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TokuNation watches Kamen Rider Decade
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10-16-2021, 04:22 PM
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Kurona
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Yeah, gotta say; you've given me more appreciation for the movie!
I never really
disliked
it myself, though... some of it fell a little flat? Part of that is down to Tsukasa being the previous leader of Dai-Shocker, which as someone who's become a big Decade fan since has never and still does not sit right with me; and part of it is that this movie is relying a lot on the excitement factor of All Riders -- and to be completely clear,
this is a huge deal!
The last time it had happened was 1989's Black RX where it was 11 riders (they didn't separate Black and RX back then), and the last movie was 1981's Super-1 The Movie. So this is the first time in
20 years
we've had an All Rider gathering, the first cinematic All Rider gathering in
almost 30 years,
the first time we've had the Heisei Riders (and Shin, ZO and J! Hey guys!! My beloveds <3) involved... this was a
massive deal,
almost as much as the premise of Decade itself.
But like you I'd already watched W through Build (and was a little of the way through Zi-O at the time) before watching this movie. So I'd already seen a loooot more All Rider gatherings between Taisens and the like; and in regards to the gathering itself I only really knew like, 7 guys here? Only half of which I even enjoyed? So that might sound like super shallow reasoning but it's always stuck in my mind as what I attach to this movie: the forebearer to All Rider movies which was impressive at the time but just can't compare to how much bigger and wilder the ones after it were.
Which is a shame because as you say, there's a lot of thematic weight here; and frankly even then something on this slightly smaller scale with Heisei 1 and Showa dudes I love (against
Shadow Moon!!
) would likely do a ton for me on a rewatch! So all this reading of it has made a lot of things click in my mind, and what can I say but I'm grateful -- it's always nice when a piece of media you've overlooked as meh or not-that-great can be turned around into something you start liking (experienced that so much with Ghost this year), and you might have just done that here for me. Looking forward to getting around to this again!
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