Godzilla Minus One (2023)

In this episode we review and discuss, "Godzilla Minus One" directed by Takashi Yamazaki.

This marks the latest Japanese Godzilla film and also a return to the true form of Godzilla. A surprise hit at the time but also a monumental success for Toho and Japan.

Listen as we breakdown our thoughts on this incredible film!

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Episode Transcript

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This is four guys, one film, and this is Godzilla minus one.

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I think one of the main reasons why we reviewed it is because it came out on Netflix.
On a kind of a surprise, you know, nobody was expecting it to come out on Netflix so
soon and wow, what a great fucking movie to watch.
So I kind of want to start this conversation because it has a very, very personal feeling
this movie because it doesn't just be like, oh, I'm going to do all the tropes of just
being a major action film or just like a major like monster movie where you just see destruction

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and all of it.
But most of the destruction that happened was because of humans.
We see most of the interaction is very human based.
And I kind of, I appreciate that in the story because they did George, what the fuck are
you doing?
What are you doing?
You said a bitch full attention, bro.
Fucking piece of garbage.

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All right.
We're fans.
We're sorry for the listeners out there.
We have a piece of shit named George.
Hey, he was taking too long.
All right, let's get into this.
Boy, you're starting to ramble like a guy, Nick.
Jesus, is that Nick talking to them?
All right.
Well, I think what I liked about this movie, jumping right back into it.
Thank you, George, for interrupting, by the way.
I like the fact that there's a big world that's going on because they set a pretty good setting,

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which is postwar Japan.
They set up like, they see the transformation as Japan is trying to come out of postwar
Japan and they're rebuilding and all that stuff.
So there's an actual story here that revolves about a character, the main character, which
is Koichi.
And he was a kamikaze pilot that pussied out.

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He pussied out and then he's no honor.
It's because they didn't have Lincoln Park back then.
He pussied out twice, actually.
Jesus Christ.
Hey, too soon for a Chester joke.
I'm saying if they would have been blasting dumb inside the fucking thing, they would
have shit.
He would have done it.
That wasn't a joke about Chester.
No, it really wasn't.
But that worked.
That worked.
It's fucked up that you think that, George.

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I was going to go with System of a Down, too.
I was like, I don't care.
Just any one of these emo fuckers.
Look, all I'm saying is, I mean, even though for them, bitching out of that is like the
ultimate, you know, like you're bringing dishonor to the country.
Well, that's why they were shitting on him.
I don't know.
Would you guys do it?
I wouldn't be able to do it, bro.
I don't know.

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I mean, like.
I'm not going to lie about this podcast.
But you know what, I think is a little bit of spoilers if you guys haven't seen it.
Like as the movie progresses, people understand why the fuck he did it.
Like it's like it's not like they were going to win the war.
They all like they're like, yeah, you did it.
Yeah, you're kind of a piece of shit.
I don't blame them, dude.
I'm like, it's a lost cause.
Like, like, like five years later when he finally tells them, like, oh, like, you know,

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it's not that big of a deal.
He tells his crew members in the boat and stuff.
They're like, you know what?
You're kind of right.
But the going back, like I think this movie sets a hard theme about the actual like humans
are involved in the oh yeah.
In the movie instead of just like, oh, I'm just going to see Godzilla destroy things
and like be like.
But it was a perfect balance of humanity and destruction.

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Yeah.
It wasn't like one more than the other.
Actually I would have preferred a little bit more Godzilla.
I think it was the perfect amount because one, it didn't look like shit with CG.
Right.
Like they won the Oscar for this bad boy.
Exactly.
Like it looked great.
Like, like, like visually speaking, it didn't look choppy.
It didn't look cheap.
It didn't look rushed.
So I agree with Gator on this.

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I don't think that it needed more Godzilla because think about it.
The budget, the reason that they were able to pull this off for 15 million dollars is
because Godzilla wasn't on screen for a majority of it.
And the screen, the time that he was on screen, it was crisp.
It was delicious and it was good.
And it was cruel.
But like every time every time Godzilla came on to screen, it had a purpose and he had
a reason for being there.
It wasn't just like terror, like terror.

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I'm going to like like in the last one, fucking Congress is like, yeah, you look at something
like that.
All he did was they fight.
They fight for like 45 minutes.
I saw a side by side comparison between the two and literally like the Kong versus Godzilla
looks like it's an action hero movie and where it's like it's a lizard and a monkey working
together to defeat whatever super monkey.

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But it's also like that's the reason those movies rack up millions and millions of dollars
in budget because they're spending so much on the CGI and the screen time for the characters
that was the story.
The story is not there.
It's in this case.
It's about the humans story is here minus one.
Godzilla is almost kind of like a side character and he's actually a bad guy.
Where in the other ones, they always try to make him an antihero and like kind of make

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him like, oh, they're trying to give you sometimes.
That was her.
They're trying to give us humanity to and which I again, I appreciate it and I don't
just that they don't do a good way of doing it.
But going back to this movie, like you also see Godzilla transform as a villain because
at the beginning when you first see him in the first like 10 to 15 minutes, you see him

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as like a cartoon character.
Like he doesn't even look that threatening to be honest.
Like it's just teenage Godzilla.
Not even teenage Godzilla.
I think it's just the unmutated Godzilla because this is before I think right after or before
they dropped the bomb.
I feel like it'd be a little bit right after because it's postwar.
Isn't it?
Show the scene where the bomb was dropped and then Godzilla was underwater.

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Yeah.
So I think that that made it like kind of accelerate whatever evolution.
Yeah.
Which is nice because the original Godzilla film was like a response to that.
All that that happened.
See, I think that's one of the interesting things about this take on it.
It's more on like the Japanese people and the threat of, you know, nuclear war issues

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again where Godzilla represents, you know, that threat.
We're in America.
Yeah, we're in the U.S.
And the Western culture, they depict Godzilla as like almost a good guy.
And you're just kind of like that's completely, you know, taken away from the source material.
And I think that's why a lot of these modern ones flop and they don't do as well.
So.
But even the Japanese themselves turned Godzilla into a pop culture icon that was just a guy

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in a rubber suit.
We saw it in a fucking Shinjuku, no?
Shinjuku.
Yeah, we saw it.
Oh, we sure did.
We saw it, dude.
Yeah, by the Toho Hotel, I think.
Basically at the time when we went, Minus One didn't come out yet.
And when I was in Shinjuku, I saw them ride around like this giant Godzilla head, like
of that Godzilla.

