So at the end, after Desla visits them on the bridge of the Yamato, they see the huge missle detach and start heading for Earth. Then we have what seems like an hour and a half of saying goodbye to Shima and Yuki. The Earth would have been long destroyed by the time they got done staring longingly into each other's eyes, LOL.
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It's laughable really. If that was their planet killer missile technology there's no way it would be able to take out Earth now with our present technology. A half dozen nukes launched from the atmosphere, or even from the planet's surface would have taken that meandering turd out. No film should be reaching its epic and dramatic climax while the audience is contemplating shutting off the film or leaving the theatre while the events are still taking place. Horrible.
shareLogically they could have shot our nukes out of the sky without breaking a sweat.
And yeah, the ending was way too slow. Sure, a goodbye, especially between the love interests, but not that loooooong.
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So what if our weapons have no effect on them? My point was they could have used all those cannons on their super weapon to shoot down our missiles.
shareI counted, they were saying goodbye for about 20+ minutes. Insanity. The saddest part was for the first 2 hours of the movie I was on the edge of my seat. And then THIS Japanese monstrosity of a scene came about. Really ruined the ending.
shareIt was a very deep outro. They'd summed-up several seasons of the original anime in one movie; it was going to take quite some time to tie-up all the emotional loose ends...
And the Yamato's final kamikaze run on the planet killer was also slow, but that fit too; the ship was 250 years old, and you could hear every minute of its age in the slow, but determined reprise of the theme.
The Earth would have been long destroyed by the time they got done staring longingly into each other's eyes, LOL.
I was thinking the same thing, very frustrating scene. In the end, I wanted the Desla to either take Yamato out or the planet earth just to teach these slowpokes a lesson!
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It tried to be Evangelion at the end. Which made it suck.
shareIwatched on cable TV, I believe it was heavely cut because everything in the first half happens way too fast... but they did keep the long ending...
yet, I liked this movie!
I will admit this is a stretch, but the tech on the big ship may be the same as the specs sent by Iskandar to drive the Yamato, warp and use the wave motion gun. If the Gamilas came out of warp before crippling Yamato, then it too may need 20 minutes to recharge its own weapon. Plenty of time for the painful melodrama to unfold.
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