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A while back these guys were all over the place, talking about how bad Shadow Chronicles was, criticizing the animation quality and how long it took to get made. They said when their project was was released we'd see how awesome a fan project could be compared to the official product.

That was spring of 2007. They said the movie was going to be out in October of 2007.

I guess they revised the date after that:

http://robotech.united-earth-group.com/con...65/129/lang,en/

Maybe that's a typo and they meant April 2009? ;p

Maybe that pesky "real life" thing got in the way for them. You know the drill....jobs, bills, families.

The trailer was attached to my viewing of QoS. Guess some theaters didn't get their copy in time? No Watchmen though.

When a trailer is "attached" to any given film, that often means that its physically printed onto the first reel of film, as opposed to other trailers that are just seperate reels that get spliced on. Which means that somebody may have physically removed it from the reel....for whatever purpose. So IF that's what happened...well I'm not going to get upset over Trek anyway, but that's still one of those "Why the hell would you do something like that" moments. This isn't the first time this has happened. There's been numerous times that Movie XYZ was to have a trailer on Movie ABC, only for that trailer to be missing in action, Canada wide no less. So it could be a distribution thing...or a theater chain thing.

But as I said...it's Trek. Instead of complaining, or seeking out some guilty party, I'll just watch it at home tonight while dinner cooks.

The trailer was supposed to be attached to Quantum of Solace (along with Watchmen), but instead all we got treated to was a bunch of garbage. Angels and Demons?! Frak that. And now the trailer is online on Apple's site, but I don't have Quicktime installed here at the office.

Though it still seems reasonable to suspect that the studios were looking to broaden the appeal of the franchise.

That's a fair assessment, I think. After DAD I think even EON realized just how creatively bankrupt the franchise had become. Which brings me to what I consider one of the great ironies of the Bond series. Brosnan had always pushed to not only do a much darker and serious story, but he'd always wanted to do Casino Royale (I remember reading about him having a hardcover first edition, back when he first got the role). Then after EON sat around for a number of years trying to figure out just WTF to do with the series, Brosnan passed his "best before" date and walked away....only to have EON produce exactly the movie he'd lobbied them to produce. Granted he wouldn't have worked as CR's newly-minted 00 agent, but its no small wonder he seems a little bitter over the experience.

Anyway, I think QoS more than likely suffered from the writers strike. On CR, Paul Haggis took a final pass at the script that usual suspects Purvis & Wade had hacked out. Given the hurried timeline for QoS to not only slip under the strike deadline, but to meet the pre-set release date, you have to wonder if he even read past the first act, much less contributed to the script.

Shrinking box office numbers was what was wrong with Brosnan.

Actually, as loathe as I am to defend any Brosnan Bond film other than Goldeneye, this was not the issue. In fact, Die Another Day (easily the Worst. Bond. Ever.) was the highest grossing Bond until Casino Royale took the title away.

So this is what Robotech fandom has come to? They've gone from trying to desperately catalog and justify every single frame of miss-drawn Anime Friend animation as some unique variant, to blatantly drawing facts and figures out of thin air.

I dont think the plot was confusing but a lot of Bond's actions were.

EON Prod. really....REALLY need to ditch Purvis & Wade. I don't even know how these two clowns got the job in the first place, since their IMDB bios show virtually nothing before The World Is Not Enough. They must have some serious blackmail material on the Broccolis. Quantum has just enough plot to string you along from one action sequence to the next, and as a second act to Casino Royale I guess that works, but it really won't stand on its own as a film.

All this talk about military mecha, and I'm surprised no one's mentioned Gasaraki.

That's because the mecha in Gasaraki are only interesting for about the first 1/3 of the series, before they fall completely into the background and are replaced by your typical late 1990's anime metaphyiscal bullshit.

I wonder just how many more films Craig/Rat face will want to do if his first three will live up to everyone's expectations.

Bond needs a nemesis, like Moore had Jaws.

What are you, one of those morons from Craignotbond.com? Yes, that's exactly what the new Bond needs; A cartoonish villain with superhuman attributes, whom the producers will turn into a good guy in the following film because freaking children write letters asking them to. Please people, most Bond films from 1969 - 1987 have aged horribly, and shoult NOT be your barometer for comparing any new films. Try watching them again with a modicum of objectivity and you'll see for yourself.

would that be the T-xXx ?

Beautiful!

Who knows, maybe they have motocross-looking terminators, too?

Would they be XTREME motocross-looking terminators?

Meh, it was pretty much a given that the hardcore fans would hate the retconned Enterprise no matter what it looked at. Which, in turn, proves once again my point that when attempting something new and different with any given franchise, you should steer clear of what the own-all-the-sourcebooks-and-maintain-the-wiki-page fans want. Or what they think they want. And am I the only one who enjoys the irony of somebody as anal as David H throwing the term "slavish" around?

