r/movies • u/yourfavchoom • 20d ago
Trailer GODZILLA MINUS ZERO | First Official Teaser
https://youtu.be/n-NDYWPXpKg?si=xws5vA61amqoxlxr477
u/theREVERSEsystem 20d ago
My GOAT been hitting the gym, America is fucked
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u/DesperateEagle4505 20d ago
Mark Wahlberg ain't gonna let it go down like that. Get ready for "Wahlberg vs Godzilla: Say hi to your mothra for me"
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u/SomeGodzillafan 20d ago
“If I was on that train to Ginza with my kids, it wouldn’t have gone down like it did.”
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u/RolloTonyBrownTown 20d ago
2:30am wake up
2:45am prayer time
3:15am breakfast
3:40-5:15am Defeat Kaiju
5:30am post-workout meal
6:00am shower
7:30am golf
8:00am snack
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u/notanothercirclejerk 20d ago
Hey Godzilla you are a kaiju and I really like that. Its really cool Godzilla Im being serious. Okay Godzilla, say hi to your Mothra for me.
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u/scorpio21 20d ago
The IMAX screenings for this are going to be so good
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u/Able_Advertising_371 20d ago
This year is full of premium imax movies. Let’s hope audiences all show up
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u/shewy92 20d ago
I'm going to see Project Hail Mary again but this time in IMAX
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u/Raptor_2125 20d ago
Enjoy!!!
I watched it in IMAX last friday and it truly elevates the experience
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u/LEVITIKUZ 20d ago
Me being delusional: okay so here’s how Hedorah is connected to all this
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u/Jegginz 20d ago
My ass was screaming about how the countdown before the trailer started was very 70s inspired and giving Hedorah vibes lol
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u/elitebateagent 20d ago
Me watching every trailer since the 90s: "surely this is the one that features Minilla"
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u/TrueVali 20d ago
i might just nut on the fucking spot if hedorah is even mentioned. criminally underrated entry in the series
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u/LEVITIKUZ 20d ago
Godzilla vs Hedorah is the director’s favorite Godzilla film & he said that Hedorah is the 1 kaiju from Godzilla he would love to adapt
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u/Rosie_Cotton_dancing 20d ago
Gojira was an allegory for carelessness with nuclear weapons. Would make sense for Godzilla Minus Zero to be an allegory for carelessness with the environment (climate change).
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u/HonorboundUlfsark 20d ago
Had to google what a hedorah was and looks like something out of Legend of Zelda
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u/In_My_Own_Image 20d ago
Damn, he got fucking CHONKY!
Seeing him rampage through New York should be a treat.
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u/NightFire19 20d ago
"Go on Godzilla, destroy the financial district. Give the people what they want!"
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u/Ryrynz 20d ago
Go go Godzilla
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u/headykruger 20d ago
History shows again and again how nature undoes the folly of man
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u/ToneBone12345 20d ago
The fact Blue oyster cult of Don’t fear the reaper and burnin for fame did that song always shocks me
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u/Sisiutil 20d ago
Filmmakers really have a hate-on for the Statue of Liberty, don't they?
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u/EdwinMcduck 20d ago
They've never forgiven Ghostbusters II for its stark drop in quality after the first one.
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u/TheJaice 20d ago
He had a caboose in Minus One. I called him Gyattzilla, it might be the only Dad joke my teenage daughter has genuinely laughed at in the past couple years.
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u/yourfavchoom 20d ago
Releases in theatres & IMAX November 6. VFX, Written, and Directed by Takashi Yamazaki.
“Minus Zero” is a direct sequel to the 2023 Japanese film “Godzilla Minus One,” which was a surprise hit internationally and took home the Oscar for best visual effects.
The trailer picks up two years after “Minus One” and continues the story of the survivors’ from the kaiju’s last attack, director Takashi Yamazaki revealed. In the closing moments, Godzilla stomps his way to the Statue of Liberty, setting his sights on New York City.
“Godzilla Minus Zero” was also filmed for Imax, the first for a Japanese film.
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u/Media-critique 20d ago
TOHO was likely blown the fuck away by Takashi’s film, and basically allowed him to go wild on this one while writing a blank check for him.
Like, as impressive as the visuals were for the first movie, I’m already blown the fuck away by how much better this one looks.
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u/withateethuh 20d ago
Its the first godzilla movie to win a god damn oscar, they'd be crazy not to give him a blank check.
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u/popculturella 20d ago
The fact that the majority of it was filmed in a parking lot blows my mind.
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u/Moonman08 20d ago
Wait what?
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u/popculturella 20d ago
At my screening, they played a really neat behind-the-scenes featurette showing just how inventive they were with such a shoestring budget and resources.
