam at Koichi and hoped that both would fall to that alley together. It's not that she didn't want to go in, the counterforce pushed her back.
23:13 NOT OIL! that is nuclear rain. After Hiroshima, the mushroom cloud had rain fall from it, but it was filled with soot and radiation. It was a death sentence. Same thing here
Calm down, buddy. I wouldn't say all of Hollywood. At its highest level it outclassed most of Hollywood. And I don't mean to say that as to degraded it. The movie is a masterpiece, but so are other Hollywood movies. This Godzilla film deserves to be on the podium of great Hollywood films.
lol tone down the hyperbole. The CG in this looks really obvious and cartoony. Story is great though. But seriously this is definitely no Dune, and visually speaking the Legendary Godzilla movies have much better CGI that doesn't look super out of place.
That wasn't oil, that rain was ash, from the bodies that got vaporized, that atomic breath scene was amazing in theaters, everyone was dead silent as Godzilla charged up, and when he fired someone actually screamed from how loud it was; Kamiki Ryunosuke deserves an award for that scream alone because he just witnessed and survived a nuclear blast
its not vaporized bodies, its ash that got blown into clouds and attached to water molecules, weighing them down and causing a radioactive rain of ash and water
@@monkeyman4346 Where do you think the ash is coming from other than the burning buildings, objects, etc? So they're not wrong. People got vaped into ashes as well.
Honestly, it kinda tracks. This Godzilla wasn't just neutral or on the side of humanity. This Godzilla was fury and rage incarnate, mixed with a tinge of sadism. A monster in the most classical sense, but also the most terrifying BECAUSE he was the most..human. An absolute menace who ENJOYED destruction. He is destruction incarnate.
Guys its a crime to not see this in the theater. There are TWO versions. If you have a chance watch the black and white version called Godzilla Minus One Minus Color. Amazing.
10:12 That's just for the MonsterVerse timeline. Most of the time, it's an unintentional consequence of the Americans testing a hydrogen bomb in Asian waters. Godzilla is usually a subterranean/subaquatic lizard or dinosaur that gets caught in the radiation of the bomb, gets irradiated, and seeks revenge on humanity.
@@davidthirugnanakumar7888 Definitely, I mean they still hold up today no doubt but in terms of the fear you feel for the people dealing with them just hits harder for me at least
movie was mid, all deaths didn't mean shit. the main character, his lover and Godzilla himself died, these were all set up as major plot points. but in the end they all miraculously survived. Bro looked so goofy as well, how was he scary at all?
movie was mid, all deaths didn't mean shit. the main character, his lover and Godzilla himself died, these were all set up as major plot points. but in the end they all miraculously survived.
@@The_Belgian_Waffle Main Character having character development and realizing he wants to live at the end of the movie? How absolutely shocking! What a horrible movie fr
I love this movie. Its so well done and honestly, its not surprising that the Japanese did a better job. Godzilla was, after all, a manifestation of the collective trauma the Japanese had of atomic bombs after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 23:14 thats not oil, that's "black rain"...literal radiation. After Hiroshima, the radioactive water fell down on the survivors and they were all obviously confused and desperate and didnt known what it was do they drank it and as we all know, thousands died horrible deaths of radiation poisoning. When you think about how thr actual history played out, it makes sense that the American godzilla movies portray him as a sort of protector. The atom bombs literally ended WW2 in the pacific. But for the Japanese, Godzilla is almost always an asshole. He's destructive, ruthless snd terrifying.
Contrary to popular belief Japan was at the verge of surrender, and the bombs weren't needed. They were an American show of force only. Check out accounts by Smedly Butler and others
@ivanelugo depends on which version. If the monster verse it would be the bikini toll bomb that made him bigger. If the Toho vers. It would be after Hiroshima. The Toho version also used the Oxygen destroyer bomb to kill the OG Gozilla n gave birth to one of his greatest foe Destoryah
FYI,"The Kid" from boat crew played DRAKEN in the live action TOKYO REVENEGERS Anothe more, since Lupa is wearing a power ranger shirt, That dude also played Gokai Blue (Blue Ranger) from the Super Sentai series GOKAIGER
Black rain can happen from nukes mixing the clouds with ash. Black, radiactive rain is certainly an image, isn't it? By the way, the budget for this whole damn film was 10-12 million dollars, a single episode of She-Hulk cost 25 million PER EPISODE.
Yall should DEFINITELY check out the original 1954 Japanese one, its SO good, and yeah, the special effects look kinda wonky, but they're 70 Years old and Invented all the techniques and the genre. This movie took a Lot in, sound design, scoring, and plot from the original
Welcome to OG xD 40:51 it was confirmed by director that is godzilla DNA, so rising theory is that this can probably be used later as origin of biolante.
It probably explains the reason she survived too. I mean she could have just been super lucky, sure but her being infected by the G-Virus (or whatever its called, G cells?) makes a little more sense, at least to me, as to how she survived such a blast.
38:05 Yeah, I was getting watery-eyed at so many different times watching this in theaters. The story is so moving and compelling, the kind of Godzilla movie (or monster movie in general) that we haven't had in a while. Easily my favorite film from last year, and my favorite film of the franchise to date.
In terms of the bombings, the Monsterverse lore is that Godzilla was an ancient Titan that was awakened by Atomic Testings, with Castle Bravo being disguised as “testings” which were really an attempt to kill him. Godzilla: Minus One’s origin is based on the original 1954 roots. He was an ancient dinosaur like creature that got mutated by nuclear weapons and went on a rampage due to the weapons mutating and disfiguring him.
23:10 Not oil Lupa, that's basically irradiated rain from the smoke of the nuclear blast going in the clouds and seeding them. It's a real thing because it happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What doesn't get enough attention about this movie is how small their budget was. People talked about how good the effects look for a $15 milion budget and the director came out saying he wishes he had that, with a real budget of between $10-12 million.