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Yeah.
Like this huge diorama of his head.
Oh, are you guys referring to the one that's in the center or whatever?
Yeah.
Well, not that one, but I saw another one that they had probably for like, oh, you saw
that in person?
Yeah.
Oh, that's pretty cool.
I always see videos of it.
But I was in person like the screech like two or three times a day.
But as you know, going back to the movie, as the story continues, like we see the evolution

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of all the characters to actually become better versions of themselves.
Except for even Godzilla.
Akichi, or what's the daughter's name?
She just started crying.
A little girl.
Oh, dude, she was adorable, man.
She was adorable.
She just got more crybaby though.
I'm just saying she developed.
I feel like because her mom was dead.
I feel like every character in that movie, like transformed into a positive version of

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themselves, except for Godzilla, he just kept getting meaner and meaner as the thing
went on.
Which was pretty awesome.
I think this is Godzilla's best interpretation.
We did see Shin Godzilla, I remember.
And I like that Godzilla, but that one's more of like a freak of nature and this one's more
of like an actual like beast.
I don't think I've seen that one.

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So what would you say is the biggest difference?
We didn't see Shin Godzilla here together?
Yeah.
I don't think George was.
I think that's when George didn't show up and we're like, we'll just see it without him.
I was sick, by the way.
Sick of us.
No.
But you know, diving into the characters, like you look at the main character himself,
you see like, man, this guy, like he was kind of a puss.

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Going back to what I said, like, but.
Koichi?
Yeah, but he redeems himself pretty well.
I don't think he redeems himself because he wanted to.
I think he redeems himself because he felt like he had to.
Because like.
Isn't that the same thing?
No, no, no, no, because I feel like if you're.
Can't do things you don't want.
No, I know.
But like if he if like if those people didn't die, I think he'd still probably be in the
same position.

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I think he'd probably be a bum somewhere.
Shikishima?
Yeah, like he'd probably be a bum and he probably wouldn't like if he wouldn't have adopted
Aiko and Aiko and Noriko, like he probably would have just been like, well, I could bum
it out by myself.
Like there's not a job.
I'm not going to go look for anything like he's forced to change because he wouldn't
have taken such a dangerous thing.
Yeah.

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And did did you guys feel that he was already suicidal beforehand?
Yeah, for sure.
You know, that was the kind of like the interesting thing is it felt like the whole movie.
It was like, well, you didn't commit suicide as a as a kamikaze pilot, but you've you're
kind of already suicidal.
And like I think it was just because like he was just diving deeper and deeper into

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like.
But it's a different cause, you know.
No, but like.
Right.
But I think a lot of it had to do culturally, because like when he came when he first came
back, his neighbor was like, my kids would have been alive.
Yeah, like like you had to be a fucking puss.
Like you signed up for this, like, are you being a fucking puss?
Yeah.
And so you really get to sign up to be a kamikaze pilot.
I feel like you probably get chosen.

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Like you're up, man.
This is your duty, boy.
And they roll the dice like that guy in Pearl Harbor.
He fucked up.
He tried to hit the USS Missouri, hit the side of the ship.
Didn't blow up anybody.
Yeah.
He fucked up.
Imagine going out like that.
They had a photograph of him and everything and the U.S. Army men were like, oh, man,

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we feel bad for this guy.
And they they still covered his body and buried him as their own.
Yeah.
The American soldiers.
Can't believe you laughed at that, George.
You know, I mean, it would just suck, bro.
Imagine your entire life summed up to that moment and you had a fumble.
Yeah.
But I'm just saying that that's that's like how the kamikaze were seen.

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Like, bro, like this is an honor.
You fucking go out there and you get them.
And that's the last thing you're going to do.
What's crazy is like if they.
Sorry, Nick.
It wasn't really an honor because it was the last resort on part of the Japanese.
But I was going to say, wasn't that also like a part of just them not even thinking about
an ejection seat?
Like, that was kind of like the whole purpose of what Tachibana was eventually like.
He and he incorporated it because the war had ended and they realized like, oh shit,

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the Americans actually cared about their pilots.
That's crazy.
And then they were like, oh, so Tachibana had like one of the later.
Well, if you if you look at it in actual historical point of view, the Japanese Mitsubishi Zero
like was a far superior fighter up until like 1944.
It was just like the only reason that we have better fighters is because we we stole them

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and we figured out how to outmaneuver them essentially.
So the biggest issue with the Japanese Mitsubishi Zero is that when they went up to a vertical
climb, if it went if it went too much, it went too much at an angle.
So like I say, about like 13 degrees straight up, it would the carburetor in there because
it wasn't fuel injected.
So the carburetor would actually would would either not have enough gas in it to continue

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pumping the engine or it would either flood when it was going at certain angles.
So American fighters use this at their advantage because they had fuel injecting Mustangs and
just pretty much beat the Japanese zeros.
So like, did you know that before this, like right before this episode or like, did you
always know this?
I always knew this.
Like, if you look at my YouTube, fresh out of the womb, that's crazy.
If you look at my YouTube history, you know when you're so impressed, you don't even

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listen to what they're saying.
Thanks for the history lesson.
Anyway, nerd.
Wow.
So I'm sorry.
No life.
Wait, so I got a Mustang.
What I think is crazy, though, is like I was listening.
Even if they were chosen, it's like, hey, this is your destiny.
This is you got to bring honor to the country.
And then let's say you you desert and you're just like, I'm not doing it right.
They're still going to be like, well, you know, you know, you're not going to commit

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supoku and kill yourself.
Sepuku.
Sepuku.
Isn't that crazy?
You're not going to kill yourself or seduce you didn't pay attention because he didn't
he didn't commit treason.
He just like he went in there saying, hey, I have a failure with my with my machine.
And then they're like, oh, OK, shit, I'm sorry.
You're going to lie.
So technically, yeah.
And then and then Dr. Jibana, when he when he talked to him later and I was like, hey,

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dude, did you really like like I looked at your plane?
It looked fine.
You should have been able to do your mission.
And then as they were trying to having that transaction, fucking Godzilla came out of
nowhere and fucking started wrecking shit.
Just ruin the conversation.
Ruin the conversation.
Yeah.
And then like Dr. Jibana kind of like timing, whatever.
And then Dr. Jibana was like, hey, I've been a puss.
Go shoot that 20 millimeter.

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But they beat the shit out of him to first time he saw him in a while.
Yeah.
You know, he kind of deserved it because he was he was putting on, you know, you want
to catch a fade.
He was saying some shit about him.
And what else would feel like every scene that Godzilla's in it, you feel it like it's
yes, you feel the mass of the monster and the torment and the destruction that he brings,

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whereas in other Godzilla movies, I feel like they're on screen, but I'm just kind of like,
what else like is it feels like Godzilla plays like a really big role in either disrupting
the peace or adding to the tension of an already tense interaction.
Like you talked about the beginning, you get there on the island bickering.
He shows up.
And then even when it's like, oh, things are finally settling down.
It's good.

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He then all of a sudden shows up where Noriko is working.
It's just like, fuck, like you can't catch a break.
You can't catch a break.
And so it's crazy.
No, I love seeing that this version of Godzilla because it's kind of like the reason I really
like this movie is because you can see how humanity comes together and it's like, this
is a problem that we can beat together.

