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taonggyera
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Fri Jan 16, 2009 8:24 pm |
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Keanu Reeves set for 'Bebop'
Actor to star in live-action adaptation of anime
By TATIANA SIEGEL
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117998641.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
" Keanu Reeves is taking on another sci-fi mission for 20th Century Fox. The "Day the Earth Stood Still" star is attached to topline a live-action bigscreen adaptation of the Japanese anime TV series "Cowboy Bebop" for the studio.
Reeves will take on the role of Spike Spiegel, an adventurous bounty hunter traveling through space in 2071.
Story follows the adventures of a group of bounty hunters traveling on their spaceship, the Bebop. Peter Craig has been tapped to write the screenplay.
Sunrise Inc., which produces the anime series, will be closely involved with the development of the English-language project...."
Now, I'm not very familiar with this thing ( have never watched an episode ) - I mean, it's anime, and I find very little time to watch any of those - but I've seen pictures and heard a few things enough to recognize. This is a major anime TV show, I see, and it's had its share of fans now; and this thing has been sporadically percolating in several movie blogs for quite some time.
So now it's gone official, I guess.
For those of you in the know, well - that's that. News for you.
Oh, and this is definitely gonna cause some convulsions from the audience, but the producer for this film is ' Twentieth Century Fox '. Makers of fine crap such as ( 2008 ):
27 Dresses
Meet the Spartans
Jumper
Nim's Island
What Happens in Vegas
Deception
The Happening
Meet Dave
Space Chimps
The X-File: I Want to Believe
Babylon A.D.
City of Ember
Max Payne
Australia
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Marley & Me
The Watchmen Lawsuit
Godspeed, friends.
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Well, I don't know if they should get some measure of reprieve for bringing Darren Aronolfsky " The Wrestler " to theaters ( the third or fourth best film of this year; easy ). I'm guessing the answer is ' no'.
Tom careless whisper Rothman had zero to do with that relentless brilliance, after all. And it's Fox Searchlight. |
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Uncle Gravy
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Fri Jan 16, 2009 8:36 pm |
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Good thing I was never a big fan of Bebop (WHICH IS ANIME, OH GOD I ABHOR ANIME, DESUDESUDESU!). I'm pretty sure Keanu can't do the cool but funny (afaik) attitude Spike has.
Also, oh lord, I've watched half of those films. Pirated, of course, but still, yeah, they all pretty much sucked. The first five ones you mentioned, mostly.
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Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:10 pm |
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I was looking at that list. None of those movies really come to my mind, except 27 dresses, due to all of the advertising it received. No, I did not watch it.
| taonggyera wrote: | | The Watchmen Lawsuit |
WHEN'S THIS MOVIE COMING OUT? WHAT'S IT ABOUT?
First 21st century fox movie that comes to mind: Simpsons. Hehe... they even made fun of fox in that movie. those manga by Kazushi Hagiwara!!.
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Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:25 pm |
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All I can say is "WHOA."
Also, The Wrestler was careless whisper awesome. Right now it's on the top of my list. Then again I haven't seen Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire (people say it's overrated, but I love me some Danny Boyle). |
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taonggyera
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Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:34 pm |
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| Uncle Gravy wrote: | Good thing I was never a big fan of Bebop (WHICH IS ANIME, OH GOD I ABHOR ANIME, DESUDESUDESU!). I'm pretty sure Keanu can't do the cool but funny (afaik) attitude Spike has.
Also, oh lord, I've watched half of those films. Pirated, of course, but still, yeah, they all pretty much sucked. The first five ones you mentioned, mostly. |
Funny, but ' The Day the Earth Stood Still ', had some bit of staying power in it for me - if by staying power you mean it lets you stay in the theater enough to stick all the way through the credits . Much as I know a damn lot of people wouldn't agree.
For what its' worth, its one of the few recent alien invasion films ( that I know of ), or even disaster films for the matter, that ends with an actual payoff. Usually, status quo is reassured. Basically, soldiering on the with the type of story and system with which we began. People would go by their bussiness. Societies and governments would stay on course, albeit amid new horizons and a damaged environment. Yet it doesn't exactly break them.
This one does. In the simple, stark, sparse, downbeat simple manner it went out, you can definitely say they don't get to turn back ; the world is irreperably damaged, and they will have to deal with that reality. No one gets to claim a ' victory '.
