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02-14-2014, 10:44 AM | #1 |
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I'm sorry in advance if there is already a thread like this out there, but I've been wanting to talk about something I noticed.
See, for those of you who have been on Tumblr for awhile, you may know that when the original Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared video was going around, we seemed to develop a "We don't talk about DHMIS" policy. Or rather, a meme saying that we aren't allowed to talk about it. And awhile ago, before I was really involved with Kamen Rider, I learned that Masked Rider was being adapted from an 80s (granted a LATE 80s) Kamen Rider season and I asked myself why they didn't use the season that was on the air at the same time as Zyuranger or Dairanger...then I found out about something called Kamen Rider Shin, which was released the same year as Zyuranger began airing. Yikes, that henshin scene was something else on the first viewing. From what I've gathered, Shin was not a very well received movie, even by the adult fans it was aimed at due to it's dark tone, coupled with the unexpected levels of violence and gore. Hell, I recall an episode of OOO that parodied Shin. No one on these boards seem to address Shin at all, or talk about the movie in these forums (Not from what I've seen.), much like how Tumblr tried to refrain from talking about DHMIS. Just wait until they make a sequel movie for Shin and introduce a new mutant Rider. THEN the floodgates for Shin discussion and fanart with open. Last edited by MagiRed; 02-14-2014 at 10:49 AM.. |
02-14-2014, 10:45 AM | #2 |
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First Rule of Tokunation: Don't talk about Shin
Second Rule of Tokunation: DON'T TALK ABOUT SHIN! Third Rule: I'm out of rules already
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02-14-2014, 10:55 AM | #3 |
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Talk about Shin all you want! I love that gruesome looking bastard, he's one of my favorite designs actually. Just a really beastly organic rider. The movie may not be amazing, but it was mainly so poorly received by kids because of it's very adult themes and almost horror movie aspects. It's fun for what it is, no one will ever call it a masterpiece, but I like it.
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02-14-2014, 11:00 AM | #4 |
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I honestly wish they was a continuation to it because it definitely felt unfinished. Would have been a great start to a series instead of a movie. Honestly all three of the Movie Riders would have been amazing series.
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02-14-2014, 11:07 AM | #5 |
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It was supposed to be a movie prequel for a new ongoing television series. But because of it's heavy adult & horror themes it didn't test well with kids who expected Kamen Rider to be more heroic. And it didn't test well with veteran fans because it was much more savage and dark than the rider stuff they grew up with. Add to that no kind of toys aside from vinyls and you have nothing marketable to work with. I'd have LOVED to see a Shin series, but alas that will never happen.
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02-14-2014, 11:09 AM | #6 |
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To me it reminds me of the MMPR fan film or the Green Ranger film. There taking a childhood hero and turning it into something dark and gruesome. And I cant stand when they do that.
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02-14-2014, 11:14 AM | #7 |
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There's nothing stopping you from talking about Shin.
No one here talks about it because it just wasn't a good movie.
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02-14-2014, 02:41 PM | #8 |
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OK, now I feel like throwing up.
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02-14-2014, 02:41 PM | #9 |
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I love Shin (I mean just look at my icon) based solely on the fact that, like Den-O, I adore his design.
You have a franchise made up of heroes in suits who do devastating kicks all in the name of justice and then you have this one hero who's basically a monstrous grasshopper who deals with evil by ripping their heads off with the spine still connected. I honestly wish he was used more in the fiction other than just showing up on the Showa Rider's side. I believe that Kamen Rider manga from a while back used him but I don't know how much.
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02-14-2014, 02:46 PM | #10 |
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See and I absolutely love that suit. It''s the most grotesque interesting henshin of any rider, a bit over the top, but ti's very much like the INcredible Hulk. Shin was literally made into a monster. Shin had some real tormented depth to his character that could have easily driven a TV series. It takes the whole forced cyborg thing to entirely new levels.
If they had just dialed back the gruesome during his transformation using some cutaways or something, they could have made it work for TV.
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