[LeviathanBlossom]

God Speed Love has the distinction of being the first Kamen Rider film I actually got to see in the theater, so I have a soft spot for it. (And also a nifty little card holder thingy that has had a Suica card in it for, uh. Almost 15 years. It sits on a shelf now, because Kamen Rider promotional items are not always well made and I would like for it not to fall apart due to overuse.) I want to join the camp of appreciating how amazing it looks - it is visually spectacular and I will occasionally go back to it for that alone.

Nostalgia and visuals not withstanding, I really enjoy AUs in the canon-divergence flavor; I think some really great character exploration can be done by altering the setting and looking at how characters might change. Experience is a huge part of building character and personality, so when the experiences that make a character who they are don't happen in the new canon, how does the character develop differently?

Which is a bit of a roundabout way of saying I can see why the creative team went for a different setting and different versions of the characters. I don't think they did it well; it's really hard to see what might have led to the characters we see on screen coming out of the people we know and love from the show. Which is a more roundabout way of saying that it's a concept that I really love but I found the execution disappointing.

I do have some new appreciation, given Fish's take on the bleakness providing a deliberate contrast to the joy at the end, instead of just being grimdark for the sake of being melodramatically grimdark.

I always did love the rose bit, though.

As for other Kamen Rider movies, because today apparently I'm just going to talk a lot I tend to have generally positive feelings about them (Hell Yes OOO In Generations Final, for example, and the Wizard movie was super fun, and there were multiple Den-Oh movies I enjoyed, and I could do this literally forever) but since I also really love time loops, I am the only person I know who liked the Kamen Rider 4 special for Drive It is my go-to for warm fuzzies or just to relax for a bit with something I don't have to think too hard about. There is no good reason for this, except time loop, lol

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

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