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It was mostly empty for me.
Nothing was censored as far as I could tell though there might be one naked Newtype communication scene that was suspiciously short by Gundam standards so I suspect that one might be cut short or cropped from the full picture. Sometimes distributors self censor movies in order to get more age friendly ratings but yeah they'll have to follow the Film Censorship department categories to reach that certification and Malaysia standards for the age categories are kinda strict I suppose.
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2019-01-22, 01:06 | Link #125 |
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IIRC the rules for anime movie is that you can talk openly about spoilers when the home video is already available. That's because anime movies aren't widely available in theaters like Hollywood movies for example.
Otherwise, you can talk about spoilers within spoiler tags .
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2019-02-16, 23:50 | Link #127 |
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So, I just saw it yesterday and it's quite a blast to watch a Gundam movie in a theater (in my little hometown no less, that's like a small miracle, thanks to people who built those malls here that attracted cinema chains and anime distributors like ODEX). And I went there and saw five other people watching with me. I saw a lonewolf (like me), a couple-pair, and a bro-pair. So, six people did watch NT at the time including myself. Btw, the chain only shown NT in one studio once a day. I was lucky to catch that on Saturday.
So, non-spoiler breakdown: The Good: The Story First, I think people need to temper their expectation because no, this movie does not aim to be the next Unicorn or something. It's more like an epilogue for Unicorn if anything because it actually help explain things that happened in Unicorn and even i in Gundam shows prior to it. Considering NT is a little side-story with new characters with their own story that needs to be told in 90s minutes it's really well-thought out and well-told. It also provides a sound reasoning why most people stop exploring the psychoframe technology in the F91 era. The Protags: I can't help but like all the three protags enough to root for them. One of them you can love to hate at some point while you just feel sorry for the other two and want them to have a happy ending. Brick and the EF officer Iago are also pretty likable. And I'd say the little cameos are pretty nice, short and sweet. Really, they don't focus on too much cast in this movie because this is Jona, Rita & Michelle's intimate story. It's all about them. The Music: Another great work from Sawano. Of course, not as good as Unicorn coz you can't really replicate that first experience with Sawano's greatest tracks, but this is close enough. The Not So Good: The Villain: Zoltan Akkanen is a one-note psychotic villain. There's no getting around that. He's basically just there to be one of the reasons why the events in the movie happened. His presence still makes sense though and helps to shine more light to how Full Frontal was created for those who only experience Gundam through anime. The Animation: Somehow, the animation in this movie is not on the same level of Unicorrn, Thunderbolt & Trailblazer despite being a 90-minute theatrical movie (not OVA or ONA). The movements are kinda clunky which was emphasized by the big screen where we can see all the details clearly. I'd even go so far as to say that the handdrawn mecha animation is below F91 and has more percentage of derpy Gundam faces compared to 00 series. The fact that Phenex mostly uses CG kinda help them out a bit. That's kinda strange, isn't it? Maybe they didn't get much budget or something because the director is capable of something better. Or maybe handdrawn mecha animation is just really dying right now idk. I want to see the upcoming new Code Geass movie to determine that. The So-So: Mecha Designs: It's just "eh" for me since most of them are just recycles with not much difference from previous suit. There's no stand out unigue mechas like Khsatriya, Sinanju, Rozen Zulu, Shamblo, or Delta Plus that we saw animated for the first time. Not really a big fan of Narrative either. If I have to choose, that A-Pack is still my favorite. Sinanju Stein is still sweet though. The Polarizing: There are things that will probably polarize UC fans. On one hand, UC fans who like their universe grounded and "realistic" and hate the Newtype stuffs will probably be annoyed by all the Newtype "mumbo jumbo" and the time-altering & death-defying psychoframe devices that NT is running with. On another side, UC fans who likes the Newtypes stuff will almost certainly enjoy how NT expands on the idea and also clears some ambiguous concepts that's prevalent in Tomino's Gundam entry involving human transcendence. All in all, it's a very nice experience that worth the ticket price (assuming the theater do not charge more than the normal price) and still a must watch for UC fans who like Unicorn and want to see the direct events after the ending of the OVAs (which was only glimpsed at by Twilight Axis). Note: Don't bother staying for post-credit scenes. They only give you HF teaser that we all have seen online.
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2019-02-21, 06:06 | Link #129 |
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^ Yeah, 7.5/10 is a fair score. It's good for what it aimed to be.
