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INTEREST: Live-Action Akira Film's Opening Storyboards Posted


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prime_pm



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 2:45 pm Reply with quote
Let'er rip.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 3:16 pm Reply with quote
Casual patronisers of the great western multiplexes, who are doubtlessly this project's principle audience, would readily approve of such accessible visual subtlety.
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Animeking1108



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 3:32 pm Reply with quote
Does a better job at telling us what we're watching than Dragonball Evolution.
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mdo7



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 3:37 pm Reply with quote
Well from looking at the storyboard, looks like it's kinda close to the original story, I praise the guy who did the story of keeping this faithful.
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Nemo of Mentis



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 4:08 pm Reply with quote
Zin5ki wrote:
Casual patronisers of the great western multiplexes, who are doubtlessly this project's principle audience, would readily approve of such accessible visual subtlety.
Indeed. The original was such a subtle and understated film that seeing the material treated like this is disheartening.
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Sam Murai



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 6:09 pm Reply with quote
It was kinda good until the last page, which made it seem like a cheesy joke on a Hollywood rendition of Akira spoiler[(…oh, wait)]. I don't want to crack on it too bad, because it isn't awful, but it's a little too pretentious. Why not just do a rendition of the animated film's opening? That kickstarted the atmosphere of it in a memorable way…
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magmalord



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 6:55 pm Reply with quote
No, no, no, Warners Brothers is doing everything wrong. First off the bikers don't wear helmets because they want to kill other gans. Secondly, when did this film look like something out of Tron.
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littlegreenwolf



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 7:00 pm Reply with quote
Yay! Let's all rip on storyboards for a movie's opening sequence. These were of course the only storyboards made for that whole sequence, and we being the movie production experts we are know that movies totally don't ever deviate from storyboards!

Oh look at that, the motorcycle is all wrong. It's not going nearly fast enough. That's so pretentious to just have the title there in the crater.

THIS MOVIE WOULD HAVE BEEN HORRIBLE BECAUSE OF IT.

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Really people. Really?
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tygerchickchibi



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 7:25 pm Reply with quote
littlegreenwolf wrote:
Yay! Let's all rip on storyboards for a movie's opening sequence. These were of course the only storyboards made for that whole sequence, and we being the movie production experts we are know that movies totally don't ever deviate from storyboards!

Oh look at that, the motorcycle is all wrong. It's not going nearly fast enough. That's so pretentious to just have the title there in the crater.

THIS MOVIE WOULD HAVE BEEN HORRIBLE BECAUSE OF IT.

Rolling Eyes

Really people. Really?


I lol'd.

Yeah, it doesn't really look so bad.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 7:55 pm Reply with quote
Looks good. I really wish this adaptation happens. Could really be good if taken in the right direction.
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MagusGuardian



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:08 pm Reply with quote
geeeh here we go again
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Chagen46



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:15 pm Reply with quote
Nemo of Mentis wrote:
Zin5ki wrote:
Casual patronisers of the great western multiplexes, who are doubtlessly this project's principle audience, would readily approve of such accessible visual subtlety.
Indeed. The original was such a subtle and understated film that seeing the material treated like this is disheartening.


For Chrissakes, you got to see the storyboards for like the first 8 seconds, and you're damning the movie based on that?

Stay petulant, anime fandom.
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mdo7



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:20 pm Reply with quote
Chagen46 wrote:
Nemo of Mentis wrote:
Zin5ki wrote:
Casual patronisers of the great western multiplexes, who are doubtlessly this project's principle audience, would readily approve of such accessible visual subtlety.
Indeed. The original was such a subtle and understated film that seeing the material treated like this is disheartening.


For Chrissakes, you got to see the storyboards for like the first 8 seconds, and you're damning the movie based on that?

Stay petulant, anime fandom.


Yet Oldboy get a free pass from crticism despite the movie being loosely based off the manga. Yeah, that's pro-Asian hypocrisy for ya.
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Mr. sickVisionz



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:32 pm Reply with quote
mdo7 wrote:
Yet Oldboy get a free pass from crticism despite the movie being loosely based off the manga. Yeah, that's pro-Asian hypocrisy for ya.


To be fair, Asians are the master race. Any time you think an Asian has done something wrong, you're probably just confused or something.
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mdo7



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:39 pm Reply with quote
Mr. sickVisionz wrote:
mdo7 wrote:
Yet Oldboy get a free pass from crticism despite the movie being loosely based off the manga. Yeah, that's pro-Asian hypocrisy for ya.


To be fair, Asians are the master race. Any time you think an Asian has done something wrong, you're probably just confused or something.


I assume this is a sarcasm right. If it's not, then is the Rape of Nanjing, The Cultural Revolution, and the Tianammen Square massacre are the righteous thing.
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