Peak cinema, actually.
End of Evangelion is a great film, but not as someones first Evangelion film. I call it the “angry” film, whereas 3.0+1.0 is the “accepting” film. EoE felt like Anno was frustrated with Evas audience (because he was lol), and 3.0+1.0 feels like he has finally accepted the situation.
You don’t start a movie with an 8 minute uninterrupted scene where the audience surrogate masturbates to completion over a comatose girl without having something to say. To paraphrase Folding Human.
Not with that attitude.
Diabolical
I mean, they included images of vandalism on the Gainax offices and various depictions of death threats/ angry letters they receieved in the live-action part of the film, so its clear Anno and Gainax weren’t exactly happy with how the audience was treating them. Rightfully so, IMO.
Pictured below: a simulated screenshot of an email which flashes on the screen in EoE which translates to
Anno, I’ll kill you!!! Anno, I’ll kill you!!! Anno, I’ll kill you!!!
You have no idea how nice it is to talk to a fan who isn’t an EOE apologist. I talk about Eva a lot and the current crop of fans spend so much time trying to force the end of the show and the movie together. They end up cutting all the vitriol out of their interpretations, and that in my opinion diminishes the actual point of the film.
What is an EoE apologist?
I think EoE is a great film, and serves its purpose in providing an alternative ending to the TV show, while communicating frustration from the team that worked on it. I consider it a masterpiece in anime film up there with the likes of AKIRA, Princess Mononoke, and Perfect Blue. I like the film equally as much as I like Thrice, but they are both different.
I also really liked Thrice’s soundtrack, Hooked on the Last Train, Pillars of Faith, and Gravestone Without A Date (from Bye Bye Jupiter, 1984) were my favorite songs. On the other hand, EoE’s Komm Susser Todd is perfectly fitting almost as an antithesis of Thrice’s Gravestone Without A Date. I won’t lie, I was a little disappointed initially that Komm Susser Todd didn’t return, but Gravestone Without A Date does have musical references to it, which is a nice touch.
They didn’t have to do Misato like that in Thrice’s ending though.
I was EoE years ago and I still consider it a masterpiece. Rebuild on the other hand I only watched two the rest I couldn’t bother.
What even is NGE?
I watched a little of this series and my conclusion is it was made by someone who woke up on a farm after a bender and took a half-eaten bible from a goat and decided to use it as source material for what was originally a fairly standard mecha show
Sush. Don’t say things like that or they’ll make the characters in anime explain their every single thought or decision, even in mid battle.
lol this is the funniest response one could think of
