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12-07-2021, 02:20 AM | #51 |
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In this movie we have learned one thing. Ankh is a Douchebag
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12-07-2021, 11:09 AM | #52 |
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I don't know that I needed the movie to tell me that (it's, uh, his main characteristic?), but I sort of appreciated how Ankh selfishly destroys the timeline and never ever cares about the consequences. He's slightly put out by the way Shocker has ruined the ability to prey on human desire, but that's about it. Even the finale is just him going Well I Got These Two New Medals So It All Worked Out.
Also, he completely fights children in this movie, which is great.
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12-07-2021, 01:01 PM | #53 |
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So when I first watch this movie I was still very new to Kamen Rider yet I somehow I knew V3 was voiced by his original actor despite the fact that I've never seen any of the dude work at the time. Like I didn't even register Ichigo or Nigo y'know the ones they were advertising coming back.
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12-07-2021, 07:01 PM | #54 |
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That?s the one thing I remembered from this movie. I love that shot of Our Heroes (well, Our Heroes And Also Ankh) getting crucified in Kamen Rider Plaza. (Not to be confused with Kamen Rider Aubrey Plaza.) It?s? I was very new to Kamen Rider when I saw this movie, and the gigantic thematic swings a Kamen Rider movie could take hadn?t really been made clear to me yet. So seeing a public execution steeped in Western religious iconography was? I did not see that coming! It?s a pretty shocking image! No pun intended! I dimly recalled that this was one of those Phase 2 movies where Shocker takes over everything, and it?s definitely that. (I think the other one is Kamen Rider 3?) There?s not really much to this movie outside of Kamen Riders and Shocker, though. It?s a 40th anniversary celebration of Kamen Rider, and boy do they never let you forget it. Quote:
Like this guy! It?s the return of New Den-O, now with (I want to say) lighter hair. This was my first ever Den-O experience, and I don?t know that I got even half of the premise. I definitely didn?t get why Momotaros could just become a Den-O despite being one of the monster guys, and I think I sort of get it now. I guess those Decade episodes where he became a real boy are Den-O canon? Maybe?
This was a fairly middle-of-the-road outing for New Den-O. He doesn?t really have an arc. (None of the superheroes do in this movie. Hell, not even Ankh learns a lesson, and he?s the one instigating the plot!) He?s put through another brief demise of Teddy, which I think now accounts for half of all Teddy stories to date? Him dying and Kotaro feeling distraught until Teddy just shows back up? But the Imagin are all very fun, and Kotaro doesn?t drag anything down. He?s fine, and Den-O?s always at least fun. Nice to see that cast again. Quote:
And then it?s just a million Showa guys. I don?t truck with Showa, so all them old guys flipping through the air was not what I wanted in an OOO/Den-O film. They?re just there, which is pretty much how the entire final third of the film felt to me. I like Kamen Rider suits and all, but these guys were interchangeable for the plot. It was just more and more dudes, without anything for them to do or say.
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And then the appearance of four showa characters I didn't even know existed because I only assumed Kikaider and Inazuman were anime. And then there's this Pokemon dude named Zubat? But turns out the dude in the show is this super badass guy? Real good stuff. And that's not mentioning stuff like the cool All Rider Break at the very end.
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12-07-2021, 09:41 PM | #55 |
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So when I first watch this movie I was still very new to Kamen Rider yet I somehow I knew V3 was voiced by his original actor despite the fact that I've never seen any of the dude work at the time. Like I didn't even register Ichigo or Nigo y'know the ones they were advertising coming back.
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This is very much a Showa reference. I think Ultraman did it first, but crucifixions were surprisingly commonplace during Rider's early years. Long-running Rider supporting character Tachibana Tobei has probably been crucified more often than the lead actor in a tour of Jesus Christ Superstar.
And that... I know we'll see all this sort of stuff again (Kamen Rider 3?), and we've seen a ton of Vs Showa at the tail end of Decade, but I will always have a bit of a soft spot for Heisei dudes having to grapple with Showa villainy. I'm not as into how much it sometimes flattens the heroes (Eiji could stand to be slightly weirder), but I like the way Ankh kept being a monumental prick, even as he's saving children from the clutches of literal fascist monsters. There's something innately entertaining about watching the (relatively) three-dimensional cast of a Heisei series run up against the cartoonish villainy of any Showa organization.
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12-09-2021, 06:08 PM | #56 |
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I didn't think that much of this movie the first time around, but when I rewatched it in a world where I've also seen Super Hero Taisen, I was very pleasantly surprised by how nicely this one holds up, especially considering it's from the same exact writer and director team that brought us SHT (and the same team as Decade's summer movie, at that.) This one is super simple and straightforward, but like, that's not an issue, and the tone throughout is very fun.
Maybe it's literally just because it was made during OOO? Any Kamen Rider story probably becomes at least 50% more enjoyable if it has a healthy amount of Ankh in it, right?
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12-09-2021, 09:10 PM | #57 |
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It's definitely that! There's plenty of classic OOO teamwork to this story: Ankh doing whatever he wants while Eiji cleans up the ensuing mess. It's tough to have a bad movie when there's at least a couple scenes of Ankh making everything worse for Eiji.
