I saw it in the theater four times. Three in color and once in black and white. The best cinematic experience I've had since watching Terminator 2 in the theater in 1991.
What I love about the finale and the plan is that it’s a very realistic plan. No oxygen destroyer or massive electric walls. Just good old fashioned smarts and ingenuity.
ALSO VERY GLAD YOU COULD TELL THERE WAS PTSD, I have saddly seen a few reactors who don't get his PTSD and Guilt and just put Koichi off as a coward and a not good person.
Yeah I’ve seen some comments of veterans who can sympathize with Koichi and his PTSD/survivors guilt. It saddens me too when some reactors laugh at him…😢(not all, I’ve seen some others who can instantly understand how the war can affect someone).
I love how the Last 2 Japanese Godzilla Movie named their Codename Plans on how to take down Godzilla came from their Japanese Mythology Shin Godzilla - ( Operation Yashiori ) Yashiori was a Beverage used by Susanoo to poisoned and Slayed the 8 Headed Orochi. Godzilla Minus One - ( Operation Wadatsumi ) Wadatsumi was the ruler of the seas and oceans, and described as a dragon capable of changing into human form He lived in the undersea and can control Tides and creates magical Tsunami . they really thought about it and adapted to Godzilla because He is a Creature of the Sea About the ash Rain after Godzilla atomic blast and destroyed Ginza was highlighted the Kuroi Ame ( Black Rain ) it was really happened in Japan after the Hiroshima Bombing. Kamiki and Minami-san really nailed their role and Hope to see them both back in Action on a possible sequel 😊 This Godzilla was an Absolute Japanese Cinema and Probably the Best Godzilla film of All Time ( Respect on 1954 😊 )
ALSO Godzilla's Roar in this is a Recording of the OG Roar that the OG Composer did for the OG Movie back in 1954, (Fun Fact it is a Leather Glove, covered in Pine Tar, rubbed down the Strings of a Double Bass, that makes the OG Godzilla Roar) and Play the OG on huge speakers and Recorded that sound it made from that for Minus One's Roar (Fun Fact 2 In Shin Godzilla they used the OG Roar for the first time Godzilla Road and used different ones till the last at being The Return of Godzilla, aka the start of the Heisei Era as it is frozen)
HOLY CRAP, do I believe the Oscar hype!!!! Minus One was beautifully done and animated. I wasn't expecting Noriko to have survived, but those Godzilla cells literally saved her neck.
Good reaction. The unique thing about Godzilla is he can be a good guy or bad guy depending on the interpretation. Even in ones where’s he’s bad like the original 54 film or Minus One, he’s presented as a creature who never asked to be mutated. Humanity’s atomic testings not only mutated him but also traumatized him to now be in constant pain/anger hence why he’s slow and attacks (a reflection to people who were hit with radiation in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki according to Godzilla’s creator). However as time went on after the original in its 37 sequels/reboots, he grew to be more of a anti-hero fighting evil monsters that threaten his home, Earth which the current American movies highlighted.
his PTSD Survivors guilt was a theme in this movie, something not many people would understand and even especially in those days, also Godzilla doesn't stand on the ocean floor it has been meme'd to death but in the scene at the end with the boats you can actually see him just floating
Ok so the US did Nuclear Bomb Testing at Bikini Atoll, it was part of something called Operation Crossroads, (Fun Fact where most theories place Bikini Bottom from SpongeBob) and the Nuke mutates Godzilla from being a Gojirasaurus (Fun Fact 2 a real Dinosar has been named that in honor of Godzilla) of into being Godzilla as we know him later on in the Film with the Heat Ray (Atomic Blast). Part of Godzilla's Skin Design was to look like the kind of scaring you get from Radiation Burns just like how the OG was done.
@@300apes Right because I am talking about the Topic on the part of the Video at the time she is watching I am a bot, I will say I was a bit Spam Happy commenting, but that is because of how much I enjoy this Movie and Godzilla in general.
Godzilla became irradiated by the nuclear test Operation Crossroads. He just happened to be in the range. Most versions of Godzilla are irradiated by the 1954 Castle Bravo test, the test that was much larger than expected. It irradiated a Japanese fishing vessel, the Lucky Dragon No.5, since they were believed to be in a safe range. Obviously, they weren't. That incident was the major inspiration behind the 1954 Gojira film.
This is the first Godzilla movie they actually did a good story, i hope this begins a new era we get more movies where the human characters matter. Best godzilla movie by far
Those big chonkey thighs are what keeps Godzilla bouyant and the big tail acts like a keel and keeps him stable with no list. The bigger ships weren't rocking much either.
20:11 Godzilla fell in the water because the _Takao,_ in a last-ditch effort, fired its front guns at him point-blank. As powerful as he is, six eight-inch shells directly into the face at this range still must have stung.
IJN Takao was an excellent addition to this movie. 8 inch HE or AP did some serious damage. I respect that the gunners kept up fire after the superstructure was destroyed.
I love the foreshadowing in this film. The dead radiated deep sea fish rising to the surface too fast that their stomachs explode out of their mouths due to the pressure changes. They attempt to do the same thing to Godzilla. By using the force of nature against him where tanks and battleships seemingly have failed. But Godzilla is also a force of nature. Born of nuclear energy. Godzilla is the unknown element. -OG
Star Wars has sound in space and Godzilla can “stand” in the ocean no matter how deep. It’s just part of the Godzilla universe… I like to think he’s either got really floaty feet or he’s kicking frantically underwater but we just can’t tell. 😂
Also both the Ginza and Final Battle Sense have a NEWLY Recorded Versions of Classical Godzilla Themes that date from almost all from within the First 5 Films ever made, and they where done SO WELL.
Yes, by series composer Akira Ifukube, the Igor Stravinski of Japan. He had the status of hibakusha, or radiation victims, who receive pensions and support from the government of Japan. In his case, his radiation was received from experimenting with X-rays in laboratory work, not exposure to atomic bombs.
I've watched a few reactions to this, and I have to say I enjoyed yours the most. You seemed to catch only what the filmmakers wanted you to catch, and didn't spoil it for yourself by guessing how it was going to end. I spoiled it for myself the moment the mechanic said, 'One more thing,' and then the scene ended without him saying what that one thing was. They made it a little too obvious for me. I also spoiled The Sixth Sense for myself before the second scene started.
