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02-25-2022, 05:08 AM | #571 |
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But on the other hand... like, thank god there was never a Blade/Hibiki crossover movie. We'd've gotten some contrived reason why Kenzaki and Hajime could team up to take down some Makamou, and split up forever AGAIN, and it would've always tainted Blade's TV ending. I'm literally getting mad just thinking about this purely hypothetical example.
So, yeah, not sure I like it as a bare minimum requirement! But about the Heisei Phase 1 and Phase 2 thing, some Showa fans hate Heisei and vice versa despite the fact we're not even in the Heisei era any more and Kuuga is still a fairly different proposition to say later in the 2000s or after, both Showa and Heisei are quite long periods of time so I would personally at least rather go by decade if I had to choose than just hear endlessly about Showa vs. Heisei vs. Reiwa debates. |
02-25-2022, 07:44 AM | #572 |
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Other than handling final projects lately (and these are movies, so not like the 23 minutes TV episodes), I'm kinda skipping this thread due to actually not following early phase 2 heisei series yet (the remaining ones I haven't watched; OOO, Fourze, Wizard. For Reiwa, didn't watch Saber. 1 episode left for Zero-One this Wednesday), so was kinda following your suggestion to not be spoiled (albeit I know the basic stuff those series has especially the forms, also the main characters in this movie), just thinking on what to do if I have watched those movies - though I also actually have less interest in the movies especially the crossover ones.... I'm starting on the more recent one first (in this thread, as well as something I did watch)
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So, here's this gift I'm given where, six years after we were promised Ankh would be revived, they actually pay it off. Sure, it's for a minute, and sure, he doesn't stick around, but Ankh comes back. And he immediately tells Eiji he looks like shit! (He sort-of does. He is, uh, definitely six years older.) This was a thing that, when I first saw it, meant nothing to me. Now, it means everything. I don't want to say it made this movie great (it didn't, this is a pretty forgettable movie), but it's hard to take too many shots at epic fan service like this.
It obviously would've been better if that kind of moment, along with the Fourze and Gaim and Ghost stuff, had been part of a better movie. I don't know. It's possible I'm being too hard on it. Build is a really good series, and I sort-of expect better from its related content. The villains on Build, in particular, are so richly realized that Bikaiser feels even more thin. He's a couple of cackling lunatics, trying to destroy the world. Whatever. It's no wonder that, while I remembered that Ankh was in this (he came back!), I remembered virtually nothing else about the plot. It's a movie that's great at being a Legend Rider delivery system, but only okay at being a Build or Ex-Aid story. Though, what interests me in this talk is the situation Bikaiser put where how Sento is pushed to do that. Is Sento actually pulling a, quite extremist move to try to save the world here by actually trying to merge the 2 worlds here? (and as Parado stated, it can destroy the world) Is he actually doing something similar to what the likes of Takatora from Gaim did for this part of the story? I'd like for the movie to deal with Sento's (or other Rider's) feelings on how he feels to be pushed to use drastic measures like this, have to cause some damage in the world to prevent actual end of the world, but of course, after Bikaiser was defeated, the resolution is the most easiest one of reverting all the damages that had happened. I do know that Eiji is a wanderer who deals with PTSD from his traumatic experience in the past, war related, and that Ankh is his snarky as well as more morally questionable partner that possesses Hina's brother. Other than that would like for akinoame's OOO analysis to be given a try. Quote:
This also shows the difference between Kuroto and Parado though, that Parado is actually redeemed after Emu's brutal but necessary tactic to get him to differentiate video game's lives and human's lives, like him being shocked on Sento's decision to maximize Enigma's output, while Kuroto is still imprisoned and in the series previously, he's only on the heroes side in circumstancial matter, a case of evil vs evil by him getting revenge on Parado and then Masamune, and happens to be aligned with the heroes (like Kusaka fighting Orphnochs due to racism, happens to be what the heroes doing). Kuroto doesn't care about the looming threat the Enigma gives, only cares to feed his god complex, of which luckily Onari can convince him by... ass-kissing him.
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02-25-2022, 08:44 AM | #573 |
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My favorite thing about Kamen Rider ? as a superhero franchise ? is its finality. Stories get to end, which is more and more of a rarity these days. Each September, a new Kamen Rider show starts. Each August, a Kamen Rider show ends. The series are built to tell one story to completion. A villain?s defeated, a lesson is learned, and a hero triumphs. That?s the in-universe reward, for the most part: the hero can stop fighting. As much as it can hurt to watch Philip and Gentarou and Shinnosuke walk away? they get to walk away. Their story has concluded, and we?re encouraged to feel good about that. It's unlike Marvel or DC where it has the relentless need to keep the status quo, thus erasing character history, developments, or making things just convoluted in the long run. It's one thing to keep showing you what the other riders are up to in another rider's show every year or, say, Kamen Rider Revice ends with "Revice will return in Kamen Rider Shinobi" or something like that, and it's another to have the suit and maybe a few guest actors to show up in some team up movie or TTFC special. That's the difference, I feel. |
02-25-2022, 11:36 AM | #574 |
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That's understandable but maybe then there would be less additional spinoffs people are complaining about and it would have been nice to see to bring it in line with Sentai is all I'm thinking. I suppose someone could always try and edit together a Blade and Hibiki teamup for those that want to see it!
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It's one thing to keep showing you what the other riders are up to in another rider's show every year or, say, Kamen Rider Revice ends with "Revice will return in Kamen Rider Shinobi" or something like that, and it's another to have the suit and maybe a few guest actors to show up in some team up movie or TTFC special. That's the difference, I feel.
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