Cartoons ----> Live-action Movies??

DeathSnake

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The question is simple
should cartoons, and im talking about long life cartoons like family guy and the simpsons, be aloud to be made into Live-action movies
I ask this of course because of the new live-action DBZ movie

My view is that cartoons are cartoons for a reason, the characters and events that take place are made so that it would be impossible to potray it in real life. Cartoons should simply have cartoon movies, like the simpsons movie was brilliant becauase it is a cartoon.

What are your views??
 

DeathSnake

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mattttherman3 said:
For the nitpicky, DBZ is ANIME, but I thought the Scooby Doo movies weren't THAT bad.
yeh i know but i just kind of put it in the catagory of "cartoons" to make it easier
 

t_rexaur

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I'd say, as long as it stays true to the source you could probably make a good live action film based on a cartoon.

Scooby Doo did this, as well as poking fun at Scrappy, so that's probably why it did quite well.

Dragonball though, seems to have taken the anime, and then beat it with the emo stick until it cried. Whoever told them it was a good idea should be shot, and then Toriyama should be shot for even allowing this to be made.
 

all the tramps

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hehe you set this up cause of my dragonball thread :)
and all animes should not be touch with the live action stick!
imagine a live action naruto, pokemon, digimon, evangelion, cowboy bebop just to name a few!
it will never work!
 

SenseOfTumour

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Yeah, I thought Scooby Doo worked ok, but the upcoming Warcraft movie, when you look at the WOW cinematics you cant help but think that would have been a better idea done like that live action, especially when you consider the number of different races involved.

I do fear that no matter how much money is spent on a live action movie, Tauren and Draenei and Trolls and the like will either look ridiculous or they'll just leave them out entirely, and it being WARcraft, imagine how much easier a cast of thousands will be for battle scenes, if they don't have to costume and makeup tons of extras.
 

HL Plague666

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Hell i say just let them try shit theyre failure or sucess will undoubtly give us some form of entertainment
 

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mattttherman3 said:
For the nitpicky, DBZ is ANIME, but I thought the Scooby Doo movies weren't THAT bad.
that movie made me angry inside

live action movies suck, every time
 

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I think some of them work and some of them don't. It all depends on what the cartoon is and what the director/producer/actors/writers do with the concept. I agree I think the Scooby Doo movies were pretty entertaining. I also really liked Transformers, although I will admit I didn't watch the show that much. About DBZ I never watched the show, but I think the movie looks entertaining (that is judging from the one preview I saw). The one positive thing I'll say is that cartoon to live action movies do create a new fan base for an old show. I had a ton of friends that had never even heard of the Transformers show, but loved the live action movie and went back and watched the show afterwords. This to me means that in the long run cartoon to live action movies could very well be a good thing!
 

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i enjoyed the CG Resident Evil movie over the live action ones. maybe because they acutally had more than one character from the games!

EDIT: i forgot about Carlos...
 

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The movie Mouse Hunt and the Spy Kids series are great examples of why you should animate some story lines. Both are great movies if you think of them as cartoons while you watch them. Instead, they are piles of crap in their current form.
 

Falseprophet

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Hard to say. I don't see the point, most of the time. Then again, I saw the first two Death Note live action movies before seeing the anime or reading the manga, and I liked them. Then I tried to watch the anime and it didn't hold my interest. But aside from the Shinegami flying around, Death Note doesn't have much in the way of special effects or high action, and it's more about the psychological chess game between Light and L (where I would argue, the live action actors are better able to portray the emotions involved), so that's probably why it worked.

There are already live-action shows that work like the Simpsons and Family Guy: Arrested Development and Corner Gas are among them. But to turn Simpsons and Family Guy live action would be a waste of time--why would you replace animated Stewie and Brian with what would likely be poorly-rendered (and creepy-looking) CGI counterparts? Seems ridiculous to me.
 

Shadow Law

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Lets go by this rule: if the cartoon breaks more then three laws of physics then it should stay a cartoon.
 

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Why can't they make animation/live action movies anymore? Who didn't love Rodger Rabbit or Mary Poppins?

Oh. Right. Last Action Hero.
 

DaveCthulhu

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Ridergurl10 said it best, "...it depends on the cartoon and what the directors/producers/actors/writers do with the concept." Cartoons made into live-action movies could work if given the right combination of talents both in front of the camera and behind the scenes. Even so, taking something so sewn into present or past mainstream media and trying to adapt it in reality makes the any movie of this type that much harder to make. Take Pokemon or Digimon for example, a lot of you in this forum have probably watched one show or the other. However, in each show, there isn't much of the real world that we know written into that universe (although Digimon did have much more dire consequences, such as death and destruction of the world in some cases). I guess what I'm trying to say that the more realistic (realistic being moral decisions/consequences, vulnerability/weaknesses, human emotions, violence, maturity, etc.) the cartoon is, the easier it is to make it into a live-action movie because we can relate in some way because we've been where they are, or felt like they've felt, not having to force an emotion upon us because that's how we SHOULD be feeling in this scene or that. So, in my humble opinion, I think that Cowboy Bebop, Batman Beyond, and Akira would make great movies given the right talent both on and off screen.