Forum - View topicREVIEW: Kite (live action) Blu-Ray/DVD
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HaruhiToy
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I thought Samuel Jackson was a top-drawer talent in Hollywood. He doesn't have to "do the Bs" as they call it unless he wants to. I wonder what about this attracted him.
Of course they would never do what they show in the uncut Kite -- where underage Sawa is put into sexual subservience by the same guy who killed her parents. The violence and murder and gore wouldn't bother them much but the underage sex would but the kabosh an most of their available market. |
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razisgosu
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I also got this at walmart tonight. I wanted to see it when it aired at Otakon but I didn't have time to get an adult wristband prior to the show. Considering it cost less than $20 to purchase, I'd call that a decent price for a new Blu-ray movie.
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katscradle
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Glad for a review of this as it piqued my interest. I've added the new movie to my list for rentals now.
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jr240483
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which is probably the reason why none of the other big names of hollywood didn't touch it. though kinda surprised jackson did. and cause of the director cut version the odds of mezzo forte getting a live action movie is slim at best. the only series that is ultra violent that might get a consideration would be vampire hunter D or beserk. hell even other high violent movies like Akira or ghost in the shell have a better chance of getting a live action movie and one that is high budgeted than mezzo. though the two from the 90's that will NEVER get one are Ninja Scroll & Mad Bull 34. There is no way anyone in hollywood would dare make a live action movie on the two that were infamous in the 90's. |
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Key
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As I said in the review, Jackson is on record as being a long-time fan of the anime version. While he didn't explicitly say that was the reason why he was on board for the film, it's a reasonable assumption to make. After all, Jackson has in the past signed on for stuff that was probably below his normal pay grade just because it tickled his fancy (see Snakes on a Plane, where he famously was eager to sign on just because of the name).
And it's not like the other titles you mention couldn't be remade without the sexual content without losing anything. It's certainly been done before by Hollywood. |
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YotaruVegeta
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A lot of top notch, big budget earning talent do these one-off films. At the core of it, it's a job. People like Michael Madsen and Ron Perlman are open about why they chose certain roles, and sometimes it's to pay off bills, or pay off ex-wives.
The featurette was posted on ANN, and he said he was a fan of the manga. Does Sam Jackson actually know what he's saying, or is he just saying anything to promote the film he starred in? |
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Key
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Why would it matter? Jackson's career has never been about having and maintaining a Puritanical image, after all, so I can't imagine that it would hurt him in the slightest (or that he would personally even care) if he openly admitted liking something with explicit sexual content in it. |
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YotaruVegeta
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No, no, no. That is not my point at all. I don't think anyone would care that Sam Jackson was a fan of something like Kite. The point is that he said he was a fan of the manga. There IS no manga. I think he was just saying he's a fan to say that. |
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walw6pK4Alo
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Yeah, I found that line suspect, and was one of the first clues about where this production was headed.
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YotaruVegeta
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Yeah, They could have easily corrected him, and that wouldn't have put that in a promo video, of all places. It wasn't like he said this on twitter, or at a red carpet.
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jr240483
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but that is the thing. while he is on record on being a fan of the movie,the thing is that we dont know which one. the edited theatrical version or the director's cut version which have plastered the whole series has a hentai. |
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YotaruVegeta
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Even without the pornographic scenes, Kite is a rough anime. Not for kids!
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jr240483
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well duh. i know that. hell every otaku that lived the 90's know that fact that kite's edited version, along with Akira ,mezzo forte , mad bull 34 ,Vampire Hunter D & especialy ninja scroll gave the anime industry an uber bad rep where its only for adults. probably the reason why when SM , DBZ and other series that showed on CN then had to get those severe edits to show parental advocates and US companies that anime in general isnt only for adults and hardcore otakus. and it became even more so when those director cut scenes for kite and mezzo forte surfaced. once that showed it immediately got plastered into the hentai category even though there was a made for theater version and should have killed any chance of a possible live action version. its as i said, kinda surprised that it did happened let alone a hollywood star like jackson is involved, however i can definitely be sure that none of the other anime movies that made the industry infamous will ever get a US live action movie. especially mezzo. the only ones i can really possibly see getting one are GITS (Ghost in the Shell , Vampire Hunter D, Ninja Scroll and especially Akira considering how much of a cult hit the movie is. However if the plan is to make it more faithful to the manga,then there not a snowball's chance in hell that any hollywood director would get involved unless their an NC-17 director . |
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YotaruVegeta
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I'm not surprised that Sam Jackson is involved. Nearly every actor his age is doing films like this, films that would be considered "beneath" them to do.
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Joe Carpenter
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Samuel L Jackson is one of those actors, like Michael Caine before him, who is an "A lister" but is nevertheless not above "slumming it". As Michael Caine said about Jaws 4 "I haven't seen it, but by all means it's terrible, however I have seen the house it built and it's wonderful." |
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