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I'm in the process of watching 3.0 and this movie has reminded me why whenever I hear "Ode to Joy" I am filled with an impending sense of doom Alright I finished watching it. It was better than I expected! People made it sound like it was going to be like 70 minutes of Shinji and Kaworu's sweet romance bookended by two crazy action scenes but it was a lot smoother than that. I feel a lot worse for Shinji in the movies than on the TV show. Understandable I guess, because the one time he tries to take initiative and do something cool, he ends up causing a second apocalypse. Then everyone hates him without telling him why, he has the truth about his mom and his psuedo-girlfriend unceremoniously dumped in his lap, and when he tries to make up for it, he ends up almost causing the apocalypse again! And the only person who has been both honest and nice to him gets turned into jam right in front of his eyes! And that too, is arguably his fault! TV Shinji is the lead character in a harem anime compared to what this sadsack goes through! There's a lot of arguing about whether or not the message behind Eva's story has changed with the movies, but whether or not it has, I'm a lot more likely to listen to duder's exasperated treatise on how lovely Japanese society is if it's wrapped in such a lavishly produced bit of sci-fi action animation than... whatever the end of the TV series was. I give it a qualified thumbs up 
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UberJumper posted:Awesome thanks I took it as being that Nerv was using Kaoru's old Eva as a container for the 12th Angel, essentially a "trap" that would be sprung upon... well the events of the movie.
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cafel posted:We see the new 3rd Angel in the fight that introduces Mari in 2.0. It was a skeletal dragon-like Angel she fought in a tunnel system in the testbed EVA that was equpide with a giant drill. The one that seems to be missing is the 11th Angel. If they all appeared in order then the 11th showed up while Shinji was trapped in the events surrounding Third Impact. Dammit, I honestly was not all that interested in what happened during the timeskip until you pointed all of this out  Now I wanna know how exactly it washed out. How long was it before Misato's Bodacious Space Rebels broke it off with Nerv? What was the impetus? Did Kaji give her the dirt and then die again? How exactly did Shinji get locked in that space cross? Was that the reason Misato went rogue? How did that Angel get inside of the Mk 6? Kaworu said that it was all hosed up from overuse, but how could that be the case if they fought maybe TWO angels max while Shinji was locked up? And does that meant that Kaworu fought alongside Asuka and Mari before the counter-reformation? There were a lot of regular battleships in the flotilla from before the Wunder launched--did Misato manage to turn the entire world against Nerv? Were Kaworu and a bunch of Rei clones the ones keeping Gendou from being gunned down by angry UN troops in a hilarious reversal of EOE? I'm probably just going to go to bed later and forget all about those questions though
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Arkhams Razor posted:good tweets I fell down a bit of a research hole after seeing this line and yeah, it makes a kind of sense That being said, there is also the question of what qualifies as leftist in Japan, in the early 90s VS the English speaking world in 2019, so I'm not exactly CONVINCED the line is SUPER GOOD choice. The historical context makes the picture a bit more clear, but someone shouldn't need to read these tweets in order to digest a jotted off bit of background noise. Then of course there's also the question of whether or not the news is trustworthy considering it's all probably information controlled to hell and back by Nerv and Seele so.. Expect My Mom posted:Finally started my rewatch and I already have questions I don't know how relevant it is, and people's feelings on the movies may vary, but BOY it has a different context when it happens again in Rebuild
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Jun 27, 2019 02:45
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I want Anno to make an Evangelion show that is basically an anthology series set in the universe that tells a bunch of self-contained stories of randos having to cope with this tenuously outlined world full of conspiracies and ancient Aliens they could call it Neo-Eva Q
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Zeruel posted:
um , because he's the protagonist??? I have to say as someone who just kinda shrugs at a lot of the more internalized mental stuff in Eva, the density of crazy kaiju battles, technobabble, and huge explosions in that teaser are very promising 
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Jul 6, 2019 16:05
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real mad that they bothered animating that Iron Man rear end wannabe Kamen Rider Ultraman manga instead of just letting Anno make his own version whether it's live action or not
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Jul 15, 2019 04:30
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"Gendo is actually Miyazaki" is the second best hot Eva take, right after the Ultraman homage one
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Jul 18, 2019 19:11
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Khara threw the Rebuilds up on Youtube if anyone's interested: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM4FwhxLYLHlOSPnfxmxSQw No English subs (I think? Youtube's stupid) but I'm still glad to see it cuz I don't like Netflix!
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Apr 21, 2020 05:39
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At this point when I see dubious looking anime CG, especially in a movie as big as this one, with the kind of lead-up time it has, I have to wonder if it's a stylistic choice. Unless the people at Arc System Works are actually wizards or something, it should be possible to make things look a bit less... egregious. Alternately maybe it's just an unavaoidable downside of trying to retrofit the Eva designs, which are natively hand drawn, into CG. The CG in Promare, for instance, probably looks gorgeous because that's how it was conceived.
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Dec 25, 2020 10:30
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I read a theory this morning about Mari being based on Shimamoto Kazuhiko and now I want to see this movie so bad I can loving taste it
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Mar 8, 2021 18:53
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KaptainKrunk posted:The Rebuilds just make me think of how much better Anno's time would have been spent on making new stuff or films like Shin Godzilla. To me the entire exercise always felt like a long, painfully drawn out cash grab, as TV + EoE is pretty much perfect. Doing something from whole new cloth I could understand, but I don't see how the Rebuild movies are any less interesting than "Anno does Cutie Honey" "Anno does Godzilla" and "Anno does Ultraman" and I love all of those! Well, I love Shin Godzilla, Ultraman isn't out yet and and the Cutie Honey movie suffers due to having watched it too close to Re:Cutie Honey hoping that if this pattern continues he does Shin Kamen Rider Faiz next and gets someone with a lick of sense to write it this time
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Mar 10, 2021 19:45
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I have deep amusement that it's not coming to Netflix
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Jul 1, 2021 16:08
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Scyantific posted:E: Out of all the things that could have thrown me for a loop it was this that made me go "what the gently caress" this is still milder than what Tomino's sentiments tend to be, however
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Aug 14, 2021 02:42
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For some reason I'm imagining a Gurren Lagann Parallel Works-esque anthology covering the Near Third Impact aftermath via a series of wildly tonally dissimilar music videos
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It's disappointing to hear that part of the English script issues might lie with Khara because they're doing so much poo poo right, in general, otherwise
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