Reply With QuoteMacross is more or less the best anime has to offer, which is pretty sad if you think about it. And I love Macross, just saying.
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I love them both. Min-mei is better in Japanese though.
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Macross is more or less the best anime has to offer, which is pretty sad if you think about it. And I love Macross, just saying.
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I haven't watched that much anime but lol.
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As an anime fan, I'm going to say they're all idiots. They ask for anime movies, we get the likes of Guyver, the soon to be train wreck of DBZ and now Robotech. So they're going to make an antiwar war-drama in the united states. REALLY?Originally Posted by Advocate
Stop asking Americans to do Asian movies. They've only gotten it right once. The Departed and there they had the right cast, director, budget and felt like zero studio influence.
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I don't care what the source material is. A good old fashioned space opera, done with modern hollywood technology and talented writers should be awesome. They can throw out the original storyline for all I care....a modern depiction of veritechs flying around and blowing the shit out of everything? Do want.
I'm going to take a wild guess and say they will base it on the third series so they can have transforming flying mechs and less licensing bullshit to deal with.
Harmony Gold needs to give up the ghost on this one. A lot of their new stuff is pure crap. And their rewrites dumb down the original material.
yeah, we all grew up with Robotech, but HG is keeping us from getting more Flying robot jets blowing shit up. We can't have that. Its in the constitution as one of my rights.
all the women are. min-mei is less of a cunt, and lisa is a good ten years younger sounding
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Guyver 2 was pretty awesome, the first, not so much.we get the likes of Guyver
I don't understand why anime fans are so protective of their crappy franchises. DBZ mostly sucked as an anime, so I assume it's mostly going to suck as a live action movie. Same with Guyver. They're only going to be as good as the source material, and if that sucks....well.....
In fact, if you go back and rewatch Robotech (and take off the nostalgia tinged rose colored glasses) you'll discover it's actually an overly melodramatic saturday morning cartoon. It's not like the studio is remaking Citizen fucking Kane or Castle in the Sky or Princess Mononoke or anything really, really good. Same thing with the new Akira live action movie. The original movie was a mess, plot/story wise (I still love it tho). If the new live action movies can adapt the manga better, then I'm all for it.
It's like when a musician covers another artists' song...the cover might be worse, it might be better, or it might be different. But there's no reason why you can't appreciate both without getting your panties in a bunch.
And the comment about Americans making an anti-war movie? 99% of Hollywood is full of liberal anti war blowhards, so if someone is going to make an anti-war movie I see no reason why it shouldn't be Hollywood. Get the director of 'Rendition' to do it.
EDIT: I can see this kind of skepticism being warranted in the film transition of something like the 'Watchmen'. Or something like the comic 'Preacher', if it were to ever be turned into a film. My point being, if the original work is actually a brilliant piece of art that TRANSCENDS it's medium (which something like the comics 'Watchmen' and 'Preacher' DO) then I can understand someone being condemning and skeptical of a film adaptation. However, neither DBZ NOR Robotech are anywhere close to being a brilliant anime/manga so I don't see a movie doing much harm.
Last edited by Seik; 18 Jun 2008 at 02:12 PM.
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I don't kwow why but I've always loved the Guyver, I guess hyper violent power rangers just works for me.Same with Guyver
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