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04-04-2024, 02:15 PM | #571 |
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Things I remembered about this movie, having only watched it when it came out:
- It existed (in your face, New Den-O movie!) - It had a framing device where someone who NEVER helped showed up angry at W. - That is literally it. Didn't even remember if I liked it or not. Having watched it again, it looks like it was probably a really fun few days for the stunt team. Lots of running, jumping, fighting, and flipping. Genki Sudo definitely seemed to be having a hell of a time, even if his character is still incredibly problematic from the perspective of a different country and about a decade and a half of time. Minase Yashiro got to get some good smoldering on. Everybody was very shiny all the time. The plot certainly exists and, like spending an entire episode of Lost to rationalize the fact that one of the actors had a tattoo, it gives us an explanation that we probably didn't need about something that could have been easily glossed over. Overall, I found it to be a decent action movie that was tangentially related the show I just finished watching. The big thing I'm left with, now that I temporarily remember the movie again, is one question: what the hell kind of prison has a dress code for death row inmates that's an open-front shirt, sports bra, and short shorts? (Rhetorical question, I know the answer is Sakamoto Prefecture Penitentiary) |
04-04-2024, 02:22 PM | #572 |
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I’ve watched this three times, and it’s telling that I remember a fan edit by the editors at TV-Nihon more than the actual piece (notably, they cut out most of the framing device (only retaining one scene of Mina standing against a skyscraper, which incidentally, is the only evidence in this cut that she survived in the end), and some of the extraneous “this is how this element in the summer movie came about” scenes).
And you were right, the cast for this one is a much easier job. Mainly, because they all fall under one category. Sentai-lert! First off, our narrator Mina is played by Rin Takahashi, who the previous year had teamed up with two other Riders in her more famous role as Shiraishi Mako/Shinken Pink (there’s also a weirdo online who for some reason thinks she’s the spitting image of Amy Jo Johnson, of Flashpoint fame, but that’s neither here or there) And for Dr. Prospect’s two henchmen, the male of the two is Sho Tomita, better known as Yukito Sanjo/AbareBlue in Bakuryu Sentai Abaranger, and later appeared in Space Sheriff Sharivan: Next Generation as what is basically “the Arms Dopant if he was actually an undercover cop who got too into character”. Meanwhile, the female of the two is Shroud’s suit actress, Sanae Hitomi. Finally, Dr. Prospect hismelf is Jyunichi Haruta, who previously appeared in Rider as Undad (as the watch thread for that series dubbed him) in Kamen Rider Blade. But prior to that, he was the Black Ranger in two consecutive 80s Sentai: Dai Sentai Goggle Fove as Kanpei Kuroda and Kagaku Sentai Dynaman as Ryu Hoshikawa (the main difference being that the former is a chess player who talks normally, while the latter is a ninja who talks like he’s a Shakespeare character). He was also in the Metal Heroes series as two different arc villains: Mad Gallant in Kyojuu Tokusou Juspion and Bunzo Yazaki in Tokusou Exceedraft. |
04-04-2024, 02:30 PM | #573 |
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^ And he also played as Souji/Kyoryu Green’s dad in Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger.
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04-04-2024, 02:32 PM | #574 |
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The plot certainly exists and, like spending an entire episode of Lost to rationalize the fact that one of the actors had a tattoo, it gives us an explanation that we probably didn't need about something that could have been easily glossed over. Overall, I found it to be a decent action movie that was tangentially related the show I just finished watching.
!!! And also his robotic successor, U.N.D.A.D.! Wow, I definitely did not recognize him at all. I guess you could say I need my eyes checked.
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04-04-2024, 03:47 PM | #575 |
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04-04-2024, 05:39 PM | #576 |
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I think it's more general, like, "If you want redemption, you need to find love." For Terui, that's the romantic kind, but that doesn't necessarily apply to Aoi even if she mistakes it for that. Familial and platonic love are also important and Terui would later get new familial love with Haruna.
It really does make it feel to me as though the romance angle is the main focus, with other forms of love as an afterthought. Especially in a movie where Terui claims that Akiko is the reason that he changed. Like, if while he was talking to her, or even during the drive with Aoi, we got a flashback to times such as when Shotaro told Terui that there were people who care about him, then I'd be willing to give the movie more leeway, and probably see Terui's' talk to Akiko as him wanting to make his wife feel special. But we don't, and instead get alot of Terui's' past recontextualized at best and retconned at worst. I refuse to rewatch this movie on the grounds that I found it insufferable the first time around. One thing I will note though is a line from the subs I watched it with(I forget which group), wherein Main Girl claimed "No one knows what he was really like." Which I found to be a laughably bold statement, given that she knew Daido for a grand total of like 24 hours.
