I liked the first two movies, I wasn't sure what I was going to get when I started to watch them. I knew they were about mechs or whatever but I never watched any of those series.
Basically, I knew nothing. But Evangelion is probably the most famous mecha series out there, even I knew about Shinji, Rei and Asuka, so one some level it's a retelling of the orginal show which came out a long time ago. Which is cool because a lot of television anime don't have any decent animation. It simply costs too much.
With rebuild they can tell the story the way it ought to be. Watching them fight against the monsters (or angels? I suppose) is some of the best scenes in the movies.
Seeing a sea of blood cover the city was really cool :) But when you remake something things will always be left out because of lack of time, kinda like when they adapt books or like now, a television series to movies. This is a hard thing to do but since I never watched the TV series I can only guess what's left out.
But the first two movies are really good, my problem is with the third one. It starts with a time jump which is something I dislike in general. It's not as bad as certain things but it always comes across as a bit weird. You know all those things you learned about? Well, all that has changed now. Here's our new story.
Shinji is left alone, bad things happened because of the end of the second film and he meets a guy that plays a piano. I really have no idea what's going on.
And that's what it feels like, that they didn't know where they wanted to take the story. Did they come up with the ending before they started to do the movies? Are they going to an ending akin to the TV series?
The third film feels like this elevator ride, first stop, fight scene, second stop, angst, "fuck you, shinji, you little shit", third stop, piano, fourth stop, more angst, fifth stop, more angst, last stop, boring fight scene.
I don't want to sound too negative here but I'm simply saying the third movie didn't work for me whatsoever. It's hard to review it because I never watched the orginal anime.
I like the design and the music but ultimately it's a story told over four movies and I doubt I'll like the last film if the third one was this bad.
Evangelion 1-3
I liked the first two movies, I wasn't sure what I was going to get when I started to watch them. I knew they were about mechs or whatever but I never watched any of those series. Basically, I knew nothing. But Evangelion is probably the most famous mecha series out there, even I knew about Shinji, Rei and Asuka, so one some level it's a retelling of the orginal show which came out a long time ago. Which is cool because a lot of television anime don't have any decent animation. It simply costs too much.
With rebuild they can tell the story the way it ought to be. Watching them fight against the monsters (or angels? I suppose) is some of the best scenes in the movies. Seeing a sea of blood cover the city was really cool :) But when you remake something things will always be left out because of lack of time, kinda like when they adapt books or like now, a television series to movies. This is a hard thing to do but since I never watched the TV series I can only guess what's left out.
But the first two movies are really good, my problem is with the third one. It starts with a time jump which is something I dislike in general. It's not as bad as certain things but it always comes across as a bit weird. You know all those things you learned about? Well, all that has changed now. Here's our new story.
Shinji is left alone, bad things happened because of the end of the second film and he meets a guy that plays a piano. I really have no idea what's going on. And that's what it feels like, that they didn't know where they wanted to take the story. Did they come up with the ending before they started to do the movies? Are they going to an ending akin to the TV series?
The third film feels like this elevator ride, first stop, fight scene, second stop, angst, "fuck you, shinji, you little shit", third stop, piano, fourth stop, more angst, fifth stop, more angst, last stop, boring fight scene.
I don't want to sound too negative here but I'm simply saying the third movie didn't work for me whatsoever. It's hard to review it because I never watched the orginal anime. I like the design and the music but ultimately it's a story told over four movies and I doubt I'll like the last film if the third one was this bad.