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Post by ace on Nov 29, 2023 21:12:53 GMT -5
Go see this on the biggest screen you can find.
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Post by "American Cream" Dusty Loads on Nov 29, 2023 23:14:47 GMT -5
Just saw it today. I loved it. Gets a little melodramatic at points but I’ve never been at the edge of my seat in a Godzilla movie like I was this one. I think I prefer Shin, but this one’s up there in my favorites.
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Post by ace on Nov 30, 2023 0:13:18 GMT -5
I like most versions of Godzilla in some form or another…but this one is the most up my alley. I cared more about these characters than almost any movie since the original…I thought some of the choices of what they used the metaphor of Godzilla for this time were very inspired. Excising the government completely to make it a personal story of regular people who lost the war but saw this as a chance at redemption, in particular. And those Godzilla scenes are incredible. Stunningly incredible. I had a smile on my face through the whole first confrontation in the water…and then was more blown away when he hit land. There is a shot after he unleashed his atomic breath that might be the best image in the near 70 years of the franchise. Well…after seeing Dr Serizawa and his awesome eye patch in the original, at least.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Nov 30, 2023 0:30:28 GMT -5
Freaking loved it
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Post by jm on Nov 30, 2023 0:33:21 GMT -5
Sunday can't come soon enough for when I drive an hour to go to the Ontario IMAX here in SoCal to see this film. I'm so pumped.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Nov 30, 2023 3:54:57 GMT -5
Seeing it on Monday
A nearby cinema is only doing one showing a day.. but that’s good enough for me. I’m just happy to be able to catch a TOHO Godzilla film in a actual cinema
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Post by AwamoriRock on Nov 30, 2023 7:11:11 GMT -5
I saw Godzilla Minus One and absolutely utterly detested the last hour but I’m so glad people seeing it now are loving it, we need love for big G movies. I just absolutely detested the acting in the second half and the twist.
Homages to Jaws, Sakura Andou who may be claiming the throne of greatest contemporary Japanese actor , Godzilla as a sea monster/-all so sweet.
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Post by "American Cream" Dusty Loads on Nov 30, 2023 7:34:31 GMT -5
I saw Godzilla Minus One and absolutely utterly detested the last hour but I’m so glad people seeing it now are loving it, we need love for big G movies. I just absolutely detested the acting in the second half and the twist. Homages to Jaws, Sakura Andou who may be claiming the throne of greatest contemporary Japanese actor , Godzilla as a sea monster/-all so sweet. I enjoyed the second half the twist (if it’s the one I’m thinking of) was lame, but didn’t diminish the rest of the film for me.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Dec 1, 2023 16:08:24 GMT -5
Movie made $2 million on those preview screenings on Wednesday
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Post by ace on Dec 2, 2023 12:38:34 GMT -5
This movie cost 15 million dollars and felt bigger and more epic in scope than most 100-200 million dollar movies. I don’t want to name names but Disney in particular is just lighting money on fire for no reason at this point. The last Indiana Jones cost 20 times as much. That ugly Ant-Man movie cost more than 13 times as much. Haunted Mansion cost ten times as much! Haunted Mansion! Someone is stealing millions of dollars in the most obvious money laundering scheme of all time on that one.
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Post by prettynami on Dec 2, 2023 19:16:46 GMT -5
Just got back from it... It was amazing! Easily the best Godzilla movie for me since Godzilla Returns (1985)!
Almost every aspect of it was good to great. It looked great. The script and pacing was tight. The characters were all likable... I even cried over the things they were going through! And they all looked and acted the parts they were playing (Unlike, say, the 2000s Godzilla movies were everyone looked like they just walked in off a modeling shoot).
The only complaints I have mostly focus around the last tiny bit of it and some of the logic leaps required for situations to develop... But when you enjoy 95 percent of a movie thats an awfully tiny mole hill.
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Post by tirtefaa on Dec 3, 2023 21:23:32 GMT -5
I may have to check this out.
I found the 2014 Godzilla film forgettable, and the follow up movie is so forgettable that I literally cannot remember watching it, despite having it written down as a movie I watched
What is good to see is a movie with a literal fraction of the budget still able to produce a high quality story with characters we care about, and that is something I've heard this new movie has. All I can say is that I'm going to at least root for it to have a strong showing to show you can make these kinds of movies without needing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Post by The Spelunker! on Dec 3, 2023 22:04:30 GMT -5
Loved this so much. It would be an excellent film with no Godzilla at all.
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Post by jm on Dec 3, 2023 22:17:20 GMT -5
Well, this movie was certainly great enough to wait through an hour and a half fire alarm delay for as I did today. I didn't expect it to be so character driven as I was. It's most certainly a positive. Yeah, the final scene was hokey and defied belief. But I'll let it slide; this movie was certainly great enough before it that I'll forgive it. Here's hoping we get more Toho Godzilla here in the States going forward!!!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2023 22:27:07 GMT -5
The fact that this was made on a budget of 15mil is downright insane.
As celebratory as the fact that Godzilla is getting all this shine and how amazing this movie was...the biggest point has to be what this was made for because that is going to shine so much more of a bigger light on these 100+ mil dollar flops going around from major studios.
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Post by ace on Dec 3, 2023 22:35:48 GMT -5
On that ending character scene… {Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW} look…when I saw where it was going I was like everyone else. I thought it was cheesy. But when it happened…I can’t tell you I didn’t get a lump in my throat. It was earned and deserved and narratively I applaud the choice. I wanted the happy ending. He prayed for it. He was heroic. He chose to live. He deserved it.
And in a story about so much loss and a seemingly destroyed people banding together to take hope back…it was the right ending imo.
I was convinced she was dead when I was supposed to be. The movie got to use it and the payoff doesn’t get in its way at all.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 3, 2023 23:01:05 GMT -5
This movie cost 15 million dollars and felt bigger and more epic in scope than most 100-200 million dollar movies. I don’t want to name names but Disney in particular is just lighting money on fire for no reason at this point. The last Indiana Jones cost 20 times as much. That ugly Ant-Man movie cost more than 13 times as much. Haunted Mansion cost ten times as much! Haunted Mansion! Someone is stealing millions of dollars in the most obvious money laundering scheme of all time on that one. The benefits of labour exploitation. VFX artists and animators in Japan are paid abysmally compared to those in America and work longer hours (50-100 hours of overtime per month is practically mandatory), while working conditions within the Japanese fim industry in general are notoriously poor. There's a handful of unions, but they're largely toothless. The budgets of western movies are insanely out of control, and Godzilla Minus One looks amazing for the money that was spent on it, but I shudder to think of how many people had to sleep at work while being paid peanuts to get it done.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Dec 4, 2023 9:30:11 GMT -5
My almost 7 yo son wants to go see this but I think it'll be too intense for him in a theater. He's watched other Godzilla movies including the newer American ones without issue at home, but the theater is a lot different. Also, he's a good reader but I don't think he'll keep up with subtitles.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Dec 5, 2023 19:13:33 GMT -5
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Post by KingPooper on Dec 5, 2023 19:24:58 GMT -5
I really didn’t think a film about giant lizard could give me so many emotions.
I really loved it.
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