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Aug 16, 2021
Evavangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time is the latest installation in Hideaki Anno's attempts to remake Evangelion as a Japanese man who is no longer burdened by depression but instead by a multi-media conglomerate and fresh, warm cash money it provides to him.
These rebuild movies were something I wasn't too offended with unlike some other people, and coming into this installment I had little feelings beyond, "I wanna get this over with, hope it will be fun at least." Am I disappointed, or perhaps surprised at my enjoyment? Neither. I got the package I was expecting. And in the end, that's what makes me dislike
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this movie if nothing else.
There is something that will never stop amusing me about Anno and Rebuild's message of "Stop being an otaku/shut-in/hikikomori/jacobite and start living your life" coupled with the fact that until the very day he is being eaten by maggots six feet under he will be suckling on the tit of this money cow that is entirely being fed by those same people. I'm sure there is a part of it here, about this fact, bothers Anno, which is why he is still taking this message and making it a central part of his movie more than two decades after he made the same point in the original series.
3.0+1.0 says very little that wasn't said in a much smarter, more concise manner in EoE. From it's idealized scenes of rural life, written by someone who clearly never lived in a small village, to the clusterfuck that transpires 2 hours into this vehicle, there isn't a whole lot of juice to this orange when you squeeze it. There are entire monologues, entire scenes here that are just the same shit from EoE, except now overexplained in detail so that if you have a silky smooth brain you absolutely understand everything that's transpiring. Implications and events that are inferred concisely in EoE within mere lines are now entire 10 minute long scenes, so on and so forth.
The ending message is basically the Hallmark Movie version of anime, stop being a shut-in or stuff like that and live your life. Get yourself a big titted girlfriend, which is of course quite simple and was the message of original series as well, but now told with the cadence and intellectual depth of a 55 year old father, living comfortably in his developed first-world gated community, writing the script in his 7-figure house, every as secure as it could be in his life. I'm not exactly going to discredit a movie or a message because it's written by someone embraced by fortune and wealth in life, but there is clearly a difference between Anno that wrote original series and Anno that wrote the Rebuilds, and he can no longer truly channel the same profundity that he channeled when he was rock bottom all those years ago these days. For someone who keeps talking about this specific message he clearly has no idea what it means or entails. It completely lacks the meaning of the original message, instead settling for something that is almost indulgent in nature.
Speaking of indulgent that is a theme in this movie. For all the flashy scenes and animation, there are very rarely movies like this that are this self-indulgent. Billions of Evas rush through our characters as they gun them down with miniguns, giant robots summoning weird energy spirits to eat other robots, so on and so on. It's ridiculous, silly. It is so over the top and stupid that it destroys and sense of grounding you may have had watching the scene. It's almost funny that, for all the budget, all the animators working their A-team here, nearly an hour of action set-pieces does not even get close to the famous fight scene from EoE, not even close to the same sense of gravity and intensity. Such a shame.
Over all 3.0+1.0 is mostly a self-indulgent piece of media that doesn't say anything as deep or important or complicated as it thinks it does, standing foundations built by something that it imitates weakly. It's not a bad movie and it serves well as a popcorn flick, and if you are for simplistic message it is pretty fun. But for me, there was nothing inside the package I got, the box was empty. I knew it would be.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Apr 2, 2017
Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans is the story of a show that tries to achieve so much in a fairly long time, and somehow manages to fall face flat on earth in everyway imaginable.
Second Season starts give or take a few years from when the first season ended. And it carries on the same problems the first season had.
Story itself largely follows McGillis' machinations as he, and later on, Tekkadan, as they look to change the world and make a better one for themselves. In itself this plotline is not particularly bad. The show however, multiple times, takes too long to come to any point, and regularly
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writes itself into a corner, and uses completely bullshit methods to take itself out of this corners, sometimes with hilarity might I add. It spends episodes wasting it's time on pointless plotlines that, in the end, add absolutely nothing to the story.
The main problem of IBO however is it's characters and their development, or lack thereof. For a show that tries so hard to develop it's characters, IBO fails to develop them to any meaningful point. Mika is the same person he was in Episode 1. Orga is only slightly altered from where he was in Episode 1. Rest of the cast is exactly the same people they were in Episode 1. McGillis, who was hyped up to be a cunning mastermind, constantly fails in hilarious fashion, making you wonder if he is actually retarded.
They also have the gall to add new characters like Hush, when they fail to develop the characters they had since Episode 1. Hush, and rest of the new cast, achieves nothing, and at the end of the story, you just sit there and wonder what the fuck was even the point of addind these characters. Some of these characters are there only to further the plot, like Rustal, who has no personality other than furthering the plot. That's it.
There was also the ending, but I'm not even gonna mention it too much. The writers did not have any guts to end on a dark note so they made it so that everything works out in the end without Tekkadan or McGillis' volition. I was honestly laughing and making fart noises with my mouth throughout the entire last 10 minutes of the last episodes. It was fucking nonsensical.
Art and animation is just okay. There is nothing special about it. It's neither particularly bad nor really good. Generally mediocre character designs lack any kind of flair or vision.
Music is a disappointment from stellar soundtracks of Unicorn and Thunderbolt. It's completely forgettable.
Overall, IBO is a show that, despite the hype it has on it's back now, will join the ranks of SEED Destiny and AGE as worst Gundam shows to date, with it's forgettable cast, meager plot, horrible pacing and overall mediocreness.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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