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Rebuild of Evangelion
http://www.madman.com.au/actions/news.do?method=view&newsId=756
I haven't been around here much lately, and I've missed nearly a months worth of podcasts, but you fine people may be interested in this link. Unfortunately, there isn't much information.
I haven't been around here much lately, and I've missed nearly a months worth of podcasts, but you fine people may be interested in this link. Unfortunately, there isn't much information.
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So it's just End of Evangelion with a better intro? Hm. Well, I guess we'll find out eventually. What I gather from the NewType pages it looks like Kaworu will play a more important part...
Single megalithic threads for common topics is far better than countless tiny threads for common topics. Think of each thread as an ongoing conversation. A lot of new people are here, and they all have things to say regarding topics that we'd already opened.
But only in MODERATION.
About 10 to 12 threads were revived yesterday, all within a very small time frame and all by the same one or two people. In virtually every other forum I have ever participated in on the internet, excessive topic reviving was put under the same category as spamming.
Now, I realize that the FRC forums are not every other forum on the internet, and generally posts contain much more substance than other forums, but I found the thread reviving yesterday to be excessive. Mitchy even said that he revived "a bunch" of old Death Note threads. Why not just resurrect one if they are all on the same general topic?
Rym mentioned how the threads for common topics should always be on going, and I agree. But timely topics are a different matter.
Clearly, my criteria for bumping a thread is different from most in this forum. I'll cease to make the remarks about it. But, personally, I can't justify a thread bump, or a thread creation for that matter, unless I am fairly sure that I can initiate or reinitiate meaningful conversation or share something new. I'd rather just not post my list at all in the "Top 10 Anime" thread for instance because I'd feel that neither of those elements are present. If a post contains neither of those elements, it's just like old news showing up at the top of Digg, in my opinion.
I think it's good to revive old threads on the occasion that new information is exchanged. That would make the thread new again, no? I agree with MitchyD on the social stigma of starting new threads and general clutter.
On another tack, I'd suggest to anyone who's having difficulty keeping up with the forum that you try using "Categories" instead of "Discussions." The forum's getting busy enough now that "Discussions" is almost more like a chat room than it is a message board. ^_~
I don't like bringing up OLD threads, I only go back to look at the last 2 pages of the DISCUSSION page, so that way it's not REAL OLD.
I am enjoying the excitement of the Rebuild films, at least. It'll be this upcoming one that'll help determine whether they may be worthwhile as an actual product though. Fingers crossed!
In Boston (Cambridge, technically) the Brattle's going to be showing it. Other than that, the showings are all west coast. Any Bostoners wanna meet up and go to the Brattle on the 14th of August?
So happy that this will be in two theatres in my city. I will try to round up as many people as I can to go see it when the time rolls around.
I guess what shocked me during the first part of the film was just how close it was to the original series. They obviously used many of the original storyboards and some of the music cues were the same as well. For the English dub, they got most of the original cast back. As the movie progressed, there were a higher frequency of staging and even story changes, though nothing too drastic just yet. It covers up to angel #5 I think(the blue diamond).
The animation was definitely of higher quality, but the expanded budget almost seems like a waste. What I mean by this is that the original series was able to hide its animation shortfalls by very cleverly designed scenes. Since this movie version takes so many of those scenes shot-for-shot, you're not going to see amazing new dynamic fights; they're very much in line with the original's. It's not a bad thing, as you do get to see a lot more detail in everything; it just makes you wonder what the point was.
And that's my main concern with the film. I don't know what their intentions for these movies are. I've watched and adore the original show and this is stylistically the same thing. If they wanted to present something new for me to buy into, they really need to create more original content. If they just want a shot-for-shot rehash in movie form, it seems like they're putting too much time and effort into it. If this is geared towards gaining new viewers, I think they have a long road ahead because compressing all that story into a movie is a bit too much. I could follow because I knew the story beforehand, but I don't know how a new viewer would handle it. It seemed to take for granted that you had already watched the TV show.
Of course the pragmatic answer is that they're doing it for money. I can't help but think that they could make a butt load more and spend less if they just came out with a ton of character side stories or official Rei hentai simulators.
Still, I'm glad I saw it and will watch the others.