I saw this today. What strikes me is how amazing the cinematography are in these scenes. When you compare it to newer pokemon movies, like Secrets of the Jungle (which wasn't bad, exactly), it lacks the same sublime feeling, the sense of importance, and the main characters are not as cocky or funny. It feels like everything needs to be the same, bland, and safe. I hate it.

Part of me wonders if it's due to a sort of incest, people making media today based their stories, not off personal experiences they had, but off old media. So everything references itself, and it slowly regresses to the mean.

RT: https://poa.st/objects/d8a8ccc4-9755-473a-9738-20228c7f1067