Just saw this last night (Tuesday). It's an animated space opera, basically.
Most of the scenery is computer graphics, and it's pretty great
visually; the characters are all hand-drawn animation and are pretty...
annoying, actually.
Some very cool space stations & ships. The various asteroid stations and
'Drifter colonies' are very cool.
Storywise & for characters, it's a weak movie... Most of the characters
are pretty one-dimensional, the 'hero' whines way too much, most of the
aliens are there for laughs... This is Hollywood's take on anime,
basically. See it for inspiration for your FT modelling - I want to find
some screenshots on the web - and not for the characters & plot...
(plot: simple; ending: silly...)
It does have nasty alien badguys (who blow Earth up) who are probably the
coolest-looking things in the movie.
Verdict: Worth getting to if you can get in cheap (Tuesday is
cheap-movie
night in town) or wait and see it on video for the visuals...
Anyone else seen it?
G'day Brian,
Sounds pretty much what I'd expected. On a similar note has Blue Planet made
it out over there yet? I've seen the trailer and it looks really good
- I'd love to have one of their ships (looks a bit like a hard edged
pincer)!!!
Cheers
Beth
> Brian Burger wrote:
Yes, I agree with your review. Flashy graphics, but
I saw it opening day. But did not think enough about it to comment.
Some visuals are nice (opening is better than the ending).
Characters are Disney-tized Anime (reminded me of a section
of Heavy Metal). I.e. it didn't work.
I looked for ideas for FT...found none. I looked for ideas for DS2...found
none. I looked for ideas for SG2...found none.
I had high expectations, but they were unfounded.
I agree with Brian, see it if you can see it cheap. Far from the worst movie
I've seen, but far from the best anime, too.
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> -----Original Message-----
(plot:
> simple; ending: silly...)
> On 6-Jul-00 at 02:03, Brian Burger (yh728@victoria.tc.ca) wrote:
(plot:
> simple; ending: silly...)
Saw it, enjoyed it. I'm not saying it was a great movie, but with the
derth of Sci-Fi on the big screen and the fact that most S-F has good
computer animation worth seeing big screen I tend to go see everything I can
at the theatre. Well, almost, I hated the book Battlefield Earth and after the
reviews I heard I'm waiting for the video.
> "Bell, Brian K" wrote:
> I saw it opening day.
Yes this sums it up for me too. I think I'll stick with my current Gundam
phase that I'm in. My cousin has been watching the show on Toonami. I bought
the Gundam Wing movie, (Which has the first four or five episodes.) They were
OK but then I purchased the Original Gundam Movies, then the Gundam 080 series
and then the Gundam 083 series. Now these are good stuff! The animation
imporves with each one but the stories are exellent through and through. Now
I'm incorporating
mobile suits into some DS/SG.
> At 9:45 PM -0400 7/6/00, Los wrote:
Take a look at Lightning Strike, it's very, very, very mobile suit Gundam [1].
All it needs is a ship design system. And for vector movement, divide the LS
thrust ratings by two (2) and use Fleet Book or VMS rules.
[1] I've got some Gundam VCDs, and the Jovian Chronicles background
is actually more fun for gaming than the Gundam background would be. I am, you
see, a big fan of backgrounds with the whole solar system to play with.
> Nyrath the nearly wise wrote:
Ah yes, now there's a decent sci-fi CGI series. Lots of fighters &
flagships and nothing in between mind, but interesting nonetheless.
TTFN
Jon
> Nyrath the nearly wise wrote:
Was this ever made available on video - WarPlanets I mean?