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02-19-2021, 05:59 PM | #841 |
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Does anyone know what this is?
https://youtu.be/6QJOHYRF4lk It turned up in my YouTube recommendations. I have no desire to watch it, but not knowing what it is will bug me. |
02-20-2021, 09:54 AM | #842 |
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Been watching some of the other shows on Toei's Tokusatsu World channel, and I'm honestly enjoying them way more than I should be.
Uchuu Tetsujin Kyodain: It's so absurd and goofy, and I love it. Akumaizer 3: Am I the only one who would love to see a reboot of this? (I know they appeared in the Wizard X Fourze movie as villains, but still.) |
02-20-2021, 10:37 AM | #843 |
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I am hungry for anything that would give Akumaizer 3 some more time in the limelight. That show had such a fantastic concept behind it and I can easily imagine a reboot being amazing in its own right.
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02-20-2021, 09:38 PM | #844 |
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02-28-2021, 01:14 AM | #845 |
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I just finished Garo: Makai Senki earlier this week, so I naturally just watched Garo and the Wailing Dragon.
Holy shit, and here I thought Hakaider and Mikazuki were Amemiya completely overindulging himself. I definitely wasn't expecting a tokusatsu Wizard of Oz movie. I admire the ambition and it looks pretty great (aside from a lot of the rough CG), but I gotta say I'm okay with taking a break from the franchise for a little bit after watching it. |
04-03-2021, 06:14 AM | #846 |
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So I'm choosing this thread on purpose for a rather weird hunch: Because it got a new animated series I watched "Pacific Rim" again. And why I'm writing this post and why I'm posting it here comes together in a bit of a convoluted mix.
You see, when this movie came out in 2013 I wasn’t watching Toku. I wasn't watching mecha anime either. So when the marketing campaign rolled out full swing somehow every single source that talked about the movie, online or offline, branded it as an Evangelion rip-off. Because giant machine made by humans fights weird monsters that destroys everything. I went alongside that opinion because I didn’t know any better, watched the movie and then immediately forgot about it. Now flash forward to the present, I am and have been watching Toku and mecha anime now, and thought: Hey let's check this out again. And would you look at that, it isn’t Evangelion. It's bloody Ultraman. Like, this is as Toku as Toku can get. Giant monsters wreck cities, giant humanoid beats it up. Sure there's anime inspiration in there, that can't be denied. But at its core this is probably the best “modern” American Tokusatsu-style movie that I have seen. Like, this movie is so much better than any of the modern Godzilla or King Kong movies IMO, it's almost painful. You have a simply story that is portrayed well, some fresh ideas to make it fun, human characters you can actually somewhat care about and be invested in, and the action scenes are cool and enjoyable. Like, some friends still want to make me watch "Godzilla: King of the Monsters" because "At least the fight scenes are fun", but dude, the entirety of Pacific Rim is fun. I don’t need to sit through hours of dumb humans doing dumb human stuff I don’t care about to see Godzilla do Godzilla things. I can watch something actually good instead. I feel like I have rediscovered a lost gem or something. It isn’t perfect, obviously, but I’m very glad I decided to rewatch it; I had a blast. |
04-03-2021, 08:04 AM | #847 |
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Count me as someone who finds Pacific Rim to be utterly amazing and undeniably fun. Before it's release, I was afraid of what an American rendition of a Toku movie would actually look like, but I was more than please.
I also could not imagine a more perfect director. Del Toro really impressed me with Hell Boy and Pans Labrynth and it really felt like he could do the concept justice. Pacific Rim was a huge hit in Japan too, so it's hard to deny how good of a movie it was. When the "sequel" came out, I preordered tickets and watched it with my close friend group filled with excitement. Oof what a let down. But it didn't change my thoughts on the original and I'll always love it. Pacific Rim is great.
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04-03-2021, 08:48 AM | #848 |
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Me and my brother watched Pacific Rim on Netflix together over summer, and we had an absolute great time. The action is great, but also it has good character work and every actor makes the most of their scenes to lend the whole piece a larger-than-life film, almost fitting for a piece about giant robots. Plus, it has Charlie Kelly and Owen from Torchwood in a surprise subplot.
I know the sequel is meant to be a lot lacking, but is the anme spinoff any good? I was
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04-20-2021, 12:52 PM | #849 |
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Well I sat through the Kikaider reboot movie. That was certainly an experience.
Also it feels jarring to go from a fairly serious plot with hints at something greater to a cover of the original tv song set to a montage of different monsters from the original show. |
04-21-2021, 01:20 AM | #850 |
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My unpopular opinion (apparently) is that Pacific Rim Uprising is actually good, or at the very least a lot of fun to watch. It explores the world in some interesting ways, has some good mysteries and twists, and gives us an actual villain character, all things the first wasn't able to do because it had to establish the foundations of the setting instead.
Regarding the anime, I saw the first episode and it didn't grab me, but maybe it gets better. What I saw seems just fine if you want more Pacific Rim specifically, but if I just wanted to watch any mecha anime there's definitely others I'd choose over it. It did make me realize how much I hate the "begin the series by killing off everyone the protagonist cares about" trope.
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