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NEWS: Live Action Eva Sketches Online

And right now I mirror that same sentiment towards the vast majority of the Evangelion fan community. You people are starting to remind me of that 4Kids crowd Asaqe runs with.

Mass market appeal. Face facts, most Americans struggle with Japanese names. Even among anime fans, you'll find people that struggle with remembering Japanese names. Yet they'll pick up Western names a lot easier, and these new names will likely have scant minimal bearing on the character's personality in the long run (Asuka's name is changed to Kate, yet she's still a firebrand bitch; did the new name REALLY ruin the character?).

And do you realize how obnoxious it makes you and the rest of the Eva community sound?

Seriously, you're finding faults with an entire movie based on a couple square centimeters of drawing paper, what logic goes into that? Wait until we get something more substantial before you start inundating forums with your petty complaints.

God's green DVD

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There was an article in Variety a week or two ago about this.... <etc.>

Oh, and for the record, Quentin Tarantino went on record as saying that internet fanboys know jack all about film, are a bunch of whining posers and that he'd never listen to a word any of them had to say about his films.

So there goes your theory.

-Z

If the world's #1 business news source for the film industry is 'spewing highly suspect numbers', WHO is reporting ACCURATE numbers, and where are YOU getting this info from?

Explain.

-Z

You said it yourself, their business IS the film industry. They are, as you've said, a business magazine. Their concern is NOT with product, but with bottom line. And yes, my statistics are speculative, but when it comes to audience responses, most of studios' own projections for earnings are based on speculative numbers.

And since Variety seems to be the Holy Grail to you, I find this to be rather contradictory to what you've been saying. That must've been one BIG 2%.

EDIT: Anyway, lunch time, see you in 2 hours Zac.

That's an op/ed piece and I covered those points when I said that COST is being driven sky-high. Pictures that used to cost $50m now cost $150m, and unless they can get those costs down, they're in a spot of trouble. Audience does not seem to be much a problem; they claim audiences are shrinking, but they've simply split the market across DVD, which as I said, revolutionized the industry and now is responsible for easily a third of any major film's final gross.

It's a different sort of problem, and your suggestion that the studios listening to a bunch of whiny losers on forums will somehow fix this problem is totally laughable, man.

I was simply stating that these people DO have a voice, and whether studios want to acknowledge that or not that voice influences people.

Deep breaths Sakechan, it's going to be alright.

I said this in a previous post, but I'll say it again. Name changes do not matter. As long as the characters act the way they do in the anime and the basic storyline is intact, then it'll be a great movie.

Why is it when people bring this thing up the majority of complaints are names and hair colour?!? I mean c'mon. Does it REALLY matter what they're called, as long as their characters are the same?? And really... why on EARTH should Rei's hair be blue?? Besides old ladies at the laundromat how many (non-punk) young girls do you know that have BLUE hair? I would figure people would be more worried about what they were going to do to the story characters rather than what they were going to call them or what colour hair they'll have or if the plug-suits will look the same.