(04-14-2016, 05:42 PM)Edda Wrote: So this can't possibly turn out worse than The Last Airbender. Probably.
Has there ever actually been a good live action anime adaptation? Because I can't think of any. I'm sure most people know well enough to not get their expectations up. At the very least the action and special effects will be quite good. It will probably be mostly action... none of that... talking stuff they do in GitS. About politics and the military and the net and those other complicated things. It would simply be too much.
Speed Racer. Campy, over the top, comical in many places, and with many flashy action/driving sequences. People say that it did not do the source material justice, I think they just hadn't watched the source material in a while and viewed it through rose colored glasses. When you compare Speed Racer source with Speed Racer movie it is a great adaptation and near love letter to the original. This does not necessarily make it a good movie, just a good adaptation.
Also. Japanese live action Attack on Titan. All Asian cast, despite the fact that this is not the case in the source material. Completely ruins one huge aspect of a main character. Japanese are not with out sin as far as live action adaptations go.
That said, unless this movie is set in the American Empire, I see zero narrative reason why The Major would look like ScarJo. Though to be fair, with all the transhuman themes in GiTS in the first place I dunno why she would not just look like whatever. She's been a man, an 8 year old girl, a blonde, and several other things.
