Dynaman

It's one thing to have moral failings, and from a plot and character perspective it can be good

The cliffhanger pretty much stunk. Colonel Young ought to be taken out and shot for gross stupidity. No way in Hades a competent military commander would ever allow things to get so far out of hand. I mean the stupid meter hit about 1000% (and that is not a typo).

I'll probably see it when it comes out on DVD. The Fly was a great movie, if for no other reason then it grossed out my friend. The line about the BrundleFly museum of natural history was a hoot too.

That's the one.

To be fair, Will Wheaton HATED Wesley too. I even saw a clip of him telling Wesley to shut up... Besides, we all know that the MOST hated person from TNG was Tasha Yar (at least till she died and came back)

I'll hijack my own thread, The Star Blazers website has more English info on the Yamato Live Action movie - Most interesting part to me is that Knox/Saito is part of the movie... http://www.starblazers.com/html.php?page_id=465&PHPSESSID=dbd409373f82b2404d61c5d505f3f21c&PHPSESSID=3c55fd3f8a3f4b9247aa24ee4b98cf4f

There was a great Computer Animated short making fun of Max Headroom back when it came out. The computer animated guy was saying that Synthetic parts should go to synthetic actors... It was a Fun show.

July 13th, not terrible, nearly $100 US - OUCH! Hopefully a US version will be out soon (in a year or two that is)

Somewhere I saw that the Yamato movie is coming out on DVD June 4th. Sadly it probably will not have English Subtitles (or be region 1 either). That said, can anyone point me in the right direction on finding it when it comes out? My Japanese Google Foo is weak... Heck I have a PS3, if the Blue-Ray version is watchable here in the US I could get that one. So info on that is helpful too. (I didn't see the old Yamato thread so I started a new one, only existing one was about Pachinko)

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.