Godzilla Minus One (2023), straight out of the Patreon archive. We recorded it nearly three years ago, before it won the Oscar, and it's out on the main feed now because Godzilla Minus Zero is in cinemas.

Want to know if the sequel lives up to it? Our Godzilla Minus Zero episode is on Patreon now.

Japan was at zero at the end of the war. Godzilla is what takes it to minus one. Koichi Shikishima is a kamikaze pilot who didn't go through with it, home to a flattened Tokyo with his family gone and a war that, as far as he's concerned, isn't over. Then a giant atomic lizard turns up and he just can't catch a break.

Takashi Yamazaki takes Godzilla right back to basics. No monster team-ups, no saving the world, just a big scary giant lizard and the people caught up in it's destruction.

We get into why that works where Shin Godzilla didn't quite, the design that makes him properly scary again, and how Toho reminded Hollywood what a Godzilla film is supposed to be.

In this episode:
● Childhood Godzillas: Son of Godzilla, the 1998 one and a very big figure from Dorset
● Making him scary again, and the 1980s face that put Matt off as a kid
● Toho vs Hollywood: hollow earths and tag teams with Kong
● CGI or a man in a suit?
● That ending, Noriko's neck, and Shin Godzilla's very strange tail

Also discussed: Godzilla (1954), Son of Godzilla, Godzilla (1998), Godzilla (2014), Shin Godzilla, Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Spider-Man: No Way Home and One Piece.

Which Godzilla film belongs in the Bad Movie Bunker? Tell us.

Next time: We Come in Peace continues with Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) and The Cat from Outer Space (1978).

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Edited by James Payne.

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