Bear or Bust wrote:
I'm more of a Robotech person myself, man a Robotech / Macross film would be awesome.
Apart from the loads they've already made, more than enough to last a lifetime.
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Theres this coming in 2012 but not sure if its an anime or a proper live action film.
Wikipedia seems to confirm that it'll be
live action. Produced by Tobey Maguire.
NOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo. Just picture it. Matt Damon as Rick Hunter, Lucy Liu as Lynn Minmei, Megan Fox as Lisa Hayes, Vin Diesel as Roy Fokker. Everything is really dark, with a lot of black and moody lighting and blue lights. The Veritechs are modelled in exactly the same way as the Transformers (ridiculously detailed and organic) as... yes, Michael Bay and the team behind the hit Transformers movies are directing and doing the special effects respectively!
The story opens as young Rick Hunter, a simple small-town boy from Nebraska, is out one day riding his bike with his dog Shep when the evil Zentraedi vapourize his family's farm while he's asleep under a willow tree with a fishing line tied around his toe or something. Shep barks pointlessly at the advancing Zentraedi troopers and is vapourised. Rick only escapes when the Zentraedi are distracted by one of his neighbours trying to fight back with an old shotgun, and is picked up by a UN rescue team (led by a younger Roy Fokker).
Fast forward four years. We now discover that the Zentraedi have come to recover an alien spacecraft which crashed on earth, a spacecraft which provided earth's governments for technology like nuclear power, stealth bombers and now, the Veritech fighter! Rick is the hottest hotshot pilot in the UN fleet, and with his hot pop singer girlfriend Lynn, he's out to KICK SOME ALIEN BUTT!
Through a series of incomprehensible action sequences, risible 'comedy' and contrived conincidences, Rick (under the command of Roy Fokker) battles both to destroy the evil Zentraedi once and for all while juggling the love triangle of himself, Lynn and Lisa Hayes, hot and sexy second-in-command of the UN's flagship, the USS AMERICA. The AMERICA is in fact the crashed alien ship from before, rebuilt by the US Government into a hyper space-capable battleship!
Two hours of blurred space battles and explosions ensue. The film closes with Rick personally leading a charge against the Zentraedi home planet, driving an American flag through the chest of a dead Zentraedi soldier.