Japanese don't like Kaiju movies. They only made them for export.
They've had giant robots battling aliens up to here, thank you very much.
Actors were too old to be believable as child pilots -- not one had blue hair.
Yanks piloting Gundam-like mecha is Japan's worst nightmare.
Character names sound ridiculous in Japanese (oops! they sound ridiculous in every language).
First reports declared it Gainax's weakest-ever reboot of
Neon Genesis Evangelion.
No scenes of the White House being blown up.
Film did good in China -- too good.
Actors were too old to be believable as child pilots -- not one had blue hair.
Japanese audiences turned off by American habit of dropping atomic bombs on everything.
Took so long to open in Japan, the Japanese all had time to watch the cam copy off the Internet.
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