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There's something deep in my psyche that loves...nay, craves giant robots.
Obviously, other people feel this way. The giant super robot is one of the oldest pulp concepts.
Imagi Studios is currently working on the Astro Boy movie. I haven't posted anything about it because quite frankly it looks bland and forgettable. Certainly not worthy of Osamu Tezuka's legacy.
Yet...there's something they cooked up, in the meanwhile. It's a teaser for a film that has not been greenlit. Yet.
Tetsujin 28 (better known as Gigantor in America) was the creation of Misuteru Yokoyama, one of the most famous manga artists of all time. A brilliant scientist dies. His son is left with an unbreakable link to the man's last creation...the most powerful robot on Earth. You know the drill.
There's more energy, enthusiasm, and obvious excitement in that brief spot than in any of the Astro Boy spots I've seen so far.
It makes me sad, in a way. I'm going to go out on a limb and predict Astro Boy will be yet another misfire, and we'll never see the movie they could have made out of T28.
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<sigh> I really don't need to see any more people rescued from long drops by soft landings on giant metal hands.
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quote:Originally posted by Puffy Treat: There's something deep in my psyche that loves...nay, craves giant robots.
Obviously, other people feel this way. The giant super robot is one of the oldest pulp concepts.
Imagi Studios is currently working on the Astro Boy movie. I haven't posted anything about it because quite frankly it looks bland and forgettable. Certainly not worthy of Osamu Tezuka's legacy.
Yet...there's something they cooked up, in the meanwhile. It's a teaser for a film that has not been greenlit. Yet.
Tetsujin 28 (better known as Gigantor in America) was the creation of Misuteru Yokoyama, one of the most famous manga artists of all time. A brilliant scientist dies. His son is left with an unbreakable link to the man's last creation...the most powerful robot on Earth. You know the drill.
There's more energy, enthusiasm, and obvious excitement in that brief spot than in any of the Astro Boy spots I've seen so far.
It makes me sad, in a way. I'm going to go out on a limb and predict Astro Boy will be yet another misfire, and we'll never see the movie they could have made out of T28.
Is that why are you are nuts for Gurren-Lagann?
BTW I am greatly enjoying the show. I'm on the 4th episode, because I can't watch it without Mrs. BB.
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quote:Originally posted by BlackBlade: Is that why are you are nuts for Gurren-Lagann?
BTW I am greatly enjoying the show. I'm on the 4th episode, because I can't watch it without Mrs. BB.
Partly why. Gurren Lagann takes all the crazy, gonzo, funny, passionate, impossible glory of a shonen fantasy action series and turns the crank up to 11. And yeah, it has sweet robot fights. Posts: 6689 | Registered: Jan 2005
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Speaking of giant robots. I was imagining what would happen if the Confederacy won the Civil War, and stayed as a legitimate nation to modern times.
But... I just... I just couldn't, for the life of me, keep this alternate reality from having giant robots in it... it's like, no matter how hard I tried, my subconscious just went "Confederacy + giant robots = AWESOME STORY!"
quote:Originally posted by Puffy Treat: That alone is what gets you, out of the countless impossibilities seen in the teaser?
It's not just that it's impossible; it's an impossible cliche. I'm willing to put an enormous amount of disbelief under my cap if the story is good enough, but that one is trite. Can't anyone come up with a better way to have the humans amidst the super-robots be in peril? Could we even once in a while have the giant grab the imperilled character before they plunge sixty feet? /rant
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Tetsujin 28 is the original giant robot series. It invented the tropes. An adaptation of it would include some of those tropes. Just sayin'.
Though re-watching the teaser, Shotaro falls a very short distance to be caught gently by T28. That's not as extreme as some example in the original series were. It's certainly not the sixty foot drop you're objecting to. Posts: 6689 | Registered: Jan 2005
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I don't know, Puffy Treat... it just doesn't look that interesting to me. If the robot was sentient and could attack on its own, then maybe I'd want to watch this.
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quote:Originally posted by Sterling: <sigh> I really don't need to see any more people rescued from long drops by soft landings on giant metal hands.
Just for that, I'd love to have a scene in a movie where someone falls from a tall height into the hands of a robot, and is in due course turned into a steaming pile of hamburger and bacon.
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quote:Originally posted by Scott R: I don't know, Puffy Treat... it just doesn't look that interesting to me. If the robot was sentient and could attack on its own, then maybe I'd want to watch this.
quote:Originally posted by Sterling: Whee. I'm not voting for your steenkin' movie.
Let me guess...you despised The Fellowship of the Ring because it was just so full of trite, over-used cliches. A wizard in a pointy hat? Little people? Bad guys in black robes? Meeting up in a TAVERN?!? Tolkien was -so- cribbing that from D&D. Posts: 6689 | Registered: Jan 2005
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quote:Originally posted by Orincoro: Just for that, I'd love to have a scene in a movie where someone falls from a tall height into the hands of a robot, and is in due course turned into a steaming pile of hamburger and bacon.
Would you believe there's a lot of anime where stuff like that happens? Heck, check out some of the mid-90s OVAs...they have ones full of nothing but scenes like that. Posts: 6689 | Registered: Jan 2005
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Speaking of giant robots and ridiculousness... Have any of you ever seen G Gundam? Yep, it is ridiculous...ridiculously funny. I watch it when I need one of those a breath-stealing laughs.
Statue of Liberty cannon... *snicker*
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quote:Tetsujin 28 is the original giant robot series. It invented the tropes. An adaptation of it would include some of those tropes. Just sayin'. [Wink]
Maybe that's a good reason for them NOT to adapt it. Especially since the teaser did nothing to educate viewers on Tetsujin's importance to the genre.
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quote:Originally posted by Puffy Treat: Let me guess...you despised The Fellowship of the Ring because it was just so full of trite, over-used cliches. A wizard in a pointy hat? Little people? Bad guys in black robes? Meeting up in a TAVERN?!? Tolkien was -so- cribbing that from D&D.
Yeah, I just don't like fun movies. Posts: 3826 | Registered: May 2005
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quote:Tetsujin 28 is the original giant robot series. It invented the tropes. An adaptation of it would include some of those tropes. Just sayin'. [Wink]
Maybe that's a good reason for them NOT to adapt it. Especially since the teaser did nothing to educate viewers on Tetsujin's importance to the genre.
People aren't going to flock to the movie because it's "...important to the genre." They're going to go to it because it has GIANT FREAKIN' ROBOTS!
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Is the robot supposed to look like it has a kind of creepy looking smile? Or was that just me?
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