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i'm interested in the super parts, but i already have a vf-25f. would you consider selling them separately?

So, last night i saw Legend of the Fist: the Return of Chen Zhen Donnie Yen's newest movie. It was really good. Directed by Andrew Lau, the same guy who made Infernal Affairs (the basis for The Departed) so the cinematography is really nice. Donnie Yen choreographed and directed the action scenes and it seems to me with every movie he does his action scenes get better and better.

This movie is a sequel to Fist of Fury, the Bruce Lee classic, and also Donnie's remake tv show of it made in the early 90's. Unfortunately the the movie seems to bear little resemblance to the original story. If i were to describe this movie it would be a period superhero movie (like the Phantom or the Shadow) mixed with chinese patriotism. Basically the story is Chen Zhen returns to China after fleeing to europe during WWI after the events in Fist of Fury. Chen is part of a freedom fighter organization opposing Japanese invasion. He eventually dons the iconic Kato outfit to become a masked hero.

Now the story may sound kind of goofy, but it really is a good, fun movie. Lots of graphic violence and blood and great fight scenes. I like that Yen doesn't try to imitate Lee's character. That's probably why i liked Jet Li's remake Fist of Legend so much too. Li and Yen weren't trying to be Lee, they were making the character their own.

Speaking of Bruce Lee, i recently found the full 36 min fight scenes in the pagoda from Game of Death. If you remember the original cut (hack job) of Game of Death only spliced in 11 min of Bruce's filmed fights. Looks like this footage is almost the complete final act of the film.

So since Tatsunoko has the international rights to SDF Macross, about how much money does HG pay to them. Is it a percentage of the profits or just a licensing fee?

Related to that, does anyone ever think Tatsunoko will ever end their business relationship with HG?

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I just found a fansub group that is doing SPT Layzner. Watched the first 2 eps and it is a really cool show. I especially like the mecha designs.

I'm not gonna dive into making fun of those guys, but you may get a kick out of this...http://www.robotechx.com/forums/32-macross/13183-macross-frontier-movies.html#13183, and continued here...http://www.robotechx.com/forums/42-other-anime-series/11993-animemanga-under-18-censor-amendment-in-japan.html

Got a good laugh out of the issue, thought you may also.

So it goes from a post about the new release of the Macross F movie to MEMO accusing all anime fans of being pedos... Yep seems like the trend of any RT forum discussion.

Not sure if I should ask this here or in the newbie Macross thread, but would this be the reason why Macross F came up with the 'New UN Spacy' and a new logo? Is Kawamori trying to distance himself from SDF:M so that Macross can stand apart from Robotech?

I doubt Kawamori cares about HG, RT, or anything in America when it comes to Macross. Like I've said before, Macross does just fine even though they are confined to only Japan. Anime still makes more money in Japan than in the rest of the world.

Wow, i just had a big scare.

So i wanted to play some MGS3, so i put the disc in. After a little bit of playing i decided i was done for the day, but when i tried to eject the disc it wouldn't come out. but the worst part was a nasty clicking noise when the disc was trying to come out.

Thankfully it eventually came out fine after holding the eject button for a while. But, that gave me one hell of a fright. I have the old big and heavy PS3 which is now out of the warranty and i did not want to spend money to get it repaired. Anyway i hope that doesn't happen again.

You guys have to see this:

Donnie Yen is making a sequel to the Bruce Lee classic 'Fist of Fury' aka 'The Chinese Connection' and Jet Li's 'Fist of Legend'

Looks like it will feature some WWII battle scenes and *Drum Roll* Donnie in the Kato outfit. I'm super excited cause he will be doing the action choreography as well.

In other related news a remake of 'One Armed Swordsman' is in the works starring Donnie too. I recently watched Tsui Hark's version made in the 90's and man was it bad, hopefully this new one will be good.

The rest of this year and the next will be good for Kung Fu action.

