Comments on: Rebuild of Evangelion: Parentheses in (THE) Title

By: wild

wild — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:01:43 +0000

When I first started reading this post, I almost brushed it off as the same rehashing of the shit that drove me so fucking *batshit* crazy the first time around.

But then - “Shinji’s making friends and running away from NERV are no longer agonizingly drawn out and we’re no longer clubbed over the head with the same repetitive ‘AWW THIS POOR KID’ message ad nauseum.” - that might actually make it watchable for me.

So I’ll probably give this movie a try. But it better be good - I loathe the original series with a passion (albeit mainly because of Shinji).

By: Nagi

Nagi — Thu, 22 May 2008 07:10:05 +0000

Everything’s been completely re-animated, as far as I can tell. But I think they re-animated some scenes exactly like they had them in the series because in terms of direction and all, they were done well enough to begin with, and just needed some visual polishing to make the animation feature film-worthy.

By: fluke

fluke — Thu, 22 May 2008 02:07:26 +0000

Evangelion is cool again. It’s got a strange old/new feel to it, I’m not exactly sure how they went about making Rebuild, is it completly re-animated or did they touch it up? I ask because some of the scenes look like they came directly from the anime, but with some serious updates.

I’m always a CG fan so it’s great to see the use of CG in the movie without overdoing it.

Eagerly awaiting the 2nd movie now. I’m hoping that when they come stateside that they all get a limited theater release I’d gladly go find where they are playing.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:54:25 +0000

I’m so bookmarking this post. You pretty much summed up what I thought of the movie - I would have liked to have seen more changes rather than brushing the dust off the old storyboards and redoing them but, as you say, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Shinji’s and Misato’s characters certainly came through better in this one, and both received the most attention too (quite right too I might add, although I’ve always been a Misato fanboy anyway).

I especially liked your speculations about the next movie - I took one look at Kaworu and the Moon and thought “ZOMB! WTF? Awesome!!!1!!eleven!” After an hour and a half of familiar ground it’s good to know Anno and co are going to shake things up in a big way.

NGE was my first *proper* anime experience too so this was pure win from a nostalgia point of view. Here’s hoping ADV pull their finger out and licence it already…I couldn’t give a damn about the live-action version now.

By: Marmot

Marmot — Wed, 21 May 2008 06:22:24 +0000

“…he now makes a super early appearance in the story, popping out of a box and having fun naked chat with the SEELE monoliths about all the nasty things he’s gonna do.”

I CAN HEAR THE SQUEALS OF THE FYGs ALREADY

AND GAWD YOU’RE SUCH A FAGET MAYBE ADAM ZOOMED TO THE MOON!!!!!!!!

ANYWAYS THAT CHICK IS SO HOT THAT I COULD DIE AKDSGJSAKLDGJASLKGJSKLDG

“And by the by, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!?”

YOUR MOM OBVS