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03-17-2017, 10:30 AM | #14341 |
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Drive 20:
I laughed way too hard at this. But like many of the more recent episodes, there wasn't exactly a happy ending. I'm very interested to see where all the stuff with the Roidmudes goes, I'm getting (good!) Faiz vibes from the more sympathetic ones. Classic Neo-Heisei mood whiplash! I'm starting to get more into this show, really enjoying most of the characters at this point, despite some of my initial impressions of them. |
03-18-2017, 06:22 PM | #14342 |
Comin' up OOOs!
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Just watched the Brave special and personally I absolutely loved it. Mainly because I love Asakura as a character. I'm currently watching Ryuuki via stream and Asakura's been an obvious highlight of the series, with is extremely primal dog-eat-dog personality and twisted morality. Everything from his pipe to him eating fish raw to all the subtle Ryuuki references he makes were perfect. Not to mention the fact that they really let him go to town with his ruthlessness. Stalking his victims and beating two of them to near-death was something we didn't see all that often in Ryuuki. Seeing it here in an Ex-Aid special of all things was shocking yet super engaging.
Favorite part though was the final scene. The reveal that Foundation X is still active and not forgotten by Toei made me so excited to see what they may be planning to do with the concept in the future.
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03-18-2017, 10:15 PM | #14343 |
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In honor of my Kiva-La figuart coming in I'm sitting down and re-watching the Kamen Rider W + Decade: Movie War 2010 and honestly I'm not enjoying it as much as I did my first couple times watching it. I enjoy it yes but its not as wonderous as I remember. I'm starting to notice all the little things that drive people nuts XD Tsukasa's hair throughout the first chunk of the Decade story for starters
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03-19-2017, 02:11 AM | #14344 |
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Watched Eight Riders vs. Galaxy King.
I've been watching a bunch of Showa movies lately, and for the most part they're really just glorified episodes of their series. The already extremely episodic nature of the Showa era lends itself to this particularly well. That they don't go to any lengths to distinguish them from the show's usual storytelling only makes this more obvious (also, they're on the short side). They're not necessarily bad, but they're pretty forgettable. I can barely remember the first Black movie, and I watched it like, two hours ago. I'm sure I'll forget all about it by tomorrow. It was a pretty nothing movie. Eight Riders vs. Galaxy King, though, was different. Or well, it started off that way. The scale was a step removed from that of the show, the effects were too. The cast of the show was entirely absent from the film (Hiroshi himself excluded, obviously...and I guess Admiral Demon), with a lot of the driving conflict and characters being the film's own (as opposed to most of the others, which just had the same evil organization). And the cinematography was also unlike anything the show, or really any of the Showa ones, ever really did. I don't want to oversell it because it also isn't like it was something mindblowing or anything of the sort, but it was different and promising enough for me to get kind of excited, Kind of ended up being too much excitement, though. Eight Riders vs. Galaxy King had one big problem, by which I mean seven big problems, by which I mean the fact that it's a purely Skyrider movie that had seven other Riders in it, for reasons. What those reasons were, I could not say. When I watched the Super-1 movie a few days ago I criticized it for randomly including the eight previous Riders for no reason, and now I feel like I owe that movie an apology. At least that was for like, four minutes, and not any sort of selling point. Eight Riders vs. Galaxy King sort of felt like it sold itself on the whole "Eight Riders" thing, on the other hand, but well, their inclusion in the movie was no less pointless than in Super-1's, yet it took up far, far more time. It really added nothing to what it would turn out was an already very nothing film. It's difficult to describe just how little having the other seven mattered. It was all for some random fight scenes with a bunch of reused monsters that took up most of the middle of the film. It's just absolute, absolute nothing. I'm having an extremely difficult time recalling it and I literally just got done watching it. And what surprised me most is that they were all suit only, despite the film, again, selling itself on the eight's inclusion. Not that I was expecting all of them to be in it, but I would have expected at least Nigou, V3, or Stronger, since they were the ones that appeared most often in the show. An aside, but I do find it amusing that even back then they couldn't be assed to get voice actors that sounded anything like the characters. I mean, it really isn't like there were that many, even. The actual plot of the film ended up being just stock showa plot number 3. Or 2, or 7, I don't know. I don't keep track of these things. All I know is it's nothing I haven't seen before, except this time there's like 15 or 20 minutes of pointless Rider on kaijin action shoved in the middle. The vs Galaxy King part of the title also ended up being kind of a misnomer, as none of the Riders ever really fight him, and when he does fall, it's just about the most underwhelming thing in the entire world. Not even any sort of final battle in this thing. Movie was also weirdly rapey in a couple of parts, which is also not great. So...anyway, yeah. It started off maybe promising, then a bunch of other Riders showed up for no reason, and then maybe it looked like it could have still ended interestingly, but it didn't. I'd say that represents Skyrider pretty well but I'd sort of be twisting things a bit. Regardless...yeah. Not the best Rider movie I've seen. Last edited by barnstenchfartface; 03-19-2017 at 02:13 AM.. |
03-19-2017, 08:36 PM | #14345 |
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Up through Drive episode 41. The show really has shown better direction in the second half, although it is feeling like too little too late. I would have really liked to see some of this stuff like Banno and the motivations of the Roidmudes gone into earlier so we could get more details. I guess we'll see how it fares in these final few episodes. Probably going to take a little break to tackle the Drive x Gaim, Super Hero Taisen 3, and the Surprise Future movies (since I remembered that the Neo-Heisei movies LOVE randomly becoming relevant at the end of their respective shows). Currently though, this series is looking like it's going to be in the "good not great" category for me.
