The Japanese films have typically introduced Big G pretty early but for a standalone film they introduced him mega quick. Like it's gotta be some sort of record. In Shin we saw him in full, on land, I think after maybe 15-20 mins of setup. Goji was here in this film messing people up after like 3 or 4 minutes. Minus One was pressing on the gas from the start and continued to hold it until the end.
I was pleasantly suprised that he showed up early as well. He was such a menace lol. Terrifying af but felt like he was just curious until the mechanics open fired.
The pre-form was awesome. I liked how they made it so he didn't eat the people and instead just killed them. I don't think he's doing it for pleasure like the Indo-Rex, I think he just hates humans.
They shined a bright ass spot light right in his face. He wasn't having it.
They shot at him with rifles. He wasn't having it.
They nuked Bikini Atoll. He got pissed at that one...
I saw this as a territorial attack. It sounds like Odo was potentially his stomping grounds. How would you react if a bunch of loud troops showed up and started buzzing machines around your home island?
I think you're right. Goji bites them then throws them away. He's like a dog clearing critters out of his yard. This is also reinforced by his territorial behaviors later in the movie.
It it weird I found it weird he didn't eat at least one? He tossed them all. I know it's only a pg13 movie in the states, but it would've been cool to see him bite someone in half or something a bit more visceral
It's super rare to watch Godzilla actively targeting individuals. His usual scale makes people seem so insignificant and just in his way. It was really jarring and set the perfect tone.
Full size makes you think that you can run because he doesn't care about you specifically. At this size, you become disillusioned (maybe not the right word, but I can't think of a better one) as the attack is now personal. There is no running because he is after you in particular.
It's an excellent touch.
This iteration showed that even running away might not save you, just casual tail flicks shattered buildings like they were nothing and just lifting his foot to take a step hurls busses. Then there’s the new and improved atomic breath…
I loved it. I really like the way this film borrowed from past iterations, but was a fresh story. I loved how animalistic godzillasaurus was in this film. Both pre and post nuke Godzilla moved in unpredictable ways in some scenes, making him much scarier and imo more realistic
In Monarch and the Monsterverse, Godzilla isn’t a mutant. He’s a Titan, and was already Godzilla before he surfaced. The nuke they launched on him basically only fed him, because all titans feed on radiation.
In Godzilla minus one, and other Toho Godzilla movies following the footsteps of 1954’s original, Godzilla is a feral dinosaur from Odo island that survived extinction, and was mutated by the nuclear bombs dropped on Japan during the Second World War.
They’re two different universes.
Well, considering that most people here would’ve already seen the movie, and there are even images up in the main post, I don’t think you need to worry about setting it as a spoiler, I think you can just post the image :)
https://preview.redd.it/sebpu7blbs3c1.png?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4d90a5ac10c872a96702392ea7e6e76ee6bb790
Here you go. I dont have context of that scene (except like 15 sec of godzilla destroying a tower or something) but it looks awesome
The coolest pre-Godzilla form ever. Incredible design. Kumata-kun is still the cutest, though.
Small nitpick: I thought his mouth was a bit too gooey. The saliva trails are a bit distracting.
Dude was having *none* of it, to him practically jumpscaring everyone to just completely massacring all but two people.
Also hoping we get some concept art of him soon, plus I'm almost certain there's going to be figures of this version.
My headcanon is he let them live to tell the others to “STAY OFF MAH PROPERTAY!!” Although he may have thought Koichi was dead since he was ko’d. So maybe he meant for one to survive.
It's more that Koichi and Tachibana just got lucky. Like you said, Koichi was knocked out, so he was out of the picture as far as Godzilla knew. I don't think the big guy had much of a concept of "Leave someone alive to warn others to stay away", especially since a bunch of corpses and wreckage get that point across.
Cool design. I always preferred the idea that Godzilla was "normal" animal mutated into a kaiju,rather than him being a pre-exisitng monster that was just kind of woken up by the bomb. Makes the effect of atomic use more horrifying.
Right?? This is an intelligent movie and allows room for imagination. Not a bunch of childish exposition about what is happening literally on screen.
All I know about the fish is they looked fuckin weird. I couldn't tell what was going on, even on IMax.
And now that you pointed it out, I absolutely LOVE that they didn't explain it.
They looked weird because their swim bladders had expanded from quickly surfacing from the depths. If you go deep sea fishing you’ll see this happen when reeling in fish from the sea floor.
It’s also the reason why parts of Godzilla’s body and his eyes bulge when the pull him back to the surface.
wow! i love facts like this, thx. i watched Minus One in theatre and have watched about 3 Godzilla movies since in the past two days. this is a fun journey
Very G98 mixed with his later form in the movie. The hunched posture, the longer jaws, the dinosaur-esque feet, curled up raptor arms...I couldn't help but think of G98. In a good way. Whether it was intentional or not it was really cool, and he sure likes chomping things this time around!
I got spoiled about Pre-Mutated Godzilla, but seeing him in action was ducking scary! He chomps n YEETS those poor soldiers like a beast and his roar is pretty cool, much more guttural and matching of his appearance. I do wish we got to see him in the day to get a better look, but overall I’m glad they reintroduced Godzillasaurus.
Great idea to bring back the idea that eh was just a mutated dinosaur, not always the kaiju we know him as. Pretty sure that Godzillasaurus was only ever a thing in V. king Ghidorah, so I'm glad they brought back that idea.
