tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303168094103813016.post7843331448865619944..comments2023-06-28T15:35:55.225+01:00Comments on MAGICAL COMPENDIUM OF MUSINGS AND INANITY: Film Review: Space Battleship YamatoAlekazamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00534013901779906519noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303168094103813016.post-75690092236874465682011-07-10T22:14:27.491+01:002011-07-10T22:14:27.491+01:00Hi!
Thanks for the background on Yamato. I picked...Hi!<br /><br />Thanks for the background on Yamato. I picked this film up on a complete whim, having known next to nothing of its anime history.<br /><br />But I agree with you, I think in this case the melodrama worked incredibly well for it when it so often has a tendency to go wrong.<br /><br />Appreciate the comment. Stick around =)Alekazamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00534013901779906519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303168094103813016.post-37989800897520834702011-07-10T15:21:50.446+01:002011-07-10T15:21:50.446+01:00Yamato was actually among the first anime (after A...Yamato was actually among the first anime (after Astro Boy and Speed Racer) to be successfully imported into the US. It began as a televised anime.<br /><br />In the early '80s, when America still called anime "Japanimation," a translated and edited version of the 1st two seasons was syndicated in the US under the name STAR BLAZERS.<br /><br />STAR BLAZERS introduced a whole generation of geeks to long-form storytelling with adult themes like honor and sacrifice, and its realistic portrayal of death and its consequences was unlike anything else aimed at kids.<br /><br />I'm psyched the live-action movie turned out so well! I'm actually glad they kept the level of melodrama pretty high -- the fate of the world is literally in their hands, and things don't get much more serious than that. And if there weren't a few overly sappy scenes, that godawful Steven Tyler song never would have worked at the end.<br /><br />I'm going to edit the subtitle file to replace the names with their STAR BLAZERS counterparts (Captain Avatar, Derek Wildstar, Nova, IQ-9, Dr. Sane...) since I know the characters much better that way.<br /><br />If this movie was released in the US, dubbed into English using the Star Blazers character names, every male over 35 would be dragging their kids to see it.<br /><br />Especially if they put the theme song's English lyrics in the trailer! "We're off to outer space/we're leaving Mother Earth/To save the human race..."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com