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| So what happen at the end? the ELS turned into a flower? And i love that part where Andrei die, "I am someone, who protects the citizens, a solider of the Federation"!!! |
Koko-BearJan 2, 2011 8:40 PM
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| All I could say about the film was it that it was just average, it would have been pointless without the action sequences. Plus the characters didn't even have anything wrapped up for them at the end. The epilogue was rather odd as well and didn't really fit all that well. 5/10 |
dahogla said: Heck, even Big O was better and nobody knows what do with that ending. I thought the point of the ending of Big O was to interpret for yourself what the hell happened in the entire series which was part of its charm, but I can't say the same for this movie. |
| Giant Metal Flower FTW !! NICE movie waited it for 2 years ! worth waiting ! |
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| I'd just like to point out here in all irrelevence that Unicorn and 00 and seed have different art styles. (unicorn and the other super old gundams moreso) So yeah. Some "young" people like me can't get into the strange art styles in unicorn. *reply to one of the reviews. *as far as I know theres no comments for reviews. |
| This is the best Movie since Titanic. |
| Stay Home and Wash Your Hands. Protect Yourself. Protect Your Loved Ones. Protect Your Community and Help Defeat Coronavirus. |
| The fuck? |
| Apart from visuals and sound effects... lolwut. Absolute disaster, but goes along well with beer'n'crisps. 6/10 |
"There is a road in the hearts of all of us, hidden and seldom traveled, which leads to an unknown, secret place." |
| I forgot to mention this earlier, but why is Hilary Clinton in this movie?(ie the ESF president) |
| I'm afraid Gundam 00 may go the way of Macross Frontier, getting milked senseless especially since Setsuna is still alive but fused with ELS DNA so he can never age again. |
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| it kept me watching till the end, but i was left very unsatisfied, the ending after the credits left me thinking "wtf" gave this 6/10. the gundam series is going down the drain every new series, kind of sad. |
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| What the shit was that... No seriously...what the shit was that?? 1 for story, 9 for visuals. 5/10. |
| Yeah I mostly agree with the guy above. Simply: 1/10 for story. 10/10 for visuals. 6/10. The story was all over the place. They introduced some new characters who had no purpose, brought back lots of recurring characters who had no important role and were just there for the sake of it. The antagonists were cliche and boring. There wasn't a satisfactory ending. Most of the philosophy and meaning in the plot was just repetition of "understanding, peace and pacifism". Overall I'm not impressed. The art and graphics though, were spectacular. |
| Feel like the quality could of been better but it was still pretty good. Alien metal with their own consciousness pretty badass and the millions of explosions made me pretty damn giddy with excitement. Pretty much agree with everyone else on this thread. Didn't really care for the story, loved the explosions though. The battles felt pretty dam epic. |
billngJan 3, 2011 4:07 PM
| what's the point in making a new character (Descartes Shaman) if he die right away?! in all the trailers, it makes him like the villain but it isn't. And I don't get the ending... so setsuna end up with marina when she is this old? what's about feldt?? I'm imagining the japanese in the theatre watching the ending... The scene I liked the much was when mari and allelujah were escaping the ELS at the desert base |
KuriniJan 3, 2011 5:56 PM
| WTF, No SetsunaxFeldt? And they don't show us what happens with most of the characters afterwards....-.- |
| Out already? The movie came out in September why so fast? |
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| People raging at the aliens being included sadly missed the point of whole gundam franchise. Sure its composed of many mechas going pew pew. But the main theme has always been lack of communication . Equally right sides with their own bastards and heroes fighting for their own ideals. Its all in lack of communication ) . Gundam00 had a lot of inspiration from both I.Asimov's Foundation series and both AC.Clarke's 1999 and Childhood's End. I am for one happy that this had more than just pew pews, unlike the other gundam series currently being released (*cough*gundampinkexplodingunicorns*cough*) And lol at people who still believed at the possibility of felt having romance with anything but Season1!Lockon. 5/5 |
AhenshihaelJan 3, 2011 9:06 PM
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Soulstrider said: Megadedhed said: - Setsuna is secretly the silver surfer. I knew it, he never tricked me. LOL xD Wasabi said: Patrick proves he will never die in battle. Yeah, he will never die hehe. Wasabi said: The movie was pretty awesome for all the pew pew but the ending was just so fucking terrible. Yeah, I would like something else or with more explanation too... I lost track of some things in the movie, but still pretty good :P |
