ANH defined the period, because R1 literally ends hours or days (minutes even?) before ANH starts.

Why, tho? I mean, for what reason? Yours is the only outcry against using costumes as similar as possible. It doesn’t seem logical to do it any other way. They even made Vader’s costume look dodgy and scrapped together to mimic ANH. There’s a lot of attention to detail happening, and you seem of the opinion that it’s…

The period of the movie is set as pre- A New Hope. The costumes stick to that fictional time period. Trying to change them just because fashions have changed since the movie seems like fixing a problem that doesn’t exist and maybe creating new problems. The new costumes should look the same to match the existing…

...aye, that’s what’s making me immediately wary of the film.

Wear that daikaiju geek badge with pride, friend. I was about to post the exact same thing, only far less coherently.

Actually this will be only the second time we’ve seen a movie depicting Godzilla’s first attack on Japan. Every previous continuity reboot has presented itself as a sequel to the 1954 film. The ‘84 film explicitly said that Godzilla had previously attacked three decades earlier, and the concluding film in that…