@WanderingBullet I do not hold much hope for that. Alita was kinda funny if not spectacular and who knows when this Akira movie’s ever gonna get made. I reckon they should just leave well alone, the originals are 99% of the time just better.
@nessisonett On paper, Hollywood should be able to make good adaptions. They have the budget and talents to do so but a lot of times they just ruin it by not being faithful to the source material because they want the movies to appeal to the Western audience.
@WanderingBullet Yeah they should leave Akira well alone. It is a hard balance to find, but if you are gonna make a movie based on a something so beloved it should always be faithful to the source material first and foremost and not cater to the masses. Trying to do both rarely works IMO.
@JohnnyShoulder I agree with everything you said, but if any director currently can pull Akira off, it is definitely Taika Waititi as he has such an eye for his craft and loves creating such unique cinema, I feel like he would be able to do the source material justice too.
It all depends on how restricted he is by Warner Bros.
@DonJorginho Oh didn't realise it was Taika Waititi directing. Yeah hopefully the studio won't intervene too much. It better not be going for the 12A audience.
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@KALofKRYPTON Neill is a good shout, but I don't think they will switch directors again so I think TW is the choice for it, I don't think he will make it jolly as such, he may throw in some humour but I think he would do the source material justice.
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adding humour will not be doing it justice. There's mild umour to be had in some of the ultra-violence early on, but it's nothing you'd actually want to be laughing at.
TW is good at what he does - I just don't see what he does translating to Akira.
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@KALofKRYPTON I think as this is TW we have to expect some form of humour is all I am saying.
Is it doing the source material justice fully? No, but I would take that over a whitewashed film that leans away from the original material like other cancelled versions of this film did.
If WB would be open to letting go of TW then by all means do it ASAP but I don't know if they will do such a thing at this stage.
@RogerRoger Glad to hear you enjoyed Ant Man and the Wasp. For me it was enjoyable, but one of the weaker late phase outings. Part of me couldn’t help but question the logic and science of it all. How did the mom (I forget her name, but Michelle Phifer) survive all they time in the tiny dimension? What did she eat? How did she bathe? And how did she keep from going completely bonkers in what was basically solitary confinement for all those years? 😅 It’s waaay overthinking it, I know, but I couldn’t help it. But the Ant-Man films continue to have some of the greatest visual gags, despite the noted logic discrepancies. The Hello Kitty PEZ, the Thomas the Train toy, etc. 😂
Look forward to hearing your thoughts on the epic conclusion.
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@RogerRoger Really impressed that you’re going to give Into the Spiderverse a go. It’s a stand-alone, for the most part, and doesn’t integrate per se into a larger series at this time and I know you’re not exactly a huge fan of spiders, or men who dress in spider inspired suits. 😄 But I’m glad you’re giving it a spin because the interesting artistry and tone of the movie is enough to appreciate it, I think. Who knows, maybe you’ll end up warming up to the Webcrawler after all. It’s ace.
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Into the Spiderverse is ace @RogerRoger! It's quite frenetically paced to start with, but thoroughly enjoyable. The script is snappy, the characters are likeable and as @The3solution pointed out it has very interesting artistry. It's CG but looks like it's stop-motion with a slight comic-book style traidtionally animated filter to it.
@mookysam To add to what @mookysam and @Th3solution say, Into the Spider-Verse is fantastic and I'm quite fussy with my animated stuff. When I first started watching it I thought it was in 3D, but it is just a cool effect they have. Hope we haven't hyped it up too much for you and you still enjoy it!
@Th3solution You're trying to logically think through Marvel a movie? You must be a barrel of laughs at the cinema then! 😂
Most of the MCU must not make sense to you then, especially the last half of Endgame.
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