With Godzilla's tail, It is highly suggested each evolution became deadlier than the last in order to "survive". Towards the end, Godzilla possibly recognized HUMANS as the dominant, deadliest species and tried to "evolve" into them next.
Not sure if it's true, but I read somewhere that in order to combat multiple smaller enemies attacking him, Godzillas next evolution was to sprout all those human sized creatures to attack the soldiers one on one. Supposedly, they would act as a sort of hive collective while the main monster continued his rampage. Bizarre but awesome idea and one I'd love to see them continue if they ever make a sequel.
@@stanwingo6069 yeah its exactly what was going to happen, they originally planned the sequel to be a bad ending but it was already confirmed that they wont be making a sequel for some reasons that i dont know :(
@@stanwingo6069If you look at the model for Godzillas tail, it also has a giant human skull inside the tail. Some fans suggest Godzilla is actually the 'expert' who disapeared.
@@CircuitReborn Hadn't thought about the scientist, interesting theory. I'm still of the mind it wasn't though, and rather just Godzilla not only starting to "evolve" the mini-G's off him, but I feel the tail - especially once it went laser-mode - was evolving into more of a CatDog situation, with a second head on the other end.
The motif for this version of Godzilla is EVOLUTION. Every time it changed it was adapting to whatever was being thrown at it at that moment. Struggling to walk on land? Evolve some bigger, sturdier legs. Getting overheated? Evolve a self-cooling system. Being bombed from the sky? Evolve the ability to shoot lasers from mouth and back. Too many targets? Tail laser. You get the picture. The final scene was Godzilla's next evolution. What better way is there to combat against an army than to become an army yourself? It only gets more terrifying when you think about what could've happened had they not stopped the monster when they did.
@@42Caio In that sense, Shin Godzilla is a bit like the Borg, or the pathogens which we're doing our level-best to assist in out-evolving our antibiotic technologies (the days of dying from a random scratch from a rose-thorn, ie. the injury killing the first recipient of penicillin, will be with us again very shortly if massive changes in factory farming aren't made); you really don't want to hit it with anything you're not sure will kill it, or it will rapidly discover any possible defense against the method of assault used.
I think there are concept arts from the creators of Shin Godzilla showing how Godzilla would evolve further and further and the humanoid version wouldn't have been the last one
_"Monsters are tragic beings. They are born too tall, too strong, too heavy. They are not evil by choice; that is their tragedy. They do not attack people because they want to, but their strength and power bring danger and grief; thus mankind has no other choice but to defend themselves."_ _- Ishirō Honda, the original creator of Godzilla_
A little thing I noticed. Their codename for 'Hydra-Slayer' during the operation to deal with Godzilla is known as 'Ame-no-Habakiri' in Japanese. Ame-no-Habakiri is the sword of the Storm God known as Susano'o, who is most famous for the legend of how he decapitated the 8 headed giant serpent/dragon, Yamata no Orochi. Orochi was put down in a similar way Shin Godzilla is, where the serpent was given powerful liquor that put it into a deep sleep, after which Susano'o killed it.
Easily my favorite Goji movie. Much more akin to the dark tone of the 1954 original, but this time instead of just being about nuclear bombs, Shin was a direct response to how the Japanese government responded, or failed to respond, to the typhoon and Fukushima. And that creepy last shot.... Godzilla was still evolving. Really wish they'd do a sequel, but I'll be happy with Minus One when it comes out....
That last scene showing it's tail was to show how godzilla was responding to humanity, first he reacted to the bombs and missiles with his powers, but once it recognized humanity as the main threat it started to make a "counter" to that threat, think of humans as a disease, godzilla being the main body would sooner or later produce antibodies for that virus, and those humanoid creatures were that antibody. They would sprout from it's tail and spread through the earth, killing any and every single human they spot while the main body grows even more and evolves even more, if there were a sequel it would be a bad ending showing how shin godzilla brought hell to the planet and completely wiped all life out of it.
Yeah. For me, it evoked the WWII firebombing of Tokyo by the US. I know that's not what the movie was about, but it's the first thing that sprang to mind for me.
Shin Godzilla is a very unique Godzilla movie. A god-like creature made by humanity who couldn't help but keep evolving in the most suffering way possible. Godzilla was neither a villain or a hero, but a victim.
Some of the music in this movie has English lyrics, such as the "Who Will Know" song in the atomic breath scene. I thought that was really interesting. The lyrics for that piece are: If I die in this world Who will know something of me? I am lost, no one knows There's no trace of my yearning If I die in this world (But I must carry on) Who will know something of me? (Nothing worse can befall) I am lost, no one knows (All my fears, all my tears) There's no trace of my yearning (Tell my heart there's a hole) I wear a void Not even hope A downward slope Is all I see I wear a void (As long as breath comes from my mouth) Not even hope (I may yet stand the slightest chance) A downward slope (A shaft of light is all I need) Is all I see (To cease the darkness killing me)
Shin is one of few Godzilla movies that i can reccomend to someone who isnt already a Goji fan and expect them to be compelled by it. A true masterpiece. It was a political satire, drawing parallels to the japanese government's bumbling response to the earthquake/tsunami/fukushima reactor melt down in 2011
And the Man is in constant pain and agony from the continuous state of evolution he's in and his next form involves those horrifying Humanoid Godzilla things on the end of his tail and we don't know if they are going to end up breaking free after the end of the film
There's no atomic bomb allegory like the og which was inherently and anti war allegory as well, this based on the reactor incident in fukushima and political reaction around it
Shin Godilla is a prehistoric species of fish that was forced to feed off the radiation waste that was dumped into the ocean. The radiation mutated his body against his own will. Every second of its existence, Godzilla was in agony, it's own body was forcing it to move. It had to surface because it was overheating. The last shot where the Godzilla humanoids were growing out of his tails was showing that Godzilla's DNA was evolving humanoids to effectively counter humanity.
One Japanese observer speculates that Godzilla's true identity is Dr. Goro-Maki himself. The fact that his boat and suicide note are found in Tokyo Bay in the opening scene, and Godzilla later emerges from the same location, reinforces that idea.
@@いたち-b8s That is exactly my theory. Some, like Blind Wave's Godzilla expert, were a bit rude when I mentioned it. Blind Wave is another reaction channel. They had a Godzilla expert guest who didn't say much about his thoughts regarding the movie, and even when I brought my theory up, they dismissed it and said they couldn't be wrong regarding a theory. They said that the scientist didn't release Godzilla and I said that I think they were half wrong about Dr. Goro-Maki. After a few viewings of this movie, I have come to a theory regarding Godzilla's origins. It seems no one thinks about the beginning before Godzilla is shown. The boat that the scientist owned is found abandoned right where Godzilla becomes its first evolution. Does this mean anything? Perhaps, did the scientist commit suicide for the turmoil Japan put his wife through? And if so, what happened to him? We don't ever really get any information as to where he was and if indeed he did throw himself off the boat. My theory is that he might not have even committed suicide. Maybe he dived overboard and swam down into the bay and possibly the radiation contained in that area made him merge with fish and other sealife which became the start of Godzilla...? Going over the movie quite a few times, I have never heard any explanation as to why the boat was abandoned and where the scientist is. It's implied that he committed suicide... Who is that Japanese observer?
