GODZILLA MINUS ONE | Spoiler Review

s Pals oh well I got confirmation tonight with full certainty this is the best movie of the [Music] year what's going on everybody I am jabby Ka joined by Char Kirk what's up and we're talking about Godzilla minus one this will be two parts very brief non-spoiler just to give aara a chance to tell you her thoughts before we go into our spoiler chat let's kick this off with a summary of Godzilla minus one what is this movie about AAR the film is set in postor War II Japan literally they just got defeated by the US they're living in this aftermath of the war and the PTSD and everything that has happened amidst that there's Godzilla a failed kamakazi fighter is trying to rebuild his life with this makeshift family and ultimately trying to redeem himself did that make sense that no that made sense I think that was a nice little summary of the of the film I feel like it's very much a Japanese movie you know in terms of of pacing and and tone it starts off just kind of slowly although in the beginning am I allowed to say this Godzilla shows up very quickly and it's like oh yeah definitely a Godzilla movie but then after that it kind of like does the thing where it's just like very calmish until Godzilla shows up again but it's like the pacing is really different from our run-of-the-mill Hollywood films which is what I'm trying to say here and so it takes a little bit of getting used to but once you do the movie just kind of seeps into your soul and you really care about the characters cuz the focus is on the human relationships and how War has affected these people it feels very intimate and then it's also like and there's a monster with American action films like this like Independence Day You're often focused on the destruction yes it's about the action like independen day what sold you you know back in the day in those commercials was you seeing that white house blown up with Jess IC world it's the monsters the dinosaurs escaping and and eating people and whatever you know causing destruction with Godzilla same exact thing and so this has a very heavy emphasis on the human characters kind of like you know Jurassic Park if you watch Jurassic Park again it has a similar structure where you kick things off with an intense scene then you develop the human characters and it's not until an hour into Jurassic Park that you actually see the T-Rex properly so yeah and and here again it's just like the human character and their stories are just so compelling it's also kind of like Jaws in in that regard as well you know like really great Monster films I feel like we have to kind of reference them and and give props as well but I didn't realize how much I started caring about the characters I don't know what it is about the story and and how it was told but in the climax I was like oh my God I'm crying it's a Godzilla movie and I'm crying yeah got me too um I I've watched it twice and it still got me this I think it got me more the second time I watched it to be honest with you cuz the first time I watched it I did not have the optimal angle for it I was sitting in the far right front of the theater cuz it was a screening but for this one I'm dead center like the best seat in the house I felt things again if and if not more intensely it's so well done like the music as well I thought was really great and was kind of referencing or hearkening back to maybe the original Godzilla cuz I didn't realize that that that sound the and I was like wait I know that from a rap song but I'm pretty sure the rap song didn't do that first yeah no that's That's a classic song yeah that's where they got it from generally I I really enjoyed the visual effects I thought that their decision to kind of make the Godzilla VFX the way that they did was actually a really good choice because like the detail and stuff on him looked really good sometimes his movement was a little bit goofy especially when he was walking on land but I thought that that was actually a really cool Choice cuz to me it seemed like it was paying homage to the old school uh Godzilla that that you know we've seen clips of and stuff like that where he's kind of like just uh with his little T-Rex arms just kind of clumping around but I thought that he was really scary I watched your review and I was like yeah I see what you're saying there about how sometimes the acting can feel a little little bit over the top but I think that's also like it's a Japanese flavor do you know what I mean like I I thought that the acting was good and and maybe sometimes it's like a little bit over the top perhaps for American taste but I'm like that's just the the the flavor of acting in Japan okay for this let's go into our spoiler [Music] section if at the very beginning of the movie uh you know when Godzilla First shows up watching that scene again it was really neat cuz when you know what's coming you know what to expect and you get to study it a little bit more and it's was just like this is such a genius film The Water stuff you know when they're putting the the bombs into the into the mouth and and trying to like do some damage to this thing all of that felt very Jaws likee in a good way like I I appreciated that having that Jaws experience in a Godzilla film it was just super cool you know to see that you know brought into this universe have to say this one thing about the storytelling in this movie they say so much without saying too much explicitly and so you you really have to kind of you know pay attention as you're watching and and and I feel like a lot of it kind of filters in through your Consciousness via osmosis even because the setup in the beginning is this young guy is a kamikazi pilot and you understand that at least from how most of the people are treating him or talking to him it's considered to be a great honor and then later on you figure out like oh he doesn't want to do this he's trying to make an excuse so that he doesn't have to to fly and in a way the appearance of Godzilla saved his life he didn't end up having to actually fulfill his duty I mean it's a it's a tragedy because everybody else bar one other guy on that island dies yeah and then he kind of he goes back to Tokyo you think oh his neighbor is going to be really happy to see him but instead She's Like H you didn't fulfill your duty why are you still alive if you'd have done what you were supposed to do my kids wouldn't be dead right now and it was just like really interesting culturally to kind of see how people felt about it and then to kind of have his