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xchampion
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While the answer is anime fans are picky bastard and they will trash any adaptation of their favorite anime if it isn't perfect with no alterations. That is quite impossible with live action films., especially in Hollywood when they want to put their own spin ton it. I on the other hand if I wanted a frame by frame adaptation I would just watch the original. |
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Codeanime93
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Depends on the people working on it I guess. Just if we can try to strive for not Dragonball: Evolution or that Fist of the North Star movie with Gary Daniels. |
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kinghumanity
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But....why? Last edited by kinghumanity on Fri Feb 15, 2019 12:42 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Actar
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$$$$$$$$$$ I never understood the fetish of turning already-popular properties into live-action movies. The original is already good and seen by millions upon millions of people. Who is this for? |
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Rob49152
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frankly the reason for the dumpster fire of the spiderman movies was more to do with Sony interfering to build a universe to compete with Marvel and forgetting to make a good movie.
My biggest issue is more with the choice of Bad-Reboot and JJ Abrams involvement. He's just slightly less worse than Michael Bay. More lensflare less explosions. |
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Gemnist
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Marc Webb's films have decreased in quality as he has progressed in his career. From (500) Days of Summer to TASM to TASM2 to Gifted (the latter of which I haven't seen to be honest), one can only presume that Webb's career will pull an Ice Age and deliver an even worse product.
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Hiroki not Takuya
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But Why?? ^^Actar hit it, THATs why and no other reason. Sad that Hollywood is so risk adverse and unoriginal that they look to "adapting" a massively popular foreign film and on top of that, not understanding why it was so. Boldly predicting this will be a massive flop.
Better if they had changed the era and had it be the "legend" of a boy in a frontier town in the 1850's who kept waking up as a plains indian girl and setting out to find her only to find the tribe wiped out by the Cavalry Regiment. Years later, the boy encounters an old native american shaman survivor of the massacre in town who senses his destiny and through magic transports him back into the girl's body so he can warn the tribe that the Cavalry is coming. As a young man, he travels to a neighboring town where he keeps seeing a hauntingly familiar young native american maiden and finally asks her native american name... |
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Romuska
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Let’s all look at it this way. This is clearly a movie made for people who don’t like anime or Asian people. I say let ‘em have it. We all appreciate the source material so let’s make it a point to share it amongst our friends and loved ones whilst the masses consume the white bread version they so desire.
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enurtsol
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For the other hundreds of millions of people who don't watch animation. Just like the Marvel movies are for the other hundreds of millions of people who don't read comics. (Comics fans asked the very same question you asked, when the Marvel movies started.) And it all worked out - the comics fans still have their comics; the rest of the world have their Marvel Universe movies.
Oh heck no - period movies are out of style nowadays. Nobody's gonna go see it. |
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Ali07
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I second this, on all counts. Hell, it's not the type of movie I usually go for, but 500 Days of Summer is actually one of my favourite movies. Hell, I own it on disc. I'm looking forward to this, but I believe the only real similarity it will have with the original anime is the body swapping. |
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endallchaos
Posts: 213 Location: Sin City |
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500 Days of Summer is probably one of the best and most realistic romantic movies I have seen.
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TheKillerAngel
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Perhaps, but from the article:
I think that definitively ends any claims that casting Western actors in the film is whitewashing it. |
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residentgrigo
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500 Days of Summer (his best film) has a gimmicky ending, studio meddling killed Amazing 2 and no one watched his apparently bad 5th film but Webb more or less knows his stuff. I get why he was picked. The remake could turn out better than the just fine anime blockbuster but it´s the writer Eric Heisserer who will make or break this one. Only his very strong Arrival script (it´s better than the book) is worth the paper it´s on.
Makoto Shinkai can direct and his films all look nice and that´s about it for me. The next Miyazaki he ain´t. Even Gorō Miyazaki has more overall talent in my eyes. Shinkai´s script are overall mediocre and his non-romances especially rub me the wrong way. Those don´t fly in Hollywood, so expect the most changes there. To be fair, Children Who Chase Lost Voices is the only one of his work´s i can´t recommend. If he only started adapting the scripts of other people... |
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Mr. sickVisionz
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That made me lol. A quote you can apply anytime something is officially/legally adapted by foreigners. If they wanted a 100% domestic product then they wouldn't have licensed it to foreigners. Only on the American-English speaking internet do they expect like the Bollywood version of Cinderella to have zero Bollywood people in it and be 100% European because that's what the source material was and claim that anything less is clear cut racism. |
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FLCLGainax
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Hollywood was able to remake Il Mare, a South-Korean film with a similar premise, so why not?
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