God that scene with the black rain was hard to watch. I remember watching a documentary about the aftermath of the bombs in Japan, from when they hit to afterward and I immediately knew what the black rain was. Also the beam that godzilla shoots I believe is called his "Atomic breath"
My favorite iteration of Godzilla. Plus the acting in this is spectacular, if it wasn’t a monster oriented action movie it had the cinematography to be nominated for more than 1 Oscar
Whenever a new member of a Godzilla family shows up, God throws a coin. He’ll either be destroyer and an enemy or a defender and an ally, either way destruction follows.
Sheera you're killing me with that Titanic comment. The door only had enough buoyancy to keep one person out of the water, even if Jack could have gotten on top of the door and kept it stable the additional weight would have meant it would have ridden so low that they both would have stayed wet and both died. By staying off the door he kept Rose (mostly) dry so she survived long enough to be rescued.
This is the first Godzilla movie I've ever watched that made me care so much about the human characters and absolutely the best Godzilla movie so far. Something that Hollywood couldn't never do
Just a reminder that this is NOT the Legendary Godzilla, it's got his own origin, where it just so happened to have been in the explosion radius of the Castle Bravo Nuclear Test, the same test that caught the real life Japanese fishermen of the Daigo Fukuryū Maru in its fallout radius. It's spooky that this atomic blast scene killed about 35k people, Hiroshima was 70k The Black rain is what happens after an Atomic Explosion, it's basically all the cooked particles of dust coming back down as black rain and is super radioactive. and like others have said, the reason Noriko survived was Because of those Godzilla cells, though, we don't know what will happen in the future.
I love this era of Godzilla, where we have the more neutral protector Godzilla in the Monsterverse, and the villainous terrifying ones like this one and Shin Godzilla out from Japan. WHat an era to be a Godzilla fan!
THIS is OG Godzilla vibes, not helping anyone or anything, just a mutated monster born from the irresponsible use of incredibly powerful technologies. walking destruction, for the sake of destruction. also the new spin on the atomic breath being a literal nuclear explosion as opposed to the more common sustained dragon-like fire breathing of most godzillas was an AWESOME design choice, it actually made me catch my breath when i first saw it
I love how destructive this Godzilla was considering its smaller size compared to previous incarnations reminds me of the OG movies but with a focus of good human characters watching this beautiful Monster Work
movie was mid, all deaths didn't mean shit. the main character, his lover and Godzilla himself died, these were all set up as major plot points. but in the end they all miraculously survived.
I just recently got to see this movie and not even five minutes into the runtime did I break into laughter because it almost gave me a heart attack. One of the best films I've seen in a good while
There’s a difference between the first Godzilla and Classic and onwards Godzilla(s). The Classic+ is an animal, typically doing his own thing and a primal force for the earth. But the *first/original* Godzilla was a monster, whose only objective is to destroy. Hence why you root for humanity for the very first Godzilla, and root for Godzilla from Classic and onwards.
This is the most fun I've seen you guys have in a video in a while and I'm glad it's on Godzilla. I also love how you guys had a complete 180 reaction to the movie's dark tone, it's so refreshing and I could not stop laughing.
Went to the theaters to check it out and my mouth dropped from Godzilla’s opening scene. I wasn’t ready for how crazy he would pop off. Then again when he did his atomic breath. Awesome movie.
This Godzilla film is the first time I was frightened of this monster. Even more than Shin Godzilla. In the past even since childhood, I used to think some old costume Godzilla movies seem funny. I wonder if this is how people in the 50s reacted when they saw the Godzilla (1954) film back in those days. Become terrified of this menacing beast making havoc.
Now imagine if you'd gotten to see/hear/feel that sh!t in Dolby Atmos. Theaters are dying, but the theater experience isn't dead. There are just some things you can't replicate at home, regardless of how big a TV you got. This was breathtaking in the theater.
Noriko being alive with Godzilla's DNA (the mark on her neck) could be hinting that we could see Biollante (a genetically modified Plant/rose hybrid kaiju) on the next movie as the next Kaiju that Godzilla could face.
*THE GREATEST MONSTER MOVIE EVER MADE!!!* It rightfully became the first Godzilla film to win best visual effects at the Oscars (rightfully so). In fact the Takashi Yamazaki not only wrote and directed the film he was also the VFX supervisor. There’s a great video on RUclips where they show how this movie was made with both practical and digital effects in the same way that Jurassic Park was made, to the point where you can’t really tell what’s real and what’s not.
The reason why she pushed him out of the way is because that was her first instinct she had given the situation. In all actuality, it was only a few seconds between the explosion and the shockwave hitting her, she really didn't have enough time to both of them
You said you felt like an idiot for looking past the hero's shoulder to see her in the hospital room at the end, but you shouldn't feel bad, that is an old cinematic device to build intrigue or suspense, and most people react that way. "Rosemary's Baby" is the first film to use it in that manner, that I can think of, but I'm sure it predates that. It's a clever variation, on a standard style reveal. You pointing it out, made me smile. Glad you guys loved this! You should see the black and white version, it's really great too!
The black spot on the neck is confirmed to be Godzilla’s cells, which made sense how she survived a blast that was supposed to obliterate her because she regenerated. High chance we’ll have Biollante in the Minus One’s sequel because Biollante is made up of Godzilla’s cells, human’s cells and plant’s cells
I seen this in the imax theater with Dolby surround sound and gotta say this is hands down the best Godzilla movie ever and best movie of 2023 this movie made the Gman be the menace he always was also fun fact the way they got Godzilla's roar to sound the way it does was they played the og roar over loud speakers cranked it up and recorded it
I saw this movie in theatres twice, and have watched like 5 reactions to it and the movie still never got old. Such a great example of how to merge a Godzilla classic with real human characters
22:18 I personally would have done the same thing, i would just stare at the mushroom cloud, cause even if you run you would die you cant out run that shock wave, the shock wave alone will cause instant death, and i'd rather get instant death than a slow painfull death
Godzilla is a territorial animal and only fights back when humans come in and attack him., but after being affected by an atomic bomb test explosion, he regarded all mankind as an existential threat and began to actively attack. This Godzilla has many connection to the first Godzilla(1954), both victims and horrors of mankind.
