Tomm Guycot
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Minus One is impossibly good. The human story is compelling, Goji inspires equal parts awe and fear.
If you're on the fence get your ass to the theater.
If you're on the fence get your ass to the theater.
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It's an indictment of the Hollywood establishment that Toho can make a movie like this for 15M dollars, and Hollywood puts out... *waves with disgust*Minus One is impossibly good. The human story is compelling, Goji inspires equal parts awe and fear.
If you're on the fence get your ass to the theater.
Can't spoil the movie but that's 100% not what it's saying.I was interested in seeing this until i found out the premise. Not really keen on seeing barely post-Imperial era Japanese soldiers and war machines being portrayed as heroic when a lot of Japanese media still has unsettling nationalist undertones.
Cost of living in Japan is like half of that in the US on average. Studios like Toho can and do recycle props/setpieces frequently. The $15M mark is almost certainly understated/misrepresentation of what the true cost of the movie is. The film is incredible in scale and scope, but when you really start to think about the actual physical setpieces, they really aren't all that complicated. Talent and workers are undoubtedly underpaid in the Japanese film industry, but that entire industry has spent the last several decades learning how to operate on shoestring budgets. Meanwhile, US films operate by ruthlessly underpaying everyone possible besides headline talent, CEOs, investors, and ad execs. Imo it's still a searing indictment.I won't say that there's no bloat in US movie budgets, but there's no way you can make a movie on this scale with that budget without underpaying people.
Now I’ve seen the movie and can also confirm; not a real danger thereI was interested in seeing this until i found out the premise. Not really keen on seeing barely post-Imperial era Japanese soldiers and war machines being portrayed as heroic when a lot of Japanese media still has unsettling nationalist undertones.
If you like really trippy stuff, Godzilla Vs. Hedorah is a blast, a weird trippy film with a really memorable monster that goes surprisingly hard, even though the film series was more kid-friendly at the time.Is there a good movie to choose next? I like the design of Biollante, so I’m leaning towards that, but there are So. Many. Movies.
I forgot that Spiderverse was this year. But both movies are like 1A, 1B to me. Both had me grinning from ear-to-ear and very emotionally invested in the happenings of its characters. I try to evaluate my biases and I realize that recency bias is totally a thing. I still might give it to Minus One simply because of how fresh it felt versus Spiderverse that was more of that one thing I recently enjoyed.Could be my favorite movie of the year.
Always enjoy reading your thoughts on things, Bongo
I forgot that Spiderverse was this year. But both movies are like 1A, 1B to me. Both had me grinning from ear-to-ear and very emotionally invested in the happenings of its characters. I try to evaluate my biases and I realize that recency bias is totally a thing. I still might give it to Minus One simply because of how fresh it felt versus Spiderverse that was more of that one thing I recently enjoyed.
Right, this puts substantial distance between my opinions of each film.To its credit, Godzilla has a resolution.
I remember reading a Toho exec was hospitalized during it's production and had a royal fit when he finally saw the film.Hedorah surprised me with how weird it is, especially in the era were Godzilla is trying to become a kid-friendly franchise.
Saw it on the huge screen and it was glorious, as was to be expected. The friend I saw it with had also seen the original, unlike the people I saw it with the first time, so we could talk more about the similarities and such which was nice!I had to catch it on a small screen, as it was leaving theatres the day after I saw it - but it finally got a second run on the BFI IMAX (the UK's biggest screen) showing once per day in the evenings, so am going to rewatch it there this weekend with a friend who's not seen it yet!
Godzilla eventually gets a problem where it tries to fill in a LOT of "humans running around doing things" between monster fights and Gigan's solution is to make the human stuff completely insane. I love the reveal at the end.I can’t even tell you how happy it made me when Godzilla vs Gigan goes from an establishing shot of a miniature Godzilla theme park, then moves to a scene in the park where two guys look at ANOTHER miniature of the park.
That’s filmmaking.
Then the speech about how it will be a park that teaches absolute peace feels like Big Boss and Outer Heaven. It rules.