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."

lol

can't remember how macross ends. just hit the first big death. blew my mind as a kid, I mean that is some heavy shit, and the episode just ends with another character getting the news.

hate how the versions on netflix have a different opening - different animation for each of the three sagas. otoh it's cool I In guess that they put the nudity back in (at least I don't THINK roy used to have a topless girlie calendar in his room)...

In a few years they should totally refashion this as a premium teevee series. Drones do most of the flying and shooting, but some kind of nifty rationale why people have to be out there with them in special transformer, uh, craft. Gloval is played by Idris Elba, obviously.

actually nevermind that dude has more than enough work lined up. Let's hold on Gloval. Michael K Williams as the Zentraedi commander, though.

Ah ! Loved this so much as a kid. The battles were epic and the sdf-1 and the varitechs were awesome (I had the latter as toys) !
I wish they could finally make a good movie "pacific rim" style... some good mechas-p0rn !
I might try to rewatch this but I'm afraid the actual quality might not live up to my good memories...
too bad they never made a good videogame out of this.

still haven't rewatched this but everyone dying was the craziest thing to let a child watch, but those were innocent times

i remember my pervy cousin got the show on vhs tape (rent or bought, i don't remember) and all the nudity was in there and he was so mesmerized

if i recall correctly, those ladies would undress when going inside the mechas, right? i always thought that was bizarre, even as a kid -- my introduction to weird/effed up japan

people undressing to get into the mechas in any of the robotech series would be a shock to me, though it's not totally unknown in the genre and i guess it's possible that with 'southern cross' i blocked it out along with almost everything else - very hazy, that show. whereas say, sailor moon has nude transformations in the original and the dub, and in practically every episode too. kinda nuts.

am up to the max/miriya story and am kinda disappointed by how quickly it all plays out. their confrontation in the park was appropriately over-the-top and emo-bonkers but everything after that, super abrupt. in my mind this took place over at least a few episodes.