Is it better than Shin Godzilla (2016) ?

I like the design and evolution of Godzilla in Shin Godzilla more. It's awesome. The story is decent but it has a few issues with pace.

I like the story and execution of the plot better in Godzilla Minus One. It's a better narrative. The CGI is less effective (not bad at all) but it is in better service of the plot.

I'll say that Minus One is better. But, I really enjoy Shin Godzilla.

Tough call. First of all, I try not to use objective terms like "better than" when talking about movies/art. It's all my opinion.

Minus One was certainly less work to follow without all the captions of locations, characters and their titles plus non-stop stretches of rapid-fire dialogue/editing, of which my copy had English subtitles for *everything,* not to mention -1.0 had characters I saw developing and cared more about with a few scenes with actual emotion. This Godzilla even had impressive scenes of f'ing things/places up. But no moment in any kaijju film has ever made my jaw drop like when Godzilla turned it up to eleven in Shin.

Just saw -1.0 today, so haven't had time to digest, but I don't see myself wanting to watch -1.0 again any time soon, while I've seen Shin at least three times over the years.

They are two different movies that are both great, but one is an action movie while the other is a political drama. Personally, I think Shin Godzilla is undoubtedly the better movie. I love how it focuses on the realism of Godzilla and portrays how the world would actually respond in this sorta situation. Godzilla -1 is great but it's definitely more cheesy, but I will say that the character development is better in -1. Shin Godzilla has characters that feel real, but really aren't to identifiable.

Everything is better than Shin Godzilla.

Shin Godzilla was fucking boring.

For what it is worth, I didn't like Shin Godzilla at all, and I loved -1.0.

I just watched this last night.

It had a lot of good things going for it and was pretty decent overall, but I think Shin Godzilla is the better movie of the two - the cast, action, Godzilla's rendition, movement and powers, the political drama and the solutions they came up with were all much better in Shin Godzilla. It was also fast paced and not as goofy as this movie got at times.

I didn't like the way Godzilla moved and was designed in this movie - it seemed to move more like a robot or puppet, and had dead eyes. Just didn't look or feel like a living animal (wasn't too bad in the first scene in Odo island, tho). Shin Godzilla's original design looked super goofy too, but they did it on purpose to show that it would evolve into a more powerful form that did look like an actual giant monster.

Shin is a movie that doesn't feel like it has much heart. Nasty monster. Bureaucrats, scientists and the military discuss. References to the Tsunami with the government doing a bit better this time. Techno babble monster fighting...

This movie is big on heart. A bit big on cliche as well, but sometimes cliches ARE because they work. This one concentrates on characters, who do wind up fighting big G with as outrageous a plan as you might imagine, but at least it's all about the characters. Godzilla is impressive. Effects are good.

My only significant qualm, and it applies even more to Shin, is that the horrific civilian toll of Godzilla's rampage is less powerfully evoked than in Godzilla 1954.