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And you know, I think there's just layers to it because obviously it's like post World
War Two.
And then they even mentioned it in it's like, you know, like the government has used us.
It's just pawns.
They don't care about us.
They just let us die.
And I don't want any of you to die doing this.
And then that was kind of the biggest thing because like the ex sailors are like, dude,
why do you want us to sign up for this?
Like you're just you're just sending us to die again.

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Yeah.
They did with the kamikazes and they were like, nah, man, it's different.
It's different.
Like we have a plan.
Yeah.
That's the craziest part is really actually said this time we actually feel like we have
a chance at least.
Yeah.
I was like, holy shit.
Damn, Godzilla, the US.
And then and that like hits hard, you know, like with the historical context of everything
that happened, you know, and it's like really tragic what happened.
But Godzilla was a way for him to come together, you know, after all that.

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Yeah, who knew it was OK.
So I'm Daddy Moppenheimer that caused this fucking shit.
That doctor was a shit man.
Yeah.
OK, so my biggest gripe with this movie was when the when Noriko decided to like, Niko
decided to sacrifice herself to push the guy into the alleyway.
I'm like, Dick, you could have just gone into the alleyway with him.

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And like, what pissed me off is that we just jump in there and both of you are like Independence
Day.
And then you're like, just decided like, I'm going to go look for her, I'm going to look
for a fucking hospital.
To be fair, the fact that she's alive is not even fucking real.
The amount of speed the rubble had as it was flying past his head.
Now that she did, I mean, we got a pretty hard scene after that with the with the Godzilla

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blood raining on him.
Yeah, that's pretty metal, dude.
But again, him fucking being I was like, no, like what I didn't get.
And you know, you remember when the captain was talking to him, he was like, hey, captain,
he was like, he's like, you let she died and you didn't even ask her to fucking marry you
fucking push.
Like, I was like, and he's like, it's not over.
The entire thing I do like, like, you get over, do like, I've been a fucking pussy.

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He was such a fucking.
Yeah, they were like, is this your wife?
He's like, no, what?
And then what makes you think that?
And then like the next thing she's like, you know what?
I'm going to get myself a job and become an independent woman.
And then he was all fucking hurt.
He's going to take care of the kid who's going to cook and clean.
Right.
Well, now, like you said, we don't have to do any of that shit anymore.
Like, he was very typical.
He was such a little fucking bitch.

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Like I don't like the lack of maturity in this man.
But I think that goes super heavy into what Alexis was saying before we started recording
about how exaggerated the emotions are.
Like the only person who I feel like really didn't have much of that was like Noriko and
like, like, you know, who else did I actually find my favorite characters was Doc.
I felt like he was pretty level headed.
He was level headed.

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He was he was very like comforting and sympathetic.
Who the fuck?
So back to the show.
All right.
So getting back into it.
Yeah, I think the characters in here.
Yeah.
By far, Doc was probably the most level headed and sensible character, I think.
Like I was going to say lovable and lovable, too.
Absolutely.
I mean, he was super Japanese Einstein.

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He was super sympathetic.
I think my favorite character.
I think I close first or second.
Right.
In this case would be the captain.
Captain was good, too.
I mean, but Captain was funny, harsh the entire time, which which but like he was in a comedic
release, but also like strong.
I like them because it's just like you see you see the personality of a guy that like,
you know, he hates the government.
He talks about like, I hate the government.

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But you know what?
He still ends up doing like I'm going to do it anyways.
Right.
Like, yeah.
Yeah.
They're like, Captain, why are you going to do this for the government?
I'm like, yeah, but doesn't mean I want the people in Tokyo to suffer.
Yeah.
You know, what was his hardest line was when the kid was like, you know, like, I want to
go with you.
And he's like, no, I'm leaving you the future.
Yeah.
Dude, that was hard.
Mic drop, dude.
Yeah.

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And then the doc was part of that scene, too.
The doc was like, no, you're not going to go.
Yeah.
And like even, you know, I was like, I like the sciency part, too, of like the freon gas
and like the inflatable devices to try to pressurize and depressurize him.
And the one thing I liked about those characters, they really went out of their way like, hey,
you know what?
If this kid hasn't seen more, he doesn't need to fucking see this shit.
Yeah.
He doesn't need to see this.
But you know what?

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That kid still came around and actually like pulled in.
He saved them.
He really saved them.
And that's the thing, bro.
This movie is all about the Japanese spirit.
Like, that's like a legit thing, you know, like they say like, you know, ganbatte, like
that's like, you got this, you can do it.
You're like, ganpai!
Yeah.
That's exactly right.
That's exactly what I'm talking about.
That's exactly right.
Yeah, I mean, it's just it's frustrating when you do have the main character be someone

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who is too emotional and like, like not saying he doesn't have justifications for being sad
or angry or like scared, but it's just like way over acted compared to some of like the
side characters, which was interesting.
Like I don't understand that, like why he needed to be such a...
But if you see like an anime and like they also like the over acted to an anime, like

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when they do the animations or stuff like that, you definitely see that even though
it's a cartoon, it's like I feel like I was kind of watching what would happen like in
an anime or something.
So yeah, sometimes.
So I feel like it translates to that's how they are just film.
I feel like and at any point, this is kind of an ad for us because we got to try to interact

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George is also getting on the Trump social media apps, too, just because.
Yeah.
What is it?
Truth.
The liberal ones, which is right.
He's doing whatever he finds on the finder.
You find us on find us on, you know, the feet one is what's that?
George specifically is on Grindr.

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Yeah.
What I was going to say was I get the whole point of like how social or different media
types of especially Japanese media will have very exaggerated characters.
But I feel like it's consistent.
Right.
Like that's my thing is like if I'm watching an anime, everybody's got like the face that
blows up all of a sudden when they're angry and it comes down or the bloody nose, the
bloody nose is every character has that possibility with the exception usually of like what's supposed

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to be like a mature character.
Like, for example, like Ash Ketchum's mom, where she's just there.
She's like she's a mother figure.
She's chill.
So she's supposed to show the kids are immature.
I'm a mother.
But here it was really weird.
Like I get that she Kishima maybe was also supposed to be caught as someone immature,
but it felt like only he was like we talked about Noriko how she Noriko was like a G the
whole fucking movie.

(19:45):
He was like he was like she was like, why did you adopt that girl if it wasn't part
of your book?
I'm like, dude, that was like her mom's dying wish was like, hey, can you please take care
of my daughter?
I couldn't say no.
And he's like and because and then he's like, well, you did the exact same thing because
you didn't leave in the middle of the square.
So it was just like it just he just didn't want to like I feel like his biggest issue.
He didn't want to confront shit.
But he didn't want to be like, OK, how do I really feel about the situation?

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Because again, he didn't marry her.
He was trying to like start from the beginning.
He didn't want to do the right thing by trying to help out is like his his partner is trying
to like fight Godzilla.
He's you've been a puss the whole time.
He was just like he wasn't fulfilled with himself.
So he couldn't fulfill anything, any aspect of his own life because he's such a failure.

