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Mercrom: Jul 17, 2009

Guillermo del Toro and Idriss Elba. I never thought I could be this excited for what's basically a giant robot anime. Rocket punch. :aaaaa:

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Mercrom: Jul 17, 2009

Gorilla Salad posted:

I could never really enjoy Evangelion, except for the giant robot punchy bits that seemed to get further and further apart as time went on. That whining poo poo of a main character made me despise the show so much. I know it's apparently a thing in a lot of Japanese works to have a pathetic character as the protagonist, but good god I cannot sympathise with someone that pathetic. I wanted to slap the little poo poo.

I would hate Evangelion if it weren't for the fact that I can't help but respect something that's about the fate of the world being in the hands of a deeply depressed teenager. If you took that out you would basically be left with a significantly worse version of the Transformers movies and not, say, Titus Pullo in a mech suit.

# ¿ Dec 14, 2012 16:29

Mercrom: Jul 17, 2009

Undead Unicorn posted:

I am getting a little annoyed at all the Evangelion comparisons myself though, because so far the only similarities between it and Eva, are early Super Robot tropes and setting details.

Well, I don't know anything about giant robot tropes or early Godzilla movies. What I do know is that Guillermo del Toro is pretty drat good at taking the premise of an emotionally abused child stuck in a war zone and turning it into psychological fantasy-horror.

# ¿ Dec 17, 2012 15:58

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