whole character Arc be that you know in the beginning he's kind of painted to be this this coward or someone who's dishonorable because he didn't do his duty and then by the end he like willingly does it but then ultimately like you said the the main theme of the movie is like live like don't die pointlessly live your life to what you're saying I feel like there is some neat stuff going on in this film that you don't get a lot of in a lot of these you know big epic Monster films we've gone on and on about the human characters and to what you just said The Neighbor comes out thrashing him basically for not fulfilling his d he's a dishonorable Soldier right and he's being blamed twice uh he was blamed at the beach for not getting behind the 20mm gun which he would have died he would have died he would have died but like he's being blamed there for the deaths of all these engineers and then he's blamed by his neighbor for not fulfilling his duty and then people dying in the Air Raids it's not necessarily his fault but he's you know being held accountable for this and so he's got a lot of guilt that he's living with and the film places a heavy emphasis on that guilt his goal really is he wants to die you know he wants Redemption as well he wants Redemption but like through death that's what he's thinking and so that's why he's like distant the entire film is he's like no like I can't give this to you even though I want it because I need to die I need to go and hold on I'm not done he like I got to say this so I want to fulfill my duty as as the kamakazi pilot is his whole thinking and so his Arc is accepting like he can fulfill his duty without dying right and he's able to pick living he's able to pick I'm going to live my life and so the neighbor who's like in an American Film that's a throwaway character you forget about her she is present throughout the film and has her own arc because initially she's like you should have died and at the end she's angry that he tried to die yeah like and it's the same exact action she's like slapping him at the end of the film just like she was slapping him with the cloth in the beginning I'm like this is so cool this movie is awesome like that this character everybody is important and it's just like it was a reminder watching it a second second time like how all of these characters have meaning in a way that you just don't get with American films right now regarding our lead character yes I agree with you about the whole like he feels like he ought to have died but I thought another thing that the movie did really well was address the effects of War because PTSD yeah PTSD cuz he says I'm still fighting a war cuz it's not over for him all of that guilt all of that trauma um everything that happened with Godzilla it's not over for for him and he can't move on because he's he's stuck there the fat lady hasn't sang yet yeah the fat lady has not sung talking about the neighbor and stuff just like the idea of community uh is so important in this movie and and in Japanese culture as well right like cuz the neighbor like you said is really important she's like helping with the babysitting and whatnot for them but also it's so cool that in this story the lead guy ends up kind of having this ready-made family when this random beautiful young woman crosses paths with him gives him this like little baby and he can't bring himself to abandon her and then they kind of just fall into his life yeah you know and then they take it upon themselves to raise this orphan child because I mean they they're orphaned now themselves as a result of the war they're like okay so this is what we do like we help each other I thought it was actually really cool how wholesome the movie was yeah because if you look at the Love Story it's like I don't think you even see the two main characters ever kiss they don't ever kiss they don't ever like fully say that they love each other which is totally in line with like Japanese culture as well right like you wouldn't sure they they would never say aishu yeah exactly you don't say that you just know it or you show it and well I talked to I remember I dated a girl and she said that her father only said it to her once wow and it's a very powerful meaning here we throw the word love around like whatever but in Japanese culture it's like you might hear it from your parents one time it's crazy so it was just like really interesting their whole relationship dynamic because for all intents and purposes they were behaving like they were a family or like you know married but then if anyone asked they're all like now in American films there's there's so much emphasis on on sex it's such a wholesome movie I adore it it's so neat that they did that but like the love that they feel for each other is so strong yeah and not not even just like the love between the main male protagonist and the female character but also his colleagues on the boat you know they form a really close Bond they feel like family they're friends and then at the end when um our our dude it doesn't end up dying they're all like so happy I want to shout out the the doctor character cuz I I thought he was great he was one of my favorite characters cuz he seemed kind is that weird to say I loved his kind eyes the moment the moment we're introduced to them in a way it's it almost reminds me of Star Wars when Luke Skywalker sees the Millennium Falcon for the first time he's like this is this piece of junk so he sees the boat he's like this is the specialized boat it's like it's made of wood it looks so flimsy and it's like no actually this is going to save our lives exactly when you're introduced to the characters I fell in love with them right away well like you said in your initial review they're very specific even if we can't remember their names we know doc we know the captain who's kind of like quirky and the kid yeah and then we've got our pilot like they're they're very clearly defined yeah and even in their behavior they're well defined as well and there's like a nice little Dunkirk moment towards the end I I just want to say that before I forget there a Dunkirk tugbo thing at the end of the movie yeah it's pretty wild let's just jump into that real fast there's this moment in the film where you know you think Godzilla is about to wipe everybody out and it's not without Merit to have that feeling the movie slows down the the sound is cut out yeah that was powerful and I'm like you know the first time I watch it I'm like oh these people all about to die like it just it really feels like