(20:28):
Well, I don't think he was just a failure.
Going back to just like he just didn't know what he wanted to do.
I feel like he kept getting rungdip into because he had one purpose, which was to fucking die.
Yeah.
And it didn't happen service of your country.
Right.
Exactly.
So he's just like lost.
Like he's lost himself, lost to all these other people.
But you know, OK, you know, maybe overacting is the wrong thing.

(20:51):
I just think he played a really bad person who's dealing with this shit.
I felt like it felt more cartoony than someone who's like genuinely traumatized, which is
what he was.
He was traumatized.
And like like it was only when he finally like kind of started reeling back from it
that I really like enjoyed his character more and more.
Or like when he wasn't showing the trauma, but whenever he was supposed to be like like

(21:13):
in shock or or dealing with it, like I was just like I was taken out of it.
I didn't really see someone who who just experienced all that fucking tragedy.
You know, didn't we see Godzilla?
Am I as one in theaters together?
We did.
We did.
I just remember that.
And I will say it's still a great movie.
Yeah.
You know, still like every like every character has likable features.
I just think that was probably one of the most dislikable features in any of the characters.

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I agree.
I agree.
I really liked about this movie, a really important thing that I saw is like this movie
seemed practical in the sense like to the actual settings, to the actual way they filmed
it and to even the actual plan that they had used to like, hey, we're going to defeat Godzilla
in a very practical manner.
Like, yeah, we can't blow him up like they use traditional methods, but then do it like

(21:56):
in other Godzilla movies like, oh, we're going to swim in a fucking kaiju or like or some
or some crazy.
We're going to do some black magic and raise King Kong from again, which they made it
very attractive.
Pacific Rim.
Yeah, which I love that movie.
The second one.
Let's not talk about that one.
I didn't mean to cut you off.

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John Boyega fucked that guy.
Been in every he ruins franchise.
I'm going to talk about it.
But has he been cast in anything lately?
No, because he ruined franchises.
What do you think?
He ruins.
I know what I'm kind of happy about.
I'm like, yeah, fuck that guy.
Don't put him in anything ever again.
All right.
I mean, it was like they had practical solutions to like practical problems.

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It didn't seem too outrageous at any fucking point.
Like, and I think that's what made one, it made it visually stunning to it made sense.
Three, like it followed actual logic and for it made made sense in the way like, hey, you
know what?
Like if we had a fight, Godzilla and we're in their time, this is kind of like a good
way to like kill him.
Probably.
Yeah.
Yeah.

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Synch them and then make them flow back up.
Yeah.
It's science.
How does he stand on water?
His feet are going like, is he just treading?
I don't know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So now that we've kind of like talked an overview of this movie, you know, what are you guys's
favorite scene so far?
Mine for sure.
As the movie went on.

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I love that scene where they're like in the boat, right?
Like destroying the mines or something or the bombs in the water.
And then and then the Godzilla comes out, right?
And then you see like his face pop up.
Yeah, like, you know, in the middle of the water and he just got this like weird, like
it actually got kind of scared.
And the score helped.
Yes.

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The score was the classic Godzilla entrance.
It slapped the three times that they played it.
It fucking slapped.
Yeah.
It hit real because they didn't use every time he shot.
He popped up.
But it was good.
It was no, but he was making an impact and they played that.
You knew like he was going to do some shit.
He was gonna go fucking like Goku on their ass and like fucked him up with them.

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And the way he uses his atomic breath, it was like a singular point of like a beam of
energy.
That was crazy because like it would hit and then you'd get that delay and then boom.
Crazy.
Yeah, the first time he unleashed atomic breath was pretty fucking nuts.
Yeah.
Again, they did a good job at you like at using him.
The VFX of that whole movie was great.

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Like it was.
And it wasn't really needed for a lot of times.
So it was it was nice.
No, no.
OK, Nick, what's your what's your favorite?
Yeah, I mean, for me, I just I think the scene where he shows up in Ginza and like just every
all the havoc and destruction that he caused, all the like even just like the reporter,
I was I was thinking about how open they were on the building.

(24:42):
Yeah, I was thinking about how truthful that scene would be.
Like, you know, at first I thought it was kind of silly.
But the more I thought about it, I'm like, well, there absolutely be some ambitious motherfucking
idiots who are like, yeah, I got to get the scoop.
I get like but like we talked about the day after tomorrow.
After tomorrow, yeah, the guy gets hit by a billboard.
Because they're fucking busy recording.
At this time, it was just radio, right?
Yeah, it was just radio.
So it was radio worse.

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So it's every every.
You get the visual just fucking radio and run, bro.
When when in Egypt, all the fucking plagues and shit were hitting.
Some dude was carving into Iraq.
Right.
What's fucking happening right now?
You know, and still got hit by everything.
You're not going to believe this.
Yeah, dude.
It's crazy.
It was it was visually stunning to like watching him do the atomic breath there, like seeing

(25:25):
how hard it hit like towards that Capitol building and then like we talked about how
Noriko like just got absolutely walloped by a wall of fucking wall.
Like just debris.
It was insane.
I mean, it like that for me sold it on the Oscar for the visual effects.
Yeah, that whole scene.
Very well deserved.
Very well deserved.
And you know, I want more students to like, hey, we're going to put a hard budget on.

(25:47):
Hey, you got like now that like for 15 million bucks, you get this Oscar winning movie.
What is Japanese wages?
Well, you also have to realize, though, like with a budget, I think it's it's a matter
of them distributing it.
We're skipping ahead.
But what's your favorite scene?
He's like, I didn't watch the movie.
No, no, I really like the scene in the train where she's in the train and Godzilla pops

(26:12):
out of nowhere.
And then oh, yeah, she's like falling off of it.
And then he's like for the first time you'll see him like utter destruction in wasn't that
and then around the scene that you that you.
Yeah, that was like right before that.
It was because she had she dangled off the bar and she jumped into the water and then
she just walks away.
Oh, yeah.
No.
So I guess I had a similar favorite.

(26:32):
That's a very good scene, too.
I was actually.
Hey, I can't hate on that.
Yeah.
What about you, Isaac?
I think my favorite scene was when all four of them were together when he had just finished
building his house after doing this dangerous job.
And like, I liked it because it was that it was a calm before the storm, really, because
everything was going perfect.

(26:54):
Nothing was like really coming at him.
Everybody was OK with their position in the family and in his work dynamic.
Yeah.
I mean, one of the things I got to say about this movie as far as the tone it sets is like
compared to Pacific Grimm, right?
Love the visuals, love the theme of the music of that movie.
But like, I always picture myself as a superhero type when I picture myself in that movie versus

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this one is such a relatable movie.
It's like they're just trying to live their lives, especially postwar.
Like that's probably the most unrelatable for us because we've never experienced war.
But everything else is like I'm just trying to provide for my family.
I'm just trying to make sure it's good.
I'm trying to deal with my own demons.
And one of the demons happens to be a fucking, you know, nine 90 feet tall lizard, you know,
and shit like that, which is crazy.