In the opening scene at the attack on Odo Island, you mention Godzilla throwing the soldiers rather than eating them. Toho has a strict rule that Godzilla must never be seen eating people. This applies to the American Godzilla as well.
Really? This is the first I've ever heard of that rule that Godzilla isn't allowed to eat people. I remember hearing in the DVD for the original 1954 film that in the very first draft of the script "the monster's appearance in the human world is motivated by hunger." So I knew that part of the script had been changed, but I had no idea they flat-out made a rule that Godzilla isn't allowed to see humans as a food source.
Toho 3 Rules 1. Godzilla never talks 2. Godzilla never been a Prey 3. Godzilla don't Die That was the first time I heard Rule that Godzilla doesn't need eat a people
@@jhomsubiaga-cabaro5715so did you ever see godzilla eat people? I don't think so. That should answer your question. Godzilla is just too well known to be eating people. Japan treats him like a super hero or a rock star. Granted he was bad in this film so they had him throwing people in stead and killing them.
I think we can all agree that THAT is how you make a Godzilla film. On the debris being sucked backwards after the initial shockwave: yep, that's how it happens. If you know to look for it, you can see it in old stock footage of the effects of atom bomb blasts on trees and human-built structures. The overpressure is "paid for" by a reverse blast that fills the vacuum created by the explosion. Not unlike the reverse tsunami wave as all the seawater that came inland floods back out to sea, carrying whatever debris it accumulated on the way in. I must say the effects in this are realistic. I've never seen an atomic explosion (thankfully) but I have worked with conventional explosives in cave exploration and entrance construction, and it really is that "quick" when high explosives go off. I always had the feeling that the shockwave felt so fast that it was over before it started (we would be "around the corner" from where we set the charge, but not much further, which is far safer in a solid limestone cave than the same strategy would be in a coal mine).
The film is called Minus One because post World War II left Japan in ruins. They had to start all over again from ground Zero! Then Godzilla shows up and wrecks even more havoc. Sending them from Zero to Minus One! -OG
Ok so to talk about Godzilla "Standing" up in the Water, 1 He as a large creature would have some amount of buoyancy 2 He does have big feet that can paddle, (and done need to be as fast as the memes make it out to be, with feet that big he would only need to move them a bit to move a HUGE amount of water.
Those odd floating fish were deformed. Turned inside out. Coming from deep underwater press to surface literally make their stomachs burst out their mouths.
My friend and I were 12/13 years old again watching this movie. Neve said a word but would look at each other along the way and had shit-eating grins. Nothing need be said. Perfect.
07:30 Your comments about the abandoning of the baby; A LOT of babies were abandoned to die in the last years of the war, and the first few years post war. This was an extremely ugly truth about the war and the effects it had on the survivors. Thousands of children were left to die so their parents had a chance at ONE MORE DAY of survival. To his credit, he MAY have thought about it, BUT in the end he decided to KEEP the child, and this was at a time when he couldn't be certain of feeding or sheltering HIMSELF. Her taking on the child, HIM deciding to not abandon the baby, and later taking in Baby and "Adoptive mother", these were moments where humanity was reasserting it's self in the wake of a massive inhumanity. That is what you are supposed to take away from this. 43:00 I see tears, it had her BREATHLESS. I saw this TWICE in theatre, and the Second time, it didn't lose ONE TINY BIT of that emotional impact. THAT my friends is how you make a movie.
I had to go check my underwear after that spotlight scene. Jump scares almost never get me, but for some reason that one startled me so bad that it physically hurt, and hurt pretty bad. It felt like I was being electrocuted, having a heart attack, and having all the air pulled out of my lungs at the same time. I mean I was in pitch darkness with my headphones turned way up so that was part of it, but DAMN that sucked. I don't think I've ever felt that kind of instantaneous panic before even when I've been in real life danger.
I've noticed that Godzilla, over the decades, has gotten more and more bottom-heavy as the designs change. If you look at the original 1954, his head is pretty proportional, Then you hit the 90s (Hesei) era and his head is much smaller in proportion to his body, and then the 2000s (Millenium) era, then the Legendary Monsterverse. His head just keeps getting smaller and smaller compared to the rest of him. In this case, it's possible that his body has grown in response to having to contain a living nuclear reactor inside him. His fins extending is like the control rods of a nuclear reactor coming up. The water cools the fins and lets him cool his internal reactor. When he raises them out, it causes him to go meltdown and build up the energy to shoot his atomic breath. As for his standing in water, he's just treading water, like people can do, as well as waterfowl.
While yes the Motion in Ginza of Godzilla is stiff like someone in a Suit which is in honor of the older Movies, it is also because Godzilla is still getting used to it's WAY bigger body he got from the Mutation from the Nuclear Bomb that hit him.
Godzilla is able to keep his position in the water because he has neutral buoyancy The dark spot on Noriko’s neck is blasted off regenerator one Godzilla cells on to her neck, which is no doubt what saved her life, causing her to heal from what would obviously be fatal wounds, what happens in the future to Noriko is anyone guess at this point.
There’s plenty of stuff on the Internet about operation crossroads that’s where Godzilla got his powers from. It was a test of nuclear weapons and bikini tall home of SpongeBob.
Yea, its implied that there is Godzilla DNA forming in her blood at the end. For those who follow Godzilla lore this could open up a sequel to perhaps something like her connection to a creature called Biollante.
@13:08 -- in godzilla lore, the atomic test blast at bikini atoll was actually a secret u.s. attempt to destroy the monster. however, since godzilla had already been mutated by radioactive waste in the ocean, the effects only made him grow even bigger and chunkier and meaner.
@@WitchfinderGeneral56 americans have made too many godzilla movies (and comics and merch) to get left out of the lore. and if the bikini blast wasn't lore before minus one, takashi yamazaki just adopted it -- he's made it canon
The mark on her neck is a Godzilla cell. It's probably why she survived the blast. But to what end? Will she mutate? Are there other victims who similarly contracted the Godzilla cell? I've also heard that the tattoo on her neck is a symbol for Mothra. Perhaps Mothra will be featured in the next movie?? -OG
Sumiko knew Koichi had not done his job because he was alive. Kamikaze pilots are supposed to ram their bomb-laden planes into targets, sacrificing themselves.
