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INTEREST: Takashi Miike Gives Interview on Upcoming Terraformars Live-Action Film




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Banken



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 5:58 pm Reply with quote
Budget aside, it would have to be a foreign-language film to have a decent international cast...
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i still prefer second class western actors then to watch an terraformars adaptation with just asian guys. Besides the majority of asian actors aren't nearly good.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 10:14 pm Reply with quote
jppcouto wrote:
i still prefer second class western actors then to watch an terraformars adaptation with just asian guys. Besides the majority of asian actors aren't nearly good.

I disagree with you.remember the director has studio heads above him or her.He or she has to answer them.
He believed he was doing source material justice as he saw possible given the restraints put on him.
Ideally i would love to seen a multinational cast for this though.
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I think he would cast non-Asian actors, if he could get ahold of them more easily. I mean, he got people of Latin American descent for The City of Lost Souls.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 4:21 am Reply with quote
jppcouto wrote:
i still prefer second class western actors then to watch an terraformars adaptation with just asian guys. Besides the majority of asian actors aren't nearly good.
Sure loved post like this that judged majority of actors as if they had seen them all in action. Put your mind out of the gutter.
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Is there any chance this would have a limited USA release ala attack on titan? And is this movie going to be as generally terrible as those? Are all of these anime/action movies in Japan pretty much always really bad?
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Banken



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 7:44 am Reply with quote
hikura wrote:
jppcouto wrote:
i still prefer second class western actors then to watch an terraformars adaptation with just asian guys. Besides the majority of asian actors aren't nearly good.

I disagree with you.remember the director has studio heads above him or her.He or she has to answer them.
He believed he was doing source material justice as he saw possible given the restraints put on him.
Ideally i would love to seen a multinational cast for this though.


FWIW, second-rate Hollywood actors probably ARE as good or better than first-rate Japanese actors.

But it would still have to be an English-language movie to be able to use them...
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 1:03 pm Reply with quote
Banken wrote:
hikura wrote:
jppcouto wrote:
i still prefer second class western actors then to watch an terraformars adaptation with just asian guys. Besides the majority of asian actors aren't nearly good.

I disagree with you.remember the director has studio heads above him or her.He or she has to answer them.
He believed he was doing source material justice as he saw possible given the restraints put on him.
Ideally i would love to seen a multinational cast for this though.


FWIW, second-rate Hollywood actors probably ARE as good or better than first-rate Japanese actors.

But it would still have to be an English-language movie to be able to use them...

To make a blanket statement like that sounds very offensive as a whole. There are many good actors(male or female) from around the world that are excellent at what they do.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 4:38 pm Reply with quote
jppcouto wrote:
i still prefer second class western actors then to watch an terraformars adaptation with just asian guys. Besides the majority of asian actors aren't nearly good.


I think you need to watch better Japanese movies.
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Banken



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 5:57 pm Reply with quote
hikura wrote:

To make a blanket statement like that sounds very offensive as a whole. There are many good actors(male or female) from around the world that are excellent at what they do.


It's purely the law of averages.

Would-be actors from around the world gather in Hollywood. The same is not true of Japan. For every great actor in Japan there are dozens or hundreds of great actors in Hollywood. This has to be true, simply due to pure statistics.

Think about it this way; first-rate players in Japan's JBL would be second or third-rate in the NBA. And there are hundreds of Japanese professional baseball players for every one that goes to the MLB.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 9:39 pm Reply with quote
Inopethflames wrote:
Is there any chance this would have a limited USA release ala attack on titan? And is this movie going to be as generally terrible as those? Are all of these anime/action movies in Japan pretty much always really bad?
Really bad on what? On your opinion? Some people like them and some people don't. It's as easy as that and for you to judged rhe entirety of it as if it's the bane of human existance is just the same as that smart mouthed that I quoted earlier. It's also your first post and yet all you can do is produced mockery? I swear of God Animenewsnetwork is slowly filling with those angsty teenagers from MAL that never realized how much their post on the internet can affected things. I'm done with reading this comment section.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 10:38 pm Reply with quote
Banken wrote:
hikura wrote:

To make a blanket statement like that sounds very offensive as a whole. There are many good actors(male or female) from around the world that are excellent at what they do.


It's purely the law of averages.

Would-be actors from around the world gather in Hollywood. The same is not true of Japan. For every great actor in Japan there are dozens or hundreds of great actors in Hollywood. This has to be true, simply due to pure statistics.

Think about it this way; first-rate players in Japan's JBL would be second or third-rate in the NBA. And there are hundreds of Japanese professional baseball players for every one that goes to the MLB.

Not all actors from around the world gather in hollywood.There are many actors that are famous where they are now.
Have you ever heard of Bollywood?It is one of the largest film producers in India.Be in fact India is the biggest producers of films.Not only that they sell more movie tickets then compared to hollywood films.In india they make twice as many films compared to hollywood.
For your baseball comparassion,You and i can not say that all japanese players want to play in america.I am sure some do.But i would take a guess many are just as happy that they made it to the level they have achieved.That does not mean they are underachievers or bad players.I bet they are just as excellent players compared to their american counterparts.
Your opinion,to me,comes off saying something like this.The ford fusion(which is a good car and a second class car compared to say a Cadillac Escalade being the best car) is better then any other care out there.I can tell you there are many other car companies who make better cars then that,which is also includes the Escalade.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 3:39 am Reply with quote
The only decent adaptation that can be done of Attack on Titan is a foreign one (hollywood with budget one), without a single Japanese in it. Even Mikasa can be half korean or asian american with good english.

Terraformars, as a fan, also the same rules apply WITH Japanese people in it, it worked for Pacific Rim, we had subs in many languages and nobody complained about the multinational cast.

Japan of late hasn't done much good "pop" cinema, they cast people by their looks and not by their acting ability. Chinese actors are much better.
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