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09-06-2019, 02:38 AM
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So the thing about Kamen Rider Decade is that I treat it and all it's related media as something akin to high-budget fan-fiction featuring any and all cool scenes the writers can come up that all revolve around a bunch of OCs visiting past characters. I absolutely do not consider that an insult by the way, but I also do not consider it at all inaccurate.
All Riders Vs Dai-Shocker
is pretty much more of that.
The story is very weak, and Tsukasa's character arc where he does bad things and then gets wrecked for it feels simultaneously like too much but also not delved-into enough. Somebody just thought that scenes like Tsukasa sitting on Shocker's throne, or him crying in the rain would be really cool, and you know what? I agree. I
should
have questions regarding his backstory, or why Shadow Moon is his butler, but it's Decade and I just rolled with it. That's not me excusing the weak plot though, I'm just personally saying that I was already conditioned not to mind going in. I was here for fun and dumb action scenes, and that's what I got.
There have since then been a lot of movies where they just bring all the Rider suits they have lying around for fanservice and then include them all for one giant mindless climax. As the first of these type of movies, I thought it was alright. I hardly felt the 'Riders never die!' message was warranted here, but it didn't feel utterly soulless like some later taisen movies would.
This movie is also the first time we have the Rider from the next series making an appearance! Though to be honest, no matter how much I might enjoy the cameos themselves, there's no denying that these scenes started out very intrusive and became slightly less so as time went on. Still, W getting to beat on Shadow Moon is cute when I remember that Shotaro's actor being a fan of Black as a kid.
I don't want to make it sound like I think the story and character stuff was a complete write-off in this film though. I do like Tsukasa's evil ploy and following moment of crisis, and the stuff with his little sister was sweet. It's just nothing that blew me away or made me see the character in a new light.
Anyhow, it's finally Neo-Heisei time with
W Forever: A to Z / The Gaia Memories of Fate
. I had it in my mind that it was just a 'standard' Rider movie, but I clearly forgot a lot more than I realised because wow did I love this one!
There is such a big upgrade from the show budget effects to the big screen, it's incredible. I have to imagine the only reason it's more obvious with this movie than other recent ones is simultaneously because the show budgets are higher than ten years ago, and because the recent movies are more prone to using CGI. Either way, all the action in this movie is top-notch. That bike chase early on might be my favourite Rider Riding action ever?
The story was plenty decent too. I remember I used to think how Philip believing Maria might be his mother was an odd plot point, like... why not just ask if you're not sure? But when they play it more as him seeing his mother in her since he's never had a family, I came around to it much easier. And his big moment in the end where he declares the difference between NEVER and him is great.
Speaking of NEVER, Eternal is an edgelord and admittedly isn't that much deeper than your typical movie villain, but I'm not surprise he became a favourite of many. He and his T2-using Dopant henchman are just very strikingly cool, on top of him being very quotable.
I consider Kamen Rider Joker to be the first big movie Rider form among the 'regular' Summer/Fall movies (no, I'm not counting Xtreme with gold down the middle)... Well, unless we're counting Rising Kuuga Ultimate, but I'm not gonna. Anyway, it's funny how when you have a Rider that's all about being two different halves, that just having one component makes it feel very novel. Plus, while Philip is having big emotional scenes, Shotaro gets to be a hero on his own to save his partner. Good stuff.
I loved the little cameos from the various side-characters and also one-off victim-of-the-weeks too. I didn't recognise all of them, but the fact that I recognised any of them probably goes to show just how much still that this show left an impression on me.
I don't have much more to say than that it's just a really solid, really decent, and really good-looking movie. I have a feeling that's probably going to be the gist of what I have to say about most if not all the moves going forward though.
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