Hello, gentlemen, and welcome to a geek first review. I am Nougzilla
Tress. Now I'm joined by and the dormant dweller Kirkland Patzer. I am
the King of the Monster's tylor Field. Oh you hear that? That's on
the digg. I had a little bit more today wielding. You guys are
sucking cowards. I've always loved mean cowards. Like last cast. Well,
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cast that you were a liar. And they're all liars, you know.
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That's or now for nine conversations. It's like us in a much different
route. But yes, we are here finally to talk about Godzilla minus one.
This is a movie that, of course you probably were wondering, Oh,
why didn't we promote or say we're gonna do anything other than I think
the past few casts, because at one point we weren't really getting it had
been out for I think two weeks and tayloscheking every day, you know,
calling the landmark, going knocking six am. No one's there at six am,
but he's still knocking, danging on the window. Yeah, man,
where's minus one? But yeah, funny enough, we did get it because
it's doing so well abroad in America and maybe South Canada, who knows,
but it's doing well there, so it's extended at least here. It's extended
I think until the New Year. So that's really cool. But yeah,
so that's why we're here. We're gonna give our non spoil thoughts, so
I get there might be something that I haven't seen it yet, or they're
in the same boat of us, like they don't have it yet, so
we will give you know, a fifteen to twenty minute, you know,
just non spoils, our thoughts, recommend it stuff like that. Obviously,
if you can't see it, that sucks, but I would recommend, I
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but after night one time Kirkland Pats or how did you feel about God's a
Llah minus one? Yeah? This was this was an exciting watch I hadn't
seen any promotional material for this going into it other than just the like the
Discord buzz and you know, uh we got Patreon Clay that was popping off
in the Discord there, and I think he was the first one that I
saw his reactions from it, and he's notorious for just hating movies these days,
and he was, oh yeah, he had yeah, and uh,
I mean, I'm glad our schedules aligned. So all three of us were
able to see this in theaters together. That was a that was a fun
time for sure. And uh my, my like history with Godzilla is I
don't even know like how it sparked, but I was. I just remember
being a massive Godzilla like fan when I was when I was a wee lad.
I can't remember what window of age it was, but like I have
multiple Godzilla like action figures. I don't know what movies or TV shows I
would have seen that, Okay, is there is there by chance it would
have been the nineties Rolling Memerick one with Matthew brought it because that was my
very first as I was young, and it was just like that was a
round like I know him a couple years old than you but that was just
a round when we were that age, right, that was our Godzilla little
movie like in North America came out, so it probably is. I'll google
it once I passed the baton here, so maybe sparks some memories. But
just like the design of Godzilla was very similar to actually what I mean this
movie is Godzilla was, and it just really stuck in my brain and I
just I don't know, I just I love what Godzilla was. I think
it's a really badass name. The fact that he's just like super extremely powerful
makes it, I don't know, likable at least in my eyes as a
we lad. And yeah, so I always had like a warm spot for
Godzilla made me really kind of excited for this this new age of Godzilla movies
that we've been getting, and unfortunately they just kind of been going downhill for
me. I think they maybe peaked probably on the first one, honest.
Yeah, but like that's not I don't think. I don't think that has
anything to do with Godzill himself. Maybe just like the story that they've been
trying to tell around no. I heard he's been rewriting the scripts like he
gets something. He's like, No, I want to. That's why he
beat Kong's ass so bad and Godzill versus Cone. It's like his special contract
clauses that he has. I can't lose. I can't lose, so I
can only lose to one of my monsters. I can't lose to something else.
So yeah, exactly. So. I mean the fact that I haven't
been loving like these recent ones made this one kind of exciting, but like
I also didn't have high expectations for It's like, okay, I know another
Godzilla movie from Japan that's exciting, and man, I was extremely blown away
by this. I I thought this was just it totally took me back to
that feeling of a kid or as a kid, just like seeing Godzilla at
this almighty power and just the fear that that it brought to the characters.
I thought that was just on another level. But then you have like a
really human story like intertwe intertweven. That's not a word, interwind, interwoven
or intertwined you put them, I'm gonna use both intertwelven. I like that
word. Well, but that sounds like something Tom Bommelan would say. It's
a riddle for sure, But like that story really caught me off guard.
I was really just expecting just a monster flick and the fact that they did
such a good job at telling that story on just parallel with the Godzilla just
monstrous event that that that was. And yeah, it just really felt scary
and world ending, and for this to just be contained in one movie,
I thought they were able to tell such a clean, clean story compared to
like what all these other multiple movies have been trying to do. So yeah,
very very impressed by this one. You know, when we watched this
in the theaters, I might have been dozing off back and forth here and
there. It was. It was a long day for me, but I'm
I managed to rewatch it since. And yeah, I was very, very
very impressed by this movie. And you know, it was a fun theater
experience with you guys. It was Yeah, I'll go next, I'll leave
Godzilla Boy the King Monsters last. So yeah, I feel like, okay,
they're tailor. Oh I just yeah, Godzilla Boy. This man is
drinking it from the carton too. I don't think you've ever seen tras snail
just drink it from the carden now like that. That. I don't think
I have just big glasses whenever. I mean, and this guy's glass is
probably more than this tire carton, honestly, because you get the small carton,
right, Yeah, this is the nine six mill. That's fair.
Then that's fair in my little mouth. If it's give me idea, the
big oh not too big. He drinks. It's just everywhere. Just But
I feel like from if people have listened to geekers in the past, you
probably think about trasting and godzill Fanny shits all the time. It's not really
the case. I'm a massive fan of Godzo's far as what I like god
so for. It's not so much like the lower and I'm not Taylor and
stuff. I'm not seeing every Godzilla. It's just like the concept of a
big you know, Kaiju movie monster. Oh yeah, I like that.
You know, I like King Kong, So that's my It's a genre I
do like. But Kirk was on. But I'm definitely in them where the
twenty fourteen one at least, and we're talking current age stuff because I and
that's where maybe one day, you know, Taylor probably cream is jeans one
day. I'd love to retro or just even do like what we did with
Daniel Craig of like Retro and Era of Godzill instead of every Godzilla film.
Because Taylor calmed down, I don't need any comment, I said one day,
he's you didn't everyone. He starts shutting his clothes right now, he's
he's standing up row right now. Yeah, he's looking like Godzilla with the
blue Jada. But anyways, so I've seen like classics of them. I've
seen some black ones, like I've seen them, but I don't have like
the oh, there's this and there's this, like I always have to ask
tyabet, kay, what's this from this this? But I love the concept
and for the most modern ones twenty fourteen, I did enjoy that one.
Actually you can go back we retro. We Retro reviewed all those of that
monster, so they are on the feeds. But for me, that release
order is my also ranking order. I think they got worse and worse.
Maybe I'd have to think about it, maybe think as I've heard some cases
for King of Monsters, maybe I would put that over cong Skull Lying because
that is wofut a movie. But there's just been something severely lacking in those
movies, and they're not trying to bring those down to bring this up.
But I have to little just because it's what we talk about where now there's
stuff. And I even said this on the newscast that if you like those
Godzilla and Co movies, that's great because those are definitely the popcorn you know
grab you know, have some friends laugh at so bad so good. There's
gonna be some moments that don't really make sense. It's just a big beat
them up, right. If you just want to watch some sort of big
brawl, cool what I want, and that's what the twenty fourteen one was
closer to. But what I want is definitely what we got here, and
it definitely delivered because I'd heard all the good praise and I heard all this
is the type movie it's like. And that's one thing because you can get
overhyped and you can hear it overrated because just even if it's like a little
bit better than the current godzills, some people like, oh, this is
the best thing ever, and then you watch like, okay, this is
good, but it's not like slice Bread. But no, I can easily
say it's one of the best films of the year, which is tough because
I think right now I have it ranked currently ten, but that's because I
also know in Golden Geez we do. And there's certain films like Bottoms I
know are not going to be in our Golden Geeks. But I think this
would be one that definitely comes up in conversation. I was blown away as
a phenomenal film. This is like something Kurtently was talking about where we always
it's so funny where I feel like when we're talking about these current modern North
American godzill commis where always like, oh God, are the fucking humans?
We hate the humans? And now it's like we hate those humans because now
I just realized they're just all shit stories. And now I've seen a movie
where primarily majority of this film i'd say seventy five percent screen time is the
humans. It's the human story. Godzilla has big moments, there's big set
pieces, it's all based around them. Don't worry about that, Like the
third act delivers as far as it's all about, Okay, how do we
take this thing down? But it's multiple stories. It's not just the main
story with our main character. That's good, which I'm probably gonna butcher some
names as we go along, but our main character, like his story is
great, but then you got all these little Meyer stories and it's a also
we'll get into the spoilers, the way they connect all these really all of
them, but especially the two. It's like a very unconventional type away.
It's not just like, oh yeah, we've seen this million times. It's
like, this is great. I love it's set back in world. We're
two type of air like a little in like a little in it, a
little after like somewhere sprinkled throughout there. But it's in the forties. And
but no, that's the biggest thing where even Godzill's not on the screen and
I'm enthralled of what's going on. And the biggest part is you actually care
about these humans. How many of those films have we watch reviewed where we
don't give a fuck of any of them die, We don't care at all.
They're just people to get to the big fight. This is like,
ah, I don't want these people to die. I'm rooting for these people.
This is one of these movies that make like they make your root for
life, and you're just like fuck yeah at the end, you know,
it's like one of those just like when movies are magic, there's nothing better.
