From: bartmann@cs.tu-berlin.de (Ralf Acktories)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Odin Review (weird)
Date: 5 Nov 1992 16:57:50 GMT
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 Sorry for the waste of bandwith, guys, but somebody told (forced)
 me to post the following article on the net...


CAUTION: Contains strong language

General reading, but some passages are unsuitable for young children, he, he


       Yes, I rented IWC`s/USMC`s 'Odin' for a sneak preview...

 ...and here are some thoughts about it - meant to be taken only semi-seriously...

- insert 'Odin' tape - press play - here we go -

Ahhh, no 'streamline presents...' ad in the beginning, very good.
What's that - a classical soundtrack - that's a nice idea. Hey the
guy, who babbles in the beginning is 'Maggies father' from Venus Wars
I mean, he's the same voice actor, of course. Nice background
graphics. Ahhh, finally some action, and,....hey, what's that, can't
believe my ears - a brutal switch from classic to heavy metal ( I was
warned, I remember...damn...). OK, sometimes Metal is nice, but they
shouldn't mix Classic, Pop AND Metal, but that's just my stupid opinon...
Let's go on with the movie...
Ahhh, some lightshow, then some dialogue, then some lightshow,
then hell of a lightshow, more dialog and background lightshow -
man, I'm gonna get blind watching this movie...
The ship accelerates, again hell of a lightshow (h.o.a.l.) and
Metallica-wanna-be music. A quick look at my clock - it's 1.30 am (!!)
and still 75 minutes to go...   ...must have a Coke (diet)...
...glug,glug, that's better,...
The movie again; hey that's Captain Gloval from Robohack, commanding
the ship, what a surprise, yeeesss and all the other guys look like
the other Robotech characters...
Classic music and h.o.a.l. again...   ...what's that, a Rick Hunter
wanna-be approaching the ship in a small fighter craft, I wonder
if they had to pay royalties for that scene...   ...and finally he is
called 'Akira',( no joke !) ha, ha, naaa,
 that's going to be ridiculous...
Some minutes ( and many Cokes ) later...
Introducing the only girl in the movie...  Haven't we met before ?
Ha, Ha, she's got those typical Yamato-X-shapes legs...
OK, I'm not impressed and I won't fall in love either. The directors
also 'killed' the only possible 'nude-scene', what a drag, I'm gonna
be bored - 2 am (!!!)...
Interesting plot twists develop - sort of: 'Let's have a mutiny, becuse
I don't wanna fly home.' 'Good idea, count on me!' ...and so on !
(A) dramatic climax, which means much Metal and h.o.a.l., suddenly
aliens attack, even higher climax - and a Coke for me, please...
Hmmm, the ship is not armed, strange...
First casualties; tense drama begins to unfold in deep space...
Somebody must have told the creators: 'Let's add some black holes an
pseudo references to Einstein's theories...'  
 ...unfortunately they did...
Even more aliens attack - but the crew got lucky, because the ship
is suddenly armed...      ...even more casualties - not the girl,
of course...     ...crew starts kicking ass...
About 2.30 am; casualties high, minor damage to ship and the aliens`
main computer looks like HAL 9000 from the inside...
Also some robo-mecha, some AT/ATs from 'The Empire Strikes Back'
(blown into pieces...) and another Coke for me...
Final report: Alien main computer destroyed; the captain died a typical
 `Roy Fokker-death` and the girl and Rick(Akira)Hunter are
together forever; final h.o.a.l.; that's it...

PS: Did I mention, that the dubbing was nice ?

...back to our sceduled program...

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