Neon Genesis Evangelion - The End of Evangelion
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Movie Reviews of Neon Genesis Evangelion - The End of Evangelion
Movie Review: The Most Beautiful Thing I've Ever Seen
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is the most incredible thing I've ever seen. It's just too beautiful, too terifying, too deep, that its beyond anything ever made. I've seen this movie at least 10 times, and every time I have seen it I've noticed new things and felt the same waves of emotions run over me. This is a movie for the ages, and the best ending to the series, in my opinion, though due to the Rebuild of Evangelion movies, there will be a completely new ending, so you never know! But this movie will always have a place in my heart as a sick, twisted, gory, terrifying, majestic, gorgeous, tear-jerking, thought provoking, and deep masterpiece. Movie Review: Great Ending
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie brings it all together. They did a great job to end the series. I loved it.Movie Review: A review of the DVD, not the film itself
Summary: 2 Stars
I threw in this DVD tonight because I'm about to show it to a friend and I wanted to see how it would look on my new tv. Wow...a truly horrible release from Manga Entertainment.
If you own a widescreen TV and plan on watching this with subtitles good luck because when you zoom the image the subtitles are cut off due to this not being an anamorphic release.
If you plan on watching this dubbed be prepared for some pain even if you've been watching the dub of the TV show. Important actors are gone, technical terms are mispronounced, and lame sound effects are added because the ADR director thought it would be a good idea. It's unwatchable if you are at all accustomed to the TV dub.
For the apparently legendary amount of money Manga paid for the domestic rights to this they sure managed to make it one of the most sloppy DVD releases in their catalog. I can't imagine the rights lapsing even though this DVD is out of print so you may want to find another way to see this film.
Movie Review: The greatest thing ever created
Summary: 5 Stars
Where do I begin?
How do I begin?
It's extremely hard to describe how I feel about this film... And I know I won't be able to express my feelings about it. There is no way I can do it justice, so I will keep this brief. I will say that it is the deepest, most moving thing I have ever seen. (And maybe will ever see).
A review on Imdb said "EoE delves into the deepest, darkest human emotions" This is probably the shortest yet most fitting way to describe it. Hideaki Anno (the anime director and creator) put it as;
"'Eva' is a story that repeats.
It is a story about understanding self existence and self worth in the eyes of others and ourselves.
It is a story where the main character witnesses many horrors with his own eyes, but still tries to stand up again.
It is a story of will; a story of moving forward, if only just a little.
It is a story of fear, where someone who must face indefinite solitude fears reaching out to others, but still wants to try." --Anno
Much of the psychological aspects of the anime are based on Anno's real life experiences with clinical depression. It is important to look beyond the fictional characters when watching Eva. You need to realise what they are going through is what Anno went through and is what other people are going through in real life.
And don't be fooled by first appearances; this is NOT just a cookie cutter mecha-anime. Giant robots are to Evangelion what Fighting is to the film "Fight Club".
I honestly believe that Anno deserves a Nobel Prize for this. I have read the work of many Nobel Prize winning writers, and none of it has come close to matching EoE in any way.
If you are thinking of watching EoE, just know that you must watch the original anime series beforehand.
Movie Review: A final summation of a series suffering severe entropy
Summary: 1 Stars
Spoilers follow.
I get this and "Death and Rebirth" meshed in my head, and I struggled with whether or not to include my review here in "Death and Rebirth" or this one or both. So I'll just settle for this one.
I don't place value judgments on Japanese culture and society, but I can say I don't like it. I find it sexist towards women particularly.
This series began with a simple, almost stupid concept involving giant mecha-Angels attacking New Japan and little kids who can sync up with Evas to fight them.
Apparently the original ending (which I found particularly brilliant despite the awful turn the series took) wasn't good enough for bi-polar Hideaki Anno, who decided to take a beautiful mental introspective of overcoming your problems, and **** all over it to make a suicidal whiny little emo's delight of an ending.
Everything that the Neon Genesis Evangelion storyline was building to is effectively rendered pointless and useless by this story, which consists of really tasteless and poorly executed sequences of SEELE murdering NERV employees with all the cinematic and animation tact and seriousness of an unrated spoof of "Hostel", followed by Asuka waking up in her machine and destroying lots of military machines in her Eva.
But what does any of that matter, when Misato sacrifices her life for Shinji to survive and save the world, only for Shinji to go whiny he-bitch emo and do nothing so that the "Human Instrumentality Project" can be unleashed, and basically every single human being in the world (except somehow Shinji and Asuka) is killed and "merged" into one giant human who looks like Rei.
Whatever your philosophy is, I find it BS. In my view, there is no way any person can be "merged" with another to form one being. Even if it did, there's only one of them, they can't reproduce, and they're too damn big to live on the earth. So essentially, the human race dies, especially after Shinji chokes Asuka to death.
And so at the end of the series, we see a whiny little emo bitch unleashing his man-boy angst in an art medium, and giving us an ending so full of despair, tragedy, and sadness that it becomes overwhelmingly dismal and pointless. And where was the purpose in having Shinji masturbate and ejaculate on a topless Asuka while she's in a coma in the hospital?
There is a difference between "sad endings" and horrible endings. A "sad ending" to a movie or series can be done tastefully, like with "Cowboy Bebop", another anime, or with movies like "Midnight Cowboy", the director's cut of "Blade Runner", "Chinatown", or "The Shining".
What is instead given here is the equivalent of a suicidal teenaged boy who threatens to kill himself because his parents won't let him go to a concert on a schoolnight, or because his girlfriend doesn't spend like hanging out with his friends, or because he got a 'B' on his science project.