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I present you....tinyE; the human fly!


(sorry, waaay off topic here. couldn`t help it ;-)

Neon Genesis Big-O G-fighter vs the Hellboy Godzilla Corps, if you have half a clue what I just wrote then you should enjoy this film.

The Director of this film would like to apologize that it leaves little room for dialogue like "I'm under the robot's scrotum," fantasies about blue cat chicks having tail sex with you, or deadpan monologues with a vocabulary that even Greek Philosophers would call excessive.

Get over it and go have fun watching shit get smashed with just enough background drama that you understand why shit is getting smashed.

Actually, there is one. Its called G-Saviour. It was co-produced with some Canadians, so Its in English too. It was done as a 20th anniversary project, and was meant to mark the official end of the Universal Century timeline. I own it. You shouldn't. Its a bad movie, and that's why so few Gundam fans know of its existence. The big fight scene at the end is worth watching though. The majority of the special effects budget went into that one battle, so while its the only battle, its pretty sweet.

Is it a full length movie?

Ah yes, Pacific Rim premiere here isn't until 2nd of August, still 1½ weeks to go. No hurry to see it then. :)

Yes.

just checkout the battle sequence in youtube, its pretty good, the cockpit sequence reminds me of wing commander, a bit more budget and it could have been way better

It was pretty impressive for the year 2000. Maybe not Hollywood big budget movie impressive, but not too terribly far off for the time. Its a shame the rest of the movie is such a stinker.

It was exactly the movie I expected, nothing more nothing less. Hell, its giant robots fighting godzillas, its just fun, screw all the people whom try to over analyse it and criticize its lack of realism and cheesiness, it isn't the point.

It could have benefited to have a deeper scenario but it would have been at the expense of the action, because let's face it movies can't last more than 2-3 hours. Evangelion had 26 episode of 20min each to develop its story, and even with that it never pretended to be anything else but a metaphor.

This is a little OT but did you ever notice with the Power Rangers that they never actually fought any of the giant monsters? Rather they always did some strange quasi aerobic/dance routine that inevitably caused the giant monster to blow up. I could never figure that out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Sentai

Power Rangers is actually a long running Japanese show, the producers for Power Rangers didn't think that westerners would watch a show full of Japanese people so they cut every scene with Japanese people in it (except for the parts with the bad guys talking in their lair) and re-filmed the scenes with westerners .... plot rarely remaining intact.

Super Sentai started back in the 70's were fighting scenes was goofy as fuck and had no budget, which became convention for the series even after it continued into the age of quality special effects and fight choreography.

which makes it really ironic that they mostly hired martial artists for the rolls, since all the fighting was the retained content and performed by Japanese actors.

Tommy David Frank (think that's his name) who played the White Ranger in the American series is a real martial artist. I see him in low budget martial art's movies every now and then. The rest of them weren't. :P

ok, so most of them don't compete, but no small number of them practiced something ... Saban got most of their actors by shopping at the bargain bin of hollywood, which is to say the talent agencies for stunt performers.

good enough looking to show their faces on screen, competent enough to convincingly take a fall when the hero beats them up, not important enough to actually give them a character name in the credits; Saban's casting requirements in a nutshell.

Speaking of other live-action mech stuff, has anyone else seen the miniseries Iron Armored Machine Mikazuki? It's batshit crazy. It's like someone started with a live-action Evangelion, then added the cheesiest aspects of Godzilla, Gamera and Power Rangers to make a distillation of pure glorious stupid. I love it SO HARD.

Just to give you an idea, the first episode has a robot that looks like a rejected McDonalds toy design battling a giant flying slice of evil watermelon that then transforms into a fire-breathing godzilla monster that is still made of watermelon.