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Exactly that.
It's Evangelion if Godzilla was mankind's first contact with the angels and we had no fucking clue what to do.
Exactly that.
Originally Posted by Razor Ramon
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Saw this yesterday. Not much to add but it was really good.
You sound like a teenager.
Eva was an adult retelling of the orginal godzilla and the later super robot shows it spawned.
Now who sounds like a teenager?
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This is mostly a great film. The first thing that grabbed me was the use of music or lack there of. Focusing on offices and buracracy focused the suspense like a laser. You knew something was coming, but what?
The buracracy element also gave a rare added bit of realism to the genre. This is probably how this or any other natural disaster goes down.
I also liked that this was handled like a horror film. The locations were kept to a minimum. Enclosed areas were used to keep costs down. The monster was amazingly kept a mystery. The nature of this godzilla was unknown. So much so I was not sure if the first monster was him or what he would fight.
Also this can be seen as a response from Japan to us horror. So many us movies fall back to man being the real monster. The Japanese instead hold it together and almost all of the characters are likeable.
It is also interesting that their is some critique of jp and us buracracy and a hint of pro fascist thought. But that seems to be inherent in super robot anime and it's relationship to male fiction going back to ww2 and prior.
The only thing really thing keeping it from being superb are minor issues like the crack team of nerds or the flat American sterotypes. Very animey in that regard. But both were handled well and not as bad as they could have been.
I'd give it 4 out of 5 stars. I think it is worth watching by anyone that likes good movies.
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