Why I say this, you might ask? Well, because like Shin Kamen Rider this is a remake of a first iteration - the original 1954 Gojira movie - just with stuff added from your typical later period Hideaki Anno gallery of depressed main male character as an outdated depiction of him (the protagonist being a 100% regurgitation of Shinji Ikari from Evangelion), garbled statements that don't mean nothing outside showing how Anno is cool (the whole stuff about the military), a bunch of fake religious innuendos taken from Ultraman and on and on and on. Stuff that I imagine being present already in the previous Shin Gojira movie (that I have not watched) like they were present in the awful Shin Kamen rider, so I guess that's where the influence came from. This said, since I don't particularly like later Hideaki Anno, my enjoyment of the whole thing was sufficient but not much else, even if I'm used to tokus being remakes of previous iterations (take my favourite Toku Superhero IP Ultraman as an example). I'd rather rewatch the original 1954 movie than watching this disappointing (disappointing because I had no idea the worst tendencies of Hideaki Anno had such an impact on the japanese entertainment industry) affair again.
P. S. I sincerely don't get all people raving that this shows the creativity of the Japanese Vs. The current comatose state of Hollywood. This is as creatively discouraging as an MCU movie IMHO.
P. S. I sincerely don't get all people raving that this shows the creativity of the Japanese Vs. The current comatose state of Hollywood. This is as creatively discouraging as an MCU movie IMHO.
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