ROBOTECH

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ma=x=x's Comment:

"so is that picture there of captain gloval there for kicks or do you like robotech?"

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i1f2de64a1d24bd5585bf89b0691d2011

Ok so:

MaGuire = HIKARU
Val Kilmer = Fokker?
??? = Minmei
??? = (M/L)isa
????SDF?FDS??!

fkcen shit...

none of the casting matters as long as they get at least a couple of great character actors to shore up the nonsense, cf turturro in transformers etc

what's ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL is how they handle PROTOCULTURE

will it be MACROSS PROTOCULTURE or ROBOTECH PROTOCULTURE? or even worse HOLLYWOOD PROTOCULTURE god forbid not that the robotech protoculture isn't totally compatible with typical blockbuster mcguffin writing as it is

THIS IS IMPORTANT THIS MEANS SOMETHING

martin csokas as adm gloval

oh great there goes my awesome tats i was guna get :(

STEVE BUSCEMI IN LATEX AS EXODOL

did you ever bother to watch the UC 78 gundamus

ornaldo bloomps for max sterling

Isn't MaGuire a little old to play Hikaru? Isn't he like 17 at the beginning of the series? (Maybe not though because he seems older than 7 before the unification wars in the fb scenes with roy)

I think maguire sucks a little too hard to play anybody at this point. kilmer and maguire are a couple of washed up sons of bitches.

The Kilmer thing was my joke, Morbz.

oh that was tombot? wtf

zing

wau

james spader should play max

too old now, iirc he's supposed to younger than hikaru although they could go the "do you remember love" router and make him hikaru's flight leader. Hikaru was less of a self-doubting pussy in that one (I should include the wikipedia article about anime archetypes --- see also the kid from doraemon ).

Also I have avi of do u remember love if anyone wants it

should I start a new thread to talk about me netflixing butt tonnes of Gundam

Yes/No-78-GP02A

08th ms team was the best one

I watched that last night, netflix for some reason only sees fit to provide with discs 2-4, does not acknowledge existence of first three episodes.

luckily for me I am equipped with the sort of intellect that makes exposition totally unnecessary in the circumstances of giant robot cartoon watching

does anyone have a better rez gif of this shot
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/chakisaki/vt.jpg

Been re-watching these again. Of course, they hold up.

I have the Perfect Collection cd soundtrack too. Really really wish I had some of this music on vinyl...

http://www.fanboy.com/2008/11/robotech-goes-to-hollywood-warner-brothers-film-in-the-works.html

maguire lololool

MINMEI, WHEN WILL YOU TAKE SHOWER???
― Alicia Fucking Silverstone (sexyDancer), Tuesday, July 11, 2006 2:43 PM

thinking about rewatching this

this is on netflix now and it's like I never watched any of the toonami broadcasts in the late 90s. just straight back to being 11 and lovvvvving everything about it except that certain things are way funnier, mainly the gloriously abrupt and stentorian narrator, the generally awkward and inconsistent translation, and all the jamming together of awesome space combat and like, beauty contests coming over the comm channel which is intentional comedy from the original macross. minmay annoys me exactly as much as she did then. lisa is a FOX. gloval is so great even though he barely does anything besides smoking his pipe and sounding seasoned and russian. god rick is such a bozo. roy, who I remember as a super cool badass, now just seems kinda wooden and blandly cool-ish. this show is the best because its lore makes absolutely no sense (even given its tortured origins - there is just no effort to keep things straight from scene to scene let alone across the whole series) but it all SOUNDS cool, esp. thru the zentraedi echoplex. "PROTOCULTURE!" oh man, I'm on board.

oh hrm this is a noiseboard thread huh

I appreciate that JW decided I was Gloval

no shit

used to watch this as a child so will see if it's as good as i remember it

lol @ Lin Kyle. 100% as much of a shithead as I remember. I did forget about the paranoid, cover-up-oriented Earth government, that's a nice touch.

love love love the "daedalus attack." I remember we found both the name and the maneuver as among the coolest things on the show. Also love how Macek forgets until the recap episode to explain that "daedalus" and "prometheus" are the two battleships that ended up in space with the sdf-1 and then got attached to it (never shown onscreen), so everyone's just using these two names all the time and you have to make up meanings for yourself.

My memory of this is heavily tainted by the novels. I remember reading those things with a cassingle of Enjoy The Silence blaring in my headphones late into the night. How much death was in this show? Like 50% of the characters all died at once when Gloval decided to kamikaze the SDF-1 into the Robotech Masters' fleet? Was that a thing in the show? What a trainwreck. Max whatsisface, he was my dude.

Also all the guys who had to pilot Destroids instead of Varitech fighters - what a shit assignment that would have been. "Says here you have orders to sit in this walking tank that basically melts as soon as anybody shoots at it. Plus side, most of the weight is gigantic guns and missile batteries! No, we don't have any good reason an actual gibbon couldn't do this job."

now watching macross on amazon prime, wonder how different it'll be from robotech

because robotech isn't on netflix anymore, is that correct? i couldn't find it which is why i ended up w og macross on amazon prime

Still on Netflix on my end! You may be better off though, idk!

I guess I never posted my thoughts on the Mospeada section. It was a lot more fun than Southern Cross and I totally got why it sucked me into the show in the first place. The "on the road, being hunted" premise gives it a lot of automatic dramatic interest, and reminds me a LOT of John Christopher's Tripod books, which I was also reading at the time. That's especially true early on before you ever hear the Invid talk - and apparently they talk a lot less in the original show - they're these very mysterious, giant overseers that everybody just has to toil under. Some of that gets dissipated since our heroes get their gear a little too fast, and indeed get assembled as a team a little too fast I think.

It also reminded me of The Mysterious Cities of Gold which I had adored at a younger age, and I probably hadn't seen anything in between that had that sense of an ongoing story, a journey that was actually going to reach its destination. MCOG pulls that off much more effectively, with several really distinct-feeling chapters and a real sense of changing environments as they move through South and Central America, not to mention certain structural choices, like a "collect the three sacred thingies" plotline, that create the clear sense of progress being made and certain episodes being 'special.' By comparison, Mospeada is a bit samey, repetitious and episodic, even if you do have fun watching them start to uncover the Invid's (sort of confusing) secrets. The cast is a ton of fun, also - the character relationships aren't as strong as Macross but after the faceless duds of Southern Cross it was great to have a basically likeable group of distinct people. Rook and Lunk go pretty underdeveloped, and Marlene never really makes sense (how amnesiac and confused about human society is she supposed to be?) but hey, it was still way more character than I was finding anywhere else in 1992, when this show was my absolute jam.