Live action anime adaptations

[Underseer]

I think we can all agree that the recent adaptation of Ghost in the Shell sucked big, sweaty donkey balls. This really should have surprised no one. Every Hollywood attempt to adapt anime has blown chunks.

Personally, I also think every Japanese attempt to do live action versions of anime properties has sucked to varying degrees, but I accept that I haven't seen very many of them.

[Insert clever segue here], so here's a list of live action anime projects that are underway:



That's a long list of movies that we know are going to be terrible. I'm sure that if Hollywood keeps working at it, eventually they will figure out how to make a live action anime adaptation that is actually good, but that is going to take a while. After all, they still haven't figured out how to adapt a video game into a decent movie or TV show.

Oh, and talk about irony. An American company is making a live action adaptation of Full Metal Alchemist that will star nothing but Japanese actors. That's insane. This is one of the few times when the roles should be played by white actors, and now they're going to have all Japanese actors?

Ugh.

Anyway, if you have anything to say about live action adaptations of anime in general, or just the ones mentioned in the above video, lemme know what you think.

PS:
Dear Hollywood,
If you decide to make a live action version of Attack on Titan, please get a German director and German actors and do the whole thing in the German language.

 

[none]

Doom was good

 

[Jayjay]

PS:
Dear Hollywood,
If you decide to make a live action version of Attack on Titan, please get a German director and German actors and do the whole thing in the German language.

I'll call Uwe Boll.

 

[DolphinDynasty]

I think we can all agree that the recent adaptation of Ghost in the Shell sucked big, sweaty donkey balls. This really should have surprised no one. Every Hollywood attempt to adapt anime has blown chunks.

Personally, I also think every Japanese attempt to do live action versions of anime properties has sucked to varying degrees, but I accept that I haven't seen very many of them.

[Insert clever segue here], so here's a list of live action anime projects that are underway:



That's a long list of movies that we know are going to be terrible. I'm sure that if Hollywood keeps working at it, eventually they will figure out how to make a live action anime adaptation that is actually good, but that is going to take a while. After all, they still haven't figured out how to adapt a video game into a decent movie or TV show.

Oh, and talk about irony. An American company is making a live action adaptation of Full Metal Alchemist that will star nothing but Japanese actors. That's insane. This is one of the few times when the roles should be played by white actors, and now they're going to have all Japanese actors?

Ugh.

Anyway, if you have anything to say about live action adaptations of anime in general, or just the ones mentioned in the above video, lemme know what you think.

PS:
Dear Hollywood,
If you decide to make a live action version of Attack on Titan, please get a German director and German actors and do the whole thing in the German language.

I sincerely cannot figure out why they keep trying. And for them to keep picking from storylines that have characters or powers or backstories that would neither translate well or would have to be shredded apart to get any of it in the first place plus requiring so much heavy special and cgi effects, then cut out the special effects because tech is seen as somehow better. SMGH.

I doubt they'll do Akira enough justice regarding just the dystopian political scheming let alone the style in the effects and music that the originally had.

I suppose Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan) might fair well if they can surpass the travesty Japan made of it.

But Naruto? That series has so much character development and so many important characters and individual backstories in the first set, let alone Shippuuden it'd be like when they made Dragonball into a movie, so it will suck.

I wish they'd just leave them in the media formats thy work best in, he manga and anime they started as. There's nothing wrong with any of them in those formats, and if it aint broke, tryin to "fix" it up to make it work in live action is just gonna pile useless shit on top of bad cgi and cropped out plotlines, cut up character bios and less of the feels.

 

[Underseer]

PS:
Dear Hollywood,
If you decide to make a live action version of Attack on Titan, please get a German director and German actors and do the whole thing in the German language.

I'll call Uwe Boll.

Not that German.

 

[Underseer]

Here's a reaction to the new trailer for Death Note. The woman is a fan and brings up good observations, I think.

• The protagonist Light is supposed to start out as an ultimate clean-cut goodie two-shoes who is quickly corrupted by the power of the notebook and becomes a mass murderer with a god complex. This guy looks like he's already a disturbed scruffy outsider when he picks up the notebook. The transformation isn't going to be as shocking.
• The antagonist L doesn't seem creepy or insane at all. Also, this is the one that is supposed to look scruffy.
• The casting of Willem Dafoe is perfect.
• What is this Final Destination shit?

That last point is exactly the kind of unnecessary crap Hollywood so often does with adaptations. I can only assume some executive in a suit decided that Final Detonation was popular, therefore this change needed to be made.

As the girl in the video points out, most of Light's victims die the same way, which is how the government and the public figure out that someone is murdering criminals.

 

[Underseer]

Doom was good

You're more than welcome to your subjective opinion, but surely you understand that most don't agree with you.