Also, as expected, there are already backlash from UC-fans who really hated the "Newtype shenanigans" in NT. Many of those are UC-fans who hold onto "muh UC realism" even though Tomino already established Newtypes from the very beginning before Gundam even became a franchise. They already claimed that NT is the worst UC entry and the movie has ruined the UC entries that came before it (Heh). There are also people who expected/demanded that NT answers all the questions that fans had about Newtype before watching the movie and then made a rant when the movie did not fulfill that expectation to such degree. The rest of the rants & complains usually also came from people who missed some points because they haven't seen much UC entries before or didn't pay enough attention to the movie. I'm starting to wonder, are the "UC die-hard fans" who totally reject the Newtype concept and the expansion of it can really be called "true UC fans" at all? I mean, Newtype and human transcendence is like half the point of the main UC story (if not more). The development of the Newtype powers in NT is certainly nowhere near as baffling as the Jedi power-evolution in The Last Jedi for such fan outrage. Frankly, the biggest event in the movie is no more outrageous than Amuro pulling an entire asteroid with only a cockpit-psychoframe of the Nu Gundam back in CCA.
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2019-03-03, 03:33 | Link #131 |
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How can one be a die hard UC fan and not except newtype shenanigans? I mean newtypes have been apart of the UC since 0079 and were such a prominent focus in Zeta gundam and ZZ gundam. Heck, Jadau controls ZZ gundam in some scenes by pure psychic power. lol In fact, that is exactly what psychoframe is, a way for newtypes to control mecha with their psychic power in a more stable way than what Jadau does with ZZ Gundam. As for realism, mecha is FAR from real. Even the real robot genre is absurd. The true realism in gundam comes from its focus on politics and the true nature of war where both sides believe themselves righteous while in truth both having corrupt flaws. Real life is often more gray than black and white.
Anyway, I'll have to wait to see the movie when the DVD comes out but from what I read I'll be quite interested in it. If it really does tie up some stuff up after unicorn such as why psychoframe technology was abandon by F91 then the movie will be a win in my eyes.
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There's a big difference between preferring non-newtype stories (which do have a place in Gundam, just see 08th MS Team and Gundam 0080) and wishing they weren't part of the Gundam mythos at all. I mean, I wish that there were more Star Wars movie like Rogue One (EG less Jedi and more on the normal troops of the Rebellion) but that doesn't mean I don't want there to be JEdi-related SW movies. Same goes for NEwTypes in UC Gundam: I like the stories with more non-special human beings as characters, but I don't mind a UC Gundam with NEwTypes that pulls off the story well.
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2019-03-03, 20:56 | Link #133 |
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Don't have a chance to see this movie, but like what wavehawk said, I am the type who prefers the the non-newtype stories (big fan of 0083). New type is ok, and I am curious what type of trick they are pulling off this time
From "I can now win with funnel" in 0093, to the "time manipulation" (I only saw the first 23 min preview)...it sure is a big jump All I want is just a good story, that's all
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2019-03-04, 00:56 | Link #135 |
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Preferring the more grounded parts of the UC timeline is perfectly fine. Still, there are some "UC diehard fans" out there who would rather ignore the more "ridiculous" Newtype stuffs in UC. For example, whenever you bring up the fact that Zeta absorbs the souls of the dead and is glowing with pink aura during the fight with The O, those same fans would rather pretend that doesn't happen .
I mean, Amuro pulling a bigass asteroid (or two since Axis was split) with only a cockpit-psychoframe and Chan's T-shaped psycho-piece is as much a miracle as Moses splitting the Red Sea. After such feat, small manipulation of time is not really such a big jump compared to the jump from telepathy, lightning response & spatial awareness to what Amuro did in CCA which basically super-mega-ultra-telekinesis not even Jean Grey or Jedi Masters are capable of doing.
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2019-05-28, 17:03 | Link #137 |
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Just watched it. It was a pretty big disappointment.
The movie seemed to rely overly on fanservice, with them referencing UC shows as much as they could, while not adding much to Gundam's lore. The only new thing was the explanation about the Unicorn unit's ability to manipulate time, the rest we already knew. It's not even a good explanation why that technology was or rather will eventually be sealed, because anybody would love to research such a thing. The plot was paper fin and the main character had as much personality as a goldfish. They kept showing the same three flashbacks over and over to make us care about him and the other two girls but it was too heavy handed to work. The villain was just another psychopath. And the only reason he was a threat was Char, again. Extremely average entry overall.
