Have to agree, I also can’t remember anything about the first two apart from that Eleven is in one of them. I have no desire to rewatch to remember either, but I’d rewatch Shin Godzilla and Minus One in a heartbeat (even though I also have my issues with the way Minus One’s allegories are handled).
It’s clever because someone else in the media said it was. Remember, these people can only speak when the media narrative’s hand is up their ass moving them.