[Den-O]

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Originally Posted by Locke

I LOVED the Ultimatum portion and the Wizard portion was...okay, but the complete garbage that was the Fourze portion really wasn't worth sitting through to get to that epic battle at the end. But then Fourze's portion was the worst part about Mega Max, minus the awful pacing and overstuffed nature of the film.

The Fourze portion was really really bad. Inazuman was a completely unnecessary addition to the film and it's just ridiculous that Gentaro would throw his driver away and destroy it, only to borrow the driver from his past self 5 minutes later.

[Matrixbeast]

I loved the Inazuman bit. It was cool.
Gentaro throwing away his driver was actually rather touching. The world lost Fourze, so the kid who became Inazuman lost his argument of "You can just fly in and save everyone." It was an inspiring moment and proved Gen's willingness as a teacher to motivate his students, despite how much he may lose.

Yeah, the rest of the Fourze portion sucked, the freerunning chance scene, especially, but I liked the Inazuman part and Gen destroying the driver.

[Powerman293]

I've decided I'm going to split my time between Kabuto, Blade and finish up Kuuga next weekend if I can.

Kabuto 1-4

Damn, Kagami is an idiot. But not an idiot who can't understand emotions like Shinji, more like a "Shit, I forgot I have to go to work" and gulliable idiot.I didn't expect the epizode with Kagami's brother to be so early in the series. Tendou hasn't shown his dickish side yet but he did troll a bunch of smoking white guys. The action is cool and I want to see more clock up tricks. Also, episodes 3 and 4 are standalone, and I like that, I don't needed more two parters.

Blade 1 and 2

Chalice gets introduced in the first 2 episodes along with Garren and Blade? This is going to get intresting. I do have a complaint though, and I know its gonna sound weird, but I can't tell the damn male characters apart. Seriously, I get confused who's Kenzaki, Hajime, Tachibana and that writer guy because they are have way to damn similar facial structures and hair styles.

[ZeoRangerV]

Decided I should probably watch Kamen Rider Black since I've preordered 2 figures from it.

Have to say, I really enjoyed the first episode. I liked how it just assumed watchers knew the basic Showa Kamen Rider format by now and just focused on the origin stuff that was new. Golgom and the monsters are creepy as hell, and Kotaro seems like a pretty cool rider so far.

Looking forward to more!

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Den-O

The Fourze portion was really really bad. Inazuman was a completely unnecessary addition to the film and it's just ridiculous that Gentaro would throw his driver away and destroy it, only to borrow the driver from his past self 5 minutes later.

The Fourze portion was like someone's shit story on Fanfiction.net, filmed. Wish fulfilment, escapism, they were all cruxs to why Fourze worked for me, but spread out over fifty episodes, it's enjoyable, squashed into fifty minutes and it's just hell. Maybe if they had set it further in the future, or done some kind of build up, but instead I kept waiting for Gen to wake up and realise it was all some kind of daydream. And hell, for all the wish fulfilment it forced into the characters, even that provided little satisfaction for me as a fan of the series since the movie seemed to somehow misunderstand its own characters.

[Matrixbeast]

Well, often, the crossover movies aren't directed or written by someone who worked the series, so it's entirely possible that Ultimatum didn't have any of Fourze's writers or director at the helm...

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Well, often, the crossover movies aren't directed or written by someone who worked the series, so it's entirely possible that Ultimatum didn't have any of Fourze's writers or director at the helm...

I kind of hope someone from the series didn't work on it, because to fuck up your own story so bad...

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Well, often, the crossover movies aren't directed or written by someone who worked the series, so it's entirely possible that Ultimatum didn't have any of Fourze's writers or director at the helm...

The Fourze portion was actually written by Fourze's head writer, Kazuki Nakashima.

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

The Fourze portion was actually written by Fourze's head writer, Kazuki Nakashima.

Wow...

[2ndSndWve]

I'm on episode 7 of Decade right now. And it's pretty darn good.