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Piggybacking on this comment I think it’s a difference between western and eastern media. The western movies often have way less complexity and have less depth
by GhettoComputers 5y ago
Piggybacking on this comment I think it’s a difference between western and eastern media. The western movies often have way less complexity and have less depth and fuck ups, perfect execution is the norm. I remember zombieland as an example of perfect execution, which I rarely see in eastern media it’s a comedy but in serious movies it’s happened too. 3.0+1.0 suffers from this as well, it’s tiring and boring except as a spectacle of effects like the opening and the dive, I did not at all find it entertaining after first watch, whereas EoE features plans constantly going wrong from Shinji, Gendo, Asuka, Misato and Ritsuko keeping the idea of perfect excecution away.
Formulas don’t have to be boring, Chronicle was excellent despite following the classic Greek tragedy.
- numpad0 5y agoDon’t know Eastern or Western is the best classification but I feel one diverges from a cliche and the other converges into a cliche, as if they’re mirror images. Whichever one of it you would prefer, each ends of NGE are open ended turbulent static and never happily thereafters. Even the latest one could be a bubble of dream in the hell - no one came back out of it, and the thing in his hand might have changed the order of couple events but didn’t change the end result.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoCliche can be good like Chronicle, but usually the issue is the execution loses humanity, they act like robots. No depth stock characters suck.