Joshmyersbv
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I didn't watch it but the people who did said that the guy who played jet was actually a pretty good. Everything else was shit though.
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///PATRIOT
Banned
Yikes .If this is real, then it explains a few things.
Everything woke turns to shit. indeed.
Get woke get broke
Goalus
Member
So brave and beautiful!
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Can't wait for TheQuartering giving his take.
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It's already online
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TaylorSwiftFan
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Get woke go broke or more accurately get woke and make a shit product. It’s because the writers are more concerned about making a woke show than an accurate adaptation that it turns to shit. Also, what’s a mouth breather?
I don't know. There are some good ones out there. I think the Rurouni Kenshin trilogy is a very good live action adaptation. Thing is, RK is a little more easy to adapt. At its heart is a samurai picture. Something Japan is already good at doing. Just throw in the wacky weapons on top and you got yourself a show.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
I liked Alita just fine. I didn't have any prior knowledge of the manga/anime though. The Guyver movies were good for what they were. Live action anime can be done.
Thaedolus
Gold Member
The point is the show not being good has nothing to do with it being “woke.” What’s even woke about it moreso than the original?
A mouth breather is a low IQ individual who, in this context, thinks everything they don’t like must be woke
Fake
Member
Was the actors saying the series gonna fix the 'Anime' problems?
So, can you say to me, what is the 'anime' problem?
Maybe you will find the answer you're looking for.
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Thaedolus
Gold Member
Wat
thefool
Member
I haven't watched the live action so perhaps my assumption is wrong (as it is based on what i read the writers wanted Faye to be) but lets take Faye, as an example which exists much beyond her sexy outfit.
Faye was a naive girl who falls in love with a guy only to end up being conned. She's deeply affected by it, lost in a new reality, has absolutely no anchor to hold on to but her one value: her looks. So a con girl is born. She's a sassy, clever, seductive woman who tries to fool men using her sexuality. She's objectified, using her looks in her favor to scheme against horny bastards. But when she's in her own or with the crew she behaves abrasively, very unfeminine, with very little manners.
So, two things might happen when the writers call for an empowerment of Faye, and her desexualization. Either they miunderstood what they watched or their ideology (the so called wokeness) is contradictory with the writing and development of a (multilayered) woman who, in many of the events of the show, is deeply objectified. The solution, to ditch that and simply rewrite her (along filling the gay quota).
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Thaedolus
Gold Member
Here’s the thing: I think Faye is actually portrayed fairly well, given her backstory and such. It makes sense for her to be throwing out the crass, stupid shit she does because…she’s basically a child in a tough world and she’s doing what works. She might be the most believable adaptation from the anime, to be honest.
But the writing could be so much better. That’s the problem, IMO. It’s not that a girl gets her off, it’s how clumsily it happens. But the lazy argument is “oh this is woke” because they went a couple places, especially when the original show actually had some of these elements
trikster40
Member
Agreed. The cosplay thing is a big reason why live-action version of an anime just doesn’t work. We’ve already seen these characters as they were intended with no compromise, then trying to 1. Cast someone who is similar but 2. Come up with realistic costumes that aren’t just cosplay is an extremely difficult task.
Throw in things just just don’t make sense when you see them live and it’s a recipe for disaster.
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
Netflix needs to start releasing pilots and measure audience reaction before committing to a full season of garbage.
Saber
Gold Member
They though the original one is a problem since its an anime and old fashioned. So they made a new one as a "substitute", cutting whatever it made the first one a cult among all animes(like sexualization for instance).
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Fake
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The actor from this series said 'The Cowboy Bebop adaptation would fix the problems of the Anime version'.
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Mason Alexander
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TaylorSwiftFan
Member
Let’s see - they made Gren transgender. They made Faye less sexy and made her a lesbian. They made Spike asian. All signs point to woke, on top of the classic tell tale signs of woke shows that end up failing - you know writers having pronouns in their bio, lashing out against the original fans of the series.
Mouth breather in this case is a low-level insult for people who cannot back their own arguments used by people with low IQ. You’re not of those are you?
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Javthusiast
Banned
Let me bask in this wonderful news. Let this be a lesson to the people doing One Piece and Yu Yu Hakusho for Netflix. You better don't fuck it up.
Fake
Member
Cowboy Bebop's Mason Alexander Park on Gren's new journey and righting the wrongs of the anime
"People have really polarising views of things that they love being adapted."
www.digitalspy.com
n0razi
Member
The main 3 were great: Jet, Spike, and Faye
A couple of the minor characters were good too like Whitney (Faye's mom)
The rest were trash, especially Vicious, Ed, and Julia
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
Because it makes them feel better about themselves and it gives them an easy argument they can make without having to engage much brain power. "Go woke go broke!" right? Yeah! Wait except you know all the companies, movies, music artists, actors, etc etc who all went "woke" by the ignorant definition these people believe in and yet continue to make millions or even billions of dollars per year.
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Joshmyersbv
Member
Woke has been thrown around so much its lost its meaning and purpose. It's like when a boomer finds a meme funny on Facebook and begins abusing it on every post they make. Sooner or later people will just see woke in a post and just ignore the rest of what is said regardless if it's insightful or not.
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Because it makes them feel better about themselves and it gives them an easy argument they can make without having to engage much brain power. "Go woke go broke!" right? Yeah! Wait except you know all the companies, movies, music artists, actors, etc etc who all went "woke" by the ignorant definition these people believe in and yet continue to make millions or even billions of dollars per year.
