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  Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time 2021

  ★★★ Watched 19 May 2024

  4.0 is a very confusing send off for the series because I still don't understand why this rebuild had to happen; I was expecting some kind of new theme or core message that Anno felt needed to be told because he decided to remake his entire franchise, but realistically 4.0 just retreads the same ground as the original series + EoE. It might be a well presented remake, but things in the fight scenes in this movie seem to just…

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  Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo 2012

  ★★ Watched 18 May 2024

  If the original Evangelion felt somewhat obtuse and convoluted on a first watch, 3.0 feels downright indecipherable without extensive outside research of what you just watched. I wouldn't mind this if it felt like there was some sort of substantive message to be enhanced from doing this as that's some of the appeal of Eva 1998 and EoE, but this film feels like it's much more concerned with lore dumping and creating grand set pieces in a franchise that Hideaki…

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  Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone 2007

  ★★★½ Watched 16 May 2024

  Genuinely quite a good retelling of the first part of the original series that is arguably a better way to experience at least those first few episodes. The animation is much higher quality and feels like a worthy remake of the series to at least update how it looks and feels to introduce the franchise to a newer audience. All of the messages of the original series are well articulated through the dialogue and symbolism, and as someone who was…

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