This movie surpasses its hype. I've been a long time Goji fan, and without a doubt, Minus One is the most relatable and terrifying Godzilla movie ever made. It feels like blasphemy saying this, but I would say it is even better than the original film. The original Japanese version of the first film, not the Perry Mason version. Anyone who hasn't seen Minus One yet, do yourself a huge favor and go see it asap.

Just as Gojira set the Gold-Standard for Kaiju movies, once the dust settles Minus One will also have the standards for future Kaiju movies.

GMO is a masterpiece. You could hear people crying in the audience. People were shocked. Agree 100%, and this film surpasses the hype 10-fold!

Loved your review, loved the movie, seen it 5.75 times (got there a bit late for the 2nd viewing), definitely a classic and among my top... I'll say top 5 movies, including Jaws, the original Exorcist, Alien & Aliens, and another one or two movies I can't think of right now. For the record, I am not a big Godzilla or kaiju fan. This film is really a godsend during a long-ass drought of movies showcasing real creativity and heart. I also definitely teared up the first viewing and a little bit on a couple subsequent viewings. I think the fact that the world is currently embroiled in so much evil and carnage had something to do with too. It's almost like G-1 is a proverbial messenger of sorts. Humanity must heed the warning!

Correction: It is American air raid aftermath at Tokyo.

@RevengeOfTheNerd

4 ай бұрын

Yes, I apologize for that oversight. I'm not curious as to if I am mistaking this for some other circumstance from what I understood it to be in High School, or if this was literature manipulation from my curriculum. I'll be addressing this in a future video. Thank you!

@RevengeOfTheNerd

4 ай бұрын

Just an update... I was able to clip out the erroneous part. In further research, I see where the confusion came from. Thank you. This is karma for calling out New Rockstars... 🤦

I heard this is the best Godzilla movie of all time a few times. I still haven’t gotten a chance to watch it yet. Enjoyed your review on it and hopefully I get some time soon to check it out.

@raysure1345

4 ай бұрын

You need to go watch it. It’s very inspiring. That no matter how negative life gets we got to keep living. We are alive!!

I gave this movie a 15 out of 10😍💯💯💯

Lol, the tears. I cant be back in japan! I must be in a dying dream!

Solid film. Hopefully this becomes the standard for Toho in the future but I have no problem with it being an exception and a damn good one to look back on.

@RevengeOfTheNerd

4 ай бұрын

Agreed

Yes. Yes. And Yes! 3X for me and possibly a fourth if I still have a chance in a theater. And yeah, eyes watering more than a few times, and not just the first viewing.

Been a huge fan since I was a kid in the theater on Saturday afternoons! Finally feel validated, and vindicated!!! I tried to tell them!! LoL 😃

This is not a movie but something you experience with your whole body and all your sensations.

@RevengeOfTheNerd

4 ай бұрын

Very great point! No one should be waiting for home release for this movie

I like your analysis and I've seen the film twice. Forget Best Foreign film, this should be Best Picture candidate. Fact: China didn't bomb Tokyo during the air raid. The US did.

@RevengeOfTheNerd

4 ай бұрын

Just an update... I was able to clip out the erroneous part. In further research, I see where the confusion came from. Thank you. This is karma for calling out New Rockstars... 🤦

In the weeks leading up to me, finally seeing this movie it was so much hype and a lot of times movies don’t live up to it but not in this case. Not only did it meet my expectations but it exceeded it more than I thought. This is the greatest Godzilla movie ever and one of my favorite movies of all time. I have already seen it 10 times and I want to see it again.

@RevengeOfTheNerd

4 ай бұрын

Are you going to see the re-release in Black & White?? I definitely am!!

@nedrini1055

4 ай бұрын

@@RevengeOfTheNerd hell yes I just found out it’s playing at my theater because I just saw the movie for the 11th time

Well done and I love the intro

Frankly, this was a reboot/update of what was previously the greatest Godzilla movie - the original 1954 Gojira film.

@RevengeOfTheNerd

4 ай бұрын

Well put! I had such a hard time with how best to describe that! 😩

@TB-wvvvw

4 ай бұрын

I can't agree at all about a "reboot". The two movies are mainly about the characters, and these are completely different stories about completely different people and even kinds of people. There are many other important differences in the writing, direction, effects, and important topics that are brought out in the films. For example, we have a much more poignant view of how the war affected people in Tokyo in the newer story. The main similarity is that they both include Godzilla, who is only on screen for a small fraction of both films, and the means of dealing with him, and by whom, is also completely different. One of these films started a whole genre, and the other is a masterpiece that I think will be remembered as a great classic of film, but to my eyes, they are much more different than alike.

