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| It was a very good rebuild, although there were some minor things I didn't quite like. There were some scenes that could have been "expanded", since the movie isn't that big. The "cuts" made it seem like it was progressing too fast. For example, in the beggining when Shinji agrees to pilot Eva almost imediately; or when he ran away and came back in a flash (actually saying he WANTED to come back); or when he punches Toji (he didn't even hesitate on that one xD); etc. I don't know if I like the "new" Shinji yet.. Seeing a decisive and sometime determined Shinji feels weird. I guess I'll wait for the next movie and see how he turns out. The plot is slightly diferent and you can see the author's concern with "explaining" things (not directly, of course), something we did not see in the series. Overall, it was a very good movie with good animation and an improved audio. And the last angel of the movie was MUCH more exciting than in the series (scary, even). :) It gets a 9/10 from me. |
| wow, fucking awesome CG. the remake of the positron rifle firing was simply epic. great all around, 9/10 |
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| Personaly I hated Eva the first time I saw it. But after watching rebuild I feel in love. the CG has made NGE better then it ever was and I can't wait till the next movie. Also so fucking glad they got rid of cruel angel thesis and fly me to the moon, freaken hated those songs. |
| It doesn't think, it doesn't feel, it doesn't laugh or cry..... All it does from dusk till dawn is make the soldiers die. |
| Great movie, but it looks like the new scenes and stuff will start appearing until the next one, it better come out soon! |
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| The main thing I was looking forward to was the new Kaoru/Kaworu scenes, but he got so little time. Well, there are other movies coming up |
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| It was boring for the most part since roughly 80% was copied from the TV series. Until towards the end, where two short scenes were added and the sixth angel fight was dragged out (yawn) in order to make the film end 'dramatically', it was near enough an exact replication of the TV series, with improved art and animation. I was on the verge of judging it to be no more than an attempt to cash-in on overrated series until the changes started occuring. Although it seems like attempts are being to connect the start to the end in order to make it a bit more understandable (yay!), very little in the way of plot details were revealed. Here are some example questions: Why can only children pilot Evangelion? Why is Shinji the best pilot for his Eva? What happened to Tokyo I-II? Why are angels attacking? What are angels? What caused the first and second impact? What parts of the world were destroyed? Why do Seele members communicate through objects? Are Seele part of or above the UN? Why does there happen to be an angel, that Shinji is supposed to be killing, in the middle of NERV? Why hasn't the angel inside NERV been destroyed? ...etc, etc. Like with the TV series, my problem with the movie is that it goes out of its way not to inform its viewers why what happens happens. So little information is provided that it's frustrating, and it was even more frustrating with the TV series because EVERYTHING important got threw at viewers right at the end, when it could've been spread across the series in smaller, more comprehensible doses. Watching Evangelion play out like a standard mecha show for 90% and then switch to brain killing mode is what makes me hate it a little. On the plus side, Asuka will enter the picture in the next film. Another plus is that, going on the ending and preview, it looks like the plot is actually going to diverge. Somehow the moon has got involved in the story, and it seems like angels come from the moon... Unless the TV series left out the tiny bit about angels coming from the moon (it wouldn't surprise me!), this is a big change. A new Evangelion unit (06) is coming to Earth from the moon, and a new female, glasses wearing character is getting involved. I just hope these changes make everything easier to understand and not the opposite! |
AironicallyHumanNov 10, 2008 1:50 AM
| My first reaction after watching it was, "Wow, that may have actually been better than the episodes." Pen Pen could be gotten rid of, he's really out of place. I recognized some scenes as being lifted straight from the episodes (Shinji getting punched, Shinji standing naked in front of Misato (which also could have been removed, the time could have been better used advancing some other aspect that actually matters, which is much more interesting than doing a censorship visual pun (the smaller container says 'toothpicks'))). The glow in the dark EVA 01 armor is cool, but you're right, the scream from the berserk scene is off. It's nice that Rei and Shinji are possibly going to get to have a friendly relationship, and I liked the doubling between both Ikari's burning their hands on the plug latch to rescue Rei. Pretty much on a whole they kept the good stuff, cut the bad stuff, and streamlined everything. I'm looking forward to the rest of the films. |
 Higurashi: Retroactively asserting why scary and cute sound so similar in Japanese. |
| i watched it without the subs! and even then, i gave it a a 10/10. i was proud to be an eva fan while watching it. it also made me think that since i'm about to get a friend into eva, rebuild would be a good way to introducing them to it since it didn't seem like you get all that "i'm so emo, let me go cut myself and then i'll think about maybe saving the city" shinji. although i will re-watch rebuild in the spanish sub by next week, it seems to be great. i loved the extra scenes and i enjoyed the last battle with the angel so much! i have to ask, since i wasn't sure i saw it... but did misato slap herself? O-o; |
| Looks like this has been licensed. |
| I was lucky enough to see it in the cinema with subtitles ^.^ I thought it was very good and cant wait to see the new one in july ;) |
