Godzilla Minus One

What I meant by "not top of the line" was it wasn't a big budget Hollywood movie, and I though some of the effects look like what you'd expect from the 1990's instead of the 2020's. Which is funny because the article you linked also compares the effects to 1990's vfx.

So if you want to get nitpicky there are some shots of Godzilla here and there that look inferior compared to the recent Hollywood CGI versions, but it's very well shot within the restraints of the budget, and they got a lot of bang for their buck. They did the whole movie for less than $11 million, while the recent Hollywood Godzilla movies all cost in the $150-200 million range, and I'd watch this one again before any of those.

Cool. Yeah, the article does talk about 1990s VFX which I thought was interesting and odd but I guess in the 90s directors used VFX to supplement things they couldn't do practically and shot things to take that into account. Where as now the tendency is just to shoot it any way they can with someone in a green screen suit with motion cap balls on them and assume the VFX guys will fix it. Which, ironically, is much more expensive that the way the Godzilla Minus 1 guy did it and results in VFX burnout and crappy work due to crunch time.