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Answerman - Why Are So Many Live Action Anime Adaptations Terrible?

No you would not need that kind of budget to turn out a good film, hell that sort of budget would be a strong reason for why no one would bite. Studios are already squeamish about a movie's budget edging into the 300 million range as it is.

Spawn29 wrote:

People always seem to forget that Oldboy, Lone Wolf and Cub and Lady Snowblood are based on manga. How come people never bring those up when it comes to live action adaptions?

I expect relatively few people who see those movies have read the manga first.

In addition, there is also a general dislike of Hollywood by anime fans, which appears to me to be either a relative or an offshoot of east vs. west or anime vs. western animation.

The dislike is mutual too. Go to a place like the Internet Movie Database or Metacritic, and it won't take long for you to find a Hollywood fan who hates anime (though the general sentiment toward anime is of disinterest rather than dislike).

I'm a movie enthusiast too, however, I'm more skeptical of movies that are coming out as of late. Marvel's initial movies for the MCU are great, but since Avengers and the want to tie in everyone of their movies for the sake of hype milking, I'm way more skeptical of team up movies because of their stories (Civil War may be improbable to reenact but underwhelming numbers there Marvel). Black Panther looks great, but that's the only movie I am looking for.

Also what was Heaven's Gate

TheAnimeRevolutionizer wrote:

Also what was Heaven's Gate

Heaven's Gate was an extremely ambitious movie. Michael Cimino, its director, was effectively given carte blanche to make the movie however he wished, but it wound up going vastly over budget and severely delayed. It put United Artists out of business (whereas it used to be one of the major studios, right up there with Paramount and MGM) and effectively ended the New Hollywood movement begun with people like George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, though Cimino's career as a director pretty much ended here. The failure of Heaven's Gate marked a turning point in which movie executives asserted more control over a movie's production, as these young directors could no longer be trusted to make blockbusters.