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Godzilla Minus One
ゴジラ-1.0
2023 · Film · 125 min
Directed by Takashi Yamazaki
In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.
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They are starting to outcompete Hollywood on quality (see Godzilla minus one, Squid Game, Parasite, etc), they just don't have the hundred millions of dollars of marketing budget that Hollywood has to push and advertise their movies in foreign cinemas across the world, nor do Americans have a huge appetite of watching movies with subtitles, nor could they read even if they wanted to ("54% of adults have a literacy below sixth-grade level"[1]).
[1] https://www.crossrivertherapy.com/research/literacy-statistics#:~:text=Nationwide%2C%20on%20average%2C%2079%25,older%20are%20illiterate%20in%202022.
Some that haven’t been mentioned yet: Matinee, The First Great Train Robbery, Dave, Ghibli movies (Laputa, Mononoke, Totoro, Kiki, …), Mad Max 2, Nightmare Before Christmas, Edge of Tomorrow, Tremors, Godzilla Minus One, Watchmen, The Fly, Dark City, Passengers, Predestination, Strange Days, WarGames, Tron, Timecrimes, Sneakers, The Frighteners.
People won't resort to downloading movies off the internet if they just made them available legally across the world at local prices. As a Godzilla fan, there is no way for me to watch Godzilla Minus One. It wasn't released theatrically in my country. No news of it releasing it on any streaming services either in near future. I am willing to pay if only they would take my money. The stupid studio executives should focus their energies on making movies accessible rather than lobbying for more stupid laws. But of course they won't do that because they are too short-sighted.
What kind of movies are you going to to? I witnessed zero bad behaviour at Dune part 2, Godzilla Minus One, or Poor Things in theatres. It's not even that high brow stuff. Just not the typical marvel shovel ware.
Remember: you can’t make any movie about postwar Japan without also making it about the warcrimes of Imperial Japan /s
This is like bitching that Grave of the Fireflies doesn’t call out the atrocities committed by unit 731 so it’s bad.
The regular people featured in Godzilla Minus One talk about how corrupt and destructive their government is; they explicitly call attention to the fact that their government didn’t care at all about the lives of its own people. I think it is pretty telling that if Imperial Japan is letting it’s own civilians starve or forcing them into pointless suicide attacks, then they certainly wouldn’t care about American POWs or Chinese peasants.