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04-04-2024, 06:58 PM | #577 |
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I basically put it at 1.10x speed the entire way (minus a few parts). The only other movie I've done that with is Biku: The Movie from GARO. Both were absurdly boring me to the point that I just wanted it to go by faster.
This is probably the worst V-Cinema. Because it does the one thing I hate in this genre, being boring. As much as I disliked Vulcan and Valkyrie's V-Cinema, at least I felt something about it? There was an emotion there compared to Eternal's which is just big fat nothing. Anyway here are random scraps I noted: -Kind of a neat spin that we're apparently dealing with folks getting pre-production Gaia Memories at this point. Really shows how far the business has fallen since Museum's end. -They somehow turned Luna Dopant into an annoying as hell character. Like yeah Luna was quirky before but dude is the worst in this movie. -Eternal Red Flare is a laughable excuse for a Movie Exclusive form. And yet I think it somehow got an SHF? -I'm glad we kind of decided to explain Utopia having weird abilities that wasn't his energy draining and face stealing stuff. We knew he was a NEVER from his final episodes, but there were weird psychokinetic stuff that didn't seem to really match Utopia's powerset. -Speaking of Utopia, is it just me or is the color grading in this movie odd in some aspects? Like, in the show his suit is dull gold to me, in here... the concept of there being gold aspects/armoring to the suit that pop against the dull gold actually happens here? Did they repaint the suit? Is it because movie cameras? Unsure but I definitely noticed a strange difference in how Utopia looks here. -The Ending Theme: Cod-E ~E no Angō by SOPHIA is easily the best part of the movie. Really good song, Eternal's actor really doesn't miss with the music he sings. |
04-04-2024, 07:50 PM | #578 |
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I guess what probably gives this movie points over Movie War Core is that at least I went into it knowing that there would be very little W content.
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04-04-2024, 08:13 PM | #579 |
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I'm glad we kind of decided to explain Utopia having weird abilities that wasn't his energy draining and face stealing stuff. We knew he was a NEVER from his final episodes, but there were weird psychokinetic stuff that didn't seem to really match Utopia's powerset.
There's about as much W content here as in Movie War Core, actually. Hell, at least this story about Eternal is for them!
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04-05-2024, 12:41 PM | #580 |
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A lot of it is because the arc of Daido isn?t exactly A Good Man Brought Low By Tragic Circumstances. He?s a motivated psychopath, and what little heroism he manages to exhibit in this film is really just a cocktail of resentment, disgust, bloodlust, and egotism that becomes a lifeline for a bunch of psychokinetic test subjects. Daido?s main opponent in the film is a Foundation X researcher, and the liberation of the test subjects starts off as just a way to ruin that guy?s day. Daido doesn?t really care about the Quarks, he just a) resents any lab rat that acquiesces to its fate, and b) SUPER wants to screw up Foundation X?s strategies. Watching Daido go on an emotional journey here is mostly just watching a remorseless killer briefly and unintentionally help out some people with a similar backstory. It?s not? it is not a very compelling 70-odd minutes of narrative. Quote:
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-Also, it doesn?t really make sense for how she starts this film? She?s like I Wanted Katsumi?s Killer To Know He Was A Good Guy As Well As A Villain, but she starts off by ambushing Team Double and immediately trying to murder them? That? doesn?t make any sense? It?s not like she thinks Daido was a saint; she specifically says that she learned he tried to destroy Fuuto, and Daido went on TV to tell everyone in Fuuto that he was going to be sending them to hell. If Mina learned that Double killed Eternal, she must?ve learned that he went out trying to kill an entire town. The whole point is that Daido wasn?t all the way evil, but he was evil at the end. Why is she instantly trying to kill Double and Akiko?
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But prior to that, he was the Black Ranger in two consecutive 80s Sentai: Dai Sentai Goggle Fove as Kanpei Kuroda and Kagaku Sentai Dynaman as Ryu Hoshikawa (the main difference being that the former is a chess player who talks normally, while the latter is a ninja who talks like he?s a Shakespeare character).
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-I'm glad we kind of decided to explain Utopia having weird abilities that wasn't his energy draining and face stealing stuff. We knew he was a NEVER from his final episodes, but there were weird psychokinetic stuff that didn't seem to really match Utopia's powerset.
I can neither remember nor pronounce the title of that song, but I agree that it's a great song for sure and I think it could be about how Daido was a small beacon of hope in Mina's life.
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