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_V_
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God help us all.
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animefan1238
 Posts: 299 Location: Ma |
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I sware if they screw this up as bad a SpeedRacer, AstroBoy, and DBZ any anime adaptation they do I will boycott.
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LydiaDianne
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You'd have to go see the movie first to be able to boycott it. |
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reksveks
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Still going to be a 2 parter ?
God knows that the anime was rushed in terms of storyline |
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StudioToledo
 Posts: 847 Location: Toledo, U.S.A. |
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I suppose it comes down to feeling like people are going to forget that the original graphic novel or '88 movie ever happened if they accept this film as the main thing in the end. They still have the ability to remind people of it's source material if or when it's needed. |
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superspecial
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jafd97yJFOI
Lol this pretty much sums it all up ^ |
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Gon*Gon
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To be fair...if you ignore the fact that he's wearing a shirt and the shit-tastically boring story, AstroBoy wasn't that bad.....visually....just imagine he isn't wearing any clothes. (that came off wrong...) Anyways, this movie will crash and burn. Asides from that fact that it's taking place in Manhattan for no reason, there's also...
Admittedly I never watched Space Cowboys and Unkown...but I doubt they make up for the bolded movies. |
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Animerican14
 Posts: 963 Location: Saint Louis, MO |
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If it's it's really going to try to live up to the potential of a "tent pole project," then shouldn't the budget be a bit more than $90 million...?
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mrsatan
 Posts: 909 Location: Olympia, WA, USA |
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Racebending is reporting that the studios want the kid from Tron 2 to be the lead. So, yes, it will be whitewashed.
And yes, bad sequels/remakes do harm the original. When you mention Rocky, nobody remembers the Academy Award winning original. They remember Stallone punching Mr. T and a Russian to the tune of Eye of the Tiger. |
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TheSwedishElf
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Uh, bullshit. The point of a boycott is to not give your time or money to something. |
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OrangeVision
Posts: 87 Location: Finland |
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Calling it a "tentpole" and "blockbuster" projects tells a lot about the movie actually. If their aim is to make a summer movie that's going to bring them loads of money, they are going to play it as safe as they can.
In Hollywood that means using a template of a blockbuster movie and adding few stuff from the orginal to at least be able to call it original. I could bet anyone hundred bucks that this movie is going to be horrendous. The americanizing of the original premise is a very vivid sign of "playing it safe" for the lowest common denominator. |
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Big Hed
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Yep. |
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wayne-kun
 Posts: 88 Location: Kingston, Ontario. |
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Eh, Honestly I don't want to judge it now. When it comes out i will go see it. If its good, Awesome. If its not really it dose not matter too much. the original Akira is still there and I can pop it in anytime. I think the New Manhattan thing could work, If the fight team of people for the project is working on it I bet it will be fine. I will just say im very Curious about it. I think it might be a little to early to be throwing this one into the fire.
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MarzGurl
 Posts: 142 Location: San Antonio, Texas |
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If motorcycles don't leave a trail of light behind them, I'm walking out of the theater.
...Granted they'll already have my $10. At midnight. Opening night. |
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enurtsol
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They may still change the title, once the marketing department gets ahold of it. Besides, Akira is just that dude in the jar. Akira is not the main character. Technically, any name could be used for that jar - call him Genie Alibaba. And out of all melting pot places in the world, Akira would not be weird in New Manhattan. Yet, they could keep Akira as a Japanese character. The main characters though would most likely be Westerners and thus change their names accordingly.
There are many possibilities for a post-WW3 dystopian city. Ya guys are too hang-up on the names.
It'll be based on the manga. A lot of people here haven't even read it.
How many of those have you seen? Astroboy wasn't that bad, and Speed Racer was nostalgic to those who had seen the Americanized Speed Racer growing up (which is different from the original Japanese Mach Go Go Go - they're not the same animal, so expecting the live-action Speed Racer to be like Mach Go Go Go would be misplaced).
I thought it'd be a trilogy. It seems everything is a trilogy nowadays.
If you've seen the movie, Astro does take off his clothes. You do remember why he was wearing clothes, right?
Any psychic could destroy any city anywhere. One could say it didn't need to be in Tokyo in the original - there are other places it could be. Heck, late 1980's Tokyo more resembles today's socio-economic Manhattan than today's Tokyo anyways. Of course, the real-world reason is that it's an American-remake movie, so it makes sense to be set in a place Americans are familiar with. BTW, Absolute Boyfriend Manga Has Live-Action Korean Show Planned. Anybody gonna complain how they're gonna change that? 
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