Shin Godzilla is basically what is described as "An abomination" A creature with overwhelming capabilities and willing to adapt itself at a rapid pace to survive. The destruction it leaves in its wake was only a fraction of what it's capable of. The humanoid creatures that were spawning in from its tail were just examples of what it can do.
I actually really love shin godzilla because he is treated like an actual monster , a creature , a threat to humanity especially since hes a metaphor for nuclear bombs. In most godzilla movies hes treated as a somewhat hero and is humanized to an extent like the monsterverse. Here he is a creature in ungodly amount of pain do the the radiation in its body constanly splitting and morphing it flesh and is an animal just trying to survive. Not to mention the body horror and eldritch elements to it, especially when you watch the deleted scenes it makes it much more horrifying. The movie does have its problems here and there but other then that its a good monster flick.
the thing I love about Shin Godzilla is how inflexible he is, he just seems like a moving statue that is hell-bent on nothing but keep moving forward, it's a literal walking tumor of nature that human created from their carelessness.
When this movie was released, people who watched it were happy to see their place being trampled by Godzilla, saying things like, ``My company was crushed by Godzilla!''😂
I mean the Monsterverse Godzilla is more the "friendly" Godzilla of the 70s(?) japanese version while Shin Godzilla is a call back to the original '54 version actually having a meaning behind it rather than "just" a Monster movie.
Shin Godzilla is a return to old school Godzilla. A stunning movie, still languishing at an utterly absurd 6.8 on IMDB for no good reason. In my book it's a solid 9. I think part of the problem is that many Western audiences didn't understand it properly.
Shin is definitely with the doubt the most strangest disturbing version of Godzilla ever seen , and what's even more disturbing was that Shin-Gs last transformation was originally not his final , he's gonna continue involving into more terrifying forms more past that but they were scrapped
While this version of Godzilla is certainly terrifying and unstoppable in its own right, it’s still not exactly in line with how Godzilla is portrayed when he was first introduced. The original 1954 Godzilla was stated to have had a burning hatred for humanity because he was mutated by nuclear bomb tests, turning him into the atomic monstrosity we see in the movie. He was also theorized to have had a family that was supposedly killed by these same bomb tests. As such, he developed a deep hatred for humanity and actively went out of his way to cause them as much suffering as possible. Shin Godzilla, while still keeping the origin of being mutated by nuclear radiation, is much more sympathetic. He’s completely unaware of the destruction and death he causes as it’s simply an unintentional side effect of him just trying to get around. He seemingly bares no hatred towards humans and only attacks out of fear and self-preservation. Simply put, he’s portrayed as an animal trying to survive as best he can with the confusing circumstances he suddenly found himself in.
The moment Godzilla starts the Atomic breath and the music kicks in, i legit start to tear up out of pure excitement of the beautiful yet disastrous and tragic scene
Sad fact: When Godzilla is destroying the City, the lyrics of the (marvelous and beautiful) song that play suggest that Godzilla itself is in pain, straight out agony in every moment it is alive. An monster created by humanity arrogance, in constant pain and despair and unable to stop it, come back at us as an direct effect for what we did to it, for what we created
The best way I've heard the tail shot at the end explained: It took a committee to defeat Godzilla, so Godzilla will become a committee. Also.. the first half with all the political stuff was a satire of the Japanese government's response to the Triple Disaster of March 11, 2011
This movie focused so much on the bureaucracy because it was meant to be a criticism of the way Japan's government mishandled the Fukushima disaster (the nuclear reactor damaged in a massive earthquake), mostly by downplaying the severity and delaying the response.
It's even more horrific to know that it's roars are those of extreme pain. Shin is a creature that shouldn't exist, let alone evolve the way he does. Every step, breath and literally anything he does is nothing but agony for him. I'm also recommending you watch the deleted scenes (which shouldn't have been taken out as to form a suitable plot line). Gross, disturbing and dark as F.
Gojira does not mean "God Incarnate". That idea was invented for this particular movie. The name is said to come from someone working at Toho at the time of the production of the very first Godzilla movie. Apparently said person was quite overweight and he got "Gojira" as a rather mean sounding nickname. "Gojira" is a combination of the words "gorira", meaning gorilla, and "kujira", meaning whale.
Incredible movie! The Japanese really know how to make Godzilla downright horrifying. The visage and the growl send shivers down my spine. I have no idea how they did all these shots, close up or from the sky. Models and CGI. I was overwhelmed with how well-done this movie was. Thanks for doing this one. Really enjoyed it, and I was a gobsmacked as you were. You know, in the last scene, it seems as if they stopped it in time before it evolved into what looked like human offshoots. Frightening out the wazoo!!! :)
i adore how they show the diffrent names of cities during the atomic breath scene. Going out of there way to show how insane the destruction is. Shin burned like a dozen cities
Fun fact: when you’re eating at a fried fish or boiled fish and you look directly at its eye, you can actually feel it has a little bit of anger coming from shin Godzilla
Okay, so a few thing I want to address: 0:42 when you see a pair of shoes with no one around, that means the wearer of those shoes SUICIDED. 4:05 This Godzilla has NO motivation, it's a NEWBORN BABY. 5:52 They HAVE to do this. So that it doesn't result in massive chaos. If the every citizens in the city got chaos, it will result in a stampede which will cause at least 100 deaths. The goverment in this scene is trying to calm the people down. 10:29 Yes, it's a difficult situation. Because this is what the government had to go through when the Nuclear power plant Fukushima happened irl. Yes, the movie is based on the Fukushima incident. 12:53 A little sneak peak since the movie never show it but the man that girl was looking for is the same guy who left the pair of shoes behind and suicide 13:23 "God Incarnate" is a cool meaning to Gojira but no, that's not what Gojira means. Gojira is a name DEPRIVED from two Animals: Gorilla and Whale (Kujira in Japanese). They just add "God Incarnate" in this film to make it sounds cool. 15:21 Yes, double. Shin Godzilla official height is 118.5m (or 389ft for the americans out there). Making it taller than the 2014 Godzilla. Legendary, the company that makes the 2014 film saw this and be like "Unacceptable, only the american gets to be taller" and make a second film with a much taller Godzilla. But Toho (the original film that create the Godzilla franchise) end this whole debate by creating a 300m tall Godzilla name Godzilla Earth (the embodiment of Planet earth itself). 16:14 Yep, you guess that correctly. Remember the Fukushima incident I talked about earlier? This Shin movie is made to MOCK the government for their SLOW decision makings and their LONG meetings. 16:41 you see that? This is a cool detail as the JSDF are aiming for Godzilla's Potential weakness which is the head first. 17:24 Another cool detail. Since all the firepower aiming for the head didn't work, they're going with the next best thing: GRAVITY. All of the tanks are aiming at Godzilla's legs or more specifically: The knee and joints so that the legs break and the gravity can crush it. 19:18 Do you know how POPULATED Tokyo is? The population is 13.5 mil people. The time it took to evacuate all of that people is SEVERAL DAYS. 20:24 The US CAN'T use all bombs at once. There's a thing called COLLATERAL damage and you don't want that especially when the People of Tokyo city are included. 21:34 And with that explosion, HALF of the casts are GONE. 25:09 I see that you're finally noticing the Music now. It's the same Music from another Anime called Evangelion but with a little Remix. It's because both of them are directed by Anno Hideaki. 26:26 Shin Godzilla is a REMAKE version of the OG Godzilla movie where both monster are portrayed as a Force of Destruction of the Nuclear power. 28:11 The movie already explain this, Shin Godzilla has a Built-in radar. 31:05 I'm sure many people has explain this to you but I'll just say it again. Shin Godzilla is constantly evolving and in that final attempt to escape, it's trying to evolve into human which is what it saw as the greater evolution. It's also because of the constant evolution that Shin Godzilla has NO SKINS, what you're seeing are the meat behind the skins and because of that, Shin Godzilla is in CONSTANT PAIN. PAIN from Sunlight, PAIN from Touching. When the JSDF was firing at Shin Godzilla, it was actually IN PAIN but can't express it because it's an ANIMAL. ANIMAL differ from Human in EXPRESSING Emotion, Human can manipulate their face to suit their current emotion but Animal can't. Anyway, that's all the thing I can say, feel free to ask me for more question.
