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DarkZelgadis
 Posts: 16 Location: In a galaxy not so far away.... |
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I was just curious if any of you know about any of these live action anime movies? I know there is going to be a DBZ one and I heard something about an Eva one and I think a Ninja Scroll one too. I was curious if anybody knows of any live action anime movie projects the studios or whoever is creating right now.
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Dave M
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Here is my biased opinion: It doesn't work well.
There are certain events and characters which seem prefectly fine in anime, than when seen in live action give me a "wtf?" moment. Anime is a lot like reading in that I find there is a certain suspending of disbelief/reality check. Now, in movies a lot of suspension of disbelief occurs. however, Anime movies in live action have a bad habit of just blowing my limitation out of the water. Here are some problems: 1) colors that look fine in anime look all wrong in real life. You end up wonbdering if the characters are color blind, on crack, or mentally impared. 2) simulating anime movment or fighting styles in real life makes it impossible to think that the characters invovled are either not involved inthe story, or on powerful drugs. Even if the real life is a parody of the anime, the characters should move or interact as if THEY think they are serious. 3) Props. Something which may look neat drawn, just ends up looking crappy when made even by a skilled propmaster. |
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DarkZelgadis
Posts: 16 Location: In a galaxy not so far away.... |
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I agree with you in a way, even though I never actually saw a live action anime movie. (I can speculate, and I suppose that works well enough.) However, I don't think you can judge this kind of thing until the end result is created, just my opinion. I was just curious is all, because an anime live action movie would enlarge the anime fandom a bit. Well, if it's a GOOD one...anyway. =\
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Dave M
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The advantage of my position is that I would be very, very happy to be dramatically proven wrong in my opinion, since then i would get to catch a cool movie
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Legato 2057
 Posts: 437 Location: Soon to be Japan |
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Anime that has a live action counterpart (that I know of):
Ichi The Killer Street Fighter Dragonball Sailormoon (TV) GTO (TV) Gundam Condor Hero (Chinese TV) You're Under Arrest (TV) |
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Swordfish_II
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I don't know whether to look forward or dread the live-action EVA. One problem I might foresee is they might try to go for a PG-13 rating to encompose the largest audience possible.
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Aaron White
Old Regular
Posts: 1365 Location: Birmingham, Alabama |
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So? |
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4663 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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I wouldn't worry about it or look forward to it at this point, because, as it stands, ADV and Gainax couldn't possibly afford to produce a feature with a projected budget of $100 million by themselves, and we haven't heard anything about any major studio signing on to this project yet. I know WETA's working on... something... associated with the project, but it is likely just a demo reel for ADV and Gainax to show to studios to get them on board. My money is in live-action Eva never getting out of preproduction. Last edited by Tenchi on Thu Dec 04, 2003 2:46 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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AHZ
 Posts: 166 Location: Metro Detroit |
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*AHZ shakes his head in frustration*
I'm not really a fan of any live action movie based on a work from another media(comics, video games). I wouldn't hold my breath in expectations of a good live action movie based on an anime. Maybe one of these days someone may get it right...but I doubt it. I've seen the guyver and street fighter; let's just say that neither of these efforts earned any awards, to no ones surprise. |
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Kidotai
 Posts: 138 Location: one of those islands in the pacific |
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Nitpick: Wasn't that G-Savior? |
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Nagisa
Moderator
 Posts: 6128 Location: Atlanta-ish, Jawjuh |
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Yep, G-Saviour. The final chapter (chronologically-speaking) of the Universal Century timeline, and one massive, steaming piece of crap.
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Legato 2057
Posts: 437 Location: Soon to be Japan |
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Yeah, that's the name of it. Guess I should have said: "anime with live action related counterpart"
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Kidotai
Posts: 138 Location: one of those islands in the pacific |
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*hits you with a paper fan*
Remeber next time then!! |
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Dave M
Posts: 31 |
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I saw G-savior.
Kind of reminded me of the Babylon 5 pilot but 2 stages lower in acting and writing. They should have spent more money on talent and sold it as a US TV pilot for the sci-fi crowd instead of a one-shot movie whjich would lack the time to do anything good with the characters or story anyway. but the cgi was good enough for TV. |
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littlegreenwolf
 Posts: 4796 Location: Seattle, WA |
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Battle Angel Alita, Akira, Lupin, and Kite are going to have liveaction movies as well aparently.
I am really hoping for a LA Eva movie. My only problem is Anno doesn't really want to help them out with the story, but I hope they'll go for a mind screwing genre which does wonders in the boxoffice. Mainly I want to see this movie get going so I can see all those awesome designs that were in newtype brought to life. There are a lot of really great directors out there, and I think the matrix is one movie that showed that movies aren't just stuck to the realist film view that we've had so long. |
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