Godzilla Minus One

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Paul & Amy are baking the biggest cake in the world for Godzilla and congratulating him for finally winning an Academy Award after seven decades. The two praise the film for balancing “popcorn movie” energy while locking you into an emotional personal story. Paul marvels at the film only having 35 visual effects artists, and how director Takashi Yamazaki in an Ocean’s 11 style assembled his team, highlighting their specialties. Plus, Amy discovers the Spielberg and Jaws inspiration in the final water sequence. You can join the Unspooled conversation on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6 Follow Paul and Amy on Letterboxd for more of their movie hot takes! https://letterboxd.com/paulscheer/ https://letterboxd.com/theamynicholson/ Paul’s book Joyful Recollections of Trauma is out now! Find it at https://www.harpercollins.com/products/joyful-recollections-of-trauma-paul-scheer Check out more of Paul's writing on his Substack https://substack.com/@paulscheer Episodic Art by Kim Troxall: https://www.unspooledart.com/ Learn more about the show at Unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and on Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts.

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0:00.0	The year is 2023 and why obey in order to podcast honorably when the outcome is already clear.
0:08.0	The movie, Godzilla minus one. Hello everybody and welcome to Unspoed.
0:37.0	I am Paul Sheer. I am currently recovering from, you got it,
0:42.2	F alert, that's right, so voice is going to sound like this the entire
0:44.8	episode but Amy you're so flirty you know it's the best COVID to get when you heard
0:50.2	about flirt I was like this is a good one I am joined as always by Amy who is not
0:54.6	with COVID I am not with COVID no I'm a most unflirtatious person well I'm so sorry I saw
1:00.7	you the day before I diagnosed myself with COVID so I really am feeling I was negative
1:05.9	until a while. Well your flirtation did not work on me. All right good. You know Amy when you think about
1:11.5	franchises, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, James Bond,
1:15.6	Harry Potter, we think like, oh those are the big ones, Fast and Furious even.
1:19.6	But there's one that truly stands this test of time, one that's been kicking around for 70 years.
1:25.6	If you're going to say, Godzilla, does that mean I have to build the biggest cake in the world?
1:30.0	Well, you know, just because, yeah, it's got to reach his mouth, he's very tall.
1:35.0	Since 1954, Godzilla has been turning out hit after hit after hit.
1:46.7	I mean think about it since 1954 when this guy pops out of Tokyo Bay,
1:51.7	he has the longest continuous running film franchise in history and
1:58.4	he's still making history because seven decades in.
2:02.0	Godzilla minus one is going to be the first
2:05.6	Godzilla movie ever to win an Academy Award.
2:09.4	And its writer and director Takashi Amazaki is going to be the first filmmaker to get nominated for doing his own visual effects in Stanley Kubrick, made 2001.
2:19.0	Takashi, Stanley, together, they both won. They're
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