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  hello everyone and welcome to the concession stand here on the kb radio network i am your host kevin reed and this is the review of the 39th yes 39th film in this franchise the 34th that was produced by toho and the direct sequel to the 2023 3. phenomenal academy award winning godzilla minus one we get godzilla minus zero and this is the new addition to this franchise and a highly anticipated sequel to the film i just mentioned minus one which was my favorite film of 2023 i loved godzilla minus one it it it took the Godzilla franchise to a whole nother level and to say that it was quote unquote a low budget film by Hollywood standards it is phenomenal it is phenomenal how they pulled that movie off well this go around we got a little pretty pretty hyped up budget you know a bigger story and more monsters and it picks up two years after the events of Minus One, and we have our returning cast, our returning writer, director, and visual effects artist, whose names I'm not even going to try to pronounce. These filmmakers, just look up their names. They're phenomenal. But they're all returning, and we have some new additions to the cast as well. And this go around, there's a new threat. I'm not going to spoil it because I wasn't spoiled. I'm shocked that this did not get spoiled in his promotional materials. At least I didn't see it. They probably, you probably know it, but in the event that you don't, I'm not going to, I'm not going to say what the new threat is, but it's. it really caught me off guard and it added to my my excitement of the film because i hate going into a film and you see something in a movie and you're like man that would have hit just a little bit harder had i not known this was happening you know it happens all the time and so i i don't want to do that to you i don't want to do that to you because i was like wait what when i saw it on the screen this this film uh had a lot of heavy lifting to do it had some uh godzilla size shoes to fill to follow up a phenomenal film like minus one and i was a little nervous about that because you know when you see a sequel you you want it to be twice as big you know because it's twice the movie you want twice the action you want twice the story you won't twice the special effects and that too can take away from your enjoyment of a film because you're going into the movie judging it and and uh putting it up against another film and that's not fair to the film that you're watching this movie is it is bigger it is uh wider in scale as far as well literally because this movie was shot in IMAX with IMAX cameras but as far as the story you got a wider story it isn't just relegated to our group of characters from minus one this go around we have a couple of more subs subplots and stories that takes place in this film I'll say straight off the bat it wasn't as good as minus one That's not to say that this wasn't good. Minus Zero was really good. It kept me engaged the entire time. I enjoyed it. Godzilla is still Godzilla. The threat that we faced in this film was an actual threat. I mean, to the point where you're like, man, how are they going to survive this? How can Godzilla fight? this we get an epic fight between the two uh monsters in this movie and it was it was phenomenal you know a godzilla versus con be damned that that they can they can miss me with all that i mean those movies are what they are but this is pro this is this is godzilla proper here you know what i'm saying so this this is this is what you grew up on no matter what the age you are currently holding this you used to watch all of those old uh man in a rubber suit godzilla films from the uh 40s and 50s and whatnot and it it's it has that same flavor with the exception of a man in a suit this this film has some of the most phenomenal special effects shots that you're going to see in any hollywood blockbuster film i i would challenge you to the death on that the it was epic in the way this film looked uh the texture of godzilla looks so real and i don't know how they pulled this off man it just looked so good but but at the same time there were some shots where you were like huh how you have some of the most amazing amazing special effects shots and then you have a cw level special effects shot in the same movie i don't know and it's for like the silliest of scenes where you like oh that is so green uh green screen it it is super blatant you know it is so so bad these these little shots that they i don't even know why they put them in there that's how that's how bad they look but then about three scenes later maybe two scenes later you'll see a uh Godzilla walking or rising out of the ocean or something like that. And you're like, oh, wow. You know, it was a weird experience with that. But the good outweighs the bad 10 to 1. So I'm just nitpicking here. But it didn't take me out of the movie. I suspect it probably won't take you out of it either. As far as the human story, which is one of the great things about Minus One, that's what really held that movie together was the human story because the human story was so impactful you know you you followed these characters and you followed them through the the aftermath of what Godzilla did in the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima and all of that and you felt their pain and their pain going through running from Godzilla and all this other stuff it was really a connective tissue that i wasn't expecting when i watched that film back then same thing here the characters their story continues on and now they're dealing with the aftermath of the aftermath and it's even tougher and the only problem i have with the film why this movie doesn't live up to the first one is that it doesn't connect to the characters as well as the first film did with this film focused so much more on the threat and uh even some revenge and things of that nature we don't get a grounded human story like we got in the first film now another i would say my last my last little tidbit to take away from this film now i'm on the fence with this one. because it depends on you it's really it really depends on your personal preference i love sitting in a theater with great sound whether it's dobi cinema or imax or whatever uh screen x whatever it is with just phenomenal sound around you you know uh at home with your surround sound system i i need to feel the movie you know especially a big movie like this i need to feel it and the sound helps that you know when you hear the trumbles but you feel the trumbles it's every step that was taken by godzilla need to feel that you know the roar i want it i want my chest to cave in with the roar this is the loudest movie you are ever going to see but it's not loud like It's incoherent loud. It's just loud. It is just bolsterous, you know? It is. loud this is probably the first film i would recommend wearing earplugs for it is loud personally i loved it oh my god i loved it the sound was but the sound design in this movie was phenomenal man it was better than the first this that's the one element that was better than minus one. the sound design and it has some phenomenal sound sound and minus one but my god the sound in this movie will shake your bones your bones will rattle depending on what theater you go watch it in and yes you need to see this in a theater the biggest screen you can possibly find it is booming Thank you. some people don't like that and and i respect that a lot of people i remember years ago going to see man of steel in the imax with my daughters my and my wife a family and we're sitting in there and it was loud but it was it was incoherent at times loud you know something like a a tenant that's just loud you know but man still had that same little thing it was it was loud and it didn't bother me as much but i did acknowledge the fact that it was a little too loud for that movie and my daughter who was i don't know how long ago was man of steel that was about 12 years ago 13 years ago something like that so she was yeah she was a little little she was she was about 10 and so she came to me and said that was just too loud dad i said i understand i understand baby but uh Yeah, she would hate this. She would hate this. She doesn't like loud. And she hates the surround sound I have in the house. And so it's solely on personal preference. If you like it, if you like loudness, this is your bag. If you can't stand loud in a theater, which I don't know why you go to the theater, and go see a Godzilla movie, of course it's going to be loud. But this was turned up to... 12 not 11 it was turned to 12 um yeah i was i would say put some noise canceling earbuds in here or something like that you know because it's in subtitles so you don't need to hear the dialogue you're gonna have to read it anyway but awesome job uh really enjoyed it and i hope we get a minus what now negatives negative one dude Because we're going backwards. I don't know how that works. But I hope we get another one. Because this was a worthy sequel. Godzilla minus zero gets a letter grade of an A minus. Yeah, I really, really enjoyed it. Really, really enjoyed it. 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