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Movie Wars Core: Nobunaga's Ambition
Dec. 6th, 2014 04:58 pmSo I watched the OOO portion of Core for the first time, and while I'm going to do a full review down the line, I feel like I need to say this:
Toshiki Inoue needs 30-50 episodes in order to tell any story. Nobunaga's Ambition isn't offensively bad. It just has no room to tell the story Inoue wanted to tell. Inoue's half-and-half with movies; EPISODE FINAL is weighed down by being two completely different movies smushed together, with neither side given enough time to develop fully; Project G4 is much the same way and cannot keep its focus on the fucking title Rider. But at least Inoue worked on both Ryuki and Agito--Agito was his baby, and he'd done enough episodes of Ryuki to get a handle on at least some of the characters (though I don't think he ever got the hang of Ren and Kitaoka). OOO was entirely new to him, and it's clear he was working off of the barest bones of information he'd been given and a handful of Kuuga references that Eiji was partially made of anyway.
It's a dumb movie. It's stupid. But honestly, given the choice between this and Kamen Rider Taisen? Or even Skull: Message for W? This is kinda better.
Toshiki Inoue needs 30-50 episodes in order to tell any story. Nobunaga's Ambition isn't offensively bad. It just has no room to tell the story Inoue wanted to tell. Inoue's half-and-half with movies; EPISODE FINAL is weighed down by being two completely different movies smushed together, with neither side given enough time to develop fully; Project G4 is much the same way and cannot keep its focus on the fucking title Rider. But at least Inoue worked on both Ryuki and Agito--Agito was his baby, and he'd done enough episodes of Ryuki to get a handle on at least some of the characters (though I don't think he ever got the hang of Ren and Kitaoka). OOO was entirely new to him, and it's clear he was working off of the barest bones of information he'd been given and a handful of Kuuga references that Eiji was partially made of anyway.
It's a dumb movie. It's stupid. But honestly, given the choice between this and Kamen Rider Taisen? Or even Skull: Message for W? This is kinda better.