[FreshToku]

God Speed Love is a movie I like basically as weird popcorn spectacle, which admittedly isn't too far from my general thoughts on Kabuto the series, but the movie is really on a whole other level of 'my brain could not turn itself on for this even if i tried'. There's nothing to the story of this one, but I'd still rank it above the likes of Missing Ace which had neither a story I liked nor distinctive visuals.

Just want to give a quick shout-out to Caucasus. There are technically three movie riders but he's the only one that matters, really. He lacks any meaningful character (they can't all be Kabuki, I guess), but (over)compensates with gimmicks and a wacky performance. I'm not likely to remember much about G4 or Sorcerer beyond what they look like, but I'll always remember this golden bug man and his thing with petals.

I think my favourite summer movie is probably A-Z: Gaia Memories of Fate! Just a really solid and high-budget adventure where our heroes take on a colourful group of bad guys. Kamen Rider Joker in particular is a pretty novel outing filled with cool fistfights all over the place, but it all leads to W's great climax against Eternal that caps off when the winds of the city (the people's cheers) turn to his favour. (Though in terms of over-the-top sentimental yet exciting moments, nothing for me beats the Fourze movie's scenes of handing switches to all the supporting characters and then the sequence of counting down from all 40 switches.)

Favourite movie in general though is probably still always gonna be Heisei Generations FINAL. I love Build and Ex-Aid, I love the nostalgic return of everyone else, especially OOO who got the biggest slice among the legend riders. And the big speech about what Kamen Riders are about at the end might be generic, but it's also perfect to me. (Helps that it caps off with a really stylish double rider kick)