And that's why I think this had. I think there's at times Godzill
the effects are a little met. But the thing about that is I will
take sometimes where my example was telling Tay in the car, there's a moment
where Godzill comes up and they just have these assets of water just constantly flowing
on his head. But it's like at this point he'd been sending up for
a while where the water wouldn't be coming down, but you can tell it's
just like a water asset just being spam on him. But the thing is,
I will take lesser or a couple effect shots that are like not looking
the greatest to the most pristine, best glum Andy serkis he could be fucking
Godzilla. But if the story sucks, it doesn't matter. So that's why
I can handwave that stuff and go, okay, whatever, I'm getting this
fantastic story. And the biggest thing for me is Godzilla. He's fucking scary
in this, at least from what I've seen. I feel like this is
the scariest I've ever felt Godzilla be. You know, there's certain times in
the twenty fourteen one, the aspect of it, he was not scary in
the role memwork one and then there's turned to older ones so Eve because they're
older. It's like it's tough. He was frightening. The opening seen this
movie is like fuck, like I would not ever want to be in this,
like of course not, but just like the way they impose his scale
and it's just like they do lots of great stuff as far as putting him
beside certain mountains or buildings or just certain war objects, and they really emphasize
how big and also grotesque he is at times. And the other thing I'll
shout out to is this will probably come up for me and Golden Keakes is
the score. The score was a a plus all around, Like when not
just like the Loud one, it's quite as moments too, but when Godzilla
was there, you just felt like this rush like man like it was the
scale, it was the cinematography and that music was coming like oh fuck,
like I was scared every time. So there was something about like specifically Godzilla's
theme too, it like it felt like the old school Godzilla themes but just
like modernized and it just like when you hear that music, it's like oh
no, like terror is coming. You see the dead fish full in the
water. It totally just like hit you with that fear before you even saw
him, and that's exactly like how the on screen characters would have been reacting.
So yeah, huge good shout out for the score for sure. Yeah,
so that's one. I'll be fine for our next year when we do
that. But yeah, overall, this is definitely one of the best films
year I've seen. Like I said, it's probably my top ten. It
might get pushed out, but that's because at least the back half has been
really good, like my top ten now may or may not all just have
perfect score. So I think the first half the year with a little rocky,
I think we had a lot of disappointments with this back half or it's
making a good comeback. I don't think it compares last year when we had
you know, The Batman and all this like always as the Batman, everything
everywhere all at once are or like the top Gun, like there's a ton
of stuff. We're now feels like, okay, we're getting some really juicy
stuff in October to December, but hey, it may as well get it.
So yeah, absolutely recommend this to even if you're if you've never cared
at all about Godzilla. I recommend this film and uh yeah, that's all
I have to say in the non supporter section, So ti Field take it
away. Yeah, I mean, I just I love Godzilla. It's always
been my jam, really really like big on, I played the games with
my cousin. Me and my cousin always used to love playing it on GameCube.
We monsters unleashed all those different types of Godzilla games where just you have
the city scape and you're duking it out such a good time, and you
have for me that that Emeric one was definitely I don't think my introduction,
but it was. It was definitely the one I was most like rewatching,
probably while my cousin was super into the other ones with like they're this wearing
the suits and stuff. And I remember my cousin introduced me to Final Wars,
which came out after the Amoric one, and that one was just god
I think it was like thirteen different Kai Jews in there, and it had
Aliens and just Godzilla fighting like one monster after the next, just all out
like Final Wars. It was fantastic, And someday I will make that effort
to go through like the thirty plus Godzilla films because I've seen a few of
the black and white ones like Kinkidora and a few other other kaijus being like
introduced Mathra and all that kind of stuff. So when we finally get to
the more recent films, I feel like I'm definitely into some of them over
the others, where some of them definitely are definitely lacking certain elements that I
wish that were there. Like for me, King of the Monsters is fantastic.
I love that. I feel like it delivers on so much many different
Godzilla notes. And then the original twenty fourteen one, I just I love
that one because that one really feels like it's the scale of godzill that really
sells it for me there. But then when we kind of move on from
that, it definitely Godzilla loses that scale, he loses that scariness and the
more you see him, and I think this is where when you see a
villain or a monster, or even if you don't know what's a human being,
but you see like what this person's wearing, and they're they're dangerous,
they're evil in a film, but you can see their face, you can
identify what they are, and it kind of strips away that that fear component
to a degree, i'd say. And so with Godzilla, he's much more
prominent on screen. He's sprinting now, and so there's a little bit less
of a i'd say, like a fear factor involved with him. And they
tried to maybe play that out in Godzilliver's is cang that he's not necessarily the
good guy. He's kind of an ass and he's something that you know,
he's he's wrecking shit up. And so it still didn't feel scary because that
scale fact kind of disappeared after King of the Monsters. Now, enter Godzilla
minus one, and they've brought that scale factor in and I am so happy
that they did that. And yes, there is a heavy focus on the
human storylines and narratives, but there's nothing wrong with that. While some of
it was slow, I never found it to be boring. I found it
very engaging, and I found it to be just very, very beneficial because
the storylines do connect, Like you said, Travis, they come together,
and I'm glad to see how we get from point A all the way to
the endpoint of this story because there are so many moments that happen and you
really care for the characters and you say, oh my god, like they're
going through some serious shit, and it's just it's cool to have a story
focusing on these characters where they're not relying on Godzilla. But when Godzilla does
make an appearance throughout this film, it is terrifying. Again the scale factor
and certain shots where it was very prominent that it was a CGI, and
you can easily overlook it because you're just you're more or less just taken aback
by just the intensity of the scene. And like you said, Kirkland,
or I guess both of you guys said this, when the score kicks in
that classic Godzilla theme, or there is one part near the back half of
the film that clicks in, and it's just it's just humans are doing something
and Godzilla is just like doing something and it's just that score kicks in.
It's like, oh, this is just this is so badass, this is
just so so cool. But yeah, it's just it's overall, it was
a very very impressive film. I was so happy with it. I'm so
glad that we finally got it, and I was worried that the ushers wouldn't
let me into the movie because I right as soon as Travis told me that
the six year old girl ready to throw down with you. Oh yeah,
Asten. As Travis told me tickets were live here, immediately bought tickets.
I bought them for the six thirty showing and then and then oh yeah.
Then we coordinated like okay, we'll do like the nine and forty showing,
and so I couldn't refund my tickets, but I called the theater and I
said, yeah, we can exchange it for the same later showing because it's
in the same theater. All you got to do is just bring your ticket
and uh. And then that's it because because she's like, okay, I
got your booking ID and I speaking to a manager and she's like, okay,
well I mark that seat is sold, and YadA, YadA, YadA.
So I went up to the confession or the asher. I'm like,
hey, so I spoke to a manager. It sounds super shitty. Yeah,
I was like, so I spoke to a manager and they said that
I gave my booking ID and they switched seats to the later showing. And
she's like, well, do you have the name of the manager. I'm
like, I don't have the name, but it's just it's very shady.
But she let me in. She looked at my ticket and she let me
get in. I could have bullshit in and took almost five minutes. So
I was like, I'm going to go in there with that on here soon,
you know. Yeah, but it worked. Let me in, they
let you in. Well, we're gonna let you in the spoils. So
if anything else to say that get it going, once, going twice,
Let's get it. So, yeah, we'll be right back. So if
you've not seen the movie and you want to stay awake from spoilers, here's
a chance. If not, we'll be right back and we are back.
So yeah, where do we start? The end? It started the end,
started the end. Do you want to go at the end. We'll
start at the beginning. I'm teasing you. I'm teasing you. I know
what you're doing. May or may not be where we lost Kirklin the first
before he went to see it. I don't know where you actually like lost
me though, because like on the rewatch, I'm like, I do not
remember this sequence, and then there'd be like keep going, I'm like,
oh, I remember all of this so I think I must have been like
fading it out multiple times in the movie. We were definitely majority of the
end too, like that audio was loud those Godzilla Wars and I'm a heavy
sleeper. Kirklan's fucked if we ever get bade in the middle of night.
I was shocked though, because like the final scene of the movie, I
don't even remember that, so I definitely like woke up at the credit role.
But yeah, fuck, that was funny. Well let's let's start at
the beginning. Actually for the you know, it's a good place because we
meet a lot of characters here. But does anyone want to take a stab
of the main character name is a Coachi. It's k O I c H.
Can I call him a pilot because we have a butcher and a bunch
of He's got a badass. Yeah, Chikashima, that is a pretty cool
name. He gots a wild I'm dB pot. He looks really scared in
it. How are you looking? That was me when I woke up movies
over So anyways, like we said, this takes place in the Fouries.
We get introduced to him because he lands on this island for he's Komakazi pilot
and this is for ship repairs. And there's some back and forth to log
but then one of the guys just goes, it doesn't really look like your
ship needs repairing now, luckily or sorry, your plane needs were playing,
Yeah, that would make much sense. He's a common Kazi pilot, sho,
Like, you can't kma Kazi with a boat. Serio's not gonna work
the same way. But anyway, so they pretty much in saying, Okay,
this guy's a deserter. Uh, you know, he's just trying to
get out of there and everything, and really before they can break it down
because he has this good conversation. There's multiple good conversations throughout the movie.
He has this good conversation about a guy who unfortunately doesn't make it, but
he's kind of sympathizing with him, like, you know, oh, well,
you know, why should you go and kill yourself for a war that's
practically over? But that point it doesn't matter because you're crook and warl wote
for the first time. No, but you hear that, and then it's
great because there's the sound and there's movement, but you don't see them.
