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>(1 of 2) sorry if this isnt very well written its kind of disorganized thoughts
The first two seem to be more remembered than others in public consciousness, and I would say they are the most iconic. 3 is the beginning of the movies' odd choices of legendary choices. its cool the way unown is used and important but entei alone is strange. then 4 uses suicune like this though it was probably shilling crystal. I applaud 3 for being a bit surreal/darker like the first one, as 2 wasnt so much though later movies would continue strange abominations and vaguely dark surreal things sometimes, such as the monster in 4. I didnt like 4 as much but it is memorable for young oak/pokeballs, the celebi revival scene, and dark balls (shilling the tcg dark pokemon. together later inspiring orre's shadow pokemon). 5 is good in some ways in the setting but the latis are kind of shit legendaries imo who they had to invent lore for. raikou should have got a movie instead of a special too.
the hoenn/advanced movies arent as good but they still felt more or less like shudo's movies I think. jirachi & deoxys I would say are at least as good as heroes, and I like virus groudon better than the monster in 4ever (I suspect virus groudon was meant to tie into deoxys at some point in development but this angle was dropped). manaphy movie is the first really shit one, then the lucario movie came out to push lucario. I feel like lucario was meant to be tied to mew more strongly, if not being actually mewthree at some point, he at least seems to be an attempt to make something popular & edgy or stoic like mewtwo and they gave him a movie with mew. later they would make zoroark to try to recapture lucario's popularity and fail.
