Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance

[Nidsrule]

no matter how you approach eva, you really don't get what's going on no matter what most of the time ><;

Example? "Most of the time" seems like a slight exaggeration.

every time they promise something new to answer questions, it only manages to make more questions than the answers they give anyway...

That's half the fun with eva; I've probably gone through the series a good 5-6 times and I've ended up taking away a different message from it every time. For the most part the answers are there, just presented in a very cryptic fashion. I love the way the director references other works in the form of visual cues (mainly in the scenes of characters analyzing their own existence/purpose), although they typically require further reading to pick up on.