Contains minor spoilers.
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This is very overrated.
I watched the 2018 remake and felt like it could have potential, but I remember almost nothing because it was so rushed and uninteresting. So I decided to watch this movie which is a remake of the first two episodes to motivate myself to watch the 110 OVA episodes. Guess what? This movie just made me make a point of never wasting my time watching 110 episodes of Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu, as much as Yang and Reinhard might be interesting characters (that were wasted in 01:30:00 with a war that lasts a long time and the reason was not explained).
What bothers me the most is the fact that the war does not have a reason, the war simply exists. Seriously, in one minute of dialogue it would be possible to explain why this war has been going on for so long. It is senseless to make a work about war, where the war is only happening because it is.
And no, I will not watch 110 episodes just to hope that at some point this will be explained. Because it is the work's obligation to make the reason for the war clear right at the beginning.
Another thing that bothered me:
Lad, Yang's friend likes Jessica, but she apparently doesn't like him. Why did she agree to marry him? It was not explained. She even cries while dancing with Yang (and it looks like a cry of regret). She clearly likes Yang, and he apparently likes her too.
It's funny how simple things have no explanation and happen because they do.
And no, I'm not going to watch 110 episodes just to hope that at some point this will be explained. They introduced it in the movie, and I wanted explanation in the movie. And even with explanation, I probably wasn't going to accept the fact that she cries (a cry that is apparently one of regret) for agreeing to marry someone she apparently doesn't like to the point of getting married.
One more thing that bothered me:
The battles in the war.
Seriously, there are 60,000 ships battling, but only one or two are blown up and highlighted.
Why exaggerate the number of ships when there is no highlight? This is clearly to try to make it more grandiose than it should be.
The war happens, but it is all so poorly elaborated and without emphasis on one of the most important things that it is stupid.
And the strategies were not as genius as many people say they are.
There is a scene where Reinhard tells Sieg to send a letter to Yang on his behalf, and from one scene to the next, Yang is already holding the letter. Seriously, how is this? Right in space, at the end of a pointless battle he receives a letter out of the blue, without even showing how it was received.
The technical part isn't bad, but it's not so good for a movie either. But that doesn't bother me.
The character design is very good, especially the female design, which is so beautiful.
It's ironic how Reinhard talks about Yang's training towards the end of the fight being pointless, whereas the whole movie is pointless for the simple fact that the war just happens without having a reason explained.
I really wish I had enjoyed this to go see the 110 episodes that it is so acclaimed for, but I won't even waste my time with this piece of work.
