I was watching Ghost In The Shell videos on YouTube earlier when I noticed in the related videos a video of the bike scene from Akira; another amazing anime movie.
Noticing the top comment that read "As of January 5th, the project's been cancelled. And let us all hope it stays that way.". I noticed that it was a reply to another comment, I decided to click "Show the comment". This comment read "Bad news fans Hollywood is making a live action version and Bella from twilight and the guy from tron is going to be in it. Sucks right".
How does this suck? I think it's great news that the live-action version of the movie was cancelled. I didn't realize they were going to make a live-action version of it, but I know that it wouldn't have been any good at all.
I've never seen a live-action movie of a video game/cartoon/anime that is actually good. The reason for that is mostly because there's no way you can make the monsters and all of that convincing. The 2 video game movies that I've seen that I actually enjoy aren't live-action. The first is Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. The second is Resident Evil: Degeneration. They're both computer animated, which is how any video game movie should be.
Personally, if Akira were ever to be remade, it should either be hand-drawn again, or animated with computers. But honestly, it doesn't need remaking. It's perfect just the way it is. I've no idea why anyone would want to remake classic movies like that because there's nothing you can really improve. Sure, you could say the animation is out of date, as I've noticed some people have been saying in the comments on some Ghost In The Shell videos, but who gives a fuck? It's meant to be like that. There's no need to improve it.
A question to people out there is "Are there any movies you enjoy that you would hate to see remade (preferably classic movies that have no remake yet)?"
EDIT: Ok. It was bought to my attention in the comments that the comment about Bella and the Tron guy starring in the live-action remake of Akira "Sucks right" wasn't about the live-action movie being cancelled, but rather about them remaking it. That actually makes a lot more sense in terms of the comment. I've no idea why I didn't actually pick up on that before, because the cancelled comment had the reply, not the other way around. What was I thinking at the time, I wonder.
No one said that the cancellation sucked. It was the idea of the remake that sucked.
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