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Thought that was pretty well established after the delay with him saying the future of his involvement with the project was up in the air. Either way I don't think anyone should be too broken up about it. Doing a faithful adaptation of the anime (or—yuck—the manga) would be a pretty bad idea, and not for the "You can't take it out of Japan!" reasons that nerds always yell about. The original is so inherently tied to the cyberpunk era that a modern live-action adaptation would feel silly and empty in comparison. That genre is dead and buried for a reason: its thematics became our reality, but its plot is stuck inextricably in the 80s. Any good adaptation would have to change so much of its DNA to make it feel like a relevant commentary on today's world that it would no longer resemble the source material. Blade Runner 2049 is such a wild success because it left all the surface-level cyberpunk nonsense behind and adapted the thematics to today's world. Street gangs of disaffected youths dealing drugs and terrorizing each other in biker gangs is Regan-era pearl-clutching stuff that has no business having $200 million spent on it. A best-case scenario for a faithful adaptation of Akira is critics and fans thinking it was "pretty cool" and forgetting it a few months later.
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feedmyleg posted:Thought that was pretty well established after the delay with him saying the future of his involvement with the project was up in the air. Even as someone who would hate to see a live-action Akira, I don't know that I agree with that. I think a story about street gangs battling for supremacy while a nervous overclass luxuriates in highrises and the army plots to take over is something that would resonate with a lot of people today - you just need to make the street gangs explicitly political. (Which a major studio would never do, but still.)
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:You can't go wrong getting someone from Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels to play your English dude. the only thing missing from Putin's autocratic plutocracy is him starring in his own series of movies
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Lobok posted:"loving" Cesar Romero? As if he isn't an awesome Joker and perhaps the most comic accurate take on him yet? Moustache aside, that is. LORD OF BOOTY posted:I think the idea isn't that Romero sucked, but that it's weird to outright 100% exclude the guy who had the role like 4 years ago, and also pull the guy who had it on TV before most of us were born Exactly what I was getting at, Mister BOOTY. And the compilations do usually include Hamill. They go Cesar Romero, Jack Nicholson, Mark Hamill, Heath Ledger, and Joaquin Phoenix, skipping right the gently caress over Jared Leto.
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Jack Nicholson was just playing himself, he doesn't deserve to be that high on the list 
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It was chronological, uncross those arms.
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The greatest joke Jared Leto ever made was convincing the world he didn't exist
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feedmyleg posted:Thought that was pretty well established after the delay with him saying the future of his involvement with the project was up in the air. For the same reasons, I wonder if anyone will ever get an adaptation of Neuromancer off the ground, since it hasn’t been done already. As well, I re-read William Gibson’s 90s Bridge trilogy last year, and it was very prescient... marginalized outsider cultures, insecure gig work, oligarchs whose wealth is based on the ability to harness vast flows of data... one of the few things it got wrong was the presence of a functional HIV vaccine. But because it was so prescient, I don’t think it has much more to tell us about now. I understand Amazon is adapting The Peripheral as a miniseries, but that one is at least an interesting structural experiment, due to having two future timelines running lockstep in parallel.
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Welp https://film.avclub.com/no-digital-makeover-or-smaller-teeth-can-fix-everythi-1841654287
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A Sometimes Food posted:Given the plot of the new Shrunk is apparently about the dad being widowed after the mother got cancer and reconnecting with his kids, maybe he's a lot more involved in this? Like if Moranis isn't deeply involved that plot seems like it would be uncomfortable for everyone. Honey, I Couldn't Shrink The Tumor
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Welp When I saw the first trailer I wasn't even reacting so much to the hedgehog monstrosity so much as how bland everything else looked. Sonic's games take place in worlds full of bright colors and ridiculous geography, instead we're just on... a highway. So yeah no big surprise.
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Like honestly it was never going to be better than “sonic with a human girlfriend” territory That gf is James marsden
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I’m not sure I believe the idea that the original idea was intentionally bad and was not the real design for marketing but it sure seems to have done that anyways, considering it made everyone ignore how horrendously unfunny the trailers were otherwise.
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I just find it funny they even show glimpses of his world and then boom were on the road in the real world because “the director of Deadpool” live action was the direction this needed to go instead of slapping a generic CG animation shaded on everything and calling it a day aince that would have made them money
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Pirate Jet posted:I’m not sure I believe the idea that the original idea was intentionally bad and was not the real design for marketing but it sure seems to have done that anyways, considering it made everyone ignore how horrendously unfunny the trailers were otherwise. I know food comparisons are rightfully frowned upon here, but that's like making GBS threads on your pasta to hide the fact it's a little too al dente.
