Wanzerfan

The only reason why to pick up a copy of Postal is the full version of Postal 2 included in the jewel case (Boll must have a chronic case of head up the ass syndrome ). Verne Troyer must'be been really desperate for money for agreeing to appear in that flick.

As for Jackson, he didn't go by the book when he made the extended version for Return of the King. He offed Saruman way too early in the movie (he should've did it in the end, when the Shire was torched, insead of near the beginning of the flick).

Oh, and wether he likes or not (I didn't know he despised the long version), Lynch was in the director's chair when the editors cut the long verision, so he shouldn't bitch, since he gets paid wether people buy the short or long version of the film.

Less Lebouf, more hot chic, more robot pr0n please.

I think you mean "p0rn", Uxi.

You must be dyslexic, oh I'm sorry, that was a typo .

Starship Troopers was excellent imo. Verhoeven did not like the book and only loosly based his movie on it, blaming him for not being true to Hemlein's ideas makes no sense.

As for my most hated scifi directors:

Wachowsky brothers for making those two hideous sequels to an otherwise good movie.

Peter Jackson: Overhyped and the one director that got revered for NOT adding anything to a film.

David Lynch Verhoven's not. Dune is a perfect example of a book-based movie done right (I prefer the long version). At least Lynch made the differances between the book and the movie logical.

Starship Troopers was total crap.

i want to see x-men done right, with all of the x-men being the right ages and having the correct powers (rouge needs to be able to fly and have super-strength [they can do an origin story about her later one]... and jubilee needs to be wolverine's sidekick). also, all of the mutants need to be on the correct side (like multiple man and psylocke cast as bad guys in the last stand).

Rogue got those powers when Mystique tricked her into draining the original Ms. Marvel, so the recent movies got it right so far.

I've got a real obscure one: Atari Force from the mid-Eighties. It has excellent storytelling, and I'm a fan of Jose Luis Garcia Lopez's artwork.

I still think that the dub on Star Blazers was superior to Robotech and BOTP. BUT there were a few good things about the BOTP dub. The voice cast was fantastic and the introduction of Hoyt Curtins music to complement (not replace) the original Japanese soundtrack was brilliant.

Taksraven

At the cost of having all of the violence and sexual ambiguity cut. (I watched the first few episodes of Gatchaman when it was On Demand, that particular dub was good, not great, but good).

Where the hell is the VF-1S?

THE JOLLY ROGERS NEED TO BE REPRESENTED!!!

Harris County, Texas (in the vicinity of the city of Houston).

Let's go 180 from the other topic and discuss movies based on comics you would like to be made.

I've got 2 to put up.

• Lobo (yeah, I'm a sick bastard, deal with it).
• WildC.A.T.S. (what can I say, I'm a rabid Jim Lee fan; I loved the animated series in the nineties)

At the time I had lost interest in RT and Sentinels killed my remaining sympathy. My interest in Macross came back when I saw Macross II and DYRL. Took me a while to find out that MII was an alternate reality, but they saved Macross for me.

That's according to Kawamori (to believe he can create something with his head planted so far up his ass is beyond me). Since Macross II: Lovers Again was produced before the other newer Macross series, it is considered canon by most Macross fans (at least as far as Seto Kaiba is concerned).

Silly me, When I read Games as the title of this forum, I thought it covered all games.

Oh well, move away.

Dude, my best friend is a hardcore lifter and Arnold fan. He bought this movie just for the scene of Arnold doing those curls or whatever directly into the camera. It also at times makes me wonder about his sexuality at times...

The dude's boinking a Kennedy, for god's sake. There's no question where his sexuality lies.

They were actually never going to be connected together. The toys from Robotech were just rereleased with the ExoSquad name because they looked similar ENOUGH to fit in, but it was never going to go beyond toys.

I know where you're coming from, since I assumed they were going to connect the shows, and the new aliens who showed up at the end of season 2 would be Robotech-related.

I read an interview with writers from ExoSquad not too long ago and they confirmed that these aliens were to be completely new. They were never going to have a connection to Robotech whatsoever.

Harmony Gold's activity was minimal, if any at all, just dealing with the toys, which might in reality have been all Matchbox and not Harmony Gold at all.

Matchbox never had the rights to the Robotech Exo-Squad toys. Playmates was the company that had the rights to produce the toys.

That sucks.

Minorly off topic: I wonder why Universal Cartoon Studios weren't able to produce season 3? That season wouldve guaranteed to kick ass, as well as close some major plot holes. Oh well, here's hoping for an OVA release (most likely when hell freezes over).

Uwe Boll and Paul Verhoven top my list.

Anything from Boll sucks, and in the case of Verhoven look no further thanm that abomination on cellulite known as Starship Troopers (c'mon, if you're going to make a movie about infantry in mechanized power armor, at least include the damned things).

Well, Bethesda in their infinite wisdom decided to finally rerelease the first three Fallout games that came out on the PC on one DVD.

• Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
• Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
• Fallout Tactics

I just started the first game and, well, am haveing a blast with it. I'll give a full review when I get further in the game.

Due to legal reasons, the company have to issue the game with the Interplay (Atari) and the Black Isle Studios (most of the employees went on to form Obsidian studios) names attached to the box.

Also, lets not forget the failed attempt to tie in Robotech in with Exo Squad. When Season three of Exo-Squad failed to even get out of production, pissed would not even begin to describe the word in representing my feelings on that subject.

Another reason I don't trust Harmony Gold.

