bye-bye, all of EVANGELION
evangelion 3.0+1.11: thrice upon a time (hideaki anno, 2021)
I had a sort of hope that in this post getting delayed by various events I would find myself forgetting my massive irritation from the previous Rebuilds and would be able to be fairer to whatever this movie is actually trying to do. We’ll never know if that would have happened, as this movie opens with a brief recap of the prior films, thus punting me straight back into “I can’t believe this shit” territory, mentally speaking. And there I mostly stayed.
Anyway.… It’s certainly the best Rebuild movie. I don’t want to set my Bluray on fire, which is good because that would probably be hard to do. I don’t even really mind owning it, as I like the art. But I’m just not into it. If I do what I need to do to enjoy it, which is detach it completely from the show, I’m left with a bunch of characters who look like people I care about but are not really them. Even though the expository dialogue is constant, I still never know what’s going on. The emotional threads t…