Loved everything about this movie!
Yall have to watch the monsterverse next its awesome
yo could you react to shin godzilla?
It's such a good time to be a Godzilla fan! This movie perfectly encapsulates the horror and fear of Godzilla. I really hope you guys consider reacting to Godzilla X Kong cause that embraces the sci-fi, fantasy side of Godzilla and is a ton of fun!
Loved this reaction ❤
Definitely top 5 movies of the year imo
This is Godzilla at his roots. Godzilla was originally made to show the horrors of using nuclear bombs. He was no one's ally, no one's friend. He wasn't good. Godzilla was death and destruction in natural form.
I like Godzilla as a friend too
Even in most of the movies where he's seen as the good guy, he's technically not really a good guy, but just a giant animal defending what he considers his territory from perceived intruders.
@@virgoleo81 Yes, but there is a series of movies where they gave him a quirky personality. In these, he was definitely a good guy. He was even raising a son and teaching it life lessons. That series ended with his death, and Godzilla jr took over, who was more serious again.
@@MikkosFree The quirky personality is the goat Showa Godzilla
Yes he raised a son but he didn't die
Chronologically, his final story is jumping Ghidorah with the other monsters in "Destroy All Monster"
Godzilla died is Heisei Godzilla, he doesn't became quirky like showa godzilla
I prefer good or neutral godzilla
23:10 The black rain scene is based on real accounts of the after-effects of the 2 atomic bombings, when ash would collect moisture in a sudden HIGHLY radioactive rainfall.
No! It's oil!!! 😂😂😂
@@koki84ji7違う
@@koki84ji7 No, You are wrong.
After an atomic bomb is dropped, it rains polluted black rain.
@@なつ-v9s no shit Sherlock I was sarcastically saying oil cause the numbnuts reactors thought it was oil
@@koki84ji7 no, the black rain did happen after the atomic bombings. It’s in many survivor accounts.
Lupa: "my body would've shut down. because of shock."
2 minutes later: "WHY WON'T YOU RUN?!?!?!"
i died
Cuz he brain farted
Lmao 😂
LMFAOOOO
LMAO 🤣😂🤣😂
My jaw dropped at the atomic breath scene and not only because of the destruction, but because it ties greatly into protagonist's survival guilt.
The vacuum effect is one of the best details I've seen added in cinema.
And the first reboot movie.
Poor guy probably felt like he was personally being punished.
and the slight silent sound before the boom
Godzilla was the God of Guilt for that poor man.
The black rain that fell from the sky was not oil, but rain containing radioactive materials that fell after the atomic bomb exploded. Most Japanese people know what ``black rain'' means.
Yes.
Sadly yes...
Which also means after the fact...the people that came into contact with that black rain will most likely die in another 5 to 10 years from now because of radiation poisoning. Which make a sad ending one way or another. You see the black line forming on his girlfriend at the end which explicate that she too has been effected by radiation poisoning 😢
@@Commander2021-or3pn Sorry if it ruins your perspective of the ending, but the black line forming on her at the ending is actually Godzillas cells, she was "infected" and the regenerative factor is how she survived. Iirc the director himself confirmed as much.
They brought back that “Godzilla” feeling, the hopelessness and despair with this movie
It was never gone, especially Shin which was the most apocalyptic Godzilla movie ever made. Why everyone keeps forgetting on that one
@@davidthirugnanakumar7888 Shin was crazy too, yup
@@makeda6530it was crazy and really horrific
Yeah while the monsterverse is more like the showa era of Godzilla. That's an insult either.
Shin was waaaay better, definitely a more interesting godzilla
Fun Fact: So the title Minus One comes from the fact that this is set right after Japan lost the world war, politically economically and socially they are at their absolute lowest they have ever been. And then Godzilla shows up. And THAT’S the Minus One, because just when they thought they couldn’t get any lower, in comes Godzilla.
Also, Godzilla‘s atomic breath is inspired by how nuclear reactors work. His back plates are like cooling rods, and when they are pulled out the “reactor“ inside him starts to overheat and as he’s inhaling deeply he’s stoking the fire inside of him, then when the plates drop back in it causes the chain reaction which unleashes his breath. Just like what happened at Chernobyl.
Cool
Best description I’ve seen on how this one’s breath works I love it!
it just means "prequel", or origin. Like Star Wars, then they make Star Wars 2. Then they make Star Wars -1.
@@Saphthingsno, that’s the actual reason
@@Saphthingsthe heck are you talking about? Lol 😂
The black rain scene was straight PAIN.
I never cared more for the human protagonists in a Godzilla film
I believe it’s radiation
It's dust.
It's people, buildings, everything. And yeah some radiation in there too most likely.
Blown up into the air by the explosion and then brought back down as the temperature dropped rapidly post-explosion.
Black rain actually occurred after the Hiroshima bombing
That moment was a great distillation of just *horror*
The audience’s and the character’s
The implication is the mom survived because she was infected with Godzilla's cells, which caused her to regenerate.
Wait really?! Is that true or just a theory
@@reginaldkimbrough ya it’s true the director confirmed she was infected with Godzilla dna which is how she survived
@@pumpkinqueen9615 oh wow thanks for sharing that information. So that means she was supposed to be dead, but she must’ve got infected with Godzilla DNA during the city wreckage.
@@reginaldkimbrough There are probably multiple people like her too.
@@reginaldkimbroughour MC would've gotten infected too but she pushed him out the way at the last second.
Shout out to Sheera actually recognizing that the boat was pretty much totalled after the mine exploded. Watched a lot of reactions to Minus One and pretty much no one understood why they weren't leaving.
Also to be fair, it was a dingy ass boat vs. a close detonation of a mine meant to destroy war ships and Submarines.
Also a huge monster trying to destroy it as well😂
Sheera always noticing stuff no one does 😂
Sheera is The G.O.A.T.
"So why do you work out?"
"I have this reoccurring dream where Godzilla picks up a subway that I'm in and I find myself dangling 300 feet in the air by a half broken pole."