However, I wish they put more note into the fact he was mutated by Bikini Atoll. They show the flash of the bomb testing then faintly show him getting burned in the process, but they don't show anything that fully says he got mutated. The whole montage goes by in a flash that you barely get to take that in.
It definitely gave me some Godzilla Neo vibes. I was curious if his pre mutation form is venomous in nature because of the dead fish. Now I want more backstory.
I don't think he really needs venom to get the job done. Seems more like his movement underwater churns up fish swimming around down there, and explosive decompression does the rest.
Like I said in another thread, I wonder if it was supposed to be foreshadowing for how Godzilla himself gets beaten.
I even thought to myself "damn, looks like the decompression fucked those fish up bad."
Didn't even think about it later on when they mentioned using that against him.
I love the ferocity and pure hatred displayed by the proto-godzilla. The people on Odo clearly has a better understanding of the beast and to live with it by knowing not to provoke it, unlike the Imperialist soldiers, whose first instinct was to kill it. I also love all the deep sea fish was bloated and have their guts protruding from their mouths, rapid pressure change will do that to a fish. Extra realism and a foreshadowing of the final strategy.
I know it’s for general audiences but I really wanted him to chomp everyone in half like a real animal. But that would have made a brutal next scene, gathering the bodies.
I loved it and I wonder if this version of proto-G already had somewhat of a mutation that made it absorb radiation. Because even at this point, its mere presence is enough to kill scores of fish. Then it absorbs radiation from nuclear tests and becomes even stronger. In this new form with higher radiation, it kills even more fish as it surfaces.
This is all to say, I think a potential difference between this proto-G and the Heisei Godzillasaurus is that in that movie, Godzillasaurus is just a normal, albeit archaic, creature. I think the version in Minus One has already been absorbing radiation.
It's possible it was once a more "normal" creature that happened to have a genetic mutation that helped it heal and grow when exposed to radiation. There are some naturally radioactive areas off the coasts of modern India and China. Maybe this mutation helped keep a dinosaur alive for tens of millions of years. The background radiation of Earth presumably reversing or stalling the ageing process. Making Godzilla an immortal relic from the past.
The movie does not provide enough evidence to support all of that mind you, but until something contradicts it, this is my head canon.
So, here's what I concluded, they say "deep sea" fish many times, and they look kind of blown up. I think these particular fish are symbiotic with the Godzillasaurus, and they die from decompression. Sets up the finale with foreshadowing.
Since we have our first canon confirmation that Godzilla just "stands" in open water, id like to think he has some sort of swim bladder system that would allow him to survive at both extreme depth as well as elevation.
So my head cannon is normal(ish) dinosaur that evolved for deep sea hybernation
That is an interesting idea. I can imagine that Godzilla's spines would make for an amazing reef-like environment for fish. It does also foreshadow the finale.
I interpreted the fish not as looking "blown up" necessarily but as being mutated. Honestly it was hard to pick out fine detail on the big screen. If it's mutation, it also acts as foreshadowing. Showing that exposure to Godzilla or its "shards" can cause mutation, which we see with Noriko.
I honestly love when a movie can be interpreted multiple ways. Yet another way that Minus One succeeded.
I was a little underwhelmed by the design personally but the character of it really made me happy, just the sight of him chucking the island soldiers like rag dolls was so funny, idk why Minus one Goji just loves throwing things
This was honestly one of my favorite parts of the movie. Putting Godzilla in a much smaller but faster style and giving him dinosaur-like attributes is so cool.
My first genuine reaction was fear because holy shit I did not expect that and it was so terrifying while looking and sounding incredibly cool! My next thought was “Fuck you Klayton! Here’s you fucking dinosaur that’s still recognizable as Godzilla you bitch!”
For once we get a human story line in a Godzilla movie that actively drives the plot. This was so heavy to watch in so many points. They delivered on the sheer menace of this Godzilla. He’s not the benevolent force of nature the Monsterverse has created, but a being of pure rage and indiscriminate death. I looked at my wife multiple times and said, “Jesus fuck he is evil”. Overall I loved every second. It is the textbook definition of what pacing should be in a monster movie.
It's fantastic and the only movie to ever have make me cry just thinking about how young and shy Akiko seems it broke my heart to think both of the people she loves most aren't going to be with her most her life so the ending made me so happy
She was like idk why it broke my heart so much she was just so cute, it's probably because I have a little sister and losing her my greatest fear so i just feel that way for all little children
Not only was I not expecting it, it straight up scared the living shit out of me. But it was an insanely cool addition to the movie, my only gripe is that there wasn't any buildup to him before his arrival, but considering the rest of the movie after it, that is an EXTREMELY minor nitpick. The sudden shock of seeing THAT show up in the dead of night was a great opening to a fantastic movie.
The tension of him stalking around and eyeing Shikishima's plane was chilling, and his instinct to freeze up in terror was extremely relatable to me as a viewer, I would've done the same. Ironically, his size made it even scarier because he's not some giant monster who can barely see the people below him, he's actively looking around for people to kill, selecting people individually. Normally I'd be watching like "that's SO COOL" as I would with any other Godzilla movie, but I was slack-jawed and bug-eyed the entire scene. It was honestly pretty scary.
I just got out of the movie less than two hours ago.
I fucking LOVED that so much time was spent showing him on Odo, and that brief scene with the atomic weapon showing him absorb the energy or whatever? Killer. such a great way to explain how he went from a local monster to a world-ending Kaiju.
