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Laffy Kat

(16,524 posts)
Tue Jan 2, 2024, 12:27 AM Jan 2024

I saw "Godzilla, Minus One" tonight.

I'm a huge Godzilla fan and have seen all of them, I think. It was fun and a quintessential Japanese monster movie. If you go, be warned that it's long. There are English subtitles. I would have liked to see a little more of the monster, but that's okay. As an aviation buff, I was fascinated by the interceptor they used at the end of the movie and wondered if it was real, so when we got home I researched it and it was, indeed, a real plane, but it was never actually used in WW II because they didn't have the all the mechanical bugs worked out before the US dropped the bomb.

Anyway, for anyone interested here's a little bit more information about the movie and interceptor:

https://www.historynet.com/godzilla-vs-shinden/

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I saw "Godzilla, Minus One" tonight. (Original Post) Laffy Kat Jan 2024 OP
It's my favorite Godzilla movie now. RandySF Jan 2024 #1
Me, too. Laffy Kat Jan 2024 #2
Mine too Demovictory9 Jan 2024 #7
I don't know this one! Ilsa Jan 2024 #3
Well make sure you empty your bladder before you sit down. Laffy Kat Jan 2024 #4
Very interesting history at the link! Hope the museum gets busy on the restoration. nt eppur_se_muova Jan 2024 #5
I've seen it twice..loved it. Demovictory9 Jan 2024 #6

Laffy Kat

(16,524 posts)
2. Me, too.
Tue Jan 2, 2024, 12:45 AM
Jan 2024

Although, it's a little difficult to compare the ones from the 50s and 60s to the ones today. The old Japanese monster movies certainly have their charm.



Ilsa

(62,239 posts)
3. I don't know this one!
Tue Jan 2, 2024, 01:13 AM
Jan 2024

I've watched most of the old Godzilla movies (in the 60s and 70s) and the most recent ones. Watched one this morning on TCM.

Thanks, I'll check this one out!

Laffy Kat

(16,524 posts)
4. Well make sure you empty your bladder before you sit down.
Tue Jan 2, 2024, 01:20 AM
Jan 2024

I was dying by the time it was over. And do not do what someone in my party did and get up to pee ten minutes before the end. You'll miss a lot!

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