NEW MOVIES

this is where i (and the rest of you) can post interesting upcoming movies to watch out for.

starting with....


AKIRA!!!
Via Twitch:

"It’s been rumored for years and it’s finally coming: Katsuhiro Otomo’s legendary Japanese sci-fi epic Akira
is soon to be remade as a pair of live action films. Leonardo DiCaprio
is producing. Ruari Robinson will direct. The setting moves from New
Tokyo to New Manhattan, with each film based on three volumes of the
original six volume manga which means that despite the location shift
for North American audiences, the longer run time means that these
films may hold closer to the source material than did the Japanese
anime version. The first film is due in 2009."

that is so0o sweet.. i hope leo acts in it to0o0o.. that boy can act.

i vaguely remember the old Akira!

i have the animated akira. this movie sounds interesting

i have the original akira to0o i try to watch it about once a month. the thing is i love the movie. it's just that the only time i have to watch it. is at night time... and i keep falling asleep halfway through the movie. haha..

I've never been impressed by the whole "anime-into-live-movie" thing. They tend to fuck it all up.<<<<This is Danielle BTW i'm too lazy to log in.

nah, initial d was way trashed... the driving action was good, but the story line was confusing to newcomers and south pole to those who know the anime.

Yea, Initial D was a bad make. Could have been way better, tho seeing the trailer for Speed Racer don't make it look to hot either but I will have to see it regardless...

Nana was a pretty good translation from anime to movie...

oh, i was thinking about it today at borders... Akira, the anime, sucked ass compared to the comic. the manga was more than 8 volumes of 400 + pages each. the movie, while coherant, was good, it did not do justice to the actual storyline that took over the course of a few years.

the only great transfer from manga to anime i've ever seen was.. naruto. i mean i read the whole manga and when the lates episode comes around, i feel like i've already seen it. hahaha it's really weird.. great job naruto

naruto shipuuden FTW..

after episode like 130 in regular naruto everything else is just filler till about 200 or so.

I think Nana takes the cake in terms of best transition between all 3.

we'll see about akira, but... akira wasn't even alive in the movie the most powerful boy on earth never made an appearance.

danhtao wrote:oh, i was thinking about it today at borders... Akira, the anime, sucked ass compared to the comic. the manga was more than 8 volumes of 400 + pages each. the movie, while coherant, was good, it did not do justice to the actual storyline that took over the course of a few years.

i totally agree, i bought the movie and watched it then read the first 2 volumes of the manga..and if i remember right by the end of volume 2 it equaled to about 3/4 of the movie..

oh yea...can anyone explain the ending of Akira to me?...i didnt understand what they were talking about...its been a while since ive seen the movie but man..i was like this when i finished watching it.

oh my. i can't even remember the last time i went to the movies. i think the last movie i saw was superbad hahaha. it's been a while

Random_User wrote:

danhtao wrote:oh, i was thinking about it today at borders... Akira, the anime, sucked ass compared to the comic. the manga was more than 8 volumes of 400 + pages each. the movie, while coherant, was good, it did not do justice to the actual storyline that took over the course of a few years.

i totally agree, i bought the movie and watched it then read the first 2 volumes of the manga..and if i remember right by the end of volume 2 it equaled to about 3/4 of the movie..

oh yea...can anyone explain the ending of Akira to me?...i didnt understand what they were talking about...its been a while since ive seen the movie but man..i was like this when i finished watching it.

the people with power, made a new universe. haha. still doesn't make too much sense eh? i re-read the Akira manga lately, and i finally understand it now. tons of taoist-buddhist mumbo jumbo in it.

new batman movie coming this summer...

http://thedarkknight.warnerbros.com/

I hope the batman movie will be as good as the first one.. though with sequals..it usually isn't..

it's almost like a filler.

oh, and it's heath ledger's last movie

i finally got a hold of the new ang lee movie, Lust Caution. gonna try to watch the dvd tonight. it got released over here with an nc-17 rating but i love world war 2 ear spy flicks, so we'll see how this movie is.

after you're done, let me borrow it

i just finished lust caution. its not.. soft. haha. tho its possible to almost call it softcore porn in some scenes.

um. i really don't know what to say. its not a love story, its not.. a war or spy flick. its a story that kinda ask the question of how far can a human go while still being human?

what i DO love about it is the technical side of the movie, the grainy effect, the setting, (1940s-50s shanghai omg) the camera angles, the lighting. and like.. the protrayal of being human. of lust. of being paranoid. of being broken.

a lot of the themes of the movie can easily just soar past the viewer if they just look at the characters, but by seeing how imperfect they are, you see how really well done the movie is.

two thumbs up!

new movie,
variation of Journey To The West
The Forbidden Kingdom with Jackie Chan and Jet Li
April 18th