Saw Godzilla Minus One in theaters in Christmas Eve with the family.
It was outstanding. The score was magnificent. You cared about the characters. Godzilla was terrifying.
It was made in Japan, for Japan, at only $15M, and was better than anything the “panderverse” has put out at 20X the price.
Thanks. I have seen some very positive reviews of Godzilla Minus One from some of the YouTube reviewers that I follow. My first reaction was that it’s just not my kind of movie, but as the good reviews continued to stack up, I decided to add it to my watch list.
My New Year’s resolution a couple of years ago was to avoid dumping on movies I’ve not actually seen. First and foremost, I want to try to stay focused on the good stuff. But it’s also unsound practice to unload carelessly about movies based on nothing more than online chatter. That’s just venting my prejudices, and there is too much of that all around us.
Another recent resolution is to (at least occasionally) step outside of my longstanding genre preferences and watch some things to which I would formerly have turned a blind eye. I still have strong personal preferences, but my larger interest is woke vs. unwoke, and I am especially looking for movies that plant a conservative/traditionalist/moral flag on hilltops worth defending. If I limit my viewing to my own narrow preferences, I will miss some allies worth knowing. A movie doesn’t have to be explicitly conservative as long as it’s not obnoxiously leftist and woke. Pure escapism is fun too. I mentioned Renfield recently in another thread. There is no deep hidden message in the film. It’s just a comic romp through vampire lore with a very funny running gag about Renfield joining an Al Anon style group for codependents.