Cinemas holding films hostage? What? Look, even as someone who prefers a pristine home theater experience to some of the crappy screenings I’ve been to (they don’t show movies in film where I live and I gotta drive 45 minutes to a theater that enforces respectful audiences), that’s now what’s happen...

Shin Evangelion OST: All Pianos, All the Time.

All Monsters Attack! is a very rough film to watch, and I don't blame anyone for disliking it. I remember hating it, even when watching it as a young child. But the more I learned about that film, the more I appreciated it. It's not that I think the movie is good now (I still think it's pretty bad,...

Well, the Times graph shows the numbers of deaths due to Covid-19, not how many people are currently sick with Covid-19. (As far as I know, Japan's reported number fudging was based on how many living people they've tested for Covid-19, not based on how many people they've reported died from it.) Th...

Cultists are the reason why this world can’t have nice things.

Yeah, both Japan and the States are actively fudging their numbers. So far I still think South Korea has had the best approach to all this.

Now all Japan gotta prepare for are all the Gaikoku hito Weebs flying into the country to watch Shin Eva.

Just so long at it's coherent/doesn't feel rushed, then it should be fine. I remember watching a live-action adaptation of Moyoco Anno's "Sakuran;" the filmmakers added an entirely new and original arc to the second half of that movie, and it was still a good watch!

For those of us who have never seen anything from the franchise before (such as myself), would you say that the live-action movies are a good entry point for newcomers?

Toho owns their own cinemas, so I’m not sure how that relationship effects whether or not they shut down. American cinemas are separate from movie studios, so they don’t have much of an incentive to stay open beyond selling food. Sure, after a few weeks the cinemas might keep percentages of movie ti...

Well, Japan hasn't even starting worrying about cancelations in April, much less cancellations during the summer months. I think it's best to take this one month at a time.

I intellectually understand if this film is delayed, and I do want everyone to stay safe from the virus, but I’m still gonna feel all sorts of emotions about it if that happens.

^ The original Godzilla movies can be a little cheesy, aside from the original black & white movie. The first Godzilla movie I saw as a kid was one of the campier Godzilla movies called Godzilla vs the Sea Monster . Right after that, I saw the black & white movie Godzilla: King of the Monste...

I introduced some friends of mine to Godzilla (2014) , which I still hold to be the best American Godzilla movie ever made. (Though, perhaps not the most fun one to watch. KotM is certainly there to throw a party.) I also found that it is the best Godzilla movie to use to introduce Godzilla as a fra...

Chief Directors of animation tend to follow the project into the editing room, where sound effects are decided upon. Given that Tsurumaki wasn't a Chief Director, it is less likely that he followed the project beyond its animation production phase. In the animation industry, it usually takes more th...

I would like to point out that defeat really isn’t an emotion, rather it’s a social state from which one emotes. “Feeling defeated” isn’t a specific emotion inasmuch as it’s a collection many different emotional responses that one could feel in response to the social state of being defeated. Yuriko ...

I have only seen the Japanese version. I think the only time I came across the English dub was when watching Amanda’s audio commentary track. Ritsuko’s Japanese VA sounded defeated as soon as Casper betrayed her, and the animation does a stellar job visually expressing the defeat as well. If being b...

^ lol, no offense taken. I tend to be the more emotionally empathetic in my friend group, so any form of psychopathy is highly unlikely. As for whether or not I’m joking, I’m not. I’m legit serious. This theory comes from how the film cuts to Ritsuko’s POV shot while also cutting out the audio. Mayb...

If you can play the clip back from the movie where we hear deafening explosions over Gendo’s line, then that would certainly be a point proven. Here’s the thing; when people make movies, there will always be three different versions: the version that’s written, the version that’s filmed, as the vers...

I do believe that this is the first and only time I’ve ever seen it argued that a the information that makes up a POV shot of a character in a movie is not accurately portraying the perceived experience of said character within that movie, so you’ll forgive me if I take that logic with a grain of sa...