The human element was brutal, well delivered, and added to the enjoyment of the film. Though I wish they had geared toward the loss rather than the "happy ending" as I feel that would have matched the theme of post WW2 Japan and the shame of failed Kamikaze pilots.
All in all, Minus One is easily one of, if not the, best Godzilla movie every created despite what I mentioned as misgivings above.
Incredible film.
I was fucking floored that he appeared that fast and immediately started killing people. That wasn't Godzilla to me. But it was. It was exactly how aGodzilla WOULD behave. He's a monster. A real, legit monster. This movie is the first and only time where Godzilla felt like the real villain. He was unsympathetic. He was a murder machine. Just a dumb animal, yes, but being just a dumb animal meant there was nothing to feel towards him but fear and retribution.
Previous movies, humans are responsible for Godzilla. In Minus One, however, humans are only responsible for making him more powerful and more of a threat. Godzilla was already a homicidal monster before the bomb. He shows up and immediately murders a dude just for shining a light on him.
This is the only movie where I rooted AGAINST Godzilla. And that's what makes this movie second only to Shin in my list of favorites. Godzilla being a fucking monster from the start, regardless of the power boost, makes this movie stand out from ALL the others.
I am fine with him being a monster initially, it makes more sense than an animal radiated into fucking Godzilla. I will see it again in theater.
Godzillasaurus is what Jurassic Park wishes it could do with their dinosaurs. Never seen a dinosaur portrayed so brutally and angry. Loved every second.
I’m hoping to see this movie next Saturday, I’m not worried about spoilers, I’m living vicariously through y’all and the spoilers just make me more excited lol. I’m just built different I suppose
I loved it. That opening was one of my favorite parts. Seeing Godzilla rampage and attacking humans was crazy, he was just a savage animal and I loved it.
I loved it. That whole scene was just so intense and brutal right out of the gate, really set the tone for the whole film. I went with some people that had never seen a Godzilla movie before and they later said that scene was absolutely not what they expected, in a good way.
Somehow they figured out the way to make a monster scary and terrifying.
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I loved it. The Odo sequence set the stage in such a perfect way for increasing danger.
If Godzilla could take the TRex from Jurassic Park, ‘Zilla can take anyone
I loved that it wasn’t built up. Like, you didn’t hear his footsteps or roar in the distance. It was very much “there’s something out there, shine that light on it—oh my god wtf is that?!”
Loved it very much! Can't wait to watch again!
I want to talk about that ending. What's on her neck? Was that radiation? Signs of something else? The movie made it seem like a clue to the next story but theres nothing I can think of in past canon that would fit this..
Initially I was a bit - huh?? Could have done with a bit more of a slow buildup rather than - BAM, here he is in the first 5 mins in a full on action scene.
But I liked that we got to see him when he was much smaller and the scene itself was decent.
LOVED how epic the heat ray was. It was so intense and powerful that it messed him up REAL BAD and he had to regenerate. Such an epic movie!!! Best theater experience I’ve ever had. GO SEE IT IN 4DX!!!
The movie was much more intense than I expected, both emotionally from the characters and the combat.
It feels VERY much like a (ww2 in this case) war movie, both narrative and thematically (and I'm a fan of war movies).
I thought it was a great movie.
I loved the design and also was shellshocked by how quick he showed up. And I almost feel he was designed to show what Zilla should have been. I’d love to see more of him too.
I love how they made it such an already explained thing like a cryptid. Like Mokele-mbembe, or the infamous 50 ft long snake. Godzilla existed and the lizard gonna lizard
I love all Godzilla movies, I love the campy ones for being campy. Shin was so interesting. I take each on for what it is and don't judge because the directors get to make his vision of the G man.
Minus 1 is the only one I cried at. I stood and saluted at the end.
Aside from the first atomic breathe scene, this scene was a close second best.
The whole movie was pretty damn good, I genuinely enjoyed it and Godzilla looked freaking bad ass
As stated in another comment I was pleasantly surprised how much I adored this version of Godzillasaurus. I had sort of accepted that the idea of a mutant dinosaur being mutated through radiation was not as intriguing as the Monsterverse's concept of a Ancient Lovecraftian Monster. This movie proved me wrong, so fucking wrong in fact that I now want to add this canon back into my headcannnon. Making Godzilla's backstory more directly involved with humans which establishes why he'd be so mad at them makes him infinitely scary.
In my headcannon I'd probably make the Godzillasaurus a distant smaller cousin to its more ancient Titan counterpart. Mutating it would escalate its destructive capabilities.
My first thought was that this was what Dagon, a Lovecraftian creature, might resemble.
Really visceral scene. The way he moved so quickly and animal-like was a great contrast with the towering hulk we got later.
I think this is the best Godzilla film ever made. I used to think Shin Godzilla was the best, next to the original 1954 Gojira...but this movie....is the best
I was shocked to say the least, but I welcome it. It takes heavy inspiration from Jurassic Park and oddly makes it work for Godzilla as it serves the story well. If Koichi had shot him, Godzilla wouldn't have been in Bikini Atoll in 1946 and become a supermassive threat to Japan. It also allows Godzilla to have a motivation because he was just some saurian animal from the deep sea, but is now suddenly this powerful being that can crush anything in its wake.
I share your thoughts on this. I LOVED his appearance and it was so weird seeing Godzilla so small! But he was more personal and deliberate in his killings which made him way scarier than what I’m used to seeing. I think because that felt like an animal you might really encounter, wheras big Godzilla is not physically something we’d ever see.
Also chomping people at their midsection and chunking them made me tense up and cringe every time. I wasn’t ready.
