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  1. Dynaman
    Close enough!
  2. Dynaman
    No need to speculate, it already has caused higher ticket prices and production costs. On the production side, digital film making (virtual sets, etc...) will help bring the cost back down - but the ticket premium for 3D is here to stay.
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    Not me, as soon as I saw the veritech that went from armored robot, to a tank where the pilot SAT OUTSIDE the tank I thought the show was a loser. I can't remember, did the silly thing fly too?
  4. Dynaman
    RT is what got this Anime fan started. Although I would not watch it any longer (simply because of the anouncer/narrator, it was annoying back in the day and unbearable now). I'm sure there are a few more like me out in the world too. Now though, without RT being aired at any reasonable hour (or at all?) I doubt it is any kind of anime influence.
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    I'll take his earlier word as probably being more accurate, for two reasons - the first attempt he made to get Macross over here was as Macross and not Robotech (OK - so it still had Rick Yamashita...) Second, I can easily believe the network required an "overarching" story. When MST3K was turned into a movie, the studio demanded that the skit portions tell a story - and not just be a random collection of funny bits. In the case of MST3K the studio had a known property and they were STILL telling the MST3K staff to make an "overarching story" within the skits, that a studio or network would demand an overarching story out of 3 unrelated anime shows does not surprise me one bit. (even worse for MST3K - the studio, after demanding the skits tell a coherent story decided the movie was too long and cut out one of the middle skits)
  6. Dynaman
    Be nice, those Astro Plan mecha look a hell of a lot closer to Macross saga mecha then Southern Cross or New Generation designs after all...
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    Broadcast TV certainly, US has always been schizo about that. Although even there I had a favorite quote - though I can't remember where from. Movies - Bad guy gets blown up at the end. Books - Bad guy gets shot and killed at the end. TV - Bad guy gets arrested at the end... (special mention for the A-team, most shots fired, least number of hits per shot)
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    I'd have to disagree, either is OK, that other activity that can get a movie rated R is the only thing off limits still. Swearing has been OK pretty much since "The Bad New Bears" (original that is). Violance - an American tradition.
  9. Dynaman
    I always liked the bad guy from one of the "Heavy Metal" movie segments. The one that said to chop off a certain part of anatomy. And, although the movie was terrible - Al Pacino as Big Boy Caprice is a winner. Same for Jack Nicholson as Joker in Batman.
  10. Dynaman
    Which is about a 100% probability... Not that I mind, I like the show.
  11. Dynaman
    I know, I read it in "End of the Circle" years ago. Anything else is a retcon, or a retcon, of a retcon. I stopped caring after the first retcon. Now for tasteless (but not crude) humor (this did not seem appropriate in the Carl Macek thread) EDIT - this is offered in the spirit of the "This is a Dead Chapman, he is deceased, he is no more" line of humor.
  12. Dynaman
    Rest in Peace Carl. Till Robotech came along I thought Starblazers was a fluke, and that no other serious animation was out there. Watching RT started me on a life long hobby.
  13. Dynaman
    Just saw the first episode here in the states, short and sweet review - I like it. As for the new Dr. acting like the old, what do people expect? About 20 times during the episode he says that the regen is not quite done yet...
  14. Dynaman
    Especially when the damage in Wrath of Khan was done with a clay version of the ship. (they didn't have the budget to do anything else, so they modelled the sections of the ship that get hit in clay, then they just scrap off the clay to show the damage). The end result was excellent so I'm not complaining. (see the DVD commentary and documentary stuff for a description of what they did - it also has the great clip by the director saying that getting a good performance out of Shatner consisted of having him say his lines so many times Shatner got bored and stopped overacting...)
  15. Dynaman
    This movie was the proof of Dark Helmet's line "Evil will always triumph over good becuase good is stupid" The prequals made the Jedi look like a bunch of stupid jerks. I find it hard to believe that it took less then 20 years for the galaxy to start wanting them back...
