Godzilla Minus One is the latest addition of Japan to an already increasing ‘Kaiju’ movies. With gigantic monsters battling humans or droids, the movies are quite unique in their own genre and have been rebooted, rewritten, and re-released countless times.
But with the 2023 film, things seem to be quite different. Praising the fantastic CGI in Godzilla Minus One, the world is in awe of how a film with a smaller budget (compared to Hollywood movies) managed to gain the attention of the world with its CGI.
Godzilla Minus One Wreaks Havoc With Its Awesome CGI
Ever since the MCU improved the CGI industry, the world has been obsessed with as much realism in movies as possible. Several recent movies have failed at this attempt as even with their heavy budgets, the movies weren’t able to deliver on the CGI.
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Godzilla Minus One is a Japanese film released by director Takashi Yamazaki around the world. Although initially released in Japan, the kaiju film gained traction all over the world for its amazing visual effects and how close to realism the monster looks. In a Twitter post, a clip from the movie was shared and fans can’t help but praise the film.
that is some unbelievable cgi https://t.co/9nf5rzun0V
— John Stewart Green Lantern (@LanternJS) November 14, 2023
And with that praise, several fans also compared how certain movies failed at their CGI even with their big budgets. An interesting thing to note is that Godzilla Minus One was made with a budget of only $15 million!
The flash can’t relate to this 😂😂
— Cornilus (@Cornilus0) November 14, 2023
Yo how does a movie with a 15 million budget look this good. Meanwhile you got Marvel dumping money into movies and look nothing like this
— JoJo (@JojoC97) November 15, 2023
And guess what? The director of the film is also the one who did the Visual FX.
— j v (@jvbuenconcejo) November 15, 2023
Blows the marvels out of the water
— Silly Goose Academy (@callsillygoose) November 15, 2023
I’m not even a Godzilla fan but I’m actually excited to see this next month it looks gooood
— Justin (@presidenthomo) November 15, 2023
Crazy how with a budget of only 15 millions, this movie is capable of having CGI that would put the CGI of many modern blockbusters to shame.
— That Venom Fanboy (@thatvenomfanboy) November 14, 2023
Compared to the DCU movie The Flash, the 2023 film was made with a budget of $200 million but its CGI was blasted into oblivion. Hailing the movie as one of the worst CGI-created movies of 2023, The Flash earned a meager $270 million at the global box office.
Godzilla Minus One, however, turned out to be so good that director Gareth Edwards, who directed the 2014 reboot of Godzilla felt jealous when he was watching Godzilla Minus One.
Director Gareth Edwards Is Jealous of Godzilla Minus One
Back in 2014, director Gareth Edwards directed Godzilla in hopes of making a monster cinematic universe. Receiving average reviews, the film wasn’t that big of a success. In an interview with Cinema Today, the director shared his thoughts about Godzilla Minus One.
“There were a lot of things that I thought were very new, and I was feeling jealous the whole time I was watching it…There has been repeated debate among fans over the question, ‘What is the best Godzilla movie of all time?’ I think Godzilla Minus One will definitely be named as the best Godzilla movie of all time.”
With a rating of 7.7/10 on IMDB and a whopping 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, Godzilla Minus One has already earned $13 million with its recent release. As per a report, the 2023 film will be released on 1st December 2023 in theaters across the U.S.