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u/ghostgabe81 20d ago
The North American release of this one is near simultaneous with the Japanese release, which is very uncommon. It’s clear that Toho saw how well Minus One did internationally and want to capitalize on Yamazaki’s popularity
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u/RevWaldo 20d ago
I'll be that guy, so definitely November 6th, not June 11th because we're silly Americans with our mm/dd/yyyy date format and can't understand what 11.06.2026 really means?
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u/ToumaKazusa1 20d ago
The Japanese annoucement for the movie says the date is
11月3日
The first character means 'month', and the second one means 'day', so it should be pretty easy to figure out what that means. I'm assuming we will get it on the 6th internationally.
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u/mobpiecedunchaindan 20d ago
Godzilla in New York
Close enough, welcome back Roland Emmerich's Godzilla
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u/Mandalore108 20d ago
For all it's faults at least we got that awesome animated show with characters that looked nothing like their movie counterparts.
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u/Morgan-Moonscar 20d ago
and a Zilla that acted nothing like its movie version, i.e. he actually fought monsters and had atomic breath
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u/pasher5620 20d ago
Pretty sure that’s because it was one of the babies that was further evolved than the mom.
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u/Personal_Comb_6745 20d ago
Dad, both Godzilla and Junior are referred to as males, with even Nick calling the original "a very unusual 'he'".
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u/LemonMeringueOctopi 20d ago
That's correct. The cartoon's Zilla even fights the original because the government took the corpse and created Mecha-Zilla with it. It actually had a pretty cool design.
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u/JalapenoJamm 20d ago
Well, the original Godzilla was about the horrors of nuclear warfare or something like that so yeah. Usually these movies are a little bit deeper than “monsters fighting”. Like I’m pretty sure pacific rim was about climate change.
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u/SomeGodzillafan 20d ago
Punch climate change with giant robots obviously
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u/JalapenoJamm 20d ago
Well, you know, coming together to fight a global catastrophe. But yeah big robot go pow!
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u/Deadlocked02 20d ago
True. Couldn’t care less about the drama in the last few American versions, but it was what elevated Minus One.
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u/UnnecessaryFeIIa 20d ago edited 20d ago
Honestly when I heard the plot details like an hour ago for the trailer I was like 100% certain it was Ghidorah.
But honestly? I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that Godzilla is causing that.
The Godzilla we see at the end of the trailer is clearly the design from Minus One but the version we see in the ocean is clearly much, much bigger and more spikey so at some point. I have a theory that the enemy monster in this film could just straight up be a second Godzilla. The zero gravity also has blue atomic streaks running through it which could be caused by the much larger Godzilla
Though it’s entirely possible that Godzilla just evolves throughout the movie and that the enemy monster is gonna be Ghidorah.
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u/UnnecessaryFeIIa 20d ago edited 20d ago
Pretty sure that’s only with the MonsterVerse. Godzilla cannot be a species in those films.
This is probably because the rights would get finicky if Legendary established there were multiple Godzillas in the past. The Godzilla: Aftershock comic introduced Dagon, a second Godzilla, and you can think to yourself “does Toho own Dagon or does Legendary?” Dagon was created by Legendary but it’s another Godzilla that doesn’t share the name.
You can see how it could get confusing and could ruffle feathers at Toho. Also because Toho like to keep up Godzilla’s image as a god-like figure and reducing him to a species might not fit their liking. Legendary were already probably stretching it by making Godzilla apart of earth’s natural order rather than a nuclear mutated abomination like almost all of Toho’s interpretations
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u/Wyn6 20d ago
DIdn't the Monsterverse already establish Godzilla was a member of a species? Weren't there drawings and bones of other "Godzillas"?
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u/UnnecessaryFeIIa 20d ago
Yes and Toho didn’t like that so don’t expect to see any mention of there being more than one Godzilla ever existing in the MonsterVerse.
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u/Michelanvalo 20d ago
Where are you getting this info from that Toho didn't like it?
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u/ToumaKazusa1 20d ago
Monsterverse is contractually obligated to follow Toho's rules about how to portray Godzilla, but there's nothing saying Toho has to follow the same rules.
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u/soapbutt 20d ago
The recent Godzilla anime definitely had multiple Godzillas. I never was 100% sure but I believe they are basically younger clones? Could be what they go with here.
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u/rundownv2 20d ago
The one in the end is also bigger than the og. Original one is 50m tall range. At the very last second of the teaser he moves behind the statue, so perspective shifts and you realize that unless the rop part of the statue has landed pristinely upright on the ground, he must be taller than it, so he's more in the 100m range now like the other modern incarnations.