@MattMcIrvin

4 ай бұрын

@@TB-wvvvw I feel like the resolution of Koichi's arc, the insistence that he doesn't have to sacrifice his life, that this fight can be a fight to live, is an answer to and inversion of Dr. Serizawa's sacrifice at the climax of Godzilla '54. That was a tragedy about the responsibility of a scientist to prevent his creations from being misused; Minus One really isn't about that at all, it's about building society and family and choosing to thrive. They are more like each other than they are like the typical Godzilla film, in that they have excellently realized character drama, foreground the suffering caused to human beings by the kaiju, and aren't about monster fights. But they're not the same story.

A Godzilla movie where you actually see Godzilla. No rainstorms. No night shots in complete darkness.

@kasaibouF29

4 ай бұрын

And you couldn't in the past films? Do you need glasses?

I read somewhere once, anger turned inward is depression, anger turned outward is progress

@RevengeOfTheNerd

4 ай бұрын

I believe I have heard this before as well

Minus One is an awesome film. The current crop of Legendary G movies are very reminiscent of the later Toho Showa Era movies. The closest we got to feeling anything about the human characters was Bryan Cranston's character in the 2014 movie. And then he died...

Godzilla Minus One Best Movie of 2023 🤯🎥🎞️🦖🍿 Best Movie in 2023 Lord of the Rings The Return of the King (2003) It had a limited rerun in 2023 for it’s 20th Anniversary 🎞️

As a kid I had this cheap electronic toy with a battery sound box: that played the original Godzilla roar in 16bit sound.

I saw both versions of this movie at the last minute and am so glad that I did. This was definitely a theater movie. And yes. THE best monster movie I have seen. I hope they use some of the money made to bring it back and advertise it more. I want to see it again.

Heading back to the theaters in a few days for "Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color" that will be viewing #3 for me.

@RevengeOfTheNerd

4 ай бұрын

#4 for me! Soooo pumped

👏 👏 👏. I have yet to see this movie, but looking forward to it. Over recent years and in years to come I feel the number of blockbusters as well as the highest rated series from markets outside of the US/North America, are going to only be seen much more.

@RevengeOfTheNerd

4 ай бұрын

Hope you're not disappointed! I definitely feel like it's lived up to its hype

@0:32 easy. Hollywood films have traded spectacle for art. They are also complacent. Hollywood is confident that all the money for special effects will be the determining factor for the success of a film. And though that is correct to a degree, it eventually creates burn out. Where as Minus one DID NOT have that luxury. So they needed something else to draw the attention where the money for spectacle could not. And that is, respect and love. For the source material and the art of cinema. This was a do or die film in Japan. Godzilla being a national cinema icon could not be Handed to the Americans to carry on an influential Japanese legacy for the rest of its life. That’s like saying Superman ip is still alive because Superman was changed to british and english appreciate it more than the US. Essentially, we shine the brightest in moments of desperation. And thats Toho did. They will continue to “share” Godzilla but they will never make America his permanent home. That would be an insult to his legacy, and the Japanese people who died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Oh the movie definitely lived up to the hype alright! It couldn't make me prouder to be a Godzilla fan now. While I also enjoy the Monsterverse movies and feel we should give them some credit for at least keeping Godzilla alive here in the west, there is no doubt that M1 holds the crown! Even the film makers of the monsterverse movies in the commentary of their movies all talked about the original and what's beautiful is how M1 does go back to the roots paying homage, but did service for Japan along with Godzilla fans and even non-Godzilla fans alike. Hell even Guillermo Del Toro behind Pacific Rim in the commentary talked seriously about the importance of the 1954 film so there is no reason for too much divide when him and the directors of the monsterverse movies will probably agree too that M1 is now the best movie. I felt you put it very well and really enjoyed your take about the movie contributing to the discussion of Godzilla in general.

Minor correction the movie actually opened in Japan on November 3rd but the buzz was there in October

Thank you.Really.Thank you.

which also sucks, is that because it's made in Japan, not in the US, there been no ads of the movie on TV.

@jeremywoodfin2885

4 ай бұрын

The fact that the movie has been out for five weeks (originally was only planned for one) with virtually no advertising just positive word of mouth, is a true testament to just how freaking awesome this movie is

@user-bp5fj3ol3t

4 ай бұрын

日本でもほとんど宣伝されませんでした。でも、良い作品は人々を動かします。

@jeremywoodfin2885

4 ай бұрын

@@user-bp5fj3ol3t Very True! It helps that it's been getting award nominations as well, it just won Best International Film at the Georgia Film Critics Association 🙂

It's that good, that the director is showing it to the people at Lucasfilm. Because he has shown interest in directing a Star Wars film.

