Hate to say, I was never very impressed with Akira.
Firstly, to me, good Anime began around '93 and ended in '03 roughly, and while I can appreciate people liking Arika, to me it just seemed like a pointlessly grotesque film with wrinkled kids, exploding guts and eye-rolling rape scenes.
Not much to be impressed about.
I'd rather see them make a good live action DBZ film.
A handful of years back they were actually going to go live-action with Witch Hunter Robin and planned to air it on the Sci-Fi channel, but the project tanked. Ah well.
To me, Akira is probably one of the worst Anime films ever made.
A friend of mine saw it a week ago and joked about how it was said to be one of the most ground-breaking Anime films ever produced.
For what? It's animation?
I've seen better animation out of some of the crap that has come out recently from Japan-land. And Akira's story is nothing of noteworthiness, either.
It's not like the first Gundam series, which yeah, had slightly crappier animation, but still a better story.
I can see why some actors and producers aren't spontaneously-ejaculating over the opportunity to produce this story on celluloid.
Wake me up when they make a worthy live-action DBZ movie.. 🙄
Originally posted by NowYouRemember
Hate to say, I was never very impressed with Akira.Firstly, to me, good Anime began around '93 and ended in '03 roughly, and while I can appreciate people liking Arika, to me it just seemed like a pointlessly grotesque film with wrinkled kids, exploding guts and eye-rolling rape scenes.
Not much to be impressed about.
I'd rather see them make a good live action DBZ film.
A handful of years back they were actually going to go live-action with Witch Hunter Robin and planned to air it on the Sci-Fi channel, but the project tanked. Ah well.
To me, Akira is probably one of the worst Anime films ever made.
A friend of mine saw it a week ago and joked about how it was said to be one of the most ground-breaking Anime films ever produced.For what? It's animation?
I've seen better animation out of some of the crap that has come out recently from Japan-land. And Akira's story is nothing of noteworthiness, either.
It's not like the first [B]Gundam
series, which yeah, had slightly crappier animation, but still a better story.I can see why some actors and producers aren't spontaneously-ejaculating over the opportunity to produce this story on celluloid.
Wake me up when they make a worthy live-action DBZ movie.. 🙄 [/B]
There were rape scenes? I guess this is why you hated Akira: there were no rape scenes.
Maybe you saw a different film, thought it was Akira, and labeled it bad?
I would not call it "groundbreaking" animation, but it was definitely top-notch animation. You also cannot compare the animation from 1988 to 2000s anime shows: contemporarily, it was top notch and left everything in the dust.
That said, the story was certainly top notch, but that's just opinion.
This is also the wrong thread to be writing reviews for the 1988 anime: this is about the live action film. Meaning, troll post is a troll post.
Originally posted by Nephthys
facepalmxJust no......
Sorry, Dude.
Originally posted by dadudemon
There were rape scenes? I guess this is why you hated Akira: there were no rape scenes.Maybe you saw a different film, thought it was Akira, and labeled it bad?
I would not call it "groundbreaking" animation, but it was definitely top-notch animation. You also cannot compare the animation from 1988 to 2000s anime shows: contemporarily, it was top notch and left everything in the dust.
That said, the story was certainly top notch, but that's just opinion.
This is also the wrong thread to be writing reviews for the 1988 anime: this is about the live action film. Meaning, troll post is a troll post.
Nah. I disliked Akira because it sucked, not for lack of sexual violence, which it certainly didn't lack. 😛
I think Akira is probably better than or even with Anime from 2004 onward.
Anime that existed especially during the '97-'02 arc completely blows Akira out of the water.
Gundam Wing, Cowboy Bebop and also DBZ to name a few examples.
Originally posted by dadudemon
This is also the wrong thread to be writing reviews for the 1988 anime: this is about the live action film. Meaning, troll post is a troll post.
Originally posted by NowYouRemember
and while I can appreciate people liking Arika, to me it just seemed
Originally posted by Nephthys
There was that one scene where Tetsuo's girlfriend is going to get raped before her and Tetsuo are rescued by Kaneda. So an attempted-rape scene at least.
That's what I was thinking of.
I heard George Takei on the radio last spring, condemning this project as a whitewashing of Asian culture, doing this with Caucasian leads. And how Hollywood doesn't try hard enough to use Asian American actors in leading roles.
If they are going to do this, please don't have white actors running around with names like Kaneda and Tetsuo.
So the newest director is the guy who did the House Of Wax remake, with Paris Hilton?
I'm awash in confidence. 🙄
Originally posted by roughriderMost anime characters that I've seen look white anyway.
I heard George Takei on the radio last spring, condemning this project as a whitewashing of Asian culture, doing this with Caucasian leads. And how Hollywood doesn't try hard enough to use Asian American actors in leading roles.If they are going to do this, please don't have white actors running around with names like Kaneda and Tetsuo.
So the newest director is the guy who did the House Of Wax remake, with Paris Hilton?
I'm awash in confidence. 🙄
They are already ****ing this up with american actors/actresses.
http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/168857-kristen-stewart-offered-akira