Also the Plan almost for sure would have worked if Godzilla did not give himself that pause, but also even still he would have died firing that last Heat Ray from how weakend his body was from the Depressurization, as he would have literally torn himself apart with the force of the blast just to kill the people on the boat
I like what it represents, but in the grand scheme of things I am not a fan of the idea that Noriko may end up as a Godzilla homunculus because it's like a massive "F you" to me rooting for Shikishima till the end.
JFYI on top of your great content. Godzilla was born from the nuclear test started at Bikini Atoll by the United States in 1946. In 1954, when the first Godzilla movie was made, a Japanese ocean-going fishing boat was caught up in one of these hydrogen bomb tests and was exposed to radiation, and the concept of Godzilla was born from this incident. What mean “minus one" At that time, Tokyo was completely destroyed in the Great Tokyo Air Raid and was in a period of reconstruction. Then Godzilla appears and destroys it even more. “Minus one” means that. （Even before that, Tokyo had suffered devastating damage in the Great Kanto Earthquake.） Godzilla, who is the metaphor of God and living things, is a metaphor for them, and we are constantly being overrun by nature, war, and pestilence, but we must not give up and fight back! It contains those message in this movie. “Resist and live“ In 1945, The Tokyo air raids killed approximately 100,000 people in one night. After the war, the underground passage near Ueno Station, which was destroyed by air raids, was filled with war orphans who had lost their homes and families. According to a national survey, approximately 120,000 children were orphaned (AKIKO was a one of them), and it is said that there were more than 1,000 orphans in the underground tunnels. Just FYI The fighter plane that Koichi flew in during the final mission actually exists. "J7W Shinden" The only surviving aircraft is on display at a Smithsonian institution. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyushu_J7W_Shinden
If you know German, the ejection seat gets spoiled - you can see writing in German on a metal plate on the mechanism, "Schleudersitz" = "ejection seat" ... you can see it in the hangar scene. Sumiko was a mother grieving the loss of her children - and likely husband - to the war. Someone in that position would detach and look to assign blame, but she comes around quick because of Akiko. Akiko is the glue that kind of binds their little group together. Godzilla wasn't the target - he just happened to be in the area when the first hydrogen bomb was tested. That bomb infamously had a much greater yield then they expected, so story-wise they can say Godzilla was maybe just watching from cover and got caught.
Godzilla was caught up in an atomic bomb blast test. That is what you saw with the bomb. That is where Godzilla became irradiated and grew to massive size. He went on a rampage because he basically had a cancer that regenerated his body. However, he was under extreme levels of excruciating pain and as result grew to hate humans and set out to destroy them all. Godzilla is actually a sad character because he was victimized by the actions of humans many times. He ultimately represents the destruction of the world around us by human arrogance, greed and stupidity. You are correct about Noriko having a bit of Godzilla in her. That is how she come to be found alive. She gained some of the recuperative powers of Godzilla thru what is called G-cells and regenerated from injuries which may have initially killed her.
I’d love watching movies with you. You think a lot of the same things I do. When I watched this the first time I literally said they want to give Godzilla the Bends. 😂😂
Just so you know, a kamikaze is a suicide bomber. So Sumiko the neighbor seeing Shikishima alive was enough for her to call him a coward. ALSO, it was an atomic bomb not mine. The U.S. Was testing atomic bombs and by accident irradiated Godzilla.
Also yes it's me the guy still hoping you will at some point do the other 2 parts of MatPat's 2023 FNaF Timeline, though at this point you might need to Rewatch parts 1 and 2 LOL. Not that you HAVE TO WATCH IT, I'd just enjoy if you would complete the series of videos.
Godzilla has a son named Godzuki I have no idea if Godzuki will make an appearance. His appearances are usually silly and do not fit the tone of this masterful writing.
Godzilla doesn’t eat people. He’s never eaten humans. One of TOHO’S rules is that he must not eat people. Even the 1998 Godzilla movie didn’t break that rule.
13:06 No that was just the United States of America testing out their new new atomic bombs in the Pacific ocean. Godzilla was caught in the blast and Mutanted by the radiation. Now he's just taking his anger out on nearest human civilisation which happens to be Japan. So it was the Americans fault for Godzilla.
This one also references GMK alot since the director said its one of his favorite movies.. Both have the same aggression to humanit, exploding atomic breaths, and died the same way
*Before Watching your Reaction* This Movie is a perfect start to another Story Line of Movies from Toho, and I hope they go the Heisei Era of Movies, being a Dino-Like to G-Cells (Godzilla Cells), they are know to do a lot of things, but in this Movie they did save Noriko after the Heat Ray Blast in Ginza. Also I don't remember if I have said before but I would love to see you react to the "Timeline" of the Heisei Era which would be: (1954) Gojira (1984) The Return of Godzilla (1989) Godzilla vs. Biollante (1991) Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1992) Godzilla vs. Mothra (1993) Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (it's only called Mechagodzilla II because of it being the second one in a REAL LIFE way not in timeline wise) (1994) Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1995) Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (even after Godzilla Minus One this is my Favorite Movie in the enter Franchise)
Just think too, they made this movie with less than 1/10th the money that the latest American Godzilla movies costed to make. Hollywood and bigwig executives must be excellent at completely wasting money.
