I saw Death and Rebirth and subsequently End of Evangelion before watching the anime. While I must say that I had abso-freaking-lutely no clue what the ruddy hell was going on, I thought it was sincerely awesome.

Granted, I watched it again after watching the series and still was relatively clueless. Despite that, I rather enjoyed End of Evangelion, it maintains the same degree of "seriously smurfed up" that the series did, except it takes it about twenty steps further by throwing in "it's okay, we didn't explain any of this in the series, so it's not really supposed to make much sense!"

I just want Rebuild.

Now.