Redfoxoffire said:Damonashu said:Redfoxoffire said:Jure said:
What the hell is wrong with you people?
What's with all the hate? It's AKIRA. Manga was amazing, anime changed a lot of things but was still great, very few people complain about that. Now, we finally get a live-action adaptation and everyone hates it before the movie even started to film. What the hell? You guys WANT it to fail? You WANT to see Warner Bross burn? Do you even hear yourself?
It's a damn Hollywood movie. Of course that remake will be set in fucking America and have Americans in it, not Japanese. But why does that even matter? Have you guys even read Akira? Neo Tokyo or New Manhatan, it's all the same shit. Why does it even matter if character is called Tetsuo or Travis? It's not like Asian actors are any better than Americans either... because they are not.
I am looking forward to hearing more about this movie, and I am sure it's the same for many Akira fans.
I feel your pain, but this is the anime fanbase. We are one of the greatest examples of Unpleasable Fanbase and They Changed it Now it Sucks to have ever existed. Change something slightly so that it isn't COMPLETELY JAPANESE and you'd better be sleeping with one eye open, cuz they're coming with pitchforks.
...Really? How is that even an argument? How are people like you and him arguing that the only reason most people abhor this news is because they are purist? How are you two ignoring the number of shitty Hollywood adaptations that have been out in the past five years. Those movies that take familiar names and concepts and edit them to the point that they can't even be called the same thing.
Movies, I might add, that aren't just panned by fans but critics alike.
Being worried about it is one thing, but people in here (and other places like CR) are complaining for the most biased reasons and saying the most immature things.
Hoping it will fail? Set in New Manhattan, so it's doomed to fail? Because it's not in Japan. No Asian actors, so it has to fail, because only Asians can act. Right.
And for the comparisons, again, I can understand being worried about how it will turn out, but it's also not fair to compare it to something like Dragonball: Evolution, since Dragonball was geared towards a much younger audience from the beginning. The extreme pessimism so early in the game doesn't give us anime fans a very good name.
I don't know what fanbase you think you're a part of. This is the group of people who hear the word "dub" and run for the hills.