I've watched many reactions and history, both real and of godzilla, is not well known it seems. Bikini Atoll is a famous test site the USA nuked the shit out of/ It's a coral reef in the Marshall islands surrounded by 23 islands. It was taken over by Japan during WW1. The USA took them after WW2. Every Japanese was killed fighting vs the Yankees, save the last 5, who committed suicide/seppuku. The first hydrogen bomb was tested there. It was nuked 23 times, starting in 1946. Natives were forced off & relocated numerous times. "We" discovered that nukes were really nasty & toxic there...Even TODAY it's still giving unique information...the land is reshaped (craters) by blasts, but the effects of radiation are highly surprising (& deadly). Some corals are doing fine, until recently though, it was a dead zone. A few specific types of coral apparently laugh at radiation & are growing/coming back, others are gone for good. They planted coconut trees after the nukes, making it super creepy & unnatural to look at now, Rows & lines of super radioactive trees & little else...but for giant mutant super radioactive crabs that eat the radioactive coconuts today. Anyway, all of that was top secret, back in the day, and the H bomb was far more powerful & scary than imagined. Lucky Dragon No. 5 (a Japanese tuna fishing boat)'s crew of 23 were all irradiated during that first H-bomb test in 1954 you get a brief shot of in the movie. "The Daigo Fukuryū Maru’s(Lucky Dragon No. 5) catch was later distributed throughout Japan, spreading radioactive contamination and causing widespread public concern." The ship ties into the first Godzilla film. "The opening scenes of Godzilla (1954) retell the story of the fishing boat’s crew, who were exposed to radioactive fallout from the Bikini Atoll test. This event serves as a backdrop for the monster Godzilla’s appearance, with the film’s protagonist, Dr. Kyohei Yamane, drawing parallels between the atomic radiation and Godzilla’s own atomic-powered existence." Godzilla -1 assumes people know the history in real life, and also that Godzilla's fictional history was also tied to those events, being mutated by the H-bomb...a plague upon Japan as was their radiation poisoned fisherman & radioactive tuna they ate... but nobody, and I mean nobody, seems to know anything about any of it. The closest are vague notions Godzilla is created by/mutated by radioactive fallout & some have heard Godzilla is a metaphor for the atomic bomb Godzilla -1 speeds it along, using the 1946 atom bomb test as Godzilla's mutation point
sumiko initially didn't forgive koichi who didn't do his job as a kamakaze pilot , aka kill himself with his plane hitting American battleships n carriers , that made american bombers able to take off n bombed Tokyo that killed sumiko's children. So sorry about your lack of knowledge n foreign culture made your reaction really hard to watch.
I know what a Kamikaze pilot is 🙄. I thought she was mad at him for not shooting Godzilla and I didn't understand how she knew he didn't shoot. So sorry about your inability to leave a comment without being condescending.
@@DeashasAlwaysWatching Japanese would have felt offended. Coz you didn’t know your reaction was questioning why Sumiko was so mean. Coz Her children was killed by people who did not defend n u American bombed her home.
instead of feeling offended people could just ask what I meant, super easy. I was not alive when the real history happened, I did not bomb anyone. 🙄 Stop trying to put things on me that have nothing to do with me.
5:38 "you didn't know what he didn't do" well if you didn't know kamikaze pilots are suicide bombers, him being alive means he didn't do his job as a kamikaze.
Also "how is his chest that far out of water"... uh the same way people do it. Also salt water creates buoyancy. Also alligators tails can launch them 6 feet out of water. Also THERES A FUCKING WOOD MODEL EXPLAINING IT EARLIER IN THE MOVIE
I saw it in the theater four times. Three in color and once in black and white. The best cinematic experience I've had since watching Terminator 2 in the theater in 1991.
Saw it 2 times in IMAX and at a local Theater in B&W....
Love it!
How did you see it in black and white??
Saw it 5 times in color than another in black and white…… yeah I have a problem
@@Yggi11 The director put out a black and white print of the film.
What I love about the finale and the plan is that it’s a very realistic plan. No oxygen destroyer or massive electric walls. Just good old fashioned smarts and ingenuity.
日本人にとっては、第二次世界大戦中に国民を護ることが叶わなかった・日本人の技術者達の知恵を総動員して製作された・歴史的軍用兵器が、果たされなかった使命をリベンジし、日本の未来を切り拓いてくれたと云う構図が、たまらなく心の琴線を揺さぶるのです。この作品は、あの戦争で命を落とされた日本の優秀な技術者達や、若き才能豊かで純粋な兵士達への鎮魂歌として、永遠に公開されるべき反戦反核映画の傑作だと思います！☆ from🇯🇵
ALSO VERY GLAD YOU COULD TELL THERE WAS PTSD, I have saddly seen a few reactors who don't get his PTSD and Guilt and just put Koichi off as a coward and a not good person.
Yeah I’ve seen some comments of veterans who can sympathize with Koichi and his PTSD/survivors guilt. It saddens me too when some reactors laugh at him…😢(not all, I’ve seen some others who can instantly understand how the war can affect someone).
also understanding Sumiko's perspective (in the beginning) is important too. It's so different from our generation.
Who was it so I know to avoid those narcissistic reactors
That was a real nuclear test in 1946. The exposure to the bomb mutated the Godzillasaur turning it into Godzilla.
This movie is a good example of how we should pay attention to someone’s actions not words.
Everyone in the movie: “Marry her.”
Everyone in the audience: “MARRY HER!”
Minus One deserved more Oscars than special effects.
One of the best Godzilla movies ever, definitely one of my favorites, awesome reaction, much love ❤️🎬🔥
1. 1954 gojira
2.godzilla minus one
3.shin godzilla
Most reactors aren’t sure what to make of Noriko’s neck at the end. Congrats for figuring it out that quickly!
In all the reaction videos I've seen, everyone is enjoying Godzilla's rampage until he spits out his Atomic Breath in Ginza🤪But after that...😱😱😭😭
I love how the Last 2 Japanese Godzilla Movie named their Codename Plans on how to take down Godzilla came from their Japanese Mythology
Shin Godzilla - ( Operation Yashiori ) Yashiori was a Beverage used by Susanoo to poisoned and Slayed the 8 Headed Orochi.
Godzilla Minus One - ( Operation Wadatsumi )
Wadatsumi was the ruler of the seas and oceans, and described as a dragon capable of changing into human form He lived in the undersea and can control Tides and creates magical Tsunami .
they really thought about it and adapted to Godzilla because He is a Creature of the Sea
About the ash Rain after Godzilla atomic blast and destroyed Ginza was highlighted the Kuroi Ame ( Black Rain ) it was really happened in Japan after the Hiroshima Bombing.
Kamiki and Minami-san really nailed their role and Hope to see them both back in Action on a possible sequel 😊
This Godzilla was an Absolute Japanese Cinema and Probably the Best Godzilla film of All Time ( Respect on 1954 😊 )
ALSO Godzilla's Roar in this is a Recording of the OG Roar that the OG Composer did for the OG Movie back in 1954, (Fun Fact it is a Leather Glove, covered in Pine Tar, rubbed down the Strings of a Double Bass, that makes the OG Godzilla Roar) and Play the OG on huge speakers and Recorded that sound it made from that for Minus One's Roar (Fun Fact 2 In Shin Godzilla they used the OG Roar for the first time Godzilla Road and used different ones till the last at being The Return of Godzilla, aka the start of the Heisei Era as it is frozen)
Yeah they played it in a giant empty stadium on truly gargantuan loudspeakers. The neighbors complained.
