Btw whatever this is is 100% going to be better than The movie. However, I’m not sure how I feel about it, avatar doesn’t need a live action remake, it just doesn’t, it’s fine how it is. Doesn’t mean it can’t be good, but the odds are stupid slim, however, it does looks kinda promising, I like ang, kataras outfit is great, zukos scar needs to be much better, and sokka, eeeer, I don’t know what to say about sokka. But I wanna see toph!
Also to talk about the one piece trailer, as someone who is still reading through it, it looks waaaaay better then I expected, honestly doing a tv show about this can be really, really hard, it zorors hair actually looks green, nami’s is a bit off, and everyone else, I need to see more of.
Buggy looks terrifying, but I kinda like it! And the sea serpent showed that they have an actual budget for this show. They also (and I hope they do this) have tos top caring about stretchy powers being silly, they looks silly, they always will, it’s a silly power, so embrace it! I like that they didn’t change he name of the fruit, and he actually called out the name!
Overall I actually liked the trailer?? Which is something I wasn’t expecting, and from the looks of it, it seems like there doing all of east blue, my expectations are low, but I’m actually kinda excited, even though I don’t think they need a live action for an anime ever, it just never works, I wish they would just cancel mha, because I already know that’s going to be a shipwreck, seeing as how that manga also how strange abilities, but if they can adapt this, there is some hope for MHA after all, though I don’t know how they are going to get the hair (a wig probably because the hair styles in that manga are crazy.
My one nitpick though, my main one, is that luffy is way to self aware, he would never say “I’m feeling some tension with the crew” never, ever, luffy wouldn’t care, or would say something a long the lines of them getting along.
@Professor_Plumber I never watched the anime, but I heard its adaptation sucked! Did this site talk about it though.
Yeah I’m actually pretty surprised I liked anything about it, it’s fine, it’s ok, it’s not unwatchable, and honestly, that’s a good start I guess? For me, and I love one piece so I hope this show doesn’t rip my heart in half to much.
the CGI, for luffy hand in that one shot though, just normally, looks a bit wonky, just a little bit, and that does worry me because if they get far enough, they might start to change abilities, his power isn’t even the strangest power in the manga, despite how silly it is, so it’s something to worry about.
Sorry I kinda started rambling again, but yeah, I actually enjoyed the trailer, because everything, including the locations, look pretty well so far.
@Professor_Plumber weird, I double-checked the Pop-Tart movie, it says "coming soon". So it might come out in August if we are lucky, though this could be an awards film so September might be a better bet, that would put the trailer to some time in 2-3 weeks.
I'm weirdly hyped for it... The cast is stacked and from the "leaks," it looks like Jerry is going all in on the fun and silly nature of a frosted breakfast pastry movie.
Sidenote: the lead singer of OK GO is directing (more like co-directing without the co) a movie about the Beanie Baby craze, I was hyped for all of 2 minutes when I found out it is rated R for some reason (the Pop-Tart movie is going to be PG-13). The OK GO music videos (he directed a good few of them) are fantastic and I expect this to be nothing less than the spectacle those are.
@Owl1
Because it's based on a book called The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute?
What's the reason why the co-director & screenwriter shouldn't be called the co-director?
Without looking anything up my guess would be union rules. They can get very silly at times.
@Snatcher After the whole Cowboy Bebop debacle it's honestly refreshing to hear somebody speak positively about something like the One Piece adaptation...
I always feel live action Cowboy Bebop gets unfairly picked on due to the Shinichiro Watanabe's complaints about it (which was more being miffed at he wasn't involved in making it himself rather than the actual product which he didn't watch) and the usual "we are free thinking because we all think the same" Reddit's zeitgeist mood. There was such a user on here who never saw either the anime or live action show yet it was impressive how much they cared with their anger and moaning over it. lol
The show is very much a mixed bag as there are a lot of moments ripped from the anime and moments so good you think they are ripped from the anime but they were created just for the live action so they did "get" it. The main three are fantastic of John Cho being rock solid, Mustafa Shakir is simply PERFECT casting as Jet and Daniella Pineda pulls off a character that had to make a lot of changes on otherwise her lady parts would be falling out all the time. The sets, costumes and effects do the anime justice, well aside from the Ed cameo. The problems come from when they tried to expand the supporting characters so instead of looking at Cowboy Bebop's influences like noir, French New Wave, jazz, martial arts and westerners for inspiration they went to CW tween rubbish with cringe young adult melodrama and it's those moments that fail the show. I also have complaints that everything is filmed too bright and too clean rather than its original influences of moody gritty movies that inspired it but that wouldn't be a deal breaker for me.
As a proof of concept of can anime be adapted into live action it's closer to lot of other efforts (although I'd argue Survive Style 5+* and Scott Pilgrim already are proof already, they just weren't anime first though) but Cowboy Bebop is so un-anime like to begin with that it should not be a part of the conversation anyway. The creator of Attack On Titan (I personally don't get the show but hey ho) had a more interesting take of why simply remake it as it already exists so a new adaptation should be new which is what he's aiming for with every Attack kOn Titan movie/show. Also consider things like how Blade Runner, Ghost In The Shell (manga to the anime movie, not the live action movie that felt like lip service) and The Shining are different to their source materials, they were made better because of the changes.
*I'm just gonna blonk the trailer for Survive Style 5+ here as people don't talk enough about this film. It blew my mind seeing it as a kid. Sadly the director never made another film.
@Rambler yeah I wasn’t impressed with The Death Of Stalin despite how much people raved about it. For me it comes down to too much slapstick comedy rather than actual dark dry wit in it, however no one should listen to me about comedy as I sincerely consider There Will Be Blood as one of my favourite comedy movies despite people keep telling me it is a serious drama.
Just watched and enjoyed Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom. The movie is a little bit over the top with how many people fall in love, and I did not like how Asterix feels like an idiot too much of the time, compared to his old adventures. Also Asterix and Obelix were arguing too much but I can forgive that, since it was part of the story. Thankfully the rest is really good. The movie is crazy and stupid in a good way, and I thought it was funny. The actors were likeable, funny, and full of energy. Might even get the physical disc when it releases.
@Rambler that’s pretty much how I explain my take on There Will Be Blood to folk. That and it’s about milkshakes.
I was worried about about Chiba and Asanonot not being able to keep up with Vinnie Jones’ thespian skills in Survive Style 5+ but luckily they do! It might be Vinnie Jones best role too. He basically goes around angrily shouting at Japanese people in English whilst his translator translates for him. I saw it as people were calling it the Japanese Pulp Fiction, however to me it’s Wes Anderson trying to make a Guy Ritchie movie if Guy Ritchie was trying make a Takashi Miike film. It’s five loosely connected stories with a theme about acceptance whilst blended together with lots of ideas and absurdity. I really loved the ending to it!
@Professor_Plumber It was a franchise that was always gonna fail. Cowboy Bebop isn’t big enough to get people to watch just because it’s Cowboy Bebop and the fans it does have will tear it apart good or bad for not being Cowboy Bebop enough (they complain the Cowboy Bebop movie isn’t Bebop enough) think a smaller scale Star Wars and their bitter fans. Whilst also being one of brands people will jump on for being “sacred” whilst not actually caring about it. Considering the amount of live action anime adaptations there are where it looks cosplayers are filming it on their phone or they just ignore anime it’s mad this gets talked about the worstest everest.
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