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thewayneOh, it looks so good! And it won't be shown here. *sigh*
The makers didn't just do it the easy way and strike the movie to B&W, they took the hard road and re-engineered the movie on a scene by scene basis to optimize contrast and textures, and it looks ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!
I saw the movie Wednesday night, Thursday was its last night here and I was busy. It was a great movie. They have an excellent story that begins shortly before World War II ends with a kamikaze pilot who chickens out meeting Godzilla and actually surviving: the base he lands at is not so fortunate, only the pilot and the repair base commander survive. Jump to Tokyo, immediate post-surrender, and he's in survival mode. And we don't see Godzilla again for some time. In fact, The Big Guy does not make a lot of appearances except at key points - it's much more a people movie. He's used very strategically.
I really enjoyed this and will definitely buy the B&W edition when it comes out. It is subtitled and they were done quite well, I never had a problem reading them throughout the movie. It is a bit on the long side at about 2:20.
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/01/soon-well-be-able-to-see-godzilla-minus-one-remastered-in-black-and-white/
The makers didn't just do it the easy way and strike the movie to B&W, they took the hard road and re-engineered the movie on a scene by scene basis to optimize contrast and textures, and it looks ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!
I saw the movie Wednesday night, Thursday was its last night here and I was busy. It was a great movie. They have an excellent story that begins shortly before World War II ends with a kamikaze pilot who chickens out meeting Godzilla and actually surviving: the base he lands at is not so fortunate, only the pilot and the repair base commander survive. Jump to Tokyo, immediate post-surrender, and he's in survival mode. And we don't see Godzilla again for some time. In fact, The Big Guy does not make a lot of appearances except at key points - it's much more a people movie. He's used very strategically.
I really enjoyed this and will definitely buy the B&W edition when it comes out. It is subtitled and they were done quite well, I never had a problem reading them throughout the movie. It is a bit on the long side at about 2:20.
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/01/soon-well-be-able-to-see-godzilla-minus-one-remastered-in-black-and-white/
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Date: 2024-01-20 08:53 am (UTC)Sounds beautiful, but I don't want monster movies (or books) to be people oriented. Monsters kill/destroy. Monster hunters kill monsters. Stop having a love life or whatever.
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Date: 2024-01-21 08:23 am (UTC)I prefer the cheese factor of the old ones. :)
Hugs, Jon
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Date: 2024-01-21 06:15 pm (UTC)One thing that I really like about this one was something that Guillermo Del Torro did in that one that he did a few years ago: they did a great job with the physics. You could feel the mass and the weight of things being thrown around. Yes, cheese factor is fun, but this was a good movie.
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Date: 2024-01-22 08:59 am (UTC)A step up from the toys being tossed around in days long gone. LOL.......