ENTER_KLACMAN said: hmm i can't believe you falling for these "smokes & mirrors" on it give saw info & pics of it well to say that some call me a prophet that i'm right 00ver-rated did FAILED besides give i told ya all 00ver-rated movie is not worth it really add aliens in gundam do not mix well & yet prove it FAILED in many ways. give that i was against whole 00ver-rated for years especially seeing pics, vids, etc that don't go level to match GS era in all types. look at 00ver-rated so many shoot 1st questions later, jumping the guns, too many trust issues, filler/cannon fodder characters (besides most of the 2nd half characters got killed-off really no love of 2nd half) besides worst it was bad to split it to 2 sets of 25eps. yea overall the whole 00ver-rated sort a hurted/damage whole gundam world in many ways. give yet fanbase, popularity, characters rankings till now show GS era still better than 00ver-rated. i guess that means 00ver-rated is nothing but a 2nd rate trying hard copycat show with so many flaws in all kinds. so with that being gone & good ridencice now we get next era with my ideas of being 1.main lead female gundam protagnist pilot tv series 2.gundam version of kamen rider decade/35th super sentai crossover series in a gundam style 3.the return of the GS era (yea still owe a movie) even yet the unthinkable the 3rd GS tv season. really this what must be to SAVE gundam world. SEED Fanboy, begone and quit spreading such absurd ideas. You fake "prophet." You obviously COMPLETELY missed the ENTIRE THEME AND MORAL of 00. |
Fai said: People raging at the aliens being included sadly missed the point of whole gundam franchise. Sure its composed of many mechas going pew pew. But the main theme has always been lack of communication . Equally right sides with their own bastards and heroes fighting for their own ideals. Its all in lack of communication ) It's one thing to push a theme, it's another to make a number of questionable decisions regarding character and storyline progression. But hey, at least the "pew pew"s were good. |
| Derp, I got pretty much what I had expected. SEED faggots will love this train-wreck of a movie; and why wouldn't they? It's 2 hours of robots blasting away at silver darts with obnoxiously large and outrageous lasers, with the occasional LOLpolitical blah blah blah. To anyone complaining about the lack of romance between Feldt and Setsuna, you should know better; Sunrise loves their borderline BL and general homosexuality, not to mention there was only ever SetsunaxGundam. In any case, if I had to say something that this movie did successfully, it would be to have acted as a cash-grab for Sunrise, and that, I applaud. Of course, 1/5 for the movie. I can't even give it points for battle action; it literally was limited only to blasting darts with laser faggotry, followed closely by unnecessary barrel rolls. Oh well, it's only a disappointment if you had expected something good. Also, a little food for thought; Star Trek, Borg. See what I did there?! |
ReaperEXEJan 4, 2011 2:45 AM
| im sorry to say but this movie made me rage soooo much the action was decent however, id pefer a little less of lazers blazing through everything and more like individual action or head up so to speak now what disappointed me the most about this movie was the story.... i had better hopes for this movie and i understand alot of people quit during the production... but this movie was really bad.... honestly i think its to advertise peace..... |
| I'm really disappointed, for so many reasons, I can't even list them without going on full rant mode. 1) Such slow plot progression! *pewpew* "oh no, what do we do!?" *pewpew* *angst* *pewpew* *half assed plot point* *space flower* *end* 2) Too much fouus on characters no one gives a crap about. Since when was Billy getting laid relevant to the plot? Why did we waste so much tie on Descartes Shaman, just for him to die like normal fodder? Feldt angsting. It was sweet at first, but then it started to piss me off around angst session #8. the only minor characters I couldn't hate where Patrick and Kati. Bamf couple. 3) Main characters were useless. Setsuna barely did anything, and when he did, it resulted in a space flower. Alle did ok until he started talking about unlocking the future. Lockon = *pewpew*. Tieria, poor dear, he couldn't even hang on to his body for a fifth of the movie, and then was demoted to fairy. I can't even be bothered to go any further right now. |
ReaperEXE said: not to mention there was only ever SetsunaxGundam. Nope, it's SetsunaxGundamxGraham. LOL |
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| Aliens in my Gundam? I prefer to think, that 00 ended at second season. |
Ignoring the ELS though, this is quite a departure from ANY OTHER Gundam because there is now talk of exploring other galaxies ala Macross, not just making space colonies within the Solar System. |
