hmmmmnnnn, couldn't sleep lastnight so I watched the newest Eva movie (you cannot advance), there's some neat changes compared to the series, but the film covers the space of a few months yet doesn't really say it much, so it feels like characters change their personalities at random for no reason. Like, there is no real concentration on Asuka's relationship with Shinji, so when she starts going weird, it doesn't make sense in the context of the film.
The animation is totally flawless, it is one of the nicest looking movies around.
More topless Kaworu^__________________________^
Rei seems to be cuter in this one.
Mari is TOTALLLY inconsequential, but I feel that will change in the next movie.
The angel re-designs are really neat.
Essentially, it's kind of like the first one, it tries to tell too much in too short a time, and doesn't really try and explain anything. One of the strengths of the series was how it kept referencing the backstory, and like how the people met up etc, but I guess here you're expected to know that already, except it's not the same story so things are different. Another strength of the series was how it had the courage to (and lake of budget made it...) have just extended scenes of nothingness, which really created an uneasy sense of isolation and melancholy. Here, there is no time for that because WE HAVE TO SEE EVAS BACKFLIPPING EVERY THREE MINUTES!!! But it looks like the next movie may finally enter the pretentious psuedo-psychology of the old movies, so I am looking forward to it. Also Kaworu will have much more screentime, which is never a bad thing.
In short, the series and original movies are so much better written (the writer was going through mental breakdown, so it had this real raw unevenness to it, which just makes it work!), and everything makes more sense in them. However the new movies are visually superior in every way (apart from maybe the finale of End of Evangelion, which is just psychotically brilliant), just the writing on a whole sucks, which is a shame as some of the scenes are really solid.
fuck it, this has just become RANDOM ANIME TOPIC.