"Neat."
"You never REALLY know...."
Lupa: "RUN WHY ARE WE STANDING THERE LOOKING AT HIM"
Roshi: "Cuz he looks cool" 😭😭😭
22:25
LUPA: I DON'T CARE! WHY ARE WE STANDING THERE LOOKING AT HIM?!?!?! 😂😂😭😭
Me: And Run WHERE!?. It doesn't matter where we go. we already dead.
正常性バイアスって知ってるか？
@@Raskullbx run to the place were the main protagonist got thrown into
@@shaniabolt8877 Ah, the sweet defensive capabilities of Plot Armor radius
The director confirmed that the thing on Noriko's neck at the end was Godzilla's cells, which also explains how she survived the blast since Godzilla's cells are the key to his regenerative powers
Some are speculating this is how we get Biolantte.
Or a spiritual successor to shin Godzilla with the human hybrid concept
@@jaylenharris343 Or maybe let Koichi stop collecting trauma like it's fucking Pokemon. 🤣
@@TheKain202 For real, let the man be happy. Lol
no, it has been confirmed as a radioactive rash, an early symptom of damage to body cells and resulting in gradual death, experienced by many survivors after radioactive explosions.
Can y’all believe this won the Oscar for best VFX with a budget of 12 million dollars?
A Japanese mega blockbuster ,yeah it's not like it's a small movie, it's toho behind
Or one episode of the One Piece Live Action.
@@davidthirugnanakumar7888 when you consider the competition it had
@@davidthirugnanakumar7888 Do you know how much budget Hollywood usual blockbuster was? It's comparably small
@@davidthirugnanakumar7888then why other films didnt win the best vfx awards but they have larger budget, your logic sucks
The floating fish are deep sea fish, disturbed by Godzilla that float to the top and what looks like little balloons coming out of their mouths is there innards expanded due to decompression from the depths.
I love that because it's also foreshadowing for Doc's plan later in the film.
@@tylerbarnes972 Yes, you’re right same principal
I thought they died from the radiation eminating from Godzilla
@@sideways_chip_eater6420 that is possible too, but they wouldn’t blow up like balloons if that were the soul cause of it. Think of all the nooks and crannies on Godzilla‘s body all of the rough scales and spikes when he’s on the bottom of the ocean and the fish gather in those scales and spikes swimming around him and he rises to the surface they get caught in the crevices of Godzilla’s armor and lifted to the surface of the water and they expand from the compressed gases in their bodies and die.
@@charlesmorris6476 oh!! thanks for explaining that
The scene of Shikishima screaming with overwhelming grief and rage after Godzilla destroyed Ginza is absolutely heartbreaking. Everyone in the packed IMAX theater I saw this in was crying at that scene.
That's when I genuinely felt bad for the guy, dude suffered survivors guilt and just when things were getting better...Godzilla happens.
@@jaylenharris343 Fun Fact: So the title Minus One comes from the fact that this is set right after Japan lost the world war, politically economically and socially they are at their absolute lowest they have ever been. And then Godzilla shows up. And THAT’S the Minus One, because just when they thought they couldn’t get any lower, in comes Godzilla.
12:18 Godzilla was not growing. He was already fully grown, and old enough that the Odo Island locals had legends about him. The nuclear testing during Operation Crossroads mutated him. That's how the original Godzilla was created.
15:24 And he's still nowhere near the tallest. Minus One is actually one of the smaller Godzillas at about 50 meters tall. Heisei, Monsterverse, Shin, and Ultima are all about twice as tall. Godzilla Earth is three times as tall as them.
15:44 Credit to the Takao and her gunners. Even as the entire upper section of the ship is ripped apart, fire control utterly destroyed, and the entire command staff killed, they still manage to fire a broadside point-blank into Godzilla's flank.
16:27 Burnt his skin to a crisp, and foreshadowing.
21:00 Funny thing, these tanks (Type 4 Chi-tos) were made IRL. Well, they were prototypes, only one was made and the chassis of a second was partly done. (Two completed) They were driven into a lake when the war ended. I guess they fished them out and made more after hearing about Godzilla, and due to American military support being unavailable. The Americans probably sent the materials needed to help make these tanks.
24:56 In layman's terms, it's like how deep sea divers need to stop at points so there body adjusts to the pressure. You ever watch the Meg? In the scene where Jonah drops his sub like a brick to the bottom of the sea to rescue his ex-wife and her colleagues, he gets a bloody nose from his sub dropping so fast, because of the pressure being applied to his submersible. Godzilla had to deal with similar things diving into, and ascending from, the depths
26:35 So? Monsterverse Godzilla weighs five times that. Actually, I think he's gotten heavier.
27:10 The J7W Kyushu Shinden. The only prototype that did a flight test flew the same day the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It was designed to combat American B-29s, the same planes that fire bombed Japan's cities, that's what killed Shikishima's parents, and what nearly killed Shizue in Reincarnated as a Slime.
36:15 Every tugboat in Tokyo Bay. These things were built to guide destroyers, battleships, and barges filled with ore.
38:21 Not just that. Tachibana saw Shikishima kept the pictures from his buddies on Odo Island, a picture of Noriko, and Akiko's drawing. He kept a reminder of the past, but hope for the future.
[EDIT: As of a recent discovery, I found out that Shikishima was, by word of Minus One novelization, upper-class, or at least the lower rungs of the upper-class. His family had a large and beautiful house, he was an only child, and was an ensign in the navy, meaning, at his age, he had gone to high school, or even university, which most Japanese at the time couldn't afford the large amount of time needed to study for. And anything else in parentheses is an edit)
Excellent commentary pal
Who asked my bro 💀💀
Go get some friends my guy
Holy shit
@@anibal5845 Thank you.
@@sonofjack6286 yeah, ignore those other idiots.
This is a masterpiece. The visual effects and cgi are phenomenal, especially the atomic breath, and it's the the first time I've cared for the humans as much as the monster scenes.