  16. Dynaman
    Cliched characters, new age mumbo jumbo plot, just not for me. CG Animation was top notch though. It also suffers from one of the worst tension killers a film can commit - making it obvious that the afterlife is a great place to be - if so then everyone should shoot themselves and get this crummy life over with. You may need to quantify this as to who overrates it, I would think that 99% of the US population has no idea it even exists. Since I can't really remember ANYTHING about the film even though I've seen it I would have to agree that it is overrated though.
  17. Dynaman
    Most historical films do have this. If they say the following. Based on a true story - There might have been real people with the same names as some of the characters. Don't count on it though. Inspired by real events - This movie is a total fantasy No claim at all - pure fiction. (then there is one more thing that write for films that actually try to be accurate, but I can't remember it right now)
  18. Dynaman
    While I like both of these movies, they are also a great indication of why Verhoeven should never be allowed to direct a Robotech movie (maybe he could do the Southern Cross portion but never the Macross portion)
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    I'd have to go with Zoe as well. Surprisingly enough, I think Sarah Jane looks better now then she did during Dr. Who. (maybe it was just those seventies fashions...) (Natiest would have to be Joe Grant and the picture of her with a Dalek...)
  20. Dynaman
    Parts of it, like the death of Book, don't have the same impact without having seen the series (it's like Roy's death in DYRL, just not quite the same without having seen SDFM first). I also count Serenity as one of the best scifi of all time. The Matrix - Overated. I liked it, but I could easily tell that the movie makers just dashed a bunch of mumbo jumbo together - and didn't really have anything to say. First Sequal - overated, like someone else said, this film can't be reviled enough. Second Sequal - Parts of this I liked, OK - all I really liked was watching the Mechs fighting...
  21. Dynaman
    There was another one, it wasn't very good, but it was bad in a very good way. Two kids end up in a fallout shelter in the (fifties)? with nothing but food and dective comics. They come back out in the eighties (looking to be 20ish...) after a nuclear war. They are dressed and act like comic book dcks (detectives) while everyone else is dressed up in eighties style post apocalypse clothing... For some reason I don't remember the rest of the movie. Another bad movie with a scifi portion was "Deadtime Stories", it was a horror movie about a guy telling his niece and nephew bedtime stories so he could go watch TV, one of the stories was Goldilocks and the three bears, but in this case the three bears were bank robbers (think of the three bears from Bugs bunny fame - but they are people instead of bears) and Goldilocks had telekinetic powers. Neither of those movies is for kids.
  22. Dynaman
    I'm not a kung fu or samurai watcher these days, but I LOVED (I mean I thought it was GREAT!!!!) Kung Fu Hustle. In my younger days I watched and enjoyed the Sho kusagu (I just butchered his name) Ninja movies "Enter the Ninja", etc... One scene in one of the movies a big heavset guy walked in with Nunchunks, my friend said "I wonder if he knows how to use them", right after that the guy starts doing something stupid with them "Well that answers that question". I forget which one of those movies had the two Ninjas getting ready to fight across the Tennis court - but that was a hoot too. Finally, I saw the latest version of Zatoichi (spelling again) and I liked it, enough so that I'm going to rent the original Zatoichi movies.
  23. Dynaman
    Were you planning on seeing it even if he didn't direct it? Personally I plan on going to see it if it ever gets made (well, not if Mr. Boll directs...). I'm not saying I expect it to be done or not, just that I will go see it if it does. But hey, I thought Shadow Chronicles was decent (not great, just decent).
  24. Dynaman
    that's great, I haven't seen someone do that since "The Sword and the Sorcerer" (it would qualify for worst fantasy film of all time)
  25. Dynaman
    Although it certainly was terrible, I did like watching it. Unlike another dragon based movie it at least delivered what it promised (Dragon's fighting against modern weapons), unlike another recent dragon movie that did not. "Reign of Fire", had that picture with a Dragon getting ready to fight with a bunch of Apache Helicopters, somehow that scene didn't make it into the movie though.
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