Cybermat47 wrote:It's the culmination of everything that was built up in NGE,
Yeah. Even though I have my problems with EoE, I have to admit that is totally true. I've never felt anything from the series left aside in EoE.
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Cybermat47 wrote:It's the culmination of everything that was built up in NGE,
Cybermat47 wrote:I absolutely despise EoE because of how much I love it.
It's the culmination of everything that was built up in NGE, which means that:
- Shinji attempts suicide.
- Shinji sexually assaults Asuka.
- Shinji attempts to kill Asuka.
- Shinji tells Rei to destroy the individuality of every living being.
- Rei gets robbed of any chance of a normal life.
- Misato again loses control and makes sexual overtures to Shinji.
- Misato bleeds to death.
- Asuka is horrifically mutilated and torn apart.
- Asuka takes all the rage and anger from her experiences, and her conflicting feelings about Shinji, and takes them out on him, vocally and physically.
- Gendo reveals that he was always distant out of fear of hurting Shinji.
- Ritsuko loses everything and dies.
- Fuyutsuki has an unrequited love for Yui.
- Hyuga has an unrequited love for Misato.
- Maya has an unrequited love for Ritsuko.
- Aoba is truly alone in the world.
- Yui spends eternity in complete loneliness.
- The JSSDF and Nerv butcher each other due to a lie.
Fuck, why does this movie have to be so good? I hate it!
barnett wrote:The first time I watched it, EoE felt almost like a betrayal.
barnett wrote:Without EoE there is no Evangelion.
barnett wrote:EoE emerged instead as the natural conclusion of the downward spiral started in e19.
Reichu wrote:It’s all weird and phallic.
Episodes 2, 3 and 21 gave a good idea, though.
The only change I would make to this movie is to have Unit 01's armour melt off or something, revealing it's true, disgusting organic form after escaping Lilith's face. It's body would then have pale skin, like that of Lilith's, spread over it, and cause it to look like a hybrid of Yui and Gendo, floating through space, forever together.
He only gets in after Asuka's death because Unit 01 was able to overcome it's restraints for a split second, like in the very first episode, and help her child.
Reichu wrote:Eva-01 had the S2 Engine at that point, and episode 1 established that she is so acutely aware of her surroundings that she can respond in a split second to stimulae if need be. Yet, despite Shinji being present, she just sits there and does nothing until exactly the moment the Soryus are dead. Makes one think... maybe she was waiting for it.
Joseki wrote:I'm not a great fan of EoE as a movie. It is a product with a strong artistic value and it is a great tool to understand in what state Anno was after Neon Genesis Evangelion being so personal, but as movie it's far from perfect.
There are some objective flaws like the pacing that commits suicide after the credits, some choices and scenes I personally didn't found necessary (the pyramid scene with that horrible grain filter) but the main reason why I'm not a fan of it is because of how I feel Anno treats the character: he purposefully crush all of them in such a way that feels almost unnecessary cruel for the plot, almost as if he wanted to harm himself while making the movie.
The payoff of all this feels to me emotionally underwhelming too, the beach scene has some great visuals but it falls flat compared to the end of episode 26.
I would still rate the movie highly if I had to objectively assign a score from 1 to 10 to it, but I don't like it much.
It's crazy to think that in 2018 we're still talking about a movie that came out in 1997. That's the power of nostalgia I suppose
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