No kidding, it felt like we had a proper protagonist instead of Godzilla and everyone else.
This is the difference between this and Monsterverse version. I don't care at all about the human elements in Monsterverse. They can literally be erased from the plot and the movie would still be coherent.
movie was mid, all deaths didn't mean shit. the main character, his lover and Godzilla himself died, these were all set up as major plot points. but in the end they all miraculously survived. and btw the CGI in this movie is worse than in Godzilla king of the monsters, which is not that good of a movie either, at least it has better CGI.
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@@The_Belgian_Wafflethe cgi here is actually better. Esepcially when it comes to water and monster fx, the wonky parts are the interactions with humans. The movie being set in broad daylight highlights the flaws more compared to KoTM set in either firestorms, darkness or underwater. Even GvK has a sloppy daylight fight that looked weightless af.
Btw the deaths of characters being reversed doesn't detract from their plot points if their survival is only revealed after the events happen. It can lessen the initial impact but the motivation is what matters, and even if Noriko did initially survive the motivation for revenge still makes sense because that's twice Shikishima nearly lost everything.
In ww2 plenty of Nuclear and Firebomb attack survivors were listed dead only to be alive but heavily injured or even not at all. So even from a realism standpoint it isn't set in stone.
What’s really terrifying about this is that while previous versions of Godzilla only attack people when provoked, Minus One’s Big G *wants* to kill humans.
No he was definitely provoked
No, that motherfucker spiteful.
Haha they would compare GMK to an evil anime villian if they ever discover his existence
Dude got burned so badly by a nuke and his regeneration out of control because his body was trying to heal him from all that radiation and mutated. When you look at him closely, he looks scarred and burnt and his bones in his legs looked as if they’re permanently stuck to forever walk like that and he has to stand up straight to support his weight.
He was acting with a vengeance!
Godzilla Minus One by far the best Godzilla Movie ever created
Not close but great, Shin Godzilla is still the best modern Godzilla movie, and Ishiro onda, Godzilla is still one of the most realistic and impactful Godzilla ever.
Idk king of the monsters is awesome I personally like it far more than minus one but minus one is still really good
@@rprfl4mezyt964which King of the monsters, the US release of the onda movie or the 2019 from the Monsterverse
@@davidthirugnanakumar7888 as much as I like the shin Godzilla movie, for me, Minus one is still better movie, storytelling wise mainly
@@temshoppingi kinda disagree. The storytelling of shin is more engaging because not only it's really heavy political based and there are clearly made the japanese government so incompetent. Littéraly a scene where a shot of prime minister and noodle, there's more danger and the fact that shin evolve it, helped a lot. But hey i still like minus one, my only problem is from someone that i watched practically all the Godzilla movies, what the movie brings, we got a serizawa (. Talking about the og 1954 one), a soldier, Godzilla , an analogy of despair and war, just the VFX is the new thing and even that one, shin used puppet and CGI so that's why I'm kinda conflicting, it's a great Godzilla movie but nothing new that brings
I'm a citizen of Hiroshima Prefecture. The temperature at 8:15 a.m. on August 15, 1945 was less than 30 degrees, but it became 3000 degrees after the atomic bomb was dropped. The situation at that time has been revealed in a follow-up survey that can be said to be the obsession of Hiroshima City. People within a radius of 1 km from the hypocenter instantly boiled blood and died instantly. People within 1 kilometer outside it were caught in a collapsed building and were stuck and burned to death while living due to the fire. In addition, in the outer 1-kilometer area, people suffered and died for three days and three nights in the radioactive rain that fell immediately after the atomic bomb. About 90,000 citizens died at this moment.
I would want to say sorry for what happen to Japanese, but Japanese also colonialized my land for 3,5 years with ridiculous cruelty, lots of my ancestors were R4P3D, k1lled and b3headed by Japanese. So karma motherf*cker? Is it safe to say it like that?
We all know what happened bud
@@notthatguy7578 but it's obvious that u could care less and his point of the comment was to give people a reality check of a nuclear bomb. Americans like u cry over something like 9/11 but are always ready to justify the deaths of half a million innocent citizens in an instant just because the other side was too crazy and wouldn't have given up easily lol. Shut up clown 🤡
Thank you for sharing. 🙏🏻
So protag is doomed?
22:56 "he is _thickk_ . He's got them child bearing hips" SENT ME THROUGH A TABLE 😭😭
12:45 lmao I can just imagine Lupa on the boat being beyond pissed cussing everyone out "TURN THE BOAT AROUND NOW BRO WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?"
"I'm out here on a fucking boat trying to fight a Dinosaur."
@@ObsidianDragon7030 we need this to happen
14:45 Godzilla has always had regenerative powers and is the main reason why he never really died in previous iterations lol
This was definitely the fastest depiction of his healing factor. Even the Monsterverse version needs a power nap after a bigger injury
godzilla has regenerated from only his heart before. crazy.
Godzilla 2000 Millennium also had fast regeneration, his cells’ regenerative abilities is part of why the Millennians sampled his cells and accidentally created Orga.
I forgot what happened in Goji vs King Ghidorah (is that the right one) but isn't Goji went supernova but somehow he back.
But Godzilla really did die in the 1954 movie. Any Godzilla in the sequels were a different Godzilla, created from something else.
That scene of Koichi going from rage to sadness after Godzilla's atomic breath was chilling. Igenuinely felt bad for him throughout this movie. He was struggling with survivors guilt and having dreams of his allies telling him to die. And just when things were starting to look up for him, Godzilla shows up.
To clarify, the government disguising attempts to kill Godzilla with atomic weapons as 'tests' is the lore of the American films. The Japanese Godzilla lore is that Godzillasaurus was a surviving dinosaur from the Cretaceous that grew to monstrous proportions when he was exposed to American nuclear testing.
When he got hit by the nukes, he probably almost died from it, but the radiation mutated him before he died and gave him regenerative abilities on top of increasing his size.
