One of the flagships of the anime invasion from back in the 80's is getting the big-screen treatment as of an announcement today. Robotech, an amalgamation of the popular Macross series', will be released as a live-action theatrical film, and is looking to star Tobey Maguire. ....
Alright, I'll give them this: as far as giant fighting robot franchises go, Robotech is one of the better ones. And its story is far more deserving of a film adaptation than Transformers (a show, which most forget was made solely to sell toys at Christmas... and therefore my generation's Pokemon). Additionally, these robots don't transform from tremendous, anthropamorphic killing machines into tape cassette players. More like tremendous, antropamorphic killing machines into a more jet fighter-shaped tremendous killing machine. Not to mention that one of them is the size of New York City, and is used in much the same way. However, when are we, as a nation, going to realize that our future rests not in creating extravagant films depicting giant fighting robots, but in the creation of these highly impractical weapons of mass destruction themselves. Or we can just sit around, eat popcorn and giggle to ourselves while a Japanese laser-sight is affixed to the back our heads, which is in turn affixed to the left arm of a 14-story, twelve hundred ton, leviathan with plasma cannons. Our only defense: as whiny as Americans can be, the Japanese teens that are apparently the only beings capable of piloting such a vehicle are ten times worse. "You can't make me attack California, General Tetsuo! You're not my real dad! I'm gonna go listen to some Japanese-equivilant Nirvana*!"
* - Is there such a thing? If so, I'd love to hear it.
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