Even the most pessimistic expectations of the upcoming Patlabor live action movie have already been shattered by the release of the first trailer for the production…
The trailer, rapidly proving even less popular than feared:
The first film in what is to unmercifully be a two-part production opens in April.
The final nail has been put in the Hollywood coffin. If you take the spirits and brewery industries as an example a renaissance is taking place due to exports to China, so if Chinese moviegoers ever get tired of watching actors with round eyes and over simplified movie scripts, it only seems reasonable that a 1 billion plus audience would gravitate towards the superior product coming out of Japan with corresponding benefits to the anime industry.
It’s a good thing that they are capable of creating good anime..because they suck at live-action. Cringe-worthy, fakeish, amateurish. Sentai stuff isn’t really tongue-in-cheek and stylized…it’s the maximum they are actually capable of acting. Funny actaully. You’d think that a civilization of polite-acting, socially repressed people would have a larger spectrum of acting out their fantasies.
Sadly, I agree. But I think a lot of that is because the better actors and directors would rather do straight up drama, comedy, horror or romance.
They’ve made some pretty good movies in those genres.
Sci-fi or anime/manga adaptations just don’t have the prestige so you end up getting the B-movie guys to screw it up.
diam la u all ang mo s♥♥t…
Oshii’s movies where great, but SV2 and the Labor’s themselves took a back seat to the plot. I liked the manga and the TV and OVA series a lot more. This movie doesn’t look too bad. Just don’t make it like Oshii’s movies. I want some labor action this time.
Look like any other live-action… why’d you expect more?