Sci-Fi Godzilla Minus One

[TheVileOne]

Do I really need to see it a fourth time next Tue?

Maybe....

Why stop at four Sithborg? Even 10.

 

[Boom]

Holy bonkers this movie SLAPS.

 

[SomeOldGuy]

Back on top of the box office Wednesday with 1.36m. Wednesday increase over Monday bodes well for the weekend. Projections are all over the place but sub-50% drop seems locked, and may be way smaller.

 

[Incarnadine]

Godzilla reclaimed the #1 spot from Hunger Games on Wednesday with $1.36m.

This has a real shot at finishing in the top 5 all time foreign language grossers.

After Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon at $128m it falls off fast with #2 at $57.2m.
$44.5m would get it in the top 5, $21.7m would get it in the top 10.

 

[Drizzle]

Let's be honest, Minus One is the main course, Monarch is the side dish and Godzilla x Kong is the fun little Happy Meal toy.

 

[Sithborg]

Back on top of the box office Wednesday with 1.36m. Wednesday increase over Monday bodes well for the weekend. Projections are all over the place but sub-50% drop seems locked, and may be way smaller.

Zilla with those chonky legs.

 

[kguillou]

You know what I really appreciated about this movie?

Spoiler: Not really spoilers but just in case

How when "doc" was going over the whole plan and strategy in the thrid act he said something along the lines of "we're not figting to die...we're fighting to live and I want every one of us to live through this plan (paraphrasing, something like that) what a REFRESHING and inspriring theme...fighting to live. Because often in war movies...or war in real life for that matter... soldiers are going in to battle expecting to die/be sacrificed for the "greater good" and the will to die is often seen as being more noble than the will to live. I just...i dont know, that really resonated with me that the goal here was to not sacrifice ANYONE and to LIVE. And the will to live seemed to be the prevailing theme in this entire movie, something I think we all need to hear in 2023.

 

[Luigi]

 

[Sithborg]

Has an animated movie been nominated for VFX before?

 

[Drizzle]

Has an animated movie been nominated for VFX before?

I think only once. The Nightmare Before Christmas. I thought Toy Story might have been too but that only won a Special Achievement Oscar for being the first fully CG feature film.

 

[TheVileOne]

Godzilla Minus One should be a finalist for Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Feature.

 

[Luigi]

Best Foreign Language Feature.

Apparently the deadline for submissions was last week.

 

[Arachnerd]

PORTUGAL.

Please let it come out here, Toho, I beg of you.

 

[TheVileOne]

Apparently the deadline for submissions was last week.

I am sad now.

 

[Drizzle]

Apparently the deadline for submissions was last week.

Do we know for sure it wasn't submitted?

 

[SomeOldGuy]

1.28m Thursday, barely down from Wednesday. Puts its week 1 total at $17,001,334. Not too shabby. Deadline predicting 5-6m for the weekend, but don’t be surprised if it goes higher.

 

[The Big G]

$30 mil from the US alone would be insane

 

[SomeOldGuy]

$30 mil from the US alone would be insane

Might do 40-50 if it can hang on through the holidays.

 

[Ninjablade]

Caught this last night. This movie is bloody fantastic, and might be up there as one of my favorites. Definitely in the top 10 of the year, and a top 5 blockbuster.

Honestly couldn't believe how amazing the boat chase sequence in the second act looked. If you told me that was a practical monster head in a pool, I'd believe you. It looked so real.

 

[kguillou]

Hollywood really needs to look at this movie and be embarrassed. How did these guys onyl spend 15 million and have near flawless cgi and special effects like this meanwhile they spend 300m on these recent Marvel, DC and Disney properties and it looks like garbage? What are we missing here?

 

[TheVileOne]

Hollywood really needs to look at this movie and be embarrassed. How did these guys onyl spend 15 million and have near flawless cgi and special effects like this meanwhile they spend 300m on these recent Marvel, DC and Disney properties and it looks like garbage? What are we missing here?

I think the behind-the-scenes issues have been well documented about why these projects are having so many problems.

 

[Luigi]

Do we know for sure it wasn't submitted?

We can only hope that it was submitted.

 

[SomeOldGuy]

Hollywood really needs to look at this movie and be embarrassed. How did these guys onyl spend 15 million and have near flawless cgi and special effects like this meanwhile they spend 300m on these recent Marvel, DC and Disney properties and it looks like garbage? What are we missing here?

The numbers are a bit misleading. You remember those stories a couple months back about the insane working conditions and low pay in vfx houses that do the effects for those Marvel films? Apparently it’s ten times worse in Japan. They can do a film like this for 15m because the vfx artists there are paid in the equivalent of rain water and bird droppings. If it was made here it would have been far more expensive.

 

[Sithborg]

The film industry in Japan is much different than it is in Hollywood. This is a big budget movie in Japanese terms. Even ignoring the CG aspect, this is still a cheaper movie than many films that don't have CG in them.

Anyway, Godzilla beat Beyonce yesterday. The weekend is going to be fun.

 

[The Big G]

Sitting at $17 mill domestic and all its needs is to hit $21.6 to crack the Top 10 Highest Grossing Foreign Films in the US. It could pull that off this weekend.

No way will come close to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon but if they keep it playing through the end of the month I could see it making a decent push to crack the Top 5.