[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

I had a 'Delta is too cool too show up in this movie' ready but if there's a rider worth of memes, it's Psyga. Everything about that guy is absurd. I really liked his last fight with Faiz though, the bit of super-speed vs jetpack and then Takumi cutting through him. Having a giant crowd surrounding the fight definitely adds to the hype. My only complaint is that he needed one more jarring exit line in english...

Psyga? Psyga. Got it.

Anyway, yeah, he was a pretty fun adversary for the Riders. I thought him speaking English was super weird (just looked him up on the wiki; dude was born in Los Angeles!) because it sounds natural, fluent, but also like no one gave him a line reading? He just, like, says words. I hope he had fun?

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

Anyhow, glad you liked it for the most part. I think this film more than most Rider movies, feels like a big, special cinematic experience, as opposed to just a longer, higher-budget episode. Episode Final is still more nostalgic to me, but I consider Paradise Lost to be the 'definitive' Rider summer movie, if that makes sense.

I think "liked it for the most part" is a succinct way of describing the experience. It felt like a long movie, which usually isn't a great sign. It tries to do a lot, in a way that makes some elements (Mina, for sure) feel like they happened in the movie before this one, or something.

The action was pretty great in this one, though. The fights, across the board, were gigantic and impactful. (Not crazy about the big CG monster at the end, but it wasn't the end of the world.)

Kind-of bummed that, after the Ryuki movie crammed in all of Agito in the background, the Faiz movie only has Auntie from Ryuki and a cop from Agito. Boo! Booooo!

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

Is it weird for me to say that it's too bad you still have a little more to look over for Faiz? Because otherwise this thread would be wrapping up with the nice page count of one hundred! I mean, the absolute ideal would be for 555, but can't have everything...

100 pages is still... you guys! You had so much to say about Faiz! I'm incredibly grateful for that. I would've never thought there'd be that much interest in discussing a show that had a not-universally-beloved reputation.

That said, oh dear god I don't think I could talk about Faiz for another 400+ pages. My brain is nearly wrung out of things to say about Faiz. *gestures at Paradise Lost post*