Godzilla Minus One (Takashi Yamazaki, December 1, 2023) • Page 10

Seeing this tomorrow, so excite

 

I feel that the black and white version is scarier.

 

That goes along with everything i've heard and was the intention of the crew to embody the original and have it feel like it was archival historical footage. Seeing this on Tuesday with my buddy who's a huge godzilla fan.

 

I’d say they achieved their goal. It felt like the ‘54 version if it was made last year.

 

Very exciting. We're going to try to watch the original before we go to the theater. I've never seen it. Would be an awesome double feature!

 

Saw the black and white version today! It was incredible. It was my first time seeing it. Can’t wait to see it in color eventually too. But in black and white, it really felt like an old Godzilla movie, but with a kickass Godzilla rather than a corny costume. Very recommended to see it in black and white.

 

Godzilla Minus One Minus Color was so incredible, my goodness. Visceral carnage that I felt in my bones and an emotional central story of family that brought tears to my eyes. Cinema is dope as fuck, ain’t it???

 

I’ve been really terrible about getting out to the movies over the last couple of months, but I finally got to see this tonight and loved it. Excited to see it again in color, but the black and white really felt like it fit here instead of just being a weird gimmick. Very much felt sucked into the atmosphere - you can tell this version was handled tenderly

 

I don’t have much to add that hasn’t been said, but for all of the discourse in here about whether or not Noriko should’ve/would’ve survived, I’m surprised no one mentioned the marking on her neck at the end. It seemed pretty implied to me that she may have been affected by the radiation tar pouring from the sky, potentially coming up on regenerative properties? There are multiple thematic reasons for her to have survived, but considering the rest of the sequel setup I would not be surprised for that to be the case

 

Not to be a boring loser, lol, but I just wanted her to live because I loved her and loved their little family and just wanted them to be happy.

 

Caught Minus Color Wednesday night (first time seeing this) and it was incredible. Honestly hard to imagine the color version being superior. I think that opening sequence is the scariest Godzilla has been since the original. I thought the reveal was going to be him sacrificing himself while Akiko and Noriko are reunited, which I would have accepted, but I was extremely happy with the ending we got. Something something about the the value of life, the willingness to make sacrifices, and what the human spirit is capable of when it comes to the ones you love. Beautiful stuff, really.

Literally my only complaint is the stinger at the end. Get that shit outta here!

 

Absolutely loved the b&w version as many here have said already. After seeing both, I probably prefer minus color. It has the perfect aesthetic and really reminded me of the '54 version; not gimmicky at all. I'd probably alternate between color and b&w moving forward for re-watches. The colored version is very beautiful in its own right.

This movie is a very well-rounded film. I loved it even more the second time around and was left with a few more impressions. Their passion and drive for Akiko to continue on, this child that they have no blood connection with is so powerful and speaks to the human spirit; it really felt evocative of the Japanese people and culture in the post-WW2 era. Also, Noriko surviving didn't seem plausible the first time around. On second watch, it could be implied that during the train car scene, when she is only 15-30 feet away from Godzilla, that the radiation emitted at that close range potentially gave her the same regenerative powers as our favorite kaiju. Next to Shikishama in the first scene on the island, she's probably the only person to have been that close to Godzilla and survived.

 

Idk, I thought it was pretty definitively from the start leaning into choosing life over self-destruction. There’s the whole kamikaze pilot thing, his guilt of not shooting Godzilla (even though we clearly see it wouldn’t have worked and the soldiers shooting is why they all died), that woman who was despondent but gets new life when she gets into helping the baby, that guy on the boat who wishes he had fought in the war, etc. When there was that distant, silent cutaway of the mechanic showing something else, I was like, “oh, he’s showing an escape hatch (something they noted earlier the planes weren’t made with) that he’s gonna give in and use so he can choose to live.”

 

Yeah, the cutaway kind of gave it away. I'm not saying that's what should have happened, I'm just saying that's what I was expecting until the scene with the mechanic. Maybe I'm dumb.

 

yeah, the movie had a strong thematic rebuke of Japanese nationalism so it makes more sense for him to ultimately to not become a kamikaze pilot

 

I saw the Minus Color version and now I can't imagine what it would have been like in color. I loved it.

It was also by accident and my wife was annoyed at first as she said 'isn't that in black and white?' and I said 'no, it's color' assuming she thought the movie was a black and white movie. Well, when we got there, she pointed out it said 'Minus Color' pretty obviously actually but we said meh, we're already here, lets give it a shot.

Like I said, worked incredibly well. Very powerful movie and I thought the special effects looked pretty great even in black and white.

And the score *chefs kiss*

 

Really hope this crew wins best visual effects.

 

As much as making movies should be a job and professional to make sure things get done they should be fun and comfortable. Good for them.

 

Apparently he saw it three times. King shit

 

Must make him proud seeing his sensibilities being put on the big screen, in a foreign film to boot.

 

I want another big time adventure film from Spielberg