(27:36):
But it's it's such a great, like relatable aspect of the movie when you think of scenes
like that.
And then like I also appreciate the movie as a whole, just because if you look at it,
just individually, even if like fucking Godzilla was excluded from the situation and what's
the main guy?
I can't pronounce his name.

(27:56):
Koichi or Koichi.
They call him Shikishima-san or Koichi.
Koichi?
Like, let's say he was a fighter, like he's still a fighter pilot.
He did war and stuff.
And then I think it still would have been a good story to just follow his life and how
it was happening postwar.
Like if you take Godzilla out of the equation and you continue his story without Godzilla

(28:18):
in it, I think it's still a good movie.
It is a good story.
I think that's what makes a great movie, because it's like if you like this is what we're talking
about Godzilla versus King Kong or whatever.
It has no plot when you take those two people away versus you can make a movie about what
he was dealing with and it'd still be a pretty good movie.
Yeah, like you like both like if you take both elements from this from this movie and

(28:40):
make it into several movies, I think they're still good, like they stand alone.
Just great.
I will say it was a pleasant surprise.
Honestly, when everyone kept braving and like all learning about how this Godzilla film
is one of the best ever, I was like how good could it be?
It's about a fucking giant kaiju monster, you know, like and all the ones prior to it
that I've seen were horrendous.
But again, it had a story.
No, no, no, I'm just saying it was pleasantly surprising and I did not expect it whatsoever

(29:05):
from this film.
One of the things that I feel like sets Godzilla up as a big threat too is like you look at
a movie like Cloverfield and they're dealing with the monster over a period of like three
days I think.
It was 24 hours.
It was 24 hours, so even shorter.
And it's so short in time that you're like you don't really know how fucked up this monster
is and like what its motivations are.
Is it territorial?
Is it just there to wreak havoc?

(29:26):
But in this one like they talk about that they're like so Godzilla is emerging little
by little, he's going towards the shoreline, he then goes into Jinza and they're like he's
establishing this as a-
Jinza.
Jinza, thank you.
He's establishing this as a part of his territory, right?
So all of a sudden you're starting to relate to him as a force of nature that is like very

(29:46):
like predatorial like a normal animal and you're like oh shit like this means like he's
gonna start to completely expand further in.
His motivations, are they food?
It doesn't seem like he's eating anybody.
He's just straight up trying to take over.
It does, it actually human or like makes it more real.
It makes it scarier.
You're like it's a fucking force of nature that's it isn't just like some sort of abnormal

(30:07):
like monster that comes from space or some shit like that.
How can I stop it?
I can't, we can.
Yeah, I think my biggest regret about the movie is not actually watching it in like
movie theaters.
Oh this was your first time?
Yeah I watched it and that's kind of why I suggested it because I'm like hey you know
what like I heard a lot of good things about it.
And the movie theater was phenomenal.
This is a theatrical movie like.
Dude even-

(30:28):
It's just so good.
I was watching it while I was exercising and it was just like it was such like I forgot
I was even exercising because the movie just captivated me like that much like I-
Well the fact that you liked it even not watching it in theaters and like while you were on
the treadmill and doing other shit it says something.
It's a statement like about how good this movie is.
And I'm the type of guy that has like four or five things playing at the same time.

(30:49):
I'm fucking erotic like that and like this was like-
Did you say erotic?
Neurotic.
I heard erotic.
I heard erotic.
I was hoping for erotic.
Yeah what is he watching?
I was waiting to the lake buddy.
Man your dopamine receptors are fried my guy.
You'll fucking see me and like how is he getting all fucking sexy.
He's gonna be erotic and erotic.
But like I like I'm the type of guy that like nothing can hold my attention like like I

(31:14):
need to have four different things holding my attention.
And this thing was like a very singular thing and I-
What a flex.
And I could fucking like just look at it and it was great.
I enjoyed every fucking minute of it and I'm gonna say something very fucking I'm sad
that I watched it dubbed.
Bro.
I'm sad.
I didn't have enough time to actually like just sit there and like-

(31:36):
I thought you were better than that.
I am better than this and you know what this is disappointment.
Wait it's out in both right?
But you said you didn't watch it.
He made a choice.
He made a choice to watch it in dub.
Fellas we're renting a plane and Isaac's getting in it and he's driving it into a building.
That's the only thing we can do.
Like Shikishima.
You gotta be Shikishima.
So I saw the first half of it subbed and I enjoyed it.

(31:57):
And then I watched the second half of it in dub.
And you realized how bad the voice actor is.
Honestly the voice acting I just like I didn't like the voice actors behind them.
Who were these guys?
Who were the people doing the English dub?
Also when the voice and like the mouth is not in sync I fucking hate that.
It throws me off so much.
Yeah I don't know any of these voice actors which tells me a lot.

(32:18):
Which is why they are voice actors.
Bro they only had 15 million.
That's true.
Alright guys.
What do you want?
Brad Pitt is the main guy?
Fuck.
Hey he managed to make a cameo in Deadpool.
He can make a cameo in this.
Yeah but you know I asked one thing another regret I have about this movie is not fully
watching it in sub.
And I don't recommend it.
If you have the time to fully invest in this movie it's worth it to watch it in sub.

(32:43):
It's worth it to give it your undivided attention.
Because when I first started watching this movie I'm like dude this movie is almost 2
and a half hours long.
I'm like fuck.
I don't got time to just sit down and watch 2 and a half hours.
I gotta do something else.
I tried scheduling that during my workouts and fuck it was the first half that I was
on the treadmill.
I was on the treadmill for like an hour.
It was so fucking good.
I had to stop myself from like watching it into the night.

(33:07):
And I was like fuck I don't want to wake up like too fucked up the next day.
So this isn't definitely a movie that I think anybody can enjoy.
It's a very impactful story.
It's a very.
It's a family film.
It's a family film.
You know.
It's a film for family.
It's a fucking.
There's nothing much to say about this movie.

(33:29):
You know I'm kind of upset because I had an opportunity to go see the film in LA and with
the director.
Alexis when the fuck don't you?
Okay.
The director was there.
He does every screening with the director.
Scott Kugel I saw it with the fucking Tarantino fucking movie.
Cure.
Cure was incredible.
Which one did you do recently with the one with Willem Dafoe?
I just saw Twin Peaks recently and Ray Wise was there.

(33:50):
You guys don't know who he is.
But anyways.
Let's talk about rankings of Godzilla movies.
Alexis I know Godzilla.
I haven't seen enough to rank them.
You're very intimate with this series.
Where do you put this in your opinion?
Well you know I haven't seen all those other like Mecha Godzilla or Godzilla versus Resquedora

(34:11):
or Son of Godzilla.
Is that the one with the three heads?
Yeah.
Yeah the three heads.
I think let's talk about the main timeline.
Oh Godzilla.
Isn't that band 2?
No from let's say 2000 to 2024.
I think we've all seen those because the ones before there's a lot of like.
Well you remember the American Godzilla right?
The really shitty one.
Yeah.
Where the Godzilla just looks like a like a deformed T-Rex.

