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What are you watching? (Kamen Rider Edition)
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Kurona
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
Fish Sandwich
Eeeeeh
, that's a pretty extreme exaggeration of what actually happened. I don't know how much clearer the movie could be than "I know Katsumi was a bad person. But he wasn't just that."
I get where you're coming from here. I kind of had it in my head that might be the movie's big problem going in this time. But I honestly think it walks that tightrope quite skillfully. Nowhere in the movie does anyone forgive or excuse Katsumi's actions. I think the point is more just to do an "evil isn't born, it's made" kind of deal. It adds complexity to
how
he got there, but it never tries to deny the fact that he
did
.
Oh that's definitely what the impression was in the text, but I always felt the way it was portrayed was just a bit
too
much in Daidou's favour? It always rubbed me the wrong way; maybe I should chalk this up as yet another reason for a W rewatch.
Kamen Rider Taisen is pretty much exactly as you described for me. There's a lot of great stuff in here - it's just that it's often disjointed, and as you said; very much bogged down by the trappings of the Taisen movies. Reduction of characters to Just More Suit Riders where you never really believe Kabuto or Amazon are there; and certain
actual
characters being characterised in a way that's just mindboggling. They finally were able to get Hiroshi back in person and this is what they're doing with Ichigou's character given that opportunity, huh?
Regardless, I started that off agreeing that it's great, right? Because it is. I think I even slightly disagree on Fifteen's character being flat - it's not incredibly complex, but it works well for the needs of the story and well enough that that scene of him and his wife near the end is heart warming and breaking at the same time. There's so much wrong with this movie yet so much it does right in equal measure, and that's definitely one of them -- makes a great contrast with the themes of the movie and arguably, Gaim as a whole; which is part of what makes it work well to me. Certainly more than the previous two SHTs, this actually feels like a movie -about- Gaim to some extent, and he's not even in it that much! I think, actually, this movie gives me a greater insight into what on earth Gaim was supposed to be about more than the series itself!
And as someone who doesn't even like Faiz, by god, they really went the mile in making me like Faiz. There's a lot about Takumi's characterisation I enjoy here and it makes me want an entire Faiz/X crossover movie or miniseries. It's just so down to earth, yet also has that diner scene to kick it off for that wonderful dash of so-ridiculous-it-works I love in my Kamen Rider. Also, Kusaka comes back to be absolutely terrible! Kind of get a kick out of him being portrayed so unambiguously as an asshole and him getting evaporated by Haruto and Keisuke's hope wave or whatever. Haruto and Keisuke should hope wave more terrible people like that; do TheBee next.
Like... it's really funny how much better this was on rewatch recently. I absolutely
hated
it when I first watched it - which was pretty early on actually; Gaim was like the fourth Rider I ran through - but this time round? Could not help but get a lot of smiles out of it. Even the Toqgers' random cameo just feels so right for them; they're all in character and it's been so long since I've seen them that it really tugged at me. Sidenote, Toqger is a really good series that gets what Sentai's all about.
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