hikari (etc) πthe logos at the start of this movie have sound this time, even though they're the same logos as the previous one, which did not give them sound. fascinating. so even this is a creative decision
β¦the hell is this 2010's 3dcg mecha b-movie anime shit
this isn't evangelion. i'm not sure what it is, but it's not evangelion. i don't think they want me to think it's evangelion either. the way they use 3dcg here is very different from the previous film, it must be deliberate
naughty pilots get sent to the Organic Compound Electrolytic Dissociation Re-Sterilization Pool Treatment Room to atone for their crimes
a friend remarked to me ahead of me watching this that that this film has nonstop intimacy, almost like the opposite of the original series, and unfortunately we can't tell you how we'd perceive this if we hadn't heard that comment, but boy are we noticing it only 24 minutes in
it feels like a blorboified, flanderised evangelion almost. like yes this character looks and talks like shinji, and this other character looks and talks like asuka, but it's just. it's β¦ unnatural? they want me to feel they're the same, but they're in such a different context?
i know she's not "asuka" because this is "shikinami" and not "souryuu", but like. saying "baka shinji" doesn't make you asuka. it's not the catchphrase that makes the character. i feel uncomfortable
oh wow they actually depict the second impact, and not in any half-hearted way. that's something
gaaaaaaah lines like βyou're not the only one who's got it toughβ (kaji's remark to shinji) really piss me off because they rest on a conception of a character that doesn't feel consistent with the actual world of the film
i don't like the new visual direction in this film, the visual readability and comprehensibility of what's happening on screen is a lot worse than both the previous movie and the original series, our brain can't process what's going on in these action scenes
computer graphics were a mistake
β¦i'm clearly too tired and agitated to reasonably keep going right now. i'm at the 37 minute mark. i'll wind down, go to sleep, and continue after that
it's so tempting to use the word βslopβ for the heavy 3dcg stuff but that's not quite what this is
time to return to the ιγγ‘γγ γγ mines
the way they're still repeating old shots and lines in this from time to time even though it's not even trying to be a remake anymore feels so strange
strange is not a strong enough word. jarring. I don't like it
I think we last (first) watched the first three rebuild films ten+ years ago, so we don't remember much, but we definitely were frustrated that they felt essentially skeletal, lacking the depth of the original series and falling back on presumed viewer familiarity with it
and I mention it because I'm feeling it really strongly again this time. I'm trying to be open-minded, I really am, but it's getting at me. it doesn't bother me as a technicality, it's not critical pedantry, it bothers me because I can't process the world being presented as real
basically this is how it's making me feel
(though mostly about asuka)
the way the characters keep remarking on the fact they're being unusually sociable too⦠it hurts our brain
what drugs do i need to be on to enjoy this movie
the dummy plug entry plug crushing incident didn't land for me, am i just in a bad mood
the vocal performances in this are weaker than the originals, alas
okay the final act is a return to form and i did enjoy that
I guess I can respect the whole trippy bizarro world preceding a breaking point concept
I think I'm going to be unpopular in considering 1.11 to be a stronger film than 2.22
given I complained about Asuka twice, I should add that Rei's characterisation was similarly grating, and she isn't ostensibly a "different character" in this movie. I think Shinji's probably would be too if he weren't so protagonist-shaped (I don't know what I mean by that)
this is a truly insulting comparison so I must apologise for making it, but in essence I disliked Evangelion 2.22 for similar reasons to why I disliked Chou Kaguya-hime. they are both incredibly uncomfortably hypertextual, if in very different ways.
okay that's all I gotta sleep
time to Evangelion 3.333
"N2 reactor" lmao
why am i making posts that are almost thirstyβ
(remembers kanbaru suruga is in our brain somewhere) hmmmm
did we forget we're a lesbian or did kanbaru steal all our lesbian energy and she's just only around occasionally hmmm
i should've tweeted this earlier: Akagi Ritsuko here looks straight out of one of those Deutsche Demokratische Republik Γ¦stheticposts
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the Near-Third Impact made Akagi Ritsuko criminally cool
we're reaching new heights of βthis totally isn't nuclear technology guysβ, they're ejecting what look like nuclear reactor cores and intentionally blowing them up(?)
oh my fucking god they're [rot13]creznaragyl sbhegrra lrnef byq
can't help but compare the Near-Third Impact to a psychotic episode
mari is calling shinji "γ―γ³εγγ" oh my god
that opening act was excellent, I'm absolutely loving this. I was hoping the third movie would be where the Rebuilds would shed the troublesome legacy of "trying to be a remake" and really shine in their own right, and so far it's delivering
they've also refined the art direction and use of CGI, it's a lot sharper and more coherent
this film is visually stunning
the cinematography in this is really gunning for our heart
i'm suddenly reminded of an asexual friend's remark that playing music together is more intimate than sex
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this is⦠subahibi?
this tray-swapping animation and sound is⦠obviously meant to remind you of the SDAT player, isn't it?
I should note re: the Kaworu/Shinji stuff that our outlook on life is once again more on the asexual side of things these days and this is really quite comfy in that light
whoa, Fuyutsuki spells out what happened to Yui directly, I want to say in the original series it's only sort of implied
Mario Kart Double Dash
I love how the quasi-physical interior of the dual-entry EVA unit has these musical motifs in it, reminds me of some of the sequences in Madoka
An die Freude!!!
information-theoretic death!!!!!!
that was great. very excited to watch the finale soon!
currently watching the final movie, 3.0+1.0, irl with two friends. we've never seen the movie before, one of our companions has. this is really really cool. thoughts to come later perhaps
I MUST KILL ANNO HIDEAKI
this is like a 100/10 jesus christ
Cassandrich@hikari Ok *that* puts this show in a new light... π³
Irenes (many)@dalias @hikari oh, yeah, we absolutely take the view that kaworu was pursuing any form of intimacy shinji would let him have... just being a good friend to him in all the ways that nobody else would. it makes a thing that comes later ... more powerful
(edit: sorry, we forgot how spoilers work on fedi lolsob. we're frazzled today)
@dalias Kaworu x Shinji is so blatant in the original series that we read it into it when we were like 16 without thinking about it, and then were shocked when a heterosexual friend who was a big NGE fan didn't feel the same way, haha
@hikari I wasn't speaking specifically about Kaworu, more the themes of playing music in general. It's been decades since I've seen it so I may be fuzzy but ISTR they were there somewhere fairly early in training, in the pre-movie ending, and probably other places.
@dalias oh yeah. Shinji plays a cello in the original series, I remember that much
Jean Hominal@hikari I believe that what the FF7 βRβ games are doing is the same as the Rebuild of Evangelion movies.
In other words, I think the βremakeβ aspect was always a decoy, towards making something that amounts more to a reflection/rethinking - which explains in my opinion why the characters are different.