Mr. Friggin Wizard
12-08-2008, 11:19 PM
I've seen the movie, and glad I did. Whether many consider bad or not never mattered to me. I always had a high tolerence for crappy films. I just had to have it.
Totally killer. Watched it a dozen times now. It's one of my new favorite movies based on a TV show. The movie doesn't quite fit with the series, but I don't care, this rules. The music is really good too, and SOUTHERN CROSS footage spliced in for two plots. I take it. I barely watch MASTERS anyway.
I like that it has it's own war and alien invasion, rather than being some spin off to the MACROSS timeline. I've read about the ending to MEGAZONE 23, and I prefer Mark blowing up Andrews' robot and killing him. "The Future Is Now" song actually sounds good in that scene.
Mark Landry is a awesome character. He should come back in ROBOTECH: SHADOW RISING. Have him a commanding officier on the SDF-3. And Eve, the computer hologram with a "mind of her own." A couple alien voices weren't very good though.
The failed Texas test screening, one of the reasons was parents thought it was too adult for younger viewers right? There's the scene where Mark saves his girlfriend Becky from being raped by her manager. And in Mark's room, the picture of a naked girl.
Anyone noticed this preview clip on You Tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX7hA2otopM&feature=related
In the movie I have, Mark on the Nomad seeing the giant robot on the road, he says "uh oh, I'm in trouble" yet in the clip he says "Huh, a giant robot?"
Was this preview for Harmony Gold's original version, before Cannon demanded changes?
I hope for the day a double feature is released, the Cannon version, and Harmony's version. Something like "ROBOTECH: THE MOVIE" (Cannon Films) and "ROBOTECH: THE UNTOLD STORY" (Harmony Gold) in a DVD set. I'd buy it.
http://cannonfilms.co.uk/webposters/r/Robotech%20The%20Movie%20(1986)%20%5BUK%20VHS%5D.j pg
Totally killer. Watched it a dozen times now. It's one of my new favorite movies based on a TV show. The movie doesn't quite fit with the series, but I don't care, this rules. The music is really good too, and SOUTHERN CROSS footage spliced in for two plots. I take it. I barely watch MASTERS anyway.
I like that it has it's own war and alien invasion, rather than being some spin off to the MACROSS timeline. I've read about the ending to MEGAZONE 23, and I prefer Mark blowing up Andrews' robot and killing him. "The Future Is Now" song actually sounds good in that scene.
Mark Landry is a awesome character. He should come back in ROBOTECH: SHADOW RISING. Have him a commanding officier on the SDF-3. And Eve, the computer hologram with a "mind of her own." A couple alien voices weren't very good though.
The failed Texas test screening, one of the reasons was parents thought it was too adult for younger viewers right? There's the scene where Mark saves his girlfriend Becky from being raped by her manager. And in Mark's room, the picture of a naked girl.
Anyone noticed this preview clip on You Tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX7hA2otopM&feature=related
In the movie I have, Mark on the Nomad seeing the giant robot on the road, he says "uh oh, I'm in trouble" yet in the clip he says "Huh, a giant robot?"
Was this preview for Harmony Gold's original version, before Cannon demanded changes?
I hope for the day a double feature is released, the Cannon version, and Harmony's version. Something like "ROBOTECH: THE MOVIE" (Cannon Films) and "ROBOTECH: THE UNTOLD STORY" (Harmony Gold) in a DVD set. I'd buy it.
http://cannonfilms.co.uk/webposters/r/Robotech%20The%20Movie%20(1986)%20%5BUK%20VHS%5D.j pg