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First: EF sealed Banshee is just them being classic paranoid EF. I mean, this is the same government who put Amuro under house arrest for years in the period between MSG & Zeta instead of making him an active-duty officer and using his full potential for good because they scared of what Amuro can do as a Newtype. After the Laplace incident and the reveal of the charter, their paranoid-level must be off the charts, especially considering that psychoframe is a Newtype-specific technology. Second: Unicorn is sealed (but not dismantled) probably because Banagher & Mineva really don’t want to open a new can of worms when they already had enough problems on their own. Also, Unicorn can only be activated by Banagher, so if he says "nope", not much can be done. Don’t forget that the crystallized Unicorn almost cost Banagher his life even though he is the chosen pilot for it. They probably treat it more as a last resort for now. Who knows what will happen in Unicorn 2 if Bandai actually make it as planned. Third: Phenex has gone on its own and the only two MAs (Neo Zeongs) with the Psycho-Shards are destroyed and people still don’t fully understand (nor control) such technology. After the scary event of Narrative, it’s understandable that people are not rushing to pursue unreliable technology that can destroy themselves. Quote:
Does NT have to be more complex than what it is for a 90-minute one-off side story? I remember IBO’s plot being “bring this princess from Mars to Earth” for ¾ of S1 and almost nobody was complaining about it. I think the simpler the better for this kind of feature. No more convoluted plot like Gundam F91 please. Jona indeed doesn’t have much of a personality. He is no Io Flemming or Daryl Lorentz, but considering he’s a movie-only Gundam MC, he's a real improvement over his predecessor, Seabook Arno. Does anybody remember Seabook? Yeah, exactly. He is so plain & forgettable that he’d fit right in with plain harem MCs from various games & anime. At least Jona has a backstory, agony and drive to achieve his goal to meet Rita again all these years as well as a bitter relationship with Michele. Seabook has nothing in comparison aside from his mild crush on Cecily. Unlike with Seabook (where I didn’t care what would happen to him when I watched F91), I actually rooted for Jona to get things done and be happy. Quote:
Somewhat agree, but it’s not bad and I’d still put NT above F91. The animation can be questionable at times but at least the movie has focus and has actual goals compared to F91 that went all over the place.
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About the technology being sealed and not investigated further, the thing is that the time rewind ability has application for things other than war, so I would think they'd want to carefully study it before just sealing it away. Which for all we know is what they may be doing in secret. I probably expected too much from this movie after Unicorn. It isn't bad, but with a few tweaks here and there it could have been a lot better. My main complaint is really the characters, the rest is more my usual nitpicking. The only one that stood out for me in the entire movie was Michelle.
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First: Considering that the "time rewind" ability needed strong Newtypes (in Banagher, Full Frontal & Rita) to transcend their physical bodies (it nearly killed Banagher and he only able to come back when Mineva's Newtype spirit pulled him out, it killed Full Frontal, and it required Rita to die and became a ghost-pilot) even with the full psychoframe tech. Given those facts, I can see how sensible scientists refuse to do it. It basically needs human sacrifices (so far). Second: The "time rewind" ability can't be controlled. The crystallized Unicorn happened because it reacted to Banagher's ultimate will to protect Mineva & the Magallanica from the colony laser no matter what. Full Frontal's Neo Zeong turned to dust after it did the time travel. The Phenex project ended in a disaster when Phenex went berserk and killing all the people on that ship's bridge before it went missing. And the whole experiment actually killed Rita, one of the strongest Newtypes so far. Third: All the factions who possess the Unicorn units are against using it again. From the Banshee faction, it will take one helluva persuasion to convince EF to unseal the psychoframe for further research, given their paranoid nature. I'm not saying it's impossible. The chances are just slim. From the Unicorn faction, I don't think Mineva & Banagher would want to trouble themselves with it. Time-manipulation is dangerous when you don't know how to control it. From the Phenex faction, ghost-Rita & ghost-Michelle are really against using the psychoframe tech and will do anything in their power to stop the abuse of it. That said, I can't wait for Unicorn 2 just to see what would happen next, but we're gonna have to deal with Hathaway first . Quote:
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