Keith Watanabe * NET 2.0

This movie is entitled this way as a subtle jab at the fact that they "stealthily" have stolen the premise and LOOK from Macross Plus. My god how Hollywood cannot be sued by Japan for ACTUALLY STEALING is beyond me. It's so laughable that the MPAA makes such a big fuss about information piracy, but these is beyond blatant. This is not only stealing, but turning a REALLY GOOD movie with a great story, and then shitting on it. If they were going to steal Macross Plus, why not just make it a live action film? It's a GREAT anime and has a very good story to the back with a challenging premise behind it. Instead, we have the prototyped terminator AI killer, dumbed down for Hollywood's, ahem, standards. This is so unbelievably disgusting and is definitely an all time low for Hollywood. Macross Plus happens to be a personal favorite of mine, one of the few things in life that actually helped inspire me to write some screenplays. And for these bozos, no talent, ass clowns to do a Michael Bolton is downright sickening. It's ironic how Americans previously would cry out on how the Japanese would copy their stuff and then repackage it. Why should it just be the Japanese? Here's an instance where the Japanese are doing it better and that the Americans are making things worse. Americans are so out of ideas that they're looking and stealing from abroad now. Truthfully, no one really is "stealing" things. But the sad part is that you'd have to wonder HOW MUCH credit will be given to Macross Plus and the makers during this whole thing. How aware will the American and international public be of the profound influence of anime on the arts will come out of this? This is what really bugs me about copyright infringement. The real idea behind intellectual property ought to be giving credit where credit is due. Not about how much money a person is theoretically entitled to. That's what capitalism has boiled down to. The real arts like music, movies, etc. are being raped by producers who have no creativity and don't truly give credit properly. Fuck you again hollywood. Maybe one of those AI fighters will do us a favor and turn on you guys in determining that you are a bunch of genetically inferior writers.