You get this quick spotlight shot of God's own the spotlight gets taken out and
then it slowly revealed. Now I know you were you said this was a
lower part of the cgr few I this was actually a higher part for me,
because, like I said, at times when he was in the wall,
I found there were some issues going on. But I thought with him
being at nighttime and being shaved by some fire. But this is when the
scale really came in because you just have these skies on their feet on the
ground looking up. There's one great shot. I can't remember what Godzilla hit
down, but it like went from his arm to like under his chin to
like a round I think in the earl on they did a great job of
establishing just how big he was. And this wasn't even like the full size
Godzilla at this point because he grows. But I just think they did a
great job on the island, even showing then just certain just they said,
just a weird shot of like almost stummach up. It's like a weird porn
po even. Yeah, but just like I thought on the beginning, they
did lots of job of establishing the fear and then the the scale of him
and our characters except for the main character, and another one did not make
it because he was he's told to go fire the gun again. He so
he goes away from the war, and then he also froze up and would
not shoot Godzilla. He just he was shaking and frozen. So lots of
things happened. It's like first fifteen to twenty minutes, which I thought was
great setup. I was already like, hey, we're in good hands.
Yeah. I thought it was a fantastic scene of just showing like god Like
I wasn't expecting on seeing Godzilla that early in the movie. So when they
like turn over and he's just right there, like there's no like build up
of suspense, it's just right there. It's it's like a Jurassic Park scene
where it's like nighttime, you got your t Rex right there, where you
just pop off, and he is popping off. It's not even like this
is the first introduction before we get into some actual action. So that was
terrifying. And also they did a great job of just establishing like the main
struggle that our main character goes through for this entire thing is just like facing
his fear, you know, in Japan, especially like around that World War
two era, like honor is just a massive thing amongst those people. So
like all of like the mechanics just already seen, like you know, this
guy, all the other people that are supposed to be having his same duty
are just like killing themselves for the force and he's just he's just he's nah,
not for my shit. And then yeah, is broken, So they
know what's going on right away, and like that's something that kind of I
mean, yeah, it's really is like the main weight on his shoulders throughout
the entire movie. It's not until the end that he really is able to
kind of finally face that. Like he's not even able to have a proper
relationship with the female character that gets introduced a little bit later on. And
so yeah, it was just a great setup for the main character as well
as the main big baddie. And I was really surprised that Godzilla was so
small. I kind of just took it like, oh my god, this
version of Godzilla is gonna be so much smaller than the other versions that I'm
used to seeing here lately. Definitely did not realize that he just grows from
what is that from damage or just by it, because there was a quick
cut scene that showed the US doing nuclear testing. I think it's okay,
so that's what Yeah, that's what up because then it cuts to a scene
of like his head being like nuclear like juiced, right, he was getting
the steroids pump. I'm just ready to kick ass. But I mean,
all in all, I thought it was a fantastic opening scene. And yeah,
CGI really didn't bother me at all, Like I definitely was able to
like I could tell it wasn't a real Godzilla. Yeah, like I could
tell it was a CGI monster. But I thought for the majority of the
usage of specifically Godzilla, like they did a good job at blending and with
the rest of the world, at least in my opinion, and maybe some
of like the other open sea shots with like the big destroyer ships looked a
little bit less than fantastic, mostly when they had like a lot of CGI
people like on the boats. It was kind of easy to tell. But
really, for me, I thought all of the CGI with Godzilla himself looked
really really good. Yeah, like you said charts for me at the beginning,
not so much as soon as that spotlight hit him. Because as soon
as the spotlight hit him and that was that was well done. But the
beginning part it had moments that were really really good. It almost felt like
they were practical effects to a degree, with whether like the feet were put
into the ground nearby as the men were like running around and whatnot. But
there were certain shots of just the way Godzilla was moving, and it was
he was moving so quickly. I felt like his reflexes were just too quick,
the way he'd snapped it, like his head left and right, just
like really fucking fast. He's smaller, you know that. Yeah, and
it just it sprint better than the new Godzilla. Yeah, it just felt
it felt it felt very noticeable, just the way that they try to walk
just give it a chance climb out. But the other scene first he runs,
now he's small. The other scenes though, once we get to him
in the city and then especially him in the water, I felt those were
some of the really really good scenes. That later part where he attacks Japan
the second time and now our pilot is actually in the plane and he's flying
around him. I thought that was really really good. And just the way
they shot certain things with with the like the subs of the playing going like
in between his mouth when he's trying to like bite him. That was really
cool. So like just the CGI for me progressively got better as the film
advanced. But yeah, there was the intro set up there that I really
really liked because it was just it was so simple, and it's just presented
itself like, hey, we're not dealing with monsters or anything like that.
We're dealing with a very realistic thing where human being doesn't feel comfortable with that
committing suicide in the name of their country at this war, and at this
point of the war, Germany has already surrendered, so maybe you're probably dealing
with a lot of people in this war and Japan side that don't feel like
they really necessarily going to make a difference and why would they waste their life?
And obviously it's reciprocated when that other mechanic agrees and says, we don't
really believe and just follow orders, and that's it. The other guy I
can't remember his name, he was the head mechanic who survives really I don't
know, Kirk. Let's say you're there in the trench and he tells you
to go and too the twenty two guns, so that twenty two they're a
twenty gun, I can kill anything. Are you going out there? Because
I fuck that, Like he's not gonna do anything. And you you remember,
yeah, you're in a plane. You're not moving, so you have
to wait for Godzilla to go in front of your sights. But there's But
again, this is what I was saying because Taylor brought up, because I
was saying, like, the guy, I still think he's like he's supposed
to be a coward, Like that's what they're to me. But it's it's
debatable, right because his whole thing of like not being a Komacze flight when
they're a pilot and the guy's like, yeah, at the end of the
war and stuff like that, he was like, I agree, politically,
why are we doing He just was scared. He just didn't And that's fine.
I'm not saying I mean it's cowardly, not how I'm not saying his
car. But the way, like Kergan said, they would look at him,
right, they would look at him as a coward, and that age
if you have given task to do something. So now, especially this guy
who's the only one trained on this machine that could but potentially kill this thing,
goes and doesn't shoot now again, I agree, probably the idea is
just hide. But this is the forties, so up in this point,
when they say, hey, this gun everything it's shot, it's tearing down,
of course they're gonna think, well, get this gun and shoot Godzilla
and it's gonna work, right, because it's not like where we are now,
where we have so much data and research and we've seen so many different
weapons. Up in this point, it's like, this gun works on everything,
you gotta shoot it. So I do get a bit of their point
of view because and also I said to Taylor, though, the other way
you look at it is if he shoots and it fails, only he dies,
and maybe all those other guys survive where their verses now he survived and
all of them died. But then you could argue if he doesn't survive,
they might not have a pilot for the final third app right, So it's
a full service. It's also it's also their fault because if he goes and
he shoots and he dies, then chances out of the mechanic still is scared
and shoots and then they die. Regards that was all of the mechanics fault.
But no, but you could also argue that if he sees that big
gun not work, oh I'm not gonna shoot because of that gun didn't work.
No, he was still shooting. He was no. See. I
disagree because I think the reason he shot is because the guy kept telling the
guy shoot shoot, shoots. So this guy's like, fuck, if he's
not gonna shoot, I'm gonna shoot. So I think there's a chance if
he shoots and that doesn't work, the guy's Okay, that gun clearly doesn't
work. They shot because they were getting scared because our pilot was like,
fuck it, I'm not shooting Godzilla, I'm out. So but Godzilla didn't
notice them. And then the guy the captain mechanics like, don't shoot you
idiot, he calls him. Yeah, he's still screwed up. But I'm
saying I think they shot out of fear because we like they did. Yeah,
that's so that's what I mean though, But if that guy shooting,
some of that fear is gone. They could run. They can see that
gun. If the pilot, everybody shoot. If the pilot shoots and it
doesn't work and dies, then the guy's gonna be even more terrified, like
fuck, fuck, it just starts shooting away. He's not gonna just hide.
You don't know, though, you don't know he pulled the helms deep
for sure, his finger slipped. He let that arrow loose a little bit
too early. But yeah, I agree with bits of both of what you
guys were saying. Actually, where I agree with Travis in the sense of,
like, up until this point, like like I don't I don't know
if I would really be relying on this this this failed Kamakazi pilot to go
do this, But also it like they are still in wartime, so technically,
like that is the order of operations that they have to do. So
I don't think like from the mechanics perspective of like sending him out there is
wrong by any means, because yeah, like up until this point, that
is the ultimate we like that will shred through anything. But I also kind
of agree with Taylor in the sense of, like, as soon as the
pilots start shooting, I think everybody's just shooting at the same time, Like
that's just fucking one big bank. Get this thing dead and then and then
we're fine. Taylor. To answer your question, you're asking me, if
I was gonna go do that, I probably I would like to think,
yes, I could go do that, but probably not. I'd probably be
running for the hills and just hiding in a grassy knoll somewhere because I would
try to pitch. Yeah, I would try to pitch and just say that's
not going to do anything. Let's just hide, you know, like that's
talk about this plan before this. Well it's like because they were whispering that
you go over there and showing the pilots are, it's like you go,
okay, I'm gonna go. Like it felt like a little bit snl skin,
not a bad way, but just like the shaking. So like I
would have bade a pitch of like let's just hunker down and hope for the
bat because that's how those two survivors, like the guy survived, I just
get knocked out. He didn't even hide, He just became a lifeless body
on the ground. You know. Initially I thought the plan was to actually
like get the plane airborne and like attack him from the sky or whatever.
So I'm like, oh, yeah, that that'll work out a little bit
better. But also I feel like this guy's just gonna fly away as soon
as he gets airborne. But no, he didn't turn on the plane.
I'm sure Godzilla would have, you know, stopped him right away in his
tracks. Probably didn't seem like he had like the best eyesight though, Godzilla,
I guess it was also pretty dark. Need some glass. It was
dark, and he needs some glasses. Maybe he's he's I don't know how
old days at this point. Plus the radiation can't be good for his eyes,
you know, just messing it up big time. I was gonna ask,
why do you think he did multiple like I think at least two maybe
three kills of theo like biting him and throwing the way. Does he not
like the taste of man flesh? Hmm? Yeah, I don't know.