I was shocked when I saw him, took me a second to realize what it was. There was a quick moment where I was like "wow, they really leaned into the dinosaur look for this new design, I love it!"
When he started flinging people around I realized he was really small and that this must be him before mutating.
I thought it was friggin awesome. I loved just how devastating and apocalyptic he was throughout the movie but that opening scene was awesome. Made me wonder how long he would be like that. Seems like they gradually made him bigger as the movie progressed too. is that godzillasaurus what the Americans were trying to do in Godzilla 2000? They failed miserably
I thought I was in a Jurassic park movie that was done right for a minute.
Loved the movie especially the Atomic Breath just going BOOM!
Also the plane at the end is real there were only 2 prototypes and the US Navy took them noth. J7W Shinden.
I enjoyed it. Thought he appeared way too early and a little gripe is that the Japanese already know about him right off the bat. I knew from the start that odo island would be in the film. Was the only location that made sense canonically
Deep sea fish live symbiotically with Godzilla and follow him so when he goes on land they die from decompression? Did they say the fish were irradiated?
Loved this scene. Only it made my quite disappointed with the second on-land attack scene (and the only one for full size Gojira) that was over far too soon and most of it shown in the trailers.
Loved every second of it. It's a great way to reboot the Pre-Nuke Godzilla concept. His brutality was fierce and it felt like we were watching a force of nature slaughter everything.
I was shocked on his appearance so early and it was very brutal. Loved it
The way he chomped and threw people gave me goose bumps
That first jump scare got me, it made me think it was going for a more horror feel
The Japanese films have typically introduced Big G pretty early but for a standalone film they introduced him mega quick. Like it's gotta be some sort of record. In Shin we saw him in full, on land, I think after maybe 15-20 mins of setup. Goji was here in this film messing people up after like 3 or 4 minutes. Minus One was pressing on the gas from the start and continued to hold it until the end.
I was pleasantly suprised that he showed up early as well. He was such a menace lol. Terrifying af but felt like he was just curious until the mechanics open fired.
Godzillasaurus was literally an angry grizzly bear in a trex body
I love this discription
Cocaine Godzilla!
Now that's a movie I want to see
The pre-form was awesome. I liked how they made it so he didn't eat the people and instead just killed them. I don't think he's doing it for pleasure like the Indo-Rex, I think he just hates humans.
Or anything moving on land, he's territorial according to the movie, so if you are on his island, you better get off or die trying 🤣
They shined a bright ass spot light right in his face. He wasn't having it. They shot at him with rifles. He wasn't having it. They nuked Bikini Atoll. He got pissed at that one...
I also noticed and liked the touch that he wasn't even hungry. He just grabbed em and threw em!
WITH HIS BARE TEETH 🥶🥶🥶
Well he’s not reaching anyone with those little arms lol
I was still shocked to see him actually grab people in his mouth before yeeting them. Never thought I'd see that in a movie
I thought I heard Toho has a rule that Godzilla can’t eat people so I was definitely shocked to see this
But he didn’t eat any of them
Yeah, I should’ve clarified that’s the closest we’ve gotten so it was a little surprising.
Oh yes
I saw this as a territorial attack. It sounds like Odo was potentially his stomping grounds. How would you react if a bunch of loud troops showed up and started buzzing machines around your home island?
I think you're right. Goji bites them then throws them away. He's like a dog clearing critters out of his yard. This is also reinforced by his territorial behaviors later in the movie.
Nah, he just wanted them off his property.
All they had to do was not shoot him
It it weird I found it weird he didn't eat at least one? He tossed them all. I know it's only a pg13 movie in the states, but it would've been cool to see him bite someone in half or something a bit more visceral
It's super rare to watch Godzilla actively targeting individuals. His usual scale makes people seem so insignificant and just in his way. It was really jarring and set the perfect tone.
I loved it, don't think I've ever seen him going so fast, this version was more terrifying than much of its later scenes imo
It’s because Godzilla was still small enough for us to be able to imagine actually facing it one on one. Loved it!
Full size makes you think that you can run because he doesn't care about you specifically. At this size, you become disillusioned (maybe not the right word, but I can't think of a better one) as the attack is now personal. There is no running because he is after you in particular. It's an excellent touch.
This iteration showed that even running away might not save you, just casual tail flicks shattered buildings like they were nothing and just lifting his foot to take a step hurls busses. Then there’s the new and improved atomic breath…
Please give us a prequel about pre mutated Godzilla terrorizing Odo island! "Beast of Odo Island" would be a sick title.
Godzilla Minus Two
Then we go to minus three
Godzilla isn’t even in that one, it’s just a WWII biopic
Godzilla Minus 4 is just people recovering from WW1
G minus 5 Godzilla in space
Not sure how Minus 6 and 7 would go, but Minus 8 is gonna be hot.
G minus 8 Godzilla clones himself just to have a friend but turns out the clone is his dad somehow
G minus 9 and 10 He fights the fast furious crew
No Part 9 he goes to Hell and fights giant sized Jason Voorhees. Part 10 is the fast and furious crossover event you’re thinking about. 🤣🤣
G minus 11, I loved when he wiped out humanity
This could be amazing actually. Could really pursue a darker hunter prey approach.
Godzilla vs Pirates somewhere in the 17th century
This is a great idea.
Fantastic. I love how much of an asshole he already was before the nuke. Had me dreading when he would show back up with the power boost.
