Well, if that were going to happen, I would immediately go to Ebay and hit "buy it now" for a collectible I've long wanted but could never afford.
At least I could say I finally got it during my lifetime....
Things you're tired of seeing in movies
- Thread starter Joosh
- Start date
At least I could say I finally got it during my lifetime....
The Goon
Sr Member
Nawww, the seller would ship it through UPS and it would never arrive before the planet went "BOOM!!!". So, you'd pay for it, and technically it would be yours, but "getting it" would be a different story.
Master Boda
Sr Member
I would laugh and cheer that MF on!No human has seen,but dinosaurs and extinct species would be like been there done that.
Last edited:
Yeah, but it would still be mine.
p51
Sr Member
Hollywood has never gotten vulcan/minigun firearms right. They always have them sound like conventional machine guns when in real life they make a constant roar. And they never show the utter wall of lead impacting where they're being shot at. And even when they use a real one (like in "Predator"), they totally miscount the ammo storage problem and show the gun being fired for orders of magnitude longer than it could be fired.
FYI, in the original "Top Gun," they used a 1800s Gatling gun to represent the muzzles of the 20MM M61 Vulcans mounted in the F-14s.
FYI, in the original "Top Gun," they used a 1800s Gatling gun to represent the muzzles of the 20MM M61 Vulcans mounted in the F-14s.
Riceball
Master Member
That one bugs me a lot too. You'd think that with A-10 go brrrt memes that Hollywood directors/producers/sound people would by now that rotary guns don't sound like regular machine guns. To me, the worst case of this was when Harmony Gold remastered Robotech for the first time, they didn't simply remaster the video they also completely redid the audio as well. In the original broadcast version of Macross, both in the US and Japan, the guns of the Veritech/Valkyries made a nice low buzzing sound which was perfect since they were supposed to be tri-barreled 55mm rotary cannons. But when HG redid all of the sound effects, they replace the nice A-10-like brrt sound effect with some cheap generic machinegun like sound.
Yeah there's a guy on Youtube, forgot his name, that was a USAF F-16 pilot, then Navy FA-18 pilot and he reviews movies and tells what they got right or wrong. He reviewed Terminator Salvation and pretty much questioned why in the heck would they put a regular machinegun sound for the A-10? He said it's bad*ss and doesn't know why they constantly get a simple thing wrong. He was saying they usually throw in something like a M249 or M240 for any machinegun sound.
Iskelderon
Sr Member
Reminds me of how in the Gundam franchise they even call the head-mounted guns a "Vulcan gun" and the sound is an iconic calling card, no matter which universe an entry is set in. In the classic series there even was a half-track vehicle that used one as its weapon.
p51
Sr Member
Good point, I'd forgotten about that. I guess I'm so used to it being wrong, I didn't even notice.
I watched the heck out of Star Blazers (Space Battleship Yamato) when I was a teen.
Years later I bought the DVDs for Space Battleship Yamato so I can watch it subbed. Unfortunately the "Wave Motion Gun" from the dub was translated as "Ripple Gun" in the subtitled version.
"Ripple gun?"
WTH?
I mean, every kid knew the main gun of the Yamato was the cool-sounding, "Wave Motion Gun." "Ripple gun" was just so off-putting I couldn't finish watching the DVDs.
Years later I bought the DVDs for Space Battleship Yamato so I can watch it subbed. Unfortunately the "Wave Motion Gun" from the dub was translated as "Ripple Gun" in the subtitled version.
"Ripple gun?"
WTH?
I mean, every kid knew the main gun of the Yamato was the cool-sounding, "Wave Motion Gun." "Ripple gun" was just so off-putting I couldn't finish watching the DVDs.
Last edited:
God that was horrible. I returned the set after two episodes. They way overloaded it with extra sound layers that added nothing but distraction. Very annoying.
"the first time".... did they do it again? Is the sound better now?
Riceball
Master Member
Yeah, I got the first volume and didn't buy any more after that, I think I ended up giving it away as part of a white elephant gift exchange at Christman one year. The supposed excuse for redoing all of the background sounds was because they couldn't isolate them for converting them to stereo or beyond. But I have my doubts about that since they were able to do it to add in the English dialogue and new music.
As for redoing it, there released a remastered Blu-Ray set a while back but the image quality, from what I've read, is kind of meh since they simply opted for a basic AI driven remaster and not a proper remaster. But I would have put up with that if they had put the original sound effects back in but they didn't.
bwayne64
Master Member
As long as this thread is, it's probably been mentioned before, but oh well, ; ) Someone's lover, friend or relative is standing on the edge of the cliff. Their significant other sees them and starts running towards them, thinking they're going to jump. They're within a few yards of them and the jumper turns to face the runner, and the runner stops. Then the jumper spreads their arms and falls backwards off the cliff. Why the hell did they stop running before making sure the person was safe. Example: Johnny Depp in the Dark Shadows movie ! Not a movie recommendation, lol.
Riceball
Master Member
Due to the falling out with Big West ages ago HG doesn't have access to the original Big West masters, don't mention their recent remasters. HG only has access to what was given to them back in the '80s and they're notoriously cheap wanting to spend only the absolute minimum on the franchise. This is why their recent Blu-Ray release was remastered using an AI algorithm instead of using a proper remastering process and why their last attempt at an original project was done as a Kickstarter.
p51
Sr Member
All this talk about Macross, I found at WalMart of all places a DVD set of the original unedited series with English dubs. I need to go back and listen to the sounds as I had assumed they used the original sound effects, as everything else was Japanese, including the end titles and commercial break graphics.
I never could figure out who made this set as it has no copyright or production info on the box.
I never could figure out who made this set as it has no copyright or production info on the box.
Riceball
Master Member
That sounds like the English dubbed version of the original SDF Macross released by ADV using remastered footage from Animeigo which actually resulted from an early version of a crowd funding campaign. A fun fact about this dub is that the voice actress for Minmay is none other than Mari Iijima who was the original Japanese voice actor for Minmay.
Similar threads