I was just caught off guard while he and then would just throw him sea
fish, deep sea fish. That's what he feeds on. Oh okay,
that's what I was gonna ask you. Rid. In my mind, the
ocean just must have like nothing there in Japan, like it just must all
be gone. He's a big dude floating up right, so all the dead
fish and whatnot. Then he's even more hungry because he's not even getting those
little appetizers, like there must be a zero at least it's like there's no
sharks there but god Godzilla. You know, sharks in Japan. So you're
saying what I'm saying, by time Godzilla because he eats, right, Yeah,
like he would take no, he would get rid of it. He
would make the sharks extinct with how much this guy eats, you know.
But and then so we get our pilot. He goes home, like we
said, he get knocked out. It's everyone's dead except for one character who
we will talk about later on. But it's like a tossed something what I
don't know, oh, tash Shabani. But anyways, I'll just call him
the mechanic. He's just he pretty much just lays it out like you know,
pretty much your coward you why didn't you shoot? Like all these men
are dead because of you. So all the onus now has been put not
only from the war, but then this little incident here with Godzilla onto the
pilot. So the pilot goes home, why just to get no middle of
honor, no middle of honor on that chest. Going home, Yeah,
he goes home to get even more shit because not only is his house gone,
not only has his parents dead, you also have his a name being
like, you're a fucking coward, you loser. All these people would be
alive it wasn't for you, which I think she kind of like lessons later
on, but so pretty much the first fifteen twenty minutes, this is our
pilot being told constantly, yeah, you you should have died. You you
know, you should have given your life because it would help, when really
it couldn't have. But yeah again. And I think it's also like a
I don't think it's like they were gonna be alive, but I think it's
kind of like a karma thing where he didn't save those people, so something
gets taken from him, and I think he almost feels that a way,
where it's like universe telling him like maybe if you did, like do something
and help out as a pilot, maybe your parents would be alive. But
yeah, we got wreckage and you'd meet his his neighbor Simko. I'm not
sure, but they also stablished that she unfortunately lose their children. So that
was pretty fucking heavy. I thought she was just like alone, but now
she's alone and uh yeah, oh god, someone go I got. I
actually really liked that scene. It was really heavy. I feel like there
was some hope that he was gonna go home at least get like some answers
to where his family is, like yeah, they got displaced over here,
but just straight up no, they're they're completely gone. No yeah no,
no bits of them left, as well as her family and like probably ninety
percent of the people that were living in that neighborhood. But I really like
the dialogue actually from that neighbor character because I felt like it just really shine
a light on what the mindset was for like the Japanese people around that that
time of like like yeah, like it really was expected with like no if
ander butts, like if you're a Kamakazi pilot like you your life is going
to fight for Japan and like like defeat these enemies, and that really just
was like the national mindset across the board, So like this type of character
would have been like worse than scum, just like the fact that because like
and like it's even highlighted with her saying like my my family could have survived
or your family could have survived if you actually did your fucking job. And
again, like it's very skewed, especially from our point of view. It's
like clearly the one guy wouldn't have ended the war. Especially, I mean,
we just watched Oppenheimer man like like we know what was going on there.
So I feel like that was just a really really well done shot,
and especially just sticking with her character where she kind of evolves and grows too
later on in this story. Like the story doesn't take place over a week
like it is a few years, so I do like seeing that growth and
they are kind of able to yeah, just I mean for her forgive him
and move on from it. But it doesn't just take like one event it
is. It does take years as well as just kind of I don't know,
maybe seeing him grow from her perspective. So I really really liked just
that sequence, probably for like the gut wrenching like reveal of just his entire
family's gone, his home is gone, and he still just feels like this
emptiness in him because he has his weight of being like a deserter. Well,
I think it takes for him to grow, but also for the country
to grow, because they mentioned near the end, like okay, in that
mechanic at the beginning, mentioned about the war almost being over, but then
it feels like more that they establish Hey, a bunch of people died that
really didn't need to. Yeah, and even like you're talking about an Oppenheimer,
that becomes a big point off we dropped the bomb, but then it's
like, well, the war is almost over, so did we actually need
to drop that bomb? Like that almost made it worse. Funny out that,
oh we were already gonna win the war and now we've killed thirty Yeah,
yeah, fucking yeah, fucking oppy. Robert Man, he really fucked
up here. Mention that, like Einsin's just like you don't know what you've
created. But yeah, but in this same movie, same thing, they
get that mindset of which I was very surprised. So I know people might
be like they're talking about the forties, but when they're talking about how Japan
controls messaging and then you control what you see and everything, I was like,
I'm very surprised they got this movie made because I feel like some places
in that country will not let that happen. So and I think it's probably
beause they're talking about the forties, so they're like, oh, we've fixed
we fixed it all, you know. I mean, I don't really know
exactly how it is now, but I don't think Japan is necessarily like that
today's age. I think that's other surrounding Okay, I think yeah, And
then even at least for this story, then it shows that around that time
is when people are starting to realize, okay, there was a lot of
mistakes done in that war, So not only him growing, but also like,
okay, yeah, he was put in a situation that now we kind
of understand his perspective a little bit more, you know, so, and
like that's also spoken about even with I forget the character's name, but he's
like the general guy that was kind of leading like the war room meetings for
like that final battle, and just like even for him to come out and
just say like you guys don't have to do this, like this isn't this
isn't in order, this is a civilian ran thing. I think that also
just like highlights that growth of what especially for him being like a higher military
person, he would have been the one that would have had to enforce these
gig now go to your desks for for this one cause sort of mindset.
But it's it's very much different of a message of a message sorry that he's
he's trying to relay there. Well, and you see it again too with
just how the unveiling of him be the pilot being a Kamakazi pilot. More
people become privated that information, and he's kind of more forthright with telling people
that, and especially even the other guys of his little like bomb disarming squad,
they found out, and they really didn't seem to care because the war
was over and they were just moving on with their lives and I mean they
didn't want him to die at the end. Yeah, and those characters,
what happens is, well, I guess there's two things that happen. He
gets a job. He gets a job, I guess because he ran them
very very boldly. Meets this woman in a market, just hands on baby,
and then she runs. We don't even know why she was running,
so we never got that answer, which is fine, I don't need an
answer. But what she was stealing? Right? Yeah? So did she
steal? Oh? Yeah, they completely missed the thief. Yeah, I
didn't have They didn't give me subtitles in that they didn't know. They just
expected me to know Japanese. I was like, fuck, I didn't know.
Like every twine minutes they turned the subtitles off like, oh, okay,
but so I missed the thief line. There you go, I miss
the thief line. So yeah, she stole something, hands the baby,
he sits in on the market, koind of all day they link up and
they create this bond like non romance romance in a way like you know,
romance without the unspoken thing, know that sort of deal. Platonic relationship.
So no, that's not what that is. Platonic. Yeah, platonic means
they wouldn't want to fuck each other. Clearly they do. They just are
waiting for one person to make the move. No romantic or sexual features,
No, there are romantic platonic I don't know. They literally he literally talks
about how he wanted to kiss their maker, her wife and at the air
like I think there's romance there, I'd say. And that's what I like
about it, that for years or just together and I love that. It's
just kind of I also feel that because he let those people die, that's
why he feels like he's taking care of this woman, this baby. But
it just kind of feels like with what Kirk can talk about, how there's
barely no one left in that village. It's almost like you're just together by
default in a sense, like, well, maybe it's better if two of
us are together than we're on our own at least, even though she doesn't
start working until a few years, so he's just doing everything, but he
also gets a good gig. He's just going around blowing up minds and stuff.
But No, I really enjoyed the relationship between those two. I love
that they didn't really like make get overly romantic. It was always a like
will they won't they until the very very end, because I think at the
very beginning I was like, Oh, which way are they? And I
go. But once they start talking about oh, why don't Why wouldn't you
want to make her your wife? And he's like, oh, I just
want to make her my wife, Like that's sort of deal. So I
liked that there was a lot of subtext or subtleties in the beginning, and
No, I really enjoyed that. I think they had good chemistry. I
think she was like, for me, like the weakest thing. As far
as acting wise, there's a couple of scenes that was I don't know,
I feel like she was just bringing she was going to a ten when she
didn't need to go to a ten. There's certain times where she was just
yelling at him like Okay, I don't know, I don't know if this
is needed right here, but that's it's just a minor complaint. But no,
I really liked their dynamic with the child. Everything sucked when they lost
and when she got back that so I saw like, oh, I was
like when they got that nose, like okay, we're good to go.
But I don't know. There was that hit home at the end when he
finally sees her and she asked the war's over. It was all all all
gravy for me, like very, very well done, very and it's only
two hours, but it feels like it's earned. The ending scene, you
know, and feel like an eye rolling Okay these two are together now.
All yeah, No, it very much felt earned because of all those years
that we kind of got to see them spend together. And I was really
shocked actually when she pomped off at the end that that's what I was talking
about earlier where I didn't see that that end scene initially, So when I
was rewatching it and got her there, it it completely blew my mind because
even for our protagonists, like that's a big reason why he was willing to
just you know, come a cozy for the Godzilla finally, like it's a
full circle moment he's able to finally do it. And also but like properly
end this war as opposed to just being like another stat in a in a
losing war. Anyways, he knew that the little Girl was going to be
cared for the female protagon, not really protagonists, like a side character that
we like, like we saw them together. She's gone now, so there's
not like that that he's going home to. And then yeah, it was
a nice reveal with the parachute, and then at the end of the movie,
like I was just shocked and the way that he just emotionally like broke
down there. I thought that was a really really impactful scene. It was
a nice reveal for sure, But getting back to like they're just meeting together.
