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GODZILLA MINUS ZERO MOVIE REVIEW
Despite its modest budget, 2023’s Godzilla Minus One proved that good storytelling, strong characters, and judicious use of VFX could break box office records, rake in kaiju-sized profits and even win an Academy Award. With that kind of critical and commercial success, a sequel was inevitable. Godzilla Minus Zero is set in 1949, two years after the events of the previous film, when Godzilla was presumably killed. Japan is still grappling with the painful legacy of WW2, and trying to rebuild after the devastation of both the war and Godzilla’s attack. Our heroes can’t catch a break, though, because an even more powerful, more malevolent kaiju has appeared to wreak havoc. The newly formed Large Scale Disaster Response Bureau has prepared for the day another kaiju would appear, but they are no match for the creature. When their efforts to destroy the monster fails, they make the desperate decision to utilize the newly resurrected Godzilla, the only being who could possibly defeat this new threat. But can you get Godzilla to do what you want? And even if you could weaponize a gigantic monster with atomic breath, should you? Our reviewers, Marco, Spider-Mike, Mike the Editor, and special guest, Godzilla artist Matt Frank gathered in the Oneofus command center to discuss the film. Strap in for an epic length, mostly spoiler-free conversation about the new film, and whether our reviewers thought it lived up to its predecessor.
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DIRECTED BY: Takashi Yamazaki
STARRING: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Min Tanaka, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Masami Nagasawa, Yuki Yamada, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Jun Kunimura, Sakura Ando, Miou Tanaka, Sae Nagatani, Kou Maehara, Kisuke Iida, Kenji Mizuhashi, Eita Okuno, Kai Inowaki, Wes Wing, Hideaki Anno, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Tomoyo Kurosawa, Shinonome Umi, Toshihiro Yashiba, Michael Arias
YOUR REVIEWERS
Marco Noyola (Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, Audio Editor)
By day, Marco is a mild-mannered office worker, but by night he is a mild-mannered movie watcher. He does other mild-mannered stuff too.
“I’m not a film critic. I just play one on the Internet.”
Matt Frank (Giganticast, Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad)
Matt Frank is known in both Japan and America as the “Kaiju King,” having been an artist for IDW’s Godzilla comics since 2011. His work can be found in Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters, Godzilla: History’s Greatest Monster, Godzilla: Legends, Godzilla: Rulers of Earth, and the critically praised Godzilla: Rage Across Time. Matt is also an accomplished Transformers artist, working extensively for both IDW and Fub Publications, as an interior artist and a character designer. Mars Attacks The Transformers and Spotlight: Trailcutter are among his most popular works, and he created four new Transformers characters, the Raptoricons, for the Official Collector’s Club in 2016. In the summer of 2017, Matt made an exclusive poster celebrating the American home video release of Shin Godzilla by Funimation, and is also a featured commentator on the blu-ray special features. He has also contributed covers for Go Go Power Rangers, My Little Pony, and Mars Attacks. Matt is a frequent contributor to both OneofUs.net, where he has his own podcast, The Giganticast, and he a frequent co-host on RageSelect.com‘s Let’s Play videos.
Mike J. McAllister (Screener Squad, Staff Writer, Head Video Editor)
Mike J. McAllister is an award-winning creative jack of all trades, and is pretty competent with most of them. He is a writer, director, animator, video editor, and motion graphics artist. He has tried his hand at nearly every form of artistic expression at least once. He was born and raised in Western Pennsylvania where he fell in love with film, writing and special effects at an early age. His obsession with film would lead him to being locally known as a “human IMDb” and being on a first-name basis with every video store clerk in town. He would study film in Pittsburgh before taking his talents to Austin. Not letting something like Tourettes get in his way, he has produced a handful of animated short films that have won awards from film festivals all over the globe. He has also written several yet-to-be-produced screenplays and TV pilots, with some of them being recognized in screenwriting competitions. He has even created motion graphics and animations for several clients, from movie theaters to Twitch streamers. When not creating or watching films, he enjoys MST3K, classic video games and buying vinyl records. He loves dogs, dropping obscure pop culture trivia and watching travel videos. He currently resides in Austin Texas and can be followed on the Instamagrams at @ohheyitsmikejm. His body of work can be found at his homepage or you can take a gander at his somewhat-impressive IMDb listing here.
Michael Riojas (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews)
The man with the ever-changing nicknames. Born in Austin, Riojas was rocketed to Del Rio, Texas, a literal Smallville. In his youth, he was bitten by a radioactive… okay, look. Mike is not very good at this whole “talking about himself” thing. But he has been so obsessed with comics, video games, and anime since childhood- that if one has to choose between listening to Joe Quesada or Mike over any obscure Spider-Man trivia, they go to him (or, at least Martin Thomas once said so). He is also a big fan of “Ghostbusters” (he even owns his own jumpsuit and two, that’s right, TWO proton packs!), collects toys and video games, and will defend “Superman IV: The Quest for Peace” if provoked. He lives in Austin with his beloved Dachshund-Maltese and trusted sidekick, Dean. He can also be heard on RageSelect. He can be found on Twitter and Instagram.
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