100% agree. This film took the original concept of the 1954 film and actually improved upon it by giving us a gorgeous experience which goes well beyond a "monster" movie, and is a fantastic story all around. You could remove Godzilla and replace him with natural disasters and the story would still work. It's that stable, that well written, and that poignant. It's now my favorite Godzilla film of all time. The Monsterverse started strong with 2014 which was actually a good film despite having a boring lead in ATJ's Ford Brody who was a cardboard cutout of a character (really just a plot device for us to follow the action). Each film got worse and worse and doubled down on the stupid dumb fun of the cheesiest of the cheesy films from the Showa period. Today, they're trying to turn Godzilla and Kong into Marvel/DC superheroes, complete with Superhero running animation shots. That's not Godzilla to me. Godzilla is about a broken mirror of humanity. A creature who embodies and lays bare our greatest sins and atrocities against one another. The Monsterverse does away with that message, and the metaphor for which Godzilla stood now for almost 70 years, and they turned him into generic movie monster #418. It's downright pathetic where the Monsterverse has landed. And I don't foresee any films coming out from them after Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire. Either Toho pulls the license, or the film bombs so badly Legendary doesn't DARE make another one because they're too far into their current course to do any course correction and give us more of what Godzilla actually is and what he represents. Rest in peace, Monsterverse. I'm sticking with Toho on this one.

@destroyerzilla7634

4 ай бұрын

half of the movies showa are exactly what the monsterverse has become. Legendary only repeats the tradition

I loved your analysis of the film. Definitely one of my Top 5 movies!

Just found your channel, GREAT review dude. I think you summed it up perfectly. Did you get a chance to see -1,-c version? So good 😊. I haven’t seen the color version yet. For reference, I’m 50. Grew up on Kong and Godzilla. I love monster movies so much, my Dad nicknamed me “Monster”lol. I’m praying that what G1954 did for me, G-1 does for my grandkids. It just makes me feel like a kid again.

@RevengeOfTheNerd

Ай бұрын

Welcome welcome! Planning on going to see GxK since I gave it such a hard time in this one. Hope I can keep the momentum going. I'm really happy you like my review. I actually saw Minus Color and feel asleep... I think it was the absence of dopamine for me 😅 but I saw Minus One a bunch and was super locked in! Funny how that works

Love the zeitgeist this and other videos are perpetuating for the Big G.

To be fair, the Godzilla X Kong movie takes place in an alternate universe of sorts. Monsterverse Godzilla is far different from Minus One Godzilla in lore, as well as Japanese Godzilla as a whole.

@RevengeOfTheNerd

4 ай бұрын

Fair!

@DDayJayke

4 ай бұрын

@@RevengeOfTheNerd Don't get me wrong though, you nailed every point you made

I am Japanese. I watched Godzilla Minus One three times. I understand you are talking about the movie, but let me correct one factual error. 3:30 It was the US that raided Japan. It was not China. Tokyo was bombed 106 times by America, especially on March 10, 1945, killing about 100,000 people in one night. Not only Tokyo, but almost all major cities were heavily bombed, killing tens of thousands of civilians. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki put an end to Japan. Japan has always been prone to earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons, and other disasters, and a belief that "God resides in nature" has been nurtured for thousands of years. Humans are no match for nature. We should respect nature and live modestly. Even so, catastrophes still occur. In a sense, Gojira is a metaphor for the anxieties of the time. It is a B-29 bomber, a nuclear war, an earthquake, or a plague. The object of anxiety and fear changes with the times, but the philosophy underlying Godzilla films is that we must unite to overcome these difficulties. Director Yamazaki said in an interview, "Making a Godzilla movie was like a Shinto ritual. By making the film, he said, he was trying to appease the possessed god called Godzilla. Whether or not this philosophy is at the root of his work is a major difference between American films and Godzilla films.