HOLY CRAP, do I believe the Oscar hype!!!! Minus One was beautifully done and animated. I wasn't expecting Noriko to have survived, but those Godzilla cells literally saved her neck.
It's more than likely that he is using his tail and legs to tread water.
Good reaction. The unique thing about Godzilla is he can be a good guy or bad guy depending on the interpretation. Even in ones where’s he’s bad like the original 54 film or Minus One, he’s presented as a creature who never asked to be mutated. Humanity’s atomic testings not only mutated him but also traumatized him to now be in constant pain/anger hence why he’s slow and attacks (a reflection to people who were hit with radiation in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki according to Godzilla’s creator). However as time went on after the original in its 37 sequels/reboots, he grew to be more of a anti-hero fighting evil monsters that threaten his home, Earth which the current American movies highlighted.
exactly, i think a lot people miss that point, Godzilla is in constant pain from the atomic blast. He did not asked to be atom bombed.
his PTSD Survivors guilt was a theme in this movie, something not many people would understand and even especially in those days, also Godzilla doesn't stand on the ocean floor it has been meme'd to death but in the scene at the end with the boats you can actually see him just floating
I love how Noriko became his Human Therapy ❤
He undoubtedly treads water, mostly using his tail as he does to swim. Dolphins can actually "stand" on the water by rapidly moving their tail flukes.
Ok so the US did Nuclear Bomb Testing at Bikini Atoll, it was part of something called Operation Crossroads, (Fun Fact where most theories place Bikini Bottom from SpongeBob) and the Nuke mutates Godzilla from being a Gojirasaurus (Fun Fact 2 a real Dinosar has been named that in honor of Godzilla) of into being Godzilla as we know him later on in the Film with the Heat Ray (Atomic Blast). Part of Godzilla's Skin Design was to look like the kind of scaring you get from Radiation Burns just like how the OG was done.
Stop spamming comments holy hell bot
@@300apes Right because I am talking about the Topic on the part of the Video at the time she is watching I am a bot, I will say I was a bit Spam Happy commenting, but that is because of how much I enjoy this Movie and Godzilla in general.
実にこの映画は最初のスターウォーズの再来であって、
あまりの段取りの巧みさ、スムーズさに、
あたかも素敵な音楽を聴かされるように、
何度も同じところで泣かされ、感動させられる、
だから何ででも繰り返し観たくなるのだ。
Godzilla became irradiated by the nuclear test Operation Crossroads. He just happened to be in the range.
Most versions of Godzilla are irradiated by the 1954 Castle Bravo test, the test that was much larger than expected. It irradiated a Japanese fishing vessel, the Lucky Dragon No.5, since they were believed to be in a safe range. Obviously, they weren't. That incident was the major inspiration behind the 1954 Gojira film.
Your reaction has been one of the best I've seen for this. You're such a joy to watch!
This is the first Godzilla movie they actually did a good story, i hope this begins a new era we get more movies where the human characters matter. Best godzilla movie by far
This Godzilla is one of the smallest, but also one of the more powerful versions overall (It's also why he moves relatively faster).
I'd like to apologize for the rabid comment spree, but I just love this Movie so much! And am so glad you Enjoy it too.
You don't have to apologise lol I like reading them 😄 you're very insightful
@@DeashasAlwaysWatching Thank you, Gojira is basically my OG ForeverFixation so I know way more then what should be called healthy LOL.
My theory is Godzilla is just kicking his legs to stay afloat. That's why his thighs are so big. :D
Me and my partner think he has a huge pocket of air in his thighs keeping him afloat.
脚だけではなく巨大な尻尾を上手く利用しています。
Godzilla floats
not just his legs, but that massive tail is probably pointing downward and paddling side-to-side
Godzilla turns the tip of his tail into a little propeller, as if it were on a swivel.
He stands in the water like a crocodile
Those big chonkey thighs are what keeps Godzilla bouyant and the big tail acts like a keel and keeps him stable with no list. The bigger ships weren't rocking much either.
20:11 Godzilla fell in the water because the _Takao,_ in a last-ditch effort, fired its front guns at him point-blank. As powerful as he is, six eight-inch shells directly into the face at this range still must have stung.
IJN Takao was an excellent addition to this movie. 8 inch HE or AP did some serious damage. I respect that the gunners kept up fire after the superstructure was destroyed.
@@clmk28 Graphically demonstrated that conventional firepower won't stop Godzilla.
I love the foreshadowing in this film. The dead radiated deep sea fish rising to the surface too fast that their stomachs explode out of their mouths due to the pressure changes.
They attempt to do the same thing to Godzilla. By using the force of nature against him where tanks and battleships seemingly have failed.
But Godzilla is also a force of nature. Born of nuclear energy. Godzilla is the unknown element. -OG
Star Wars has sound in space and Godzilla can “stand” in the ocean no matter how deep. It’s just part of the Godzilla universe… I like to think he’s either got really floaty feet or he’s kicking frantically underwater but we just can’t tell. 😂
It's definitely a mix of being floaty and kicking his feet and tail underwater 😅
Godzilla Minus One - Koichi's trauma of surviving WWII.
The sequel - Noriko's trauma of surviving Godzilla.
Godzilla -1 "Everyone who survived was supposed to live."
Godzilla -2 "No Noriko, you were supposed to die. We must kill you."
Also both the Ginza and Final Battle Sense have a NEWLY Recorded Versions of Classical Godzilla Themes that date from almost all from within the First 5 Films ever made, and they where done SO WELL.
Yes, by series composer Akira Ifukube, the Igor Stravinski of Japan. He had the status of hibakusha, or radiation victims, who receive pensions and support from the government of Japan. In his case, his radiation was received from experimenting with X-rays in laboratory work, not exposure to atomic bombs.
Movie of the year 👏👏👏
Godzilla ended the year 2023 with a Bang 💥 and still wrecking Havoc on 2024
Theme. So much of this is people pulling together to help each other. They say No More….then step right again and again.
I've watched a few reactions to this, and I have to say I enjoyed yours the most. You seemed to catch only what the filmmakers wanted you to catch, and didn't spoil it for yourself by guessing how it was going to end. I spoiled it for myself the moment the mechanic said, 'One more thing,' and then the scene ended without him saying what that one thing was. They made it a little too obvious for me. I also spoiled The Sixth Sense for myself before the second scene started.