And when he started crumbling after his head got blown off, it was probably due to the fact that he was charging as it happened, and his weakened body couldn't properly contain all that energy with his brain no longer managing how the energy would flow through his body, which is why he fell apart.
So the thing that was left that was regenerating was probably his heart or the core of his entire being.
@@Arashi257 According to the official novelization, Godzilla already had regeneration capabilities which is what allowed him to survive the nuclear blast, but also absorbed the radiation which caused his natural regeneration abilities to go haywire and grow him into monsterous proportions.
So is the lore that Godzilla was immortal from his healing rate, or that there was a species of Godzilla-dinosaurs that survived the meteor, but only Goji survived the bombs/became mutated?
@@tylermiller5904 Depends on what lore you're following. In Minus One's case, Godzilla isn't immortal at first, but does have strong regeneration abilities. When he survived the necleur tests, however, the radiation mutated his cells making his regeneration ability to go into overdrive, making him bigger, regenerate faster, and close to immortal.
21:47 Because physics is a thing. Noriko with lower weight, weaker strength and no momentum step couldn't just slam at Koichi and hoped that both would fall to that alley together. It's not that she didn't want to go in, the counterforce pushed her back.
They didn't notice that scene was in slow motion. Which means everything happened so fast and people were still in shock. So dumb not to see that
The "fuck Yeah" caption after Godzilla hit em with the atomic breath..😂😂😂
23:13 NOT OIL! that is nuclear rain. After Hiroshima, the mushroom cloud had rain fall from it, but it was filled with soot and radiation. It was a death sentence. Same thing here
This is when Japan outclassed all of Hollywood with this it's only 15 Million dollars and it's still fantastic movie!
It still a mega blockbuster in Japan. Still impressive but let's not act, it's a small movie. That's Godzilla, of course, toho will gave the tools.
Calm down, buddy. I wouldn't say all of Hollywood. At its highest level it outclassed most of Hollywood. And I don't mean to say that as to degraded it. The movie is a masterpiece, but so are other Hollywood movies. This Godzilla film deserves to be on the podium of great Hollywood films.
Seriously, this quality with that budget, why was any other movie even NOMINATED for the Best Visual Effects Oscar?
The director said he wishes it was 15 million 😂
lol tone down the hyperbole. The CG in this looks really obvious and cartoony. Story is great though. But seriously this is definitely no Dune, and visually speaking the Legendary Godzilla movies have much better CGI that doesn't look super out of place.
*King Kong breaks this Godzilla's jaw only to have it snap itself back together*
Kong: Shiiiiiiii-(atomic blast)
Kong wouldn’t even make it that far in the fight
Are you dumb kong beats minus one godzilla easily
Lol
@@AT_BASE MonsterVerse Kong would. He's over 2x larger, is as intelligent as a human and has an axe that absorbs atomic energy
@@Tpm12luv This one would regenerate and fight till kong dies tho
That wasn't oil, that rain was ash, from the bodies that got vaporized, that atomic breath scene was amazing in theaters, everyone was dead silent as Godzilla charged up, and when he fired someone actually screamed from how loud it was; Kamiki Ryunosuke deserves an award for that scream alone because he just witnessed and survived a nuclear blast
its not vaporized bodies, its ash that got blown into clouds and attached to water molecules, weighing them down and causing a radioactive rain of ash and water
@@monkeyman4346 Where do you think the ash is coming from other than the burning buildings, objects, etc? So they're not wrong. People got vaped into ashes as well.
Wtf? The subtitles when Godzilla roars at 22:50 "Fuck yeah!" hahaha
Bro I love their editor😂
Had me rolling! 😂
editor-san always delivers! 😂
That’s what it means in godzillanese
Honestly, it kinda tracks. This Godzilla wasn't just neutral or on the side of humanity. This Godzilla was fury and rage incarnate, mixed with a tinge of sadism. A monster in the most classical sense, but also the most terrifying BECAUSE he was the most..human. An absolute menace who ENJOYED destruction. He is destruction incarnate.
Guys its a crime to not see this in the theater. There are TWO versions. If you have a chance watch the black and white version called Godzilla Minus One Minus Color. Amazing.
10:12 That's just for the MonsterVerse timeline. Most of the time, it's an unintentional consequence of the Americans testing a hydrogen bomb in Asian waters. Godzilla is usually a subterranean/subaquatic lizard or dinosaur that gets caught in the radiation of the bomb, gets irradiated, and seeks revenge on humanity.
This and shin Godzilla are easily probably the scariest we’ve seen Godzilla and probably the best imo
Millenium and the og are still scary tho
@@davidthirugnanakumar7888 Definitely, I mean they still hold up today no doubt but in terms of the fear you feel for the people dealing with them just hits harder for me at least
Don't forget about GMK Godzilla with those blank white eyes.
movie was mid, all deaths didn't mean shit. the main character, his lover and Godzilla himself died, these were all set up as major plot points. but in the end they all miraculously survived. Bro looked so goofy as well, how was he scary at all?
Man, Shikishima's scream of rage and despair at Godzilla after the atomic breath is just insane. Especially with the rain of ash.
that was awesome
15 mil budget and 116 mil grossed
also, part of what made this work was the fact the director is a vfx artist and was part of the vfx team
You forgetting 2 main things: They stuck to original content and actually put heart into it
This is without a doubt the most human Godzilla movie.
movie was mid, all deaths didn't mean shit. the main character, his lover and Godzilla himself died, these were all set up as major plot points. but in the end they all miraculously survived.
@@The_Belgian_Waffle Main Character having character development and realizing he wants to live at the end of the movie? How absolutely shocking! What a horrible movie fr
I love this movie. Its so well done and honestly, its not surprising that the Japanese did a better job. Godzilla was, after all, a manifestation of the collective trauma the Japanese had of atomic bombs after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
23:14 thats not oil, that's "black rain"...literal radiation. After Hiroshima, the radioactive water fell down on the survivors and they were all obviously confused and desperate and didnt known what it was do they drank it and as we all know, thousands died horrible deaths of radiation poisoning.
