StarBlazers

[Montresor]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMcrep48Wz0

what was wrong with that theme - much better than aerosmith's abortion of a song.

It's a tradition in modern Japanese film previews to have a contemporary song playing through most of it. This is especially the case in horror and sci-fi previews. Often, the song features only on the end credits of the film, or not at all. There's no reason to be alarmist. You can hear the original theme in that trailer.

[sgt.null]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMcrep48Wz0

what was wrong with that theme - much better than aerosmith's abortion of a song.

It's a tradition in modern Japanese film previews to have a contemporary song playing through most of it. This is especially the case in horror and sci-fi previews. Often, the song features only on the end credits of the film, or not at all. There's no reason to be alarmist. You can hear the original theme in that trailer.

thanks - i guess i can hit mute when i rent the film when tyler is on then.

[rusmeister]

I like this trailer best of all so far - both the music and pics are much more to my taste - although they're obviously limiting the scenes so repetition is inevitable.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Ug4sCxfdM

[rdhopeca]

I like this trailer best of all so far - both the music and pics are much more to my taste - although they're obviously limiting the scenes so repetition is inevitable.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Ug4sCxfdM

I am totally going to get this movie, subtitles or not...

[Montresor]

I like this trailer best of all so far - both the music and pics are much more to my taste - although they're obviously limiting the scenes so repetition is inevitable.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Ug4sCxfdM

Most of that footage is not from the actual Japanese movie to be released. The animation isn't, and some of the rest is from stock footage and tv shows.

Compare it to this far better looking trailer from Japan:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7z61sq_moo&feature=related

[rusmeister]

Thanks, Montresor,
I'd already seen that one, myself.
What TV shows or stock cartoons did the live action stuff shown in the other trailer? I'm not aware of them...

Will still pay top dollar to see a halfway decent Starblazers/Yamato film...

[Fist and Faith]

I'd kill for a Battle of the Planets movie.

[Montresor]

Thanks, Montresor,
I'd already seen that one, myself.
What TV shows or stock cartoons did the live action stuff shown in the other trailer? I'm not aware of them...

Will still pay top dollar to see a halfway decent Starblazers/Yamato film...

There was a fair bit of Battlestar Galactica in there. I recognised some stock footage I've seen before, and the actual CGI stuff of the Yamato is not from the Japanese movie. It looks like very well-made fan stuff. I've noticed a lot fake trailers on youtube in the last year, ususally for various sci-fi stuff. But the dead give-away the trailer you showed is not real are the production credits at the start.

[Tulizar]

I'd kill for a Battle of the Planets movie.

Check out these trailers. Please don't kill me.

www.imagi.com.hk/web/eng/coming-soon/gatchaman.html

Fiery Phoenix...Go G-Force!

[Cagliostro]

My initial reaction is wanting a live-action version of Battle Of The Planets. But after thinking about it, some of those shots would be especially hard to get the gracefulness of the way G-Force used to move (Tiny and sometime Keyop excepted). I know Gatchaman is the original, and 1-Rover-1 and 7-Zark-7 were products of the post-Star Wars thang, but I just can't get used to anything that looks like Battle of the Planets but isn't.

[rusmeister]

Battle of the Planets just didn't do for me what Starblazers did. For me, it was practically a run-of-the mill superhero show (we - and our ship - change into something cool when danger gets bad); whereas Starblazers had a coherent and sequential story about ordinary people (OK - who acted like younger teens sometimes) in space - but who still weren't immune to death. The lack of parachutes for downed pilots in SB is still impressive.

(That's not meant to heavily denigrate BotP - it just didn't do much for me - and this IS a Starblazers' thread...)

I have a follow-up question for Montresor (you DO seem knowledgeable - or is that just an excellent front? ) - I get how fighter planes and music can be stock footage - but how can shots of the Argo/Yamato itself possibly be stock footage? s.f. from what? THAT was what impressed me about that (probably fake) trailer.

[Montresor]

I have a follow-up question for Montresor (you DO seem knowledgeable - or is that just an excellent front? ) - I get how fighter planes and music can be stock footage - but how can shots of the Argo/Yamato itself possibly be stock footage? s.f. from what? THAT was what impressed me about that (probably fake) trailer.

Ha! Well . . . people tell me I'm brilliant.

The Yamato stuff isn't stock footage, just very good (but not quite so good) CGI. It's not nearly as good as the stuff in the Japanese version, however. Compare the two and you'll see differences.

[Cagliostro]

Battle of the Planets just didn't do for me what Starblazers did. For me, it was practically a run-of-the mill superhero show (we - and our ship - change into something cool when danger gets bad); whereas Starblazers had a coherent and sequential story about ordinary people (OK - who acted like younger teens sometimes) in space - but who still weren't immune to death. The lack of parachutes for downed pilots in SB is still impressive.

(That's not meant to heavily denigrate BotP - it just didn't do much for me - and this IS a Starblazers' thread...)

I have a follow-up question for Montresor (you DO seem knowledgeable - or is that just an excellent front? ) - I get how fighter planes and music can be stock footage - but how can shots of the Argo/Yamato itself possibly be stock footage? s.f. from what? THAT was what impressed me about that (probably fake) trailer.

BotP was my first experience with anime. I still have never seen Starblazers so I cannot comment on the differences. After eBay had started and before releasing old shows on DVD really took off, I bought a collection of old BotP videotapes taped from the air and probably recorded off a number of times. The quality sucked, but at least it allowed me to watch every BotP episode. And it was one of my first experiences with the memory of the show is considerably better than how the show actually is. It was a $75 lesson for both that and the joys of buying old shows on eBay.
I did get from Netflix some of the Gatchaman episodes, and while if I was experiencing both Gatchaman and BotP for the first time these days, I'd much prefer Gatchaman. But BotP holds that special place for me, and the voice cast of BotP are the voices of the characters to me.