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03-20-2017, 03:40 PM | #14346 |
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Super-1 29
"What a weird uncle." XIG. XIG, no. |
03-20-2017, 07:34 PM | #14347 |
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Kamen Rider 66
So it's starting to feel like I'm just ripping on XIG, but this Why would anyone ever, ever do this. A few lines in this episode were also subbed as <Mystical Gibberish>, which frankly is not a very elegant way of subbing mystical gibberish. This episode though...I actually was giving too much credit to Shocker while watching it, since I thought they had some sort of complicated plan involving an impostor Rider, but I guess Fujioka just wasn't available when this episode was being made, since he never appeared in person and that definitely wasn't his voice (which is what threw me off). Plan actually was pretty standard Shocker fare. There was one very funny moment in it though. A bunch of monsters charged into the Racing Club supposedly in pursuit of the victim of the week, and then chased him out. A while later they go back to the Club and Tachibana just scolds them, like "hey, get out of here, you already got what you wanted," as if Shocker wouldn't take the opportunity to harm them regardless. It's pretty hilarious. But anyway, in keeping with the theme of criticizing XIG... Super-1 30 I really don't know if it was always this way and I'm just starting to notice/pay more attention, or if their work started deteriorating in quality, or if the ones I'm watching recently are just outliers, but man. The subs for this one were kind of awful. They really couldn't have been more stiff and unnaturally written if they tried. Episode itself was pretty absurd though. These Jin Dogma monsters are as a whole kinda silly, being based on things like glasses, umbrellas and other silly things, who use these things in equally silly (and sort of repetitive, when I think of it) schemes to control people with their evil glasses and umbrellas. But this one has really gotta take the cake. Controlling people with evil roller skates is a pretty novel concept. Apparently the next episode is about evil hairspray, though, so who knows. Maybe that'll top it. |
03-20-2017, 09:06 PM | #14348 |
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So I ended up not watching Super Hero Taisen GP after realizing it was somewhat Black related (don't make fun of my Wikipedia infobox rules for which Kamen Rider movies I watch when). So instead I just did Drive x Gaim, Surprise Future, and the Ex-Aid Brave Special.
Gaim x Drive: Kouta, you are the weakest Space God ever I swear. A good, fun, and silly crossover, just the way I like it. I loved seeing the Gaim cast again, and Kouta and Shinnosuke's interactions were really funny. I also really liked how the Gaim part focused mostly on Micchi and Takatora, I thought that was neat. Surprise Future: Why was this so good. That blew Paradise Lost out of the water, and they even had similar concepts. The plot was surprisingly compelling, and it had some really nice moments for Shinnosuke and Mr. Belt. It's always a pleasant SURPRISE when a summer movie manages to actually be good instead of just good in a kinda bad way. Brave Special: It's just kinda there. I did really enjoy watching Asakura act like a psychopath again though. Also that disproportionate level of violence was really something.
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03-20-2017, 09:13 PM | #14349 |
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So I ended up not watching Super Hero Taisen GP after realizing it was somewhat Black related (don't make fun of my Wikipedia infobox rules for which Kamen Rider movies I watch when). So instead I just did Drive x Gaim, Surprise Future, and the Ex-Aid Brave Special.
Gaim x Drive: Kouta, you are the weakest Space God ever I swear. A good, fun, and silly crossover, just the way I like it. I loved seeing the Gaim cast again, and Kouta and Shinnosuke's interactions were really funny. I also really liked how the Gaim part focused mostly on Micchi and Takatora, I thought that was neat. Surprise Future: Why was this so good. That blew Paradise Lost out of the water, and they even had similar concepts. The plot was surprisingly compelling, and it had some really nice moments for Shinnosuke and Mr. Belt. It's always a pleasant SURPRISE when a summer movie manages to actually be good instead of just good in a kinda bad way. Brave Special: It's just kinda there. I did really enjoy watching Asakura act like a psychopath again though. Also that disproportionate level of violence was really something.
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03-21-2017, 12:07 AM | #14350 |
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Drive is all finished now! The climax was stellar, but yeah, ultimately there is so much that I would have liked so have seen more of earlier on. Like, I really would have liked to have seen more of Banno in particular, because as good a villain as he was he was only around for the last handful of episodes. Similarly, I still think that showing more of the Roidmudes motivations early on would have been a good idea. I liked the more sympathetic approach, but it felt rushed. It's not even that I thought the first half was bad, just that it needed to add more juicy details and foreshadowing. Basically, I think the show's kinda dichotomous first and second halves ended up undermining both. On the positive side, the characters were very good and generally had really compelling interactions, what I generally consider a big strength of Riku Sanjo. Gou might be my favorite secondary rider, I though they took a good route with him, he had conflict with the other riders, but it was all pretty reasonable and had understandable motivations. He was very interesting. I teared up during Chase's death scene, but ended up crying during Heart's death, which got to me even more, so yay, I've cried at Rider twice now. I'm still debating where I would rank it, but I think I would put it right under Kuuga and above Wizard.
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Something I forgot to comment on in this special: FOUNDATION X?! I really thought they had forgotten about that.
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