Why Godzilla Minus One DESTROYS Modern Hollywood | Video Essay

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Godzilla Minus One was made for $15 million minus a few million. Yamazaki indicated that the budget was in fact less than we even thought. Incredible. The best movie of the year was also the least expensive. That's what talent and passion can do.

Worth mentioning, when director Takashi Yamazaki heard the rumor that this film "only had a $15million budget" he said "I wish we had that much." 😂 It was made even cheaper

In this movie Godzilla is used as a tool to convey a human story whereas in the Hollywood movies humans are used as a tool to convey a monster movie.

$15M is not even the salary of a Marvel actor

I didn't expect to go to a Godzilla movie and cry like a f*ing babe over the human characters. I didn't expect a deep reflection on ptsd, survivors guilt, and the cheapness of life during war. It's an incredible movie.

Godzilla isn’t just the only movie from Japan the blew Hollywood away. The Boy and the Heron beat Disney by 2 million. Two Japanese movies have beat Hollywood and Disney.

Art cannot be replicated in a factory, needs a craftsman's sweat and heart.

It's a shame that the film was only shown in a few cinemas here in Germany. Monster movies in particular are the most fun on the big screen. Minus one is plus one hundred for film history.

When my husband wanted to see this I dragged my feet and was preparing for another forgettable CGI monster movie. Definitely did not expect to actually sob with emotion during the movie multiple times.

Godzilla Minus One needs to be nominated for Best Picture Academy Award. Best movie of 2023.

At some point in the film I was like “Oh yeah, aside from the PTSD, things are looking up for your boy Koichi. He’s got friends, a found family, nice little house, good paying job, yeah feeling good!” I actually forgot it was a Godzilla movie, I was interested in the life of this Japanese soldier post WWII. Then I remembered “Oh wait it’s a Godzilla movie, oh god he’s gonna lose it all again.” I was actually dreading big G appearing once again to rip everything away from this dude that is trying his damndest to live his life.

When Akiko (Sae Nagatani) cried it blew all the human intteractions in a Legendary Kaiju film out of the water.

The craziest thing about Godzilla Minus Ones success, is the irony of it having been released AFTER Oppenheimer, a movie regarding the atomic bomb, the cause of the monster and tragedies that befell Japan.

The dynamic between Shikishima, Noriko, and Akiko was beautiful, truly the reason why people are saying the human connection was so good. Godzilla did a great job too lol

Thank you so much for your on point & intelligent review of this film. My mother was a ww2 survivor, I lost an uncle that I never met because he was drafted in Japan's air force at around 18 and was forced to pilot a broken plane, no payload, half tank a gas (enough to fly there and die), and my father served in the u.s. Army and was sent to Tokyo for the post war restoration in 1946 when it was in ruins. Many of the scenery in this movie was how I imagined my mother suffered, adapted, and survived.

I believe the biggest part of the problem is that Hollywood (not all films, but many) approach film making with the mentality "lest make a movie, what story can we come up with" while this Godzilla movie approached it with something more like "let's tell a story". Yes, filmmaking is a business but movies should not be approached only as money making machines, otherwise the art part of it gets lost.

As a war vet, with severe PTSD, this movie hit so hard. I’m thankful that it exists, the tears kept leaking on the drive home, and then some. They made a movie that felt like me.

I took my family to watch this movie, my mom speaks only Spanish, some English. I was worried she wouldn't like it cause of the Japanese language but I was wrong. At the end she said she got watery eyes and understood most of the movie. It shows you how strong they made the characters

You know a movie is good when just thinking back on it makes you emotional. This movie is so powerful that just thinking back on this movie, I am starting to tear up.