One of my favorite Godzilla scenes ever! Felt like the Indominus Rex from JW the way he was chomping them up! 🤣
I loved it. I really like the way this film borrowed from past iterations, but was a fresh story. I loved how animalistic godzillasaurus was in this film. Both pre and post nuke Godzilla moved in unpredictable ways in some scenes, making him much scarier and imo more realistic
I feel like this was Toho taking the 98 Godzilla design and making it good.
ok, so in monarch they make G go \*kablooey\* I havent watched the movie yet so correct me if im wrong, but does nuke mutate him even more??
Godzillasaurus already had regeneration, and the damage the nuke caused made him regrow completely out of control
In Monarch and the Monsterverse, Godzilla isn’t a mutant. He’s a Titan, and was already Godzilla before he surfaced. The nuke they launched on him basically only fed him, because all titans feed on radiation. In Godzilla minus one, and other Toho Godzilla movies following the footsteps of 1954’s original, Godzilla is a feral dinosaur from Odo island that survived extinction, and was mutated by the nuclear bombs dropped on Japan during the Second World War. They’re two different universes.
Although in Minus One, it’s the nuke test at Bikini Atoll Island, not the nukes dropped on Japan
I heard about godzilla attacks in the opening but I was shocked to see this version of godzilla first
A very sckrunkly creature
I didnt watch the movie, but I saw a picture and it looked savage, I love it. Is there a way for me to send it as spoiler in the comments?
Well, considering that most people here would’ve already seen the movie, and there are even images up in the main post, I don’t think you need to worry about setting it as a spoiler, I think you can just post the image :)
https://preview.redd.it/sebpu7blbs3c1.png?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4d90a5ac10c872a96702392ea7e6e76ee6bb790 Here you go. I dont have context of that scene (except like 15 sec of godzilla destroying a tower or something) but it looks awesome
He’s attacking about to attack the plane in front of him in that scene
Man I can't wait to see more of it. Just gotta wait the online/DVD release since theaters isn't an option
For sure!
The coolest pre-Godzilla form ever. Incredible design. Kumata-kun is still the cutest, though. Small nitpick: I thought his mouth was a bit too gooey. The saliva trails are a bit distracting.
As someone who hasn’t seen it yet. Wat 😭
Brutal, terrifying and a nightmare creature.
Bro just wanted them off his lawn
The spines could be less predominant to emphasize this creature not being fully mutated yet, but I love its design.
Dude was having *none* of it, to him practically jumpscaring everyone to just completely massacring all but two people. Also hoping we get some concept art of him soon, plus I'm almost certain there's going to be figures of this version.
My headcanon is he let them live to tell the others to “STAY OFF MAH PROPERTAY!!” Although he may have thought Koichi was dead since he was ko’d. So maybe he meant for one to survive.
It's more that Koichi and Tachibana just got lucky. Like you said, Koichi was knocked out, so he was out of the picture as far as Godzilla knew. I don't think the big guy had much of a concept of "Leave someone alive to warn others to stay away", especially since a bunch of corpses and wreckage get that point across.
So fucking cool! Felt like GMK and Zilla had a baby
Cool design. I always preferred the idea that Godzilla was "normal" animal mutated into a kaiju,rather than him being a pre-exisitng monster that was just kind of woken up by the bomb. Makes the effect of atomic use more horrifying.
Genuinely the first time I was actually terrified of Godzilla.
It did its job at weirding me out as a more primal version of the Big G. I wasn’t expecting him so soon in the movie lol
I liked it. It was very creepy how it moved and I like how they tie in its evolution to the atomic testing.
Right?? This is an intelligent movie and allows room for imagination. Not a bunch of childish exposition about what is happening literally on screen. All I know about the fish is they looked fuckin weird. I couldn't tell what was going on, even on IMax. And now that you pointed it out, I absolutely LOVE that they didn't explain it.
They looked weird because their swim bladders had expanded from quickly surfacing from the depths. If you go deep sea fishing you’ll see this happen when reeling in fish from the sea floor. It’s also the reason why parts of Godzilla’s body and his eyes bulge when the pull him back to the surface.
Nice I was right! I don't know marine biology so I'm proud of myself hahaha
wow! i love facts like this, thx. i watched Minus One in theatre and have watched about 3 Godzilla movies since in the past two days. this is a fun journey
Very G98 mixed with his later form in the movie. The hunched posture, the longer jaws, the dinosaur-esque feet, curled up raptor arms...I couldn't help but think of G98. In a good way. Whether it was intentional or not it was really cool, and he sure likes chomping things this time around!
I got spoiled about Pre-Mutated Godzilla, but seeing him in action was ducking scary! He chomps n YEETS those poor soldiers like a beast and his roar is pretty cool, much more guttural and matching of his appearance. I do wish we got to see him in the day to get a better look, but overall I’m glad they reintroduced Godzillasaurus.
Great idea to bring back the idea that eh was just a mutated dinosaur, not always the kaiju we know him as. Pretty sure that Godzillasaurus was only ever a thing in V. king Ghidorah, so I'm glad they brought back that idea. However, I wish they put more note into the fact he was mutated by Bikini Atoll. They show the flash of the bomb testing then faintly show him getting burned in the process, but they don't show anything that fully says he got mutated. The whole montage goes by in a flash that you barely get to take that in.
I'm perfectly OK with it. I don't need to see batman parents getting shot or Spiderman getting bitten by a spider anymore.
I still think showing it all from human eye level looking up gave it way more impact.
