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12-10-2021, 08:48 AM | #61 |
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Back to back, these are two of my favourite Kamen Rider movies; and my impressions of both only got better on a recent rewatch!
Let's Go Kamen Riders is, for me, entirely a bit of fun -- which good, because that's all it's trying to be! Yonemura seems a strange writer choice for a movie that's ostensibly a crossover between two Kobayashi shows, but the reason becomes clear: he is unabashedly in love with Showa Rider. The entire thing is a love letter to it, wonderfully blending the undertones of a lonely fight against a fascist empire; and also through the Kamen Rider Scouts just embracing how absolutely stupid and batshit the entire show actually was! The scouts are actually my least favourite part of the original show but this movie is fighting to make me love them and... and it just about succeeds! It's a fun, joyous romp; and it probably is not doing much to endear itself to someone who isn't a huge Showa fan, but in terms of 'fun anniversary crossovers', this is absolutely the best one to me and I will never get enough of Momotaros ripping up Shocker grunts in the past left and right for no reason. Just a great movie OOO Wonderful on the other hand captures OOO's themes in ways that I found the series itself lacking in at times. It's something funny I've found on my OOO rewatch; the series has a lot of high points but so so so much in the middle is just very bland or forgettable... which means that movies, with their condensed runtimes, are able to cut out all that and just get right to the good stuff! One very obvious exception at the beginning excluded, of course. OOO Wonderful stands out to me for its very blunt, proud declaration of its themes of coming together and reaching out to each other; the scene where Eiji goes "you're letting me take my family with me? Well everyone is my family!!" is perhaps a very obvious twist but... man. MAN it gives me chills each time, it's straight up one of the best OOO moments to me. Alongside that you've got the excellent Shun subplot, Ankh and Eiji getting some great moments, a bunch of form fanservice, the Fourze cameo, an absolutely batshit crossover idea that if anything furthers those themes of reaching out by being between two things you'd never have expected to join up in a billion years? Yeah, this kinda has everything! One of the best summer movies for me, hands down
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12-10-2021, 08:58 AM | #62 |
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I didn't dig OOO Wonderful as much as you did, but I absolutely agree that this Summer Movie really encapsulated what the show was trying to talk about. There's not really any fat on it? It's a lean experience, tossing in just about everything you'd want an OOO movie to include.
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12-10-2021, 09:31 AM | #63 |
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Overall I felt the movie was just okay. Its very blatant continuity problems bugged me, especially given how it outright ignores character development in the show itself(Why is Uva even here, given when this movie supposedly takes place?). But man, that climax is awesome and I'll never not love it.
As for OOO itself, man. I watched it right after W, and it's a weird show. Like, a really weird show, even by Toku standards. But that's also kinda what made me love it so much? It's a show that embraces just how out there it is, kinda like the first half of Blade. Add onto that some really well done characters(Date aside), and a main hero who I realted to alot? Yeah, it's was easy to choose OOO as my second favorite Rider season.
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12-10-2021, 10:32 AM | #64 |
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I always liked the 40th anniversary Let's Go Kamen Riders movie, if it's actually unpopular then that's disappointing!
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12-10-2021, 10:41 AM | #65 |
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Lightning Collection Columbo sounds pretty sick, not gonna lie.
Oh, this is a Kamen Rider thread? I'll be back when we hit Wizard and I have knowledge to stand on
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12-10-2021, 09:56 PM | #66 |
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Overall I felt the movie was just okay. Its very blatant continuity problems bugged me, especially given how it outright ignores character development in the show itself(Why is Uva even here, given when this movie supposedly takes place?). But man, that climax is awesome and I'll never not love it.
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12-10-2021, 10:20 PM | #67 |
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The things I remember most about Let's Go Kamen Rider 1) They actually got Nigo's actor back to do his voice. 2) The Double Riders suddenly laughing at Shocker when they reveal they're not brainwashed. 3) Ichigo and Nigo are now able to defeat a Kaijin they previously weren't able to because...justice? 4) Owner introducing all the Kamen Riders. 5) The Rider Break Finisher into the Kamen Rider logo. 6) Birth showing up with all the Secondary Riders to support the Main Riders and acknowledge they're a thing.
It was so random for me when some actor from a notable period drama turned up in a Kamen Rider movie, in-character, and we just kind of roll with it. Like, the actor is fine, I can kind of get into the characters' premise from what I see in this movie, but it just seems so random. But of course Toei just loves using their old Edo sets. The Gatakiriba Combo into all the OOO forms was pretty obvious in hindsight and shown off a lot in the trailers, but my main takeaway was seeing TaToBa actually use it's Finisher and not only connecting but succeeding, even if it was just joining a bunch of other Finishers. But still! |
12-10-2021, 11:21 PM | #68 |
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The Gatakiriba Combo into all the OOO forms was pretty obvious in hindsight and shown off a lot in the trailers, but my main takeaway was seeing TaToBa actually use it's Finisher and not only connecting but succeeding, even if it was just joining a bunch of other Finishers. But still!
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12-11-2021, 12:51 PM | #69 |
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(Also worth noting is that Kobayashi got picked to write that show specifically because she's apparently a fan of period dramas, so that might go a little ways towards explaining why her Riders keep winding up in the middle of them.) OOO had a real good summer movie. While I would insist that everything in OOO was already the good stuff, I can't put it any better than Kurona did. It's OOO, so there's literally nothing wrong with it, and I've also liked it more every time I've seen it. Double's movie was amazing because of that unprecedented level of Sakamoto adrenaline, but OOO goes for a really thoughtful, gentle sort of vibe (relatively speaking, when there's still plenty of fun action), and that's great in its own right. I was also reminded recently that the tagline for the double feature with Gokaiger was literally something like "Heroes bring cheer to Japan!", which gave me a new appreciation for why it might have the tone and message it does. This movie was released in the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake, and I'd imagine that, just like the Rider who makes his debut here, the direction of it was influenced by that to some extent. I've described this as an especially "feel-good" kind of movie before even making this connection, so with it in mind, yeah, I think this a real nice film! Hard not to love a Rider flick that ends with a catchy samba jam about holding hands! OOO, balancing its use of various forms perfectly? What a surprise!
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12-11-2021, 02:45 PM | #70 |
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I was also reminded recently that the tagline for the double feature with Gokaiger was literally something like "Heroes bring cheer to Japan!", which gave me a new appreciation for why it might have the tone and message it does. This movie was released in the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake, and I'd imagine that, just like the Rider who makes his debut here, the direction of it was influenced by that to some extent. I've described this as an especially "feel-good" kind of movie before even making this connection, so with it in mind, yeah, I think this a real nice film!
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