| me like, me cant wait to see the next one. i loved the angel cgi, and the new bits of clips that were added. overall, i think shinji is a little different than before (at least he chose to stay instead of leaving....) |
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| Watched Nyoro~n release. It was beautiful, sounded great a very impressive rebuild. I prefer Eva dubbed so this was a whole new experience for me. I guess I can either wait for a dubbed version of rebuild or just rewatch the original series in its original form. |
| It was basically a recap of the series with a different ending and a few extra scenes in higher quality =/ but it was still good I guess, although if the 2nd movie is anything like the preview this will get blown away. |
| ...That. Was. Awesome. I never really thought the TV-series was all that great, but this movie pretty much got rid of/downplayed all the things I didn't like about the series, (The "Mind Screw"-parts were still there, but not every other second, rather only played at times where they actually felt apropriate) and improved the things I DID like. Also, the animation was great, and the battles against the Angels were just mind-blowing. I mean, Ramiel MELTED A FREAKING MOUNTAIN! While the rest of the movie was awesome too, that one scene was definitely this movie's Crowning Moment of Awesome. ...I can hardly wait for the second movie. |
| The fight with Ramriel was truly epic |
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| The animation was awesome along with all of the fights. Im really looking forward to the next movie whenever we get better quality.(hate camrips -_-) |
| Amazing Re-make... |
| this anime needs more explanations about some things!! but the anime is still good and this ova was great! |
| I don't know what to think. On one hand the fight scenes were cool, but I feel as though the depth of the characters was greatly sacrificed. It doesn't help that one of my favorite episodes at the beginning of the series, number 4, was pretty much completely cut out. It also surprised me that Lilith was revealed so early, that could be interesting in the latter movies. Also, in some ways I like the new shinji but one of the best things about Eva has to be how the viewer is quite literally put in the main character(s) head. But, that was rarely the case here and it bothers me. The last fight was cool and could be considered an improvement, except for the fact that this is a movie and, thus, the theater goers had to have some sort of finality. Whereas, the tv series had an episode the next week and so it didn't really have to be as dramatic. Still, the Eva story was, and still is, really good. Shinji is still, basically, Shinji and Rei is still Rei, and Misato is still Misato. On that note, Misato actually seems to have a much better relationship with Shinji in this movie. Of course, the thing that really worries me is how Asuka will be treated in the next movie. 8/10 |
| "Yes, I have been deprived of emotion. But not completely. Whoever did it, botched the job." - Geralt of Rivia |
| @ moozooh I don't know how you could consider EoE conventional, but that is a discussion for later. But, I think your right about the ending being changed. By the end of this movie(and from what i've heard of 2.0) it's pretty clear Rebuild is going into a somewhat different direction, and that's fine. I just don't enjoy the idea of the characters and basic plot being changed, which it probably won't. It's just a worry. I mean, this was a good movie, but it just didn't feel the same. The tv series had great direction, and I just didn't feel that here. This is strange because most scenes in the movie were exactly the same as the original. As far as endings, I.. think it would be tough to beat EoE. Which, imo, was an absolutely (fanboy like statement alert)mindblowing movie that was executed brilliantly(holy crap). But, this isn't an EoE or tv series discussion so i'll stop there. On the other hand, it's been said that this is an alternate version of Eva and, so, it probably isn't exactly a wise decision to compare the two. |
| "Yes, I have been deprived of emotion. But not completely. Whoever did it, botched the job." - Geralt of Rivia |
| u could jack off at how good the animation looks ima cream my pants if i ever get it on blu ray and watch it on my big screen |
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AdamNougatieri said: u could jack off at how good the animation looks ima cream my pants if i ever get it on blu ray and watch it on my big screen Except animation doesn't make something good. Action scenes and all that crap was never the point of Evangelion to begin with. It was always about the characters and the story, and I think it's somewhat lacking when compared to the TV series. moozooh said: No, don't get me wrong: not "conventional", but "more conventional". Eps 25-26 are pretty tough to digest because they're mostly a stream of consciousness, a peek inside the minds of the main characters without much of a visual supplement outside of flashback sequences. You know that stuff happens outside, but you can't see it (might have as well been a book), so it changes the whole process of perceiving and comprehending the narration. In EoE, on the other hand, the viewer is "outside", in the real world, and is able to see the same giant robots fighting each other, people dying in heaps, giant vaginas opening, christian crosses popping all over the place, and all that glorious imagery, ignoring the symbolic and philosophic subtext following it around as being strictly secondary to the [over the top] visuals. Hardly an uncommon thing for anime nowadays, actually (although, to be fair, most of it became conventional thanks to EoE). In other words, if NGE's ending is "just confusing", EoE's is "first epic and then confusing", and is thus not as easily dismissed. That being said, EoE makes for an enormous feeling of satisfaction (well, catharsis would be a better term), and its the reason it fully deserves the 10 I gave it. All of it is only an opinion, of course. By the way, to be honest, I thought the movies were supposed to follow Sadamoto's original manga (which was only halfway done by the time Anno finished the TV series). But since they're introducing new Eva pilots already in the second movie it seems it won't be like either product at all. They've definitely become incomparable since the release of 2.0. Yeah, i've heard that Eva 2.0 is almost completely different. I actually think that's cool, because then that would mean the viewer could treat the TV series and movie series as a seperate version of similar stories. It would also stop me from having to compare the two; which, honestly, hurt my enjoyment of this movie. I would probably have enjoyed this movie more if I hadn't seen the TV series. Oh, and EoE was freaking brilliant imo. |
