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04-02-2024, 10:40 PM | #551 |
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Speaking of forms though is like... is Trial a form that needs to be used in Rider Form to actually function? Because like "Oh no Accel Memory is gone" but what about Trial? And on that question... have we ever seen Terui go straight into Trial before? I don't think so...
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04-02-2024, 10:43 PM | #552 |
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I was thinking the same thing, and no, it doesn't seem like Trial's ever been used as a base form. (Xtreme, same deal I think.) Trial's a power-up for Accel, despite being its own Memory. I'd wonder about, like, Engine though. Is there any reason Engine can't work in the Driver?
Engine... I'd say it's the reason why the other Memory Gadgets won't work for transformations when being used in the Drivers. It's more a Pseudo-Memory than anything, good for a finisher, but not a transformation. |
04-02-2024, 10:45 PM | #553 |
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Oh, like the Bat Memory, gotcha. Makes sense!
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04-02-2024, 11:07 PM | #554 |
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Fun fact. The man who played Matsui, Shokichi's former friend, is actor-turned-politician Taro Yamamoto whose most notable role was Shogo Kawada in the live action adaptation of Battle Royale, aka the kid with the bandana in the movie.
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04-03-2024, 12:05 AM | #555 |
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This was more like it. I like this movie a lot. For someone craving more W it's a great slice of what was good about the show, albeit with the focus flipped to Terui and Shotaro and Philip in more of the supporting role. The plot isn't remarkable - especially with the show already dealing with both corrupt cop and good cop being accused of a crime plots - but it was serviceable enough and there were a lot of good character moments.
I have a long and well-documented crush on Yukari Taki, dating all the way back to Ultraman Ginga S, so obviously it was great to see her here. Great and a little surprising. I thought Yuko "Rinko from Wizard" Takayama played Aoi, but I was confusing this and the DiEnd Den-O movie. One of the moments from this that has always stuck with me the bit where Lily was just carrying around divorce papers for Akiko and Terui. Great gag and a good callback to her episodes from the show. Also dig her grandfather's cafe; good vibes to the place and it's a pity it's only introduced here. The credits contain a fantastic blooper where Renn Kiriyama accidentally throws the Joker memory when doing his transformation pose. Again something that I've always remembered, but I could never recall which movie it was from. |
04-03-2024, 02:54 AM | #556 |
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So you pretty much second guessed me by giving me an intro to my feature. Which is one that covers all three bases.
Ultra-lert! So as pointed out, one of the new cop characters is Mitsutoshi Shundo, who would later play one of the soldier guys in Amazons and Kekera in Geats. But at this point, his most notable role was as Mizorogi/Dark Faust, the villain for the middle arc of Ultraman Nexus. And our antagonist, is played by the late Minoru Tanaka (who gets the movie dedicated to him, which indicates when he died), who was previously Captain Sakomizu in Ultraman Mebius. Who character wise, is pretty much the opposite of Sagami. Sentai-lert! In addition to the return of Nao Nagasawa, we have another Hurricaneger veteran in the form of Kouhei Yamamoto playing one of the pickpockets. Not having seen this film in a while, I can?t tell you exactly which one. General Alert So as pointed out, we have Yukari Taki as our female lead, in her first major role in a Toku production (she?d auditioned for, and landed, the Pink in the previous year?s Sentai, but lost the role when she was unavailable to make the filming dates). After this, she was the girlfriend in the Gavan movie, the secondary female lead in Ultraman Ginga S and of course, Sawa in Kamen Rider Build. She also had guest spots in Ghost as a reporter playing Robin Hood and in Ryusoulger as a gym coach obsessed with following school rules. And her father is Taro Suwa, who?s played several guest parts in Rider, Sentai and Ultra (and through the magic of stock footage reuse, Power Rangers, which gave the actor the fan nickname of ?Mr. O?Shaugnessy?) And to conclude this (beyond Hasegawa pulling a Hitchcock as a drunk), the yakuza head?s bodyguard is Ayumi Shimozono, who at the time was one of the minor stunt actors for Rider, but later went on to be Sentai?s main female suit performer 2016-2023, and is currently suit acting Kamen Rider Majade in Kamen Rider Gotchard. As for the film itself. I remember liking it quite a bit, especially the detail of giving Accel his own title sequence, as if we were watching his spin-off series. |
04-03-2024, 08:32 AM | #557 |
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One of the moments from this that has always stuck with me the bit where Lily was just carrying around divorce papers for Akiko and Terui. Great gag and a good callback to her episodes from the show. Also dig her grandfather's cafe; good vibes to the place and it's a pity it's only introduced here.
Thanks for the thoroughness! I hope Eternal is a little easier to catalog!
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04-03-2024, 03:03 PM | #558 |
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Jumping the gun a little bit since we won't be going over this until tomorrow, but I feel it needs to be said while I'm still thinking about it:
W Returns Eternal is probably not the best Kamen Rider movie, probably not the worst, but it is definitely the oiliest. |
04-03-2024, 03:26 PM | #559 |
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And how the movie ties that into the Terui/Akiko marriage is brilliant. Terui?s kind of a not great husband in this ? he doesn?t communicate well with his wife, thoroughly and continuously, DON?T QUESTION ME as terrible spousal advice ? but he?s trying to be a good husband. He loves his wife, and he shows it in the ways he knows how. His inability to call her by her name is because he respects her too much to not refer to her as Chief. She?s the boss, and he always wants her to know that. All of this lines up with the hard work that Terui?s asking Aoi to do ? find someone that?s worth being a better person for, and live up to what they?ve given you. It?s not going to happen immediately, and you?ll always run the risk of falling back into old habits, but remember that they want you to succeed. Terui?s romantic comedy storyline is Aoi?s noir criminal storyline, all the way through. Actually, you're still confused. Takayama was in the New Den-O movie: Episode Blue.
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