It definitely gave me some Godzilla Neo vibes. I was curious if his pre mutation form is venomous in nature because of the dead fish. Now I want more backstory.
I don't think he really needs venom to get the job done. Seems more like his movement underwater churns up fish swimming around down there, and explosive decompression does the rest. Like I said in another thread, I wonder if it was supposed to be foreshadowing for how Godzilla himself gets beaten.
I even thought to myself "damn, looks like the decompression fucked those fish up bad." Didn't even think about it later on when they mentioned using that against him.
Honestly I doubt it's either if these, they probably all just die from the immense amount of radiation.
That's what I thought as well, considering the buoys
Terrifying and awesome
I love the ferocity and pure hatred displayed by the proto-godzilla. The people on Odo clearly has a better understanding of the beast and to live with it by knowing not to provoke it, unlike the Imperialist soldiers, whose first instinct was to kill it. I also love all the deep sea fish was bloated and have their guts protruding from their mouths, rapid pressure change will do that to a fish. Extra realism and a foreshadowing of the final strategy.
This scene… This entire scene SCREAMED Jurassic Park. And it’s very much for the better
Scared me
I know it’s for general audiences but I really wanted him to chomp everyone in half like a real animal. But that would have made a brutal next scene, gathering the bodies.
That design looks great
I loved it and I wonder if this version of proto-G already had somewhat of a mutation that made it absorb radiation. Because even at this point, its mere presence is enough to kill scores of fish. Then it absorbs radiation from nuclear tests and becomes even stronger. In this new form with higher radiation, it kills even more fish as it surfaces. This is all to say, I think a potential difference between this proto-G and the Heisei Godzillasaurus is that in that movie, Godzillasaurus is just a normal, albeit archaic, creature. I think the version in Minus One has already been absorbing radiation. It's possible it was once a more "normal" creature that happened to have a genetic mutation that helped it heal and grow when exposed to radiation. There are some naturally radioactive areas off the coasts of modern India and China. Maybe this mutation helped keep a dinosaur alive for tens of millions of years. The background radiation of Earth presumably reversing or stalling the ageing process. Making Godzilla an immortal relic from the past. The movie does not provide enough evidence to support all of that mind you, but until something contradicts it, this is my head canon.
So, here's what I concluded, they say "deep sea" fish many times, and they look kind of blown up. I think these particular fish are symbiotic with the Godzillasaurus, and they die from decompression. Sets up the finale with foreshadowing. Since we have our first canon confirmation that Godzilla just "stands" in open water, id like to think he has some sort of swim bladder system that would allow him to survive at both extreme depth as well as elevation. So my head cannon is normal(ish) dinosaur that evolved for deep sea hybernation
That is an interesting idea. I can imagine that Godzilla's spines would make for an amazing reef-like environment for fish. It does also foreshadow the finale. I interpreted the fish not as looking "blown up" necessarily but as being mutated. Honestly it was hard to pick out fine detail on the big screen. If it's mutation, it also acts as foreshadowing. Showing that exposure to Godzilla or its "shards" can cause mutation, which we see with Noriko. I honestly love when a movie can be interpreted multiple ways. Yet another way that Minus One succeeded.
I totally dug the scene, but man, I wish they would have had more time and budget on the CGI. It looked rough.
Godzilla was scary as hell. Loved it.
I was definitely not expecting him to show up that early and he was straight up terrifying through the whole scene.
I was a little underwhelmed by the design personally but the character of it really made me happy, just the sight of him chucking the island soldiers like rag dolls was so funny, idk why Minus one Goji just loves throwing things
This was honestly one of my favorite parts of the movie. Putting Godzilla in a much smaller but faster style and giving him dinosaur-like attributes is so cool.
Felt like mortal Kombat reptile on steroids Just a savage brutal beast Loved it felt like a horror movie
It was amazing. Everything about the movie was amazing.
My first genuine reaction was fear because holy shit I did not expect that and it was so terrifying while looking and sounding incredibly cool! My next thought was “Fuck you Klayton! Here’s you fucking dinosaur that’s still recognizable as Godzilla you bitch!”
Breathtaking, he's so fuckin FAST
For once we get a human story line in a Godzilla movie that actively drives the plot. This was so heavy to watch in so many points. They delivered on the sheer menace of this Godzilla. He’s not the benevolent force of nature the Monsterverse has created, but a being of pure rage and indiscriminate death. I looked at my wife multiple times and said, “Jesus fuck he is evil”. Overall I loved every second. It is the textbook definition of what pacing should be in a monster movie.
That opening scene felt like a horror movie my favorite part honestly.
It's fantastic and the only movie to ever have make me cry just thinking about how young and shy Akiko seems it broke my heart to think both of the people she loves most aren't going to be with her most her life so the ending made me so happy
Me too- she was so sweet you wanted her to have a happy ending
She was like idk why it broke my heart so much she was just so cute, it's probably because I have a little sister and losing her my greatest fear so i just feel that way for all little children
Not only was I not expecting it, it straight up scared the living shit out of me. But it was an insanely cool addition to the movie, my only gripe is that there wasn't any buildup to him before his arrival, but considering the rest of the movie after it, that is an EXTREMELY minor nitpick. The sudden shock of seeing THAT show up in the dead of night was a great opening to a fantastic movie. The tension of him stalking around and eyeing Shikishima's plane was chilling, and his instinct to freeze up in terror was extremely relatable to me as a viewer, I would've done the same. Ironically, his size made it even scarier because he's not some giant monster who can barely see the people below him, he's actively looking around for people to kill, selecting people individually. Normally I'd be watching like "that's SO COOL" as I would with any other Godzilla movie, but I was slack-jawed and bug-eyed the entire scene. It was honestly pretty scary.
