Hollywood needs a smack upside the head

[dragonimp]

Hollywood has always been a very trend-following and unimaginative place, but lately it seems like the movie studios aren't even trying. It's just been "Hey, Harry Potter did well! Let's see what other popular children's/YA book we can turn into movie!" These don't really bug me - it's just blatantly obvious that that's what they're doing. But now we also have: "Hey, Speed Racer did well! Let's see what other beloved anime franchise we can rape and dismember turn into a live action movie!"

Okay, I haven't seen it, but from everything I've heard, Speed Racer was a pretty good movie. The same cannot be said for the upcoming Dragonball or - gods - Cowboy Bebop movies. The Dragonball movie seems to have completely missed the point of the series. Cowboy Bebop - just, no, you can't do that story in a single movie. And the casting - I have nothing against Keanu Reeves, but he shouldn't be Spike. No.

I feel like guarding my fandoms with a bowie knife.

Comments

[crazyloststar.livejournal.com]

I posted this on my facebook todya. I am sooooooo upset that he is going to be Spike. It just. doesn't. work. dammit.

*flails and kicks things*

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

Wrong kind of voice, wrong physical type, just - no :P.

[rainjoyous.livejournal.com]

They're doing WHAT.

If they come within a ten mile radius of FMA I am attacking them with a hardback dictionary.

(Spike, noooooo-)

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

FMA would be massacred, it's another story that really can't be condensed. And I don't even want to think about actors -_-;;. Hollywood just ... doesn't get it.

[actionranger.livejournal.com]

Speed Racer didn't do well at all.

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard that - I wonder what prompted the trend, then?

[actionranger.livejournal.com]

Hey, you doing anything on Monday? I'm driving through the area to visit my grandparents and I was wondering if you wanted to get some lunch.

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

Aside from waiting to hear back from the mechanic about my car battery, I don't have anything planned. The libraries are closed that day. So yeah, lunch sounds good!

[hikaru-9.livejournal.com]

I did enjoy the Speed Racer movie. I felt it had the right touch of nostalgia with a plot that was actually pretty in depth. And they made speed lines in a fight scene with snow. How epic is that?

Though the Dragonball movie? I think Twilight will end up being a better flick. ;_;

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

It seems like they really understood what made Speed Racer popular in the first place, and tried to honor that - unlike the people making the Dragonball movie. Ugh...

[laragoth.livejournal.com]

See, this is why I am glad that the person who is behind my favorite fandom is probably going to be a big part in making the movie for my book series, should it be made

...because he is a blinking film producer, and something tells me that he has JUST enough clout to be able to put himself in control of his own stuff :) It doesn't guarantee that a movie would not be epically failed, but it surely cuts down the chances a little.

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

I've heard that movie houses usually don't like the creator to be involved - but there needs to be SOMEONE who really understands the material!

[militsa.livejournal.com]

Two words: Avatar Movie.

Also! Because I have children I usually end up having to see all these things. Feel bad for me.

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten about the Avatar movie. That's another one that falls in the "should remain animated/a series" category.

You're kinda their target demographic, huh ^^;;. At least you can blog rant about the quality afterwards.