In fact, even the overall style feels different. There were a lot of long, atmospheric shots that helped to build the tone of the series, and here, they're gone. Their sacrifice of quality for the sake of quantity thoroughly destroys the pacing, which, upon retrospect, was a big part of what made Evangelion what it was. The dialogue moves by ridiculously fast, in an incredibly thinly-veiled attempt to cram as much of the series as they can into the space of a single movie, with horrible results. comes to pick up Shinji, and they begin talking as fast as they possibly can. We see much of the scenes faithfully recreated, up until Misato The movie covers episodes 1 through 6, beginning in much the same way as the series did, and ending with the 5th Angel's attack. It may look like Evangelion, it may claim to be Evangelion, but it isn't. So let's begin by making this clear: This is not Evangelion. That said, it is pretty much inevitable that everyone watching this is already a fan of Evangelion anyway. Seeing as how I am a fanboy of the original series of Neon Genesis Evangelion, you will have to take everything I say with a grain of salt. I would suggest the fans of Neon Genesis avoid it. I didn't hate it, but it didn't meet the standard of the original. It does, in no way meet the production quality of End of Evangelion.Ī good thing is probably the art, it got a massive upgrade in the animation department. Also, this was only the first part of the series, I'm assuming that once Asuka shows up in the next movie that I may like it a bit more. generic action series music and a credits song that really lacks the calming quality of Fly Me to the Moon. Another thing was the lack luster soundtrack, they went from classic compositions to But the lack of the long scenes in the from the original anime results in a lack of character development and really just makes Shinji look whiny instead of realistic. This is assuming that you have watched Neon Genesis before, if you haven't then you probably have no idea what I am talking about. I didn't think that I would have prefered to have the long scenes in the anime over having them cut out. So it was really just Evangelion with better animation and the long scenes cut out.įirst the Bad. (Of course, it's not really recommended, seeing how it's the original that was so profound and revolutionary.) After seeing this, I have high hopes for the following three movies, although I am a bit doubtful about the last one. This movie is actually a good enough retelling that a newcomer to EVA can watch this instead of the original series, and will be able to know nearly everything that happened. This definitely will bring back nostalgic feelings from older fans whilst giving something new for them to watch and admire. Seeing this movie was definitely fun to watch, because they basically took the original series, and remade with better graphics, with a few minor changes, so that it's enjoyable to watch without feeling it's the same as the original series, yet not different enough that it strays away from its original roots. Made the movie a lot more enjoyable, as we only seen about 5 minutes of whining, opposed to the half episodes of manbitching in the original series. The sound remained mostly the same, but they did add new sound effects, most notably to the EVAs and Angels, and an excellent new ending song.Ĭharacters remained virtually the same, except they cut out a lot of Shinji's bitching/whining, so definitely a good move. But it was integration of CG into this remake which really stole the light. The human character designs were sharpened a bit from the original, but otherwise remained unchanged. Other uses and integration of CG were more subtle, such as introducing it into the graphs, computer charts, and background. Needless to say, that scene turned into absolute eye-candy. They completely redid the scene with the Angel Ramiel, replacing traditional hand-drawn Ramiel with CG designs. CG was definitely a great move, and it made scenes even better, especially the fighting parts. The original series already had excellent artwork for its generation, and they've managed to improve it. However, they did remove most of Shinji's self-pitying/emo-ing/bitching moments, so it's definitely one improvement from the original series. This first movie covers the first six episodes of the original series, therefore not exactly innovative or anything shockingly interesting about the story. So yes, this is basically a retelling of the original Evangelion in movie mode, and it's the first of 4 movies. I'm assuming that you've already watched the original EVA series before watching the movie before reading this.
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