In the opening scene at the attack on Odo Island, you mention Godzilla throwing the soldiers rather than eating them. Toho has a strict rule that Godzilla must never be seen eating people. This applies to the American Godzilla as well.
Really? This is the first I've ever heard of that rule that Godzilla isn't allowed to eat people. I remember hearing in the DVD for the original 1954 film that in the very first draft of the script "the monster's appearance in the human world is motivated by hunger." So I knew that part of the script had been changed, but I had no idea they flat-out made a rule that Godzilla isn't allowed to see humans as a food source.
Toho 3 Rules
1. Godzilla never talks
2. Godzilla never been a Prey
3. Godzilla don't Die
That was the first time I heard Rule that Godzilla doesn't need eat a people
That's because godzilla is so popular@@kevinnorwood8782
@@jhomsubiaga-cabaro5715so did you ever see godzilla eat people? I don't think so. That should answer your question. Godzilla is just too well known to be eating people. Japan treats him like a super hero or a rock star. Granted he was bad in this film so they had him throwing people in stead and killing them.
@@dolphinsrr yes he didn't eat people but the executive didn't told that Rule 😂
I made my coworkers watch it during my 2nd watch and they ended up crying despite going in thinking it’s stupid
Got em
I think we can all agree that THAT is how you make a Godzilla film.
On the debris being sucked backwards after the initial shockwave: yep, that's how it happens. If you know to look for it, you can see it in old stock footage of the effects of atom bomb blasts on trees and human-built structures. The overpressure is "paid for" by a reverse blast that fills the vacuum created by the explosion. Not unlike the reverse tsunami wave as all the seawater that came inland floods back out to sea, carrying whatever debris it accumulated on the way in.
I must say the effects in this are realistic. I've never seen an atomic explosion (thankfully) but I have worked with conventional explosives in cave exploration and entrance construction, and it really is that "quick" when high explosives go off. I always had the feeling that the shockwave felt so fast that it was over before it started (we would be "around the corner" from where we set the charge, but not much further, which is far safer in a solid limestone cave than the same strategy would be in a coal mine).
The film is called Minus One because post World War II left Japan in ruins. They had to start all over again from ground Zero!
Then Godzilla shows up and wrecks even more havoc. Sending them from Zero to Minus One! -OG
Ok so to talk about Godzilla "Standing" up in the Water,
1 He as a large creature would have some amount of buoyancy
2 He does have big feet that can paddle, (and done need to be as fast as the memes make it out to be, with feet that big he would only need to move them a bit to move a HUGE amount of water.
ALSO SOME SEA LIVING CREATERS HAVE SACKS IN THIER BODYS THEY CAN FILL WITH WATER TO HELP THEM SURFACE OR DIVE DEPENDING ON WHICH WAY THEY WANT TO GO
Those odd floating fish were deformed. Turned inside out. Coming from deep underwater press to surface literally make their stomachs burst out their mouths.
I had fun watching this when it released I thought it was amazing👍
My friend and I were 12/13 years old again watching this movie. Neve said a word but would look at each other along the way and had shit-eating grins. Nothing need be said. Perfect.
07:30
Your comments about the abandoning of the baby;
A LOT of babies were abandoned to die in the last years of the war, and the first few years post war.
This was an extremely ugly truth about the war and the effects it had on the survivors.
Thousands of children were left to die so their parents had a chance at ONE MORE DAY of survival.
To his credit, he MAY have thought about it, BUT in the end he decided to KEEP the child, and this was at a time when he couldn't be certain of feeding or sheltering HIMSELF.
Her taking on the child, HIM deciding to not abandon the baby, and later taking in Baby and "Adoptive mother", these were moments where humanity was reasserting it's self in the wake of a massive inhumanity.
That is what you are supposed to take away from this.
43:00
I see tears, it had her BREATHLESS.
I saw this TWICE in theatre, and the Second time, it didn't lose ONE TINY BIT of that emotional impact.
THAT my friends is how you make a movie.
I love Godzilla movies
I had to go check my underwear after that spotlight scene. Jump scares almost never get me, but for some reason that one startled me so bad that it physically hurt, and hurt pretty bad. It felt like I was being electrocuted, having a heart attack, and having all the air pulled out of my lungs at the same time. I mean I was in pitch darkness with my headphones turned way up so that was part of it, but DAMN that sucked. I don't think I've ever felt that kind of instantaneous panic before even when I've been in real life danger.
I've noticed that Godzilla, over the decades, has gotten more and more bottom-heavy as the designs change. If you look at the original 1954, his head is pretty proportional, Then you hit the 90s (Hesei) era and his head is much smaller in proportion to his body, and then the 2000s (Millenium) era, then the Legendary Monsterverse. His head just keeps getting smaller and smaller compared to the rest of him. In this case, it's possible that his body has grown in response to having to contain a living nuclear reactor inside him.
His fins extending is like the control rods of a nuclear reactor coming up. The water cools the fins and lets him cool his internal reactor. When he raises them out, it causes him to go meltdown and build up the energy to shoot his atomic breath.
As for his standing in water, he's just treading water, like people can do, as well as waterfowl.
While yes the Motion in Ginza of Godzilla is stiff like someone in a Suit which is in honor of the older Movies, it is also because Godzilla is still getting used to it's WAY bigger body he got from the Mutation from the Nuclear Bomb that hit him.
良い解釈です。
@@せん-g7b Thank you, I do love thinking about these movies.
Godzilla is able to keep his position in the water because he has neutral buoyancy
The dark spot on Noriko’s neck is blasted off regenerator one Godzilla cells on to her neck, which is no doubt what saved her life, causing her to heal from what would obviously be fatal wounds, what happens in the future to Noriko is anyone guess at this point.
Just don't leave any roses in the hospital room.
Gojira be like, 'Imma just pull up on these fools.' 👀
What if each part of Godzilla that broke off regenerated into it's own Godzilla? Scary thought..... Great reaction though!!!!!
26:15 that is the perfect description for the terror of Godzilla.
There’s plenty of stuff on the Internet about operation crossroads that’s where Godzilla got his powers from. It was a test of nuclear weapons and bikini tall home of SpongeBob.