I really really liked how it went. I liked how he didn't spend
too much time of like going through all the logistics of like, oh,
how were we gonna make this work staying together, Like we just kind of
fast forwarded through a lot of that stuff, And I don't think I was
needing it at all. I really like the it was it was semi like
comical how they they wound up there. It's like, why were you standing
out there all day? Like I was waiting for you to leave the market,
Like he just stood there for hours for no reason. And then she
kind of convinced him to let them stay for just like just get cleaned up,
and then they just are like instantly sleeping on the couch. That was.
That was really cute and wholesome. So I really liked how all that
went. And it also like for our protagonist character, like what was his
like what would have been his goal? Like up until that point, it's
not like he had something to really fight for. He lost all of his
family. Like I liked how this was something that kind of had him like
just sticking to it and like living, you know, like something to actually
live for. Like he's providing for the little girl, providing for this woman
and kind of starting a path to write some of his past wrongs. And
it was it was it was a nice I don't know, it was just
a nice meet up for them, and I definitely felt the stakes were at
play for our characters here. Even though Godzilla could just stomp this this little
town at any point, like it really felt like we even if it was
a losing battle, like this is a battle worth fighting for versus what the
war was, right, So I just I really really liked how that was
handled. I mean, like, that's that's like the human story that we
like, the main human story. I think throughout this movie, there's a
lot of other characters that have their own motivations to fight for, but that
was definitely the most convincing one. Yeah, I think that the way they
introduced their relationship at the beginning, it was very innocent, he's very fun.
So I was able to really get on board with that. And when
you go into the further emotional steps where you learn about this child not even
being this woman's biological child. This woman just took the child in because another
woman died in the air raids and says like, please take care of her.
And he's like, oh, why would you take the child if you
can't even take care of a child, and like, well, the child
would have died and no one took it. So I just think that there's
this moment here where, yeah, lots of storylines are starting to unfold,
and like you said, Kirkland, just this very simple event just really turned
it around for him because he was definitely ready to just I don't know,
he wouldn't have killed himself because obviously he couldn't go through being a Kamakazi pilot.
But he's so depressed and he's just trying to live with himself and this
failure and yeah, it's that's that's brutal. But he he gets this job
and he's got like the first walled building in this little village again, like
he's he's pimping out. Yeah, he's got all the good food and every
this coward has a whole house around him, the whole knowledge, all of
his neighbors. Just like, doesn't the thought right the fuck this guy even
in the war, he didn't do his job. He comes back, he
has a house. He is a woman now, yeah, a government job
man. But that's what I love about it is when we're thinking about because
we've seen, we have and we will see dozens dozens of movie just the
way that these three and the other characters do from his job get connective,
of course, but at least the home life. You have the woman who
has the baby, who found the baby. Then you have the woman who
lost the baby, and then you have him who's kind of like in the
middle, and they all have a bond and get together to take care of
this child because the child all sees nothing to do with the war, and
it has it's just that's been put on upon them, right, they've literally
been there. It's like aged one and a half to at this point maybe
I'd say more I guess probably even younger than one when we first meet her.
And that's where it's like they kind of just all even the person the
cat, like the neighbor, remember, just called him a coward when he
got back. So she really has no reason but the first night because and
that's what's so sad, she like breastfeed's a child because she lost her child.
She some right, like she doesn't have to. This is the guy
that she just like reamed out a couple of hours ago, right or the
day before. But the goodness in her heart. So that's so I love,
Like these three characters are conjoined. It's like three minute of a baby
but like the worst possible war Godzilla, you know. But that's what I
love. It's a unique dynamic and that's why I liked where they laned into
the romance stuff more near the end of like they you know, they're both
kind of waiting to see who would make a move first, or if they
should make a move right. At one point, I thought she's gonna move
out because when she got the job. I think he even thought that too,
because she was dressed up and had some stuff packed and he looked really
worried. So I liked the first half was just okay, let's just get
back on her feet. And then after they had been together for like two
three years, it was like, okay, you know what's gonna happen here,
And then when he's maybe starting to think about doing something, she gets
sucking pulled away in like some air tonado or something. You know, so
maybe think of the boys that that early scene, she just got taken out,
and like, I appreciate it, but I was always like, why
don't you just like tackle him, Like why did you just push him so
and just take take it all? You know, But you know, showed
she was And again great moment too, where in that scenario, I'm sure
he's hoping that he should be the one that dies. Right early on in
those years, he's like, oh, don't, don't let the child call
me dad. You know, you're not my wife, like he's it's weird.
He's taking care of them and doing all the noble things, but he
doesn't want any of the credit for it, probably because the guilty has had
for the other stuff. But again, yeah, but again, at that
point when you think she's dead, it's like the wrong person died here.
It should have been me, And now he's stuck again. No, no,
like it's not stuck as the child, but just in a way where
everyone around him keeps dying and he keeps doing putting these scenarios, whether it's
his choice or not. So it's just so much interesting stuff going on throughout
the movie. That's not even Godzilla stuff, you know. No, yeah,
oh sorry, Taylor. I was just gonna say, what is it
that Peter Parker Toby's Peter Parker says, where it's like, am I not
supposed to have what I want? Isn't that Spider Man two? Yeah?
Is Spider Man two? That's the pilot he's hit in the window. I'm
not supposed to have the things that I want, the things that I need,
And like the neighbor came in with some rice. Let's take let's take
our second ad break and we'll be right back, and we're back. I
was just gonna mention like that that like that middle ground that all of our
characters kind of met upon, which was providing for like the little girl.
It just really speaks like that human trait I think, to like just want
to care for something even if you aren't related to it. Because even even
the protagonist character like he was super just like shit talking like the girl,
you know, it's like she's not even your own and like it's already so
hard to survive in this environment right now, and you're taking on this like
just infant that's gonna need all the attention, all the care just to survive
in like ideal conditions, let alone this just city. That's it's it's almost
like a last of Us situation, Like it's just everyone's barefoot in like the
rubble, and it's it just is so terrible, but at the the day,
like it kind of makes a bit of a community, although it is
just kind of those three characters helping each other out. Like I mean,
you said it, Travis, like probably an hour earlier, like that lady
was just shit talking, or maybe it was the day before ye our protect
is of just how he like he doesn't even deserve to be there or be
living because it was his job to stop all of this, and just like
that thing tying everyone together throughout the entire movie is just, I don't know,
it was really special and like, yeah, just something that like there's
probably infants and stuff in peril in these like later twenty fourteen Godzilla movies,
but I don't like they just they were just told in such a very masterful
way in this movie and really had me just emotionally invested with our human characters
here, and then I wasn't sure task and then we bump back. I
know, we talked a little bit all over, but at least we should
go back to the godzill part they you know, do the mind thing,
you know. I do like that one moment where the guy shooting and he's
like, oh, like one of the worker guys and he misses a bunch
and he's like, only the war lasted like a little longer. I could
have like got my practice up and our main characters fucking kind of loses it
on him. But I like that's it. Yeah, But I like that
it's like they take that it's like, okay, we're not gonna talk about
it's not like a Throughout the rest of the movie, they have you know,
tension and they don't get along. They it's like, okay, yeah,
I'm I get it. You went through war and I didn't. And
then so you know, they're making money. Like we said, he builds
up his place. It's been a few years. But then one day,
lo and behold, they're on this boat and boom the fucking fish come up
and you know, okay, this this can't be good. And this time
he says, oh, there's so much more than last time. And this
is why I like, this is why I pushed back on the I know
they're different characters, but the guy's not shooting at the beginning, because we
have the captain of the boat, right or the guy he's kind of a
bit more. Yeah, I guess he was a captain. He has this
whole idea that they're gonna kill God's will take it down, Like I can't
remember what the plan was, but they're gonna do something. And then the
second he sees it come up and grab the boat, he's like, hey,
we're just gonna So that's why my pitch is like, if that guy
got on the cannon and shot the airplane gun, those guys could have been
like, hey, fuck it, actually, let's not do this, because
I feel like, in your mind you think it's gonna work until you see
it and you're like, Okay, it doesn't work. Let's not do it.
And that's what happened here because they're all for it. We got a
plan. He's like, I don't care, I'll die, like I'll die
defending this ship, and the oh no, we're going and they hit the
gas and they're out of there until Godzilla's just like creeping up and stuff like
that. You know. Yeah. My counter to to that point is that
the other guys were actually like military guys. I'm not saying they're soldiers,
but they're at least like in the military where these other ones are just saw
what Godzilla was this captain it could have been a big shark. You didn't
know. Yeah, but yeah, then you get this shot and my god,
those eyes what a terrifying mom Yeah, just swimming after and I love
the design that he's like like a shell barnacle, like like what's growing?
He looks like oysters. They have stuff he looks like fucking Billy Jones other
William Turnervil. Yeah, but like that's what they have growing off them and
everything. And I really liked that about Gudzill, where some of it is
his body, but some of it's just like weird growth that is now just
like attached to it. So but yeah, that stuff's all good. Like
I said, there's some when you watch it back, there's some water effects
that when you look at the top of the sad when he stands up,
which sometimes I was also like I didn't understand the standing physics because they made
it seem like the water was like a lot or he would he'd be floating
I think in the water because they showed that that just displayed he naturally floats.
They showed that he doesn't move at all. He's just like he just
looks like a statue in the water. Like it's about not oh yeah,
no, it's like every time like, oh we got to sink about like
he's literally like when he charges up, he had like you would have to
brace yourself. There's yeah, there's nothing. I guess feed are though,
I mean those are those are flotation devices in themselves. Yeah, or they
would just flip them, so he's fucking head first in the water. You
know. So that stuff didn't but that was not the effects that I were
about. Like I said, watch it back in the future, you'll see
there's water effects on the sets, like but for the most part, that
is maybe the scariest one because just think you're on this boat and design wise
though stuff around and like a crook and said, there's some o other boat
stuff too. Later on and even in the middle of the chase there's some
shots, but again that was all fine, you can look past it just
super scary, like just like what we do. And obviously they create a
plan, they blow up its face doesn't work as it regenerates. But yeah,
that was just a great set piece. I think that's probably my favorite
set piece. It's are that at the beginning, because there's some great stuff
near the end, but that because it's just this somehow you're in the open
water and the sea, but it's still a claustrophobic moment because god Zilla is
literally ten inches from You're just swimming and you're just hoping for the best here
and you know, yeah, that whole scene was it was it was so
fucking terrifying. It was fantastically terrifying, and I liked how it unfolds where
the scientists who's there and he was basically like a I think a sea ballistics
weapon specialist throughout the war, and he kind of unveils this plan, not
his plan, but the government's like, hey, it's like a need to
know basis here. But we're really out here to hunt and delay Godzilla.