(34:32):
You've seen that one.
Horrible.
Horrible.
You know we've seen Shin Godzilla.
Totally different type of Godzilla film.
Way more political I think.
More about the politics than the people.
CGI kind of trash.
Trash in some points and incredible in others.
And actually I think it's the visual effects director of that film was the director of

(34:54):
the actual film of Godzilla minus one.
He had to redeem his honor.
Yeah.
He's like this shit was ass.
I bring the sun to my family.
I think Shin Godzilla is also.
I'm gonna cut that out.
I'm gonna cut that out you fucking racist.
I thought he was gonna let us slide for a second.
I was like no no no.
We got two Japanese purses in here asshole.
Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ man.
We got the.
We make a full one here okay.

(35:18):
Yeah exactly.
No I think that's a good example too of Shin Godzilla where it's like it's a movie that's
not just about one aspect of a monster trying to rampage.
It's like the politics which makes it way more interesting.
Yeah that movie is more about like how humanity will fail to do something.
To react.
Yeah.

(35:38):
And so like they're both doing totally opposite things.
I think actually they're no they're perfectly aligned because in Godzilla minus one it is
not the government.
The humans decide to say all right let me just do this.
Yeah yeah.
And I appreciate them both for their own thing.
Technically in 1947 Japan didn't have that much of a government.
Right.
It was mostly like the US like we can't take care of it because of Russian problems.
You guys gotta figure this out.

(35:59):
Here's some destroyers.
Figure it out.
Take it.
And then you know all the American Godzilla's in between are just kind of I like the first
one.
No.
The one that had Brian Cranston.
Yeah yeah yeah.
Like that wasn't too bad.
Oh actually that one wasn't bad yeah.
But I didn't like it because it tried to follow the whole like kaiju episode thing where you

(36:19):
know in these Japanese monster shows it's usually like oh like you see all this like
plop plop plop with like the human characters and then the last 10 minutes you get the final
like fight.
The plot in a lot of the American movies is kind of shitty.
Yeah it's so bad.
It is.
Because actually the people in these movies you don't really give a shit about.
You just kind of want to see the action and go home.
You're here for the fight.

(36:40):
You know what we're here for.
Right but this one minus one has everything.
I think like I said I think for me it comes down to like the type of people that they're
showing it's it's simple characters who you can relate to who are lovable and you have
opinions about them whether they're good or bad at times.
They have real world problems.
Exactly.
Real world problems.
You're not saying someone's like I am the lead scientist for the US Navy or something.

(37:01):
Can you do a quick look up who was the guys that financed this movie?
Was it Toho?
I think it was Ornix.
I think it should have been.
Pretty sure they're the.
Yeah Toho.
Dude those guys just fucking know how to make a movie.
They know how to make an animated movie.
Those guys are fucking great.
Like they they really know how to like produce something like if you because I know they've

(37:22):
made I know they worked on fucking Dragon Ball I think.
When they when they did the relaunch of Super.
Yeah that was a fantastic ass fucking movie.
Yeah.
Those guys know how to work a fucking budget.
I don't know how they managed to write a great script great characters.
Underpaid workers.
Terrible hours.
With a lot of motivation.
I mean yeah I think that's what it is also because like it comes to show if you really

(37:47):
want to make it happen you can't especially.
You just gotta threaten your employees.
No life.
Alright Nick you got a point but.
And again if you guys disagree with us at any point please.
Yeah if you disagree with us fight me.
Watch the last episode of Jujutsu Kaisen season 2 and tell me I'm fucking wrong.
Those guys walked out.
Those guys are overworked.
They walked out and you could see it in the last episode.

(38:07):
Hey Nick how about you fucking read it you asshole.
I can't read.
Jujutsu Kaisen is great though.
Yeah but you know please interact with us at any point if you guys have an adverse.
Cut me off.
An adverse opinion please please put it in our in our accounts.
We want to hear from you.
We want to hear more engagement.
We want to be a we want to be present.

(38:28):
You know we want to make sure that we hear your guys's reviews and what you guys think
or call me a fucking retard.
I don't give a shit.
Like I want to hear opinions here.
I hear boys can't say that.
I'm calling myself a retard.
Cool.
I have to repeat it twice.
He doubled down.
But yeah we want more engagement for you guys because we want to interact.

(38:52):
You know we're out here for the long run.
You know we're about to hit.
How many episodes are we in now?
We're on the 24th episode.
We just started season 2.
So we want we want we want more engagement from you guys and we want we're going to do
another 100 episodes hopefully here for you guys.
We can try.
We can we can hit 100.
I think we could do it.
Yeah.
And so yeah.
All right.

(39:13):
Let's hear those letterbox reviews.
Yeah man jumping on to that.
You know we like to listen to what you say and boy you guys have a lot to say.
OK.
This one let's start a little low just a little low three and a half stars by Raz van films.
OK.
This is what they say.
I expected a little more the CGI and the score perfect.

(39:33):
I felt something was missing in the plot.
The acting could have been better.
The great ending saved the film overall not bad but a bit disappointed.
Hope to like it on rewatch.
I don't know.
That's kind of crazy.
I was fucking opinion right there.
Raz van.
I think I think you know I'd be curious if we'd look at his profile.
I'm not saying we have to do that right now but I'm sure if you explored his profile like

(39:54):
do you see more Japanese films in his repertoire because I think we talked about it like you
can't you can't not overact to Japanese media.
It's kind of the thing they do and you got to take that with a grain of salt.
Yeah I feel like the plot was pretty solid in this one.
I don't really know.
I don't really have too many complaints on the plot.
Maybe they saw it a dubbed you know maybe the dub experience.

(40:17):
The dub experience is ass compared to the sub.
Always always always.
But when you can't when you're like you and I know how to factor that.
We're like we know it's especially because I watched it in theaters sub.
So I knew when I rewatched it dubbed it was just like you like I like with you added necessity
to make sure I had it fresh in my mind.
So I didn't really take away my experience.

(40:37):
Can't really hit on his review but you know three and a half stars so whatever.
Let's hit on this guy though.
This guy gave it a half.
Oh and listen.
What.
So this is going to get so great.
Their name is CB.
They start they start off like this.
I wish I could give this a minus one.
What.
Yeah.
That was funny.
That was good though.

(40:58):
His mom.
They say they say I also wish this movie was minus the lead character.
Wow.
He was really using these minus.
He really wanted him to do the deed.
He says a useless excuse for a sentient being whose arc doesn't absolve him of the 30,000
people he could have saved early in the movie.
Was it really 30,000 people?

(41:18):
It was it was 300,000.
Sounds like this guy has like you know some something personal going on with this and
honor.
Again this guy did technically the right thing because even if he would have shot Godzilla
at the beginning movie with that teleminator cannon it wouldn't have done shit to him.
Yeah you don't know.
We saw he had regenerative capabilities.
This dick.
I know.

