My hate of dubs died decades ago. I enjoyed the dub of Melancholy of HS. If nothing else, subtitles ruin the the timing of most jokes. Good vocal directors will rework things in the dub so the humor is still there. The gold standard for this is the original El Hazard. I watched it subtitled and didn't care for it, watched the dub and fell in love. Given both the English and Japanese vocal tracks are created after the animation is done, I treat both as adaptations and enjoy each for what they are.

Also, never assume subtitles are accurate.

Have you seen the original cut of Trek, though? The two films have a bit in common. I'm amused that Disney tried to get ILM. They were busy doing a rush job on Trek, having been called in when the original model work (done by the group hired for the canceled Phase II TV series) looked like crap. If you want to see a bloated budget, the Trek movie cost something like $46 million with the over runs.

And avoid info dumps at all costs. Those are when a writer has a notebook full of research, and just HAS to show it to his readers. They just stop the story cold, and are the things readers flip past on a second reading.

(I'm the type of writer who will spend hours researching something online, then give a one sentence description in the story. I know what it is and how it works, which is the important thing. The rest will come up if/when the story needs it.)

Well, in general you want to know enough facts to be able to fake the rest. Unless specifics are needed for story reasons you can be vague about quite a bit. As this is a fantasy world, physics might not even work the same as on Earth.

I caught bits and pieces of it on TV, may have caught the entire thing once (I was two when it came out). The entire thing just seemed silly. Despite the visuals, it was no Star Trek. Also, I probably unfairly linked it with The Starlost.

(My dad loved that show. He was the most casual SF fan you can imagine. The worst original Trek episodes were his favorites)

Not related to the movie, really, but I thought I'd post it anyway. Up above, in response to Herc saying he'd never seen a negative review of Edge of Tomorrow, I posted a link to one on the War is Boring blog. The reviewer's main beaf was the setup of the story could of dealt with the effect of war on soldiers, and upon approaching the subject the movie then ran away from it. That annoyed him, and him being annoyed annoyed those here

Today, he posted a review of the new Clint Eastwood movie, American Sniper.
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/americ … 3b0ce094e1
The film, for him, dealt with the subject well. I just thought some might like to compare and contrast.

Depends on the source material. Imagine if Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs hadn't expanded on the book, but instead not only followed the book but condensed where possible.

My memory of the book was that Balin was my favorite dwarf, which is what made the discovery in Moria so heartbreaking. Sad to hear the movie's not giving him much to do.

In the book I thought he did, hiding for the entire battle until he's knocked unconscious. Or maybe that's just the old animated version.

Plot speculation would be that by the end of Return of the Jedi, only Luke knew how to make an official, up to code Jedi saber. Anyone coming to the force on their own, without a master (as the original Jedi obviously did) would be hacking together an original saber design.

They also aren't anime in that they are animated in Korea. Korea, as anyone in that country will tell you, isn't Japan

Japanese Katana's are used with two hands. You don't duel with broadswords