Monster Zero x SciFi Japan - Archive Only

GET TO WORK, FOOL!

Of course you're just gonna come back and be all "YOU GUYS ARE CRAZY THEY"RE ALL THE BEST THING EVER" or something cuz that's how you roll.

I keep reading and re-reading that opening paragraph to try and understand what's going on here. Are they genuinely claiming that the Cosmos films are superior to what we've gotten over the past few years? I... I'm not seeing it! At all!

If I had to think really, really hard about it, I would think maybe Final Odyssey was a better film than Ultraman Zero, for example, but... are you guys crazy or something?

EDIT: Do every one of these films have subs? You've got R1s for two of the releases, subs for Final Odyssey and the last five, but where are you getting the rest in anything better than raw? I'd participate in this if I knew where/how to get Zearth and the others.

I've loved all the films so far. Some are better than others. Only a few have I not seen yet. I have to say that I thought the villians in "The Final Odyssey" were weak to me. The best part of the story was the romance
aspect.Mainly because I think the actress who plays Rena is one of the
most beautiful women I've ever seen. Though if I hear her shout "Daigo!"
one more time I'm jumping off a cliff!

I don't think this stuff NEEDS to be layered or deep to be entertaining or good. What Ultraman Ace and Taro lack in social complexity they make up for by being utterly batshit, something that I find to be delightful and something that falls very much in line with my own style of filmmaking. I like it when the genre can tackle heavier issues but I don't think the lack of that approach makes these other shows inherently inferior at all. In fact, I PREFER Ultraman Ace to Ultraman, as much as I respect the latter, simply because its style jives better with me. Is that wrong? Do I just have poor taste?

As for Zero, not that it needs being repeated but I really came away quite satisfied. I thought the visuals were an improvement over the previous film by being a combination of techniques as opposed to ALL CG ALL THE TIME and I honestly liked all the characters. Maybe the film could have been twenty minutes longer to flesh them out a bit more (the deleted scenes contain some nice humanizing moments) but I connected with them just fine in the final product. But what, I have to ask, was so awful about the costume designs? Apart from the Space Pirates' beards, because I recognize that (even though it doesn't bother me). I've seen a couple people complain about the costume designs but I don't recall ever seeing anyone say WHY they're bad. I thought they were all perfectly functional.