Current Events > New Godzilla movie coming this year, getting a US theatrical release

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Godzilla Minus One, releasing in the US on Dec 1. Same continuity as Shin Godzilla

That reminds me, I need to see Shin Godzilla.

Is that like Garfield Minus Garfield?

https://youtu.be/YlceGpbGgvE

Teaser trailer

I wanna see more purple beam destruction

Obviously pretty short, but it looks good. With how great Shin Godzilla was, my expectations for this one are pretty high.

K181 posted...

That reminds me, I need to see Shin Godzilla.

Same, is it even streaming anywhere?

BurmesePenguin posted...

Is that like Garfield Minus Garfield?

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It's like the Heisei and Legendary Gs did the fusion dance.

very interesting curious what the title means

Fantastic. I loved Shin Godzilla.

So more pure horror Godzilla?

wonder what the big G will be an alagory for this time

Why does godzilla hate trains so much?

AceMos posted...

very interesting curious what the title means

Prequel?

I watch shin Godzilla a few years ago when I was on a big Godzilla kick. I dont remember anything about so Ill probably watch it again

I know it was said to be in the same continuity, but the one in the trailer doesn't look like Shin.

I fucking loved that movie. It was so fucking creepy, disturbing and hopeless. I hope this one is as good.

AceMos posted...

very interesting curious what the title means

They're in the aftermath of some war, and then Godzilla arrives. Basically, they were already fucked and Godzilla coming to fuck shit up puts them at "minus one"

There has never been good Godzilla anything

I looked this guy up and it looks like his later career has been a string of mid anime and manga adaptations. He's had success with the Doraemon CG movies, but he's adapted stuff like Lupin III and Parasyte to mixed results.

It seems to an untrained eye that he had a decent career making original movies in the 2000's, then hit a point where he was making schlocky live action adaptations from 2010 onwards after his regular fare began to do worse. He's made some original live-action movies since, but they don't seem to have set the world on fire.

Maybe I'll be proven wrong and the movie will be fine, but this reeks of Pacific Rim: Uprising to me. You take a strong solo movie with a defined vision and give it to a b-team of hacks to turn into a franchise, and the end result is a hatchet job that shits all over the legacy of the original.

VampireCoyote posted...

There has never been good Godzilla anything

Couldn't be more wrong.

Oh shit is this made by Evangelion studio? I'm in

So I'm looking into the movie more, and I can't find anything that states that it's in the same continuity as Shin Godzilla. Rather, I think it's a "follow-up" in the sense that it's trying to follow in Shin's footsteps and apply the same grandiosity to a new setting - in this case, post-war Japan.

As far as I can tell, none of the cast or crew of Shin Godzilla are carrying over. The company handling Minus One, Robot Productions, are the same company that have handled Yamazaki's other movies like Dragon Quest: Your Story. The sources I'm seeing aren't making any connection between Shin and this movie, just talking about how how the war left Japan at "zero" and Godzilla is leaving them at "minus one". The marketing through-line to me is selling Godzilla as a terrible threat ala Shin, not hyping up its connection to Shin Godzilla in any way.

Furthermore, this is slated to be the fifth movie in the franchise's Reiwa era - an era that was started by Shin Godzilla, but where the other three movies are those Netflix anime sci-fi movies set in space.

So yeah, as someone who loved Shin Godzilla and was excited specifically for the pedigree of that movie's development team (not just Hideaki Anno, but Shirou Sagisu and Shinji Higuchi), I'm gonna stay skeptical of this movie. Godzilla has had great movies, and it's had shitty movies. This could be the Pacific Rim: Uprising to Shin's Pacific Rim, which is my worry considering the pedigree of the director, crew and VFX studio, or it could be a surprisingly great Godzilla flick that delivers on all fronts in spite of preconceived notions. I hope it's good - I'll watch it if it ends up being good - but I'm taking this with a bucketful of salt until then.

Edit: for anyone who's interested in what the Shin Godzilla crew have been up to lately, they made a Shin Ultraman movie in 2022 and they're making a Shin Kamen Rider movie that's set to release this year. Each of those movies seek to reconstruct the classic elements of those franchises, so don't expect a masterful suspense-horror flick like Shin Godzilla - Shin Ultraman is apparently pretty wacky in places - but if you're looking for really well-made homage movies that really recapture what the franchise means to a lot of fans, try out the Shin Japan Heroes Universe.

Cool.

Kind of really into some Kaijuu movies right now.

AceMos posted...

very interesting curious what the title means

Godzilla's radioactive fire breath makes women everywhere in Japan unable to carry a baby to full term. Miscarriages are rampant and exacerbates the already grim population issues that the country faces. The hourly population change turns to negative one per second. In a matter of 4 years, the entire Japanese population will be reduced to nothing. Meanwhile Godzilla fights a rabbit from outer space or something named Hopprang

probably not, but I feel like this would make a good short story

VampireCoyote posted...

There has never been good Godzilla anything

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Smashingpmkns posted...

https://youtu.be/YlceGpbGgvE

Teaser trailer

hell yeah

Im interested.

The head design is awesome. The spikes look overdone.

Who is he fighting?

He is fighting another monster, right?

I didn't like shin godzilla