Yeah so that movie sucked pretty bad. I basically had to fight my way through it.
[HIDE]- What the crapping hell is this basketball scene? Is it some sort of stupid pun on how they fight Bosquito in this movie? I can't begin to imagine any of these characters acting like this in the show.
- What? Why are they adopting random orphans with amnesia?
- Sazer X's sets and props look really bad when shot at high resolution. The digital effects don't work well with the film stock, either.
- Why is Ad being such an utter dick in this movie? Is it to trick people into thinking he has a personality?
At this point the movie had pissed me off so much that I had to leave the house and do something else for a couple of hours. I'm 20 minutes in. Finishing this required the consumption of hard liquor.
- Look, I know you need to work in exposition for people in the audience who maybe didn't see JustiRiser, but the you have the main characters yell their names at the camera? Blatant much?
- The effect for the evil JustiRisers raining down from Bosquito is pretty cool. Gotta be fair if I'm gonna punch this movie's mouth so often.
- I think there is no fight scene that couldn't be ruined by playing the Sazer X theme song over it.
- Oh man the exposition about GranSazer is just totally indigestible. It's been years since GranSazer for me so all this crap about the crystal slab is completely dildos.
- I do like that the kid is a plant from the space pirates, though his presence in the story is still utterly inexplicable.
- Movie, I'm getting goddamn annoyed. Takuto is pretty stupid and I can see him being this dumb about Riki, but Remy too? You gotta make her brain fall out when "is smart" is all she's got going for her? For shame.
- The drill-tank flying submarine is pretty sweet. At this point I do not know or care if I'm supposed to recognize it from something.
- Yes, Kane, the robot with no functioning legs went somewhere on its own. It's like every character in this movie grows more stupid by the second.
- "I can't let down my comrades from this franchise!"
- Is... is this the Captain Shark that exists in Ad's mind? This scene is so baffling.
- Did he seriously drive a mini-van out of the Lio-Carrier?
- "The word 'cowardly' doesn't mean anything to me." Oh, good, Blaird's personality fell out, too.
- Why is G2 being played for cutesyness? Why is this scene happening? Why won't this subplot end?
- You know... why don't the Shoguns just kill Takuto now? I know, I know, they're terrible villains and all, but this is the movie where everyone's out of character anyway!
- Oh, no! Takuto's been surrounded by giant glowing peanuts!!
- "Extinguishing heads?" I... what?
- Youhi is kinda rad. It reminds me of the Iron Gear from Xabungle a little.
- Oh man that shot of Kane hitting his trigger buttons over and over again like a kid playing an arcade game was so stupid.
- Way to not have the Lio Carrier show any reaction whatsoever to being hit, movie.
- Aw, man, JustiRiser has a good theme song. Sazer X, you guys should beat up the JustiRiders and run off with their theme song.
- Aw, man, the JustiRisers were cool-lookin'. Why'd you have to go and get all lame halfway through, JustiRiser.
- I... what? Why are Kane and Ad on the ghost ship? What the hell is happening? I know, I'm drinking and all, but I'm pretty sure I could do my taxes right now and I still can't follow this movie.
- ... wait, the kid summons the GranSazers? Seriously? You go to hell, movie, you go right to hell.
- Aw, man GranSazer had a good theme song, too. There's no way in hell Sazer X could beat those guys up and run off with it, though.
- Oh man, the effects on the fight with the ghost ship are terrible. The CG Sazer mecha don't look like they're even at the right perspective to be hitting the ship.
- "Now, at long last, a franchise crossover! This'll drum up enough interest to keep the Chou Seishin series going for years!!"
- And... uh, then a rainbow CG fart blows up all the little Bosquitos forever, then. That... that kinda sucked, honestly.
- Ha ha, wow. The GranSazer mecha look so terrible compared to the JustiRiser and GranSazer robots.
- This fight is hilarious. It reminds me of that one Rider movie where they're fighting the giant bad guy whose name I'm too buzzed to remember, and there's a bit where Amazon is literally trying to gnaw the guy's shin off, and it's just the saddest thing.
- Well thank God the real hero, the drill-tank sub guys, showed up to actually save the day. Hooray, heroes beating the **** out of a completely immobile enemy!
- And somehow, the Sazer X theme makes this scene completely worse, even though it's already pretty damned bad.
- Crap rainbows at the monster, Takuto! Let this farce come to an end!
- Another nice thing, though: this movie's end theme sucks a lot less than Sazer X's main theme. [/HIDE]
I liked episodes 16 and 17 pretty well, though. The show is clearly hitting is stride now and is starting to have a consistent tone and style.
[HIDE]Episode 16:
- The characters all have personalities again! It's so wonderful.
- I think it's kinda tarikihongan to just transliterate tarikihongan like this. Just as keikaku, maybe?
- Yeah I liked the bit at the end with Captain Shark and Grandpa.
GRANDPA: So... how big of an idiot is my grandson?
SHARK: Pretty big, but he's not useless.
GRANDPA: [weeps tears of joy]
- So, Captain Shark is totally awesome... he's too totally awesome. He's one of those characters like Dekamaster who kinda makes me wonder why any of the other characters even bother to show up.
Episode 17:
- Yeah so this entire plot with Blaird is really stupid if you stop and think about it for a minute, but I like Blaird interacting with the good guys so much I don't plan on doing any of that.
- It's kind of nice to get a subplot about how Captain Shark pretty much does make Ad completely irrelevant. He's a better military hardass and he also has his own personality!
- If they have to do the goddamn "smart, capable girl can't cook" gag, at least they're not overplaying it in a really generic way. The understated "... wait, what?" expressions when people eat her terrible sushi are pretty great.
- Remy, how did you screw up sushi so bad that the rice by itself tastes terrible? [/HIDE]