Also whenever shin roars it's always because it is in pain ,per the director. You'll see that almost every roar is just after something painful ,ie: moab's dropped onto his back, evolving into a new form, breathing fire,ect. It's a tragic character tale
Shin Godzilla serves as a metaphor of the events that occured in Japan on 3 / 11. The earthquake, the tsunami and then Fukushima. And it highlights the bureaucracy that surrounded those events, which, in this case was Shin Godzilla. This movie offered a unique take on godzilla of which I fully embraced, my only qualm was the America issue and how that really wasn't needed. Hail The King
The reason the whole movie is about them making decisions is because the director is making a commentary about how bureaucratic red tape gets in the way of saving people when disasters like Fukushima happen.
Fun fact: the music that plays during godzillas destruction of Tokyo is sung from his perspective. It talks of being in constant pain and fear, and not wanting to retaliate but doing so to protect itself
I know it's very unlikely you will but this makes me want to see you react to Neon Genesis Evangelion, which was created by the director of this film. One of the tracks from the anime is even included in this film (it plays around 11:08)
This article was written using Google Translate. So I apologize if the text is incorrect. ``Shin Godzilla'' contains a lot of content that reflects Japanese culture and values unique to the Japanese people. Because of that, I was worried whether people would enjoy it, but I'm glad that my fears were unfounded.
I love this film! It's my 3rd favorite Godzilla movie after the original (1954) and "Final Wars". I am not much a fan of the Monsterverse films though.
the first time I watched Shin Godzilla I didn't like it. It was nothing like the Godzilla that I knew and liked (and I know quite a few basically growing up with the old Godzilla movies). But then I watched a video giving me a bit of info about how it is a new iteration basically of what the Godzilla '54 movie was about and also criticism of the japanese government structure etc and when I re-watched it, it grew more and more onto me. Now it might be one of my favourite Godzilla movies actually. Also the evolution of Godzilla in this movie is so well done. The body is reacting to new situations so that the second time a similar situation arises, it won't be caught offguard again.
After a few viewings of this movie, I have come to a theory regarding Godzilla's origins. It seems no one thinks about the beginning before Godzilla is shown. The boat that the scientist owned is found abandoned right where Godzilla becomes its first evolution. Does this mean anything? Perhaps, did the scientist commit suicide for the turmoil Japan put his wife through? And if so, what happened to him? We don't ever really get any information as to where he was and if indeed he did throw himself off the boat. My theory is that he might not have even committed suicide. Maybe he dived overboard and swam down into the bay and possibly the radiation contained in that area made him merge with fish and other sealife which became the start of Godzilla...? Going over the movie quite a few times, I have never heard any explanation as to why the boat was abandoned and where the scientist is. It's implied that he committed suicide.
Something I noticed and really enjoyed was that many of your questions regarding the government and their actions/inaction in the film were very likely the very same (or at least very similar to) questions asked by citizens during the events which inspired the movie. "What are you doing? What will you do? What's going to happen? What do we do? Make a decision already damnit! Help us!" Also, your comment near the end about how Godzilla was "clearly suffering" wasn't just accurate during the rapid freezing, but rather throughout it's entire existence as "Godzilla". From my understanding, Godzilla in this film is not just wandering around destroying things because it's "bad" , "evil", or because he enjoys it. He's just a creature it pain wandering around trying to find ways to easy the pain. He want desperately for the pain that's befallen him at the hands of careless and destructive humans (even if he might not know them to be guilty) to cease. *He wants to die.* _"Who Will Know"_ , the hauntingly beautiful operatic song that plays when it first uses the atomic breath is a very, _very_ good depiction of exactly how Godzilla feels. Unfortunately for him and all those in Tokyo, his body won't allow him to. Unconsciously, his body continues to rapidly grow, adapt, and evolve to keep itself alive through all the pain and suffering.
~When he struggles to breath on land and bleeds from it's gills, it evolves until eventually it can do so without harming itself. ~When it struggles to maneuver on land, it tries to stand on it's hind legs. When it falls, it strengthens it's hind legs, back, and neck, extends it's tail, and gives it slightly better arms. ~When it returns to Tokyo, he's taller with more sturdy skin and smaller, more easily protected eyes. When it's struck by the barrage of bullets and tank shells, it develops a protective layer for his eyes that it can open and close at will, just before the dropped bombs impact and explode. ~When attacked from above by the stealth bombers, a threat it couldn't detect well, it developed the atomic breath for range/firepower and the back attack for wider range, indiscriminate defense from above threats. ~When that evolution doesn't stop the attacks from the trains and it starts running out of juice during the last fight, it develops a more accurate version from his tail to conserve power and give it more control. ~And finally, the real kicker, once it seems to realize that it's the humans causing all this damage to it and that it's current means of defense were not enough, it starts reproducing. It begins to produce mini Godzilla creatures. But not mini versions of Godzilla as he currently was, rather it created smaller, more human-like creatures that could hopefully combat the now biggest threat it had faced at a level he was unable to effectively fight.
Shin Godzilla is meant to recapture the original Godzilla film. Not as a "cool giant monster in epic fights with other monsters" but as the embodiment of nuclear war and the devastation it wrought. This is why it doesn't have a motivation or purpose. It act as both a wild animal and a living natural disaster. It is also why you found a lot of the camera shots to be abrupt or scene changes out of nowhere. Because it filmed like a disaster film, without that Hollywood effects to increase the drama.
shin godzilla The tail is the longest in all Godzilla movies, and shin godzilla has three attack methods: its mouth, dorsal fin, and tail can all emit purple lasers.Also if they use the coagulant to freeze shin godzilla later, they will see the fifth stage of shin godzilla
If I remember the first godzilla movie represented the fear of the time. The first was nuclear power. I heard this was the government being unable to respond to a crisis. We saw it in the first seen. Following meeting protocol. Changeing to different meeting protocol. While that happening Godzilla is just destroying areas just from moving.
if you are interested there is a vid that kinda explains each form of shin godzilla, from the start to the end of the movie and what shin godzilla could have become.
with how many times they proclaim something and Shin proves them wrong, i was expecting one of them to go "the monster will never be ballin" and then cut to Shin in a jersey, shorts, and basketball shoes, dunking a massive basketball onto a pagoda
This movie is a masterpiece for what it is I was not expecting it to be that good it proved me wrong that last shock creeps the hell out of me cuz it leaves you imagination❤
Shins second form just... mindlessley pushing over buildings is just nightmarish.. Its dead fish eyes and constant bleeding just add to its Zombie like feeling..
just wanna point out that this movie was supposed to be a political satire based off of the events of the triple disaster that hit Japan. an earthquake struck Japan, which caused a massive tsunami, which caused a nuclear powerplant meltdown. the loss of life was massive and the government was so slow to reacting. the biggest criticism of Japan's government back during this time was that their delayed responses to the disaster caused much more loss of life than what could've been had they acted
I saw the concept art for the the shin godzilla sequel of godzilla as a god that looked absolutely terrifying. But the studio said it was to large a departure.
