Evangelion... Where to begin?

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Hey guys, I remember watching a couple episodes of Evangelion on TV when I was a kid and I'd love to try it out now as a 30 year old, but I've got no idea where to begin because there is SO much content.

I thought a great way for me to "begin" would be watching the best Evangelion movie that encapsulated the show's best features in the highest quality animation. For example, a friend of mine was interested In Transformers G1 from the 80's and so I told him to watch the Transformers movie from 1986 as the movie had high quality animation and really put Transformers on display in 90 minutes... Is there something similar in Evangelion?

I LOVE the Sentinels in X-Men and robots or artificial intelligence in general if that helps?

Thanks!