{"id":17359,"date":"2025-03-13T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17359"},"modified":"2025-03-11T22:41:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T02:41:46","slug":"godzilla-minus-one-2023-takashi-yamazaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17359","title":{"rendered":"Godzilla Minus One (2023, Takashi Yamazaki)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get that in today&#8217;s marketplace you&#8217;ve gotta reboot everything at least once per decade, but it&#8217;s a shame to churn out new reboots so soon after the superior <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13204\">Shin Godzilla<\/a><\/em>.  This is as talky as the Anno, but some cheesy shit from the director of <em>Parasyte<\/em>.  What&#8217;s funny is this movie stops every 20 minutes so our hero (coward would-be-kamikaze Shikishima, survivor of Godz and war, played by the voice lead of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11986\">Your Name<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11265\">Summer Wars<\/a><\/em>) can have a trauma breakdown, while Hideaki Anno, who invented trauma breakdowns, never did this in <em>Shin<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/godz1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>He shacks up with a neighbor whose kids died in WWII bombing (she&#8217;s the great Ruri-Ruri from <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16099\">Shin Kamen Rider<\/a><\/em>) and gets work as a minesweeper, until Godz returns.  They blow up a mine in its mouth, but it has hyper-healing abilities and nuclear-blast-attack, which it uses to destroy a battleship.  When the wild-haired doctor&#8217;s plan to sink the lizard using bubbles(?) doesn&#8217;t work, our guy gets help from a mechanic who hates his guts (Munetaka Aoki of the new <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/17071\">Serpent&#8217;s Path<\/a><\/em>) then uses his plane-crashing skills to blow up the monster&#8217;s head.  His not-wife, who&#8217;d apparently sacrificed herself to a nuclear attack to save him, escapes with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/godz2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get that in today&#8217;s marketplace you&#8217;ve gotta reboot everything at least once per decade, but it&#8217;s a shame to churn out new reboots so soon after the superior Shin Godzilla. This is as talky as the Anno, but some cheesy shit from the director of Parasyte. What&#8217;s funny is this movie stops every 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,624,36,3126,179,1623,472],"class_list":["post-17359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-giant-monsters","tag-japan","tag-nuclear-power","tag-remake","tag-trauma-drama","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17400,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17359\/revisions\/17400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}