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Space Battleship Yamato

I really wish this was coming out on R1 DVD soon.:(

There are some real nice copies out there along with subtitles. Had to procure the film by 'other means' until either a version comes to DVD or Blu-ray with English subs. :shifty:

I definitely want to add it to my library as soon as possible. Because it is a damn cool movie.
 
Has anyone said anything about a US Remake? Maybe if they are doing one, it could explain why there has been no word on a US release of the Japanese version.

Sigh...can we please keep Hollywood away from this. :(
I'm not saying I want that to happen. I just know stuff like that has happened in the past.

Years ago, I believe that Disney, of all people, worked on a treatment for a "Star Blazers" adaptation for American audiences, white-washing the Asian influence of the original and replacing Yamato with the Arizona. I've read through the draft script and all I can say is, thank God that thing was never made. There have been fresh new rumors recently of another Hollywood attempt (in the wake of how well this new one has been received) and I once again hope it doesn't happen. I will be quite happy with a subbed version of the original Japanese.
 
Has there ever been a decent Americanized Hollywood version of an anime series/movie?
 
Not that I'm aware of,but others may have a different opinion on that. The biggest problem I see with western adaptations of eastern concepts is that western audiences generally don't understand the eastern mindset. Especially in the Japanese culture, everything has a spirit within it. From the smallest pebble to the largest tree. The anime movie "Spirited Away" is an excellent movie to show this concept. The Yamato herself, to the Japanese is a living, breathing entity. "Yamato" is the ancient name of the Japanese nation before the name "Nippon" was used, so there is an inherent spiritual tie between the Japanese and Yamato.

In the movie Final Yamato, we see the crew incapacitated and the ship adrift. All of a sudden, for no reason, Yamato comes to life and delivers the crew safely out of harm's way following an attack by the Deingil. Even Analyzer (IQ-9) freaks out exclaiming "Yamato's Alive?!?" before falling to pieces on the floor. Occasionally, when Yamato was breaking down after an exceptionally brutal firefight, either the narrator or one of the crew would speak the words roughly translated, "Stand up, Yamato!"

The persistent loss of the "third bridge" (that ridiculous dangly bit on the keel that keeps getting destroyed in EVERY series and EVERY movie at least once) always miraculously reappears for no apparent reason. This was especially silly in the first series where Yamato was on her own with no dry dock repair facilities - it would inevitably reappear one episode after it was lost. Western audiences chalk this up to bad editing, poor attention to continuity and/or a limited production budget. I believe this was the producers' early attempts at hinting to the audience that Yamato was alive and healing herself after every engagement, with the occasional help of the crew.

In the American version of "Star Blazers", the "Star Force" was created to represent the crew. That was invented by the translators to take much of the attention away from the ship and place it more on the characters - also the reasoning behind renaming it to the "Argo". In the original Japanese, the crew and the ship were always synonymously referred to as "Yamato" - the living spirit of the Japanese people (and in this case, the people of Earth) embodied in an inanimate object and the crew who serves and protects it. Westerners likely wouldn't want to wrap their brains around those concepts and whatever product emerges by western film companies wouldn't risk it.

At least, that's how I see it, anyways. :)

Although, for some reason, I've noticed that movies based on Chinese mysticism and mythology seem to do well in America, like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"-type movies. Americans don't seem to have a problem with ancient warrior monks bouncing off bamboo trees, engaging in massive sword fights. So, I guess I just don't get it. :confused:
 
for those who don't know it is now on youtube in 10 parts and frakin incredible loved it.
 
yes it is..

all so I loved what they did to IQ 9. there where quiet a few changes from the original. like turning the dr into a woman who carries around a cat. fantastic movie If this is done here in the us I hope they do half a good of job as those who worked on this fantastic. thank you who ever put that up.


all so for fun right after watching that I watched the lensman movie.
is it me or is the girl who does the voice of chris the same girl who is
lisa hays from robotech?
 
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I saw it..the movie is patterned greatly after ST09!!!!! Even duplicating certain scenes. Like the cartoon, there's a lot of stuff that doesn't make sense, but it's a rare space adventure movie and the FX are really very impressive. The ending seems to be a direct lead to a sequel, which I am expecting around the same time as a new ST movie. :lol:

RAMA
 
Sigh...can we please keep Hollywood away from this. :(
I'm not saying I want that to happen. I just know stuff like that has happened in the past.

