So I am home now and still trying to process this movie and all that it has brought to the kaiju genre. It was absolutely 100% worth the trip through the thick fog to the AMC Theater.
Minus One was, without mincing words, a masterpiece. Not just a great kaiju film, but an amazing, emotional story set during World War 2. And when I say emotional, I mean there were legit moments of human drama that - outside the tears of joy from just seeing Godzilla on a theater screen again - were tear jerking; Human characters and plots in giant monster movies do not get better than how they were depicted in this film, period.
The auditorium was filled up with people that were legit into the movie, even the annoying elderly couple sitting beside me that literally Haha'd(literally. Not a laugh, just saying haha as a word) or gasped out loud every time the scene changed, often times for no apparent reason other than the fact that they are very easily amused. But it was during one particular scene that lasted probably no longer than 20 seconds that everyone in the room held their breath and went totally silent; Even the kids and more talkative members in the group. Everyone was one, silent, unbreathing creature during THAT scene. It was so surreal and was something I have NEVER experienced in any film ever, let alone with such a huge group of people
Godzilla himself was a monster, unlike the current ongoing Monsterverse incarnation which is portrayed more animal-like. MinusGoji is creature that only wants to kill and destroy. He knows full well that he is king and that nothing and no one is above him.
I highly advise anyone that can get to a theater that is carrying this movie to do so as soon as possible.
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