So why was it canceled?
Master Of Illusion
Member
LOL
Spaceman292
Banned
YesBecause of the changed ending or the whole movie was badly adapted?
Ownage
Member
No, we don't want to follow the music. We want good original content, or gtfo.
Netflix sucks.
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
Because it was terrible. But it being terrible does not mean it was because it was "woke". The show would have been shit regardless of any "woke" choices made because the premise of it from the start was doomed to fail. Popular animes are NEVER good when transferred to live action. Half the fun of anime is to put on screen/paper what the real world would never be able to show. You have characters that look certain ways and dress certain ways that would look stupid or insane in real life. Comic films like the MCU produces can get away with that shit because it is somewhat based in reality from the start. But anime is a different animal.
This is why I always say that if there is to be a new adaptation of an anime then it needs to be either CGI or just a very high budget remake of the animated version. Live versions of anime and cartoons almost always suck with very little exception. Them being accused of being "woke" by some randos on the internet has very little to do with that.
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What is woke then?
*Nightwing
Member
The anime had a flow that played into the pacing of it combined with the soundtrack and action scenes. Then the abrupt comidec stops had impact instead of falling flat. Didn’t watch, and still don’t plan to based on how terrible the fight scenes choreography was from the trailers. It’s quality in making is obviously poor in comparison to its source material easily visible in small snippets that they chose to try and sell. Despite its polish. They made the classic Hollywood mistake of trying to copy something sans the talent making it, or the hard work to make up for said lack of talent and expect to bank on the name alone.
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
I am not even going to try to have that conversation. No thank you. You either know what I mean when I say it (and you are being disingenuous) or you somehow do not actually know then and I have absolutely no interest whatsoever in spending half a dozen posts explaining it and debating it. I have better ways to spend my Friday night.
And that is not even mentioning the fact that the topic comes dangerously close to politics and I am not gonna catch a ban from Gaf for trying to debate about the live action Netflix version of fucking Cowboy Bebop lol
You can’t define nor name a work that is woke yet disparage its supposed misusage?
///PATRIOT
Banned
When the producers said that they were going to fix the so called "problematic" things of the anime. Did they do it to make them feel better about themselves too?Because it makes them feel better about themselves and it gives them an easy argument they can make without having to engage much brain power. "Go woke go broke!" right? Yeah! Wait except you know all the companies, movies, music artists, actors, etc etc who all went "woke" by the ignorant definition these people believe in and yet continue to make millions or even billions of dollars per year.
When comes to wokeness do you always argue in bad Faith?
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
Tams
Member
Yes, the wokeness is just another symptom of an underdeveloped and stilted mind. Hence that travesty of a 'writer' mentioned above.
Although it might well be self-fulfilling and perhaps a bit chicken-and-the-egg.
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
Name one extremely well received and highly reviewed by critics live action iteration of an anime. Woke or not. I'll wait
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Yoboman
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The Dr Manhattan scene is fire though
At least you know how to post gifs. One step at a time.
TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
I mean, if I break my arm and both legs and contract pneumonia, then the next day I cut myself shaving, I'm still going to bitch about the shaving even though I have larger problems. Something can be shit for multiple reasons at one time.
Ouch.
Tams
Member
Did I say that the sole reason this has been axed is because it was woke? No, no I didn't.Name one extremely well received and highly reviewed by critics live action iteration of an anime. Woke or not. I'll wait
But many of the issues ultimately stem from the writers and even some of the cast being woke, or being woke is another symptom of ineptitude.
As for other live action anime: well no, because the silliness and surrealness of anime doesn't translate well to live action. Although Cowboy Beebop is probably one of the few that could have been done well. That they managed to mess it up really just adds to the evidence that wokeness is one of the major reasons this got cancelled.
OMG, what did I just watch?
Myself, I am firmly in the camp "Anime does not translate well to live action, leave it alone". I think this was a great example.
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jadedm17
Member
This.
I'll never stop thinking about how they treated Santa Clarita Diet.
Don't trust Netflix.
Like? I can’t think of a single show that holds a candle to HBO series on Netflix besides maybe Dark. That’s it.
Keihart
Member
i gave one example, Extracurricular.
My Name recently is the best action that is not a movie i've seen.
Not only good production but actual cinematography with cool transitions, use of lighting and whatever seems to be reserved for movies for some reason in most TV Series.
MrTroubleMaker
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Didn't help that the actress that played Faye on fans ...
on fans ...
sankt-Antonio
:^)--?-<
IMO wokeness Leads to untalented hacks getting jobs they are not qualified for (yet) based on their gender and /or sexual orientation.
If a high enough quota makes it into production the product turns out bad.
If a high enough quota makes it into production the product turns out bad.
Yoboman
Member
Untalented hacks have always existed and always will
Hypereides
Member
This whole idea didnt seem thought through from the onset.
It was so weird how they needed to apparently, culturally approprate the cast for some reason. For the record, I dont care who plays these roles as long as the actors have some actual and significant resemblance to the original characters. There was barely any here. Not to mention the loose interpretation of the original source material.
Thank fuck if that happens.
Whoever greenlit the live action One PIece TV series idea must've been as high as a kite.
It was so weird how they needed to apparently, culturally approprate the cast for some reason. For the record, I dont care who plays these roles as long as the actors have some actual and significant resemblance to the original characters. There was barely any here. Not to mention the loose interpretation of the original source material.
Thank fuck if that happens.
Whoever greenlit the live action One PIece TV series idea must've been as high as a kite.
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