Forum - View topicNEWS: Fullmetal Alchemist Series Gets 2 New Live-Action Movies
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prime_pm
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That is a damn good question. Thankfully I never watch live-action Asian cinema in the dub unless it's mst3k'd, so I don't really care. Still nice to see Aaron Dismuke return to voice Alphonse again, thanks to their characters being cast as older. Honestly, if any anime series needed the Netflix adaptation it was this. It has the most Goddamned European setting out of all the choices. Why the hell would anyone wanna adapt the cartoony world of One Piece? It was built for animation. And half the time it's all water. Anyone remember Waterworld? Exactly. |
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#rajsaha
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Hollywood is trash. |
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TheBeastAR
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So based on the trailer, it looks like they're just going to burn through the rest of the manga minus most of the supporting cast and major ones like Greed? I am morbidly curious to see how this is going to work.
While a lot of people love Brotherhood/the original manga, I will always stand by the 2003 anime as a go to example of how people can creatively remix a pre-existing story and make it work on its own. I don't know why this live action adaptation isn't doing a similar thing and doing it's own take on the material? As it stands what we'll get will basically be a cliff notes version of the manga. And as for the casting: I know this is a live action made by and primarily for the Japanese, but scar's casting was always going to be a oof! |
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Beatdigga
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I'm surprised, mostly because the LA FMA wasn't that great. I would have honestly preferred the rest of Bleach to be adapted, but I gather the actors have aged out of their roles.
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MarshalBanana
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If it does get dubbed, it will be a hassle either way. Because whether or not Vic Mignogna does reprise the role of Ed, it will still put him in the spotlight and bring up the whole controversy back up again. |
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Sariachan
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The first one was so bad I'm not going to watch these probably. For FMA a longer series is needed, there is too much to cover for just a few movies.
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Sven Viking
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Same here, I enjoyed it more than the vast majority of live-action anime adaptations. Also the ending must be pretty depressing for live-action-only viewers. Much of a second film could probably be taken up with introducing some elements largely absent from the first film (e.g. cast members whose roles were minimised), combined with training from the end of the first arc, leaving the bulk of Soul Society for a third film in a trilogy. To be honest I’m not sure Soul Society mightn’t benefit from being cut down significantly, but that’s just me. |
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HeWhoSlapsAll
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Well, that looked horrible.
Let's stick to less fantastical stuff, like Kenshin and Slam Dunk, and slice of life, dramas. |
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MFrontier
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It is pretty cool that they got OG!Ed and Al (Romi Park and Rie Kugimiya) to narrate the movie promotion
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Allison Addams
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Gross. The first film was pretty awful. Not only did all the cast members just look like cosplayers, but it suffered from the same issues other adaptations have.
Instead of taking liberties and adapting the story into a more cohesive film narrative like Kenshin did, it tries to just replicate the plots from the show and becomes essentially the abridged version of all those story beats with mediocre execution. |
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