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His intent was to use cutting-edge CG to make his Godzilla fiercer and more photoreal-looking than ever before. The VFX was handled by Shirogumi (with Kiyoko Shibuya serving as visual effects director), using Maya for animation, Houdini for water simulation, and Nuke for compositing. Should the plan fail, balloons will be inflated under Godzilla to force it back up, killing it through explosive decompression. He plans to kill Godzilla in a suicide attack by flying into its mouth and detonating the explosive charges on board. Godzilla is extremely durable, rendering him effectively immune to conventional weaponry. Before being irradiated, small arms fire by the Japanese military on Odo Island served only to annoy and enrage him rather than deal any substantial damage.
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Now substantially larger and even more enraged, Godzilla began destroying American vessels in his path as he approached the Japanese archipelago. Due to ongoing tensions with the Soviet Union, the American military refused to take action against Godzilla in the Pacific and warned the Japanese to begin preparing for the worst. In 1947, the minesweeper Shinsei Maru was ordered to stall Godzilla until the Japanese cruiser Takao could arrive and attack him. Shikishima, now a crew member on the Shinsei Maru, saw a destroyed ship and deep-sea fish floating to the surface and immediately recognized that the culprit was the creature he saw on Odo Island. Godzilla soon burst out of the water and sank the Shinsei Maru's sister ship, the Kaishin Maru. He then gave chase to the Shinsei Maru, which dropped mines and detonated them in an attempt to stop him.
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Unlike the Showa-era suits, the Heisei Godzilla suits require a bit more magnification in order to spot their differences from film to film. For instance, the one here looks a lot like the previous movie’s, except it’s a bit slimmer with an abbreviated snout and noticeably weaker shoulders. It’s the same design tactic they used the first time Godzilla had to take on Mothra nearly 30 years earlier, though Godzilla might’ve needed the size advantage here. Bearing the exaggerated eyes of prior suits from the mid-’60s, this Godzilla is certainly aimed to be a pal to its adolescent audiences and the precocious kid that takes center stage in Megalon.
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Though SpaceGodzilla is generally regarded as a pretty weak film, Destoroyah is a nice callback to Godzilla’s atomic roots and serves as a poignant (temporary) ending for the King of the Monsters as he experiences an internal meltdown. The red and orange lights added to the suits make for a striking, burning image, and Satsuma regards it as his best performance, adding grueling pathos to the kaiju. It’s the most reptilian that Godzilla has looked since the early ’60s, with obvious chest muscles (this Godzilla looks like he could bench press a city) and meaty legs.
The incident was covered up by the Japanese government, with the official story being that the men on the island were wiped out by American forces. Shikishima would be haunted by his experience with the monster, having nightmares of his attack on Odo Island years after the war ended. Let’s give it up for Godzilla Minus One director Takashi Yamazaki, whose red carpet appearances have featured his star in fashionably iconic ways. Yamazaki has taken to X (formerly Twitter) to showcase his chonky Godzilla Minus One action figure, who’s currently having his own awards season adventures.
It’s more inherently reptilian (probably in an attempt to differentiate it from its primate foe, King Kong) and its arms and legs are brawny and combat-ready. It came in handy during the battle scenes — while the brawls in Godzilla Raids Again are frenetic and animalistic, King Kong vs Godzilla was inspired by the muscular antics of Japanese pro wrestling. The actors shot these sequences in a large parking lot with green screen backgrounds because they couldn’t afford full practical sets. What they did construct (food stalls, tents, the partial inside of a train) was on a very small portion of the road.
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Watch Godzilla Minus One in theaters, where it continues to rack up box office success, and we’ll keep an eye on the chonky boy on the Oscars red carpet. The first Godzilla of the 21st century features a lot of throwbacks to his earliest designs—his musculature is much less defined, and his brightened dorsal plates were rounded back out to evoke the classic Godzilla. A minor but standout twist here is that Godzilla lost the pupils from his eyes, giving him a sinister, almost alien look.
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Meanwhile, a surviving fragment of Godzilla's flesh left by Shikishima's attack began to regenerate as it sank into the depths. Starring Kirsten Dunst and Cailee Spaeny as journalists chronicling a war at home, writer-director Alex Garland’s action film provokes a shudder of recognition. Universal Pictures’ “Abigail,” the R-rated horror tale about a monstrous 12-year-old ballerina battling her captors, made a splash as it came in a close second to “Civil War” with an estimated $10.2 million at the box office, according to Comscore.
