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Agreed, the newest movie in particular was borderline unwatchable.

It was entirely technobabble and metaphysical nonsense with no character development.

That's more the weakness of the 3rd than the 4th. The third movie felt like there was a whole volume between part 2 and part 3 that was missing - I get the appeal of telling the story from Shinji's perspective and starting in media res, but you can't just use terms like "failed infinities" and the "chamber of guf" without a little establishing context.

The 4th brings it back somewhat, but ultimately the finale is still the typical Eva "here's a bunch of religious babble half-explaining what happens overlaid with crazy imagery" which imho had its last hurrah in EoE.

3.0 was garbage except the opening rescue scene and the end battle, I would not recommend it at all. The 4th has too much eye candy that wasn’t even babble.

The whole villiage sequence was character development?

I agree that the CGI scenes where kind of weaker than the old animated fights.

As cheesy as it sounds, afterwards I sort of felt like the bad cg (and copy pasting assets) was intentional. Maybe it was meant to contrast the eva specific parts with the rest of the regularly animated sequences with human characters. The scene that made me think this way was near the end the giant Rei head exploded into a bunch of 3d eva models (about 2:20), where afterwards they decided to animate the contrasting scene with humans without 3d, which was probably so much more work that I felt it must have been intentional for some reason.

I thought it was for fakery but I don’t know, 2.22 had excellent 3D.

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