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I just came out of Shin Kamen Rider. I
Went to go see it on May 31st the first time you can see it
and I want to give you my spoiler free thoughts and reaction to this movie and
Really excited. I also grabbed the attention of some random people coming out of the theater
Who also went to go see the movie to get their thoughts on it as well?
So I'm gonna share that with you. I have them recorded
Hopefully that you know who knows how good the audio is but it's there for us to enjoy
other people's perspective on it so you can hear more than me and
Yeah, that's uh
That's it. So I'm gonna go ahead and go into this like I said totally spoiler free
There's so much to talk about
And I'll just say it within less than five minutes. So here we go. I'm pretending I'm an Ultraman
I got that color timer blinking and I gots to go. So anyway, I would say that this was a very interesting movie
It was very cool. I
enjoyed it so much I
I
Don't I'm not gonna say I'm surprised at how good it was or how much I enjoyed it, but it was very much a
Kamen Rider movie and very much
I would say an ono movie based on my last remembrance of seeing some Evangelion and I haven't watched Evangelion proper for a long
Time, but it's a series I had watched several times. So
Let's just say I I'm a little familiar with the man's work
so
Yeah, I
Really liked the movie. I liked the emotional core of it
it
explored a
Lot of different things and it definitely didn't do what I expected and I recently was talking about this
I don't know if it was in a writer rant or writer crash or whatever
It's called or if it was in my manga part one of my manga review for the original Kamen Rider manga done by
Chitauri Shinomori, but I
Was talking about a couple things one. I couldn't remember the other movie
It's Kamen Rider the first and Kamen Rider the next those are the other things that are like Shin Kamen Rider
But they're very much not like Shin Kamen Rider as well
You could definitely argue for some similarities between them and besides the fact that
The Kamen Rider the next is a
J-horror
Or as you know horror film in general there aren't there
There's a lot of things that make the movies unique from one another honestly
I'm just gonna be brutally honest here when I originally saw the suit and I saw the
Jacker the overcoat that Kamen Rider had on him. I didn't like it. I didn't like the overcoat. I didn't get it
I think now I get it. I think it makes a lot more sense to me now after seeing the movie after getting all the context
of why he's hidden like that and
I like it
I think it's a cool choice an interesting choice a different spin on it and it kind of makes room for
exploring this
Emotional thing that I think the manga nailed really well, and that I think the show addressed well also
But the show had I mean the show did it in less time sort of because of the format of it
you know 22 25 minute show whatever it was and
It was you know a fun TV show it was very much
You know you could miss an episode and just go on to the next one you get that narrator
catching you up on what's going on and letting you know that the fight against shocker will continue forever and
You know that's how it that's how it went in the show
And it was kind of like you could take or leave episodes as they were versus this you're locked in for two hours
My showing got out at like 935 the movie started at 730 instead of 7 o'clock, but you know it life happens, right?
anyway, so
Yeah, so like I
Know it was a good movie. It was a good movie. It had a really interesting emotional core to it
Some things were changed to I guess modernize it or separate it from past
Coma writer projects. You know it definitely has its own stamp of approval on it
it feels almost like as if Evangelion were done as
Common writer which sounds a little stupid, but it also makes sense if you even when you see it
I think you'll know exactly what I'm talking about and I
Don't know and without going into spoilers. It's hard to say certain things, but the fights were intense
there was at least one fight that was like anticlimactic and
I don't know I'm almost ready for people to
make accusations that Hongo got
Got the Ryan Johnson Luke Skywalker treatment and there's no way that's true
And everything that Hongo does is so much in character with him from the show
Maybe even from some of the manga if you know what I mean
and
it's
really interesting and
I won't say more than that. I was supposed to keep this less than five minutes. Hopefully I am over five minutes. However
That might also include my recordings or just a new recording. I'm not sure anyway
I don't know what I'm saying. Like I said, I feel kind of crazy. It was super exciting
it was weird seeing all these Tokyo people in real life and
It was a whole spectrum of people in there were these two
Japanese ladies who were speaking Japanese. I'm not assuming the Japanese they were speaking Japanese and
they
Loved the movie. They were singing along with certain songs. I won't name right now at different points in the movie and
They're having a good time and I even heard one of them
Was it on ego like oh, that's calm later, too. And that was super fun
So that was kind of crazy. But anyway, um
Yeah, it was a it was a really good movie. I really liked it. I want to see it again
I'd like to own it. I have yet to see shin Godzilla or shin Ultraman
I almost saw shin Ultraman in the theater and it didn't happen and I'm just waiting for the home release of it
And then shin Godzilla, I guess I have no excuse not to get that. But wow, yeah this uh, I mean it was impressive
I really liked all the weird choices that they made so many choices to make it classic and
They did so many things in a classic way
that I don't know if that made it better when they did things fresh and
with a different perspective or like a new perspective on them or
Or if it was just welcoming to see that stuff and like there's silly stuff
like this is not a spoiler like there's still like the shocker base type of things that are like themed after each
Commander monster general whatever and
You know, they still have their grunts and stuff, which is great
But the way it's themed after an individual thing is like it almost it's almost so silly and it almost doesn't make sense
The way it works that you almost want to dismiss it but like it's also so cool and it's not just redressing the same
You know shocker bunker set from the original show, but there's kind of a feel that but like each place has its own vibe
which is really cool and it goes along well with the
General that we see there and man, I just I really liked it
I thought was a really good movie and I'm gonna stop myself there because I don't want to just repeat what I have to say
And I think I'm gonna cut this right here and immediately go into the spoiler version of it
Not that you're gonna hear it'll be in a separate episode in the in the feed of writer tears and oh, yeah
Also listen to all the good people who took a little bit of time to share with a crazy stranger
Their thoughts on the commoner Shin Kamen Rider movie right after watching it
So enjoy that and thank you good people of so Cal took a fan writer people who are willing to talk to me about this
It was fun. It was a blast and I wish you guys well
Yeah, is that okay?