Years ago, I believe that Disney, of all people, worked on a treatment for a "Star Blazers" adaptation for American audiences, white-washing the Asian influence of the original and replacing Yamato with the Arizona. I've read through the draft script and all I can say is, thank God that thing was never made. There have been fresh new rumors recently of another Hollywood attempt (in the wake of how well this new one has been received) and I once again hope it doesn't happen. I will be quite happy with a subbed version of the original Japanese.

Well there is a nice rendering of an "Arizona": http://lighthousezen.up.seesaa.net/image/ARIZONA2199.jpg

You should check out the artist's blog, it's well worth the time :)
 
Has there ever been a decent Americanized Hollywood version of an anime series/movie?

I rather enjoyed the film version of "Crying Freeman" starring Marc Ducascos and the stunning Julie Condra, who both have faces that look like anime characters. I'm not really sure if the film was American or Japanese-made.
 
Being only a casual Star Blazers fan, I enjoyed the movie even I couldn't understand what the hell was going on :).

But I thought the effects sequences (amazing as they were), were very sparse and very short. There's a LOT of talking and character scenes, and precious few extreriors and action scenes. In most films I'd call that a plus, but this kind of film should be the other way around.
 
Being only a casual Star Blazers fan, I enjoyed the movie even I couldn't understand what the hell was going on :).

But I thought the effects sequences (amazing as they were), were very sparse and very short. There's a LOT of talking and character scenes, and precious few extreriors and action scenes. In most films I'd call that a plus, but this kind of film should be the other way around.

I guess they had to make the best out of the 24 million $ budget.
 
was yoshi sopposed to be nova? or was nova the girl in green when every one was saying there last good buy.
 
Being only a casual Star Blazers fan, I enjoyed the movie even I couldn't understand what the hell was going on :).

But I thought the effects sequences (amazing as they were), were very sparse and very short. There's a LOT of talking and character scenes, and precious few extreriors and action scenes. In most films I'd call that a plus, but this kind of film should be the other way around.


I felt the exact opposite, it was wall to wall action and FX and not much talking...


RAMA
 
Being only a casual Star Blazers fan, I enjoyed the movie even I couldn't understand what the hell was going on :).

But I thought the effects sequences (amazing as they were), were very sparse and very short. There's a LOT of talking and character scenes, and precious few extreriors and action scenes. In most films I'd call that a plus, but this kind of film should be the other way around.


I felt the exact opposite, it was wall to wall action and FX and not much talking...


RAMA

Through Google I found a streamiong version that was sub-titled and the DEFINITELY went the Arrivederci Yamato/Farewell Yamato route - and not the TV Yamato route for the ending.

Overall teh effects we're good; and I liked the pace in the first hour much better than the pace of the second hour. Like others have mentioned I also liked how Analyzer/IQ9 was handled. I know people think they ripped off nuBSG2003 in tone - BUT - in all honesty, the original Space Battleship Yamato series, and especially the Arrivederci Yamato/Farewell Yamato film are quite dark (especially the ending) is quite dark - and even the Japanese had to retcon, and say Arrivederci Yamato/Farewell Yamato didn't really happen to be aboe to continue the franchise (the 'Comet Empire' series was a complete redo of the Arrivederci Yamato/Farewell Yamato film story (expanded of course) with a VERY different ending.

The ending was excruiciatingly 'Japanese' in execution as it took 20 minutes for Kodai tyo say goodbye (and I like that Shima had already left - yet magically re-appeared just after Yuki was stunned to carry her off to thje transport. But my god, the Gamilia missle should have had time to hit Earth 5 trimes before Kodai finally got around to taking gthe Yamato in and firinging the Wave Motion Gun to finish the missle off.
 
finally watched this. it was everything i thought it would be. well worth the wait.
 
It was a good movie, reminded me about what I loved about Star Blazers as a kid. The crew and how they deal with each other is inspiring. The Iskandar plot had some big twists and was not what i was expecting, but it turned out good. The end seemed like they borrowed from the Comet Empire series a little, with a giant ship going the wipe out Earth and the Yamato going to be sacrificed to save Earth. The film did not set up for a sequal, unless its radically redone. I would have loved to see a sequal with the Comet Empire in all its modern cgi glory. :)
 
for those who don't know it is now on youtube in 10 parts and frakin incredible loved it.

a) is it still there?
b) what's it listed under? Tried Space Battleship Yamato with and without 2010 to no avail.
 
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