In response to the news that "Transformers" is headed for the big screen, Yahoo News is reporting that "Voltron" is becoming a movie as well. In the next month or two we'll probably be hearing about "Thundercats: The Movie", and/or "Silverhawks: The Movie." I have a feeling that 80's cartoons are the next big Hollywood fad.
Live action, i hope NOT!
I think their banking on the "nostalgia" factor of 80's cartoons with the Smurfs, Transformers, and Voltron.
Hmm I am some what interested in a life action Voltron. I know it could suck I'm just wondering "how" would they do it.
The remakes fad is nearly dead now for the 80's t.v. shows.
I wonder when G.I.Joe will becoming out....
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Ray,when some asks you if your a God you say YES! - Ghostbusters
How about He-Man and the Masters of the Universe...oh, wait a minute...
Anybody recall the cartoon 'Battle of the Planets' with G-Force? I believe it was early 80's anyway. I'm just surprised that we haven't had a movie about that. I remember it being quite a popular cartoon...well, where I lived anyway.
Battle of the Planets was late 70s. I believe it was the first anime I watched, followed by Star Blazers. I used to hear talk about a live-action Star Blazers movie, but nothing ever came of it. Might have been good.
Personally, I don't mind Hollywood giving shows like The Transformers or Voltron the movie treatment. We've all gotten more than a little annoyed at the fact that Hollywood isn't doing ANYTHING original, but there is nothing wrong with this. Filmmakers have gone back to favourite stories and characters of people's childhood from the very beginning, whether books, fairy tales, comics or TV shows, and presented them in new ways. There's nothing wrong with it, in moderation. In fact, it is retelling that keeps stories alive.
I'm looking forward to live-action Transformers and Voltron movies, as long as they're done right. As for a CGI cartoon of the Smurfs, I can't believe it hasn't been done before now. If it has some of the same humour as the old show, it could be fun.
Battle of the Planets was late 70s. I believe it was the first anime I watched, followed by Star Blazers. I used to hear talk about a live-action Star Blazers movie, but nothing ever came of it. Might have been good.
Oh, yeah! Loved 'em both. The Fiery Phoenix and Seven-Zark-Seven and....lotta fun.
I cant think of an anime that translated well to live action so I dont have high hopes for Voltron. Maybe if they did a live action Lion Force in Japan it'd come out better.
take a look at the "casshern" film. it got some bad reviews, but i think it's great.
Johnny Socko and His Flying Robot--this deserves big-screen time.
And does anybody remember Specterman?
Personally I'm after a Beanie and Cecil movie: that show was quite wacky.
I mean, who has a sock puppet in an animation for pete's sake!!!
That or Mighty Mouse. Not early Mighty Mouse, but really really wierd Mighty Mouse.
I don't really mind a live action Transformers movie, or even Voltron, though it will be extremely difficult for either to hold a special place in my heart like the 1984 Transformers movie or the Voltron TV series [not the CG, but the original]
I've seen trailers and that one's deffinately on my list to watch.
The only real issues I have with a transformers and voltron movie is it ruins the ongoing inside joke people my age have always had running about those cartoons. I guess we'll have to resort to Thundercats and Snorks references until those get made into feature films.
Oh, and something thats always bothered me about Voltron is, why does the guy piloting the black lion wear a red uniform and the guy piloting the red lion wear a black uniform?
Master Blaster said:
>>>The only real issues I have with a transformers and voltron movie is it ruins the ongoing inside joke people my age have always had running about those cartoons. I guess we'll have to resort to Thundercats and Snorks references until those get made into feature films.
Inside jokes are always funny, but what got me laughing was recent ads for "He-man" the original cartoon series. Since I don't get cartoon network, it was funny to see on my friend's TV an ad for the comeback of 'He-man' which basically said: "maybe just remember that cute haircut" [cut to shot of He-man's lovely locks and a silly smile] ''that keen fashion sense" [cut to shot as He-man when he's not big and bulky, wearing a tight pink outfit] or maybe those leather boots [no need for explanation there I guess]
I found it quite funny since I was a big He-man fan when I was a kid, and was too innocent to pick up on this sort of stuff. Hehehe...
Too too. Spec-tra. Ah, Battle of the Planets. I still have my lunchbox. =)
I never watched Star Blazers, but I remember my friend babbling about a Wave Motion Gun in relation to it (in between watching the Solid Gold dancers, that is).
Really weird Mighty Mouse? Dean, do you mean, bursting into song spontaneously Mighty Mouse? So basically you'd have a CG Mighty Mouse movie that flowed like, oh, an Indian pop movie? That could be outstandingly weird. No one would watch it but us, but hey? That's what it's all about.
Whoo.. Mighty Mouse vs Superman movie. Or Alien vs. Mighty Mouse! Yeah... or... Mighty Mouse vs. Predators and Aliens... er...
I'm goin' to bed.
- Z
"Form! Feet! and! legs! Form! Arms! and! body! And I'll form! The! Head!"
PS: Lots o' spaceships Voltron, or lots o' mecha-lions Voltron?
PPS: Infra-Man movie.
PPPS: Shogun warriors movie. Whoo yeah. Now that is an idea. =)
Hehe, a Bollywood retelling of Mighty Mouse... I'd watch that!
Perhaps a Samurai Pizza Cats movie: I haven't seen that show in so long that all I really remember is that they always got shot out of a cannon at their pizza place and one or all of them at one stage ran on solar power, so all the bad guys had to do was keep their shadows over those pesky cats.
Bloody hell, nostalgia is a pain in the ass to get rid of... I just keep thinking of all the crappy shows I watched as a kid, especially cartoons.
