@jbillinson: GODZILLA was always meant to be a nuclear allegory and a cautionary tale, but that never quite made it over the ocean and into Hollywood’s attempts at the franchise. But GODZILLA MINUS ONE delivered the biggest American audience yet for Toho, and they used GODZILLA MINUS ZERO to speak directly to them. #movies #filmtok #film #godzilla #tiktokscifimoviecontest

hat12345g :

I laughed when Godzilla just surfaced near New York, nuked it and then went back to Japan. 10/10 scene.

nopenope1654 :

I wonder what Godzilla was doing in unit 731

incendiaryCitrus :

Eh, the horror of humanity message rings hollow. Given how so much of Japanese media paints themselves as the victims of WW2, without ever acknowledging the atrocities and actions that are still visible to this day. To name a few Nanjing, Korean pleasure women, forced labor camps, the colonies in Korea and China

Bappo :

”There’s a certain weightlessness to the American, Hollywood-made Godzilla movies” Japanese Godzilla movies

emh0629 :

I struggle to care about the message of Godzilla given Japan’s evil ass history lowkey lol.

riflefyre :

“created out of the darkness of the human soul” such as mass rape and the unit 731 experiments?

The Motion Picture Show :

Godzilla 2014 doesn’t get its deserved respect. That movie is all about disaster and how humans deal with it

Jaryd :

i’m pretty sure Godzilla versus Kong. They use Mecha Godzilla as a weapon and it backfires on them by going rogue. This was an underlying meaning of showing to not fight nature by creating an imitation of it. The best part is they also convey the message well also keeping a action packed movie.

Lolailo :

people are larping godzilla again it seems

VisionsDissolved :

The sacred beast of the apocalypse btw.

Andres :

Huge Godzilla fan, but I feel like some of the origin of godzilla inherently downplay Japanese warcrimes. The bombs were very arguably justified.

A :

Godzilla minus one criticizes its own country back then more than the US

Matt McMuscles :

"That weightlessness is not meant for how the character was designed." so we are just forgetting almost two decades of the entire showa era now?

JonnyBCYa! :

as soon as it becomes creature reveal after reveal, it becomes the same ol schlock.

evanescence :

It truly puts the American movies to shame. Godzilla being the collective trauma of Japan is done so brilliantly. That flashback of Hiroshima were the filmmakers making sure the US audience are facing what we did. Love it. So so good

Baragon Prime :

Godzilla's greatest strenght is his flexability. He can be a horrible monster, a silly hero, or anything inbetween. This is how he stayed culturally relevant.

z🐊 :

kinda weird that you accuse 1998 and KOTM of being weightless, when they really aren’t. countless japanese movies have done that and even minus one/zero with SOME of its animation. if everything was super slow it would be boring

Reid :

so ig were js ignoring the showa era

Señor phart :

As much as I liked this movie, it makes me mad when Japan refuses to acknowledge the things they did wrong in ww2. My great grandfather was an American radio operator in the battle of Saipan. He captured and experimented on by the Japanese, and when he was released at the end of the war, he had developed INTENSE schizophrenia. He was quickly put in an insane asylum thereafter, and my grandfather only met him a few times before he ultimately died young in the asylum, likely due to complications from experiments he was subjected to. War sucks, death sucks, but Japan was NOT the victim

Rayce :

I think the best part is both films choose to criticize the governments of both Japan and the US instead of the citizens themselves

Romeo :

Why are the comments not the brightest? 💔

Dagrnracoon :

no godzilla movies between 1954 and shin apparently 😕

Customer Service :

Don’t pretend like Hollywood turned Godzilla into a silly character who just fights stuff. Toho was doing that for almost the entire Showa era onwards…

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Matthew Sulla :

Although I completely agree the American movies are smashing action figure together, let’s not pretend this didn’t start in the showa era movies