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Sunday Silence
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You've just pretty much answered the question as to why people automatically bemoan Hollywood adaptations without even knowing it. You didn't need the other stuff thrown in. |
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YotaruVegeta
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I don't think Speed Racer was bad at all. It was a live action film played as the cartoon it was based on.
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Sunday Silence
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I think it didn't catch the who camp of the original, bad dubbing and all. |
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mdo7
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Change Japanophile weaboo to Asian supremacist because it's not only American remake of Japanese film they go after, but American remake of South Korean and Chinese film are under flak from these haters. I do agree that when Hollywood adapt anime/manga into live-action it can be bad, but then again US is not the only one even Japan and Asia wreck anime/manga to live-action adaptation. Before DragonBall Evolution, Taiwan did a live-action Dragonball and it was just as horrible (or worse) then Dragonball Evolution. I remember South Korea did a live-action Dragonball also, I don't know how that went but from looking at the movie poster, I can tell it reek. I didn't like the live-action Negima Japan did because it didn't follow the story and 2 characters Negi and Evangeline should've been played by non-Asian actors and the acting just suck. Also how come nobody went after Taiwan, China, and South Korea when they make live-action anime/manga, nobody went after Taiwan when they make Boys Over Flower into live-action drama, the same thing goes for South Korea when they did their version of Boys over Flower. I was disgusted when people go after Hollywood for doing remake of Asian films but not when Asia remake American films. As soon as mainstream entertainment news reported on Unforgiven getting a Japanese remake, I don't see any complaint at all or any complaint on the same level as when news of US remaking Asian films. When ANN reported on Unforgiven getting a Japanese remake, I expected some of our remake haters to be criticizing and bashing Japan for remaking a great American film like Unforgiven, but no I have not seen those people going after Japan for that. That's why I blame those pro-Asian hypocrites for inciting hate on Hollywood remake of Asian films. So I guess when Japan decide to remake The Godfather with Sonny Chiba as Vito Corleone, I guess nobody will complain or bitch about it. |
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Keonyn
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Oh dear god, let's not go down this road again. Everyone in every country in every industry adapts, deal with it, we don't need to rehash this discussion yet again and derail yet another thread.
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YotaruVegeta
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Seconded. Remakes are all over the map. Film is a canabalistic industry. This just happens to be in Japan's territory now.
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tygerchickchibi
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Thread derail aside, I really loved that movie. I just thought it was released at the worst time. |
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Sunday Silence
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I don't think Speed Racer could've benefited from a live-action adaptation period. There are just some bits that can't be done IRL without it looking hokey. Last edited by Sunday Silence on Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:10 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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mdo7
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My apologies, I have my right to be concern. I am just fed up with the pro-Asian hypocrisy/double standard within the anime/manga community and the same for foreign film fandom when it comes to remake and live-action anime/manga. To me, it's just unacceptable and not fair. Last edited by mdo7 on Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:18 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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littlegreenwolf
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Yeah, the promoting of the film was done all wrong. It was a great summer movie I saw with my dad who adored it (he remembers the cartoon from when he was little, and I used to catch it on Saturday mornings on MTV). I happily own it on blu and it has been re-watched a number of times. Hopefully one day in the future it'll have a cult following of some sort because I feel it deserves it. Really on a visual level with what the directors were attempting it is an extremely unique film with tons of political anti-capitalistic undertones. |
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Sunday Silence
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The actor who played the main protagonist boy from A.i. made the exact same plea years ago and it still hasn't happened. Didn't help that movie was bad. |
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Granamonkey
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This article wasn't talking about an Asian remake of another film so I didn't see a need to bring it up. I dislike it when any country remakes a film of another country simply for the sake of localizing it. If they do something radically different and make a film "in the vein of" something else, perhaps I'll buy into it if it's a new director or film industry who's getting his or their feet wet. Replace Hollywood with the director or studio's name that is remaking a film in another country - but in this instance it is most definitely Hollywood driven. |
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mdo7
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I don't care if this article wasn't talking about Asia remaking American film. I'm pissed that people would be one-sided and hypocritical on which country remake films. When USA remake Asian film, everybody get mad and curse Hollywood for doing it. Yet when it's Japan (or any part of Asia) remaking an American film, the haters stay silent (or sometime praise Asia for doing it and bash the original film). As soon as the annnoucement of Clint Eastwood's oscar winning film, Unforgiven is getting a Japanese remake and it was reported on mainstream entertainment news (ANN even reported on this), guess what nobody complain at all, I was expecting the same haters who bash Hollywood for remaking Asian films to be going after Japan also for remaking a great film like Unforgiven. As a matter of fact, after 2008, Asia has been remaking American films for quite a while, I'm shocked that these haters would give Asian filmmakers free passes when they remake American films. There was plenty of opportunity for our remake haters in US to go after Japan/Asia for doing the same thing to American films, but no, the haters just stood silent (some have praise Asia for doing this and even bash American movies) I'm not against remake, but I'm pissed there's hypocrisy when it comes to which country remake foreign films. Tell you what, if South Korea remake The Notebook (let say Han Hyo-joo played Rachel McAdam's character, and Choi Siwon play as Ryan Gosling's character and the setting change from world war 2 to Korean war), I bet nobody will complain about it. I would say the same if Hong Kong decide to remake Die Hard (with Tony Leung or Chow Yun Fat as John McClane). |
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