I took the Metro rail into downtown Los Angeles yesterday to catch Godzilla Minus Zero in a true IMAX theater.
What an incredible, thrilling experience. Outstanding production design and special effects, as well as impressive sound design, and an old school Godzilla score. (I’ve seen films in this theater before and it sometimes feels like you’re in Sensurround.)
Set in 1949, a few years after Godzilla Minus One, the film opens with a scene that immediately pulls you into the movie. It brings back many of the same characters and actors from the first movie, adds a few more, and creates character arcs and relationships that keep y`ou emotionally invested. In fact, Takashi Yamazaki, the writer/director of both films doubles down on the tearjerker factor as well as the anti-war message that has always been core to the original Godzilla story, even portraying horrific scenes of the aftermath of the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima in flashback. Like the first film, the human characters and stories get as much screen time, if not moreso, than Godzilla himself.
Anyway, this film is a spectacle that definitely should be seen on the big screen (and in IMAX if you can swing it!)
As an amusing aside, I will also note that in this film, and another 1940s’ era movie I recently watched and enjoyed, Pressure (about the D-Day landings) both had meteorologists as central pivotal characters!
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