Wouldn't make sense to turn Ninja Scroll into a live-action western, as the meaningless title would lose even more meaning...

Unless it was a "Samurai MEETS the Wild West" movie, like Red Sun with Toshiro Mifune and Charles Bronson...

I'm more curious how Cromartie is going to come back next week, per the preview, after Sarah went postal on his CPU with the butt of her MP5 and a rock. Unless he can regenerate a neural net processor as well as his fleshy coating.

James Cameron has said he's had ZERO input on Salvation and that the story of McG asking his blessing is a lie, a load of crock to get the terminator fanboys onboard:

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/09/29/james-...cg-says-he-did/

AICN has some new comments direct from Cameron on the matter:

There's been some discussion at AICN and elsewhere of me rescinding my so-called blessing of T4 and that's not the case. The truth is there never was a blessing to rescind, and there's been some kind of misunderstanding between me and McG, perfectly innocent I believe. He asked me in a phone call when I was shooting in New Zealand earlier this year if I would be a supporter and creative participant in the new film. I said sure, send me the script and I'll give you my thoughts. And I warned him that free advice is usually worth what you pay for it. For whatever reason I never got the script and to date I haven't seen a foot of film other than what everybody's seen in the trailer, which is not enough to form an opinion. So I have zero basis for supporting or dissing the film. As I said in an interview, for all I know it could be a masterpiece or it could be a big steaming pile. I think all people heard was the steaming pile part and concluded I was against the film, which I'm not. In fact, it might be very good, an opinion based solely on what Sam Worthington has shared with me. He's nobody's fool when it comes to material, and has absolutely the lowest bullshit quotient of anyone I know, and he has repeatedly told me that he reckons the film is going to be good. I know him to be very critical (in a healthy way) of his own work, and an actor who always aspires to excellence, so I know he wouldn't praise the film if he didn't feel it.

Obviously I can't give my blessing (whatever that means anyway ) to the film completely blind. But I'm predisposed to be supportive based on Sam's involvement and his judgment, because I believe in him. So there you have it. Let's all keep our fingers crossed that it's not a steaming pile.

Jim out

A new FEATURETTE is online, with plenty of new footage that wasn't in the trailer. I'm still far from sold on this, but so far it doesn't scream "suck!" yet.

Edit: This is the wrong damn Terminator thread.

LRS is the only one that was already subbed and findable! It's an old VHS rip, but it's watchable... hopefully they do the other OVAs!

True, but this Shinsen version blows away the old fansub that was circulating the torrent sites. Its worth the re-download just for the improved image. I took a look at their web site and theres no mention of the other OVAs (other than somebody asking that very question on their forums).

Attention! Shinsen Subs has just released a copy of The Last Red Shoulder. I'm downloading it now, and hopefully they'll go on to do the other OVAs. Maybe if we're lucky they'll even do Heretic Saint.

Do your math, guys.

You should check your math before you say things like that. FORBES lists a budget of $231.6 million, which is closer to what I remembered hearing back in the day. They give a BO figure of U.S. Box Office: $61.2 million and Foreign Box Office: $145.9 million. Of course, none of this accounts for the ad budget, which is usually Hollywood's dirty little accounting secret.

Lets not forget that the film's first two reels are virtaully a scene-for-scene remake of The Road Warrior.

IIRC, there was some moderately interesting stuff that got cut from the original movie. More interesting that the finished film, probably.

Scientists hope to clone extinct species

Oh sure, they'll start off with some mice, then work their way up to a cute and cuddly woolly mammoth...but how long until some genius decides to clone a Velociraptor. You know..."just to see if they could do it."

A team of scientists will use a World War II-era plane to explore one of the last uncharted regions of Earth, in hopes of learning more about climate change.

Now...why oh why does this sound disturbingly familiar...? Oh yeah!

The higher sky, as we crossed the range, was surely vaporous and disturbed enough; and although I did not see the zenith, I can well imagine that its swirls of ice dust may have taken strange forms. Imagination, knowing how vividly distant scenes can sometimes be reflected, refracted, and magnified by such layers of restless cloud, might easily have supplied the rest—and, of course, Danforth did not hint any of these specific horrors till after his memory had had a chance to draw on his bygone reading. He could never have seen so much in one instantaneous glance.

At the time, his shrieks were confined to the repetition of a single, mad word of all too obvious source: "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!"

Greaaat....so now I have to worry about Shoggoth protection?

Uhm, he was REALLY laughable in Never Say Never Again ....

Connery in NSNA was still 10X better than Connery in Diamonds Are Forever.

If only there were a way to trap and contain your "wit."