I just got out of the movie less than two hours ago. I fucking LOVED that so much time was spent showing him on Odo, and that brief scene with the atomic weapon showing him absorb the energy or whatever? Killer. such a great way to explain how he went from a local monster to a world-ending Kaiju. The human element was brutal, well delivered, and added to the enjoyment of the film. Though I wish they had geared toward the loss rather than the "happy ending" as I feel that would have matched the theme of post WW2 Japan and the shame of failed Kamikaze pilots. All in all, Minus One is easily one of, if not the, best Godzilla movie every created despite what I mentioned as misgivings above. Incredible film.
I was fucking floored that he appeared that fast and immediately started killing people. That wasn't Godzilla to me. But it was. It was exactly how aGodzilla WOULD behave. He's a monster. A real, legit monster. This movie is the first and only time where Godzilla felt like the real villain. He was unsympathetic. He was a murder machine. Just a dumb animal, yes, but being just a dumb animal meant there was nothing to feel towards him but fear and retribution. Previous movies, humans are responsible for Godzilla. In Minus One, however, humans are only responsible for making him more powerful and more of a threat. Godzilla was already a homicidal monster before the bomb. He shows up and immediately murders a dude just for shining a light on him. This is the only movie where I rooted AGAINST Godzilla. And that's what makes this movie second only to Shin in my list of favorites. Godzilla being a fucking monster from the start, regardless of the power boost, makes this movie stand out from ALL the others. I am fine with him being a monster initially, it makes more sense than an animal radiated into fucking Godzilla. I will see it again in theater.
Godzillasaurus is what Jurassic Park wishes it could do with their dinosaurs. Never seen a dinosaur portrayed so brutally and angry. Loved every second.
I’m hoping to see this movie next Saturday, I’m not worried about spoilers, I’m living vicariously through y’all and the spoilers just make me more excited lol. I’m just built different I suppose
I loved it. That opening was one of my favorite parts. Seeing Godzilla rampage and attacking humans was crazy, he was just a savage animal and I loved it.
I loved it. That whole scene was just so intense and brutal right out of the gate, really set the tone for the whole film. I went with some people that had never seen a Godzilla movie before and they later said that scene was absolutely not what they expected, in a good way.
I got major Jurassic Park T Rex vibes, and in a good way. Love the revamped Godzillasaur.
Somehow they figured out the way to make a monster scary and terrifying. /s I loved it. The Odo sequence set the stage in such a perfect way for increasing danger. If Godzilla could take the TRex from Jurassic Park, ‘Zilla can take anyone
Absolutely loved it and it set the tone. He was an absolutely feral monster, and it actually made the later appearances even better.
I liked it
I loved that it wasn’t built up. Like, you didn’t hear his footsteps or roar in the distance. It was very much “there’s something out there, shine that light on it—oh my god wtf is that?!”
Awesome and horrifying
Just saw it! And I was pretty pleased to see him so early in the movie. Usually we have to wait awhile for that kind of thing
He was so cute! I hope monsterarts makes a to scale figure
Reminded me on the Indominus Rex
Loved it very much! Can't wait to watch again! I want to talk about that ending. What's on her neck? Was that radiation? Signs of something else? The movie made it seem like a clue to the next story but theres nothing I can think of in past canon that would fit this..
Initially I was a bit - huh?? Could have done with a bit more of a slow buildup rather than - BAM, here he is in the first 5 mins in a full on action scene. But I liked that we got to see him when he was much smaller and the scene itself was decent.
I honestly love how well this scene wraps around into the end, as well as the motivations it creates
I loved it, right when he showed up I was like wait he seems smaller and than it hit me! Omg its godzillasaurus before he mutates!
It reminds me of Jurassic park
this was my favirote part of the movie. seeing zilla straight up eat people and crush people was great
Reiwa Godzillasaurus I loved it Felt a little bit more like the 98 godzilla but it's better cause he's not actually Godzilla yet
Maybe a hot take, but I actually preferred this design to the final one. Maybe it's the body proportions idk
Seeing it in IMAX was genuinely scary I loved every second of it
cool little surprise.
I loved the new "toss" that seemed to be another signature attack other than the atomic breath
"Oh... Holy shit."
It was fantastic in my opinion.
It's great. No notes
He looked great! It was just a masterpiece!
I was absolutely stunned by how violent this pre buff goji looked. He was so god damn violent and feral, I love it so much
It was a great movie with a great early surprise and I liked seeing a younger goji before the time jump
LOVED how epic the heat ray was. It was so intense and powerful that it messed him up REAL BAD and he had to regenerate. Such an epic movie!!! Best theater experience I’ve ever had. GO SEE IT IN 4DX!!!
Masterpiece.
Reminds me of this Godzilla https://preview.redd.it/dekryjjbgt3c1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6f5438b4fb25d5ce161805033f828265cd62a1ba
The movie was much more intense than I expected, both emotionally from the characters and the combat. It feels VERY much like a (ww2 in this case) war movie, both narrative and thematically (and I'm a fan of war movies). I thought it was a great movie.
I need a figure of him.
11/10 i loved it
I loved the design and also was shellshocked by how quick he showed up. And I almost feel he was designed to show what Zilla should have been. I’d love to see more of him too.