One thing i know is that there were original plans in the concept art for godzilla's final evolution would be shedding its lizard appearance and becoming a much truer representation of the god in its name, and there were allusions to it being essentially mother nature herself taking revenge upon humanity's destruction of the world
If I heard about a Kaiju sized monster even just 10 cities away from where I live, I'd make sure all evacuation stuff is READY. All my stuff I'd have ready in case and have my suitcases WIDE open in case the military couldn't take it down.
Shin godzilla could eventually evolved so much it could had been a god, as there wasn’t something hinted in the movie that stopped him from evolving, only thing they did was find its weakness When it had one
Not the best cgi but this is so good at displaying how horror the situation is. Usually monster movie in the west what viewers feels is cool and how gorgeous the picture is, but failed to convey how horror, devastating, and serious the situation actually is.
I interpreted the ending shot to be showing that Godzilla is still evolving. It kept getting stronger throughout the movie to resist the more powerful weapons being used against it. Once the government finally got its act together and started cooperating, Godzilla evolved a final time: multiple new creatures growing from its body- a direct reaction to the multiple humans who were able to take it down.
A fact: shin Godzilla wasn't roaring in rage he was roaring in pain, he was just trying to get the pain to stop, and when you hear the song for shin Godzilla, you could faintly hear the lyrics going “if I die in this world, who will know something of me?” he was just trying to get the pain to stop, and he desperately wishes to die so the pain could stop, and when they freeze him, he can still feel the pain
I think the best part of the movie is what may make some of the interactions and scenes seem a little weird. The best part is that it wasn't made by westerners. It doesn't have all of the typical western tropes that we have come to expect from every movie and so things like how the characters speak with each other is much less fluid and much more like a real life situation. It feels "weird" to us westerners because it lacks those typical things that are in almost every movie.
Keep practicing subtitle reading. It gets to a point where you forget you are reading subs. Also, sub-timing can have an impact. Shin Godzilla's subs kind of hit the sweet spot not too fast and not too slow to have overlapping dialogue.
Shin godzillas forms are basically the stages of a child developing in the womb. Evolving and growing rapidly as cells divide but also adapting to the environment around it. Truly a horrific design and concept. I love this movie😊
In concept art for this movie, it’s shown that Godzilla was originally supposed to have at least 2 more evolutions after the 3rd one we see in the movie. The 4th would have been a little more human, and it would have also sprouted horrifying humanoid creatures to combat the people fighting it (hence the final shot of the film). It’s 5th and final evolution would have been a humanoid eldritch horror, and it essentially would have evolved so much to the point that it might as well have become a god.
No, your strategy would work if it was just a slow lumbering giant creature like Shin Godzilla. Like staying out of the trajectory of a tornado if you had the means of fast transportation. Realistically wouldn't foresee or dream of a giant creature being able to shoot building piercing lasers. I believe the helicopter evacuation would of worked if done earlier than later. There just isn't enough aircraft to support a big city evacuation.
Your reaction is very good and it was interesting to hear someone talk about Godzilla from a perspective of someone who obviously doesn't know much about Godzilla. In 1954 the original Godzilla who was in fact a very political movie with an important message about Atomic power and how dangerous it is if left unchecked most Godzilla movies have a theme like this and shin Godzilla is no different in this case it's referencing political ineptitude and international relations. The movie draws its inspiration from the 2011 Japan earthquake tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster
You got it, Godzilla is catastrophic horror with human topics. Like you said, its atomic breath has probably killed millions of people. I watched the movie yesterday and I was very surprised by the ending, the rythm of the movie.
If i die.. who will know? The story of a immortal creature in unimaginable pain wanting to die, but his body tells him to keep on going to keep pushing so that the pain will go away. Now he is just waiting for humans to get together and kill him so that his pain will go away. An immortal monster who wants to die but can't.
Shin Godzilla was a masterpiece! That breath scene was perfection and the musical accompaniment chefs kiss, that scene in my opinion can only be described as an act of God!
With Godzilla's tail,
It is highly suggested each evolution became deadlier than the last in order to "survive".
Towards the end, Godzilla possibly recognized HUMANS as the dominant, deadliest species and tried to "evolve" into them next.
Not sure if it's true, but I read somewhere that in order to combat multiple smaller enemies attacking him, Godzillas next evolution was to sprout all those human sized creatures to attack the soldiers one on one. Supposedly, they would act as a sort of hive collective while the main monster continued his rampage. Bizarre but awesome idea and one I'd love to see them continue if they ever make a sequel.
@@stanwingo6069 yeah its exactly what was going to happen, they originally planned the sequel to be a bad ending but it was already confirmed that they wont be making a sequel for some reasons that i dont know :(
@@stanwingo6069If you look at the model for Godzillas tail, it also has a giant human skull inside the tail. Some fans suggest Godzilla is actually the 'expert' who disapeared.
@@CircuitReborn Hadn't thought about the scientist, interesting theory. I'm still of the mind it wasn't though, and rather just Godzilla not only starting to "evolve" the mini-G's off him, but I feel the tail - especially once it went laser-mode - was evolving into more of a CatDog situation, with a second head on the other end.
While I'm hyped for Minus One I'm sad we won't get a sequel to Shin 😞
The motif for this version of Godzilla is EVOLUTION.
Every time it changed it was adapting to whatever was being thrown at it at that moment. Struggling to walk on land? Evolve some bigger, sturdier legs. Getting overheated? Evolve a self-cooling system. Being bombed from the sky? Evolve the ability to shoot lasers from mouth and back. Too many targets? Tail laser. You get the picture.
The final scene was Godzilla's next evolution. What better way is there to combat against an army than to become an army yourself?
It only gets more terrifying when you think about what could've happened had they not stopped the monster when they did.
Or what could have happened if America did drop that Nuke and it failed to kill it.
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@@42Caio In that sense, Shin Godzilla is a bit like the Borg, or the pathogens which we're doing our level-best to assist in out-evolving our antibiotic technologies (the days of dying from a random scratch from a rose-thorn, ie. the injury killing the first recipient of penicillin, will be with us again very shortly if massive changes in factory farming aren't made); you really don't want to hit it with anything you're not sure will kill it, or it will rapidly discover any possible defense against the method of assault used.