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| Instead of writing my own thoughts on Trailblazer, I'll simply link to Divine's review over at Random Curiosity. It's a good read and I completely agree with his/her opinion of the movie. |
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| - loved the spoof-movie in the beginning. Really clever way of parodying mecha genre. - Love how tey incorporated advanced humans stuff with innovators. - The start of alien presence, earth technology going off, was breathtaking yet calm. NO over the top omgs and it escalated nicely. - Love how every even minor character got a role and importance. - Creepy alien ribbons and continuous a.c.clarke and i.asimov references. - Setsuna's bowman-ish slow separation from humanity is surprisingly handled very well. - Another reference to A.C.Clarke's Space Odyssey trilogy with jupiter event. - Tieria's sacrifice = epicnss. - GRAHAM! - Aliens remind me a lot of gaunas from Knights of Sidonia manga by Nihei. - When I think about it, 00 always had great OST, but this movie surpassed it in epicness. - Setsuna's mind drift reminded me a ot of Bowman's little scenes in the chamber. - Patrick the immortal Cola. XD - Setsuna's Quantum travel to els homeworld remined me both of universal migrator concept from ayreon albums and Bowman's travels. from space odyssey. - ELS evolution flashback reminds me a lot of A.C.Clarke's works. - Wormhole travel :3 - Setsuna's embodiment of peace, flower, being transm,itted through els wa sa view to see. - Epilogue start with aeolia flashback, reminded me a lot of Foundation and how it was set up by a foresight of one man. Especially the idea of mistreated knowledge causing self-destruction. - Setsuna being similar to ELS in the end. Did tha tcome as sort of their fusion or is becoming itno that form is the next step of innovator evolution? That is left up to the viewers. DuroDeMatar said: Yeah, I would like something else or with more explanation too... I lost track of some things in the movie, but still pretty good :P Actually the ending is self-explanatory for those who have already read/know about the novels Setsuna is "David Bowman", an anime equivalent of "space child" created by the long-term plan of Aeolia's "Foundations". While overall plan had a lot to do with kickstarting negotiations and talks between alien lifeform and humanity, Setsuna also is the proof. Its not important on what he became in the end. Maybe a god, maybe something above humanity, maybe universe. The point is he became. Just like majority of humanity advanced the leaps of evolution stagnated by conflicts and constant route of self-destruction of civilizations.Many people had similar problems with the last episode of casshern sins - a lot of things were left up to the interpretation of the viewer. IMO, thats for better than to try to needlessly explain every detail, destroying the magic that detail has. Some things are always better left unsaid, fo leave for viewers to figure out. The ending weas perfect IMO. One can interpret that in many ways. Was it the final moments of marina's life? Is setsuna alive in a sense humanity understands life? After all even in the end of second season, setsuna already had the controlof space and time itself and it only progressed(especially space aspect). What amazes me is that all of what he did is within the laws of quantum physics our universe functions by Ac.C.Clarke's Childhood's End explored very interesting ideas of humanity's future and troubles of the contact between you and alien civilization(S). It managed to explore human preconceptions, fear of death and the eventual uselessness of physical self in very interesting and sorrowful ways. I.Asimov's Foundation series explored and played around a lot of ideas that we have seen in gundam 00. Long-term goals, controlling society to achieve certain goals, those who do that being manipulated by a man long since dead, the value of knowledge in face of peril of war, changes, etc. A.C. Clarke's Space Odyssey trilogy is also important. The contact with alien life, focus on human advancement and evolution, its all there. The end scene with quan(t) in flowers embodied the idea - a machine, overpowered machine used for war, enforcing peace, even for preserving peace, making people understand each other, is no longer needed and has fulfilled its purposes . Humanity and the world is way beyond the need of that. entropy13 said: Ignoring the ELS though, this is quite a departure from ANY OTHER Gundam because there is now talk of exploring other galaxies ala Macross, not just making space colonies within the Solar System. deep space exploration has beeen the pinnacle of science ficiton for years even before the scifi genre existed. Considering its normal step of human existance, when reflecting on what we did in our planet, its not so surprising. And thus macross reference is baseless. |
AhenshihaelJan 4, 2011 1:17 PM
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| Shippers fucking everywhere. Setsuna should be with Gundam, while being Gundam - no one else. Marina is more of a mother figure and Feldt's love seems to be completely one sided. |
