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Nate Marchand, host of several podcasts, joins Melvin in discussing Hideaki Anno’s bizarre entry to the Godzilla film-canon: Shin Godzilla! This film has it all: satire, comedy, tragedy, horror, and social commentary! This podcast? Equally so! Tune in now!
Topics:
- (PATREON EXCLUSIVE) 73-minutes discussing the 5 MonsterVerse films from Godzilla (2014)’s grounded nature, Kong: Skull Island still probably being the best film in the series, Godzilla: King of the Monsters contested quality, and a combined look on both Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. (PATREON EXCLUSIVE)
- Self-described “content machine” Nate Marchand shares about his several creative endeavors.
- Shin Godzilla is weird. Not necessarily as weird as Hideaki Anno’s previous work, but definitely weird when compared to previous Godzilla material.
- At its face value, there’s a lot to appreciate about the film. However, it’s best understood in the light of modern Japanese history; most notably, the 3/11 disaster.
- Shin Godzilla is baked in Japanese culture almost to a fault, in that it makes a lot of the rich nuance of the film hard to engage as foreigners. Nate shares insight into some of these cultural hurdles.
- Getting into the atomic breath scene because it would be a mistake if they didn’t.
- Shinji Higuchi was asked about the film’s mysterious ending. In response, paraphrased: “I don’t know. And the only person who does is Anno. And he’s not talking.”
Recommendations:
- Godzilla (1954) (Movie)
- Godzilla Minus One (2023) (Movie)
- Rebuild of Evangelion Films (2007-2021)
- Shin Ultra Man (2022) (Movie)
- Shin Kamen Rider (2023) (Movie)
- Monsters (2010) (Movie)
Shin Godzilla is Not Rated. It features Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, Satomi Isihara, Ren Ôsugi, Akira Emoto, Kengo Kôra, Mikako Ichikawa, Jun Kunimura, Pierre Taki, Kyûsaku Shimada, Ken Mitsuhishi, Shingo Tsurumi, and Kimiko Yo. Directed by Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi. Shin Godzilla is available here.
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