We're not out here necessarily to be you know, stripping all the minds out
of the ocean because they knew God's The government knew Godzilla was on its way
to Japan, and so they were out here to use the minds as their
weapons just to delay Godzilla so that the released warships that were being strended back
to Japan to fight Godzilla could arrive here in time because he had many ships
captured in the war, and many ships that were going to be sent off
to the UN were being relinquished back to Japan. And again this is how
the States was technically helping him because the States didn't want to, I guess,
deploy military out to help Japan because it would have increased tensions with the
Soviet Union and that war going on, so the States were pretty much useless
except for our supplying warships, and every warship they were giving to Japan,
she's getting fucking murked. So it was I got really excited when that after
the sequence of Godzilla's face like blowing up and he regenerated, and then you
see this warship come in. That was that was exciting, and the it
was great. And Godzilla like jumps on the side of the warship and like
as he's on the side of the warship, the cat like the guns on
the deck turn and like fucking firing on him. Still like it's just all
out chaos. Then he like falls back into the water and yeah, then
the beam, the blue beam is glowing into the water and just goes up
and just I'm not sure if it was to scale like this and the older
Godzilla movies, but at least in this go around, it was a full
on nuclear blast and it just was incredible seeing how much damaged his beam shot
really really did much more powerful than the newer movies. Godzilla's beams. This
beams like a one hit kill like anything that is not taken out, so
mm hmm. And then that happens, and then we kind of have some
stuff and that's where we're skipping over. But there's tons of moments and scenes
where it's our main character. He hits some dreams as well, but it's
a lot of him going through the trauma stuff, which we've talked about.
But there's a lot of that in the middle, which is all good stuff.
Well acted, you know, he finally emits some of the things that's
going on, and then yeah, the first time they realize okay, he's
coming to Japan and we talked about a little bit. But that's where we
do lose the female protagonists for a little bit because they very coincidental or luckily
me like he he's with the child, the alarm goes off. I do
like that the warning. She's like there's a big monster coming, Like there's
no like just imagine like you're thinking, it's another New Girl podcasting here,
and all of a sudden we skipped Murvracy learn our phones. There's a giant
monster comes from Alert is giant monster coming to kelowna run fleet. It's just
like because like other than our main character is like the five six of them,
because obviously he shares this with you know, his potential love interest and
stuff. The rest of Japan do not know about the things. They just
got alert that there's a giant dinosaur monster coming look out and then when they
go do he's there destroying stuff news cruise idiot, Like I get what they're
actually don't get it. Yeah, that's so he's coming. He's coming closer.
You can feel the building. Classic, But they deserve what they got
at that point. They should have got there one shot and then ran.
That's all they needed. I don't committed, Like I don't even think one
shot, but like at least if you go up there getting then go,
but like hopefully that news one oscar. Yeah, look at them either like
he didn't even know that he mrked them, powered right through the building.
He's like the fucking camera guy and no, like okay, man, like
just you shouldn't have been for the golden shot. Something that I loved about
that city scene though, is like for me, I feel like these are
the most iconic Godzilla scenes, Like thinking back of him just tearing down a
giant city and like really just decimating everything when he's when he's just stomping through
the city, this is where you really get to see like that full scale
of size that he's at because he's he's underwater or sorry, he's out of
water. He's got his arms. I chuckled. They look so painful.
He looks like it's just so he can't scratches his back or his ass for
that matter, with those little actually doing He's not even just straying Japan,
He's just itching his body. So get this off ast. I chuckled so
much to myself when he first was like just standing there because I was just
picturing the new Godzilla trailer and just this version just starting to sprint through the
city. But luckily it didn't happen. I liked his his more rigid movements,
but yeah, that was just that was great, especially like this is
where we have more of that theme hidden and it's just doom and terror just
taking out absolutely everyone and no one's safe, even if there's tanks or whatnot,
Like you can't do absolutely anything to this, to this thing. It's
it's really just up to Godzilla to leave the city for this, uh,
this doom and destructing destruction to end. And yeah, I love seeing the
cannon go off. Those tanks just started opening, fire popping off and I
didn't do any good because you had the scene where he gi tanks those are
ones and I pulled up it was like this looked like a cut scene out
of a fucking armor cores. Yeah, now this this is really really cool
because we already saw the beam get used while he was underwater. But to
see him now above ground, above ground, you out of water. You
could see like the spikes shooting up, all the tail going up his back
as they were going blue. That was so cool. Really ejected that it's
great. And then he's just like why does he leave again? What am
I forgetting? Why he leaves? He's just pimpaff and he's as signed to
come back scratch he scratched. He's like, all right, I feel better
now. I mean he knew the whole city. There wasn't much left to
really do, so yeah, but he comes he but that's the whole thing.
He's coming back to Pan at the end of the movie, remember,
And like, what's his motivation area for doing that in the first place?
Just he likes destruction. I can't that's something argue that he's like, he's
like attracted to the radiation or something from from the nukes. Or yeah,
that's what well, at least that's what I eat on their nuclear power plants.
That's what they yeah, they say, because I felt like that was
the only thing. I felt It was odd that he came there just trying
to notice at another place, but I like, why didn't he just like
keep going. He got to a certain part of the city and it was
like a video game where like he couldn't get past the loading walls. Okay,
I'm gonna turn back, and like I'll come back, And I get
it. I get it because they had to do the whole, Yeah exactly,
you had to like do the whole everyone's gonna get together make the plan.
So I understand that it just felt a little off there, but not
a big thing. But no, I thought all the destruction was good there.
It was. I liked it because again I hadn't seen I was like,
I hadn't seen any trailers. I just heard saw a few images and
heard the hype, so I was wasn't sure too, are we gonna for
sure go the city? Because so foremost it have been based on an island
in the water, so I wasn't sure in this movie, are we even
going to go there? So when he showed up, it was like like
of course, I was like, oh fuck, Like I guess he's here.
Now, there's not much you can do. And and then yeah,
because he has a child here, that's where I was trying to go.
He has the the alert goes off, and then he just runs into the
city of Japan to find the woman he lives with, and it's like,
I guess, yeah, not only just like in a regular say of Japan,
this is mass hysteria. People are running, it's tear and he just
happened like she's on the ground. You gotta go, you gotta go.
And again, like I did appreciate because I have the thought wheneveryone's running away
from God' zonem like, why don't you just like take a couple of steps
back and like then go behind. But I did like when they zoomed on
his steps and they're like and like all the concrete was shoot up and stuff,
So like you could do that, but it'd be very risky, but
you just gotta like wait for that first crack. You just gotta climb them
book the other way. That's what I would do. I would hope I
had the same thought. Yeah, scene I time the steps as soon as
he plants, I'll be writing that foot and then run back. But then
I just get crushed by a bowler. Yeah, or he would just and
he would be like, oh no, it's over. I was expecting to
tail. It's probably just like, well, you just gotta get past his
feet and then take a right or left, whichever saide you're on. You
don't want to go full you don't want to go full behind because you right
the tail. But that's what I was. I was not gonna run in
front of him. I would wait, I would try to time it out.
I'm like the same thing. But yeah, he does find her,
but yeah he gets she gets plown away by just air and destruction and everything.
So would you sit on the train when the train stops and you look
out the window and you have clearly probably like five minutes before Godzilla reaches you.
I don't even know, man, I don't even those mags when they
show like the earth exploding, like what would you do. It's like die
like one hundred million tall, hundred million mile tall, like tsunami wave,
It's like, what would you do? I know, text my mom say
see on the side, like well, there's nothing to do when you're in
the train. And it's just so funny that, like we had Mission Impossible
this year, like almost not the same train signs, but just there.
I would love it if they called imagine that if a Godzilla movie end and
like who do we need to get and just ended with the M I be
like, dude, it's like a mission of Fossole, Like fuck, that'd
be hype. But no, it's just like it ended the same way right
where Tom was hanging at the end and there was like he was dangling.
It's the same thing for her, but luckily it was in the water.
I would also just stay in the fucking water. Now. Granted, if
he came back that way, you're fucked, but he wasn't around that area,
so I would just dropped and then just stayed there, stay, stay
hold onto a side, and just stay swimming in there, call of duty
style, just just for could close in the water. Yeah, that train,
that train sequence was terrifying because like that's one of the worst places to
be, especially when Godzilla is just around at one point he just like zeros
in on it. There's nothing to do. You just gotta be a great
shot when it's her and it's like the reflection of Godzilla on the window.
Like that was a great shot. So, like I said, unless you
have water, there's no I think you. I think I would just try
to sit there, Like what would you do if there was no water?