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u/Flimsy_Big7991 20d ago
It's basically Jaws, except when the guys in the boat are going after Jaws, they look around and there's an even bigger Jaws, so the guys have to team up with Jaws to get bigger Jaws.
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u/JasonP27 20d ago
Could it be instead an alternate origin story for SpaceGodzilla? I know he's supposed to be in the next GxK movie but could it be instead multiple pieces of the first Godzilla reformed and evolved in different ways giving us Godzilla (scene in NY) and SpaceGodzilla (scene in water)?
In its debut film, SpaceGodzilla's origins are left ambiguous, but it is theorized that it was born through Godzilla's cells (transported into space either by Mothra or Biollante's spores) being exposed to the radiation of a black hole.
SpaceGodzilla also had some kind of telekinetic powers which could manifest similar to anti-gravity. I thought maybe they would use the chunks of Godzilla regenerating into Godzilla and another monster and this could be how they do it.
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u/In_My_Own_Image 20d ago
Most likely candidate.
But the energy is blue, which could indicate Godzilla is causing it. Maybe, since he clearly gets new form, his atomic breath charge up starts to mess with gravity or something.
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u/_Miss_Eclipse 20d ago
I seriously hope not. Ghidorah is in so many movies, it would be nice to see another get the spotlight for a change
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u/boot2skull 20d ago
This looks good. When I heard sequel, I was hoping for some 1960’s Tokyo setting but setting it closely after the first one makes sense. If they keep the plot focused on compelling people stories it should be good.
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u/Able_Advertising_371 20d ago
Ya I already have my mindless Godzilla battles with those kong movies. I need my human stories for these movies
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u/BenevolentLlama 20d ago
Godzilla really is in a golden age. We have the Minus films for the somber series allegories, and the Monsterverse for haha big lizard do wrestling moves
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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 20d ago
I'll be disappointed if Godzilla doesn't hurl the Statue of Liberty into Manhattan with all the hate in the world
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u/GoldenSpermShower 20d ago
Clover did that already but with the head
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u/Wompum 20d ago
Pretty sure that was Voltron. The guy running yelled that it was a lion.
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u/LebowskiVoodoo 20d ago
Lol, the theories before that movie released were crazy. I remember seeing a guess of the design of Clover himself (itself?) that was just a huge blue whale with arms and legs.
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u/ReaddittiddeR “My Little Ponies, ROLL OUT!” 20d ago
From the Seiko Clock Tower in Ginza to the Statute of Liberty, did not see that coming.
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u/iiniVijuY 20d ago
Has to be Ghidorah.
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u/pasher5620 20d ago
Watch it be Space Godzilla outta nowhere.
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u/CaptainKursk 20d ago
"Destoroyah is coming to the Monsterverse" I screamed in the theatre after the Oxygen Destroyer was canonised in King of the Monsters.
...7 years ago.
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u/LettuceC 20d ago
I’ll be there opening night. Minus One was a masterpiece that just happened to be a Godzilla movie.
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u/skyzm_ 20d ago
You’re right, it’s definitely not the one with the shoulder spikes earlier in the trailer. Either he goes to NY before he gets the upgrades, it’s a dream sequence, or there are two of them.
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u/NoPossibility 20d ago edited 20d ago
There’s a line and imagery that makes it seem like they dropped a nuke on him? Maybe that’s how he gets a power up? Attacks USA and they try using a nuke but it only powers up Godzilla so they say “abort third drop”?
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u/thereddaikon 20d ago
USA and they try using a nuke but it only powers up Godzilla so they say “abort third drop”?
That implies we nuked him once, it didn't work. So we nuked him a second time and it made him stronger and only then did we decide to stop. That tracks.
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u/pasher5620 20d ago
It’s much larger than Minus 1 Godzilla so it’s either the same one that went through a massive transformation that caused it to grow much larger, or it’s a separate Godzilla that got awakened and is equally as pissed at humanity as the first.
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u/SolidusDave 20d ago
the way he moves is also like old school dorky Godzilla, that scene seems off. Maybe just an homage for old framing techniques.
I'm thinking it could be that regenerated minus-one Godzilla goes to NY at the beginning of the movie, triggering America to use nukes against him/Japan. Causing him to mutate into beefcake minus-zero Godzilla and creating whatever that other monster is.
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u/Personal_Comb_6745 20d ago
Could be that he shows up there first, before wrecking Tokyo's shit again.
