{"id":15402,"date":"2022-12-30T20:30:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T01:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15402"},"modified":"2022-12-30T17:27:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T22:27:43","slug":"shin-ultraman-2022-shinji-higuchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15402","title":{"rendered":"Shin Ultraman (2022, Shinji Higuchi)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sorry follow-up to <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13204\">Shin Godzilla<\/a><\/em> &#8211; the editing and camera angles all wacky, dialogue too overtalky.  SG was talky too, but it felt like a developing story, while this is more a season of television condensed into a feature.  Ultraman saves the day, disappears, turns evil, fights himself&#8230; the girl who likes him disappears, turns giant&#8230; undersea kaiju are joined by two different scheming extraterrestrials&#8230; despite all this, the movie and its kaiju-defense-team characters are mainly concerned with Kaminaga, the handsome guy who uses a wiimote to transform into Ultraman.  Can&#8217;t say I wasn&#8217;t entertained, though.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/ultraman3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Unlike in the Godzilla movie, the human team does nothing useful here:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/ultraman4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Higuchi is a Hideaki Anno associate, who directed the <em>Attack on Titan<\/em> movies and did effects for the 1990&#8217;s <em>Gamera<\/em> series.  Anno wrote this as the start of a trilogy, is also working on a <em>Shin Kamen Rider<\/em>, and I didn&#8217;t realize the <em>Evangelion<\/em> theatrical reboot is part of the Shin project.  Kaminaga played the rival lawyer in <em>Ace Attorney<\/em>, his coworker\/love interest starred in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15030\">Before We Vanish<\/a><\/em> and <em>Our Little Sister<\/em>, and the <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14836\">Drive My Car<\/a><\/em> dude is their boss.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/ultraman1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Just a couple of aliens on the swings:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/ultraman2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sorry follow-up to Shin Godzilla &#8211; the editing and camera angles all wacky, dialogue too overtalky. SG was talky too, but it felt like a developing story, while this is more a season of television condensed into a feature. Ultraman saves the day, disappears, turns evil, fights himself&#8230; the girl who likes him disappears, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,712,624,2571,36,179],"class_list":["post-15402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-aliens","tag-giant-monsters","tag-hideaki-anno","tag-japan","tag-remake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15436,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15402\/revisions\/15436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}