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Post by giehar on Sept 5, 2006 15:58:15 GMT 8
wow i didn't know a thread like this existed and am glad!
disclaimer: i am not pro or anti piracy. i buy pirated, but i also buy originals. i also download.
the downside of pirated videogames for consoles and pc's is the fact that a gamer's patience becomes too short. this is coz with piracy, they can afford to buy 30 ps2 games without denting their wallet. as a result, they dont spend enough time on one game and just move on to the next. this wouldnt happen that much if there were no pirated games and each game would cost how much they really cost, like $50. if every gamer had to pay that much for a game, then they would want to spend weeks or maybe even months playing a game and never be done with it, instead of most gamers nowadays who want to finish a whole game title in one sitting.
it's the same thing with pirated movies and videos. buyers eventually get greedy and buy as much as they want and sometimes they dont even finish a movie if they dont like it. they rationalize that they didn't spend a whole lot on it so it doesn't matter if they just didn't watch it, which is like throwing their money away.
another excuse i always hear from people who buy pirated videos is that they just want to watch it or watch out of curiosity, and are not collectors. i tell them that it's a lousy excuse. "just want to watch it"!? that's what you're supposed to do with a DVD! that's no reason to buy a bootleg! that's like saying only collectors buy originals, which isn't true.
as for filbar's getting raided, it think it serves them right. i wish they also do the same to a well known chain of pirated anime stores and the hobby stores in shoppesville who sell burned VCDS/DVDS. these sellers download fansubs and profit off them. fans work hard to subtitle anime as a service to other fans, and nobody has the right to profit or interfere or "pakialaman" their work. these fansubbers work for free and maintain servers so other fans can download and enjoy the anime for FREE and these sellers, who would like us to think that they are legitimate entrepreneurs with their shops in the malls are actually pirates themselves.
i can understand why pirates do what they do. they are just there to make money. i am talking about the sellers of the DVDS in quiapo and the malls, not the big time manufacturers who supposedly are with the hongkong triads and fund terrorists. it's the sellers of pirated anime DVDS/VCDS, who rob the work of fans that i find despiccable.
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Post by giehar on Aug 31, 2007 13:58:59 GMT 8
with the exception of the 2 gouken figs, i got these yesterday, ALL les than P500 each, and evil ryu was P600: GOUKEN AND BATTLE CRY GOUKEN RESAURUS SD SET OF 4, AKUMA OPENED [ON TOP] ADON & EVIL RYU GEN, CHUN LI AND SODOM GUILE, REMY AND SAKURA T HAWK, BIRDIE AND IBUKI if anyone knows where else they sell the other SF figures, cheap, please let me know coz i am trying to complete it. i dont plan on getting all the variants, one figure of any color per character is enough for me. thanks!
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Post by giehar on May 25, 2007 5:09:32 GMT 8
starts on may 27.
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Post by giehar on Sept 27, 2007 14:24:06 GMT 8
kirayamnato - when you buy the rights, you aren't imitating anymore. you have the "right" to use the established name, characters, etc.
clowz - the "showdown with the monster at the end" wont work with zaido coz zaido is a daily drama, it isnt a weekly kids show like shaider was. i think it's more fair to say zaido was a reformatted version of shaider. it's a kid's show turned into a drama.
take smallville, it's basically superman but it became a teen drama series and you dont see super villains or superheroes in costumes.
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Post by giehar on Sept 26, 2007 18:03:35 GMT 8
deal or no deal is not an imitation or ripoff. ABSCBN bought the rights for it. same as "1 VS 100", and "Big Brother". franchise shows like AMERICAN IDOL, DEAL OR NO DEAL have their own versions in many countries, licensed versions complete with rights.
it doesnt matter if the concept is original or not, if you like it, you will still watch it. KAMEN RIDER RYUUKI's story is a ripoff of HIGHLANDER, KAMEN RIDER FAIZ'S concept is a ripoff of BLADE [wesley snipes]. KAMEN RIDER BLADE'S background story is very similar to ALIENS VS PREDATOR. in DEKARANGER, there are 2 characters named MURPHY and CLARENCE, both names are from ROBOCOP, and DEKARANGER is a police sentai. where's the originality in that?
and let's not forget that sentai is pretty much just 35 [and still going] yearly shows where the same thing happens everytime.
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Post by giehar on Sept 24, 2007 20:32:09 GMT 8
i am watching the pilot episode of zaido right now, so far they retained certain "toku elements"... the way the characters talk, they pause a lot which is like toku. their movements are also exagerrated like toku. when the scene shows the big ships, there is a subtitle at the bottom saying what the ship is, just like the japanese characters when the same thing happens in toku. a lot of the clothing in dennis trillo's home planet have an arabic look, and the romantic scene between him and diana zubiri looked a lot like anakin and padme in star wars. that's all i have noticed so far. i am trying to not to look hard for flaws. i am trying to look for what they did to pass toei's standards.
ian de leon's character looks so much like M BISON of street fighter. sorry i had to say that again, i cant get it out of my head...