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| Did anyone else see Tiera float past when the guy was talking to the camera at the end? I laughed so hard at that |
"A detoxified Akihabara would just be another electronic town!"  |
| Also [gSS] sub's TRANS-GRAHAM was brilliant. Seriously, this movie is giving me too many lols from the trolling and flaming going on |
| "A detoxified Akihabara would just be another electronic town!" |
Fai said: DuroDeMatar said: Yeah, I would like something else or with more explanation too... I lost track of some things in the movie, but still pretty good :P Actually the ending is self-explanatory for those who have already read/know about the novels I didn´t know that there were novels, are them in english? |
| What the fuck did I just watch? No, really. What the fuck was that shit? It was pretty as expected but that plot line was like something a hippie shat out alongside a violent stream of diarrhea. I'm mad. |
| What the hell man. I loved Gundam 00 but this alien angle took a WEIRD turn for the bad. PLUS: I get the whole tieing in the 'understanding' theme, and the fact that they had to explain WHY inervators(sp) were even in the second season in the first place apart from extending the plot aka money making. Love seeing all the characters after so long, especially soldier dofus who can never die. The part where the cars are attacking Halleluljah was surprisingly entertaining as well. And..for some weird reason I like how they tied in Setsuna's flower of peace thing..except it was all so weird at that point i felt confused as the credits rolled. I like Setsuna because he's a martyr/conflicted type character that you want to see be finally healed. MINUS: Marina. She is the most useless character, although necessary, because SOMEONE has to rant on about the peaceful solution. The hug at the end made me rage because the pairings seemed so promising with Feldt and Setsuna. (REALLY? a weird epilogue with a metal setsuna and an old bag. I GET IT that they wanted to show man kind 'evolved' with all the innovators, but 50 FRIGGEN YEARS LATER?? please show us that AFTER we see the cast get their endings. No gundam meister, no setsuna and feldt, ((or even Milena and Tiera (lol that was funny with her dads reaction, not gonna lie.)) ALL IN ALL: It was a disappointment for me, as I'm a huge fan of the first two seasons. I can even vouch that the alien thing isn't what killed it for me, it was how they delivered it. Maybe a better epilogue was all that it had to take. At the end I wasn't feeling the friend bond between the gundam meisters, much less, from Tiera between Setsuna, that was prevalent through the original episodes. 6.8/10 is generous. I want to rate it higher, believe me, but the guilt would linger. |
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Fai said: Ac.C.Clarke's Childhood's End explored very interesting ideas of humanity's future and troubles of the contact between you and alien civilization(S). It managed to explore human preconceptions, fear of death and the eventual uselessness of physical self in very interesting and sorrowful ways. I.Asimov's Foundation series explored and played around a lot of ideas that we have seen in gundam 00. Long-term goals, controlling society to achieve certain goals, those who do that being manipulated by a man long since dead, the value of knowledge in face of peril of war, changes, etc. A.C. Clarke's Space Odyssey trilogy is also important. The contact with alien life, focus on human advancement and evolution, its all there. The end scene with quan(t) in flowers embodied the idea - a machine, overpowered machine used for war, enforcing peace, even for preserving peace, making people understand each other, is no longer needed and has fulfilled its purposes . Humanity and the world is way beyond the need of that. entropy13 said: Ignoring the ELS though, this is quite a departure from ANY OTHER Gundam because there is now talk of exploring other galaxies ala Macross, not just making space colonies within the Solar System. deep space exploration has beeen the pinnacle of science ficiton for years even before the scifi genre existed. Considering its normal step of human existance, when reflecting on what we did in our planet, its not so surprising. And thus macross reference is baseless. I agree with this. As a rather hardcore SF reader, I would agree that this series did have some good ideas behind it. Obviously, the "realistic" aspect of the series is not as elaborate as that of UC in terms of character development and plot. However, let me tell you this: SF series' biggest asset is NOT necessarily the plot or the characters. If it has great plot, great. If it has great character development, great. They are bonuses. HOWEVER, it's the IDEOLOGICAL aspect of SF that I think is the most distinguishable component that separates it from other genre of literature. Some of you may think this idea of "understanding" is shallow or childish, but keep in mind that what is defined as "childish" and "shallow" can be completely subjective. For instance, from my definition of SF, Star Wars would be borderline non-SF but more fantasy. It may have great plot or characters, but it