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I personally never got the impression that the film was glorifying the atomic bomb. I felt it pretty clearly conveyed that it was a horrific weapon and that building it, while it may have seemed necessary, opened an immensely dangerous pandora's box.
Given the controversial subject matter I thought it was handled with intelligence and care.
| farlaff said: Back to your post: Godzilla-1 is just genius! An absolute delight from start to finish, an oddity to great Cinema making, and it brought my inner child so much back to the surface I was grinning like an idiot when it was over. When it got to Netflix, I downloaded it immediately and see bits of it from time to time. Amazing that it got an Oscar to boot. |
Yeah I loved Minus One so much.
It was such a fantastic balance of old school monster movie fun with a heartfelt and moving human component. And it absolutely deserved its oscar; it looks crazy good, especially considering the filmmakers had a tiny fraction of the budget their Hollywood counterparts enjoy.
I'm a big fan of Godzilla so I expected to like it, but it blew my expectations out of the water and is now my personal pick for the best film in the series; no small feat as said series totals 38 films over the last 70 years.
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