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NEWS: Ghost in the Shell's Oshii to Helm His 1st Live-Action English Film




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SpacemanHardy



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:19 pm Reply with quote
Mamoru Oshii? Confused

That's it. I'm out.





When's Kenji Kamiyama's new movie coming out? Tell me more about that instead.
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DRWii



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:30 pm Reply with quote
Wasn't "Assault Girls" also in English? I haven't seen it yet, so correct me if I'm wrong.
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Sunday Silence



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 10:45 pm Reply with quote
No Patlabor Live-Action? That would translate easy!!
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Great Rumbler



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 11:11 pm Reply with quote
Having seen most of Oshii's live action movies, someone needs to set him down and force him to sign a contract that forbids him from making any live action films. Just stick to anime, Oshii. Please.
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toru



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 1:13 am Reply with quote
G.R.M. THE RECORD OF GARM WAR pilot film
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6gsvg_rogw-pilot-film_creation

Executive producer: James Cameron
Tokusatsu director: Shinji Higuchi
Digital director: Mamoru Hosoda
Mechanical Design: Atsushi Takeuchi, Mahiro Maeda
Music: Kenji Kawai
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.R.M._THE_RECORD_OF_GARM_WAR(ガルム戦記)
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Ingraman



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:01 am Reply with quote
Great Rumbler wrote:
Having seen most of Oshii's live action movies, someone needs to set him down and force him to sign a contract that forbids him from making any live action films. Just stick to anime, Oshii. Please.

Really? He did a great job with Avalon. The others? Hmmm... I've been underwhelmed with the ones that I've seen, but I still haven't seen many of them.
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Gilles Poitras



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 8:50 am Reply with quote
DRWii wrote:
Wasn't "Assault Girls" also in English? I haven't seen it yet, so correct me if I'm wrong.


Mostly. There is a reason for it but saying what it is would be a spoiler.

Assault Girls is fun, I think Oshii had a great time putting it together.
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Valvados



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 9:50 am Reply with quote
Which live-action movies did you guys not like and/or which have you seen? Oshii did:

-The Red Spectacles
-StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops
-Talking Head
-Avalon
-Tachiguishi-Retsuden
-Assault Girls

Are the only ones I can think of. Though I agree I prefer his anime directorial output so far, which is:

-Urusei Yatsura: Only You
-Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer
-Dallos
-Twilight Q
-Angel's Egg
-Patlabor: The Movie
-Patlabor 2: The Movie
-Ghost in the Shell
-Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
-The Sky Crawlers
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 1:55 pm Reply with quote
I have no idea why some people are so against Mamoru Oshii doing a live-action English-language film. Granted,I've never seen any of his live-action work but that doesn't mean that it might not be good. Give it a try. You might like it. I certainly don't have any trouble with it.
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SpacemanHardy



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 2:08 pm Reply with quote
Snomaster1 wrote:
I have no idea why some people are so against Mamoru Oshii doing a live-action English-language film. Granted,I've never seen any of his live-action work but that doesn't mean that it might not be good. Give it a try. You might like it. I certainly don't have any trouble with it.


For me, it's not so much a problem with doing a live-action movie as it is him doing ANY movie. More than anything, I find Oshii to be an extremely over-rated director and his films to be preachy, pretentious, and worst of all, HORRIBLY BORING.

I can respect the first GitS movie even though I don't personally care for it myself, but Innocence was a two-hour long borefest that aside from a handful of fairly cool scenes was little more than Batou moping around being emo. I watched that movie at 2x speed, and it was STILL too slow.

And don't EVEN get me started on that piece of shit The Sky Crawlers. Mad
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varmintx



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:22 pm Reply with quote
SpacemanHardy wrote:
*threadcrapping*
Thanks for sharing your opinion of a director you obviously don't care for in a thread about his upcoming movie...twice. Now go away.
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E-Master



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 12:09 am Reply with quote
This is actually interesting news that Mamoru Oshii is directing an "English" language live action film. While I haven't seen any of his earlier live action works I am interested on what this one will be like.

Though I am a huge fan of all of his anime projects that I've seen so far. I was just watching Patlabor the first movie the other day, and it gets better every time I watch it. Course I could say the same for most of his other titles as well.
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