lacks in terms of ideological aspect. Is this movie good then? As a SF series, it has some merits. However, I would say Universal Century is MUCH more elaborate than this. Other than that, I don't think it deserves all this hating.... No matter how the movie sucked in the plot and character department, I think it provided a nice ending (slightly half-assed) to the 00 franchise. I didn't say Gundam 00 franchise but 00 franchise simply because you can't really compare this with other Gundam series. Could it have been better? YES. How? By more elaborate plot and suspense and more complicated SF element and less laser-spamming. But then again, people found this to be boring already. Then the alternative would be even more boring.... Overall, 9/10. I'm still impressed by the laser-spamming. |
bla bla bla The endless debate between fans and haters. At one point, after spending a lot of time on MAL, you just realize it's totally pointless.Niko-kun said: On MAL, everyone who has used the lame rating system becomes a critic and an intellectual by default, haven't you heard? |
| They should've cut out some of the crap in the beginning/middle, and added 20 minutes to the epilogue. Feels like they made it too long, and just cut the ending so they could have a theatrical release. But overall, it was a good movie, the ending tied together well imo (except for the sunken ship of setsuna x feldt). I'm hoping for a longer version. |
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| Haha, those aliens came out of nowhere. I definitely wasn't expecting the movie to be about aliens. Really felt like Macross. They should have had Setsuna sing them a song lol But overall I enjoyed it. Though, it could have used more lasers. |
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| enjoy the movie and like it very much ^^ peace no war lol |
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DuroDeMatar said: Fai said: DuroDeMatar said: Yeah, I would like something else or with more explanation too... I lost track of some things in the movie, but still pretty good :P Actually the ending is self-explanatory for those who have already read/know about the novels I didn´t know that there were novels, are them in english? not gundam novels. Scifi novels which inspired gundam00, First season is heavily inspired by Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, while second season and movie draws heavilly upon both A.C.Clarke's Space Odyssey trilogy and A.C.Clarke's "Childhood's End" novel. Aesthetics, designs, etc, all of that I could see appearing in their works. Foundation series is alla bout one man's vision for the future, he predicted. It focuses on his "creation" closed secret organisation known as "Foundation", its tries to manipulate and stabilize the formation of new government and the mysterious "Seldon Plan". A.C.Clarke's Space Odyssey series mainly deals with David Bowman and what happens to him, but focuses on evolution and possibilities of humanity, with Bowman literally embodying the pinnacle of human life.. Jupiter is a huge focus there. Not to mentionthe ideas and plotlines, Aliens coming out from Jupiter's "eye" is the most direct reference to these novels. The third is A.C.Clarke's Childhood's End novel(referenced in very first movie trailer with "Humanity's childhood has come to an end" line) , which deals with alien appearance, struggle with communication and trust(aliens even refuse to reveal their looks till some hundred year into future when humanity has shed away their religious preferences enough to not label them demons). Second, it deals with the appearance of "gifted" children in earth's population(something of common theme around the works about human potential), while whole novel somehow sets up tension between aliens nad humanity, in the end their goal is revealed to be completely benevolent, although that leads to a very sorrowful, unhappy and sad ending. So in a sense while this movie ha d alot to do with this exact novel, the ending more closely resembles the ideas of Space Odyssey than that of Childhood's End. |
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| okay so so far the only ones saying something bad about this movie are setsuna-x-felt(ever heard of one-sided love, folks?) shippers(who, unsurprisingly also have stuff like "gundam" seed rated as 10/10). Felt's first and true love obviously was s1-lockon. What was shown as her feelings for setsuna was clearly shown as affection and attraction. There was no "epic love", she was just attracted to the guy. Something people usually get over. Marina and setsuna have been set up as this platonic love relationship since season1. Two people , two different people reaching for same thing in different ways. Both Marina and Setsuna have been strong characters with their weaknesses and its nice to see them each learn something in their life. It only makes sense that they came to an understanding in the end. Not every series needs to end with childish riding into sunset or a wedding type romance. Its nice to see relationship handled in more mature way. |
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