Holy shit that's impressive.
Space Battleship Yamato
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Holy shit that's impressive.
We all know REAL space adventure films are scarce...did it take a Japanese live action film to have battle scenes that are almost as thrilling as SW or STII?
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I have SEEN the originals with subtitles...its not THAT different, but yes its not the same show. The tone is somewhat different. The crew of the Yamato is very...Japanese. They sound much like they would have in WWII!
Whomever is behind this film certainly cares a great deal about the source material. The attention to even minute details from the 1974 original is amazing. If you had shown the trailers to me when I was watching the first season in 1978 I'd have had a stroke! Even the Doctor's giant cat is in the film!
Single most anticipated movie of the next year for me! It gets better and better! 
“SPACE BATTLESHIP” SAILS INTO THE WORLD!
YAMATO Soars into #1 Spot at Box Office
http://augustragone.blogspot.com/2010/12/space-battleship-sails-into-world.html
What about the US?!?
YAMATO Soars into #1 Spot at Box Office
http://augustragone.blogspot.com/2010/12/space-battleship-sails-into-world.html
What about the US?!?
It's been a long time since I've seen Star Blazers (and I may have the details wrong), but I've always had a question...
Queen Starsha sends the plans for the Wave Motion Engine to Earth so they can get the Cosmo DNA machine which will repair the planet, which they only have a year to do.
Why didn't she simply send the plans for the Cosmo DNA?
Queen Starsha sends the plans for the Wave Motion Engine to Earth so they can get the Cosmo DNA machine which will repair the planet, which they only have a year to do.
Why didn't she simply send the plans for the Cosmo DNA?
I'm a devotee of collecting the original Japanese versions of my favorite childhood Americanized anime series. I loved Voltron, Robotech, and Starblazers as a kid, and now that I own Golion, Dairugger, SDF Macross, Southern Cross, and Genesis Climber Mospeada, I've come to learn just how superior the originals are to the US versions (and how hokey the US versions are to my 37 year-old sensibilities).
I was going to order the complete Starblazers series on DVD, only to find that it's in the ridiculous price range of about $400. I was lucky enough to find the original Japanese versions of Space Battleship Yamato on eBay for only $90 total for the complete three series (although I have to say that the English subtitles are kind of lacking at times and sometimes just make no sense, and the menus are trial-and-error sometimes because they're all in Japanese).
One thing I've always found interesting is that both Voltron and Robotech were created from several anime series that originally had nothing to do with each other (especially Macross, which goes in a completely different direction in its sequels than Robotech did, for obvious reasons).
I was going to order the complete Starblazers series on DVD, only to find that it's in the ridiculous price range of about $400. I was lucky enough to find the original Japanese versions of Space Battleship Yamato on eBay for only $90 total for the complete three series (although I have to say that the English subtitles are kind of lacking at times and sometimes just make no sense, and the menus are trial-and-error sometimes because they're all in Japanese).
One thing I've always found interesting is that both Voltron and Robotech were created from several anime series that originally had nothing to do with each other (especially Macross, which goes in a completely different direction in its sequels than Robotech did, for obvious reasons).
Well, your quote does include:
Sounds like it will show up in the US sooner or later.
Not really. They took a lot of the violence and death out of the show. A scene showing a bunch of Bee aliens being killed was cut from season one, scenes showing Wildstar blasting the inside of tanks and killing the drivers were changed so that Wildstar mentioned the "robot" drivers, or some crap, and the Gamelon who attached his ship to the underside of the Yamato and blew it up, killing himself in the process, was changed so that we inexplicably see a quick scene of him alive and well, miraculously escaped from his doomed ship.
Yes, Captain Avatar died, but the majority of violence and death was removed from the show.
Count me in as someone who wants to see a subtitled version in the US....is that possible? i think my local theater might be willing to show it, if i could get them contact info about it.
Still, compared to what was on American animated TV at the time, it was exceptionally violent. Maybe the on-camera deaths were cut, but we saw ships getting destroyed all the time, not to mention whole planets blowing up here and there.
Even as a 10-year-old, I knew they weren't "robot tanks", I knew the Gamilon General blew himself up, and it was OBVIOUS that Sgt. Knox sacrificed himself (he doesn't appear again, despite the dialogue that he got out in time). If one was alert, one could see the death and violence. That was the kind of realism that was missing from other animation of he day and one of the reasons I think so many folks liked "Star Blazers".
Yeah, i knew it too, as an 8-year -old. (Also thanks to Battle of the Planets & Speed Racer)
But just so you know, some other shows of the early also had deaths. I am mainly thinking of Flash Gordon ('79), where Hawkmen were vaporized regularly (in fact, the same stock footage was used every 2-3 episodes of various deaths)
Yeah, that's because the first season was expanded from the original full-length movie version, which was made for prime time and thus was more mature than most Filmation productions (though sadly it was only aired once in '82 and never again). When they recut and expanded it for Saturday morning, they cut out a lot of the more adult stuff (like the WWII elements), but more fanciful violence like the disintegrated Hawkmen remained.
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