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2.0 a Second Time
Jan. 21st, 2011 07:18 pmWhen I heard that the second "Rebuild of Evangelion" movie was coming to a theatre near me just as the first one had, I decided I would go and see it as well. Memories of anime club showings at university accompanied me, and it did seem to be something of a "college-age crowd" there, which left me remembering how I'd first learned of Evangelion from the anime club's newsletter magazine, complete with somewhat inaccurate backstory.
The showing was once again via a Blu-Ray disc, and I can understand that given the cost of making film prints for one-time showings all at one time. This time around, though, I might have started wondering if I could see the picture was less impressive than an actual movie. There was a surprise on the audio side, though, because we got the Japanese language version with subtitles (although the first few lines of dialogue are in English, which left people guessing for those opening moments...) A few people were vocal in their appreciation of that; but even as I wondered if a part of me had been "bracing" myself beforehand for the "dub," another part of me was left wondering what the dub would have sounded like. It's just possible the subtitles were drawing my attention away from the rest of the big picture. Still, the DVD will be out before too long, and I already have a preorder in for it...
Beyond the minutiae, I do have to admit I'd already seen a "fansub" of the movie (as had others who informed the audience to not leave when the credits, still in Japanese, started rolling), and my reactions may have been in general terms. I do wonder about the whole "Evangelion as blockbuster movie" experience, even as I try not to reject it any more than the original. At the same time, I do think back to the "anime MSTings" of Evangelion fanfics, which would introduce absurd new characters to "save" at least the characters their authors liked, and I wonder if in some ways their extremes might inoculate me against any thoughts the characters "can't advance," because whatever they manage to do isn't bad as what happened with "help..." Still, one small detail and one very major plot point in this movie do continue to remind me of particular changes in one of the most infamous stories involving the surface details of Evangelion...
The showing was once again via a Blu-Ray disc, and I can understand that given the cost of making film prints for one-time showings all at one time. This time around, though, I might have started wondering if I could see the picture was less impressive than an actual movie. There was a surprise on the audio side, though, because we got the Japanese language version with subtitles (although the first few lines of dialogue are in English, which left people guessing for those opening moments...) A few people were vocal in their appreciation of that; but even as I wondered if a part of me had been "bracing" myself beforehand for the "dub," another part of me was left wondering what the dub would have sounded like. It's just possible the subtitles were drawing my attention away from the rest of the big picture. Still, the DVD will be out before too long, and I already have a preorder in for it...
Beyond the minutiae, I do have to admit I'd already seen a "fansub" of the movie (as had others who informed the audience to not leave when the credits, still in Japanese, started rolling), and my reactions may have been in general terms. I do wonder about the whole "Evangelion as blockbuster movie" experience, even as I try not to reject it any more than the original. At the same time, I do think back to the "anime MSTings" of Evangelion fanfics, which would introduce absurd new characters to "save" at least the characters their authors liked, and I wonder if in some ways their extremes might inoculate me against any thoughts the characters "can't advance," because whatever they manage to do isn't bad as what happened with "help..." Still, one small detail and one very major plot point in this movie do continue to remind me of particular changes in one of the most infamous stories involving the surface details of Evangelion...