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Live Action 'Akira' Storyboards Surface
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Ew.
King Mystery
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Chronicle was great. I tried showing it to my sister, brother-in-law, and cousin at a family gathering, but they made me turn it off after about 25 minutes, saying it was too slow. They did the same thing to me on Inception and Watchmen. They only watch shit like The Avengers. Stuff has to be exploding and guys have to be sent flying backwards crashing into walls every 2 minutes or they lose interest. There can't be any lulls in a movie to build tension or suspense.
cheststrongwell
my cake, fuck off
Messofanego
Banned
There's a pretty easy reason for this. Avengers is easy escapist entertainment, I wouldn't say Inception/Chronicle/Watchmen come under that kind of type of breezy watch. They're not paced like action movies. They have busy lives, they probably watch movies for a different reason than you. I'm not even defending Avengers, didn't like it but can totally see why they prefer that.
Herpes Reasons
Banned
why can't they just use stills from the anime and use that as storyboard?
starchild excalibur
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It's so weird to see how many people who love Akira actually loved Chronicle and/or thought it was better than Akira.
I mean, fuck, I enjoyed Chronicle but it's not even a decent poor man's Akira. If people thought Chronicle was excellent then why the hell was everyone so opposed to an Americanized, live-action Akira? Based on the storyboards it would have at least been a ton better than Emo Supernatural Teenage Pranks vol 1. Or is it just the fact that it would be called Akira so distasteful that it'd render any quality it may have null and void?
Again, I liked Chronicle but really guys?
Really?
Nah, they'd probably call it "DWAYNE"
I mean, fuck, I enjoyed Chronicle but it's not even a decent poor man's Akira. If people thought Chronicle was excellent then why the hell was everyone so opposed to an Americanized, live-action Akira? Based on the storyboards it would have at least been a ton better than Emo Supernatural Teenage Pranks vol 1. Or is it just the fact that it would be called Akira so distasteful that it'd render any quality it may have null and void?
Again, I liked Chronicle but really guys?
Really?
Nah, they'd probably call it "DWAYNE"
Supermanisdead
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Chronicle was garbage. Can't believe it's brought up alongside Akira discussion.
petethepanda
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I loved the hate for the idea of an "Americanized" Akira. An American adaptation taking Japanese source material and adapting it to American culture/audience/etc? Unheard of! That's not what "adapt" means! It means being just like the original!
Not saying I think it would have been / would be good, mind you. People just chose a dumb reason to hate the idea of it.
Not saying I think it would have been / would be good, mind you. People just chose a dumb reason to hate the idea of it.
Eyemus Lutt
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As someone who watched Akira and other anime for the first time this year, and having watched it after Chronicle, Akira is the most nonsensical movie ever.
My first 2 anime movies were Akira followed by ghost in the shell and I honestly though people who recommended Akira were crazy, but Ghost in the shell totally redeemed some trust in anime fans.
My first 2 anime movies were Akira followed by ghost in the shell and I honestly though people who recommended Akira were crazy, but Ghost in the shell totally redeemed some trust in anime fans.
Messofanego
Banned
Akira got by because of its mindblowing animation, but yeah the story and pacing are bad although hard to adapt from a thousand-plus page manga. Ghost in the Shell was when I found legitimacy with anime and thought, "ok I'll stick with this". Then the tv shows came, and then Satoshi Kon (RIP), and now Mamoru Hosoda and Makoto Shinkai.
Indeed.
IrrelevantNotch
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I wish I could stream Chronicle off Netflix
Akira + whitewashing + no Geinoh Yamashirogumi = Trash.
No thank you.
Its cripticness is, infact, an advantage in this case.
Also the pacing is shit in the Manga, too.
No thank you.
The Manga is not that great in terms of story, i think the movie is superior.
Its cripticness is, infact, an advantage in this case.
Also the pacing is shit in the Manga, too.
MisterNugNug
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Then why title the film Akira? To please fans? Why rewrite the main characters (namely the protagonist and antagonist) as White American males and yet strangely keep the title and the storyline roughly the same? American audiences can and will identify with characters who have different backgrounds than them.
SCULLIBUNDO
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I would agree with you on a lot of other films, but AKIRA's themes are very much informed by Japan's history imo. You can't really start a film by dropping an atomic bomb on Manhattan and have it resonate nearly as strongly.
You think Chronicle is like Akira? lol. Thanks for the laughs.
Eh, Chronicle was decent imo, but Akira was visually much more psychedelic and expressive which, combined with the more larger than life, criptic story, managed to fill in the storytelling shortcomings much better and leave a deeper impression in the viewer.
Oh and, it also had the best soundtrack of any fucking animated film, yeah that also contributed.
Oh and, it also had the best soundtrack of any fucking animated film, yeah that also contributed.
Canis lupus
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The Hollywood adaptation still going to be made?
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
It's been stuck in development hell. It was looking likely at one point, canned, brought back, canned.
WB basically keep trying to lower the budget.
Just give the fucking movie to The Wachowkis and let them do their independent funding thing again with WB distributing since they're obviously never going to cough up another $200 for those siblings.
I realize that they've paid for the licence, but doing something with it is better than sitting on your ass wasting money. You think they would have learned from Superman.
Callo Merlose
Banned
I bet you're 17 years old and more annoying than any of the cast of Chronicle. Tell me I'm wrong.
Truth.
Zoe
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Akira isn't named after the two main characters.
maniac-kun
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Looks a lot like the actual manga / anime. If it stays true to the source material it could be good.
WordAssassin
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I enjoyed Akira and Chronicle, not gonna say one was better than the other, but to deny the similarities is asinine. No, Chronicle is not a direct translation of Akira but it's as close to an Akira-like live-action movie as we're ever going to get.
Ban Puncher
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Hurry up and fart this adaptation out Hollywood so it can be the worst thing ever and everyone can be all like "we told you so" and you won't try again.
Until four years later, then reboot.
We're going to pretend that I'm the only person to ever have said that? OHOWFUN!!!
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