I think there are concept arts from the creators of Shin Godzilla showing how Godzilla would evolve further and further and the humanoid version wouldn't have been the last one
@6666Imperator concept art is shown in the blu ray extras that I have yes I believe that was what actually happened
_"Monsters are tragic beings. They are born too tall, too strong, too heavy. They are not evil by choice; that is their tragedy. They do not attack people because they want to, but their strength and power bring danger and grief; thus mankind has no other choice but to defend themselves."_
_- Ishirō Honda, the original creator of Godzilla_
A little thing I noticed. Their codename for 'Hydra-Slayer' during the operation to deal with Godzilla is known as 'Ame-no-Habakiri' in Japanese. Ame-no-Habakiri is the sword of the Storm God known as Susano'o, who is most famous for the legend of how he decapitated the 8 headed giant serpent/dragon, Yamata no Orochi. Orochi was put down in a similar way Shin Godzilla is, where the serpent was given powerful liquor that put it into a deep sleep, after which Susano'o killed it.
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They also exist in Knight of the Zodiac-Saint Seiya.
Easily my favorite Goji movie. Much more akin to the dark tone of the 1954 original, but this time instead of just being about nuclear bombs, Shin was a direct response to how the Japanese government responded, or failed to respond, to the typhoon and Fukushima.
And that creepy last shot.... Godzilla was still evolving. Really wish they'd do a sequel, but I'll be happy with Minus One when it comes out....
That last scene showing it's tail was to show how godzilla was responding to humanity, first he reacted to the bombs and missiles with his powers, but once it recognized humanity as the main threat it started to make a "counter" to that threat, think of humans as a disease, godzilla being the main body would sooner or later produce antibodies for that virus, and those humanoid creatures were that antibody. They would sprout from it's tail and spread through the earth, killing any and every single human they spot while the main body grows even more and evolves even more, if there were a sequel it would be a bad ending showing how shin godzilla brought hell to the planet and completely wiped all life out of it.
The sequence when Godzilla destroys the entire city after the US attack is absolutely disturbing. The visuals and music are spine tingling.
Yeah. For me, it evoked the WWII firebombing of Tokyo by the US. I know that's not what the movie was about, but it's the first thing that sprang to mind for me.
Shin Godzilla is a very unique Godzilla movie. A god-like creature made by humanity who couldn't help but keep evolving in the most suffering way possible. Godzilla was neither a villain or a hero, but a victim.
Some of the music in this movie has English lyrics, such as the "Who Will Know" song in the atomic breath scene. I thought that was really interesting.
The lyrics for that piece are:
If I die in this world
Who will know something of me?
I am lost, no one knows
There's no trace of my yearning
If I die in this world
(But I must carry on)
Who will know something of me?
(Nothing worse can befall)
I am lost, no one knows
(All my fears, all my tears)
There's no trace of my yearning
(Tell my heart there's a hole)
I wear a void
Not even hope
A downward slope
Is all I see
I wear a void
(As long as breath comes from my mouth)
Not even hope
(I may yet stand the slightest chance)
A downward slope
(A shaft of light is all I need)
Is all I see
(To cease the darkness killing me)
Shin is one of few Godzilla movies that i can reccomend to someone who isnt already a Goji fan and expect them to be compelled by it.
A true masterpiece.
It was a political satire, drawing parallels to the japanese government's bumbling response to the earthquake/tsunami/fukushima reactor melt down in 2011
Shin Godzilla is absolutely disturbing. If I remember correctly it’s a metaphor for the atomic bombs and Fukushima.
It's an allegory on Fukushima and the political beaurocracy's inability to deal with the crisis.
And the Man is in constant pain and agony from the continuous state of evolution he's in and his next form involves those horrifying Humanoid Godzilla things on the end of his tail and we don't know if they are going to end up breaking free after the end of the film
It also references 3/11 in Japan. A lot of the first 15 minutes is almost a play-by-play of the event occurring as it did.
There's no atomic bomb allegory like the og which was inherently and anti war allegory as well, this based on the reactor incident in fukushima and political reaction around it
hence the reason it cannot be killed or stopped, only we can learn to deal with it
Shin Godilla is a prehistoric species of fish that was forced to feed off the radiation waste that was dumped into the ocean. The radiation mutated his body against his own will. Every second of its existence, Godzilla was in agony, it's own body was forcing it to move. It had to surface because it was overheating. The last shot where the Godzilla humanoids were growing out of his tails was showing that Godzilla's DNA was evolving humanoids to effectively counter humanity.
It wasn't a fish, that's a mistranslation
It's some unknown mutated ancient reptile
@@jesusramirezromo2037 Yeah, I wasn't sure. I knew it was prehistoric. Thanks for the confirmation.
One Japanese observer speculates that Godzilla's true identity is Dr. Goro-Maki himself. The fact that his boat and suicide note are found in Tokyo Bay in the opening scene, and Godzilla later emerges from the same location, reinforces that idea.
I’m glad they ended it on that. With an ever evolving creature that’s having difficulty facing an army at that point I guess it’ll create its own army
@@いたち-b8s That is exactly my theory. Some, like Blind Wave's Godzilla expert, were a bit rude when I mentioned it. Blind Wave is another reaction channel. They had a Godzilla expert guest who didn't say much about his thoughts regarding the movie, and even when I brought my theory up, they dismissed it and said they couldn't be wrong regarding a theory. They said that the scientist didn't release Godzilla and I said that I think they were half wrong about Dr. Goro-Maki.
After a few viewings of this movie, I have come to a theory regarding Godzilla's origins. It seems no one thinks about the beginning before Godzilla is shown. The boat that the scientist owned is found abandoned right where Godzilla becomes its first evolution. Does this mean anything? Perhaps, did the scientist commit suicide for the turmoil Japan put his wife through? And if so, what happened to him? We don't ever really get any information as to where he was and if indeed he did throw himself off the boat.
My theory is that he might not have even committed suicide. Maybe he dived overboard and swam down into the bay and possibly the radiation contained in that area made him merge with fish and other sealife which became the start of Godzilla...? Going over the movie quite a few times, I have never heard any explanation as to why the boat was abandoned and where the scientist is. It's implied that he committed suicide...
Who is that Japanese observer?
Shin Godzilla is basically what is described as "An abomination" A creature with overwhelming capabilities and willing to adapt itself at a rapid pace to survive. The destruction it leaves in its wake was only a fraction of what it's capable of. The humanoid creatures that were spawning in from its tail were just examples of what it can do.
I actually really love shin godzilla because he is treated like an actual monster , a creature , a threat to humanity especially since hes a metaphor for nuclear bombs. In most godzilla movies hes treated as a somewhat hero and is humanized to an extent like the monsterverse. Here he is a creature in ungodly amount of pain do the the radiation in its body constanly splitting and morphing it flesh and is an animal just trying to survive. Not to mention the body horror and eldritch elements to it, especially when you watch the deleted scenes it makes it much more horrifying.
The movie does have its problems here and there but other then that its a good monster flick.
the thing I love about Shin Godzilla is how inflexible he is, he just seems like a moving statue that is hell-bent on nothing but keep moving forward, it's a literal walking tumor of nature that human created from their carelessness.
When this movie was released, people who watched it were happy to see their place being trampled by Godzilla, saying things like, ``My company was crushed by Godzilla!''😂
You sir just earned a sub. As a life long Godzilla fan it’s so nice to see someone appreciate the Japanese versions of the big guy. Awesome video man.