Well, you just try to hold on in hope. If he's coming to
the train, I'm getting I'm on boarding the train. I'm getting off the
train at least because it wasn't a stop though, You're just gonna jump tight
and stopped? Did it? Oh? Yeah, still stopped it? Well,
no, they were there were it was. It was moving and then
he flew that like other train, like you threw the train and it lands
in front, it goes to the operators like ah. So that's tough because
because he asked me in that second, if I just saw a monster throw
a train into my train, would I have the weartholt to get up and
get out? I don't know, because I think I would still be processing
hitting the bell at least next stop, please, I still think at the
foot of me again, the amber alert saying there's a giant dinosaur. I
would still be processing what's happening. But yes, if I had enough time
you'd want to get out, but you don't know what if the trains are
like like the doors are locked, right, this isn't our trains, this
is nineteen forty, So what if it's like fucking something happened in control and
you're just you're locked in there. But yeah, I would try to I
would try to get out if I didn't know there was water. If I
knew there was water, I guess you just have to hope that he hasn't
taken and bite it. But all you gotta do is you just gotta hope
that he picks you up and you just pencil dive it and you just go
down there. You don't want to be in that initial bite if you see
him coming down the built one of the train carts. You gotta get to
the next adjacent KRT because or you're gonna hope that when he bites it,
a window breaks and you just got like, wasn't she in that middle cart
like she was in like the sidewalk because she was on the side. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. I feel like if I have time, I would
like to think I'd just run, but also like I feel like I would
just be paralyzed, like seeing this thing come at me, just hoping for
a quick day. It's happened, you know, it's it's finally happening.
Oh my god, there's nothing else we can do. Yeah, but yeah,
so yeah, she gets torn up. She's gone, and then they
start making this plan. Okay, they're gonna tie up Godzilla with these pressure
balloons or whatever something I can't remember what the technical term was, like yeah,
something. And I was like, this is the part where if it
with it being in nineteen forty where I'm like, I don't know if you
could pull all this off. But granted, okay, fair enough, you
know, like the fucking nuclear bomb was made, so maybe they could.
I think it was more just a short time because they do this in like
a day, a day or two, or like we got the perfect plan
to take all God's I was like, oh really, I guess I'm just
used to movies where like from the beginning, it's like we've been working on
this for months or years, and like this guy day one is like we're
just gonna sink him and the pressure will kill him and we're done. It's
like oh shit, And obviously didn't work out. But I was just like,
in fact that I kind of came there, but they didn't have a
plan B. But yeah, that was their plan. They were gonna go
and then go take them down and see the pressure. And if that didn't
work, they were gonna what were they gonna bring them up? What were
they gonna do to him? Again? They were just gonna like make him
rise because they had the big flotation devices, so as he rises, the
pressure would suck him up right again, right, and hope that that works.
And neither one worked. Really, yeah they did damage, but they
didn't work work, and oh, go ahead, that's right. I was
just gonna say I liked I liked the like what the plan actually was.
It was more than just Okay, we're gonna get this bomb inside of him
up his butt and he's just gonna explode. You like like it. It
actually was pretty creative and they had a lot of big science he terms on
why it would work, and I don't know, it was just a different
plan than maybe I was expecting or had seen in the past. So I
did like that, And I also liked how not everyone was just like,
Okay, we've got the golden plan, this is gonna work. It like
they actually were kind of poking holes in it, and like they're all terrified.
They've already barely survived like World War two, and now they're going back
out there to fight like just fucking Godzilla, Like this is worst case scenario.
You're out of the frying pan right into the fire, the fiery water
for that matter, Like you were just fucked. And I like that.
Even the doctor h was like, wow, we don't know for sure this
was happened, and really like it. It really was up to like our
protagonists to take this thing down because no one like made Itch made it so
that he was gonna be the plan b He just felt like this was what
he had to do the plant technically. Yeah, no, yeah, you're
right, so plans see the that probably not everybody even knew about. It
was just just this was something that he really wanted to do, and they
yeah, because it wasn't even in the planet. He actually the mechanic.
Yeah yeah, yeah, he was just supposed to be up there, and
I guess they had the bombs for just in case. But and yeah,
that was the other point that I didn't mention that at full Circle is that
when they started working on these plants, all going great until the guy that's
gonna help them with this plane and get it ready is the guy from the
island that survived with him that called him a coward and pretty much say you
know, motherfucker, you're gonna run how like whatever the equivalent is just saying,
you let all these men down and you killed them all. And we
also didn't talk about too that this character, the pilot, has kept all
their photos from them, so he's like still constantly reminding himself, which I
would just laugh the fans, like, I'd love to get that photo back.
But he our mind, our main character, and I think that's where
they start to bond eventually, is the mechanic finds or sees that wall and
sees that they have all the photos, and he realizes even that when they
first meet, it's not an instant forgive or time. He's still bitter about
it. He's still like he he beats him up a little, like he
it's not like other people that have been oh the war, like we kind
of get it now. This guy at this point it's like, no,
still, fuck you, you don't deserve to live. You let us all
die. You didn't do your job. But near the end they start to
you know, he gives them, uh, the ejection seat. And I
do like that full circle moment where he could have not like he could have
been a dick, but he was trying to almost like break the cycle of
I'm not gonna just because this guy in his mind led to the death of
his men, He's not also gonna leave, like let his actions lead to
the death of a man. Even if he doesn't like that man, he
will go and go out of his way to save him. So I really
liked that mini arc that he had. I was in the impression that he
came around and found the pilot because the pilot put out these letters saying like
you were responsible for the death of the men on the island or something like
that, Like he just made up some bullshit. And then he said like
when the when the mechanic came and confronted him, he was kicking the shit
out on the pilots, like I had to just make this up just to
get you here because I needed to talk to you. I think that's what
he did, just but I can't remember fully, but I think that's why
we make up well, because he wrote some letters out from what I remember
to the mechanic the pilot. The pilot wrote these letters out to the mechanic,
and in the letters it was basically basically stating that the mechanic was at
fault and he fucked up and everything just but then when the mechanics showed up
at the pilot's place kicked the ship up, and the pilots like, oh,
I just did this just to get you here, Like that's why the
mechanic kind of calmed down and came to the sense can you imagine getting a
lever a letter from the guy that fucking murdered all your friends, like you're
a little pussy, it's all your Faulthera's relation. Yeah, they were the
cheating like, well, I only cheated because you made me. You know,
I wouldn't cheat if you acted like this, you know. So yeah,
I'm just still still saying that he was not on board with that character
at the beginning, and he was ready he was if like obviously Japan a
bunch of just got destroyed, which again in this also it's I love not
love, but you know what I mean, Like it starts with our main
character getting back. Just Japan is like annihilated and now it's fine building up.
People are starting to build like that area up again that was destroyed,
and then already they do that shot of it's just a bunch of just wreckage
and it's like already three to four years later it's all being taken down again.
But this sudden least it's like a you know, one being that they
can focus or angel and we can take this down. So this guy,
the mechanic was always gonna help. But still he was not too pleased that.
Of course it was this fucking guy. But again he didn't have to
fix that or do that ejector seat, like he went out his way through
that, and like when he was survived, he was like emotional about because
again I just think that he he didn't want that cycle to continue. He
didn't want to like just kill out a revenge or vengeance or whatnot. So
I appre it was for a character that really has I don't know what fifteen
twenty minutes of screen time, Like he even got a mini arc, you
know, and that's really impressive arc that like meant something, you know,
So that's very impressive, No, for sure, because I mean there's so
many factors that have happened between the end of the movie, and like that
opening sequence when he just hates our pilot, just really thinks that he should
have been the one to die there. But like he's had years of growth,
along with the entire country of Japan throughout the movie. And but also
just like seeing Godzilla, maybe more now it's like, Okay, maybe there
isn't anything he could have done. He just fucking destroyed all these all these
destroyer ships, all of these military individuals, also just all of Tokyo.
So fuck. I feel like maybe he's realizing that the twenty mil gun that
he was, he was anything. He can cut through anything. I would
have loved that first day. He would have been like, man, if
you would just shove this whole thing would have been over. You would could
have killed him on that day. Baster, Like here's a twenty milk gun.
Yeah, he was a baby back then. Look at him now,
look at the size of him now. I just love it. Like he
was just convinced that they could have killed him that day, was like oh
yeah. And then also just like when they're when they're doing that final plan
and like they they've already had their meeting for it and they're actually starting the
plan I can't remember if it's the doctor character or someone else, but they're
really just highlighting how even though this is like dire straits, this is the
worst possible threat they could be going against, like everyone just is super unified
and like has a goal to come together on. It. Really just I
think shows the growth of like where those like where the people were at the
end of the war versus like they've had some time and like some hope build
back in as opposed to just we just got our asses handed to us and
everyone like just people that are innocents are are murdered from just the war.
So I really really liked just where they're at at the end and morale being
surprisingly high going into that that final clash, even though they're Plan A and
B went horribly wrong right away. Uh thank god they had, you know,
the pilot for plancy. It was a nice sit madic epic uh final
clash. And I think the help into which I really really enjoyed the scene
was the mechanic When he saw his photos, he also saw the drawing that
the little girl did of mom and dad and him, and I love that
when we got that drawing, that's when the mom was at that point dead
and it was just super sad scene where you know, the daughter, which
you could tell that the directors had like they were like the kid would be
fine, and then we just kind of the kids crying like clearly they were
not. Yeah, I was just like I don't know, like where's mom.
She's gone. She's just kind of like it's fine. It's a little
kids one where it's like, was like, why are you sad? And
she looks like so normalist, like she had like a doll was like a
button like be sad. But I appreciated this scene that she drew this picture.