(41:38):
Yeah.
The fucking nuke landed on top of him and he transformed.
What do you think of fucking like a little.
This guy's not done.
He's not done.
Listen to this.
He says FX wasn't that great either particularly the water.
He's talking about the water.
The water was great.
What are you talking about?
The physics of the water was not great.
And then he says my kids plastic Godzilla action figures have more mobility.
And then he says great boobs though.

(41:59):
I don't get that.
There was he was a little rigid.
I don't know what he's talking about.
Did you watch the same fucking thing?
And then he says lame ending too completely spineless and why the F was elite character
headbutting tables all the time.
I've watched a few Japanese movies in my time.
This is new.
And then he ends it with this.
Please call Gareth Edwards and tell him the big lizard needs his help again.

(42:20):
He's talking about Gareth Edwards the director of the first Godzilla 2014 I think.
This guy sounds like someone who's just like this movie's got Japanese people and that's
my problem.
Like honestly I feel like he gave it a he just wanted to give it a minus one just to
do the jokes.
But I mean like even but it also sounds like he's hitting on the point of why is he headbutting
the table.

(42:41):
It's like are you fucking kidding me.
It's literally the point of like this is the highest level of like please and like for
you.
Yeah.
Like is to put your head to a surface for them.
That's why they were always like whoa whoa whoa chill like it's not that serious.
You mean to take it that far.
Yeah.
Because like I don't know is it for someone who's watched Japanese movies in the past
it's probably all hentai.
But anyway yeah I don't know.

(43:03):
It's because he didn't have enough tentacles.
Mine.
It was a minus one.
It was a minus one review.
I agree.
I agree.
Do you guys want to hear one more.
We give us I want to hear like two more.
OK two more two more.
Are these guys.
These guys aren't our followers.
OK this is one.
These are not our followers.
These are these are new people.
New people.
The people that we follow would give good reviews.
Yeah they would.
They're they're hung.
All right.
This one's good.

(43:23):
Five stars by Matt.
I've never ugly cried this much before until now.
Holy shit man.
I didn't expect myself emotionally crying over this film.
This is our first Godzilla movie.
Did not disappoint but destroyed me right in the heart.
A heavy and touching story about mankind and a monster.
From now on I'll try my best to watch more Godzilla films.

(43:46):
You know what.
This is a high bar though.
I don't think all the other Godzilla movies are this good.
Yeah they're not.
I was going to say prepare to be disappointed.
Maybe the original one.
But also this movie did have a lot of emotion in it.
You know.
Yeah I think.
Add a lot of cultural.
I teared up a little bit.
Not gonna lie.
Teared up a little bit.
I actually I didn't but like part of me was about to shit for like really but then I'm
like yeah.
You were going to shit yourself.
No.

(44:07):
I was about to shit on him.
Oh crying.
But I was just genuinely like wait like don't be a dick.
Like people have different reactions emotionally to things.
That's great because it is an emotional like.
Sorry we're not also emotionally sound dick.
It doesn't hit you that hard.
Jesus.
There's change.
Yeah brother.
All right last one.
I think this one's pretty good.

(44:27):
This guy says the true essence of Godzilla is captured in this film.
The American interpretations are completely inferior to what Yamazaki has beautifully
created.
Four stars.
Can't disagree with that.
Can not disagree with that.
This guy's name is Alexis BAU.
That's crazy.
BAU?
Was it I?
Is that you?
Is that your fucking review?
Wait a second.

(44:48):
Are you fucking with us?
Oops.
That was my review.
Oh my god.
You're slimy dude.
You tried to.
Did you just take this.
He pulled a fast one.
He took this moment to plug his own fucking ladder box.
That's crazy.
He's trying to show us that he's better than we are.
I know a Japanese guy's name.
I got 14 likes on that review.
14 to 1.
14 too many.
Anyway.

(45:08):
God damn.
Just say you hate American films bro.
Fuck.
Yeah.
All right Nick.
This is your second time watching this movie.
What do you give this a 1 through 10?
I think this is a solid 8.
I think this is a great movie.
It has a lot of really good aspects to it.
Very few things we talked about we didn't really like as a group individually.
So I'd say recommend.

(45:29):
Go watch it man.
What could have made it a 10 though?
I feel like the acting being more either all over acted or all serious.
I didn't like I said for me it takes me out when half of the cast is very focused and
very stoic or kind of really seriously acted.
Like we talked about the captain and Doc.

(45:49):
They're the same every time versus the other part of the cast being a little too over acted.
Beautiful explanation Nick.
I listened to every single word that you said.
I totally understand.
We were not distracted.
We weren't doing anything else.
Alexis what was your review on the movie?
You know initially my first one.
We kind of heard it already.

(46:10):
You know if I get a 4 stars which is about an 8.
But upon reflection you know I think I'd give it a 9.
Wow.
I'd give it a 9 because it's just the people man.
It just really like reinforces my love for people and it shows us what we're capable
of.
And they even go through it in the movie where the Doc says like we're here for the people.
Right exactly.
We're not here for individual reasons.
And you know there might be a sequel so I'm just wondering what are they going to do this

(46:33):
time.
I hope there is not a sequel because this has done really well.
It kind of ends like there's going to be a sequel.
You know I wouldn't mind.
If they make a sequel.
Sorry go ahead.
I was going to say I don't mind movies like this getting a sequel.
I would want it to be a sequel where it's completely new characters though.
Oh yeah totally.
Like new way.
Like don't bring it.
If it's not broken don't fix it.
I'm like leave it as is.
I want to see Aniko grow up.

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Like maybe she's an adult now.
Maybe she gets to write a Jaeger.
Oh I like that.
Am I right.
Am I right.
No I see I wouldn't want that.
It would get too much.
No Pacific.
It cheapen it.
Aniko becomes that Asian girl who got saved.

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Right.
Oh my gosh.
Right.
So if they made a sequel it'd be Godzilla zero.
Godzilla zero.
All right George what's your review on the movie.
I have no complaints.
I loved it.
Is it your first or second time?
It's my second time.
It's my second time but I will say the second time I didn't watch it fully because I did
fall asleep.
It's a long movie.
I had a long day but from everything I recall the score was amazing.