I mean the Monsterverse Godzilla is more the "friendly" Godzilla of the 70s(?) japanese version while Shin Godzilla is a call back to the original '54 version actually having a meaning behind it rather than "just" a Monster movie.
Shin Godzilla is a return to old school Godzilla. A stunning movie, still languishing at an utterly absurd 6.8 on IMDB for no good reason. In my book it's a solid 9. I think part of the problem is that many Western audiences didn't understand it properly.
Nothing gets a 9 on IMDB. A 9 would make it tied for #3 all-time.
I love this movie. It has one of my favorite things in it - people discussing how to react to and solve a problem.
Shin is definitely with the doubt the most strangest disturbing version of Godzilla ever seen , and what's even more disturbing was that Shin-Gs last transformation was originally not his final , he's gonna continue involving into more terrifying forms more past that but they were scrapped
This movie is terrifying in another level, I always have goosebumps watching the destruction scenes, is so raw and brutal
While this version of Godzilla is certainly terrifying and unstoppable in its own right, it’s still not exactly in line with how Godzilla is portrayed when he was first introduced.
The original 1954 Godzilla was stated to have had a burning hatred for humanity because he was mutated by nuclear bomb tests, turning him into the atomic monstrosity we see in the movie. He was also theorized to have had a family that was supposedly killed by these same bomb tests. As such, he developed a deep hatred for humanity and actively went out of his way to cause them as much suffering as possible.
Shin Godzilla, while still keeping the origin of being mutated by nuclear radiation, is much more sympathetic. He’s completely unaware of the destruction and death he causes as it’s simply an unintentional side effect of him just trying to get around. He seemingly bares no hatred towards humans and only attacks out of fear and self-preservation. Simply put, he’s portrayed as an animal trying to survive as best he can with the confusing circumstances he suddenly found himself in.
This movie is a about a large bureaucracy versus chaos.
It was a commentary on the Japanese government's slow response to the Fukushima earthquake.
The moment Godzilla starts the Atomic breath and the music kicks in, i legit start to tear up out of pure excitement of the beautiful yet disastrous and tragic scene
Sad fact: When Godzilla is destroying the City, the lyrics of the (marvelous and beautiful) song that play suggest that Godzilla itself is in pain, straight out agony in every moment it is alive.
An monster created by humanity arrogance, in constant pain and despair and unable to stop it, come back at us as an direct effect for what we did to it, for what we created
The best way I've heard the tail shot at the end explained:
It took a committee to defeat Godzilla, so Godzilla will become a committee.
Also.. the first half with all the political stuff was a satire of the Japanese government's response to the Triple Disaster of March 11, 2011
This movie focused so much on the bureaucracy because it was meant to be a criticism of the way Japan's government mishandled the Fukushima disaster (the nuclear reactor damaged in a massive earthquake), mostly by downplaying the severity and delaying the response.
It's even more horrific to know that it's roars are those of extreme pain.
Shin is a creature that shouldn't exist, let alone evolve the way he does. Every step, breath and literally anything he does is nothing but agony for him.
I'm also recommending you watch the deleted scenes (which shouldn't have been taken out as to form a suitable plot line). Gross, disturbing and dark as F.
Gojira does not mean "God Incarnate".
That idea was invented for this particular movie.
The name is said to come from someone working at Toho at the time of the production of the very first Godzilla movie. Apparently said person was quite overweight and he got "Gojira" as a rather mean sounding nickname.
"Gojira" is a combination of the words "gorira", meaning gorilla, and "kujira", meaning whale.
The full Tittle is Shin Godzilla, Shin could be translated as Authentic, True, or as reference to something Divine
That nickname thing is an urban legend, not actually real, it comes from a US book, that also spread the two endings of King Kong vs Godzilla myth
Incredible movie! The Japanese really know how to make Godzilla downright horrifying. The visage and the growl send shivers down my spine. I have no idea how they did all these shots, close up or from the sky. Models and CGI. I was overwhelmed with how well-done this movie was. Thanks for doing this one. Really enjoyed it, and I was a gobsmacked as you were. You know, in the last scene, it seems as if they stopped it in time before it evolved into what looked like human offshoots. Frightening out the wazoo!!! :)
i adore how they show the diffrent names of cities during the atomic breath scene. Going out of there way to show how insane the destruction is. Shin burned like a dozen cities
Yeah, it was horrifying and so sad 😰
Such a great Godzilla take! This movie is incredible. I love how much variation there is over the Godzilla franchise, both Japanese and American.
at 28:10 shin godzilla has a "phased array radar" which allows him to detect threats without even needing to see them.
Fun fact: when you’re eating at a fried fish or boiled fish and you look directly at its eye, you can actually feel it has a little bit of anger coming from shin Godzilla
Okay, so a few thing I want to address:
0:42 when you see a pair of shoes with no one around, that means the wearer of those shoes SUICIDED.
4:05 This Godzilla has NO motivation, it's a NEWBORN BABY.
5:52 They HAVE to do this. So that it doesn't result in massive chaos. If the every citizens in the city got chaos, it will result in a stampede which will cause at least 100 deaths. The goverment in this scene is trying to calm the people down.
10:29 Yes, it's a difficult situation. Because this is what the government had to go through when the Nuclear power plant Fukushima happened irl. Yes, the movie is based on the Fukushima incident.
12:53 A little sneak peak since the movie never show it but the man that girl was looking for is the same guy who left the pair of shoes behind and suicide
13:23 "God Incarnate" is a cool meaning to Gojira but no, that's not what Gojira means. Gojira is a name DEPRIVED from two Animals: Gorilla and Whale (Kujira in Japanese). They just add "God Incarnate" in this film to make it sounds cool.
15:21 Yes, double. Shin Godzilla official height is 118.5m (or 389ft for the americans out there). Making it taller than the 2014 Godzilla. Legendary, the company that makes the 2014 film saw this and be like "Unacceptable, only the american gets to be taller" and make a second film with a much taller Godzilla. But Toho (the original film that create the Godzilla franchise) end this whole debate by creating a 300m tall Godzilla name Godzilla Earth (the embodiment of Planet earth itself).
16:14 Yep, you guess that correctly. Remember the Fukushima incident I talked about earlier? This Shin movie is made to MOCK the government for their SLOW decision makings and their LONG meetings.
16:41 you see that? This is a cool detail as the JSDF are aiming for Godzilla's Potential weakness which is the head first.
17:24 Another cool detail. Since all the firepower aiming for the head didn't work, they're going with the next best thing: GRAVITY. All of the tanks are aiming at Godzilla's legs or more specifically: The knee and joints so that the legs break and the gravity can crush it.
19:18 Do you know how POPULATED Tokyo is? The population is 13.5 mil people. The time it took to evacuate all of that people is SEVERAL DAYS.
20:24 The US CAN'T use all bombs at once. There's a thing called COLLATERAL damage and you don't want that especially when the People of Tokyo city are included.
21:34 And with that explosion, HALF of the casts are GONE.
25:09 I see that you're finally noticing the Music now. It's the same Music from another Anime called Evangelion but with a little Remix. It's because both of them are directed by Anno Hideaki.
26:26 Shin Godzilla is a REMAKE version of the OG Godzilla movie where both monster are portrayed as a Force of Destruction of the Nuclear power.
28:11 The movie already explain this, Shin Godzilla has a Built-in radar.
