Akira - Being made into a live action film...

[Neil]

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Leo-D...tion-7899.html Wasn't it Leo DiCaprio's and Drad Pitts production companies who fought over World War Z with Brad Pitt's winning? Maybe this is DiCaprio's fall back project

[capncnut]

Oh no, this is depressing! Stuff like this doesn't need to be made into a film. Leonardo DiCraprio?

[Terran]

*shivers*....I have trouble seeing how this is going to be pulled off

[Neil]

*shivers*....I have trouble seeing how this is going to be pulled off Think how well it worked with "The Flintstones"

[blind2d]

If this really happens, I will go Emo.

[bassman]

Never even heard of it. But seeing that it's anime, I now know why. Can't stand the stuff...

[EvilNed]

Usually, whenever I see Anime I think that it has a cool story that would translate well (and make a better film) if it were only live-action. Perfect Blue, Ghost in the Shell. All overrated movies that could have been much better, had they been live-action. But Akira is not one of those films. That said, why do you guys care so much? Nobody is going to force you to watch it. And if you do, you still have the original to fall back on. Believe it or not, the original film will not change a bit with this release.

[acealive1]

If this really happens, I will go Emo. *hands you lipstick and my chemical romance cds*

[Terran]

But Akira is not one of those films. That said, why do you guys care so much? Nobody is going to force you to watch it. And if you do, you still have the original to fall back on. Believe it or not, the original film will not change a bit with this release. Well the probelm is when talking to other people.... Say to someone in a casual conversation "Rollerball is an awsome movie" And then they say "Eeew that movie was retarded" And then you have to say "No not the one with Chris Klein, LL Cool J, and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos...that was a remake it was horrible" And then they say "Well I cant imagine anything like that being good I dont ever want to see it".... (Basically insert any name of a movie that has been remade in place of "RollerBall") Popular culture seems to have a tendancy to forget about the originals when the remakes on top of remakes cloud things....Its also hard to persuade someone to see an original of something that has a horrible remake....

[acealive1]

dicaprio already soiled hollywood with his subpar performance as howard hughes. howard hughes was 6'4'' and leo is 5'7''...........yet jim carrey does a better hughes and didnt get the job in the aviator. scorcese can go eat a bullet

[EvilNed]

Popular culture seems to have a tendancy to forget about the originals when the remakes on top of remakes cloud things....Its also hard to persuade someone to see an original of something that has a horrible remake.... I've never had this problem, and I'm thinking of Rollerball specifically. In fact I dare say the exact opposite is true: Many people I know have now seen the original Dawn of the Dead, but they would never have done so had there not been a remake of it. So I disagree with you, and if you don't have the time to explain to them which of the Rollerballs you mean, then so be it. Then you should be equally against films with similar titles!

[Terran]

I guess it depends on the circles of people you move around .... None of my friends knew or cared that there was an original Dawn of the Dead....nor did they know of or care that The Ring was a remake of Ringu....Hell even I thought for a while that Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film)was the original.... Most of the people I know get the majority of their "movie knowledge" through previews and personal memories....And since most of my "friends" were born in the 80s (most of them mid 80s) and therefore they really only have a working vocabulary of movies made in the 90s (and family friendly classics that are shown on regular TV).... But if you are in a crowd of people that were born in the 70s or later that are casual movie goers they are likely to have a longer working memory of movies....so they may remember most of the movies that are now getting remade..... But I think that most (not all) of the preteens and current teenagers will likely not know or even care to know whether a movie is a "remake"...and if the remake is horrible they will especially have no interest in seeing what they consider an old movie that spawned a bad contemporary movie... The exception to these observations is movie "lovers" or movie buffs...or movie aficiandos...whatever....They actively search out movies so are more likely to have a movie knowledge that is more comprehensive.... I do mind when movies have the same title.....for example Cronenberg's Crash and Paul Haggis' Crash.....two very very different movies...that still to this day cause confusion amongst movie conversations

[Danny]

I guess it depends on the circles of people you move around .... None of my friends knew or cared that there was an original Dawn of the Dead....nor did they know of or care that The Ring was a remake of Ringu....Hell even I thought for a while that Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film)was the original.... Most of the people I know get the majority of their "movie knowledge" through previews and personal memories....And since most of my "friends" were born in the 80s (most of them mid 80s) and therefore they really only have a working vocabulary of movies made in the 90s (and family friendly classics that are shown on regular TV).... But if you are in a crowd of people that were born in the 70s or later that are casual movie goers they are likely to have a longer working memory of movies....so they may remember most of the movies that are now getting remade..... But I think that most (not all) of the preteens and current teenagers will likely not know or even care to know whether a movie is a "remake"...and if the remake is horrible they will especially have no interest in seeing what they consider an old movie that spawned a bad contemporary movie... The exception to these observations is movie "lovers" or movie buffs...or movie aficiandos...whatever....They actively search out movies so are more likely to have a movie knowledge that is more comprehensive.... I do mind when movies have the same title.....for example Cronenberg's Crash and Paul Haggis' Crash.....two very very different movies...that still to this day cause confusion amongst movie conversations well i fall into that category, being a film student an' all. and i forget that sometimes and then get shocked and or pissed when the rest of my freinds my age dont get what im on about when i talk about the silence of the lambs for example. today we had a marathon of all the kevin smith films (except jersey girl) and aside form the wolverine reference in mallrats i had to pause it and explain why jay was dancing with a "double back" mangina going on, or why (oh god) my freinds 12 year old cousin didnt get why it was a suprrise that darth vader was white.... i died more than a little inside today, especially when everyone of them said dawn '04 was better than the "old crappy" one....

[Terran]

i died more than a little inside today, especially when everyone of them said dawn '04 was better than the "old crappy" one.... ...*Gasp*... I feel your pain Some even here think 04 is better than the original too.... I saw Dawn 04 in theaters and enjoyed myself...but it really is a bad movie.....the original Dawn Ive seen many times, likely more times in the future...

[MikePizzoff]

Never even heard of it. But seeing that it's anime, I now know why. Can't stand the stuff... Nah, see this one. It's not like most anime. It's more just like an awesome 80's sci-fi... just animated in Japan. At times it reminds me of an animated Blade Runner. It's a really good movie.