I have the first Bay movie figure of Starscream. Damned thing looks like a freaking Slippery When Wet road sign in Robot mode (the freaking torso, at least). Not a bad looking F-22 Raptor mode, though. A word of advice about the figure, do not put the missles into his hands, the firing mechanism is on a freaking hair trigger (I do have them in a safe place, though).

Someone please edit the poll to say eat Michael Bay, please.

Here is an interesting question. How did people here first find out about the true nature of Robotech, and the fact that it was made up of three unrelated series?

I found out by reading an article in Starlog magazine, when they did a special about "Japanimation" spread over two issues. It was in that article that I read the Robotech comprised three unconnected series, and it mentioned the HG plans at the time to commission a further 175 episodes to bridge the gap between the three show.

(Actually, if anybody has that ancient article or scans of it, I would love to see it again.)

Taksraven

The three series were Super Dimentional Fortress Macross, Super Dimentional Cavalry Southern Cross, and Genesis Climber Mospeda. The first two shows were a part of an unrelated trilogy of shows known as the Super Dimentionals (the third was Super Dimentional Century Orguss). All three shows were produced by Tatsunoko Studios, a subsidary of Big West. The sereis that was going to bridge the three unrelated series together was Robotech II: The Sentinels (also to be done by Tatsunoko); a show that only had enough money to have three episodes made until the U.S. Dollar tanked against the Yen, and when that happened, Matchbox bailed on the project.

This really illustrates what I dislike about Robotech. It's a dub and editing job with a different name, not a real piece of creative work. What was good in RT, was good in the original counterparts already.

Time has moved on. Since the anime boom of the late 90s anime fans increasingly disapprove of "westernising the original work". With that change any chance of rebuilding Robotech is dead in the water, even if HG managed to buy a few more licenses for a new hack job. Sure RT was cool and fresh in the 80s now all that remains is a sense of nostalgia and a few obessed fans. Trying to reanimate this dead corpse ended up with Frankenstein offspring like the Wildstorm comics and Shadow Chronicles.

Wish HG'd just give up and sell their anime licenses to ADV and RT.com to a psychotherapist.

Yeah, I would love to see the franchise back in Carl Macek's hands, anyway. The Three "Musketeers" that run HG really have ruined it, in my opinion.

I wasn't being sarcastic...I really have no idea what you're talking about. I haven't watched much Robotech since '85 or '86 (every once in a while, I would let my Robotech Perfect Collection videos go on past the Japanese-subbed episodes, but I could never watch for long).

So I don't remember who Jonathan Wolff is or why it matters whether he was on the SDF-1 or in New Albuquerque, nor do I understand why THAT was the breaking point for you to turn against Robotech.

For me, the argument against Robotech (and HG) can be summed up in three simple points:

1. What they did to Macross.

2. What they did to Macross merchandise.

3. Shadow Chronicles.

I was talking about what Harmony Gold did to the franchise with the recent comic books. I really dug the Eternity line of comics. When Wildstorm publishing got ahold of the franchise, they basicly made sure those Eternity stories never happened, i.e. removed from cannon. I hate to see a perfectly good story go to waste.

Johnathan Wolff was the Robotech character in the New Generation that betrayed humanity to the Invid. He was killed at the end of that particular episode screaming first his family's then Minmei's name. In the Sentinels, he led the Hovertank platoon known as the Wolff Pack (he's the one with the black mustache).

The Malcontent Uprisings comic line really bridged the Macross and Southern Cross storylines nicely.

Ok, how about some fresh meat. Did anybody see John Carpenter's 1995 remake of "Village of the Damned"? God, that was crap.....

Taksraven

Was that Christopher Reeve's last flick before he took a header off a horse? If it is, then I haven't seen that particular flick yet.

I should've clarified myself. I would aslo like to see the games translated, since I can't read a lick of Japanese Kanji.

Enhancements to the gameplay and the graphics wouldn't hurt either.

I was just giving my opinion and reasons why on wether or not Harmony gold should have their license renewed. It is what this thread is about, isn't it?

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I think I'm going to need hip waders to get through that RIVER OF SARCASM I just encountered.

Is energon a renewable resource they just convert ordinary energy into energon.

How do they pertray it in other series?

I know in the new animated series it is in short supply and is rationed.

In G1 the Decepticons converted raw recources into Energon using cubes that Soundwave manufacurted.

In Transformers Energon, energon is a natural resource here on Earth.

I have Issues #0-6 of the new Wildstrom Robotech series of comic books. I have to say I bailed out on the franchise when I found out what they did to Johnathan Wolff in that particular comic line. Steve Yun and the gang in their infinite wisdom decided to have him staitioned onboard the SDF-1 insead of the New Alburquerque base during the Macross Saga, and decided that the Malcontent Uprisings and Sentenels storylines never existed (I can understand them not wanting having anything to do with the Sentinels, that story became a train wreck when Matchbox bailed); that was one of the best Robotech storylines out there (I love Chris Ulm's artwork, and the Breetai solo story in either issue #7 or #8 was the best ever written).

For the Seirra Hotel Indigo Tango that company has pulled, Hamony Gold doesn't deserve to have its license renewed.

I'd sic Leroy Jethro Gibbs on that corporation if I could. Carl Macek certailny flubbed when the company was taken over by Steve Yun, Tommy Yune, and Tom Bateman, but the guy's busy running ADV here in Houston, Texas (bet you guys didn't know that company was headquartered in that city, now did you?).

Megs wasn't a tank in the first Bey movie, he was a starship (my brother has the figure), with his head is on top of the ventral fuselage in vehicle mode hidden. I have no freaking idea what he'll look like in the sequel.