it's going that direction given how much destruction you've seen in the film it properly primes you for that feeling because of just how many people you've watched die and it's not like every every death in this movie counts you know it's not just like flippant destruction and there's no consequence every death has consequence in film well yeah cuz every time you see uh Godzilla come out especially like when he was in Ginza that was really powerful cuz like you're literally watching people run away and they're trying to get away and then like a a building gets decimated and then like you see the little person running and then all of a sudden the debris just like covers them and they're gone he lets out his like heat breath or whatever and then all of a sudden it's like and everything's gone yeah exact it's really sad because they already had this happen like when the Americans dropped the bomb the bombs so yeah that moment towards the end of the film like that to me that was like the best climax I could possibly ask for because it's not just you know more destruction like there's this camaraderie that's all that's happening with all these people and like I I care about everyone who's involved and when our main character drives the plane into Godzilla's mou it felt like Independence Day to me what you know towards the end of the film if you remember like everyone was about to die and then that crazy dude who who was crop dusting you know flies his plane into the alien spaceship and destroys it and so he saves he saves the day watching it again when he flies into Godzilla's mouth you can see him eject himself out of the plane yeah that I didn't see yeah it's like I was I'm like oh there it is H one of those things when when all that sound is cut out and it's you're just watching all these people in slow motion I with was like having to stop myff from welling up well yeah cuz it was so powerful because like they set things up so well like even the ejection seat they set that up when um I think it was the doctor or someone was talking about how in the war you know they didn't have choices they they had to do what what they were told to do the Japanese government just didn't really care about the people and and you know they sent kamikazi fighters to to do their duty but didn't even give them planes with like ejection seats right and so already I was like uhuh that's interesting and then later on when I saw the the engineer looking at the the new plane that he was working on there was something written on the seat like in German or something and I was like I bet I bet this seat ejects and then sure enough it does and so I wasn't surprised but I feel like there's a lot of of payoff as well like even with the theme that you talked about in your review standing up against the government or like the government doesn't care about you yeah you're disposable yeah you're disposable and so like you really felt that because it was the government that was like oh no we're not going to tell the public because we don't want them to panic which I guess I understand but also like that sucks like you shouldn't do that well information suppression is a big thing in Japan I heard Japanese had to go overseas to find out what was up with Pearl Harbor you know like cuz cuz the way it's written in Japanese history books is that the Americans just attacked a lot of Japanese don't realize what what exactly went on during that time because the history books are written differently right of um I guess it's to save face amongst their own people I don't know it's shame I I have no idea yeah I mean every country I feel like will write history books to favor them in some way shape or form unless you're Germany in which case they're very sorry Germany's very sorry but outside of Germany I feel like a lot of countries will have some sort of bias in their history bookwriting right Japan I guess takes it to another level but this movie shines a light on all of that it's like there's information he says it straight up the tall guy on the on the in the crew he's like oh information oppressions we're good at here that's true yeah like and and they make really big point out of like really emphasizing that in the movie but you know they're talking about how they're completely disposable but then they've got a group of EX Navy exmilitary people together and they're like okay this is what we have to do in order to save our community but you have the choice you can leave or you can stay and a lot of people leave because they're like no I have I have a family to look after and like I don't want to do this and it's like fine but then for the people that stayed you know you know that that they want to be here that they believe in the cause and that they're willing to put up their lives even though the doctor doc was like we're not about like using your lives as if they're Expendable like the the main goal of the mission is to come back alive and so everyone was kind of like cool but I think that's why that moment when they cut out the music and they cut to all of the people on the ships just like in shock and and scared but also resigned to their fate because you can see like they set it up so well you know when Godzilla's spines start to come out and it's that like glowing blue color you no it's not good nothing can withstand that like you're you can't run away fast enough you're all going to die and then they cut out the music and there was also one character who didn't really do much but he was just like a kind of younger looking guy I don't know if you if he stood out to you but he stood out to me because of his youth in comparison to everyone else on the ship and I was like oh damn he's so young he's probably going to die this sucks and then cue the heroic music koichi comes flying in it's like yeah so there's a few things I didn't like when I first watched it and then watching it again I'm like yeah I still don't like that too much one thing is kii's like he has a dream and or a nightmare rather and he sees Godzilla and he screams and his scream is just like the way it was recorded or the way he's screaming it just like hurts and then uh when he's crying after Aiko or not Aiko when he thinks his his would be wife that he's not married to nor when she pushes him out of the way yeah norico when she pushes him out of the way and he and you know she dies yeah that was and he cries out like it's not her pushing him out of the way that I thought was dumb I mean I get what you're saying cuz you like she she should have B she should have jumped