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.

It was one of my favorite MST3K episodes, I can say that much. And it had my favorite riff ever(*), "Lets look lively everyone!" - and it wasn't even a line from the MST3K crew. (can't say why it's great - that gives it away) (*) - Second favorite, my favorite is from a vampire movie, the must have scene at the end where they are killing the vampire in a boarded up building, hero hits a support off the building revealing sunlit - and the vampire instantly bursts into flames - to which crow says the following line deadpan "Gee - some people burn awefully easy in the sun" But back to Space Mutiny - it was an absolute disaster of a movie without the MST3K treatment.

on the new trailers, did I see a union jack on the Daleks? (the trailer for the UK has a close shot of a Dalek, and I thought I saw the flag on it, it's pretty small and could just be a red and white smudge though) EDIT - never mind - the trailer above CLEARLY shows that it was a Union Jack...

Mark me down as another hater. The show had promise, but when I spend half of each episode KNOWING that every character is a stupid moron (even the ones that are supposed to be smart), well that puts a damper on things. Case in point, those people have NO idea about securing nuclear weaponry... On a different note, I just finished watching Planetes, and it was worth every minute of my life spent watching it. It was good enough that I ended up watching the last 4 episodes last night instead of waiting till tonight, I had to see what would happen next.

But *I* did say they remove stuff that was there, attention, pay some! (the nuance bit) I'll agree that it is much more likely to get an atrocious dub then it is an atrocious sub.

By that logic, in order to truly appreaciate ANYTHING you have to be a native speaker of the language and culture it was created in, dub, sub, voice over translation - NONE of these can bring out the origal intended experience. A good dub is MUCH harder then a good sub, but the latest Akira and Nausica prove that it can be done (note, NOT the older version of either). A sub can be just as bad as a dub as well. It is well known that a dub has to match the lips (more of less) of the character speaking - what is not as well appreaciated is that a sub must often leave out a lot of nuance in order to make it readable in the time available for it to be on screen (just watch an english DVD with the subtitles on and see how much of what the characters say does not make it into the subtitles)

Yes, people are far too stringy, Dog on the other hand smokes up very nicely. "A modest Proposal" anyone?

Of course your forgetting the next bit - where she said if they were NOT blanks she would have shot her father instead. I'm willing to believe it was the truth too.

I just finished watching it, I got the feeling it didn't really go anywhere, could just be me though. Lafiel's english VA doesn't seem to know how to put any emotion in her voice. That said, I do have the follow up series in my NetFlix queue - but it has to wait behind Planetes and FMA.

Stating the blatantly obvious does not make one a prophet. (insert smiley here...) Surprising would have been for something to get released.

That's great! I'm watching the first series now, and if the followup is even better then I'm in for a treat. Code geass on the other hand, sent the disk back to netflix without even watching all the episodes.

When "Misa" was not trying to sound bossy she was fine, when she was trying to sound bossy it sounded more like chalk scrapping across a chalckboard to me (and she has to sound bossy most of the time). The VA that played her had a pleasing enough voice when doing the commentary on DVD, she just seems to have tried too hard. I much preferred the subtitled dialog versus the dubbed dialog too. (even more so then normal in this case)

You don't need to have any proof of that to get a cease and desist - you need proof of damages in order to get restitution. What UEG should do is claim there project is a parody, then there is nothing that HG can do to stop them. (well, sue them into oblivion is viable).

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.