@RevengeOfTheNerd

4 ай бұрын

First, let me acknowledge that I appreciate your response and thank you for sharing. Because I was speaking from my 30+ year old high school experience of studying WWII, I apologize for not verifying this, as I will acknowledge this in my next video. Additionally, as you are the second person to point out this mistake to me, I will absolutely research it understand more clearly what happened, so thank you for pointing out this error. Next I want to share my thanks for you sharing the philosophy behind the concept of Gojira, as I am no someone comfortable speaking on that aspect of this topic, I intentionally did not want to perpetrate the idea that I was, so I spoke from more of an opinionated base, but again. Thank you for sharing, and I appreciate you taking time to set me straight on this

@area0074

4 ай бұрын

@@RevengeOfTheNerd Thanks for your reply. I think it's great that we can come to a better understanding of each other in this way.

@RevengeOfTheNerd

4 ай бұрын

@@area0074 that's the whole purpose of the Information Age and the internet... to share and build understandings! I wish I would've not made the mistake, but I'm happy to grow from it. Thanks again for sharing. I also hope I didn't butcher the pronunciations of those gentlemen's name either 🫣

@TB-wvvvw

4 ай бұрын

As an American who has lived in Tokyo and Nagasaki, I have seen some of the damage and know how it happened. It's important for Americans to know, and I'm glad you pointed it out. Your quote from Director Yamazaki is very interesting. Thank you for mentioning it. I like his ALWAYS 三丁目の夕日 films, too. I've seen two of them, and they are also beautiful films. I have become a Yamazaki fan. By the way, your guitar playing is good.

@area0074

4 ай бұрын

​@@TB-wvvvw Wow, thanks for your comment.

As my grandfather was a survivor of the bombing of Osaka, I could not let it go without mentioning it. If he hadn't survived it, I wouldn't be here in this world.

 And I also appreciate you watching and giving me a good comment about my guitar playing. Arigatou.

Great commentary! Finally got to see it. As a fan of monster films, I was emotional at seeing this absolute masterpiece. It restored my faith in film-making capabilities within this genre. Hollywood loves the monster as anti-hero (blech!)' They have all but destroyed Kong's iconic image. In the original King Kong, he was feared and revered by the natives. He was a monster. This movie has returned Godzilla to his roots. Taken him from this anti-hero status back to his representation as the destructive power of nature due to human folly. He is relentless and frightening. Bravo TOHO!!

@destroyerzilla7634

4 ай бұрын

half of the movies Toho showa are exactly what the monsterverse has become. Legendary only repeats the tradition

hace 0 segundos It's thrilling, terrifying, and frigging epic...And gave not a middle finger, but a hard slap on Hollywood 's smug face full of mediocre asshats!

@RevengeOfTheNerd

4 ай бұрын

This!!!

@destroyerzilla7634

4 ай бұрын

Hollywood doesn't give a damn. A film that doesn't make the annual top 10 and with a new American Godzilla film on the way, Minus One goes unnoticed.

This was the best Godzilla movie I have ever seen. It was intense like nothing I was expecting. All I can say if you haven't seen it you need to go see it.

Because japanese is Godzilla

Godzilla Minus One was so great because it was not about a giant lizard but messages like anti-war, pro-life, self-forgiveness, anti-government, pro-people, etc. No Hollywood blockbuster or woke garbage could transmit human feelings like G-1 in 2023.

@tikhongilson3770

4 ай бұрын

Not so sure about "anti-government." The Japanese government at the time was an American protectorate. The veterans had to use surplus kit because there wouldn't be a Self-defense force in Japan until the early 1950s.

@user-nn2jo7so1o

4 ай бұрын

​@@tikhongilson3770 The film criticizes the Japanese government's control of the media and the government's announcement of big lies. The Japanese government is still using the media to lie.

@TB-wvvvw

21 күн бұрын

@@user-nn2jo7so1o Having lived in Japan and other countries I have a lot of appreciation for the Japanese government, which I feel is very benevolent even to foreigners who weren't born there but are helped as well as natives by things like labor law, business opportunity, and national health insurance. I see them doing a lot to help people, just as they are supposed to, and they have been very helpful to other countries where possible such as Ukraine. Perhaps you are Chinese; many Chinese like to keep hate alive though Japanese have apologized multiple times to China for actions during the old war while also following a strict policy (constitutionally bound) of using the military only for self defense in the future. Meanwhile, China tries to claim the entire South China Sea up to the borders of other much smaller countries that need ocean resources like fishing to survive though China is already one of the world's largest countries with all kinds of resources. In its hegemony westward and in the ocean (also Taiwan) I feel it is similar to Russia, its friend and the largest country in the world that wishes to expand into Europe by force. China, Russia, North Korea, and other authoritarian countries have developed propaganda and lying to their citizens and others to a science; I have not seen anything to compare to that from Japan in modern times.

3:31 China?

