the entire point of the post is that I didn't feel like double posting in the actual thread. ;D
Anyway, I personally have never seen Movie 8 before and I can't remember even anyone's reaction to it other than a couple of people saying it's when the movie quality really started to decline and other people being "OMG Kid".
This was a completely average (below average even) movie for the last 2/3 (first 1/3 was Kid being awesome and some decent inevitable suspect introductions and the like), that's only made any better than that because
1. Kid is awesome.
2. I see how the Kid and Ran subplot was built on (again, I want more of that!) in Movie 14.
3. Some hilarious moments (fake Kid and Megure, Shiratori and Takagi admiring a random bridge).
4. It's Detective Conan.
I mean, this really felt like 3 movie ideas that weren't good enough for a full movie put together at the last minute. First you had the Kid plot, than the murder plot and then the disaster movie part. The Ran part makes this release good timing. Currently in the anime, we have a well done crying scene with ShinRan, in this movie we have a semi-similar scene except Ran acts whiny at such a stupid time and then out of nowhere "lol I like you Shinichi". Which is made pointless by the end anyway. My response, "what? why? I don't care. It was believable and understandable in London."
I often say I can forgive some parts of the movies for being stupid but those are fun. This was not that fun.
