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Robotech Heading to Big Screen, Starring Toby Maguire
dominique_cimafranca writes "Classic anime cult favorite "Robotech" may be next for the big screen live action treatment, if recent news from SciFi.com's SCI FI Wire is to be believed. Tobey Maguire will produce and may star in the film. The article says 'Warner Brothers Pictures picked up the rights to Robotech, which features giant robots known as mechas. Maguire is producing through his Maguire Entertainment banner and is eyeing the lead role in what the studio plans as an SF franchise a la Paramount's hit Transformers.'" I wonder if they'll go back to the Macross source material when plotting the movie... there's a lot more good substance there then in our version.
I've got a big screen, in my TV room. My 50" set is a large fraction of the size of many movies I see in theaters, especially when I go see a fringe or rerun movie, or just wait until it's about to leave the theaters.
What I want is PS3 videogames that have a long, detailed "attract mode": a script that runs the game through its paces. Once someone has "solved" these games, there isn't any reason that a script showing how it's played through shouldn't be available. I'd love to leave my big screen TV set playing some cool games against itself, just a fascinating work of art. Like a 21st Century lava lamp. Since I don't really like to play games myself, just look at the imagery, that feature might even get me to buy some games.
I'd even settle for a Linux version of "Myst" or some other old but cool looking game that runs on my PS3. It's gotta be good for more than watching the one Blu-Ray video that was worth buying.
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Bring on Teknoman! and Rurouni Kenshin (Oav's only, not the kiddy tv show). I would love to see those 2 made live action.
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I never understood the appeal of that actor. In the spiderman movies, his demeanor made sense for pre-bite Parker but he then continued to play the character as tentative and hesitant through the rest of that first movie and through the two sequels. The Parker character is supposed to be an awkward nerd in his teens and grow into a more confident but not flamboyant adult. But when he's in the suit, he's free of those inhibitions. He's wise-cracking, high-swinging spiderman. One of the themes of Spiderman is how dreams don't pay the bills. Sure, he can do all this wonderful crazy stuff as Spiderman but that's not going to help him get the girl, it's not going to pay the rent, and he'll have to face up to responsibilities outside of webslinging. I always thought that sort of thing was coming from the deep inner fears of the writers and artists working on the books; the next best thing to being a superhero is writing a superhero book but not many people have the chops to pull it off. There's that sick feeling in the pit of the stomach when an artist has to weigh dreams on one hand and personal responsibilities on the other, the dream vs. a 9-to-5 job to pay the bills.
Anyway, back to Robotech. The only thing I can take solace from is that there's no actor, living or dead, who could make Minmei a worse character than she already is. They could stick a wig and a dress on Jar-Jar and that would be a fucking improvement.
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