Square Dog Friday. . . Space Battleship Yamato

Friday is as always the best day of the week.

Especially if your a Little Square Black Dog !

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And today is even better, if that could even happen 

because 

The Square Ones are helping me review this months  

Mock Squid Soup A Film Society movie.

The Armchair Squid  host every second Friday of the month.

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And this months movie is Space Battleship Yamato.

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review one by me thehamish is getting ready to see the movie

not knowing if i understand movie that is havin' no chkikin' strips in it

not understandin'

thinkin' it needed chkikin' strips

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Review #2 Watson is sitting outside and re-watching the movie with me.

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Oh wow ! The Gamilas are bad aliens.

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The wave motion engine is great !

This is so good.

Snacks are very good too !

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When the movie came out in 2010 I was going to be in Japan. 

I would have waited in line to watch this movie.
One old gray haired handicapped American lady with walker
along with 300 anime nerd boys and
400 screaming fan girls in love with Takuya Kimura.

Good Times !
Plus everyone wanted the jacket Takuya wore in the movie.

But I didn't make it in time. So I had to wait for the DVD.

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I enjoyed the movie because of all the history I have with the anime series.

 Watching Star Blazers, with my children. 

Yes, I am that mum.

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I think the two hour movie did a good job of squishing in as much 

as they could of the original series.

You can watch this movie with out knowing all the back story and the history

of WWll, the Atom Bomb, Radiation and the original Battleship Yamato. 

And how all of this is ingrained into the Japanese psyche. 

Although I think it helps.

The movie starts in 2199 after the Gamilas attack the earth dropping radiation bombs.

What people are left are now living underground. 

Their last chance of survival depends on the  United Nations of Space

rebuilding the old Battleship Yamato

(a battleship sent out to give the Japanese people hope
that they would be protected near the end of WWll)
and fitting it with a device called the Wave Motion Engine and Cannon
sent to them by the planet  Iskandar.

It seem Iskandar might possibly have a device that can save the Earth

from a radiation death.

The Space Battleship Yamato is being sent out as a last stand to give hope 

to the Japanese people that it can save them.

The movie was filmed on small sets and the  CGI is wonderful considering 

the small budget. 

I personally hoped for more battles but in two hours that is asking a lot.

Like your favorite book that is brought to the screen this movie has it's faults. 

We can all second guess how to format this movie and make it tighter or bigger by 

Blockbuster Hollywood standards. 

Or possibly a  Micheal Bay blow something up every five minutes movie. 

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But I think this comes across more of a homage to the 1970's series.

The scene where everyone gets a few moments to say goodby to their family before 

leaving our solar system is very touching and I think the heart of this movie. 

Going out to fight for the greater good and giving hope to a dying people.
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Wonderful, fun, visually exciting movie that brought back
all the good times I had with my children.

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I leave you with

your pretty for the weekend.

 luke i thehamish is your farver

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 booboo Gud Dug Watson just after waking up,

cuddling next to me.

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 awwwwwww the sweet look on his face (messy beard and all)

just breaks my heart. I am tearing up.

He is deaf and sometimes you can see the confusion in his eyes

from the dementia. When he wakes up sometimes he just doesn't know where he is. 

No matter what, he is so sweet, loving and the best gud dug he has always been.

Throughout this all he is still the Dr. Watson I have always loved.

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wave. . . parsnip

music. . . OST, Space Battleship Yamato,  Naoki Sato