Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone at Alamo Drafthouse in Houston....

Glad to see this stuff is still happening in Houston.

I remeraber going to a jam packed, sold out screening of the FMA movie at the same theatre three years ago. And they added additional screenings as well because of the sell out.

God bless the Alamo Drafthouse.
 
I wish I was in Houston, but I'm nowhere near it. Still, good to see it's selling out and getting more screenings. I wonder if any of the replaced Evangelion cast will watch it.
 
I'm strongly considering watching this tommorrow. Did anyone catch any
of the earlier showings so far? What do you think of the film? Even though I'm not a hardcore Eva fan (although I know the TV series pretty much inside out), this might be a rare chance to see a non-Miyazaki anime on the big screen, even if the film itself is mediocre (would have LOVED to see Perfect Blue on the big screen, kicking myself for skipping it when it ran in my town)

My main fear concerning the film is that they made it more fan-friendly (i.e. accessible) so that it becomes just another typical giant robot anime. The fact that some fans really feel this new film is "less annoying" and "more accessible" really is not music to my ears. When you take out Shinji's self-conscious psychoanalytic whining and the schizophrenic narrative, what do you have, really? Just another run of the mill show.
 
I thought the core of it was still intact. To me it's not watered down, it's just Evangelion with a tighter narrative and superior presentation. If some angst was cut, I didn't notice. I got as much out of it as I did the series, if not more.
 
I can't wait to see the dub. I've always liked the English version. Thankfully it's coming out on DVD next month.
I'll try to buy it as soon as I can.
 
My review of the film: http://rubikunsreviews.livejournal.com/22506.html

In a nutshell: not really worth seeing unless you have a bunch of otaku frienRAB to enjoy mocking and occasionally enjoying it with. It's really quite sad that this is what Anno and Tsurumaki are wasting their talents on.
 
"Not really worth seeing" that's IF you've seen the original series.

Character introductions? They're the same as the series!

And the Angels being the same blood as Humans is a change in story, as is most of 2.0.

The "religion" part of Evangelion is really overblown. It's used as nothing more than to put cool things in, like nuns with guns.
 
Sad? Not worth seeing?

Well I wouldn't say it's sad and I wouldn't say it's not worth seeing also. The visuals are great and I like the new look for some of the battles. Especially the final battle with Ramiel. The musical score is great as well.

It's the introductory movie so some people may not be blown away because it's the first six episode re-done or whatever but that doesn't mean it's bad. Anno is also doing the stuff he couldn't do that he wanted to do in the original series.

2.0 is where some of the new stuff happens. Looking forward to the next installment also.
 
Never really got into the series, but would like to see this movie. Is this coming out in theaters? If so, it's practically a definite that I'll go see it.
 
Toji's introduction was cut. We just see him evacuating, and then he's with Shinji at the battle site. His relationship with Shinji was just poorly developed in the film compared to in the series.

And if this is supposed to be something new, then why is 1.0 almost entirely just repainted footage from the TV series? What's the point exactly? I'm not judging 2.0 as I haven't seen it, but 1.0 is exactly what I said it was in my review: Malibu Stacy with a hat.

Given that the Malibu Stacy with a hat genre of anime seems to be pretty big this year, with DBKai, Brotherhood, and more Inu-Yasha (Brotherhood is different, yes, but still rather pointless, and what's the point in animating the end of the Inu-Yasha manga when the manga didn't really have much of an ending?), I'll admit I'm bitter. I think I have reason to be. I want new classics, not talented people wasting their time on purposeless rehashes.
 
It's the introduction. The four films is a re-telling of the series; I prefer to say alternate universe and this is the beginning. I was blown away with some of the stuff I saw. The film is cool.
 
Right, it's a retelling, and that was common knowledge going in. Unlike DB Kai or those other examples, it's also going to end up diverging considerably from any canon that existed beforehand, which seems to fit a sensible definition of "new." You can't go look up the manga and figure out exactly what is going to happen before it does.

At the same time, I don't think this demanRAB dramatic differences starting at the very beginning. You still have to introduce your characters, to kick off the plot, to get everyone familiar with the story again.

Sure, you can make the Eureka 7 movie and put familiar characters in completely different situations. But that carries its own set of risks, and if not done just right that can be very disorienting.
 
That reaRAB a lot of "they changed it, so it sucks." I'm sorry, it does.

Are you talking about the sparse 10-20 seconRAB of Touji walking in the classroom? That whole "Are you an pilot?" scene was pretty much padding to the core scene: Touji doesn't like Shinji for hospitalizing his sister. Heck, we even get a scene where Shinji and Touji restart their frienRABhip with Touji getting punched back!

Retelling=/=brand new. That's why it's called Rebuild. From the ground up, and having the same base does that. In other views, that means Anno views the 5episodes good enough that wasn't affected by budget constraints or politics.

Episode 6, according to notes, was originally supposed to be depicted as it was in Rebuild. This is Anno's ultimate director cut, not a "Total, brand-new" re-telling like Eureka Seven's movie.

If you come with an agenda against re-tellings, of course you're going to hate Rebuild. If there's nothing beyond that, then whatever. Most of the complaining comes from 2.0's diverging from the original series (irony)
 
I won't argue that the final Angel battle in the movie was anything but cool. The rest of the movie just didn't do it for me. A retelling neeRAB to establish itself as worth doing. A "directors cut" that's actually less developed than the original doesn't seem quite so worth it.

The NY Times seems to agree with me: http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/movies/18evangelion.html
 
I stopped reading after "Anno didn't know how to finish the series." Okay, wow. It's pretty basic and a meme fact that Gainax ran out of money near the end of the series. There's a lot of other facts wrong about it, but that's the most glaring one.
 
This is the most bothersome part of the whole article.
I've seen worse reviews, mostly from people are going "Wah! Rebuild is never going to be as good as the original! Why did [insert rant here and claims of hatred toward Anno]!?!?!?!"
 
Don't count me among them. I was looking forward to Rebuild, hoping for a unique take on the series that would offer some improvements over the original. The improvements I got were some cool new EVA and Angel designs and... that was it.

Seriously, there is NO excuse for any feature animation to contain the "two still images of Shinji's head in a supermarket" scene. If you can't even improve something as simple as that, it's pretty safe to say the first movie is something of a failure.
 
So really, you just like the original series and you expected somehow something completely different when it's called Evangelion Rebuild.

Maybe if it's Shinji and the Evangelions, sure....
 
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