Godzilla Planet of the Monsters |OT| Don't Blame! Me, Shin Godzilla Isn't On Netflix

How's the actual story. I thought Godzilla has actually always been a good guy. Or is that just the usual misdirection where we find out later where he's actually defending us.

Sorry not up to speed on zilla lore. Lol

Arkeband said:

This anime style that makes this identical to Blame! and Knights of Sidonia is getting old.

The English dub started alright but this guy is really overdoing the Japanese brooding hero inflections.

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This is what stood out to me. Blame looked good in stills but not so good when in motion.

It was a good movie overall. I dig the other kaiju cameos at the beginning. The one thing that I will say is that I hated the Captain a lot. He was pretty annoying compared to the other characters.

Watched this last night. I mostly enjoyed it. I liked how Earth seemed so foreign after 20k years and I loved the general "aw fuck" feeling everyone had when they heard Godzilla's roar. I don't really care for the lead character or the female lead either, though.

The reveal at the end was pretty nuts.

Well... I kinda liked it. Finally a Godzilla film with a different concept. The execution wasn't always on point though. I liked all the sci-fi babble that occupied most of the first half of the movie. But the actual confrontation with Godzilla was rather underwhelming. I didn't mind the main character. Sure, he's not that likeable but the movie is short enough that it didn't bother me too much. The final reveal was predictable but I'm definitely looking forward to the sequels.
Meh+ out of 10.

henhowc said:

How's the actual story. I thought Godzilla has actually always been a good guy. Or is that just the usual misdirection where we find out later where he's actually defending us.

Sorry not up to speed on zilla lore. Lol



This is what stood out to me. Blame looked good in stills but not so good when in motion.

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Not really, Godzilla has had multiple interpreation depending on director, from the physical embodyment of the atom bomb, to the spirit of all the dead soldier from WWII, to a corrupted demi-god in Shin-godzilla.

I found it pretty boring. I liked some of the concepts but you could tell they built them out for a show and are still trying to execute on them like it is. Some of the action was cool, but really repetitive and I really didn't give a damn about any of the characters so that didn't help.

I really liked it. I guess I love boring movies lol

My favorite LOTR is Fellowship, I loved 2014 Godzilla which a lot of people thought was boring but I am a sucker for Godzilla for sure.

Can't wait for Parts 2 and 3

This might be the worst Godzilla movie I've ever watched. It was just so boring

Watched this the other day. Gotta say I wasn't a big fan. Just seemed uneventful throughout. The only interesting part for me was literally at the very end of the movie and it was brief. I feel like there is potential for some unique stories in the setting they've created. I gotta give them that. Hopefully whatever sequels they come up with will be decent. But after this first part it's going to have to be really impressive to turn it all around.

I'm still confused how they think a single Godzilla is responsible for everything, including a wacky electromagnetic fog across the entire planet. You'd think they'd settle on a remote island somewhere and just hope no one notices...

And Godzilla seemed really...static. Maybe they didn't have the budget to show him really moving much, but other than a few tail swipes he just seems to stand there and let those flying bikes crash into him :P

Still, I'll watch another one.

It was huh... Ok I guess. Bring the sequel.

The phasing sucks and your typical anime sci-fi with more time in techno-jargon than developing your characters

That was actually pretty solid.

Probably the most Asshole Godzilla I've ever seen. CG was fine/not jarring (besides the rocks when they broke the mountain). Action was solid too.

If I had any gripes it would be the odd and barely explained Lore with the not one but 2 different alien races.
So 2 alien races showed up just as Godzilla started reaking havoc on earth, both looking for refuge.
But Godzilla was so OP that they decided to kick it with the leftovers of humanity and search for another refuge?
Are both of the Alien races Males only, because we only get like 2 of each of those species kicking it with humanity both males. Now I start to wonder how they reproduce.
Also, is the Air unbreathable or not? MC is without his helmet in the after credits.

Either way I'm excited to see how they deal with this mega huge Godzilla with little resources.

Enjoyed it for what is was. Can't wait for the next one!

