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Postby Ian on Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:58 am

Yup, yet another 80's cartoon being made into a movie:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u ... ltron_dc_1

The movie plot sounds a lot like the comic that was released a year or two ago.
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Tue Jul 26, 2005 12:32 pm

Hrm... I wonder if it will be any good? I was never a big fan of Voltron personally, so I know only very little about it.
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Postby voltron on Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:28 pm

Nice. I'm excited.
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Postby Ian on Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:40 pm

I'm more excited about Robotech: Shadow Chronicles

Why do I have a feeling that Voltron will be nothing more than PR knockoff.
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:58 pm

Ian wrote:I'm more excited about Robotech: Shadow Chronicles

Why do I have a feeling that Voltron will be nothing more than PR knockoff.


Shadow Chronicles.... now *THAT* I'm interested in!! :D
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Postby Ian on Tue Jul 26, 2005 2:25 pm

Have you seen the trailer yet? =P~
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Tue Jul 26, 2005 3:17 pm

Ian wrote:Have you seen the trailer yet? =P~


I was at the premier of it! It was first shown at Sakuracon 2005 in Seattle, where I happened to be attending. I met the voice actor who played Roy Fokker as well, and managed to win both a Max Sterling Limited (book) edition Vertech fighter, as well as the corraponding super Vertech battle armour :D

It was very fun! The trailer looked good too \:D/
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Postby Ian on Tue Jul 26, 2005 3:53 pm

There was a new extended one at Comic-Con:

http://www.robotechespanol.com/componen ... nt,folder/
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Tue Jul 26, 2005 4:11 pm

Ian wrote:There was a new extended one at Comic-Con:

http://www.robotechespanol.com/componen ... nt,folder/


Dang! Lucky Comic-con!!

I find it funny how the Voltron thread has been hijacked by Robotech though! :lol:

Out of curiousity, have you ever read the Robotech novels?
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Postby Ian on Tue Jul 26, 2005 4:21 pm

dolphinius_rex wrote:Out of curiousity, have you ever read the Robotech novels?


Yes, I own all of them. :D
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Tue Jul 26, 2005 5:46 pm

Ian wrote:
dolphinius_rex wrote:Out of curiousity, have you ever read the Robotech novels?


Yes, I own all of them. :D


I'm still sad that Sentinals was never released entirely in Anime format :cry:
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Postby Ian on Tue Jul 26, 2005 8:03 pm

From what I saw from the first few Sentinels cartoons... it wasn't as good as the other stuff. The books weren't as good IMO either. I never did read the Sentinels comics so I dunno about that.
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:46 pm

Ian wrote:From what I saw from the first few Sentinels cartoons... it wasn't as good as the other stuff. The books weren't as good IMO either. I never did read the Sentinels comics so I dunno about that.


I enjoyed the novels... but yeah, not as good as the other series'. Well... better then Southern Cross :lol:
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Postby Ian on Sat Jun 16, 2007 7:45 pm

Latinoreview.com has posted a review of the script. It sounds a lot better than the script for the new G.I. Joe movie.

http://www.latinoreview.com/scriptreview.php?id=65

THE SCRIPT ROCKS! I give it THE STRONGEST CONSIDERATION POSSIBLE THAT A SCREENPLAY CAN RECEIVE if I was the story editor at the studio considering Voltron. Mark Gordon is going to have a bidding war on his hands with Voltron after TRANSFORMERS opens. Anyone who passes on Voltron has got to be a fucking idiot.
So let’s get down to it! What’s the setup?

What is so damn cool about the script is that it pays homage to both incarnations of the Voltron cartoon – the American and Japanese versions. GOLION came out back in 1981 in Japan, three years later in America. GOLION was considered too hardcore for American audiences so it was edited down into what would be VOLTRON. Wikpedia nailed down the differences of Voltron and Golion in an awesome article and expose of the Voltron phenomenon, check it out.

The script has the tone, edge and dark elements of GOLION.

VOLTRON is a post apocalyptic movie and a fucking awesome one at that too. Just the way it should be because that was the setup of both cartoons. A little bit of ROAD WARRIOR, a little bit INDEPENDENCE DAY, a little bit WAR OF THE WORLDS, a little bit of ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, a little bit of THE TERMINATOR, and a little bit of THE MATRIX with some STARGATE thrown in for good measure!

Also, none of the elements that made Voltron corny are in the script – no Nanny, no Hagar, and especially no fucking space mice! In fact, no corniness at all!
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Postby Wesociety on Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:15 pm

Man, this year has been a blast from the past in childhood cartoons turned movies. Transformers, GI Joe, TMNT, Voltron... What's next? :)

With a good script review like that, I'm psyched about this new Voltron flick.
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Postby Ian on Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:24 pm

Wesociety wrote:Man, this year has been a blast from the past in childhood cartoons turned movies. Transformers, GI Joe, TMNT, Voltron... What's next? :)


Thundercats. Seriously.. there's a Thundercats movie in the works.
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