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11-26-2017, 08:38 AM | #14951 |
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Been watching Kamen Rider Drive, it's really good so far! I'm up to episode 24 at this point, really digging Heart and Brain as villains, though I really don't like Medic. She's just straight up unlikable, and I know she's a villain and that's how she's supposed to be, but she's not even fun to hate like Professor Ryoma from Gaim, or Cancer from Fourze.
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11-26-2017, 11:42 AM | #14952 |
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Medic gets more interesting in the back half of the series. There’s a lot of tragedy at the heart of that character (no pun intended).
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11-26-2017, 11:45 AM | #14953 |
Dai Shogun
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I watched that "Kamen Rider x Super Sentai - Ultra Super Hero Wars"-thingy yesterday and it was godawful. Just complete garbage.
The story makes no sense and it is obvious that no writer involved gave even a single fuck about it. Not even Momotaros made me enjoy this crap. Now, the GoRider-idea is funny, and I heard the web series that follows this up is interesting, but man, this movie is just not good at all. It's so surreal too, none of it is even remotely interesting or compelling, no matter how many old suits or cameos they throw at your face. |
11-26-2017, 02:08 PM | #14954 |
天心の英雄たち
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halfway through Agito.
It's really good so far, and it seems to have a better budget than Kuuga. |
12-03-2017, 06:18 AM | #14955 |
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I watched The First.
It wasn't a good movie. It was kind of a bad movie. It was a weird movie. I spent half of it with a mild grimace on my face and my eyes towards the ceiling. It wasn't a good movie. So right off the bat, it's absolutely, just, baffling and bizarre to me just how much time this movie spends on the "plot thread" (and i use this term loosely) with Haruhiko and Miyoko, which is just beyond extraneous to the actual plot. That shit was just beyond useless and irritating. Definitely some of my least favorite scenes in the entire thing. That scene in the forest or whatever with the red thread? Literally made me want to die. Holy hell was that awful. I want to say the movie would have been better off without all that, and it definitely would have, but it wouldn't really have like, tangibly improved it. Fundamentally, I think predicating so much of the plot of a retelling of the original show on M I S U N D E R S T A N D I N G S and a stupid fucking love triangle is a really dumb idea and basically just cements my opinion of Inoue as a massive hack (does the man even know how to write anything that isn't misunderstandings and love triangles? seriously. fuckin' Inoue.) It's just. Dumb. That dumb purple prosy nonsense shit Inoue loves to do, this time about "muh beauty" was dumb. The attempts at realism were dumb (like the mask thing. making the Riders wear actual masks is such an ill conceived idea. making them materialize a whole helmet out of their asses every time they transformed is definitely not any more realistic than having them fully transformed to begin with). The heavy-handed overt references to the original show (especially the Tachibana Racing Club scene, which bordered on being offensive in how blatant it was about being nothing but pandery garbage, especially in light of how utterly disconnected it is from anything else in the rest of the film. and stuff like the Shocker grunts turning to foam near the end was sublimely groan-inducing. it's the sort of thing that in a different movie probably could have been a fun and cool nod to the Showa series, but it just did not work at all. contrasted to the rest of everything this movie does, it's just so out of place. I have no comment on Shinigami being there though. I can't imagine why they thought it was a good idea, but honestly the other two Shocker people don't fit in any more) were dumb. It was a dumb movie. A dumb, trite, overly long, often irritating, vacuous movie. I definitely didn't like it. But, though I'm being harsh on it, I think deservedly, I didn't really hate it. It's a bad movie. But a lot of Rider movies are bad. Really, a lot of them. It's honestly not even a remarkably putrid crap on the pile. Even as Inoue's works go, it's not bad enough to be worth talking about. At least it's only 90 minutes, as opposed to wasting some 48 episodes worth of your time. And I said I spent "half of it" rolling my eyes, because I felt it got worse as it went on. The beginning portions were...largely unoffensive. And at least the action is generally pretty cool. I don't have any complaints about that. The action was pretty cool. But yeah, The First. Not good. But honestly, I'm not sure where the dark and edgy reputation came from, shit was tame as shit, especially for Rider around that time. Maybe I'm conflating it with what people say about the Next. I'll see what's up with that when I watch it, I guess. Last edited by barnstenchfartface; 12-03-2017 at 06:21 AM.. |
12-03-2017, 06:27 AM | #14956 |
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Just started wizard and when that’s finished, I might do a drive rewatch.
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12-03-2017, 10:35 AM | #14957 |
YABEEEIIIII
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I have also been watching Kamen Rider Drive. Got up to Episode 12 and Mach's debut episode. That is one of the craziest episodes I've ever seen.
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12-03-2017, 12:06 PM | #14958 |
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Quote:
So right off the bat, it's absolutely, just, baffling and bizarre to me just how much time this movie spends on the "plot thread" (and i use this term loosely) with Haruhiko and Miyoko, which is just beyond extraneous to the actual plot. That shit was just beyond useless and irritating. Definitely some of my least favorite scenes in the entire thing. That scene in the forest or whatever with the red thread? Literally made me want to die. Holy hell was that awful.
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12-03-2017, 01:41 PM | #14959 |
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I like the First and the Next but I had no preconceived ideas about it going in, actually I they were the very first Kamen Rider things I ever watched.
I did like it more on the second viewing because I didn't spend half the movie wondering wtf was going on. I picked up that Ichimonji/V2 was actually the same guy/fiance where I'd missed that the first time, he'd just been "killed" and then turned by Shocker. I didn't spend a chunk of the movie wondering what the hell the hospital stuff was all about. I picked up that all of that was a flashback. The love triangle I didn't find annoying as much as in the sequel it's like none of that ever happened and the woman is disappeared. Kind of odd. And I really loved the Rider costumes, I think the helmets are beautiful looking and really capture the look of the original Showa helmets while being more sleek and refined. The dark blue helmet with pink eyes is (imo) really cool looking. There's something cool and creepy about it. ...pretty much the same thing happened with The Next,...I picked up a lot more the second time I watched it. Especially regarding Chiharus character. The fighting and action scenes in both movies are really good and at times just downright brutal. (like when the Rider stomps on and snaps that guys back in the big ending fight of The Next.) They got me into Kamen Rider so maybe I just overlook their flaws. But at this point I've watched v1, Kuuga, Agito, Amazons, W, and am up to date with Build and 1/4th through Ryuki,...so I'm glad that I watched them and they pulled me into the Rider'verse. ..and I actually really want a The First blue replica helmet w/ pink eyes for my collection shelf. Last edited by KaijuUltraFan; 12-03-2017 at 01:43 PM.. |
12-08-2017, 01:23 AM | #14960 |
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been going through a lot of old sentai now that i caught up on drive ghost and ex-aid -i didn't for those because i couldn't get into them but finally did after enjoying build-i don't regret not watching them when i stopped because its not great but i am rewatching wizard -really enjoying it
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