If anyone is looking for a good vintage film, may I suggest 'Lady Snowblood'. I recently dug this up from my collection after not seeing it for years and I was reminded how awesome it is. A really cool revenge flick with a pretty good story to boot. If you are a fan of the Kill Bill movies, you need to see this, basically the complete inspiration for Lucy Lu's character and subplot.

I really have to check out 'Lone Wolf and Cub' i understand that it is written by the same guy as 'Lady Snowblood'

So i just saw the two Red Cliff movies, and all i can say is the great John Woo is back. After nearly 2 decade of making crap in America John Woo finally goes back east to make great movies.

This movie is awesome for those who are either fans of Woo or fans of historical epics. Great battle scenes, great cinematography, great music, and great acting. Tony Leung once again gives a powerhouse performance. I especially liked the emphasis on strategy and battle tactics that Leung's army used to defeat a much larger force. The only way this movie could've been better is if Donnie Yen was in it.

I'm really hoping John Woo has given up on Hollywood and makes movies exclusively in China and Hong Kong.

I also recently saw a Jet Li historical movie called Warlords. I liked it, it put more emphasis on the politics in the imperial chinese military.

I don't know if it is just me or does it seem that a lot of big budget chinese historical epics are being made recently?

Even though most people dismiss it, i think Predator 2 was better than this movie. I guess it really comes down to the premise of 2 being more realistic and the fact that 2 added things to the mythology, but nothing really dumb. Taking random warriors and dropping them off on a 'hunting preserve' planet kinda ruins the whole honor/fair-play rule that the predators previously showed. (Am i the only one who is kinda offended that this movie presents some Yakuza gangster as a samurai warrior. Since he's japanese he must know how to wield a sword, right?)

When it comes to the casting of Brody (who i do like as an actor) I get the vibe of another movie trying to be different casting an actor outside of expectations. I suppose in real life soldiers are rarely buff powerhouses like Arnold, but that was part of the charm of Predator, it was an over-the-top 80's action movie. This movie certainly went over the top on everything else, why not try to recapture the charm of 80's action heroes too?

I'm really hating all these sequels, prequels, and reboots of movies i grew up on. Oh cheesus, i hope they don't touch Robocop, the thrid movie already put the franchise on life-support. And yet i'm still hoping Ridley Scott can make something i like with his Alien prequel.

The Harry Potter films. J.K. Rowling reserved for herself a good deal of creative control over the films.

While there are certainly cases where the film studio has complete control over a movie's production, this isn't an absolute rule. It all amounts to leverage. It's the film studio's desire to obtain the movie rights measured against the owner's willingness to cede over complete control.

I think most fans generally assume that the original owner has no input in a movie production because, oftentimes, the movie version radically strays from the source material or it simply flops at the box office.

Yes except the Harry Potter books is one of the highest selling book series in history, while RT is a little remembered 80's cartoon from a company that has no influence and little in the way of brand recognition.

One has to ask if the RT movie is such a major priority to WB that they can give some nobodies a say in one of their productions. That would be like WB giving a first time unknown director final cut on a big budget movie.

I'm surprised how long it has taken for this movie to get from cinema to DVD, is this typical for movies in Japan? American movies are usually in stores within a few months.

Oh great a side story about a character they cut from Shadow Chronicles, lol. That's less interesting than a side story about Yot-Chan.

And now it seems that they will be pulling the "It's what Carl would have wanted" card on everything now. Why doesn't Tommy and HG deify him and make the church robocrazy, it'll be like scientology except without the money or influence.

Toynami seems to do okay when it comes to cheap bargain bin products. When they have to do expensive collectors pieces, they are laughably incompetent.

No idea... but if I had to guess, I'd say that there's a strong possibility that Harmony Gold decided to discontinue the New Generation masterpiece collection after the reissued Maia Sterling VF/A-6ZX came out. There's been no movement on further New Generation MPCs since the Maia MPC was recalled, and the generally poor quality of both the initial mold and the reissue of the Maia Sterling one seems to have put a lot of Robotech fans off the idea of buying into the New Generation's Masterpiece Collection.

