TheVileOne
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Time to get back to work on 4.0 Anno-sensei.
Time to get back to work on 4.0 Anno-sensei.
He is:Time to get back to work on 4.0 Anno-sensei.
Anno also responded to a remark from an audience member saying that he/she would wait as long as it took for the fourth Rebuild of Evangelion film. He first thanked the audience, and then said, "I'll work hard on it. As a matter of fact, I'm already working hard on it."
Just saw it. It was an enjoyable, albeit flawed, film. The first half of the film is very good, with plenty of tension build up and is well paced. The film, unfortunately peaked at the atomic breath reveal, which was beautifully done, but was at about the half-way point of the movie. After that moment the film grinds to a halt as [BLACKOUT]Godzilla powers down and focuses on the humans trying to kill him for the next 40 minutes.[/BLACKOUT] This wouldn't be a problem if it was interesting but it was honestly quite slow and dull. My main issue being the fact there was never a truly satisfying climax. There was never really that city destruction scene like the original '54 film had and instead the movie just sort of ends on a pretty anti-climatic note.The film also had a surprising amount of moments of levity throughout to keep one from getting bogged down with the films tone. The world's reaction to Godzilla was well done although the nonstop political dialogue ranged from interesting to dull. I must also give praise to the soundtrack. Straight up lifting the original Ifukube score was a warm welcome and the new additions were really well done and haunting. The effects were really well done for a japanese production although the movie did have it's fare share of pretty fake looking shots. The new direction taken with Godzilla was... interesting to say the least. The design is definitely one of, if not my least favorite design in the franchise but it's something I was able to get past.Godzilla being able to mutate in order to survive was an interesting idea but with what the ending was implying with him evolving into what appeared to be human Godzillas, is something that I'd be more than happy as a one-off experiment rather than be expanded in a sequel.
All-in-all:
7/10
It had a very strong first half followed by a drawn-out, uneventful second half and an anti-climatic ending but I'm overall pretty satisfied as both a Godzilla fan and someone who enjoys movies.. It's definitely not in my top 5 of Godzilla films and not even my top 10, but I enjoyed it.
Satomi's poor English turning off English speakers is probably how foreign viewers feel about people who aren't Japanese speaking bad Japanese or anything other language. It's interesting how the tables unintentionally turned on American audiences.
To me that character, Kayoko Ann Patterson, is just one of those weird "Engrish" characters from an anime. She randomly spouts English phrases because she's half-English or American, or half-American or whatever.
There were a few characters in the film that seemed to come straight out of an anime.
Just got back, and I was just blown away by the film. As someone who has never been into Godzilla before (even though I've seen some of the newer Toho installments as well as the '98 and 2014 US versions), this just captured me in a way that I've never been before by a Godzilla film. I'm a tokusatsu fan, so it's not like I've been adverse to these kinds of stories, just that I've always gravitated less towards kaiju and more Sentai/Ultra/KR branches of Toku.
I think one of the criticisms I don't get about this film is how the human characters are dull, uninteresting or don't necessarily have an arc. I'm not comparing it to any other prior Godzilla film, but I interpreted the actions of Yaguchi and his band of outcasts, nerds, academic heretics etc. as a clear message from Anno about the importance of working together. (A very Japanese thing to do it seems) Why would they need anymore fleshing out when they have all banded together with the singular goal of stopping Godzilla? Even then, Anno gave them of the more notable scientists little character beats here and there.
There's some cool behind the scenes stuff here and there online since the movie has been out for awhile now. Anno straight up filmed scenes himself with an iPhone and I think that's pretty cool how it in a way captured the documentary-like approach to the film.
I think all the notable female characters in this film are pretty anime-like. Kayoco, Ogashira and Hanamori (defense minister) could slide right into an anime. Akasaka too. Ogashira's quite a hit in Japan though, and I can see why.