@RevengeOfTheNerd

4 ай бұрын

Yeah... long story. It's been brought up tho. Basically my high school research paper wasn't done as well as I remembered it to have been 🫣

@RevengeOfTheNerd

4 ай бұрын

Just an update... I was able to clip out the erroneous part. In further research, I see where the confusion came from. Thank you. This is karma for calling out New Rockstars... 🤦

Because its a Japanese franchise and they understand it better....... There is no great mystery here.

My problem is this...and no one who has reviewed Minus One speaks about this... Where is the long form storytelling? TOHO has given us only 2 movies...in 7years...both are reboots. In turn, The MonsterVerse has been world building for 10 years! It shows us the testament of long form storytling that Hollywood has the capability of. Its knowing the story you arectrying to tell. We can emotionally invest in 300ft tall monstrosities and feel anxious when they're in danger. That's powerful. The MonsterVerse has given us the most successful film franchise second only to The MCU. If TOHO doesn't have the confidence to world build...then perhaps their brand of Godzilla films should be Anthology based.

@RevengeOfTheNerd

4 ай бұрын

I think it speaks to the lack of originality since the creation of The Avengers and how Marvel Studios created a wave of studios seeing the cash cow opportunity with universe building movies. Would you rather have a universe of mediocre movies or a single great film?

@travismarshall3089

4 ай бұрын

@RevengeOfTheNerd I'd rather take the Cinematic Universe over one single great film. So long as I'm shown where I'm going, I'll squeeze my nose and swallow a dud if it gets me to a grander story. That's what is separating The MonsterVerse from the rest and it's working. Everyone is certainly entitled to their feeling on The MonsterVerse, but it's hard to argue against that Warner Bros. has done more for Godzilla in the past 10years than what TOHO themselves have done in the last 20!

@destroyerzilla7634

4 ай бұрын

@@RevengeOfTheNerd when the monsterverse didn't exist, Toho made Godzilla movies even every year

@TB-wvvvw

4 ай бұрын

I can't agree at all about a "reboot"; the 1954 movie, Shin Godzilla, and this one are all very different with very different stories and characters. If you think these are the same, I don't think you've seen them yet. As for long term storytelling, it's probably more natural to do that with movies based on comics, which had somewhat serial stories. I don't think kaiju films are really the same genre. But anyway, I'd rather have a single masterpiece than a string of inferior films connected to each other. California studios would like to keep seeing that money rolling in, but I prefer quality over quantity with movies. That said, it is possible that the story begun with Godzilla Minus One could be referenced in a future film, but as GMO just came out, reviewers obviously wouldn't know about it yet, so they couldn't talk about it.

Wait, it sounds like you're saying Shikishima should have killed Godzilla earlier on that island. Most likely he wouldn't have succeeded if he tried. Okay, guilt him for his inactions but you can't blame him for the existence of Godzilla. The movie is better than this. Godzilla is not a mcguffin (plot device) that hinges on what Shikishima does or doesn't do (the tail does not wag the dog). On the contrary, Godzilla is overwhelming power that has been unleashed. He is the giant allegory in the room. The movie is about how ineffectual Shikishima is against the force of nature, the epic wonder that is Godzilla. In the west there is a focus on the one individual but in the story here, the monster is defeated by a group of people coming together and uniting. Count the younger character who brings in a fleet of small boats, look at the one who created the explosive and who fixed the plane. Look at the smart ones who put their brain power to work along with the elders and leaders. A whole village was needed to win the day. In western storytelling (Hollywood) there is a focus on the individual protagonist... but it's important to say that's not the case in Minus One. This is a more effective story because Shikishima is so weak and helpless at Ginza, he can scream and yell out his frustration. But he might as well be screaming and clawing at the sky. And then the black rain fell. So... suggesting that Shikishima's character is responsible... this is undermining the bigger story that he is not at fault. One foot soldier should not be blamed for a war. His arc of redemption is for himself and other ordinary men caught war. It's a redemption for his psyche, you could say for his soul. His war that was not finished is inside of himself. Insinuating he's at fault for the destruction wrought by Godzilla is... at best an exaggeration.

It was a really boring movie Godzilla minus one more importance gvn to humans than to titans in this movie . Screen space of titan Godzilla is very less. Abd dubbing in other languages is really very poor

@JoseMiguel.

4 ай бұрын

Kaiju*

They didn't it sucked

@d_franco4702

4 ай бұрын

To you.

This movie is perfect anti-fascist art. Godzilla is the embodiment of fascism, and to defeat him, the people must stray from the path laid by the fascism of Japan and the US