Judging by the current state of affairs on the Robotech.com store, it's safe to say that the New Generation MPCs have sold pretty poorly overall. Despite being extremely-limited edition collectibles¹, the only one of the New Generation MPCs to sell out so far is the very first one... Scott Bernard's VF/A-6H. Some of the New Generation's MPCs have been in the store for four or five years now without selling out, and appear to be in no danger of selling out anytime soon. My guess would be that they decided that they shouldn't waste any more time and money stocking products that don't sell, and made the decision to fall back on peddling Macross toys, which are practically guaranteed to sell considering the average Robotech fan's Macross-centric mindset.

1. Ordinarily, a limited run of 15,000 pieces. However, the runs have been getting progressively smaller as time has gone on. The Beta fighters were limited to 10,000 units, and the Maia reissue to 5,000.

Toynami is more to blame for making such terrible quality products. Toynami seems to be following the HG business model of pure incompetence. But i still find it funny how Toynami tries to sweeten their bad products by slapping a 'limited' label on it. A piece of junk made in limited quantity is still a piece of junk.

I sometimes see MPCs on ebay for like $200+ (Roy and Rick) and i wonder if anyone in their right mind would pay that much for a mediocre product when they can get a Yamato for much less.

But I do really hate they overdo the racism in the 2nd movie.

It's pretty typical for Chinese films that take place during the British Empire era. To be fair, the Brits did treat the Chinese pretty badly.

How much of DYRL was Tatsunoko involved in? Do they own any of the outside-of-japan rights to it?

I've heard that no one knows who owns the distribution rights to it, but shouldn't there be records for that sort of thing?

So i saw Ip Man 2 last week and in short i found the first movie to be much better. Without spoiling it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet, I'll comment. Why was Simon Yam in this movie? He served no purpose what so ever, unlike the last movie where he was pivotal to the plot. Anyone else feel the Rocky IV vibe from about 1/2 though on. And i can't really take some boxer as a serious contender against Ip Man after he handed 10 guys their asses in the first movie and consistently beats martial arts masters who have studied it all their lives.

Gentlemen... I believe you may find this video very very interesting...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vMIXm1Ab0U

(The CGI is just a test version. The final CGI will be much much better I've been told...)

looks good i guess

I wonder if anime's favourite lecherous robot will be in this adaptation.

I would assume that it was because you were drinking coffee at the time. If you weren't drinking coffee and it almost came out of your nose, however, it might be time to see a doctor.

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one of the mysterious powers of protoculture

Adding audio is something that is done a lot. I've seen many shows and movies where the Japanese version has no speech since it is meant to be a scene where the image is supposed to tell the story and let the viewer fill in the blanks but they always add audio.

These shows are always aimed at kids and kids don't really get the whole silent scene moment so they have to add speech to keep them interested. Can you imagine trying to get a young kid to watch a silent movie?

The original Macross was made for kids in Japan, you know. Heck almost all TV anime in the 80's was made for kids. The adult anime was just in Movie form (then later in OVAs) until like the mid-90s.

Just got the blue ray for it.

Yeah, pretty much... every now and again on Robotech.com there'd be a thread done in the form of "Hey! <D-LIST CELEB> <MENTIONED/MIGHT BE A FAN OF> Robotech!", and there'd be a bit of a brouhaha over it, as though it proved that Robotech still mattered. The only one I vividly recall apart from Tobey was Wil Wheaton (TNG's Wesley Crusher).

HAHAHA, Will Wheaton? The guy who has been in more bad direct to video sci-fi movies than Mark Descasus? The guy who played a character that everyone hates from star trek?

And here i thought it was pathetic that the were excited about Mark Hamil being in SC.

Maybe if RT fans are lucky, when the WB movie falls through, Uwe Boll will pick up the license and make a LAM starring Will Wheaton.

I was wondering why there is a thread for a nation-wide motel chain