Yeah just who the hell are they gonna cast as Live Action Luffy and Nami and fuck, how are they gonna pull off Chopper?Fischgopf said:
I still cringe at the sight of "Goku" in Dragon Ball Evolution, Cringe that this actor is "Goku"
One Piece Manga Getting An American TV Series
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I still cringe at the sight of "Goku" in Dragon Ball Evolution, Cringe that this actor is "Goku"
Seriously? You're wondering about Chopper, which can just be some CGI gagoo, and not wondering about Zoro, whose actor has to hold a sword in his teeth and fight with it? While holding and fighting with two more swords in his hands?Samtemdo8 said:
There is a reason why the anime always cut the camera or went blank with slash marks to represent Zoro's fighting: it's impossible to represent because it flat out isn't physically possible
There is literally no way one could possibly make this work in live action even on an HBO budget.
We could have had Psycho-Pass, we could have had Black Lagoon, or any other series that could do well live action, instead we got this.
Hollywood can't die soon enough.
Like I said, can't we have a more quality done English Dub then make a Live Action Adaption? I already explained how I think the characters should sound like in english in my above post.Zontar said:
Well they can always just make a CGI sword on his mouth and don't film up close in his face while he is fighitng with it.SupahEwok said:
Here's the thing, I've never watched or read One Piece. Aside from a nostalgic soft spot for Dragonball, shounen battle mange/anime are not my thing. But I know enough about it to see this as an ill-conceived idea.
That clip could be reused for pretty much all the movies in last year's 'Holywood's repertoire'. It's like all of the talented, creative people died in last 2 decades and all that these that are left are capable of, is bastardizing original work over and over. Just making it dumber, flashier and soulless husks of its original selves. I mean ffs they remade Jumanji... the f-k is wrong with Holywood?Chimpzy said:
it's not so much that old was better I just we forget the crap go look at the top and bottom movies of the 70s how many bottom do people talk.(also the internet has not help it lets us document the good and bad)Jamcie Kerbizz said:
Samtemdo8 said:Yeah just who the hell are they gonna cast as Live Action Luffy and Nami and fuck, how are they gonna pull off Chopper?Fischgopf said:
I still cringe at the sight of "Goku" in Dragon Ball Evolution, Cringe that this actor is "Goku"
I used to be angry about Justin Chatwin, but Shameless kinda made me like the guy. Not his fault he had to work with a shit script and bad direction.
Chopper is clearly gonna be CGI
Man, you guys are so negative. TV is in its golden age right now and I don't see why you can't make a good show based off One Piece or any anime. I'm hoping it's actually good so I can try out the one anime that's millions of episodes long that I hear is actually good. Give a solid few seasons of One Piece that's good while finishing the plot in a timely manner and not 1,000 episodes. If it sucks, so what? No one has to watch it.
Uhh... Why? It won't change anything about the anime or manga. If you were to find One Piece as the greatest thing ever made, it will still be the greatest thing ever made regardless of the quality of this upcoming show. Things can exist in parallel even if they are of the same IP.Canadamus Prime said:
Three words: Dragon Ball: EvolutionPhoenixmgs said:
American adaptations of another county's media never turn out well because Americans "Americanize" it failing to understand what made it good in the first place.
Were you forced to watch Evolution? It can't ruin any part of Dragon Ball either. Even if like the creator makes a shit sequel that's officially canon, it doesn't ruin the prior movies like say the Matrix sequels or Star Wars prequels.Canadamus Prime said:
American adaptations aren't always bad, you'll find plenty with a simple Google search. Some even won Best Picture.
On one hand they have a bad track record of adapting shit like this, on the other hand maybe, just maybe they can fix the god-awful pacing that has made the anime utterly unwatchable for me.
The weirdness and humour that infuses that setting better be present though or there will be blood I'm thinking.
The weirdness and humour that infuses that setting better be present though or there will be blood I'm thinking.
Others have mentioned the DBZ movie. I'll mention the live action Ghost in the Shell for how much it missed the point of the original movie. Nevermind the blatant white-washing of Major Kusanagi.Phoenixmgs said:
Things like these are why they'll fuck this up aswel. i hope it gets canceld just like the Akira live action movie.
A TV project is quite different than a movie project. Sure, it'll probably be bad but 90% of everything is bad anyway. You might as well say everything should be cancelled because it'll probably suck. And if the people in charge of the show so make a crap show, they'll probably have made a crap show regardless of what it was so no quality show is lost anyway. If a One Piece TV show is actually good, there's a huge upside there so why not? I'm not gonna watch a 1,000 episode anime but I would watch a few good seasons of One Piece that concludes in a timely manner.Poetic Nova said:
It's still not fun to see the name of something you enjoy attached to shit. I don't get as outraged as a lot of people over these things, but yeah it still unpleasant.Phoenixmgs said:
Also name one.
Am I the only one who thought that for the budget you were going to get and the relative quality of the source material, this was the best live-action adaptation of the original Dragonball you were ever going to hope for? It, at least, had the basic elements: Goku (and his space-were-wolf origins), Bulma, Chi-chi & Picillo. Hell, it even had a nod to Yamcha's initially semi-villainous roots.Samtemdo8 said:
Hell, I love DB & DBZ but I recognize that I was a kid watching it and it's abridged series is the only way I can appreciate it now.
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Also CinemaSins sucks.
But why? Potentially more quality media from an IP you like is only a good thing. If it sucks, you still have everything else that's good. If it's good, you have more good stuff then. There is literally nothing lost.Canadamus Prime said:
The Departed won Best Picture.