31:05 I'm sure many people has explain this to you but I'll just say it again. Shin Godzilla is constantly evolving and in that final attempt to escape, it's trying to evolve into human which is what it saw as the greater evolution. It's also because of the constant evolution that Shin Godzilla has NO SKINS, what you're seeing are the meat behind the skins and because of that, Shin Godzilla is in CONSTANT PAIN. PAIN from Sunlight, PAIN from Touching. When the JSDF was firing at Shin Godzilla, it was actually IN PAIN but can't express it because it's an ANIMAL. ANIMAL differ from Human in EXPRESSING Emotion, Human can manipulate their face to suit their current emotion but Animal can't.
Anyway, that's all the thing I can say, feel free to ask me for more question.
Also whenever shin roars it's always because it is in pain ,per the director. You'll see that almost every roar is just after something painful ,ie: moab's dropped onto his back, evolving into a new form, breathing fire,ect. It's a tragic character tale
Shin Godzilla serves as a metaphor of the events that occured in Japan on
3 / 11. The earthquake, the tsunami and then Fukushima. And it highlights the bureaucracy that surrounded those events, which, in this case was Shin Godzilla.
This movie offered a unique take on godzilla of which I fully embraced, my only qualm was the America issue and how that really wasn't needed.
Hail The King
The reason the whole movie is about them making decisions is because the director is making a commentary about how bureaucratic red tape gets in the way of saving people when disasters like Fukushima happen.
This masterpiece need a sequel
Shin Godzilla is probably the most dangerous version of him. That ending was completely frightening
Fun fact: the music that plays during godzillas destruction of Tokyo is sung from his perspective. It talks of being in constant pain and fear, and not wanting to retaliate but doing so to protect itself
I know it's very unlikely you will but this makes me want to see you react to Neon Genesis Evangelion, which was created by the director of this film. One of the tracks from the anime is even included in this film (it plays around 11:08)
This article was written using Google Translate.
So I apologize if the text is incorrect.
``Shin Godzilla'' contains a lot of content that reflects Japanese culture and values unique to the Japanese people.
Because of that, I was worried whether people would enjoy it, but I'm glad that my fears were unfounded.
well it was also a critique of how the japanese government handel whatever disaster comes to their way
I love this film! It's my 3rd favorite Godzilla movie after the original (1954) and "Final Wars". I am not much a fan of the Monsterverse films though.
Shin godzilla's compressed lazer was hella cool
the first time I watched Shin Godzilla I didn't like it. It was nothing like the Godzilla that I knew and liked (and I know quite a few basically growing up with the old Godzilla movies). But then I watched a video giving me a bit of info about how it is a new iteration basically of what the Godzilla '54 movie was about and also criticism of the japanese government structure etc and when I re-watched it, it grew more and more onto me. Now it might be one of my favourite Godzilla movies actually. Also the evolution of Godzilla in this movie is so well done. The body is reacting to new situations so that the second time a similar situation arises, it won't be caught offguard again.
To be fair, "Gojira" does not mean "God incarnate". It doesn't mean anything.
Its a blending of the Japanese words for Gorilla and Whale.
Buuuut.... ape whale doesn't have the same ring as god incarnate lol
@@stanwingo6069That's why it's called "Gojira" not "Gorirakujira"
that's the american take not the japanese
After a few viewings of this movie, I have come to a theory regarding Godzilla's origins. It seems no one thinks about the beginning before Godzilla is shown. The boat that the scientist owned is found abandoned right where Godzilla becomes its first evolution. Does this mean anything? Perhaps, did the scientist commit suicide for the turmoil Japan put his wife through? And if so, what happened to him? We don't ever really get any information as to where he was and if indeed he did throw himself off the boat.
My theory is that he might not have even committed suicide. Maybe he dived overboard and swam down into the bay and possibly the radiation contained in that area made him merge with fish and other sealife which became the start of Godzilla...? Going over the movie quite a few times, I have never heard any explanation as to why the boat was abandoned and where the scientist is. It's implied that he committed suicide.
Something I noticed and really enjoyed was that many of your questions regarding the government and their actions/inaction in the film were very likely the very same (or at least very similar to) questions asked by citizens during the events which inspired the movie. "What are you doing? What will you do? What's going to happen? What do we do? Make a decision already damnit! Help us!"
Also, your comment near the end about how Godzilla was "clearly suffering" wasn't just accurate during the rapid freezing, but rather throughout it's entire existence as "Godzilla". From my understanding, Godzilla in this film is not just wandering around destroying things because it's "bad" , "evil", or because he enjoys it. He's just a creature it pain wandering around trying to find ways to easy the pain. He want desperately for the pain that's befallen him at the hands of careless and destructive humans (even if he might not know them to be guilty) to cease. *He wants to die.* _"Who Will Know"_ , the hauntingly beautiful operatic song that plays when it first uses the atomic breath is a very, _very_ good depiction of exactly how Godzilla feels. Unfortunately for him and all those in Tokyo, his body won't allow him to. Unconsciously, his body continues to rapidly grow, adapt, and evolve to keep itself alive through all the pain and suffering.
~When he struggles to breath on land and bleeds from it's gills, it evolves until eventually it can do so without harming itself.
~When it struggles to maneuver on land, it tries to stand on it's hind legs. When it falls, it strengthens it's hind legs, back, and neck, extends it's tail, and gives it slightly better arms.
~When it returns to Tokyo, he's taller with more sturdy skin and smaller, more easily protected eyes. When it's struck by the barrage of bullets and tank shells, it develops a protective layer for his eyes that it can open and close at will, just before the dropped bombs impact and explode.
~When attacked from above by the stealth bombers, a threat it couldn't detect well, it developed the atomic breath for range/firepower and the back attack for wider range, indiscriminate defense from above threats.
~When that evolution doesn't stop the attacks from the trains and it starts running out of juice during the last fight, it develops a more accurate version from his tail to conserve power and give it more control.
~And finally, the real kicker, once it seems to realize that it's the humans causing all this damage to it and that it's current means of defense were not enough, it starts reproducing. It begins to produce mini Godzilla creatures. But not mini versions of Godzilla as he currently was, rather it created smaller, more human-like creatures that could hopefully combat the now biggest threat it had faced at a level he was unable to effectively fight.
Shin Godzilla is meant to recapture the original Godzilla film. Not as a "cool giant monster in epic fights with other monsters" but as the embodiment of nuclear war and the devastation it wrought.
This is why it doesn't have a motivation or purpose. It act as both a wild animal and a living natural disaster.
It is also why you found a lot of the camera shots to be abrupt or scene changes out of nowhere. Because it filmed like a disaster film, without that Hollywood effects to increase the drama.
shin godzilla The tail is the longest in all Godzilla movies, and shin godzilla has three attack methods: its mouth, dorsal fin, and tail can all emit purple lasers.Also if they use the coagulant to freeze shin godzilla later, they will see the fifth stage of shin godzilla
It's last stage of evolution was to split into humanoid individual creatures, that's what was happening on the tail tip when it was calcified
The fact shin godzilla isn't roaring he is screaming out of pain
The continued growing of the shock of Godzilla's Second attack where he uses his Atomic Ray was exactly what I was expecting from the reaction. XD
Godzillas final stage was to become the very monsters that was fighting back, but the transformation was only half completed when it froze.
