Y'know, Detective Pikachu was a pretty fine movie. I honestly don't remember a whole lot about it but it was a cool romp for fans with a bunch of nifty depictions of the funny lil critters.
Well. There's an exception to that.
I say the following without a singular shred of hyperbole: This remains one of my favorite scenes in
any movie, a title it won from the first time I saw it. The sense of scale is unmatched, the way the landscape bends and breaks apart, a forest turning sideways and our scrappy band of heroes having to frantically run and jump away from the splitting earth. And then, of course, the culmination of it all, the big reveal that all of this has been the tossing and turning of a
colossal living being, its eye alone making the main trio seem puny and insignificant in its face.
Earlier today I watched the 2005 War of the Worlds adaptation for the first time. As far as I'm concerned this is on par with the
first reveal of the Tripods from that film in terms of building up to and presenting a titanic, larger-than-life force of nature. It is the one scene I've witnessed from a live-action adaptation of an animated/cartoony property that makes me think "This scene could not have achieved what it does in animation, or at least not to the same extent." It's the kind of scene that makes me marvel at the possibilities of the art of filmmaking, and it's all thanks to the Pokemon I started my 14-years-and-counting-long journey through this series with.
No further comments. 5 stars. Cinema.