Anime to Live-Action crossovers

Whats your take on the topic?
I, for one, think that hollywood is doing a terrible job at this.
Take Dragonball Evolution, it was so terrible, I didnt want to finish watching it. But i did cause i wanted to know how it ended. Blood: The Last Vampire was decent, but I lost interest half-ways. I havent seen The Last Airbender yet, but i heard it wasnt that great either. So i'm debating with myself as to see it or not.
IMO, they should stop doing anime to live-action to preserve the justice the anime directors did to create them.
I know its probably the same with manga to anime crossovers, but i would rather watch the show.
lol, i'm too lazy to read the manga.

The first two Deathnote movies were pretty good; they remained faithful to the source material but took a boldly different direction that in some ways streamlined the story. That said, adapting anime to a movie is just as much a crapshoot as adapting comics or videogames to the medium; most of the time being handed over to people who really didn't bother to do the research or wanted to put their own "creative spin" to them. In some ways it is actually more of a challenge due to the way many mangaka go about telling a story (for better or worse) which simply aren't easily adapted; even the fans of it will admit DBZ had a lot of problems when it came to pacing its plot and basically needed decades until a remastered, streamlined version was put out.
Western comics have an advantage in this respect because they tend to focus on building up mythos surrounding their characters rather then a particularly definitive beginning and end. It's a lot easier to make a movie of Batman, who has a strong (but not inflexible) origin story and a clear definition of where he should be at the end of the film (continuing his fight on crime). Now imagine trying to make a movie adaptation of, say, Bleach. The beginning would be easy enough but the story just goes so out of control with scads of characters and plot threads (which is primarily the reason many have grown to hate it) you'd have no idea where you'd end a stand alone movie, and if you somehow had the backing to make multiples you'd have to condense the story unbelievably to finish it within a reasonable amount. Though actually, as I type this I feel like streamlining the story would do the title a lot of favors compared to the mess the manga is now.

Bottomline, some stories make the jump to this silver screen better then others, and can even be improved if the people are smart enough about it. But the problem is few producers or directors (in both the West and the East) actually have the ability to do this.
Also, it isn't really accurate at all to call The Last Airbender an adaptation of an anime. "Avatar: The Last Airbender" (thank you, Mr. Cameron...) was an American made cartoon series featuring characters drawn from Chinese and Eskimo influences, which features some Anime influences but also some of the storytelling elements of the best Western cartoons from the 90s. Ultimately, it's about as Japanese as Teen Titans (if not less so). That aside, there are plenty of reasons not to see "The Last Airbender"...

On The Last Airbender, I never got the whole whitewashing controversy. Aang was obviously white in the show. People are dumb. They kinda reverse whitewashed it. All the Fire Nation characters look Indian in the movie. Even Zuko, who was easily the palest character in the entire series.

Aang, and the culture he was from, was always meant to be evocative of Tibetan monks (saying he didn't look asian enough given the overal stylized artstyle of the cartoon really doesn't justify anything). And people were angry about the whole whitewashing not only because it wasn't accurate to the cartoon, but because of how racist the producers came off when trying to rationalize it and the equally racist implications in making the most explicitly good characters white and the most explicitly evil faction in the story its most ethnic.

The irony is, the fact that asians or eskimos weren't cast as the stars (supposedly because they couldn't stack up to the "talent" of the white people who got their roles) means they also avoided the negative reputation of being in a movie that was bad from a purely critical standpoint. One critic even equated them to "being denied passage on a train that was going to crash."

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Originally Posted by Dapiek Absaroka

The first two Deathnote movies were pretty good; they remained faithful to the source material but took a boldly different direction that in some ways streamlined the story.

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Death Note is probably my most favorite anime show of all time. I agree that they did a pretty good job on the first 2 live-action films. I'm just starting to read the manga online.

Just to Inform you, they're making Cowboy Bebop into a Film....

With Keanu Reeves!

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Originally Posted by Tommy012345

Just to Inform you, they're making Cowboy Bebop into a Film....

With Keanu Reeves!

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>.> Keanu...you can already tell thats going to be bad.

i heard that and thats not good
i can see why he's involved but they need someone with a better kick to him

Keanu reeves as spike Speagel, makes me feel a little sick.

Maybee he could be Faye Valentine, instead,if they can't find anyone else. :P

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Originally Posted by swanbrown

Keanu reeves as spike Speagel, makes me feel a little sick.

Maybee he could be Faye Valentine, instead,if they can't find anyone else. :P

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Lol, yeah!

I heard they were going to make 2 live action films of Akira. Both based on the manga not the anime film.