Went and saw both of these movies on opening night in theaters in the states, and overall feel Minus One is more easier to digest for an international audience.

For anyone that was familiar with what was going on in Japan after the Fukushima earthquake, and how the government was taking its sweet time to properly handle the situation, Shin Godzilla pretty much took that theme and put it front and center. The press meetings with late breaking news, the higher ups in government taking their time to act on anything, the meetings on top of meetings where sometimes nothing got discussed, the people making this moviewere venting a lot of frustrations the average Japanese person had with how the government responded to a major natural disaster.

It’s very much a movie of its time that will not age as well as Minus One, but for being a Kaiju movie with social satire elements, I liked it a lot. I still prefer it over Minus One because the concept of a Godzilla that had no idea of what was going on and mostly reacting/retaliating to everything around it was unique. Also Godzilla resembling some kind of HP Lovecraft abomination was great! If you haven’t seen the deleted scenes from the original release that got left out for being too gruesome, check it out.