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God...that means Hellblazer IV, Leprechaun 4, and Jason X are all science fiction, too, doesn't it? Y'know what? There are WAAAAAAY too many bad movies set in space.

Okay, I'll admit it. I've never seen the Postman all the way through. I tried to watch it once on HBO, and just couldn't finish. The book was good, though. And yes, the first Star Wars is utterly ridiculous, but in a really fun way. Episode I on the other hand, had some saving graces, but not many. I don't really think of Star as being SF, though. It's more like fantasy with SF trappings.

I'm beginning to wonder that myself...

I think Plan 9 always gets on the list because it's really quite entertaining...very funny and utterly baffling at the same time. Thus, it's a terrible movie that you can recommend to your friends and NOT have them hate you. Waterworld, Battlefield Earth, The Postman, and the like are, on the other hand, true endurance tests. Which, yes, makes them worse, but also makes them much less fun to watch.

????? It's not a great movie by any stretch, but worst of all time? Wrose than Battlefield Earth? Worse than Monster a-Go-Go? Worse than Star Wars Episode I? Worse than Invasion from Inner Earth? Worse than The Giant Spider Invasion? Worse than The Incredible Melting Man? Worse than Species II? Worse than Teenagers from Outer Space? Worse than Bride of the Monster? Worse than Red Planet? Worse than Event Horizon? Worse than Marooned? Worse than Breeders? Worse than Demonwarp? Worse than Message from Space? Worse than H-Man? Worse than Inframan? Worse than Dos Nacos de la Planeta de las Mujeres? WORSE THAN TURKISH STAR WARS??? I don't believe it.

Shark Attack 3 didn't NEED gimmicks like 3D...its greatest strength lay in its clever and witty dialogue.

Hey, it ABSOLUTELY CAN'T be any worse than "Shark Attack 3"...

Mm, it's not the nitpicking, it's the target: it seems to me that since Grace is entirely artificial, the more make-up and photoshop the cosplayers use, the more authentic they're being. "She looks like the real thing... She tastes like the real thing... My fake plastic manager/secret agent/megalomaniac..."

"Fall of MAN"...? How lame is that? Why didn't they go for the best route, and call it "Fall of the Revengen"?

Let me get this straight... People are complaining that *GRACE* doesn't look NATURAL enough...?

You could always learn Japanese...

Hmm...reminds me of the scene in Macross Plus with Isamu, Myung, and the sour fruit... At least now you KNOW the movie is bad.

Well, you can't say you weren't warned...

Is she still advertising that? I was thinking about taking some lessons from her a few years ago, to see if I could finally reach that elusive thing called "fluency." And since we're talking about Mari here, I have to share this again: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=9275

Don't worry, I figured as much. Anyway, it looks very nice so far...can't wait to see it when it's open!

Thanks a lot.

I'll get this. Definitely. Hell, I'll buy two if it means they'll make more. I'd even buy three...one to build, one to keep as a spare, and one to turn into the Fire Valkyrie.

If those had been the biggest problems with the film, it would have been great. I was more concerned about the overall idiocy and incoherence of the final product to really give much of a thought about whether or not the feds had a search warrant, or who was named what.

Hell, I remember seeing Star Wars on TV when I was 17...first time I'd seen it since I was ten or so...and laughing out loud at how bad the dialogue was. Soon after, I found Fellini and Bergman, and they became my cinematic guiding lights (which had the added effect of making later Woody Allen movies much more palatable). But let's face it: Robotech's main audience is mostly somewhere in their 30s. And NO ONE who wants to make money is going to make a giant robot movie aimed at the 30 to 40 crowd. Of course, there's also the problem that most remakes are trying to capitalize on name recognition; but if people don't recognize the name, what's the point?

I'm surprised that Seto would allow ANYTHING on his site to use a Macross 7 term like "Galaxy Network"...

I suppose you could call it a failure of communication...I think it's it's just a necessary part of Hollywood marketing these days. Anytime Hollywood tackles anything that has a rabid fanbase, they have to appease the fans with statements like "the director feels a responsibility to the fans," and he "will treat the property with respect." These days, even THAT may not be enough, and so we had Zac Snyder being painted as a raving fanboy camped out on Alan Moore's Northampton doorstep. Who knows how much of it's true? And who cares? As I said, love for the source material doesn't always (or even often) make a good movie.

That's taking it a little too far, I think. More to the point, most ADOLESCENTS and PRE-ADOLESCENTS want to entertained with explosions and derring-do. Most ADULTS still prefer artistic stories and character-driven stories (I certainly do, at least).

Yuka Sato (佐藤有香).

Does it really matter if Tobey MacGuire's really a big Robotech fan or not? Look at fanfic...all of it is produced by true, dyed-in-the-wool fans, and most of it sucks wet farts out of dead pigeons. Everyone seems to have this notion that if the filmmaker is a "real fan," the movie they produce will please other "real fans." And it generally doesn't work that way. To my mind, to capture what people love about the series, the LAMR (that's my acronym for the Live-Action Movie of Robotech, and I'm sticking to it!) CANNOT be a single movie. It MUST by a series of three-to-five movies. If you listen to people who like RT better than Macross, most of them will say it has an "epic scope" that Macross doesn't have (I disagree, but whatever). There is no possible way to capture that in a single film. Which in a sense, makes the filmmakers' job easier here. The "epic scope" will take care of itself if a couple of sequels get made, so all they have to worry about is making the movie as good as possible, so that people will WANT more. But the fans want something else, too, and it's something they won't get. They want all of the little niggling questions they have and inconsistencies they've noted to be answered and explained. And that won't happen. All of those will be ignored or written out completely. A TV series (or a novel, or a comic book) has the luxury of being able to tell a story of almost any length. A film pretty much has to be somewhere between ninety minutes and three hours in order to get played in most movie theaters. Generally, this involves slimming down the cast and the story. Choices have to be made: you can add Character X because the fans love him, even though he's not central to the plot, or you can take the twenty minutes alloted to him, and use them instead to make the final battle longer and more exciting. Regardless of what some nostalgic people might remember, big summer blockbusters have NEVER had heady, cerebral plots. If LAMR is going to look good, it's going to cost a lot of money. Which means it'll have to be a big summer blockbuster, aimed at those teenage boys who want a plot that serves the action, not the other way around. And having a "real fan" at the helm can screw that up. Big time.

I don't know about anyone else, but I want the music I listen to to ADD TO my life, not BECOME my life...