Godzilla Minus One redefines what can be made on a $15 million dollar budget but unfortunately it stops there. The CGI effects are decent but there are glaring mistakes, like the lack of empty shell casings on deck which makes those scenes look completely fake. They also never reload the machine gun on their mine sweeper either which apparently has unlimited rounds despite only having a single 30 round magazine.
I found no excuse for these mistakes, except that they were hoping their audience is too stupid to know anything about firearms which appears to be true. When the big guns show up they of course do nothing to Godzilla because it is invincible and thus you will need some nonsensical "plan" to try and kill it.
I still do not understand what is going with the writing of these films. This movie in particular plays out like a teenage boy's misguided dream and nothing more. You start off with a failed Kamikaze pilot who returns from WWII, is shunned for living and then takes in an orphaned child and random woman whom he never gets romantic with?
Why do I care about any of this? Why are people being brainwashed that it is "noble" to raise someone else's child or to support a random woman you have no romantic relationship with? This plot lost me early on and just drags throughout the film. I honestly never cared what happened to anyone in this film and proceeded to fast forward through most of it.
Then you meet the "crew" of his minesweeper who of course all have nicknames like "The Kid" and "Doc" who just so happens to have Einstein hair to show he is the "smart" one. "Doc" also made naval weapons during WWII, how convenient. This of course shows up at the end with a ridiculous plan by him to take out Godzilla.
Stitching the Godzilla scenes together might make an interesting short for YouTube but I cannot see recommending this to anyone as a 2 hour film unless they are looking for a good way to fall asleep.
I found no excuse for these mistakes, except that they were hoping their audience is too stupid to know anything about firearms which appears to be true. When the big guns show up they of course do nothing to Godzilla because it is invincible and thus you will need some nonsensical "plan" to try and kill it.
I still do not understand what is going with the writing of these films. This movie in particular plays out like a teenage boy's misguided dream and nothing more. You start off with a failed Kamikaze pilot who returns from WWII, is shunned for living and then takes in an orphaned child and random woman whom he never gets romantic with?
Why do I care about any of this? Why are people being brainwashed that it is "noble" to raise someone else's child or to support a random woman you have no romantic relationship with? This plot lost me early on and just drags throughout the film. I honestly never cared what happened to anyone in this film and proceeded to fast forward through most of it.
Then you meet the "crew" of his minesweeper who of course all have nicknames like "The Kid" and "Doc" who just so happens to have Einstein hair to show he is the "smart" one. "Doc" also made naval weapons during WWII, how convenient. This of course shows up at the end with a ridiculous plan by him to take out Godzilla.
Stitching the Godzilla scenes together might make an interesting short for YouTube but I cannot see recommending this to anyone as a 2 hour film unless they are looking for a good way to fall asleep.
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