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The plot the character development everything.
It kind of hit me in a way where I'm like I try to put myself in his shoes the main character
and honestly I don't know what I would do in a situation like that.
You're a fucking kamikaze pilot.
You deflected.
You know you're trying to bring defected.
And then you're trying to bring that honor back and you know redeem yourself and it just

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hit it hit home.
I loved it.
I really don't have any complaints.
I'm going to give it an 8.5.
Wow.
Solid movie.
Wow.
Wow.
Last but not least our host.
I really like the Zuvie.
You know it was a five.
No I was I'm not that harsh with this movie.
I think if you look at it as a whole and you look at it in the genre that's in it wasn't

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cheesy.
It wasn't like it wasn't overly produced.
It was just like hey we're going to let we're going to let the story talk for itself.
The actors are going to do what they're going to do and Godzilla is not going to be.
He's a focal point but he's not the focal point.
It's the people that are evolving through the movie and then transforming and you see
like how everybody by the end of it unites and becomes a cohesive group even though they

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have their differences.
Especially like if you see the mechanic and and the pilot touches Banda and the pilot.
You know like they you see the little scene where he's like hey if I you know those guys
those guys ended up living you know like they would want like if those guys were living
they would want you to live on.
So I put an ejector seat for you just in case that's something you want to do because like

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I know I oh shit he died.
I thought he died.
I'm like he fucking did it.
He's flying out of fucking pus dude.
Would you guys have preferred it if he died or you think it was more impactful that he
lived.
I think if I think it would have been more impactful if he died.
I agree.
Yeah because I think he would have kind of gone full circle.
Yeah.
Just like he finished his destiny.
But I did really like that they were kind of like you don't need to die to to.

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They made it a minute more on a positive note.
Yeah.
Which wasn't it.
You don't see it too much.
The thing that I feel like is which is less realistic but yeah.
Well I will say that I am not dying is I feel like a great political statement for a country
like Japan at that time where for so many years and for so many centuries they thought
of death as a rite of passage itself and like a way to build honor or like carry honor to

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the afterlife where it's like I think for that was probably the time when they were
starting to abandon that notion when they're like no like live like what the fuck.
If you can live and like what's the big deal.
Yeah like it's you don't need to die to you know restore your honor.
You go to jail or I don't know fucking say sorry.
Or you know what.
Just be better next.
Yeah exactly.

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Exactly.
Actually kill yourself next time.
Just shut the fuck up.
No just kidding.
But the Japanese and the ancient Egyptians man they just got this.
Hardcore.
Hardcore.
It's nuts.
That's what I'm saying.
Like I kind of like that he lived because it kind of seems like people were kind of starting
to realize like there's so much useless death in our history and in our wars that we don't

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need to keep pushing that.
And it felt like it was coming from the people not from the government which was also more
impactful.
Yeah and they also kind of they gave them the choice.
They were just like hey we're not going to force you to do this.
You know you can do it if you want to or live.
So Isaac what was your score.
This is a nail bit because I'm thinking between like eight point five and nine point seven.

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Crazy.
That's that you're going from like a really good movie to like almost perfect.
Yeah again because I like big war movies.
Usually it's like eight point five to maybe like nine.
I'm super torn because it's just like if I look at it if it's a if it's just like a monster
movie it's a nine point seven.
But if I look at it it just simply as an evolution of a guy that's that went through this horrific

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you know thing that happened to him during the war and after I think it's like an eight
point five.
So the genre.
So like it depending on like what.
Why not both.
Well you're huge on rewatchability.
So how do you think the rewatchability is.
The rewatchability on this movie I think is high.
I think you can watch this movie like two or three times.
Yeah especially because the run time is nice.
Like it's not.
It's like two and a half hours.

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It's not terrible though.
It doesn't feel like that.
No it definitely did not.
But it is two and a half is like more the standard these days I feel like.
But again I liked it.
Again if I look at it like that I don't know I think I didn't give this movie an eight point
nine.
Eight point nine.
Eight point nine.
That's good.
That's crazy.
I'll just give it a nine.
That's the highest ones we've done in a while.

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We give this film an eight point six altogether.
Which if we round up.
Remember rounding George.
That's a nine.
What?
How does that work?
That's a nine.
Oh my god.
You know we didn't even talk about like the cultural impact that it had briefly because
it was like Oppenheimer was going on and then Godzilla minus one.

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And it's like you know.
Kind of almost opposite perspectives on the same.
Exactly.
It was Barbenheimer minus one.
I mean I know Barbie was like the thing too but like I think these were more relevant
you know to each other.
I think if you look at.
Lexa just hates West Media that's why.
I love Barbie.
I think if you look at three of those.
I fucking loved it.
If you put those three movies like together I think I would probably watch Godzilla minus

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one more than probably Barbie or Oppenheimer.
Oppenheimer is like a three hour fucking movie.
Oppenheimer was long.
And I watched it three times.
That one actually fell off.
Actually we have a secret review of that one that's out there we just never we never put
it out there.
Oh yeah we never released that one.
And well let us know in the comments if you guys want us to release it.
We'll put it out there.

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Like nah keep that shit hidden.
They're like we don't want to fucking hear you guys review that shit.
I don't want to hear you guys.
Yeah but.
Yeah.
Alexis just kept saying they deserved it.
I don't know why.
I was just so shocked.
I was like that's your ancestors bro.
What the fuck.
Damn.
I already know he was a spy on this side like for sure.
He's just I can translate.

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I can translate.
What do you guys need.
He's like I can look like them too and then come back.
That's fucked up guys.
But hey if you guys want to keep interacting with us please do on all of our social media
accounts and we want to hear you guys opinions because it's free to watch.
It's one of the few movies that if you have a Netflix subscription.
Which like you could borrow your friends.
Don't be an asshole.

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It's harder now.
Well Netflix is cracking down on that.
Yeah but did you see how their stock went down when they tried implementing that bullshit.
No their profits actually went up.
Here we go time of profits.
All right.
Hey you know what this is the first time we talk about how much money this movie made
and I'm kind of happy with that.
I'm good with that.
I'm sick of talking about money.
You know what we didn't talk about the title.
What does it represent.
What is what do we think it is.

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I don't know.
Minus.
You know it could be a degree.
My minus a degree right like it like God's like it just got a little colder.
You thought it got high.
I mean it looks like a C.
Right.
Minus one Celsius.
Dude I actually went to the Godzilla store over there in Shinjuku and had all sorts of
cool shit.

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I got a cool Godzilla minus one sticker.
You have some hydro flask.
I got the stamp.
I got the stamp.
I didn't get that sticker.
Well you know.
Sick dude.
Well you guys should come.
I didn't want to go to that store because then you know what.
Oh they had some shit.
They had some shit right there.
For real.
I was making space for others.
I got a cool key chain.
All right.

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Well I think that's a wrap for this episode boys.
What do you guys think?
I think so.
I think this is a short and sweet one.
I think if you guys if you guys have any like recommendations please let us know.
Also let us know for too long or if we're too boring at times.
We also went on a little hiatus.
So it's been a while.
But we're back.
We miss you guys.
Well hopefully you guys miss us too.
Well the viewers didn't really feel the hiatus because we kept sending them out.

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It just.
That's true.
But we personally have a little hiatus.
We had some personal things going on in the in the four guys.
Mainly Alex is just going on vacation.
Yeah the whole room was crazy.
Gator you know just doing this thing.
We went to vacation the same place at different times.
I know right.
I know we did.
It was like staggered.
But all right that was four guys.
One film.
I was going to say minus one.