| "Yes, I have been deprived of emotion. But not completely. Whoever did it, botched the job." - Geralt of Rivia |
| the series... EoE... anyone read that hentai-ish rebuild evangelion manga? theyve all mindraped us in the past, cant yall just sit back and look at the purty colours |
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| I enjoyed the movie....but honestly, I could do without the fanservice...not that fansevice is bad but I just don't really need it in this type of story. That last Angel battle was definitely epic. |
Alberto said: Terrific remake. Few things were new or change. If I was new to Neon Evangelion , I would probably gave this anime a 10 out of 10, but everything was so predictable and uninteresting. If I was going to choose between the movie and the series. I would go with the movie. It is much better. Everything is accelerated and the quality is really good. My score: 7/10. I agree with the first paragraph and gave it 6/10, 'cause saw TV series only a year before rebuild. It just doesn't make almost any sense. |
| Yes I thought this remake was great. The added CG effects didn't look to out of place. great overall |
BioMax said: Alberto said: Terrific remake. Few things were new or change. If I was new to Neon Evangelion , I would probably gave this anime a 10 out of 10, but everything was so predictable and uninteresting. If I was going to choose between the movie and the series. I would go with the movie. It is much better. Everything is accelerated and the quality is really good. My score: 7/10. I agree with the first paragraph and gave it 6/10, 'cause saw TV series only a year before rebuild. It just doesn't make almost any sense. That's the problem I have. The "acceleration" makes the story go by far to fast, which was never an issue with the tv series. The increased action may fool new people, but most fans of Eva know that the point is most definitely not the action scenes. I'm sorry but i'll probably always recommend the tv series over this movie, it tells the story much better imo. |
| "Yes, I have been deprived of emotion. But not completely. Whoever did it, botched the job." - Geralt of Rivia |
| Good movie. It's about the same as the original Evangelion. Never been a big fan. Shinji is one of the worst characters ever really, I hate him. |
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| this remake was epic! the new animation was great and the music they added made the scenes so cool looking forward to the next |
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| Just watched this movie and it sounded a little bit too déjà-vu. Quite a let down, I thought they would take their own direction till the beginning.. And some parts were too rush... Anyway the animation and the OST were really awesome. I really loved all the fights and the animation gave a really dark and mature atmosphere to the movie. And the choir gave a true apocalyptic feeling especially in the fights. Apparently Shinji was more courageous and self confident in the last part than he was in the series. 9/10 |
HooHiraiBunnyNov 11, 2009 5:05 AM
| good movie,,I hope that they don't mess at the end. |
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| I LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! good movie and I am impatient for the second movie comes out. |
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| I just watched it myself. For someone who's been wanting to watch the show forever I can say from the movie alone that the series lives up to its fame. Definitely buying the DVD when I get a chance to. |
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| Very good movie worth to watch it for evangelion fans only . Shows quarter of the last season |
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| Neon Genesis Evangelion... another name for the best anime ever created... When I watched the movie, I was completely amazed by how the new Ramiel was made, super complex and amazing! I am waiting for Friday to watch the 2nd part, to be double amazed! :D (Guess who's not going to sleep today? Yeah! Me! After watching this movie! xD) |
 "Perseverance is the mother of all victories." |
| I've never seen the tv series, but i really liked the movie, shinji cries and complains a lot, but then i wondered what I would do if i was in his position at that age. We all would of probably been the same as shinji. Driving an eva about a half an hour after you first get to the damn place, and then then you find out that your father who abandoned you has a better relationship with a girl you don't even know. i can definitely see how ones mental state of mind begins to crack under such severe conditions |
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| I saw the original series about 10 years ago and now I rebuild this master piece in 1080p with 6.1 sound... AMAAAAAAAAAZING!!!!!!! 10/10 |
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| Good remake. But I don't like some scenes which take place in the shadow. I barely see anything in those scenes except voice. Anyway, it's enjoyable to watch it again. I will look forward to 2.0. |
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| I didn't like the original, a lot of it because of the characters and a lot because of the second half. They really cut out a lot of the bullshitting from the characters and this was only the first part of the story. Good movie 8/10. |
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