Dynaman

First season was some of the best TV ever done, second season was downhill from there. Paraphrasing someone else "There was a fourth season?"

They just didn't have enough Mecha shows...

You do realize that is actually a compliment rather then an insult? Needing to use ANY tech support these days is a nightmare... Seperate note, computer graphics is not just used for CGI (as such). It started being used in the eighties (of all things) in some Disney productions, to help keep the perspective correct when moving the camera. (I forget what movie exactly, the director of Iron Giant was talking about it on the commentary to one of his films)

Computers are used to do more of the scaling and tweening work today. The most obvious example would be the higher frame rate for mechanical items and the smoother animation that results - even on low budget productions. There are many who do not like the "look" that such techniques come up with, but that is a seperate matter.

Forget the eighties, what about the seventies! There is NO WAY the outside of the Millenium Falcon scales to the inside! Too be serious though, it is a common phenomonom that continues through today, movies and TV are artistic productions and as such the scale of things shown on screen is fuzzy at best. It is more important that things look "good" rather then be exactly to scale.

The way they said Hikaru bugged me just as much (even if I did just spell his name wrong...) Many times it was pronounced by the English cast as HE-CAR-EWW When I hear the Japanese cast say HE-KA-ROO (my phonetic spelling skills are bad, but I think anyone who has heard the dub knows what I mean)

In the case of the M16 it is two things. 1 - Bullets are lighter so the soldiers can carry more of them. 2 - Recoil is much lower with a lighter bullet. (but I digress from the topic...)

A friend of mine ALWAYS mentions Gigantor whenver I started talking anime, and he did not have any source for stuff straight from Japan, so it must have been on somewhere in the US.

Close enough!

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.

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?

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.

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)

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...

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)

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.

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.

Which is about a 100% probability... Not that I mind, I like the show.

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.

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.

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...

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...)

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...

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.

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)