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Warner Brothers set to make new Akira
Ozymandias:
^ I've said it a thousand times.
Speed Racer looks awesome and it's based on a shitty anime to begin with.
LeeZion:
--- Quote from: Muskrat121 on 22 Feb 2008, 06:24 ---It's really hard not to get excited about the prospect of a live action Akira.
But it is also hard not to be aprehensive. If they're setting it in a different city, I shutter to think of what else they'd change. They'd probably do something stupid, like change the names and "Americanize" it to get all the teeny bopers interested.
--- End quote ---
When Akira was first released in the United States, "Ryu" was called "Roy." And KA-neh-da was renamed Kuh-NAY-da, so as not to confuse people who might here his name as "Canada."
est:
Most Manga movies shit me. Everyone talks about how awesome and complex they are, then I go watch them and feel like I've just sat through one of the latter movies in the Matrix trilogy. That is to say that the "really deep philosophical stuff" in it is total fucking bullshit scratching-the-surface junk that high school and college students talk about when they are stoned and think they are discussing matters no-one has ever talked about before when in reality it's about as basic as it fucking gets.
On top of that everything is usually ripped off pretty much wholesale from other places, the characterisations are shallow as shit, the misogyny is rampant, the plot is either overly-convoluted or non-existent and the main star is usually a Mary-Sue of some degree, pulling Deus Ex Machina out of their ass hand over fist in the final act.
I'm sure there are exceptions to this, but even movies I found fun to watch like Ninja Scroll and the Studio Ghibli stuff I've seen suffer from most of these problems and (to me at least) the animation looks fairly crap.
Are they fun movies? Sure! Are they epic masterpieces? Fuck that and fuck you!
Boro_Bandito:
You really felt like necroing just to say that? Was there something on Gabbly?
All in all, I agree that Akira is not a masterpiece on really any level. But based upon the very thing you just said I think its better than a lot. The storyline to me was always a bit muddled, but I managed to get caught up in the movie because I like the pacing, and I like the music, at least whatever music is in the version I have. I just sorta like watching it every now and then for the moments of badassery, of which there are plenty. Deep? No.
It wasn't as bad as that one live action movie about the giant lizard/amphibian thing and the quarantined city and shit that came out a while back. Really, it was like watching a really shitty anime, only with real people and a badly rendered monster.
MadassAlex:
Akira is a masterpiece in the same way that Black Sabbath's self-titled is.
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