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Just gave Kamen Rider Taisen a rewatch.

Well, what's stupid is stupid, and this movie is exactly that, especially the end. That being said...I kinda enjoyed it this time around? Which is really the last thing I ever expected to say about this movie, considering how much I disliked it the first time around.

But I guess having more familiar faces just helps. When I first watched it almost two years ago (time, where did you go???) I was still pretty new to this whole Rider thing. Gaim aside, I'd only watched Ryuki, Blade, Drive up to that point and like 43 episodes of the original show and 6 of X. Not really anything that would help give KRT much substance (even though the main Riders of the latter two were in it). Since then, though, I've finished like...eleven of the shows that came before it? So there were a lot more suits I recognized/had any sort of attachment to in the mix, and it was just a lot more fun.

Specifically, the stuff with Takumi was very enjoyable, which is a good thing, because that's the only reason I watched it. Dubious canonicity aside, it was fun. Though man, his voice got deep.

(and jesus i had forgotten how awful the sound mixing was in this movie).

Probably would have enjoyed it even more if I'd watched Decade or W, but eh. In time.

It was still not a good movie or anything, and the Sentai stuff and the entire last fight were unnecessary, but eh. I don't feel like I wasted the time I spent watching it, so that's good.

But man, I haven't absolutely hated any of the last like three or five Rider movies I've seen, I think I may just be developing stockholm syndrome or something because that's just unnatural.