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02-03-2012, 08:44 PM | #11 |
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I'm also pretty glad Fourze didn't completely dominate Gara like Double did to Shadow Moon in Decade's movie. |
02-04-2012, 04:04 PM | #12 |
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I just finished the movie and... meh. I've got a pretty mixed reaction to this one. When it first got going and for most of the beginning and middle I was not getting into it at all. It might just be that the hella blatant film continuity goof with Eiji's gloves in his first henshin automatically put me into a skeptical mindframe, but in general the story never really worked for me. The kid and his subplot was boring, the villain was nothing special, and every Den-O movie ever already taking place in the Edo period really robbed that part of the film of any sense of being special (gotta love how Eiji and Hina are in such a rush to get back that they settle in, put on some period costumes, and have lunch). By the end, though, I did start getting more into the film. BuraKaWani was pretty cool and a lot of the fight scenes were pretty well done. After months of Fourze's pretty clumsy fights it was cool to see a more competent looking main Rider again. The final battle with the Os Gara monster was pretty boss, too, although I'm not sure why combining all of the medals turns someone into a big scaly bird thing - I'd have liked to see all of the different kinds of medal animals get represented somehow. Inspired use of GataKiriBa, though, which almost makes up for the fact that the Kuwagata and Kamakiri medals disappeared completely from the show by the mid-20s. Also, Satonaka's big scene near the end almost stole the entire movie. The cameos didn't do much for me, though. The Rider Girls bit was actually kind of weird and silly and I don't know the Edo drama series that the samurai was from, which made that mostly pointless for me. The Fourze bit... actually, this one reminded me a lot of A to Z in that I'd also completely forgotten that the new Rider showed up in it, making that cameo actually a surprise when it started. I think Gentaro made a better debut showing, though, as he clearly represented the full character's personality as it would eventually appear on the show. Plus it was fun seeing Eiji totally confused as to what the hell was happening. There was a lot of blatant "kids, watch this show!" stuff in there, but it was still pretty fun. All in all I think this was pretty mediocre and, ultimately, mostly forgettable. It was a hell of a lot better than Movie War Core, but so are some STDs, so that's not saying much. Hopefully Movie War MegaMax will finally give OOO a really great film (that isn't carried by awesome crossovers and nostalgia, at least). |
02-04-2012, 04:27 PM | #13 |
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02-04-2012, 07:03 PM | #14 |
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Riders get in the movies and not think about how oddly they match up with the series. Fourze is very much himself here I guess, but, you know, I've never seen any episode of W that gave me the impression he could curb-stomp Shadow Moon.
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02-05-2012, 02:20 PM | #15 |
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Finished it just now, and Switchblade...you summed up my thoughts exactly. My problem with OOOs was I just found the sub plots involving the random citizens of the week boring.
I can't help but think why they decided to cross over with that period drama though. Did they really think that OOOs couldn't stand as it's own thing? That they needed to bring in something totally unrelated to Kamen Rider to help draw people in...? It just seems unessicary to me. But yeah, now that I think of it...this movie was basically AToZ and Final Count Down wrapped up into one movie. Over all, as someone who didn't really like OOOs, I think this movie was fairly decent, not great, but pretty good. |
02-05-2012, 03:59 PM | #16 |
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Just finished watching it with my sister! It was enjoyable, I just thought it ended too fast. But still
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02-06-2012, 04:14 AM | #17 |
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There were definitely some things that just stunk for me, but I looked at it like it was just a really good episode. Had I paid money to watch this in the theater, I'd definitely be upset. It's a huge downgrade from Forever A to Z.
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02-22-2012, 03:32 PM | #18 |
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Finally got around to seeing this the other day. Not the best Rider movie, but pretty decent. Not exactly sure if this is canon or not(the only place I think it could fit in was before Date left to get his surgery), but I didn't see any blatant contradictions come up.
It was kinda cool to see Eiji get a turn with Birth, and I enjoyed the fight with BuraKaWani. I liked how Gara's plan was foiled by Eiji's ambitiion. Kougami, you're a sneaky one. Also, I had almost forgot that Fourze debuted here untill the fireball appeared. I really want to track down Module Set 1 now for my Figuarts Fourze so I can replicate the Rider Swing-By . |
02-22-2012, 09:54 PM | #19 |
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It's out of continuity, at no time were all 4 Greeeds sided with Maki when Date was still Birth. There's probably several other issues such as who has what medals.
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