When you think about how thr actual history played out, it makes sense that the American godzilla movies portray him as a sort of protector. The atom bombs literally ended WW2 in the pacific. But for the Japanese, Godzilla is almost always an asshole. He's destructive, ruthless snd terrifying.
Contrary to popular belief Japan was at the verge of surrender, and the bombs weren't needed. They were an American show of force only.
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So for those confused with the opening scene is that Gozilla is still small. It was only after the atomic bomb that made him bigger.
He wasn't affected before for the bomb of Hiroshima? Or it was just the Bikini Toll bomb that makes him big
@ivanelugo depends on which version. If the monster verse it would be the bikini toll bomb that made him bigger. If the Toho vers. It would be after Hiroshima. The Toho version also used the Oxygen destroyer bomb to kill the OG Gozilla n gave birth to one of his greatest foe Destoryah
So they just stumbled upon a fucking dinosaur
@tylermiller5904 ya man essentially 🤣💀. Poor dudes were on their way too.
FYI,"The Kid" from boat crew played DRAKEN in the live action TOKYO REVENEGERS
Anothe more, since Lupa is wearing a power ranger shirt, That dude also played Gokai Blue (Blue Ranger) from the Super Sentai series GOKAIGER
Black rain can happen from nukes mixing the clouds with ash. Black, radiactive rain is certainly an image, isn't it?
By the way, the budget for this whole damn film was 10-12 million dollars, a single episode of She-Hulk cost 25 million PER EPISODE.
Yall should DEFINITELY check out the original 1954 Japanese one, its SO good, and yeah, the special effects look kinda wonky, but they're 70 Years old and Invented all the techniques and the genre. This movie took a Lot in, sound design, scoring, and plot from the original
Welcome to OG xD 40:51 it was confirmed by director that is godzilla DNA, so rising theory is that this can probably be used later as origin of biolante.
Let's see if they will keep the seriousness of minus one or doing a clash type movie like the Monsterverse, let's see, i hope they make a Rodan movie
Yes!!! My sons and would love to see that
It probably explains the reason she survived too. I mean she could have just been super lucky, sure but her being infected by the G-Virus (or whatever its called, G cells?) makes a little more sense, at least to me, as to how she survived such a blast.
@@ROFLWAFFLELAWL4a Godzilla human hybrid was kinda teased at the end of shin Godzilla. That would be fun to use the concept
38:05 Yeah, I was getting watery-eyed at so many different times watching this in theaters. The story is so moving and compelling, the kind of Godzilla movie (or monster movie in general) that we haven't had in a while. Easily my favorite film from last year, and my favorite film of the franchise to date.
In terms of the bombings, the Monsterverse lore is that Godzilla was an ancient Titan that was awakened by Atomic Testings, with Castle Bravo being disguised as “testings” which were really an attempt to kill him.
Godzilla: Minus One’s origin is based on the original 1954 roots. He was an ancient dinosaur like creature that got mutated by nuclear weapons and went on a rampage due to the weapons mutating and disfiguring him.
23:10 Not oil Lupa, that's basically irradiated rain from the smoke of the nuclear blast going in the clouds and seeding them. It's a real thing because it happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
22:52 I love that this scene is so epic and dramatic. Then you read the subtitle here and for some reason it says...."Fuck Yeah". I'm dead...lmao
What doesn't get enough attention about this movie is how small their budget was. People talked about how good the effects look for a $15 milion budget and the director came out saying he wishes he had that, with a real budget of between $10-12 million.
The continued love and rediscovery of Godzilla by the general public is an amazing and warming my heart!!
God that scene with the black rain was hard to watch. I remember watching a documentary about the aftermath of the bombs in Japan, from when they hit to afterward and I immediately knew what the black rain was. Also the beam that godzilla shoots I believe is called his "Atomic breath"
22:51 That "F** YEAH!" caught me out of guard
Godzilla getting hyped by his own atomic breath goes hard
43:12 He may look invincible but science has killed him before. OXYGEN DESTROYER
My favorite iteration of Godzilla. Plus the acting in this is spectacular, if it wasn’t a monster oriented action movie it had the cinematography to be nominated for more than 1 Oscar
Great comment - "Well said" (I 100% agree).
Whenever a new member of a Godzilla family shows up, God throws a coin. He’ll either be destroyer and an enemy or a defender and an ally, either way destruction follows.
That atomic breath scene, you could hear a pin drama in the theater that I was watching it in afterwards. I was in shock.
Sheera you're killing me with that Titanic comment. The door only had enough buoyancy to keep one person out of the water, even if Jack could have gotten on top of the door and kept it stable the additional weight would have meant it would have ridden so low that they both would have stayed wet and both died. By staying off the door he kept Rose (mostly) dry so she survived long enough to be rescued.
This is the first Godzilla movie I've ever watched that made me care so much about the human characters and absolutely the best Godzilla movie so far. Something that Hollywood couldn't never do
Just a reminder that this is NOT the Legendary Godzilla, it's got his own origin, where it just so happened to have been in the explosion radius of the Castle Bravo Nuclear Test, the same test that caught the real life Japanese fishermen of the Daigo Fukuryū Maru in its fallout radius.
It's spooky that this atomic blast scene killed about 35k people, Hiroshima was 70k
The Black rain is what happens after an Atomic Explosion, it's basically all the cooked particles of dust coming back down as black rain and is super radioactive.
and like others have said, the reason Noriko survived was Because of those Godzilla cells, though, we don't know what will happen in the future.
I love this era of Godzilla, where we have the more neutral protector Godzilla in the Monsterverse, and the villainous terrifying ones like this one and Shin Godzilla out from Japan. WHat an era to be a Godzilla fan!