And I certainly don't mean crappy in a bad way!
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I would assume it's going to be Lion Voltron, since it was far more successful than Vehicle Voltron.
It would be funny if the movie turned out to be the elusive third Voltron that nobody saw. Remember those ads that promised the "Voltron Trilogy" even though we only ever saw two?
And weren't the Voltrons completely different cartoons that had nothing to do with each other before they were dubbed?
Oh hell yeah. I remember there were ads for a 6 armed third Voltron. I waited and waited for the show to come out but it never did. As a little boy I felt so cheated.
I found the toy on this page. It's at the bottom, second pic down listed as Voltron II.
http://www.virtualtoychest.com/voltron/voltron.html
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Yeah, I remember that six-armed toy, but I think I only ever saw a knock-off version that wasn't packaged as Voltron. But I do recall thinking that it looked like the elusive third Voltron from the TV ad.
I can't help but think a live action "Transformers" or "Voltron" movie is gonna make us all have Power Rangers flashbacks, which may or may not be worse than 'Nam flashbacks... depending on their duration, I guess :P
The best thing about the existing Transformers movie was seeing Starscream get obliterated. Isn't it amusing how they can change mass by transforming? A giant robot becomes a microscope, or a tape deck, or a suppository... uh, that did happen, right?
After seeing the Smurfs do their take on "Seven" on Robot Chicken, I'm actually more inclined to like this than I would've previously thought. Mothersmurfer!
"We regret to inform you our scheduled movie, Godzilla vs. the Smurfs, will not be shown tonight..." -opening to an episode of "You Can't Do That on Television"
I remember the Voltron toys really sucking. I had the lion voltron and when it was fully assembled a leg would always fall off, but of course I mostly used my die cast metal voltron to do battle with my older brother. Maybe beating the crap out of him with a fully formed voltron led to some battle damage to blue lion.
"The best thing about the existing Transformers movie was seeing Starscream get obliterated."
Blasphemy! hehe Starscream was a great (cowardly, backstabbing, and chaotic evil) character! His role was thereafter replaced by the ass-kissing Cyclonus yuk. I did like seeing Iron Hide, Prowl, Ratchet, and Brawn (Prime's little cliq) get taken out though :)
Yeah, Starscream did have character... too bad it was a really annoying one. Yeah, some of the "graphic" fights were a refreshing change (how graphic can a robot on robot fight get anyway?) The most unusual-if not unbelievable- thing was the robotic squid Rodimus Prime had to fight. Robots, sheesh. Hard to believe Orson Welles was in this... when there were so many commercial spots available. Canned peas or fishsticks, anyone?
You have to admit though, that soundtrack for the Transformers movie rocked. Its one of my favourites.
Of course we all know so many 'main characters' died in the film just so they could release some new toys, but even so, I liked how they got rid of Optimus Prime. Nobody really expects that sort of thing in a movie based on a TV series.
Yeah, after watching TF on TV, that massacre on the shuttle came as quite a surprise. Suddenly, Megatron transforms and starts blowing away Autobots to heavy metal music. And when Prowl gets hit in the chest and his eyes turn red and smoke pours out of his mouth - wow! Not to mention rapid laser blasts going straight through Ratchet and Ironhide, as they jerked around and fell into a smoking heap.
That was the first real sign that the movie was not going to be like the TV show, although the destruction of Lithone at the opening said we were in for something a lot cooler.
With the battle for Autobot City, Insecticons getting crushed, the death of Optimus, Spike yelling "s**t" (there was practically a gasp from the audience at that point), robots being fed to Sharkticons and dumped in acid, and Starscream getting burned to a crisp, I remember walking out of the theatre thinking "this was no kids' movie."
>>>I remember walking out of the theatre thinking "this was no kids' movie."
One of the reasons why I loved it [although the general structure of the plot was a bit disjointed].
This also was the first movie that really got me into the wonders of anime.
Nowadays alot of kid's movies seem to be fairly tame in the whole violent death aspect, so I really appreciated the fact that despite the fact they are robots, you have some sort of blood [or oil] leaking out of Megatron and Optimus during their fight.
Oh man I think I was somewhat traumatized when Megatron slaughtered thouse four autobots. It was hard to believe that the red tough one could be killed (can't recall his name)
And that white ambulance one was a nice guy too.
And Starscream's death made me sad.
I believe the news of Transformers heading to the big screen are true, but I heard Don Murphy was attached to the project but didn't see anything about it on imdb.com. He has this whole thing about it on his website though, with people giving opinions on what actors/actresses should play what part. Anyone know if he is really attached to the movie? One of the popular "B movie" type actresses talked highly about on his website is Priscilla Iden. I looked her up and she's in a movie with Gunnar Hansen, but imdb doesn't have information on if it's out yet, anyone know anything about that, I'm a huge Gunnar Hansen fan?
The tough red one was Ironhide. Ironic that he was the tough guy when he was essentially a minivan.
I'd completely forgotten that his death was especially dramatic, crawling up to Megatron and getting blasted point-blank as the scene changed.
I agree it was nice the way they handled robotic death, making it a bit more tragic. I remember one father sitting near us in the theatre had said, during the death of Optimus, that robots don't die. I guess this was before Beast Wars introduced the idea of a 'spark' as a sort of robotic soul, but anyone who has owned a computer knows that machines can catastrophically fail in spite of everything, and lose everything stored in them. In that light, I can see that if the lights go out for Optimus, that's that.
Then again, in 1985, it's probably a good bet the guy never owned a computer, or at least knew nothing about them.