Dynaman

No - because Rocky Horror is in a class all by itself! There is SciFi, there is romance, there is westerns, and then there is Rocky Horror, and the world is a different place for it...

It is a very good show, and the english VAs are pretty good for the most part. I think it is 73 episodes long and I'm only up to the 20th episode or so - so I have a long way to go. It's also refreshing to have an Anime show that does not focus on teenagers... As a side not, if this show were done in the US it would be done as live action (so far there have been very few calls for special effects but maybe that will change later).

I don't think it dropped off though, drowned out maybe, but not dropped off. The decade before 1977 gave us 2001, Silent Running, Planet of the Apes (the original, the rest were really garbage IMHO), THX 1138, and a handful of others - certainly not more then was done in the decade after 77. I don't know if I read the particular articles you cited so this may not apply but in general there is a LOT of sour grapes about Star Wars from "true believers" in scifi, they hate it since was really science fantasy rather then scifi. The fact that it did so well vs anything else seems to upset a lot of people as well. SW was a good, fun escapist entertainment at a time when the US (in particular, world in general) was in desperate want of it.

I'm currently watching Monster and Planetes. Monster had me hooked from the start, Planetes was on my provisional list till this last episode (where the main characters go down to Earth) - that one has very good characterization which has gotten me hooked. The english VAs are decent too.

That is ignoring a LOT of good thought provoking scifi after 1977. Blade Runner alone being proof. In addtion there are most of the Star Trek films, Alien, Aliens, V (original Miniseries), Alien Nation, Brazil, Martian Chronicles (I think that was post 77), Leviathon (it tried to be meaningful), Mad Max, Terminator, , and Flash Gordon (OK, that one is a joke, but I like it). That list was keeping it to within a few years of 77 as well, there was certainly a boat load of drivel and garbage as well - but the same is true before 77 as well.

True enough, though I don't know if that was entirely the fault of Star Wars. Personally, I remember that before I saw Star Wars I didn't give a rip about Science Fiction, after it I didn't care about anything else (I didn't even see the movie till late in the summer since I was so unimpressed by a commercial I had seen for it earlier in the year). The amount of science fiction being created now, and the acceptance of it, is a direct relation back to the popularity Star Wars. No other movie or TV show, not even Star Trek had the same impact. I'm not saying there would be no scifi, but it would still be the somewhat obscure field it had been before the movie came out.

The original Star Wars, no other scifi movie has had anywhere near the same level of influence on science fiction and fantasy. I had a personal preference for the movie Aliens though.

what does it matter, it's look will just get retconned in "Shadow Rising" anyway...

The second dub is much better then the first (MUCH! better). I can't remember if they still pronounced Keneda (I probably spelled it wrong...) properly in that one either though. I loaned my copy to a friend and never saw it again, sigh...

I always thought they were a group that took a joke too far... Sort of like the guy there that "likes" the Lynn Kyle character so much. If they are not just joking, well then I'm happy to be staying well away from them.

The Star Blazers website has a little bit of Yamato movie information, at the bottom of this page. http://www.starblazers.com/html.php?page_id=421

as others have said, the mind boggles at the possabilities... The worst I've ever seen, but it was only a webpage joke, was "The Lord of the Rings, the novelization of the movie". I'd post a link if I had one, it is hilarious. The worst SciFi I've managed to read was "Homeword Bound" by Harry Turtledove, NOTHING happened in the entire book - but we get exacting descriptions of every meal the characters eat. (a real pity, since the series this book is part of was one of my favorites of alternate reality fiction). Harry also seems to have gotten very lazy in his latest novels, lots and lots and lots and lots of repeated information is used to bump up the page counts. And there is at least one good Star Trek book, can't remember the title but it would have been placed about 100 years before Kirk and Company (but it was written long before the Enterprise came out). The story focuses on a Klingon, and darned if I can remember much else, time to dig it up and read it again.

The character he played in Stargate Atlantis is not that much of a stretch from the Conan portrayed by Arnold (psyche wise). Besides, my wife thinks this guy is attractive, and so even if the movie stinks I'll be entertained...

Yes, I bought the first one and was intending to get all of them - till I tried to watch it.

Yes - I bought one of those way back when. (brain getting fuzzy, I might not have bought the slipcase version - which is the picture, but I did see it in the store)

Yes - I don't see any connection with it and the new ST movie though. Does it have lense flare?

Call me dense, I don't get the reference. Did the new ST movie have some connection to Yamato getting made? Or am I missing something in the previous posts on this thread?

Nah - fandom and reverence is not a hinderance, the new Dr. Who is proof of that. Incompetance is the problem. The biggest problem in continuing or expanding on an existing franchise is that there is something to compare against (something that was most likely loved the first time around). Most continuations, reboots, etc. bomb - but look at the track record of original stories and it is just as bad. Ooops forgot to mention that I liked Enterprise, but your point is well taken about it being a good example of the problem, I would argue that Voyager was the worst of the lot though, all the preachiness of Star Trek with none of the fun.

I found it enjoyable. Yeah, you know how it will turn out the instant the cast is shown, BUT I didn't mind. The effects are perfect, and the 3D was used to great effect as well. The writing was solid if not inspired, and the acting from everyone was excellent. I don't expect every movie to be shakesperian (yeah, I probably messed up the spelling). I expect a movie to entertain, and this one did that.

Ditto! Even the uniforms look good (Older live action shows from Japan had uniforms that looked terrible)

I don't know about that, but seasons 1-3 are available on DVD from NetFlix.

They did a joke on that in the last episode, I won't spoil the joke for those that might not have seen it. (I got a chuckle out of it)

To continue with this, anything having to do with sand and romance. runner up "I've got a bad felling about this" abosulte worst possible "Space Rangers is being brought back..."

Very informative, thanks for sharing that. It's amazing what the Anime industry in Japan can make for a shoestring budget (shoestring compared to what it would cost in the US)

Just looked at the box office figures for Macross Frontier and Yamato. (this is on ANN, so if they are not good let me know). Frontier is listed as having a total take of under $5 Million. In the US that would be considered a total washout. Yamato is listed as having $1 Million so far (as of last weekend). Does anyone know how much either of these cost to make? Is the take for these two movies representative of the normal take for a movie in Japan? If so, how does the anime industry in Japan survive? (at those figures, a general US release of each movie would be well worth the cost of translation - even a bomb would bring in that kind of money in the US).