THIS is OG Godzilla vibes, not helping anyone or anything, just a mutated monster born from the irresponsible use of incredibly powerful technologies.
walking destruction, for the sake of destruction.
also the new spin on the atomic breath being a literal nuclear explosion as opposed to the more common sustained dragon-like fire breathing of most godzillas was an AWESOME design choice, it actually made me catch my breath when i first saw it
なにがそんなに君らを笑わせるのか
理解に苦しむよ
ハリウッド産のゴジラでも見てるかのようなリアクションだな〔笑止
I love how destructive this Godzilla was considering its smaller size compared to previous incarnations reminds me of the OG movies but with a focus of good human characters watching this beautiful Monster Work
movie was mid, all deaths didn't mean shit. the main character, his lover and Godzilla himself died, these were all set up as major plot points. but in the end they all miraculously survived.
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22:23 "I Don't care RUN" 😂😂😂
I just recently got to see this movie and not even five minutes into the runtime did I break into laughter because it almost gave me a heart attack. One of the best films I've seen in a good while
22:30 i love how many ppl in this movie actually acknowledge how cool godzilla is while he fuckjng them up lmao😭😭
that og soundtrack gave me goosebumps
There’s a difference between the first Godzilla and Classic and onwards Godzilla(s). The Classic+ is an animal, typically doing his own thing and a primal force for the earth. But the *first/original* Godzilla was a monster, whose only objective is to destroy. Hence why you root for humanity for the very first Godzilla, and root for Godzilla from Classic and onwards.
Godzilla is kind of small..
All of us: Patience.....
This is the most fun I've seen you guys have in a video in a while and I'm glad it's on Godzilla. I also love how you guys had a complete 180 reaction to the movie's dark tone, it's so refreshing and I could not stop laughing.
HahahahahahahahHhHa 23:04 child bearing hips is fucking diabolical wtfff
Went to the theaters to check it out and my mouth dropped from Godzilla’s opening scene. I wasn’t ready for how crazy he would pop off.
Then again when he did his atomic breath. Awesome movie.
This Godzilla film is the first time I was frightened of this monster. Even more than Shin Godzilla. In the past even since childhood, I used to think some old costume Godzilla movies seem funny. I wonder if this is how people in the 50s reacted when they saw the Godzilla (1954) film back in those days. Become terrified of this menacing beast making havoc.
Man, the black rain shot was somenthing else. top tier scene
In case you're wondering, at 5:50 Godzilla wasn't responsible for Tokyo. That was the American Air Force.
Deep sea fish swim bladder will expand and "explode" out of their mouth if they're brought up quickly
Which was "Plan B." We already had documented account of "the bends" even back then.
6:53 Editor! No! Go to your room! No pizza for you! Go to your room and think about what you did! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
22:51 I like how you put fuck yeah
14:40 bro… the 4 stages of “OH” 😂😂😂
22:51 lmao the Godzilla roar with subtitles that says "fuck yeah!" Had me rolling haha 🤣 props to ue editor
Now imagine if you'd gotten to see/hear/feel that sh!t in Dolby Atmos. Theaters are dying, but the theater experience isn't dead. There are just some things you can't replicate at home, regardless of how big a TV you got. This was breathtaking in the theater.
that "fuck yeah" godzilla said 💀💀💀💀
22:52 this shit is funny asf W editing 😂
Noriko being alive with Godzilla's DNA (the mark on her neck) could be hinting that we could see Biollante (a genetically modified Plant/rose hybrid kaiju) on the next movie as the next Kaiju that Godzilla could face.
Sheera said Real Kaiju got curves 😂😂😂😂
I mean she isn’t wrong!
"those are some childbearing hips"
The way y’all opened this video is very creative, I really like it!
*THE GREATEST MONSTER MOVIE EVER MADE!!!*
It rightfully became the first Godzilla film to win best visual effects at the Oscars (rightfully so). In fact the Takashi Yamazaki not only wrote and directed the film he was also the VFX supervisor. There’s a great video on RUclips where they show how this movie was made with both practical and digital effects in the same way that Jurassic Park was made, to the point where you can’t really tell what’s real and what’s not.
The reason why she pushed him out of the way is because that was her first instinct she had given the situation. In all actuality, it was only a few seconds between the explosion and the shockwave hitting her, she really didn't have enough time to both of them
You said you felt like an idiot for looking past the hero's shoulder to see her in the hospital room at the end, but you shouldn't feel bad, that is an old cinematic device to build intrigue or suspense, and most people react that way. "Rosemary's Baby" is the first film to use it in that manner, that I can think of, but I'm sure it predates that. It's a clever variation, on a standard style reveal. You pointing it out, made me smile. Glad you guys loved this! You should see the black and white version, it's really great too!
The black spot on the neck is confirmed to be Godzilla’s cells, which made sense how she survived a blast that was supposed to obliterate her because she regenerated. High chance we’ll have Biollante in the Minus One’s sequel because Biollante is made up of Godzilla’s cells, human’s cells and plant’s cells
I don't understand why they can laugh at sad scenes.
They are emotionally immature.
I seen this in the imax theater with Dolby surround sound and gotta say this is hands down the best Godzilla movie ever and best movie of 2023 this movie made the Gman be the menace he always was also fun fact the way they got Godzilla's roar to sound the way it does was they played the og roar over loud speakers cranked it up and recorded it
What an amazing film, I'm glad it win an Oscar. The Godzilla franchise are on a role.
Which is crazy only one Oscar, even tho it should have won so many, shin in 2017 should have win the oscar for best VFX
You know? The actor as "Koichi" was the voice actor for "Taki'" in "Your Name (Kimi no Na wa)" you guys have watched.
I saw this movie in theatres twice, and have watched like 5 reactions to it and the movie still never got old. Such a great example of how to merge a Godzilla classic with real human characters
22:18 I personally would have done the same thing, i would just stare at the mushroom cloud, cause even if you run you would die you cant out run that shock wave, the shock wave alone will cause instant death, and i'd rather get instant death than a slow painfull death
Godzilla is a territorial animal and only fights back when humans come in and attack him., but after being affected by an atomic bomb test explosion, he regarded all mankind as an existential threat and began to actively attack.
This Godzilla has many connection to the first Godzilla(1954), both victims and horrors of mankind.
That Black Spot from Noriko neck is Godzilla's cell so perhaps next movie is Godzilla vs Biollante