A couple of brief thoughts on Godzilla Minus Zero

1.) Before seeing the new Godzilla film, I was curious if it was even possible for it to be as good—or even nearly as good—as 2023's Godzilla Minus One. That's because so much of what seemed to make Minus One so good was how unique it was among Godzilla movies. You know, the fact that it was a period piece, the fact that it was set immediately after World War II, the intense focus on the human characters and their melodramas, the fact that long stretches could go by where a viewer might forget that they were even watching a Godzilla movie, the fact that it scanned so much as a prestige picture that just so happened to have Godzilla in it and so on. A sequel, by virtue of being a sequel, would quite necessarily lack those unique elements, then and could, at best, merely repeat them. Could the creators therefore pull off a second movie that was as good as their first without the benefit of so many unique elements, I wondered.As it turns out, they did. Godzilla Minus Zero is very good.…

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