Also...

Wow I was excited to watch this, but it was kind of terrible. Just an incredibly boring movie. It was gorgeous to look at and had some really cool concepts, but it was beyond terrible as an actual film. After Voltron and Castlevania, I was expecting much more from a Netflix Godzilla animation.

Watched it about a week or so ago. I actually didn't know it was an Anime until a couple of days before I watched it. I really enjoyed it. Maybe one of my favorite Sci-fi movie i've watched in the last 6 months. It has it's problems...many problems.


But the movie just clicked for me.

Edit: I haven't used the spoiler tags before and its not showing up.
Edit2: FIXED. I figured it out.

Trailer for the 2nd film:

Amalthea said:

Trailer for the 2nd film:

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So Gundam Godzilla? Looking forward to it

Part 2 hit Japan today...anyone know when it'll be released in North America?

Fernando said:

Part 2 hit Japan today...anyone know when it'll be released in North America?

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Part 1 was on Netflix exactly two months later. I could imagine that it will be similar here.

Part 2 is like 95% dialogue heavy scenes. Even worse than the first one when it comes to setting up stuff for the next movie. Part 3 is gearing up to be pretty packed then if that is actually the end.

so is part 2 out now?

Yup is out.

NightShift said:

Part 2 is like 95% dialogue heavy scenes. Even worse than the first one when it comes to setting up stuff for the next movie. Part 3 is gearing up to be pretty packed then if that is actually the end.

Spoiler

Mecha Godzilla City is some dumb shit.

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I'm so mad.

I'm 1 hour into Planet of the Monsters and I'm enjoying it a lot. I love the whole idea of humanity out in space, going back to figure out how the planet is doing, and how to track down Godzilla. This is probably the most fun I've had with a Godzilla movie. I love those hover bikes too. But man, there's a lot of techno-babble. Although it all looks so sweet! Can't wait to finish it tomorrow.

God, movie 2, what a trash fire. Like there is all this drama and sacrifices but we are in movie 2 and there is still really no real 'motivations' at all, or why anyone gives a shit about haruo or anything.

I feel like they want to tell something with 1 alien race being the logical space dwarves compared to the religious space elves, but they aren't sure what.


oh well... 1 more movie left I guess... that ending of movie 2 sets up action, but i'm gonna bet its gonna be 90% pointless ppl talking at each other again with some action at the end.

NightShift said:

Part 2 is like 95% dialogue heavy scenes. Even worse than the first one when it comes to setting up stuff for the next movie. Part 3 is gearing up to be pretty packed then if that is actually the end.

Spoiler

Mecha Godzilla City is some dumb shit.

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Oh brilliant...
The first instalment was boring enough

Part 2 is... Worse.

Watching now, don't expect much considering the first.

Well at least it's in Dolby Vision HDR.

Hydeus said:

Part 2 is... Worse.

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Welp

I haven't seen the second film yet, but the first is a great premise partially spoiled by uneven pacing and writing.I mean, a Godzilla film written by Gen Urobuchi? Fuck yeah. Except there were only bits and pieces of him in there, mostly towards the end - which was pretty great.

An Urobuchi take on Godzilla, much like the his take on the magical girl genre with Madoka sounds fantastic. But rather than subversive twists, dark irony, and engaging characters, I got a mess. My gut wants to pin this on an inexperienced set of directors, as even when Urobuchi is uneven, he is at least interesting. The thing is, though, that one of the two(!) directors for Planet of the Monsters also directed the Blame! film, which I thought was quite a bit better.

Blame!, the manga, is extremely unfriendly to film adaptation, but Polygon also enlisted a veteran writer, with some impressive credentials: Sadayuki Murai. Murai wrote Perfect Blue, and co-wrote Millenium Actress, along with some fine episodes from the Space Battleship Yamato 2199 remake. The film was helped by the fact that it emulated the traditional Western film framework to give it a solid skeleton.

Ultimately, it seems like, so far, this Godzilla trilogy is something of a victim of too many cooks with an over-riding order to make the meal as palatable as possible for as much of the base as they can. Oh well.