Yea, its implied that there is Godzilla DNA forming in her blood at the end. For those who follow Godzilla lore this could open up a sequel to perhaps something like her connection to a creature called Biollante.
@13:08 -- in godzilla lore, the atomic test blast at bikini atoll was actually a secret u.s. attempt to destroy the monster. however, since godzilla had already been mutated by radioactive waste in the ocean, the effects only made him grow even bigger and chunkier and meaner.
This is only true of the American films and I'm k8ndof tired of people saying this
@@WitchfinderGeneral56 americans have made too many godzilla movies (and comics and merch) to get left out of the lore. and if the bikini blast wasn't lore before minus one, takashi yamazaki just adopted it -- he's made it canon
The mark on her neck is a Godzilla cell. It's probably why she survived the blast.
But to what end? Will she mutate? Are there other victims who similarly contracted the Godzilla cell?
I've also heard that the tattoo on her neck is a symbol for Mothra. Perhaps Mothra will be featured in the next movie?? -OG
OMG if they do Mothra with this level of artwork, just imagine.
Sumiko knew Koichi had not done his job because he was alive. Kamikaze pilots are supposed to ram their bomb-laden planes into targets, sacrificing themselves.
Also the Plan almost for sure would have worked if Godzilla did not give himself that pause, but also even still he would have died firing that last Heat Ray from how weakend his body was from the Depressurization, as he would have literally torn himself apart with the force of the blast just to kill the people on the boat
Godzilla has an Extraordinary Swim Bladder that Gives him a Buoyancy
You noticed it well.The black spots are Godzilla cells.
Right. And I think many Japanese viewers interpreted the spots as representing the atomic bomb disease that actually occurred.
I like what it represents, but in the grand scheme of things I am not a fan of the idea that Noriko may end up as a Godzilla homunculus because it's like a massive "F you" to me rooting for Shikishima till the end.
JFYI on top of your great content.
Godzilla was born from the nuclear test started at Bikini Atoll by the United States in 1946.
In 1954, when the first Godzilla movie was made, a Japanese ocean-going fishing boat was caught up in one of these hydrogen bomb tests and was exposed to radiation, and the concept of Godzilla was born from this incident.
What mean “minus one"
At that time, Tokyo was completely destroyed in the Great Tokyo Air Raid and was in a period of reconstruction.
Then Godzilla appears and destroys it even more.
“Minus one” means that.
（Even before that, Tokyo had suffered devastating damage in the Great Kanto Earthquake.）
Godzilla, who is the metaphor of God and living things, is a metaphor for them, and we are constantly being overrun by nature, war, and pestilence, but we must not give up and fight back! It contains those message in this movie. “Resist and live“
In 1945, The Tokyo air raids killed approximately 100,000 people in one night. After the war, the underground passage near Ueno Station, which was destroyed by air raids, was filled with war orphans who had lost their homes and families. According to a national survey, approximately 120,000 children were orphaned (AKIKO was a one of them), and it is said that there were more than 1,000 orphans in the underground tunnels.
Just FYI
The fighter plane that Koichi flew in during the final mission actually exists.
"J7W Shinden"
The only surviving aircraft is on display at a Smithsonian institution.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyushu_J7W_Shinden
The director confirmed Noriko is infected with Godzilla Cells,
Even used the OG roar from my childhood
Ha, I love that that could be any time back to 1954.
If you know German, the ejection seat gets spoiled - you can see writing in German on a metal plate on the mechanism, "Schleudersitz" = "ejection seat" ... you can see it in the hangar scene.
Sumiko was a mother grieving the loss of her children - and likely husband - to the war. Someone in that position would detach and look to assign blame, but she comes around quick because of Akiko. Akiko is the glue that kind of binds their little group together.
Godzilla wasn't the target - he just happened to be in the area when the first hydrogen bomb was tested. That bomb infamously had a much greater yield then they expected, so story-wise they can say Godzilla was maybe just watching from cover and got caught.
If you keep crying Godzilla, no one will believe you when the real Godzilla shows up.
Godzilla was caught up in an atomic bomb blast test. That is what you saw with the bomb. That is where Godzilla became irradiated and grew to massive size. He went on a rampage because he basically had a cancer that regenerated his body. However, he was under extreme levels of excruciating pain and as result grew to hate humans and set out to destroy them all. Godzilla is actually a sad character because he was victimized by the actions of humans many times. He ultimately represents the destruction of the world around us by human arrogance, greed and stupidity. You are correct about Noriko having a bit of Godzilla in her. That is how she come to be found alive. She gained some of the recuperative powers of Godzilla thru what is called
G-cells and regenerated from injuries which may have initially killed her.
You should try watching monsterverse movies with Godzilla and Kong movies 🍿
Also am Glad you know your Physics on the Presser Changes enough to not be annoyed with the plan and understand how it would work.
Ok so wearing a shirt with "Humanity" on it for this Movie is pretty funny
I’d love watching movies with you. You think a lot of the same things I do. When I watched this the first time I literally said they want to give Godzilla the Bends. 😂😂
"I dont want to be on a Boat with LANDmines" Luckily I dont think they were either. : >
Noriko was the real hero of this movie 10 times over! She's the definition of a real one.
Great reaction Deasha!!
they could do obvious sequels...but they could go off in unexpected ways with infected/radiated/mutating people too!
I don't think you could have found a more perfect shirt to wear while watching this one particular movie, since that is what it's really about!
I liked Shin Godzilla and the American ones better, but this was very good too.
It's a great callback to the OG Toho ones.
Just so you know, a kamikaze is a suicide bomber. So Sumiko the neighbor seeing Shikishima alive was enough for her to call him a coward. ALSO, it was an atomic bomb not mine. The U.S. Was testing atomic bombs and by accident irradiated Godzilla.
Also yes it's me the guy still hoping you will at some point do the other 2 parts of MatPat's 2023 FNaF Timeline, though at this point you might need to Rewatch parts 1 and 2 LOL.
Not that you HAVE TO WATCH IT, I'd just enjoy if you would complete the series of videos.
Noriko is alive, but she has already been parasited by the immortal G-cells.
18:46 there's no way the English translation of that line is "what that mouth do?" lol
The heat sucks the air back after a nuclear explosion
Godzilla has a son named Godzuki I have no idea if Godzuki will make an appearance. His appearances are usually silly and do not fit the tone of this masterful writing.
