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Kamen Rider Die rewatches Legend Rider projects (and more!)
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Setting aside that this is all yet another We Secretly Fought To Trick The Villains bullshit plot, the Showa Riders almost all come off as colossal pricks in this movie. (X largely escapes the massively unsympathetic portrayal the other old guys get saddled with, but he still ends up being a violent jerk to Takumi for half the film.) The tension it seems like the movie is going for - Showa guys bravely confront their pain while Heisei guys let it consume them - instead comes off as glowering old guys threatened by modern versions of masculinity. Like, Takeshi Hongo immediately says that Kouta is too weak to be a real Rider! IMMEDIATELY!
It?s how he?s introduced to a new generation of Kamen Rider fans!
As a dude who is telling the star of the movie that he?s too soft!
And it's total bullshit, too. Black spent half of his series moping about his lost brother and my very favorite moment from X is when the AI modeled after X's dad blows itself up because it thinks X has become too attached to it (this is, by the way, approximately 2 minutes after they meet and it takes X's cool underwater base with it).
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And, y?know, I?d like to write that type of negative interaction off as a ruse, the Showa plan to draw out Badan? but then at the very end of the movie, all of the Showa guys go No, We Actually Do Think All Of You Heisei Guys Are Weak.
So I straight up love this movie right up until this point. This is the exact moment where you can tell that someone at Toei said "we should have a movie where the Showa and Heisei Riders fight each other!" and Yonemura obviously had no idea how to work that in organically. It is so blatantly forced, half-assed, and tacked on to what I felt was an otherwise enjoyable movie. The ending of the fight was also decided by a fan vote, which means that there's an alternate ending where Gaim is about to finish off Rider 1, then has a change of heart because of something stupid.
Up until that, though, I am all in on this movie. I really enjoyed the way that it worked in the guest stars, especially with Tsuakasa serving as kind of the marshal of the Heisei Riders. I also like the idea that trying to get the Heisei Riders together is like herding cats while the Showa Riders are much more cohesive as a unit. Shotaro was as fun as always and made a great foil for Kaito. We also got Shun Suguta as Kamen Rider ZX for literally only the second time ever.
My favorite part, though, was the Takumi/Keisuke stuff. It didn't really fit with the show version of Takumi, but I loved seeing the two characters from different eras interacting with each other in ways that weren't just fighting. Even with both being a bit off-model, I'd have loved to see more of this pairing. It also gave us the Haruto cameo, which I love because a) Haruto and 2) it does a much better job than normal of selling the idea that these are all the actual Riders, even though very few of them are ever out of suit.
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