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Post by giehar on Sept 24, 2007 18:06:26 GMT 8
magandang tignan ang homemade costume na yan kapag nagpoposing, kumusta naman kaya yan kung gagamitin sa outdoor fight scene na may blasting?
"that homemade costume may look good when the guy wearing it is just posing, how is it when he is fighting outdoors and there are explosions?"
there are a lot of fight scenes in the original shaider where the costume is really dirty and you can see it come apart... there are also scenes in warehouses in other toku where the crowd seems to be fleeing but they actually just stayed inside the place and hid behind a box.
i dont know if they are doing their own stunts, but the zaidos have scenes where they talk with their helmets off and therefore, the actors have to be shot wearing them but with their heads exposed. i guess GMA didn't think of using smaller suit actors for fight scenes to make the costumes more tight-fitting.
robocop was based on gavan too...
what's scares me is what GMA may be thinking of doing next... they could buy the rights to VOLTES V from TSP and since it wasnt all that big in japan, TOEI will grant it. GMA would probably make a live action tagalog version, and like sentai, use the SOC VOLTES V in the scenes with stop motion animation fighting a guy in a rubber suit. they'll use the same excuse, that voltes v was first seen on their channel and it's "only fitting"...
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Post by giehar on Sept 24, 2007 17:04:53 GMT 8
he is not filipino. dennis trillo's character is an alien. besides, the original shaider also often mentions that he is the descendant of the warrior shaider that defeated fuuma 12,000 years ago. the point in saying that is to intimidate fuuma, "my descendant kicked your butt, and i can do the same!"
the costume pictured above looks like the guy is wearing it like a "sando". and the helmet is misaligned, it's like someone twisted it sideways.
in fairness, in the case of this shaider replica, it's easier to get it right when you have a previous established designed to copy off from. i mean, this costume pictured above wasnt designed by a filipino.
the zaido costumes look bulky coz they had to be big enough to fit the actual actors, unlike the shaider costume in japan, it could be a stuntman in there who was smaller than hiroshi tsuburaya.
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Post by giehar on Sept 24, 2007 12:24:01 GMT 8
i agree, what's the point in calling it a metal hero show if the costume isnt mostly shiny or metallic?
i think dennis trillo's character's name "GALLIAN" [spelling?] would've been better for the title than ZAIDO. "stellar police gallian" sounds more tokusatsu to me than zaido. and ian de leon's character is named "zion", what is it with filipino writers and their fascination with names that start with z? it reminds me of back in the 70's when they renamed the voltes v characters zardoz, zandra, zuhl, zaki, and zander.
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Post by giehar on Sept 23, 2007 21:08:00 GMT 8
is it just me or does ian de leon [commander zion] look like M BISON of street fighter? and the space combat scenes look a lot like STARSHIP TROOPERS.
i am still trying to upload the zaido segments of SOP this afternoon.
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Post by giehar on Sept 20, 2007 23:55:42 GMT 8
yeah coz here in our showbiz industry, the stars sell the show. unlike in japan, the show sells the star. in a sentai, it could star a complete nobody and that nobody would be famous because of the sentai show. but here, it's the star who sells the show coz the target viewers dont care what the show is about, for as long as their favorite star is in it. so i dont expect gma to do zaido justice AS A TOKU SHOW.
for me, i dont like the helmet of the zaidos, i think it's coz the visor part in the eye section seems too big and looks like the cover of the head section of a medieval suit of armor. making it too thick shows lack of detail. there is also the lack of what i call the typical "tokusatsu mouth". if they fixed this design, it would stand a chance if compared to gavan. the zaidos leave a lot to be desired when it comes to detail.
based on what little i caught of the making of zaido tonight [saturday sep 22], it seems like gma exerted effort in making this a good one. it's what i would like to call an 80's show given a "post-millenium transfusion". the stories strike me as similar to the formulaic shaider stories [which can be considered corny by today's standards], the typical fuuma exploits kids' weaknesses and shaider saves the day.
i also noticed larry chan was mentioned in the credits, he is the "vince mcmahon" of TSP, the local rights owner of shaider.
i guess we have to be more objective when we bash this show, what can we really expect from it and should we really compare it to shaider?
the question that is fair to ask is this: if shaider was made TODAY, is this what it is supposed to look and feel like? the big dillemma for zaido is that it is the first toku of the philippines and it sets itself as 20 years more advanced than the established icon. if this show truly passed the standards of toei for a toku show, i'd like to see it.
i wish i could watch it without my mind automatically criticizing every little thing i see, i wish i can watch it like i would a typical masked rider show or toku show made in japan.