Godzilla doesn’t eat people. He’s never eaten humans. One of TOHO’S rules is that he must not eat people. Even the 1998 Godzilla movie didn’t break that rule.
Thank you.Really.Thank you.
Okay. I'm CONVINCED the subtitle at 18:47 is not supposed to be "What that mouth do?"
13:06 No that was just the United States of America testing out their new new atomic bombs in the Pacific ocean.
Godzilla was caught in the blast and Mutanted by the radiation.
Now he's just taking his anger out on nearest human civilisation which happens to be Japan.
So it was the Americans fault for Godzilla.
This one also references GMK alot since the director said its one of his favorite movies.. Both have the same aggression to humanit, exploding atomic breaths, and died the same way
*Before Watching your Reaction*
This Movie is a perfect start to another Story Line of Movies from Toho, and I hope they go the Heisei Era of Movies, being a Dino-Like to G-Cells (Godzilla Cells), they are know to do a lot of things, but in this Movie they did save Noriko after the Heat Ray Blast in Ginza.
Also I don't remember if I have said before but I would love to see you react to the "Timeline" of the Heisei Era which would be:
(1954) Gojira
(1984) The Return of Godzilla
(1989) Godzilla vs. Biollante
(1991) Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
(1992) Godzilla vs. Mothra
(1993) Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (it's only called Mechagodzilla II because of it being the second one in a REAL LIFE way not in timeline wise)
(1994) Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
(1995) Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (even after Godzilla Minus One this is my Favorite Movie in the enter Franchise)
She's already reacted to Godzilla 1954 on Patreon.
@@gojifan1999 I saw that afterwards, but thanks for letting me know.
I liked the bit where he said "what that mouth do?"
Just think too, they made this movie with less than 1/10th the money that the latest American Godzilla movies costed to make. Hollywood and bigwig executives must be excellent at completely wasting money.
its a movie. chill out. enjoy what is shown. live in it. experience it. learn from it. chill out. its a movie not real life. its a story.
48:14 That's G-Cells (Godzilla Cells) can make Godzilla regenerated.
'Regenerator G-1' from Godzilla 2000 is my first recollection of his regenerative abilities.
I was half way through the review when... HJC? I wear HJC when I ride too.
ガジーラ！！！
Noriko: "Are you going to leave us to die on the street?" RUclipsr: "Yes." I didn't need to watch any more.
random commenter: Announces departure. RUclipsr: "okay."
Peak ❤
I've watched many reactions and history, both real and of godzilla, is not well known it seems.
Bikini Atoll is a famous test site the USA nuked the shit out of/ It's a coral reef in the Marshall islands surrounded by 23 islands. It was taken over by Japan during WW1. The USA took them after WW2. Every Japanese was killed fighting vs the Yankees, save the last 5, who committed suicide/seppuku. The first hydrogen bomb was tested there. It was nuked 23 times, starting in 1946. Natives were forced off & relocated numerous times. "We" discovered that nukes were really nasty & toxic there...Even TODAY it's still giving unique information...the land is reshaped (craters) by blasts, but the effects of radiation are highly surprising (& deadly). Some corals are doing fine, until recently though, it was a dead zone. A few specific types of coral apparently laugh at radiation & are growing/coming back, others are gone for good. They planted coconut trees after the nukes, making it super creepy & unnatural to look at now, Rows & lines of super radioactive trees & little else...but for giant mutant super radioactive crabs that eat the radioactive coconuts today.
Anyway, all of that was top secret, back in the day, and the H bomb was far more powerful & scary than imagined.
Lucky Dragon No. 5 (a Japanese tuna fishing boat)'s crew of 23 were all irradiated during that first H-bomb test in 1954 you get a brief shot of in the movie. "The Daigo Fukuryū Maru’s(Lucky Dragon No. 5) catch was later distributed throughout Japan, spreading radioactive contamination and causing widespread public concern."
The ship ties into the first Godzilla film. "The opening scenes of Godzilla (1954) retell the story of the fishing boat’s crew, who were exposed to radioactive fallout from the Bikini Atoll test. This event serves as a backdrop for the monster Godzilla’s appearance, with the film’s protagonist, Dr. Kyohei Yamane, drawing parallels between the atomic radiation and Godzilla’s own atomic-powered existence."
Godzilla -1 assumes people know the history in real life, and also that Godzilla's fictional history was also tied to those events, being mutated by the H-bomb...a plague upon Japan as was their radiation poisoned fisherman & radioactive tuna they ate...
but nobody, and I mean nobody, seems to know anything about any of it. The closest are vague notions Godzilla is created by/mutated by radioactive fallout & some have heard Godzilla is a metaphor for the atomic bomb
Godzilla -1 speeds it along, using the 1946 atom bomb test as Godzilla's mutation point
sumiko initially didn't forgive koichi who didn't do his job as a kamakaze pilot , aka kill himself with his plane hitting American battleships n carriers , that made american bombers able to take off n bombed Tokyo that killed sumiko's children. So sorry about your lack of knowledge n foreign culture made your reaction really hard to watch.
I know what a Kamikaze pilot is 🙄. I thought she was mad at him for not shooting Godzilla and I didn't understand how she knew he didn't shoot. So sorry about your inability to leave a comment without being condescending.
@@DeashasAlwaysWatching Japanese would have felt offended. Coz you didn’t know your reaction was questioning why Sumiko was so mean.
Coz Her children was killed by people who did not defend n u American bombed her home.
instead of feeling offended people could just ask what I meant, super easy.
I was not alive when the real history happened, I did not bomb anyone. 🙄
Stop trying to put things on me that have nothing to do with me.
5:38 "you didn't know what he didn't do" well if you didn't know kamikaze pilots are suicide bombers, him being alive means he didn't do his job as a kamikaze.
Also "how is his chest that far out of water"... uh the same way people do it. Also salt water creates buoyancy. Also alligators tails can launch them 6 feet out of water. Also THERES A FUCKING WOOD MODEL EXPLAINING IT EARLIER IN THE MOVIE
I would definitely add shin godzilla to your list if you haven't seen it yet,
She already reacted to Shin Godzilla and Godzilla 1954.
続編では間違いなく「ゴジラ VS G細胞に侵されたノリコ達」になるんじゃないでしょうか。