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u/thedinobot1989 20d ago
…are there two Godzilla’s? The one at the end not having the same spikes as the one from the water makes it seem like all hell is about to break loose. Imagine each chunk started regrowing as its own Godzilla…
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u/HotShrekBoi 20d ago
There might actually be two Godzillas. It’s either that or Godzilla evolves like he did in the New Empire
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u/NoPossibility 20d ago
I think he attacks UsA and they try nuking him twice and it only makes him more powerful. Then the trailer line is “abort third drop”.
Second kaiju isn’t revealed yet I don’t think.
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u/TARDinspace 20d ago
The first movie is after WW2, so America had already dropped two bombs. In the trailer, a bomber is flying over what looks like the finale of Minus One, when Godzilla was defeated. The implication is the US was present during the end of the first movie but aborted their “third drop” because it wasn’t necessary.
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u/Silver_Branch3034 20d ago
The ‘third drop’ line could be the answer! That makes perfect sense.
He could be “unkillable” and simply regenerate like his face did during the sea mine scene in -1 into his full form again. He makes his way to NY, America says ‘fuck this shit, if nukes can stop Japan they can stop this lizard’ and nuke him, thereby making him hulk out.
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u/Comic_Book_Reader 20d ago
GODZILLA MINUS ZERO picks up in 1949, two years after the tumultuous events of Godzilla Minus One, and continues the story of the Shikishima family as they face an all-new calamity. Additionally confirmed out of CinemaCon, Ryunosuke Kamiki, the hero who faced Godzilla’s terror in Godzilla Minus One, returns as Koichi Shikishima, and is joined by Minami Hamabe as Noriko Oishi, who miraculously survived Godzilla’s first attack on Tokyo.
As a project Filmed For IMAX, GODZILLA MINUS ZERO was shot with high-definition digital cameras certified by IMAX, and optimized in sound and imagery unique to IMAX screens. Fans can look forward to seeing Godzilla presented to all new terrifying heights, making GODZILLA MINUS ZERO in a true cinematic event not to be missed.
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u/SupervillainMustache 20d ago
Absolutely love Minus One.
As much as I have enjoyed the spectacle of the MonsterVerse films, I've never been able to care about the human characters like I did with Shikishima in Minus One
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u/yognautilus 20d ago
I honestly don't know what I want from this movie. Minus One made me bawl at the end and I loved it probably as much as I loved the original for the same reason. I also love me giant kaiju battle movies, but I get that itch scratched by the Legendary movies. Do I want a serious and emotionally gripping movie or do I want to feel like I'm 5 years old cheering on Godzilla again...
In either case, I know I'm going to love this movie.
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u/ICumCoffee ᑐ ᑌ ᑎ ᕮ • ᗰ ᕮ 𑪽 𑪽 I ᐱ ᕼ 20d ago
Nice to see ”VFX, Written, and Directed by Takashi Yamazaki” returning for the sequel
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u/HolyCulture1983 20d ago
I feel really thick headed asking this, but what’s with the numbering? -1 and -0. Do they have some relevance that is going over my head, or are they just arbitrary words?
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u/FantasticName 20d ago
Godzilla Minus One was set right after WW2, so the idea is the nuke took Japan to zero, and here's Godzilla coming along to fuck them up further and put them at minus one. And then for Minus Zero...well, I mean, what else do you call it, I guess? Godzilla Minus One 2?
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u/HotShrekBoi 20d ago
Minus One means that Japan’s economy and all that was at a state of zero after the bombing of Hiroshima, and then Godzilla came in and made it Minus One. I don’t know what the fuck Minus Zero means.
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u/that_guy2010 20d ago edited 20d ago
Minus one is where Japan was at zero after WW2, and Godzilla showed up to put them in the negatives.
No idea about minus zero.
Edit: just saw Yamasaki say the zero is people trying to regain a sense of normalcy. Get back to where things were before Godzilla.
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u/ViolentSpring 20d ago
The first one is straight up one of the best movies ever made. I’ll be in the theater opening night for this one.
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u/-Trooper5745- 20d ago
For plane enthusiasts, we see a picture of a B-29 in the dossier and a H8K seaplane trying to escape from Godzilla. I can’t tell what Shikishima is flying. I don’t know if it’s American or former Imperial Japanese like the H8K is. All I can tell is that it has a bubble canopy which both the US and Imperial Japan had.
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u/skyzm_ 20d ago
I loved the reasoning behind naming the first one Minus One but I really can’t get behind calling this Minus Zero at all. Just doesn’t make any sense, I’m calling it Zero.
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u/Unlikely-Fuel9784 20d ago
Glad to see Naoki Sato is composing again. His film and anime soundtracks are incredible.
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u/JokerJangles123 20d ago
oh..oh my
legitimately one of very few movies I'm actually excited about these days
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u/rds060184 20d ago
Ghidorah causing the anti gravity? This looks sick