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Post by giehar on Sept 20, 2007 15:33:28 GMT 8
i've seen parts of the show from the trailer, they only showed the academy training so far and i say it doesnt have the "shaider feel", i mean the locations, and the way the scenes are shot dont resemble shaider one bit.
and from what i know, GMA DIDN'T get permission from TOEI for this. they are traipsing around the copyright issue and are playing around between copyright infringement and public domain issues. the fact that they placed "all rights reserved, toei and telesuccess" on the teaser shows that they are making sure that they are not mistaken for claiming that they own the rights to shaider.
as for strange realm [time space warp], that would be so easy coz all they have to do is fight in front of a chroma backdrop like a green or blue backdrop and they can put the CG effects in the back like how it was done in shaider. then there are a couple of fog machines to add effects. if it was just going to copy shaider, then GMA SHOULD be able to pull it off since shaider was 20 years ahead and we should be more technologically advanced than they were at the time. however, GMA is still way behind when it comes to effects and their writers are lazy.
what i am afraid of is that they will cut costs when it comes to the monsters, i expect a lot of out of work stuntmen with a lot of makeup to be the monster, unlike the colorful monsters in shaider.
regarding the love angle, i am just saying that there should be one if the show is to be more realistic. for example, the soldiers in the 2007 movie of transformers had loved ones back home that they talked to via webcam, that shows that even soldiers have a love life or even married life. 20 years ago, when you watch gi joe, hardly any of them had any girlfriends and that was kind of weird to me. HOWEVER, the fact that the space sheriffs shouldnt be devoid of a love life DOESN'T MEAN that the show should center around it. knowing GMA, they will use the love angle as a marketing gimmick like you said, and there will be too much of it in the show and not enough sci fi action which is to be expected from a shaider wannabe.
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Post by giehar on Sept 20, 2007 12:35:54 GMT 8
well if these new heroes are grandkids of shaider then it has to be connected to the japanese and that means ley-ar, drigo and ida are all supposed to be dead. i can understand the alexis part since they could all be descendants of the warrior shaider, the one that fought the mu empire 12,000 years ago.
i dont think this is GMA's take. i think the writers already started writing this story thinking that they had the rights to shaider from toei. then they found out that they were denied, so now they are stuck with it and are just modifying it a little bit to avoid getting sued. that's probably why ley-ar, drigo and ida and even the amazonas are still alve in this version. orginally there was only supposed to be one space sheriff in zaido, and that was marky cielo. when toei denied gma the rights to shaider, that wqs when they adjusted their plot and added 2 more so it will be different. but the rest were already in place...
i dont mind the love angle, it's the take of a normal/mainstream person. any normal person who watches the original shaider had the same question in their mind - why shaider and annie didnt fall in love with each other. the fact that they didnt fall in love with each other in the japanese version is a clear flaw in the story and shows that the events in the original story was unrealistic. how can 2 goodlooking ppl who are so loveable NOT consider falling for each other? the only way that could happen is if they were gay and that was clearly not the case. and dont tell me it's coz they are on an important galactic mission and its a sign of their dedication, even ppl in the toughest departments in the military have loved ones. the right for military ppl to fall in love shouldnt be something that even has to be questioned coz they DO have that right. the fact that we think they should refrain from it is the same reason such feelings become repressed.
i mean come on, this is the new millenium already, it's no longer the 80's [the era of the original shaider] so it's time to update the story to suit the times. we can't base this on the old type of kids like the li'l rascals who thought it was sissy to have anything to do with girls and even had a "he-man woman haters club".
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Post by giehar on Sept 20, 2007 8:37:17 GMT 8
from the inquirer newspaper last monday, it seems ida and drigo are both still in it, yet both character are supposed to be dead in the original series already. continuity flaw?
also i saw a trailer yesterday, it seems one of the zaido characters is also named "alexis", which is dai sawamura's name in the tagalog version.
it may not be a continuity flaw since they can just adopt the names of their predecessors, like in the mortal kombat series, sub zero os actually more than one person. a lot of ninjas in his clan used the name so there were multiple incarnations of the same name. BUT i dont think that's the case here. i think it's a case of the writers not doing their homework again...
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Post by giehar on Jul 23, 2007 21:16:02 GMT 8
exactly. and if the gma shaider is going to spoil someone's childhood memories of the original shaider, THEN DONT WATCH IT! it's that simple! heck it's not like gma is forcing us to watch these shows of theirs, and the fact that they keep making shows like this clearly means there are a ton of ppl out there who DO watch it. and don't get pissed at them for trying to make money, that's what the business is all about.
years ago when WB created smallville, i was very pissed coz i believed that making clark kent some wimpy kid with love problems in high school was something i couldnt accept since that was not how i grew up knowing superman. so i stayed away from it. believe me, it's that easy.
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