on top of him yeah no we were talking about this afterwards cuz you asked me what I felt about that and I was just like yeah I think it's dumb that she didn't like use her body together I get that so I thought it was while contrived I liked it for the film because it caught me off guard that she died yeah definitely did it just totally caught me off guard but like when he cries it's just like the way he cries it it's just like it was very like screechy like for my ears you know what I mean like damn man and no and no it's fine to cry it's fine it's like I totally don't mind that it's just that I want to cry with him and I couldn't because it was distracting how he was crying but that's a me thing that's NE cuz I I haven't heard anyone else complain about that right and then when Godzilla was laying destruction right before she dies there's news reporters on top of the building going oh my God Godzilla's coming right at us it's like you're just going to stand like what are you doing yeah it was that was a little bit perplexing to me and I feel like maybe that was done as an homage to something older where that makes more sense or something or it's just kind of a goofy Trope from another Godzilla film you know what I mean and they just th threw it in here but for for this film that is otherwise quite serious and grounded like that just seemed weird anyway that's my thoughts on that those are the three things that kind of jumped out at me is like that's something I didn't enjoy watching it again noro got destroyed okay like when she shoves uh what's his name Sasuke koichi kichi when she shoves him out of the way and gets swooped up in the damage I'm like there's no way anybody would survive that com back and that was the thing I was talking about in my non-spoiler review when I'm saying people are surviving stuff that in addition to the whole radiation thing which some people are telling me we've got questions yeah some people are telling me Oh they totally survive and blah blah blah and I'm like hey I mean they'll survive for now who knows what the lasting effects of radiation are and in that situation but it's a movie so whatever watching it a second time and you caught it was there was something on noro's neck yes when she was petting um Sasuke's head kichi koichi's head yeah uh when she was weding kii's head uh in the hospital first off like when I was so shocked when I first watched it I'm like she's actually alive okay so you didn't you didn't clock when she got the telegram did no I did but I'm like I'm thinking he's going to go to the hospital and she's a vegetable like how what could he possibly hope to find you know she was swept up in Carnage like what do she look like and like still hot yeah exactly that's the thing is like the first time I watched it I was just so shocked that she was looking at him and was fine right the second time I'm watching it I'm like damn she looked fine how does she look good still like she was swept up in Carnage what was she in the hospital for a day how is it possible that she look no she was in the hospital for a while I know I was kind of disappointed in his character I was being factious I'm just saying like she wasn't there that long to be healed like that and so my assumption is that there's got to be some kind of mut mutation that's what that black stuff on her neck was yeah something's something's up there for sure us why are you disappointed no I was just disappointed because if I were him I think I would have been like they must have some sort of survivors list or or like something at the hospitals or whatever I would have been trying to see if anyone found her body or anything I don't know maybe it was just too bad like you know oh I didn't even think about that when I'm watching the film The First and even the second time I'm like well she dead like no there's just she just died they said that there were like okay so fine like 30,000 people were dead and and or injured or whatever so I'm like okay well if you really cared about her wouldn't you be going and trying to find out definitively if she was dead or alive but I guess he was busy he had to raise a child whatever you're you're you're not wrong but then that would have distracted from the movie I know it was a tight it was a tight film that kept it moving while still feeling like kind of slow paced yeah but I feel like all of that worked to its Advantage it really did CU it it helped the emotions build yes I think the thing that I loved about the one of the things I loved about the third Act of the film or depends on how you look at film structure I suppose but okay the climactic moment of the film let's say is when the music starts building up and you you it starts off with the four ships taking off after Godzilla destroys the the decoy and they like there's this this riveting music that kicks in and like all the action starts happening and you're like this is it this is what we prepared for and it's like it feels so good it's so heroic cuz it's just like it's a story of just regular people granted they have experience in the Navy and and whatnot but still regular people who have just come out of War and who are willingly going out there to save their country again yeah anyway loved it I loved it again um it's a great film I would like genuinely I'm surprised how moved I felt in a Godzilla movie like I don't often feel that way when I'm watching Godzilla I don't often feel that way I I don't often feel that way when I'm watching a film that fits this category yeah you know but it does what a great film like this should do going back to things like Jurassic Park going back to things like Jaws where it's like the people matter you know the characters matter and you feel for what they're going through and when someone dies you feel that it's not just this throwaway thing like oh well moving on you know yeah like oh whoopsie yo I consequences like there are consequences to things you know and it's great anyways you guys uh hopefully you enjoyed this discussion and let us know your feelings in the comments below is it the best film of 2023 I know that some people are like no Spider-Man across the spiderverse I'm like yeah I don't know I mean it's a great film I don't think it's my like best film of 2023 but it's what is yours I don't have one yet the movie The year's over but anyway shut up um it's the best film of 2023 hands down you guys thanks so much for hanging out I'm jabby koay this is aara cook peace out

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Published: Mon Dec 04 2023