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12-09-2021, 11:27 PM | #58 |
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KAMEN RIDER OOO WONDERFUL: THE SHOGUN AND THE 21 CORE MEDALS
This is a very sweet film that directly addresses the core (sorry) relationships of the Kamen Rider OOO series… and also a very weird crossover film. As recent SH Figuarts exhibitions have reminded us: Yes, this film features the star of The Unfettered Shogun, teaming up with a tokusatsu superhero to save Edo-era Japan from a time-traveling alchemist. That’s insane. Imagine if there had been a Power Rangers movie where the Power Rangers had solved the mystery of the villain’s plot thanks to the help of, like, Columbo. Imagine Columbo helping some teens with attitude in the middle act of a summer film. Imagine ten years later, when Hasbro teased Lightning Collection Columbo. Everything I’ve just said is awesome, and ludicrous. AND YET! Toei and Bandai went ahead and did their version of it in 2011, and it’s pretty entertaining. It’s an entertaining movie, to be sure. There’s a ton of really good fan service in this one. They use GataKiriBa to allow for every single OOO Full Combo to fight side-by-side, and that’s fantastic. There’s a new movie form, the also-recently-offered-as-a-Figuart Burakawani suit. All the villains of the show make both in-suit and out-of-suit appearances. All the heroes take part in the narrative. It’s an All Hands movie. I’m not sure it really hits any huge heights, though. Everything’s there, and there’s nothing I’d really crab about (well, one thing), but it’s still a very Three Out Of Four Stars movie. Solid, fun, but still sort of forgettable. There’s the one theme, and it’s one I really like, but it’s somehow also one that gets wrapped up midway through the film? Using the OOO Summer Movie to tell a story about how the people we love can love us back while still sort of being forgettable/inconsiderate/raging assholes, that’s a great OOO theme. It uses the whole Hina/Ankh relationship as a metaphor for trying to make things work with the people in our lives, even if we end up having to do more of the work than they do. Hina’s in a situation where her brother literally has an exterior that is callous and insensitive (Ankh! At some very high levels of Ankholishness this time out! Entertainingly so!), while having an interior that’s thoughtful and caring. That’s Shun’s story, to a less horrific degree. His mom isn’t around as much as he’d like, and he resents her for it. But she’s trying, and she loves him, so maybe he can try to meet her more than halfway. It’s a little more nuanced than the typical Your Parents Are Owed Your Love And Respect No Matter What lesson some recent Kamen Rider movies have foisted on us, and I’m glad for the thoughtfulness Kobayashi brings to the material. Shun’s right to feel like he should matter more, but maybe he can also cut a working mom some slack when she makes an effort. It all gets wrapped up in a movie that leans on the societal version of family, of all of us supporting each other, but I feel like the emotional component of the movie peaked when Eiji was there for Shun, not when Eiji defeated Bells or when OOO defeated Gara. Everything after Eiji and Shun share that nighttime snack… it was good, but it wasn’t as good. But this movie was more than just new forms and classic TV actors! We also need to talk about the appearance of a Kamen Rider actor beloved by fans, an actor whose charisma helped unite a sprawling cast of young adults… Kaido! (“KAIDO”) Yup, Kaido’s actor makes a brief, welcome appearance as -- what else -- a guitarist whose life gets significantly worse. I can’t imagine why Kaido got cast in a tiny role in a non-Inoue film, but I’m totally grateful for it. Anyway, there’s also this guy: Kamen Rider Fourze! Who matches the screwball energy of Kamen Rider OOO so perfectly, that it reminded me why W/OOO/Fourze (“WOOOF”) is maybe my favorite streak of series in the franchise. Like, Fourze feels like an evolution of what Heisei Phase 2 was trying to do, not a pivot away from it or a boring retread. It’s taking the Feuding Superhero Dynamic of Ankh and Eiji, but blowing it up to a whole roster of teen archetypes. It’s a lead character who is open and generous, who is living Eiji’s previous sentiment that Riders Should Help Each Other. Everything about Fourze’s slapstick sequence in this film is adorable, and it’s a terrific introduction to one of my favorite lead actors. Which is not to take away from the OOO team, of course. There’s some stuff that feels a little tacked on here (I don’t… I’m not sure why the cast needed to spend the middle third in an Edo-era crossover?), but it’s still a pleasant viewing experience at worst. I don’t love this movie, but I had a fun time watching it. I feel like I’ve said that before! And I’ll probably be saying it again!
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12-10-2021, 12:06 AM | #59 |
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I have nothing to really say on this movie other than I really liked the ending sequence utilizing Gatakiriba to it's mostly fullest potential. Yeah turning into the OOO Army of Combo's is cool. But that means we don't get to see Gatakiriba physically at the same time for an extended period of time.
(The fullest goes to the stageshow where they bring out 8 suit actors in Gatakiriba suits to bumrush the stage which I will provide an example of.) Anyway let me tell you about how Tokugawa Yoshimune is the second worst character in the Battride War Series of games. His entire gimmick is all he can do is sword slash, but if you do a special slash you build a meter that gives you super slashes. Problem is every slash you do a camera cut and a slight pause. And that's annoying in a Musou styled game. Also he uses a horse which is one of the worst mounts in the game next to Kiva and Hibiki's chonky bikes. Now who is the worst playable character? Hongo disguised as a Shocker Grunt, if I recall all he gets is a weak chop, a salute stomp attack... and that's it. Thankfully they're only playable in certain areas in their respective games but yeah. |
12-10-2021, 12:11 AM | #60 |
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Anyway let me tell you about how Tokugawa Yoshimune is the second worst character in the Battride War Series of games. His entire gimmick is all he can do is sword slash, but if you do a special slash you build a meter that gives you super slashes. Problem is every slash you do a camera cut and a slight pause. And that's annoying in a Musou styled game. Also he uses a horse which is one of the worst mounts in the game next to Kiva and Hibiki's chonky bikes.
Now who is the worst playable character? Hongo disguised as a Shocker Grunt, if I recall all he gets is a weak chop, a salute stomp attack... and that's it. Thankfully they're only playable in certain areas in their respective games but yeah. Tell me that wouldn't make Heisei Vs Showa, like, at least eight percent cooler.
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