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Voltron Coming To The Big Screen
wo1verin3 writes "Voltron is coming to theatres!. While details are sparse, we do know it will be produced by Mark Gordon ('The Day After Tomorrow'). I'm still waiting for the DVD sets." From the article: "The 'Voltron' animated TV series debuted in 1984, about the same time as Hasbro's Transformers toy line, igniting a morphing robot phenomenon. According to sources, Voltron has generated $750 million in worldwide licensing and nearly $200 million in toys and merchandising since 1984."
In addition to this awesome news, they mention that a transformers movie is coming also. Please let them not mess up these movies. These have the potential to be the coolest movies of all time, as long as they don't turn them into a "Look what we can do with CGI" showcase. Even that would be moderately cool, but with a good plot these would excite me.
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Sure, ruin Star Wars, Dukes of Hazzard, Transformers, and millions of other memories from my childhood days. Why not ruin Voltron.
While you're at it, go back in time and kick my dog, slash my bike tires, and burn down my fort.
Kiss my bass.
It's spelled "clique"...
I'm waiting for the RL Thundercats movie to be made, starring a bunch of unfunny former SNL people, and done as a pathetic farce that nobody wants to see. That's just the sort of thing Hollywood is convinced people want for some reason.
"You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do."
Well put. I can't believe how incredibly crappy Day After Tomorrow was. It was without a doubt the biggest turkey of 2004.
The only thing about that movie that got people to watch was the coolness factor of seeing real life cities devastated by weather effects.
The plot was about the cheesiest thing of all time. The plot was exactly the same as any of the disaster films. Every single movie about a disaster revolves around a separated family trying to get back together after an earthquake/blizzard/flood/tornado/volcano/nuclear bomb. The only variable is how the city gets ruined.
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I'm waxing nostalgic for the good 'ol days of 1984, when cartoons were Japanese, cheap, and inventive, when toys were mass-marketed towards those clicks that like them.....
You're not nostalgic of 1984 japanese cartoons and toys, you're nostalgic of your youth, like everybody else. Because the truth is, 1984 cartoons and associated paraphernalia were truly shite, just as much as today's cartoons and toys.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
- Team member goes missing for some reason. (Kidnapped, low self confidence, etc.)
- Bad guys create a "robobeast".
- Robobeast slaps around individual Voltron lions, things look bleak for our heroes.
- Somehow, team member returns to their lion. (Escapes, realizes how important the team member is, etc.)
- Lions form Voltron.
- Voltron kills robobeast.
The end.You got the Male hero.
You got an Overwieght guy.
You got a chick.
You got a strange little kid that is hard to understand.
You got a really cool Morphing Vehicle.
You got an Evil guy with a cape.
Now, you get the PROFIT!