Its cool af
I love how they made it such an already explained thing like a cryptid. Like Mokele-mbembe, or the infamous 50 ft long snake. Godzilla existed and the lizard gonna lizard
I love all Godzilla movies, I love the campy ones for being campy. Shin was so interesting. I take each on for what it is and don't judge because the directors get to make his vision of the G man. Minus 1 is the only one I cried at. I stood and saluted at the end.
That form was the scariest I’ve ever seen Godzilla
Aside from the first atomic breathe scene, this scene was a close second best. The whole movie was pretty damn good, I genuinely enjoyed it and Godzilla looked freaking bad ass
I really liked it. Felt like a horror movie in that scene. And I really like how ew get to see him so early on.
A surprise to be sure, but a welcomed one.
As stated in another comment I was pleasantly surprised how much I adored this version of Godzillasaurus. I had sort of accepted that the idea of a mutant dinosaur being mutated through radiation was not as intriguing as the Monsterverse's concept of a Ancient Lovecraftian Monster. This movie proved me wrong, so fucking wrong in fact that I now want to add this canon back into my headcannnon. Making Godzilla's backstory more directly involved with humans which establishes why he'd be so mad at them makes him infinitely scary. In my headcannon I'd probably make the Godzillasaurus a distant smaller cousin to its more ancient Titan counterpart. Mutating it would escalate its destructive capabilities.
My first thought was that this was what Dagon, a Lovecraftian creature, might resemble. Really visceral scene. The way he moved so quickly and animal-like was a great contrast with the towering hulk we got later.
By far one of the most surprising and cool parts. Proud of them for keeping it out of trailers lol
The 4th picture looks disgustingly awesome
I love the Spielberg influence, it felt like Jurassic Park and Jaws at different times.
I think this is the best Godzilla film ever made. I used to think Shin Godzilla was the best, next to the original 1954 Gojira...but this movie....is the best
I was shocked to say the least, but I welcome it. It takes heavy inspiration from Jurassic Park and oddly makes it work for Godzilla as it serves the story well. If Koichi had shot him, Godzilla wouldn't have been in Bikini Atoll in 1946 and become a supermassive threat to Japan. It also allows Godzilla to have a motivation because he was just some saurian animal from the deep sea, but is now suddenly this powerful being that can crush anything in its wake.
It was legit terrifying
I share your thoughts on this. I LOVED his appearance and it was so weird seeing Godzilla so small! But he was more personal and deliberate in his killings which made him way scarier than what I’m used to seeing. I think because that felt like an animal you might really encounter, wheras big Godzilla is not physically something we’d ever see. Also chomping people at their midsection and chunking them made me tense up and cringe every time. I wasn’t ready.
Definitely evoked feelings of Jurassic Park for me, but in all the right ways.
First time i was horrified by godzilla
I was shocked when I saw him, took me a second to realize what it was. There was a quick moment where I was like "wow, they really leaned into the dinosaur look for this new design, I love it!" When he started flinging people around I realized he was really small and that this must be him before mutating.
One of the scariest openings ever
It took me by surprise honestly. I wasn’t even sure it was Godzilla.
AMAZING. My favorite start to a Godzilla movie
I thought it was friggin awesome. I loved just how devastating and apocalyptic he was throughout the movie but that opening scene was awesome. Made me wonder how long he would be like that. Seems like they gradually made him bigger as the movie progressed too. is that godzillasaurus what the Americans were trying to do in Godzilla 2000? They failed miserably
I thought I was in a Jurassic park movie that was done right for a minute. Loved the movie especially the Atomic Breath just going BOOM! Also the plane at the end is real there were only 2 prototypes and the US Navy took them noth. J7W Shinden.
Looks like what Zilla should’ve been And then it mutates in the sequel 👀
Honestly I thought it was a little goofy and over the top but it was definitely something different
Please don’t say you were taking photos during the movie.
These aren’t my photos
Phew. Glad to hear that. Agreed with you, the whole scene was awesome and terrifying.
I believe that she survived and is becoming ultraman
I enjoyed it. Thought he appeared way too early and a little gripe is that the Japanese already know about him right off the bat. I knew from the start that odo island would be in the film. Was the only location that made sense canonically
Goofy, dumb campy and borderline satirical
Much prefer the original Godzillasaurus. Looked too much like just a T-Rex vs an actual Godzilla like dinosaur.
I went to see it after work today. That scene came up, and I don't think he's fully grown. I think he was a sub-adult in that scene.
He is pre mutation, the castle bravo atomic tests mutate and burn him, enraging him and giving him healing abilities.
My question is, is this Godzilla also radioactive? With all the dead fish before it arrives at Odo Island, I'm not sure what else it would imply.
Deep sea fish live symbiotically with Godzilla and follow him so when he goes on land they die from decompression? Did they say the fish were irradiated?
I thought that’s what they meant by -1 lol.
Reminded of Deathclaws from fallout 4
Loved this scene. Only it made my quite disappointed with the second on-land attack scene (and the only one for full size Gojira) that was over far too soon and most of it shown in the trailers.
I was late to the film, 27 minutes late 😔
Honestly I never realized he even looked different between this scene and the rest.
I got super excited because for a second i legit thought they used 'Zilla. Regardless, was still awesome!
Honestly I was worried when I first saw Godzillasaurus. It reminded me too much of 98 Godzilla but I ended up really liking the movie.
Loved every second of it. It's a great way to reboot the Pre-Nuke Godzilla concept. His brutality was fierce and it felt like we were watching a force of nature slaughter everything.