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  1. Dynaman
    Tried to watch the first episode of Strike Witches today, couldn't get past the first ten minutes (cat in the tree scene was the end for me). I never felt so dirty watching Anime before - and I'm a "Pop Chaser" fan too. [edit] - I also watched, and generally liked "Elfen Lied". I think the difference for me was that here the fan service was trying to be cute and it just came out perverted, where in Elfen Lied the subject matter and tone of the series lent itself to a more mature rating.
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    If that is all wikipedia says on the matter then it is flat out wrong. The one thing that is ALWAYS verboten with a trademark is releasing a directly competing item using the trademark. As an example - Anyone tries to release an Apple computer (or shall we say a computer with another fruit like logo, which did happen) and Apple will (and did) put a stop to it. As for why HG will not go after Macross Plus and the other Items they let slip through in the early nineties, at this point they would have to take the owners to court (on their own dime) to get them to stop, and there is no guarantee that they would win the case - and they could lose their trademark by trying to do so, or weaken their claim by having the Original Macross owners in Japan get an exception allowing them to use the trademark as it relates to Macross the brand here in the US.
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    Apple Incorporated (the computer company) vs Apple Core (the Beatles). That would be a good place to look. (not sure if it ever went to court but it is a case of similar trademarks)
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    If they could turn "I Robot" into a film then they can certainly handle Pern, "I Robot" being a good sign or a bad sign I'm not so sure about... (Although I personally liked the film - I was expecting an action movie with a bit more going for it then normal and that is just what I got, and I had the urge to buy a pair of sneakers right after the movie for some reason)
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    They did it through a quirk in US LAW, other countries do things by first use, the US does it by the first to register the name. Helping them is the fact that they licensed the first Macross product (SDFM) for US use back in the eighties. (PS - I could be off on the details, but it is through a quirk in US law that they are able to trademark the name - and I don't think anyone has tried to legally take it from them yet)
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    TWO Bitchy teen-aged girls. (make that 3 of them, forgot one)
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    I'm not watching it yet, but that "Cat [bleep] One" show is going to be streamed starting in November... http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-10-26/cat-sh-t-one-u.s-dvd/bd-planned-for-december
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    "It's all fun and games till someone loses an eye!" Serious Sam - Just after killing the first one-eyed monster. "AAAARRRRR!!!", followed by "Oh Sh!t" Serious Sam - Killing the first guy that blows up when you shoot him, then LOADS of the exploding guys appear. [EDIT] EVERYTHING the elves say in "Elf Bowling" "Is that all the balls you got Santa" "Higher Wages, fewer toys"
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    In those cases, let him have it. But thinking something titled "Day of the Triffods" is not worth following up on is not so bad, the title is right up there with "Megashark vs Giant Octopus" - the fact there is an excellent SciFi story hidden under the title notwithstanding (the excellent story is "Triffods" of course, NOT the shark/octopus...) [seperate Item] Not a remake per se (that I know of), but the way the aliens in "Skyline" snatch up humans looks very similar to the similar thing done in "War of the Worlds" from a couple years ago.
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    Your razzing the guy for an opinion? I have not read Day of the Triffods yet either, and there is a good chance I never will (I read a couple books a week - mostly scifi - and there are still so many I can't get to all of them). I have seen the first of the Triffods movies and based on that read a short review of the differences between it and the novel - so the book does sound interesting.
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    If you do watch it here is my take. (take it or leave it) The first series is very good, even the star blazers dub is good. I'd recommend either. The First movie, although the Japanese loved it I hate it. Take the first series, chop in the action scenes (not bad) and chop out almost all of the drama (bad). All the drama and plot is told through a voiceover, yuck... Second Movie - One of my all time animated favorites. Second Series - Just as good as the first (in Star Blazers too) Third Series - AVOID the english dub, never saw the Japanese version. third movie - OK Fourth Movie - OK Fifth Movie - I loved it, best quality animation of the entire Yamato franchise (till the latest movie possibly). I'm also a sucker for the alternate ending.
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    The dub on that was pretty bad. Misa's VA being the worst, a pity too since the VA had a nice voice - but she did not use her own voice for Misa and it just sounded terrible, kind of like scratching chalk on a chalkboard... The way they pronounce Hikaru is jarring as well, can't these productions play the original pronounciations for the English VA cast so they can pronounce it right?
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    Nothing a minor retcon can't fix.
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    I thought that was nothing more then a joke at best and a rumor at worst. Do you have a link showing where it is confirmed they are dubbing LLA as the side story they were talking about?
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    Yes. At the start. Bill Murray's character will be in jail for some swindle. The other two should be in a mental institution. The black guy (can't remember his name either) could be doing a spot on "I love the 80's" - focusing on the GhostBusters. Rick Moranis would be a big shot lawyer now. The receptionist would be the only one left at GB HQ Sigourney Weaver could be a drunken bum (think of the original silk specter) The plot revolves around the baby from the second movie all grown up now - and still haunted. (Other then that pretend the second movie didn't happen). Different note - Favorite bit from the GB cartoon was when three ghosts "Beam" into the scene, one looks at the others and says "We're dead Jim" - and they go away.
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    No it is not a remake, it is another take on the Appleseed Manga though. Ex Machina is worthwhile, I like how the cleaned up the character animation (I'm not one of those that hated the 2004 Appleseed animation though, although it was a little jarring). I'm not a fan of John Woo style action sequences - which ex-machina has a LOT of, but I still liked it and would recommend it (unless you really hate Woo style...)
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    Sorry, wasn't trying to be snarky.
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    I didn't know she had a clubbed foot either...
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    I look at the same numbers and come up with a totally different result, but whatever.
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    True - but it's hard to imagine anything where a Gerwalk capable aircraft would be more usable then a helicopter (on the one hand) or as cost effective as a jet (on the other). The problem with a Gerwalk capable plane is that any of the parts that need to go from Jet propulsion out the back to downward thrust will require beefing up the components thus making them heavier or more expensive (or both). Even the JSF, which has vectored thrust, is only using the VERTOL mode in the Marine configuration.
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    The number just don't bear that assertion out. RT.com and it's other related site only have a couple hundred members that are active, there might be a couple thousand who logged on at one point and never posted anything too. MW has what appears to be 100 or so active users, and there has to be more then 1000 Macross Fans in the English speaking world. So at best the online community is a very vocal minority. RT.com has maybe a dozen active posters, say a 100 daily lurkers, the SC DVD had to have sold 5000+ copies (Can't imagine that would produce fewer then that, the cost to unit ratio would be prohibitive), so by that measure the RT online community is once again a pittance of the RT fandom.
  22. Dynaman
    Birds and Planes fly in very different ways - all the motive power for a bird is in the chest and wing muscles, for aircraft it is the thrust out the back (provided by engines in various spots in various planes). Birds also need the legs for walking on the ground where a plane's equivalent is a small set of wheels. Although it might be possible someday it would never be practical, even the much easier to do tilt-rotor aircraft is only just becomming operational after a decades long development time.
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    So - what is one more Retcon the the RT universe?
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    I have not seen Wings, I should put it on my Netflix queue. (that terrible TV show from the nineties spoiled the name and good reputation you see) Blue Max - true, but EVERYONE uses EVERYONE in that movie - part of it's charm. That and the hero does some non-heroic things along the way.
  25. Dynaman
    Love Live Alive, unlike MinMei's VA the guy that did Lancer CAN actually sing.
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