Alright, so I got a group of guys here who are hanging out with each other not like me a lonely Kamen Rider fan
And we all just got out of Shin Kamen Rider. I want to do no spoilers though
Can we do that? Yeah, that's what is just what did you think? What did you feel? I loved it
You know as a longtime fan. It was a really unique take
Definitely just watched by other people recording people are really excited to talk about this movie. Yeah, I think they should be yeah
It's just great cuz as a long time Hideaki Ono fan and a long time Kamen Rider fan
You know you get the best of both worlds with this film sure
Oh
No, I'm sorry
Now we're gonna be all echoey. I think yeah, okay
you know compared to the other two shin films like I it's it's hard to say but I
Feel like honestly, I think Shin Ultraman is still on top personally, but yeah, it's kind of this one's definitely
It's different. It's the most different. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, all of them are so different, you know
And you can enjoy them all for kind of different reasons. I was saying to him before but this terms of like entry level
As far as these shin movies go it did go by release order shin Godzilla being the oldest most well the oldest but also the most
Accessible for like kind of like normies as far as like Japanese sort of culture goes
Okay, and then it goes like further along with this one being the most
sort of in its own little bubble as far as just the lore goes as far as like the
Everything how much how much has changed also, but like the aesthetic is the same. Yeah. Yeah, it's extremely classic
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, it's
You know with some new stuff and new ideas for sure much more you're also oh, yeah, that was crazy
Go into it, but you blood
This is definitely you're gonna get your Phil's kind of reminds me of some of the stuff in common writer spirits about how
Regretful Hongo is about having to kill. Yeah, and just like brutalize his brother
It's also interesting because if you compare it to like common writer the first yeah, you know
There's a little bit of similarities there. We won't get into but um
Even then it's still so different right, you know, all right, you guys want anything? I've only seen a couple movies
Okay
But yeah, it was a great movie I loved it it was awesome. Okay, cool. Yeah, but where's where's the commonly?
Where's the shin common writer? Hey, Sarah? That's what I want. Yeah
Yeah, I want like guy in this style, you know
even more people dead, right
Like wrap this up is that we want more
They definitely oh yeah, this is the end so we want more. Yeah, but we said that about Shin Godzilla
Well, we got that with Ultraman
Yeah, yeah, but um
No, I feel like this out of all the shin movies. I want a sequel to the most
Yeah, and there's like the most Brown I think to do a sequel. It's definitely I know you're not doing Evangelion anymore
I'm just saying what is he gonna do next Shin Gamera? Come on, please please please
What a bridge well guys, thank you very much for participating of course, um, this will go up somewhere at some time look for it
All right. Thanks guys. Have a good night
These are random fellow common writer fans who I'm asking for
Podcast content so I'm gonna go around and everyone is gonna hopefully say something about the movie like it hate it
Whatever you like just say what you thought I mean, I'm new to this
Okay, we're mostly for him, but it was good. It was good. Okay
breakneck pace
bloody action
Liked it. Yeah, okay
It was the worst movie ever. I'm just
It was super fun like bloody exactly what I expected
Definitely a movie that my dad would watch so that's good. It's good for dads and people every of all sorts, right? Okay
Well, thank you very much. Have a good night. Enjoy a beard. You're bound to enjoy it
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