Gatchaman

[Monroville]

Originally Posted by toddly6666

So I guess you are a Gatchaman fan then? Did the movie change everything around as they did in the Dragonball Evolution film?

Captain Harlock was a complete mess of a story - nice animation but awful confusing story.

I grew up watching BATTLE OF THE PLANETS and while it would have been nice to have that edit on the big blu-ray box set the new English dubbed voices aren't too bad. Besides, it looks fantastic with a true HD release based on the original film elements.

GATCHAMAN kind of ditched the basic elements of the series (where was the part where any of them transmuted, or used the Tornado? Where was Center Neptune [forget about 7-Zark-7; I know that was the US incarnation]?) and tried adding their own things, which were not only not necessary but just added to the exposition. I think there was maybe 2 action scenes in the whole movie (granted, the climax was pretty prolonged, but still... where were the animal shaped robots?). Hell, they could have just adapted the centipede episode with the little girl whose dad died from the first attack and Gatchaman gives her the chance for vengeance... or the killer plants 2 parter. They had so much material to pull from and they chuck it all out?

As far as CAPTAIN HARLOCK being confusing? Um.. did you watch the same movie, because everything was pretty much explained as the film went along. Hell, the opening 10 minutes of HARLOCK was better than the entire GATCHAMAN movie just in production design. I can't say there was anything as awesome in GATCHAMAN as when the Arcadia started ramming into ships with that giant skull.

But to each their own. In the end, it all comes down to whether you will buy the blu-ray or not. I will not be getting GATCHAMAN.