In the last shot was a final cry from godzilla, he is being forced to live and because of that he was gonna evolve into an immortal being
If I remember the first godzilla movie represented the fear of the time. The first was nuclear power. I heard this was the government being unable to respond to a crisis. We saw it in the first seen. Following meeting protocol. Changeing to different meeting protocol. While that happening Godzilla is just destroying areas just from moving.
Would love a reaction on the other "Shin" movies such as Shin Ultraman and Shin Kamen Rider. Loved them
OMG YES! I JUST WATCHED SHIN THIS MORNING!!
“Shin Godzilla” is a masterpiece for maniacs. “Godzilla Minus 1” is a major masterpiece.
if you are interested there is a vid that kinda explains each form of shin godzilla, from the start to the end of the movie and what shin godzilla could have become.
with how many times they proclaim something and Shin proves them wrong, i was expecting one of them to go "the monster will never be ballin" and then cut to Shin in a jersey, shorts, and basketball shoes, dunking a massive basketball onto a pagoda
This movie is a masterpiece for what it is I was not expecting it to be that good it proved me wrong that last shock creeps the hell out of me cuz it leaves you imagination❤
Shins second form just... mindlessley pushing over buildings is just nightmarish..
Its dead fish eyes and constant bleeding just add to its Zombie like feeling..
The original 1954 film is a must watch
just wanna point out that this movie was supposed to be a political satire based off of the events of the triple disaster that hit Japan. an earthquake struck Japan, which caused a massive tsunami, which caused a nuclear powerplant meltdown. the loss of life was massive and the government was so slow to reacting. the biggest criticism of Japan's government back during this time was that their delayed responses to the disaster caused much more loss of life than what could've been had they acted
5:41 This scene reminded us Japanese tsunami in 2011. We saw same scene on TV over and over at the time. Spine-chilling.
I saw the concept art for the the shin godzilla sequel of godzilla as a god that looked absolutely terrifying. But the studio said it was to large a departure.
Happy Halloween Oscar
Need to watch Godzilla minus one!
One thing i know is that there were original plans in the concept art for godzilla's final evolution would be shedding its lizard appearance and becoming a much truer representation of the god in its name, and there were allusions to it being essentially mother nature herself taking revenge upon humanity's destruction of the world
That shot of the atomic breath just cutting through the buildings like nothing never gets old
17:15 "he's like.. WHAT."
That cracked me up for some reason.
If I heard about a Kaiju sized monster even just 10 cities away from where I live, I'd make sure all evacuation stuff is READY. All my stuff I'd have ready in case and have my suitcases WIDE open in case the military couldn't take it down.
Shin godzilla could eventually evolved so much it could had been a god, as there wasn’t something hinted in the movie that stopped him from evolving, only thing they did was find its weakness
When it had one
You should watch "Shin Ultraman" (2022) and "Shin Masked Rider" (2023).
Not the best cgi but this is so good at displaying how horror the situation is.
Usually monster movie in the west what viewers feels is cool and how gorgeous the picture is, but failed to convey how horror, devastating, and serious the situation actually is.
The city destruction scene makes me cry
Don't cry. It's not real and the city is tokyo
Still, one of the best atomic breath reveals, combined with the bg music!! Chefs kiss!!
I interpreted the ending shot to be showing that Godzilla is still evolving. It kept getting stronger throughout the movie to resist the more powerful weapons being used against it. Once the government finally got its act together and started cooperating, Godzilla evolved a final time: multiple new creatures growing from its body- a direct reaction to the multiple humans who were able to take it down.
You should definitely check out the rest of the Shin movies as well, Shin Ultraman and Shin Kamen Rider!!!
I love that when you were saying you'd avoid it I was thinking "wait till he sees this next bit" lol
A fact: shin Godzilla wasn't roaring in rage he was roaring in pain, he was just trying to get the pain to stop, and when you hear the song for shin Godzilla, you could faintly hear the lyrics going “if I die in this world, who will know something of me?” he was just trying to get the pain to stop, and he desperately wishes to die so the pain could stop, and when they freeze him, he can still feel the pain
You should Watch the rest of the films in the “trilogy” Shin Ultraman, and Shin Kamen Rider.
I got curious for more info on Shin Godzilla. The "From Kaiju to Eldritch" detail wasn't what I was expecting.
Great review of the best newer Godzilla films
I think the best part of the movie is what may make some of the interactions and scenes seem a little weird. The best part is that it wasn't made by westerners. It doesn't have all of the typical western tropes that we have come to expect from every movie and so things like how the characters speak with each other is much less fluid and much more like a real life situation. It feels "weird" to us westerners because it lacks those typical things that are in almost every movie.
Keep practicing subtitle reading. It gets to a point where you forget you are reading subs. Also, sub-timing can have an impact. Shin Godzilla's subs kind of hit the sweet spot not too fast and not too slow to have overlapping dialogue.
Shin godzillas forms are basically the stages of a child developing in the womb. Evolving and growing rapidly as cells divide but also adapting to the environment around it. Truly a horrific design and concept. I love this movie😊
The best Gojira film of the past 30years...
You should watch a video explaining the various forms of Shin Godzilla, including what it would have become if they hadn't stopped it.
In concept art for this movie, it’s shown that Godzilla was originally supposed to have at least 2 more evolutions after the 3rd one we see in the movie.
The 4th would have been a little more human, and it would have also sprouted horrifying humanoid creatures to combat the people fighting it (hence the final shot of the film). It’s 5th and final evolution would have been a humanoid eldritch horror, and it essentially would have evolved so much to the point that it might as well have become a god.
Shin is my favorite Godzilla, because it 's godlike but completely unaware of what it is or what's happening to itself.
No, your strategy would work if it was just a slow lumbering giant creature like Shin Godzilla. Like staying out of the trajectory of a tornado if you had the means of fast transportation. Realistically wouldn't foresee or dream of a giant creature being able to shoot building piercing lasers. I believe the helicopter evacuation would of worked if done earlier than later. There just isn't enough aircraft to support a big city evacuation.
Your reaction is very good and it was interesting to hear someone talk about Godzilla from a perspective of someone who obviously doesn't know much about Godzilla. In 1954 the original Godzilla who was in fact a very political movie with an important message about Atomic power and how dangerous it is if left unchecked most Godzilla movies have a theme like this and shin Godzilla is no different in this case it's referencing political ineptitude and international relations. The movie draws its inspiration from the 2011 Japan earthquake tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster
28:08 the answer actually lies in the in-detail model. There's a second head at the tip of his tail with eyes and mouth
no joke I originally was only here to see your reaction to the atomic breath, but after being called marshmallow, I subbed, that made my day
You got it, Godzilla is catastrophic horror with human topics. Like you said, its atomic breath has probably killed millions of people. I watched the movie yesterday and I was very surprised by the ending, the rythm of the movie.
If i die.. who will know?
The story of a immortal creature in unimaginable pain wanting to die, but his body tells him to keep on going to keep pushing so that the pain will go away. Now he is just waiting for humans to get together and kill him so that his pain will go away. An immortal monster who wants to die but can't.
Shin Godzilla was a masterpiece! That breath scene was perfection and the musical accompaniment chefs kiss, that scene in my opinion can only be described as an act of God!