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The Goonies is coming to tv, in that there will be a tv series about a teacher who helps students film their own shot for shot remake of The Goonies, kind of like that Raiders of the Lost Ark remake those kids did.quote:Fox has handed out a pilot order to an untitled drama about a substitute teacher who, with three students, attempts to re-enact The Goonies. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/goonies-enactment-drama-nabs-fox-pilot-pickup-1279050
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America’s economy still leads the way over China in goony based industry
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That actually sounds pretty cool, though I doubt it captures the magic of the Raiders remake.
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Leto is out at wb because he annoyed some high up with his whining when joker movie broke out. His agency severe their relationship with him iirc.
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sportsgenius86 posted:Honey, I Couldn't Shrink The Tumor Grendels Dad posted:
Alright, both of these made me laugh.
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Ari Aster would make an amazing shrunk the kids movie.
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Alan Smithee posted:Like honestly it was never going to be better than “sonic with a human girlfriend” territory The entire movie is a dream and Marsden is actually forgotten Sega marketing character Niles Nemo.
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Femur posted:Leto is out at wb because he annoyed some high up with his whining when joker movie broke out. His agency severe their relationship with him iirc. Do you think it will annoy him when his obituary ignores his collective works to simply read "Statutory Rapist , Worst Person to Play the Joker (Yes we can objectively measure that now, its the future), Dies."
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Billie Eilish's Bond song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oAAlssVwEw
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The MSJ posted:The entire movie is a dream and Marsden is actually forgotten Sega marketing character Niles Nemo. You totally just watched that Slopes Game Room video today.
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The MSJ posted:The entire movie is a dream and Marsden is actually forgotten Sega marketing character Niles Nemo. He's Alex Kidd, doomed to repeat this movie for all eternity as punishment for the sin of unmarketability.
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The MSJ posted:Billie Eilish's Bond song This just feels like they wanted to bring back Adele, but they knew it wouldn't fly, so they found the biggest female artist who they could mold into that. Add a sad, referential theme song, shoved it out and said it's done.
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The MSJ posted:Billie Eilish's Bond song This is kinda meh,snake eater still the reigning champion of best bond inspired songs.followed by weird Al. Man, thinking about it , bond hasn't had great theme songs in these last decades.adele, garbage and...Tina turner's was kinda fun?
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Welp quote:The film rises not even above the low bar of your average video game adaptation: Last summer’s Detective Pikachu was lousy, too, but it at least offered some gimcrack spectacle in the spirit of its source material. Lost any credibility for me here.
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The MSJ posted:Billie Eilish's Bond song
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I'm pretty sure the Sonic movie is going to be fair to decent, make slightly over budget, and be forgotten about by April.
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Antifa Poltergeist posted:This is kinda meh,snake eater still the reigning champion of best bond inspired songs.followed by weird Al. I love the rock version of You Know My Name. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9jWxLonMHU
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Antifa Poltergeist posted:This is kinda meh,snake eater still the reigning champion of best bond inspired songs.followed by weird Al. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfXEL6bVFQI
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Leavemywife posted:I'm pretty sure the Sonic movie is going to be fair to decent, make slightly over budget, and be forgotten about by April. The kids in the theater were really into it. There's not much else to it though, it is very forgettable. Also Sonic randomly calls Jim Carrey Dr. Eggman twice for no reason, otherwise it's all Dr Robotnik.
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Barudak posted:Do you think it will annoy him when his obituary ignores his collective works to simply read "Statutory Rapist , Worst Person to Play the Joker (Yes we can objectively measure that now, its the future), Dies." I like that this question takes as a given that Jared Leto will pull a Tom Sawyer so he can see the reaction.
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The MSJ posted:Billie Eilish's Bond song I mean I like it but... Ugh. Remember when bond songs used to be fun? Remember Live and Let Die? You Only Live Twice? Hell, You Know My Name?
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RatHat posted:Lost any credibility for me here. I'm probably gonna listen to that guy because I also really didn't like Detective Pikachu
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The Clowner posted:I mean I like it but... Ugh. Remember when bond songs used to be fun? Remember Live and Let Die? You Only Live Twice? Hell, You Know My Name? The song for Spectre appear to match the movie's story of Bond basically being at the lowest point of his life and ended with him quitting. I am certain the new movie will be likewise.
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