Evangelion 1.0 You are (not) Alone is currently playing at the Living Room in downtown Portland Oregon. The movie is only playing for a week and Friday might be the last day.
The Theater:
This was the first time that I have ever been to the Livin Room Theater . The website said to show up 30 minutes early if you wanted to order food for the event. I showed up 15 minutes early mainly cause I couldn’t find parking. The theater is right smack in downtown Portland across the street from the famous Powell’s book store.
This is not like other art house movie theaters. The place is a lot cleaner then others I’ve been too. You walk into the lobby and its more like a lounge, the waiter greeted me with a friendly smile and I was able to order my food and my ticket at the same time.
The theater is also very clean, the movie was playing on theater 1. the seats where spacious the halls were also very roomy, allowed me to stretch out without hitting the front seat. I decided to sit in the middle of the theater, the other two group of people decided to sit in the back where tables where available.
I ordered their Deviled Eggs, they were topped with caviar, bay shrimp, avacado and red-pepper relish. Very fancy for deviled eggs and I only got 3 eggs maybe I should have ordered a pizza instead. Oh well they were delicious.
The Movie:
The movie was what I expected it was a retelling of episodes 1 through 6 of the original series.
I have never seen the dubbed version of the tv series so the voices where new to me when I watched Evangelion 1.0. Spike Spencer did a fantastic job bringing over the lameness that is Shinji. I could not get into Misato’s character, the voice actress is the same voice actress as the dubbed version of All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku, so I kept thinking that Misato was going to sprout out cybornetic cat ears and fight the Angels herself! Funimation did a very good job of dubbing the movie the sound effects where crisp and the theater had good acoustics.
The new updated animation was fine, especially the 6th Angel, it was a way better design then the original series, the way it kept transforming all thanks to the wonderful CG. Other then a few updates of graphics the scenes are almost the same as the original tv series.
So overall I had a wonderful experience. the movie was what I expected, I did enjoy the movie and some parts where still as moving as when I first watched them during the tv series.