If we are going to screw this up, lets make it a complete disaster.

Yeah hoping with those two on board the project gets cancelled.

I agree with Lyghthouse's point above: The producers went from the guy who wrote THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK to the guys who hacked out HERBIE RELOADED?

Wow, this already sounds CRAPTACULAR!

Robotech starts off on Macross Island where an Alien Ship is renovated over 10 (15?) years by humans, who don't even understand all of it's complexities. On it's launch day, the island is attacked by aliens called Zentraedi.

In the insuing battle, the captain orders a "space fold" operation (sort of like warping, but more like teleporting). The destination is the far side of the moon. If the aliens want the ship, he wants to take the ship away from earth.

The ship materialises on the far side of Pluto instead, and the warp drive engines are gone (warped away. It's never clearly explained. However the book series my Macek gives some lame ass reasoning for it).

So for 80% of the Macross Saga has the SDF1 and it's crew slowly heading back to earth, all the meanwhile battling the Zentraedi.

They eventually make it, but are then not allowed to land anywhere, or have of it's civilians let off the ship. Basically Earth wants nothing to do with them, since the Zentraedi left them alone after they dissapeard.

Finally the "Ontario" quadrant agrees to let them land and disembark the civilians.

So they SDF1 flies over there, and of course is once again attacked by the Zentraedi, the SFI implements a new "barrier point system" to defend itself, and it overloads and basically nukes the entire area, killing massive amounts of people. Needless to say, no one else wanted the SDF1 after that.

Right now, I'm feeling like Paul Sheldon in Misery, telling some overzealous fat troll,"YOU WANTED IT? HERE!!! EAT IT!!!!"

Yeah, I'm making the same derranged facial expressions, too.

The fact that they had some credit with Spider-man 2 doesn't mean much. It just says they helped, if they wrote one little scene, they would get a story credit. What if that scene was the worst scene in the movie?

I hope this movie gets done right. Transformers was ok, but it could have been SO much better. I was dissapointed in parts. it became a mindless action movie with cliche after cliche. Good popcorn flick I suppose, but nothing about it makes me want to consider it a "classic", or "ground breaking"

Why don't these dirtclods get out of Hollywood and just start packing dogshit directly into cans? Apparently there's a fortune to be made there, if crap like THIS will make money...

So, in the spirit of celebrating similar interests, I do have just one friendly request. Please, when you elect to read the latest issue of your favorite anime GN at the bookstore...can you please go and find a seat instead of just sitting in the aisle? If it's at the mall and there are no seats, can you at least find a spot that doesn't put you in the way of any and all foot traffic in that aisle? Perhaps you can simply stand?

Thanks! Signed: everybody else.

"I'm Scott Bernard and this is my fiance Lynn Minmei. So what do you do here?"

"I fix the planes. One day I hope I can fly one of these things, but they won't let me. I can't even put on the tight flight jacket."

"Really? No tights or flights?Why"

"I never get a good answer to that"

"Excuse me, sorry to interrupt, I'm looking for Admiral Gloval."

"And you are?"

"Marlene Regis. I'm the CEO of Invid Industries."

Meanwhile in the theater watching all this unfold on the screen sits a middle aged asian man shedding a solitary tear muttering under his breath, "Bastards."

PS: You're not going to tell me you actually liked the Transformers script, are you? I mean come on...

If there's no squid in watchmen, then no goldfish in Robotech!

Also the 3rd act (with the cycles) would make a far better movie - the storyline there (cross-gender popstars notwithstanding) is much stronger. And I still have my 15 inch fully transformable Rick Sinclaire w/ motorcycle action figure. envy me now.