Forum - View topicRahXephon movie
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jonnyboy
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I was thinking about picking up the movie and was wondering, how good is the RahXephon movie in summarizing the TV series? Or does it even do that at all? I have never seen either.
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Kazuki-san
 Posts: 2251 Location: Houston, TX |
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Well, the movie is an alternate retelling from the viewpoint of Haruka. But since you have not seen either, you may not know who she is. Some elements of the story are changed, but not too much. The thing is, the movie was made with those that had seen the TV series in mind. It moves very fast, without explaining very much at all.
If I were you, I would get the TV series first (or rent it) and then decide if you want to see the movie. |
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Aaron White
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Posts: 1365 Location: Birmingham, Alabama |
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I concur. The movie is mostly a collection of "guitar solos" from the series; I'm not sure it really works as a coherent narrative on its own. It does do a nice job of clarifying the plot strands it keeps from the series for folks like me who got tangled up, but the series is worth at least a rental.
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spider-moose
 Posts: 137 Location: Ontario, Canada |
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only get this movie if your a completlist or love rahxephon
cause they change a few things in the movie from the TV series too and its not really needed to see but if you don't care about getting the TV series just get the movie, alot of people don't like it cause its to slow so the movie gets the best of the action and plots into it but spoiler[the movie doesn't really show has well what happen to Ayato has well has the TV series does at the end of the series/movie] but if you could just rent the movie and see if you want to buy the TV series or something like that but the movie does take out alot of the drama the TV series had, other then Haruka's parts |
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Kazuki-san
Posts: 2251 Location: Houston, TX |
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That's not really a spoiler, but the movie actually does show it better. |
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spider-moose
Posts: 137 Location: Ontario, Canada |
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I was just testing it really hehe
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Grico
 Posts: 201 Location: Fort Wayne, IN |
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Well the tv series has a significant component of the traditional "characters have secrets in their past" which are slowly revealed as the show progresses. The two hour movie, by time necessity, doesn't do anything of the sort and focuses very exclusively on the main plot. Personally I think you should watch the series first, as the movie would be pretty confusing without watching the series first and alot of the characters would make no sense in the movie cause they appear only like 3 seconds in the movie when they in fact are reasonably important in the tv version.
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Aaron White
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Posts: 1365 Location: Birmingham, Alabama |
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Yeah, the movie's like a really long synopsis episode, or one of those "amnesia" episodes: "Don't you remember the time we fought that Mulian that looked like an erotic mushroom?" CUT TO:
Anyway, it seemed to me that Quon was only in the movie because people expect her to be in the movie, and she didn't really have any important narrative function in the film. Too bad. I also thought the new scenes were really lame, but YMMV. I did like the show, but not enough to buy it; if the mivie had been stronger I'd have been happy to buy that. |
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