>>4024624>Notice how Rebuild defenders never talk about the plot, the writing, the characters, the animation quality, etc. when defending these films.Oh ok you want to talk about that instead of complaining about how it's "NOT TRVE EVA"?
I don't like Rebuild 1.0 because it's mostly a straight re-creation of the first 5 episodes. Seems like it was a testbed for new animation techniques. It does look good, but it's boring as it's mostly what I've seen before in the show.
2.0 is a genuinely good movie. It's Eva at its most "conventional Hollywood", its most "Shonen action movie", but it's genuinely fun and watchable.
3.0 is maybe one of the best things Anno and co. have done. It has some lines of dialogue and moments that seem like a very raw and honest expression of Anno's regrets about making Eva at all, and the whole movie has this sense like it doesn't want to be made and seen.
I know people seem not to like 3.0, but this sense of "not wanting to be here" "not wanting to be doing this that pervades the movie" is very relatable to me and cathartic to watch.
Just as a work of art it feels intimate and refreshing to see a reflection on that particular kind of pain.
At this point too, you can't deny that these movies look good. Yes, it uses CGI and digital animation, and I know some people don't like that, but 3.0 especially is clean and abstract. A "pure cinema" movie oriented towards silence and non-verbal montage. It's an art movie and it's not for everybody, but it's maybe more Eva than most of the rest of Eva.
4.0 looks good, especially the first half, even if I hate it.
