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    GUNDAM: NETFLIX is working on a live-action Gundam movie

    in Anime or Science Fiction

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    21 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

    I thought Inspector Gadget was pretty good... for a family movie, anyway.

    But Netflix's Gundam project is a western live-action adaptation of an anime series, and that's a very different animal because a painfully small number of western writers and directors understand the little things like subtlety and pacing.  Is it really going to feel like a proper Gundam series if the main character is Tommy Testosterone-Tits and the writers send him on your standard action movie killing spree intent on causing as much CG property damage as the budget can sustain with only the barest suggestion of a plot under the carnage?  Giant robots tend to inspire Hollywood writers to "mindless violence" screenplays rather than the kind of anti-war character drama that is usually Gundam's stock in trade.

    Granted, anime movie adaptations have also come a long way from the "let us never speak of this again" era of Speed Racer and Dragonball Evolution and are now on the level where reviews can focus on specific poor decisions like wasting half a film justifying white-washing explicitly Japanese characters rather than just "Why have you done this terrible thing?".

    Dot'1 forget about Netflix' Death Note^^

    Macross II .....possibility of it existing in Macross?

    in Movies and TV Series

    Posted · Edited by Old_Nash

    23 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

    Except for that first sentence, this is wrong.

    When Macross II was first introduced, it was THE Macross sequel... as in, literally the only one. 

    After Kawamori was enticed back to do Macross Plus and Macross 7, it was rebranded as a "parallel world" timeline separate from that of Kawamori's Macross sequels.  That news was dispensed in a few places like a note at the end of the OVA's novelization.  Officially, at least as far as Big West goes, it seems to retain this "parallel world" status.

    Some printed materials from the late 90's into the 2000s list Macross II on the same timeline as all of the other Macross stories.

    Kawamori's view is more wooly.  His take, from the Macross Museum, is that he doesn't really believe in canon and that all Macross stories are stand-alone and equally valid.  In the past, he'd opined various things like all Macross stories being dramatizations of a "true" Macross history that amount to much the same thing.

    So, it's like the same with Macross 2036 or True Love Song.

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