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Beansprout Midget
Joined: 17 Apr 2016
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 Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 4:51 pm
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Oh my gosh, I forgot these existed!
I just found Guyver over the summer, and I'm a huge fan. Haven't heard too many things about the live-action movies besides Mark Hamil being involved and Guyver 2: Dark Hero being pretty decent.
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EricJ2
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 5:17 pm
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| Beansprout Midget wrote: | | Haven't heard too many things about the live-action movies besides Mark Hamil being involved and Guyver 2: Dark Hero being pretty decent. |
The first one was a bit of camp from one of Brian Yuzna's old SFX men, and the second was taken over as a more straightforward Kamen Rider knockoff once 90's Power Rangers mania had caught on.
Nobody had heard of "manga" in those days, so no one knew how to market the concept of one of the few J-heroes anyone could have heard of...Back in the days when Coppola was still promising we'd get "Mai the Psychic Girl", and James Cameron was going to do Battle Angel by himself.
The "Limited Re-issue" makes it sound fancier than it is--Warner Archive basically MOD's anything on their catalogue, and if they know how to market something obscure that went direct-to-video the first time, it's a good chance to rediscover it.
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LucianGreyfold
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 5:35 pm
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While I am not a fan of the first live action Guyver, terrible use of Mark Hamil, the second Dark Hero was so much more epic and violent and dark like the original anime/manga. David Hayter was great as the main character and the fights were much more wicked! I wish it was a blu-ray release but I will take a DVD over my old VHS tapes I still have of them.
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Animechic420
Joined: 25 Sep 2012
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 5:50 pm
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I could see Guyver being remade/rebooted. The 1991 movie was cool back then, but over the years I've realized how poorly made it was. Looking back, the reason I might have been drawn to Guyver was because it reminded me of a dark version of The Power Ranger.
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IdeaOfEvil
Joined: 21 Mar 2012
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 6:00 pm
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This would have made me feel bad since I just imported the German bluray for Guyver 1. But Warner DVD mod...
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Hitokiri Kenshin
Joined: 14 Feb 2012
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 6:04 pm
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| LucianGreyfold wrote: | | While I am not a fan of the first live action Guyver, terrible use of Mark Hamil, the second Dark Hero was so much more epic and violent and dark like the original anime/manga. David Hayter was great as the main character and the fights were much more wicked! I wish it was a blu-ray release but I will take a DVD over my old VHS tapes I still have of them. |
Never saw them, but not surprised the sequel was darker and more violent as I recall it was rated R and the first was PG-13.
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Heishi
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 6:28 pm
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They oughta make a new Guyver series.
At least, IMO.
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Animeking1108
Joined: 26 Apr 2011
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 7:41 pm
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| Heishi wrote: | | They oughta make a new Guyver series.
At least, IMO. |
The manga would have to update first.
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Souther
Joined: 22 Feb 2015
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 9:06 pm
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| Animeking1108 wrote: |
| Heishi wrote: | | They oughta make a new Guyver series.
At least, IMO. |
The manga would have to update first. |
I think they could animate up to a point, but yeah, releases have been slow, the last chapter was released in April this year.
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levonr
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 9:29 pm
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I could never get through the first movie, its too unbearable to watch. However I've always liked the second ever since I saw it on the Sci-fi channel in the 90's. I knew nothing about Guyver back then, it was just a cool movie.
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FMPhoenixHawk
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 9:32 pm
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I may have to get this. I have both on VHS, and I think I might have them on a DVD set. I will have to check when I get back home, and may have to order them.
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AnimeLordLuis
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 11:56 pm
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I haven't seen ether of these movies since the 90s so I guess now is a good time if any to refresh my memory. 
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BadNewsBlues
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2016 12:31 am
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| LucianGreyfold wrote: | | While I am not a fan of the first live action Guyver, terrible use of Mark Hamil, |
To be fair Hamill wasn't really know for anything else outside of Star Wars and Batman TAS.
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Gonstead
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2016 3:51 am
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| Levonr wrote: | | I could never get through the first movie, its too unbearable to watch. However I've always liked the second ever since I saw it on the Sci-fi channel in the 90's. I knew nothing about Guyver back then, it was just a cool movie. |
If nothing else, the suit designs for the Guyver unit and the Zoanoids were pretty cool.
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kenrobinson1982
Joined: 22 Nov 2003
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2016 7:51 am
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Any idea if Guyver 2 will be widescreen? I'm hoping it isn't since the movie was natively 4:3. For the previous DVD release they cropped the image to make it 16:9 which I wasn't happy with.
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