Upon landing in Ginza, Godzilla demonstrated vicious aggression to the structures and civilians around him, tearing apart buildings with his claws, stepping on fleeing people, and biting down on a nearby train and lifting it in his jaws. Upon being attacked by a detachment of Chi-To tanks, he immediately unleashed his heat ray and obliterated the surrounding area. He observed the resulting mushroom cloud and, moments after Koichi Shikishima recovered from the shockwave, let out a fierce roar at it. When acoustic minesweepers were sent to locate Godzilla by playing recordings of his roar, Godzilla responded with extreme violence, hurling one of the ships out of the water and through the air into a shipyard on the shore of Sagami Bay. In July 1946, Godzilla was caught in the American military's Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons tests at Bikini Atoll, irradiating and mutating him.
Godzilla's original form resembles theropod dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex with additional similarities to the 1998 Godzilla and the Godzillasaurus. He has a hunched-over, bipedal stance; digitigrade feet; a head larger relative to his body than after he is irradiated; and a tyrannosaurid snout. His dorsal fins are notably long, with the tallest being close to the base of his neck.
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Godzilla survives the initial plunge and then breaks free before being forced back up, sustaining serious injuries from the resultant decompression-induced barotrauma. An enraged Godzilla prepares to destroy all the vessels with its heat ray, but Shikishima crashes the plane into Godzilla's mouth and destroys its head, causing the energy of the heat ray to tear its body apart. The crew celebrates as Shikishima ejects before the explosion and parachutes to safety, having remembered that Tachibana showed him an ejection seat that he installed in the Shinden, imploring him to let go of his guilt to continue living. In May 1947, Shikishima and his minesweeper crew travel to the Ogasawara Islands and are tasked with stalling Godzilla's approach to Japan. They release a mine into Godzilla's mouth and detonate it, causing significant damage, but it quickly regenerates. The heavy cruiser Takao then engages Godzilla, but is subsequently destroyed when Godzilla unleashes its heat ray.
Whether you’re more into the popcorn blockbuster style of the MonsterVerse or if the terror of Ishirō Honda’s 1954 classic is your thing, there’s a monster mash waiting for you to dig into. There was a time when Sony was going to unleash Kraven in theaters in October 2023, but the film was then bumped to August 2024. With a head seemingly built to express annoyance at his new offspring, Minilla (at this point, the Godzilla headpieces now often included movable eyes and eyelids, anthropomorphizing the titan further), this suit isn’t much to write home about. Seeing as Godzilla is now a parent with a doughy little youngling to take care of, his oddly humanoid face makes sense here. But it inherits all of the problems from the previous suit as well and looks good at no angle. Whereas the first two Godzilla suits bore all of the scars and irregularities that would occur to a Tyrannosaurus rex-esque monster that was revived by nuclear weapons, this suit begins an era of streamlining.
This 50th-anniversary film has some of the touches of the original, but for the most part, it seems like a direct antithesis. Lean in arms, legs, and torso and with a smaller head, this Godzilla is less of a bringer of death and more of an action figure. It fits the purposes of the movie, though, which is primarily a parade of monsters being taken down by the King of the Monsters over the course of two hours.
During his attack on Ginza, Godzilla picked up a train in his jaws and shook it around to eject its passengers, though he failed to notice that Noriko Oishi had stayed inside. During Operation Wada Tsumi, Godzilla recognised that Shikishima's Kyushu J7W Shinden was capable of evading his attacks, and responded by attempting to keep the plane in his line of sight at all times as he followed it to Sagami Bay. With engaging human stories anchoring the action, Godzilla Minus One is one kaiju movie that remains truly compelling between the scenes of mass destruction. This week has been a pretty great one for Godzilla fans, as Toho fully revealed Godzilla Minus One as their first Godzilla movie since Shin Godzilla back in 2016. We’ve gotten poster art and a teaser trailer this week, along with a full-body image of the new Godzilla design.
Meanwhile, Godzilla Minus One’s design is more in line with what we’ve seen throughout the lizard god’s history. Even in its initial T-Rex sized form, which sees Kōichi Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki) facing off against Godzilla for the first time, our favorite kaiju is built for destruction, and looks pretty cool while doing it. With Godzilla Minus One, writer/director Takashi Yamazaki cited three of the best Godzilla films as being important influences on Godzilla Minus One. While, of course, his direct live-action predecessor, Shin Godzilla, was one of them, there were two others that he submitted as sacred texts that absolutely reflect the tone and spirit of this sleeper 2023 movie schedule hit.
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