Is Urobuchi even involved in this all that much? Reminds me of the early days of Aldnoah where everyone was like "Urobuchi fuck yeah!" and in the end he was just there for the beginning and the overall storyline pitch.

NightShift said:

Part 2 is like 95% dialogue heavy scenes. Even worse than the first one when it comes to setting up stuff for the next movie. Part 3 is gearing up to be pretty packed then if that is actually the end.

Spoiler

Mecha Godzilla City is some dumb shit.

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95% dialog? Are you shitting me?

duckroll said:

The story for this Godzilla project is conceived by both Urobuchi and Murai. In fact, the screenplay for the second movie was written by Urobuchi, Murai, and Tetsuya Yamada - who collaborated with Murai in Sidonia, writing multiple episodes. Why does Godzilla suck? Because it's boring and the pacing sucks. Sometimes you can put a few talented people in a room and get crap. Both directors are very experienced. Polygon Studios has a good track record. The writers have all worked on good scifi stuff. The designers are great. Even the storyboarders on the project are very impressive on paper. Somehow out of that we've gotten two overlong talkie films which are low on action, and high of insomnia curing "character" interaction. It's unfortunate, but probably not for lack of trying.

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It's disappionting, really, but then again, Godzialla movies can be very, very talky films. I haven't seen the second film yet, the trailer looked exciting, but I wasn't quite over how utterly boring the first one ended up being. x.x

duckroll said:

The story for this Godzilla project is conceived by both Urobuchi and Murai. In fact, the screenplay for the second movie was written by Urobuchi, Murai, and Tetsuya Yamada - who collaborated with Murai in Sidonia, writing multiple episodes. Why does Godzilla suck? Because it's boring and the pacing sucks. Sometimes you can put a few talented people in a room and get crap. Both directors are very experienced. Polygon Studios has a good track record. The writers have all worked on good scifi stuff. The designers are great. Even the storyboarders on the project are very impressive on paper. Somehow out of that we've gotten two overlong talkie films which are low on action, and high of insomnia curing "character" interaction. It's unfortunate, but probably not for lack of trying.


It's not quite that bad. It's a 1 hour 40 minute film, with maybe 20 minutes of action at the very end. The rest is entirely talking, yes.

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Thanks for the clarification.

Looking through the credits after the first film, I was like, "Jesus Christ, they are throwing talent at this." My initial guess was that maybe there was a lack of cohesion during production, as the film isn't lacking for imagination at all. If it wasn't for the delightfully bizarre Evangelizilla, my next guess for "why isn't this working" would have been aimed at Toho.

it's a lot of dialogue but it's developmental dialogue. It lore and creates on what things to come. Also typical Japanese Sci-fi it spells out every minutia of numbers, degrees, and percentage.

That was pretty okayish. The talking was really to much, could have had a few more action oriented scenes in the middle, but the finale was pretty dope. Interested, how the last one will turn out, I feel like they bring to many thing into the mix for that one...

duckroll said:

The story for this Godzilla project is conceived by both Urobuchi and Murai. In fact, the screenplay for the second movie was written by Urobuchi, Murai, and Tetsuya Yamada - who collaborated with Murai in Sidonia, writing multiple episodes. Why does Godzilla suck? Because it's boring and the pacing sucks. Sometimes you can put a few talented people in a room and get crap. Both directors are very experienced. Polygon Studios has a good track record. The writers have all worked on good scifi stuff. The designers are great. Even the storyboarders on the project are very impressive on paper. Somehow out of that we've gotten two overlong talkie films which are low on action, and high of insomnia curing "character" interaction. It's unfortunate, but probably not for lack of trying.


It's not quite that bad. It's a 1 hour 40 minute film, with maybe 20 minutes of action at the very end. The rest is entirely talking, yes.

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I'm a little late on this, but originally this was supposed to be a TV series and Toho changed it at the last minute into a film trilogy.

Bad decision and it doesn't have enough time to build the world up and make the Godzilla action interesting enough.