In this one, he's kind of finally accepting that, Okay, this
is you know, my daughter that you know I have raised. But it's
a sad scene at that point because she doesn't know her mom's dad and she
was but we think that and just this drawing like that that all that stuff
that was hidden, that was hidden the heart strings there that was really making
me care. And then again she's getting left again, even though we understand
why her main character has to do this, that he has to kill Godzilla,
you thing for this little girl's perspective, like case, she lost her
natural parents and then the two people that raised like she's just bouncing from one
place to another. It's like these people care about her, but still it's
like eventually it's gonna fuck with your psyche. So that's why I was cheering
at the end. With some movies, that's where it just comes down to
writing stuff where some movies I might roll my eyes with the wife still being
or the mother still being alive, right and be like, oh, of
course she didn't die, But there's something here where I was like, okay,
and there's clearly more too. But I was like, I'm I want
this happy ending. I want these people to all be I want him to
not be fighting this war. I want her to get proposed to. I
want this kid to have a mom and dad and not just to cry on
command. But like, so I was very they were hidden the heart strings
very well with the little girl in this movie. So yeah, the the
mom character there was looking like Harvey dent the end. We don't get the
full face revealed, but I don't think she's as twisted as Harvey was after
that incident. That's a sequel. She's just you have to get to get
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we're back, and I guess I wanted to talk about now because me as
well, it doesn't matter to the very end. But still so with that
character, she's in the hospital, Like I said, I think a really
great scene of asking the war is over. That guy just fucking breaks down.
He's had a tough three or four years and whatnot. But anyways,
they're together, they're hugging, and then they pan and they show something on
our neck moving around like almost to something in her like skin or something.
And I'm very curious because for me, I and you know, Taya's going
so of course he's not gonna hear any of this, but I don't what
did your take from that, Kirkle and that when that was going on,
So got that Taylor left because I was just gonna say, I did not
notice that at all on both of my view inside acually, So that's where,
Yeah, when they go to her neck, it looks like there's like
like something like it's inside her skin. It looks like it's like moving.
So I'm not sure if like some of this godzill debris like Godden her or
something like that. But that's where for me, I thought it was kind
of setting up a sequel, but well, we'll turn to that. Like
I feel like they already had set up is equal enough for just showing like
the water and Godzilla kind of foreman back up again or whatever it was.
So I don't like I get it, but like like we'll get this third
act. But the way they kill Godzilla, it was like, will nothing
kill this this beast thing? Because he literally turned out like crumble ash.
But Taylor, we were talking because Kirk didn't notice it. What was your
take on what was going on with her neck there? Well, yeah,
it's it's really hard to say. I mean, I don't know if there's
some old theme or aspect from the Godzilla lore where they're they're they're pulling from
were sourcing this from. I don't know if there's something new. It just
seems like it's some form of the radiation has played a part here, and
maybe that goes hand in hand with them before because they when they were in
the city after the destruction, the scientists were saying or the talk show radio
folks were saying that they couldn't properly follow Godzilla because the radiation was too high
and they were scanning items and and it was showing how some things were highly
radiated. So maybe there is there is that going on, and maybe that's
just what happened with her, and probably a lot of other people don't take
a quick look and see what other people are saying. Yeah, the woman's
but it was strange because when I saw that and the what was I gonna
say? And the uh, well it says radiation sickness to to Godzilla's heat
ray. You hate to see. So she's messed up because I said,
oh, I guess we're gonna sequel, and Taya right away it's like no,
I don't think so. I was like, but well, between that,
like this lady having something and then like Godzilla's head growing at the end,
like I felt like they will try to you some sort of fall up
and everything. I know. Your point here was like all this guy's won
his war, but it's like wow, just like now it's Godzilla, you
know, like and maybe even then he doesn't have to be the main character
too, you know, but no, one hundred percent, you could do
a sequel with all new characters, And I mean, if it's the quality
of what this is, what's at that thing in her neck? Though?
Right when you want to touch upon that which just radiation sickness, it sounds
what it is? It just rating. I watched the HBO Chernobyl. I
know what happens. Did they have a horrible death in a couple of years?
I guess I was gonna say, did they have black things in their
skin just moving and stuff like that? They had horrible things happening to them
in that one? I know, I know the effects, but I mean,
like, did they have that where that thing was like animated? I
don't even see it, so I don't know. I I'll find a gift
for it. Yeah, I feel though, like just telling the story of
Godzilla again, like I wouldn't write off a sequel by any means, especially
at this already getting like super low budget too, wasn't it It was like
fifteen mil or something, Yeah, something like that supposedly, Yeah, I
don't know, yeah, uh and then yeah, they we kind of talked
about it. They flowed him up, They bring up didn't work. He's
about to charge up. The pilot gets the ship in his mouth, bombs
them. Like I was saying to Kirkling while you're going, Terry just crumbles,
which were very cool. I like the visuals of it, but I
thought I was like, oh, there's no way you can bring this motherfucker
back, like he's there's nothing has to be like Godzilla's son or daughter or
something. But no, he does come back. But yeah, they kill
him. You know, everyone gets a happy ending for the boat. Well
not everybody, I mean our main characters. I'm sure a lot of people
had a really tough goal that day and god so but yeah they defeat him,
and uh yeah, it's anything else mentioned about the third act, the
whole sequence with them just basically sacrificing two ships just to get that beam to
fire off and have to make it like recharge so they could just go in
there, and Godzilla is just like looking around as they do their their circle
around the theme kicks in. It was just so so wild and crazy,
and I like, I liked their their experiment, I guess you could say.
And how I ended up working and just shooting him down that scene it
was it made me laugh because when he charged up his beam and he was
gonna use it and he immediately just got shot down. And as soon as
like he stopped, like just descending, he just stopped and his blue light
just switched off like someone switched It was really funny and he was just like
stagnant there. But then I really enjoyed when the tugboats all came in to
help pull God's will back up. Just this whole fucking army of tugboats just
coming to the rescue. That was really cool. A big guy tugboats,
A big fan of tugboats. Yeah, I have my grandpa worked tugboats.
But the guy was just the young kid was just like like I brought the
fucking help or whatever paraphrasing of course, and then the old left. Yeah,
they told him to stay back and he was all disappointed. That was
a good moment. Yeah. Yeah, so just Routie and just the way
they they showed that scene of just like thirty tugboats in front of one like
military ship just pulling and the weight is still on this one crane on the
back of one of these boats. I feel like it's not a fucking jet
made in Japan, though the Japanese made. Come on, I think it's
lasting forever. Especially they mentioned it's like a Godzilla weighs like twenty thousand tons
or something like, Okay, that's super rated. Yeah, anything else,
I don't think so. I think we hit. I think that's sets,
yeah, family or something. No, not yet, I will. We
retrospected this movie in half a decade, so mister Batzer her final thoughts and
rating. Final thoughts on this movie, I think this is, uh,
you know, I haven't seen many of them, but I think it is
by far the best Godzilla movie ever made. And maybe there's some black and
white film that's that's up there in quality, but I just was really really
surprised by pretty much all all of the main pieces of this film. I
thought Godzilla looked really good. I really like seeing him in different versions.
We got the water version, the mini version, the city version, just
the angry version, and the one that got his head blowed up, so
I thought that was really excellent, and then the human story on top,
Like, for me, I feel like just the human story alone is just
what makes this film so fantastic, and the fact that it's Godzilla is just
that much better. And you know, I'm happy that was twenty twenty three,
And I said, I just saw like a amazing Godzilla movie. So
yeah, I'm I think I'm gonna give this one just a big fat ten.
I really really love this one. You know, did my double viewing
within twenty four hours, so it's nice and fresh. But yeah, no,
this was really really good and I'm excited to just recommend this movie to
people because probably a lot of people, just general audience, this one might
slip through the cracks. But I definitely think it's worth a viewing, even
if you're not, like Travis was saying earlier, even if you're not a
Godzilla fan, this would definitely be like a great first Godzilla movie for people
to watch. Yeah, no, I will join the ranks and drop in
in a big old ten. There's little qualms I have here, but that's
what happens when a movie is like no movies, of course perfect, but
when majority of it's just working, I don't have any big big ones.
Maybe if I rewatch it, which it will at some point, maybe there'll
be something, Maybe some will point of sing like oh this doesn't makes sense
that, Like like I said, there's some effects. Once there's some stuff
where I go, Okay, why does Godzilla go there and come back and
then go back. You know, like there's some stuff where it's like,
Okay, you just have to go with it because you need some things to
happen in the in the story. But the main story of our characters is
the heart. Like that's a good thing. Like luckily, even without Godzilla,
this stuff would be good. Alsos you have to replace Godzilla something,
but the main story alone, it's just good. It's acted well for the
most part. So just having some great Godzilla action on here, just the
vibe, the aura, the just pure menace they did with Godzilla, that
just brings it up. So yeah, no, it's nice in the podcast
to give a godzill Is something pretty high. But yeah, no, this
is a This would be a ten for me because I don't have any major
qualms. So on the enjoyment level, yeah, I loved this movie.
So it was a good one. Now be excited to watch one. Now
I'll be excited to see when we if we get talk about Gold and Geeks,
because I know we've seen it. Well, I guess we could power
it that. We don't need Dylan, you know, seventy five percent,
but I'm sure he'll he'll watch and everything. But I'm excited to see.
Like I said near the back half of the year, there's some there's some
stuff coming up, so it's not as clear as I once thought. But
Taylor Field, what are you giving this? Yeah? I am gonna give
this a nice, juicy ten. This was This was wonderful. Like I
said at the beginning, I am a huge fan of the fact that they
just brought Godzilla back to being to scale and terrifying and just the messaging embedded
in this film, and it just felt like it pulled elements from the original
Godzilla concept and brought in very modern vibes to it, albeit still taking place
post War War two. I'm just I'm very satisfied with it. I think
this is a great experience in the theater, and I can't recommend it enough
that you go and after seeing it, like tell other people to go see
this and just like promote it. I mean, I'm sure you're already doing
that if you enjoyed watching it, which I imagine most of you guys will.
I won't. I have to see what s Bubbs is rated, because
I saw he watched like five hours ago, and I haven't seen what he
said about it. So point five out ten two five. That's worse.
You're kidding, right, Yeah, of course kidding, David zero, No,
no, I haven't seen the score. He likes to write up his
score and then put it on there. But yeah, most people in the
Discord scene to really like and I think it's one of these films that overall
is just a nice breath of fresh air and something we definitely want more of.
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