Imagine if they did this in the '90s !
Inadequate, not so tight direction made it look like a bigger failure than it actually was. But it's not Twilight, so....
* List actually came from the Variety page I linked to regarding the Wolverine reshoots seemingly being done with Watchmen ' funding '. I think I posted that link to that in the other forum regarding the Watchmen settlement.... |
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Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:34 pm |
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Benjamin Button was alright, I suppose. I didn't finish it though, since LOL LOVE STRY
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Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:37 pm |
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| AwesomeX wrote: | All I can say is "WHOA."
Also, The Wrestler was careless whisper awesome. Right now it's on the top of my list. Then again I haven't seen Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire (people say it's overrated, but I love me some Danny Boyle). |
Benjamin Button is better than Dark Knight. To mine eyes, at least. |
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taonggyera
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Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:47 pm |
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| Uncle Gravy wrote: | | Benjamin Button was alright, I suppose. I didn't finish it though, since LOL LOVE STRY |
It was more of the death of a city ( New Orleans ), than a love story. Which is what's so goddamned brilliant about it. Presenting it's main, albeit nihilistic, soul-sucking thrust of ' nothing ever last ' in a way that's really distressing . Right through the very last scene.
The ' heartbreak ' here, is bigger, and more crushing than what some ' love story ' could ever show.
Dang, you should have stayed right up to the literal end, man. That final, epically poetic shot is what makes the careless whisper film ! Not staying around for the kill, so to speak, is the single greatest mistake one could ever possibly make in a theater this year  .
( And in case you didn't guess, no, the protagonists don't go at their separate ways. There's some major reconciliation. Which actually comes in a lot more upsetting !
SPOILER : Benjamin Button dies in grandma Cate Blanchett character's arms as a BABY. In his sleep. ) |
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Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:03 pm |
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Who honestly didn't see that coming? I bet they even met midway. I don't know, I'm not too into movies.
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Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:05 pm |
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@ taonggyera
Edited your post to make the spoilers a lot less readable. Next time put "#e5e5e5" in the color option; makes life a lot easier for those of us with 20/20 vision (me, excluded).
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taonggyera
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Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:07 pm |
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Um... I also ended up watching ' Nim's Island '. ( emphasis on ended up watching. Sweet Hanukah. ).Won't bore you with the particulars - as if the film wasn't a bore, and wrong-headed enough in its own damn right !
I'm just going to tell you, it was one of the best, forced sleep in an air-conditioned room I ever had .... |
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taonggyera
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Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:24 pm |
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| Uncle Gravy wrote: | | Who honestly didn't see that coming? I bet they even met midway. I don't know, I'm not too into movies. |
Well, obviously. Yeah.
But it was more of them ' journey more than the destination ' films, and the implications in tow.
I thought it was more the Hurricane Katrina framing device that made it a straight up win for me ( and what made me immediately seek out the film in the theaters upon hearing about it ) : it's direct contextualization, and the juxtaposition of elements within the movie. The whole romantic plotline, like I said, was really secondary to where the film ended up being on. It's higher, more complex ambitions, and all that. It was really more a facilitator of the events, and the underlying message; not that it wasn't good. I enjoyed it for its purity and earnestness, too, and it's abject, easygoing, measured realism. One that didn't belabor the point, went off too much into fairy tale, wasn't overtly emotionally punctuated, and felt like a real, actual story of a couple; a glimpse from the experience of somebody else. Not like careless whisper ' Forest Gump ' ( also written by the same writer here, sans a ' David Fincher ' ), which had to reduce the woman into the complete tool - recepient of all its perceived American era's DONT'S, or your poetry Titanic.
The ' romantic plot ' was really only there to punctuate it's other more, prescient emotional point : which is mortality, and the general futility of our existence; of things simply not lasting, no matter what we do; and the inevitability of them being washed down and buried at some point. Taking such beautiful things such as the couple's experiences along with that drowning.
But that final, final shot ? Man, the ' spoiler ending ' ( w/c ain't really a spoiler, save who among them dies first, which is nominal ), was highly anticipated, but I definitely did not see them REALLY going there !
I suggest a second viewing of the film. Take it from me, man, it's completely worth it, and might knock your socks off. It ain't just a ' love story '.
If only for the price of one of the most disturbing scenes in any film ever, handled very disturbingly ! ( I won't spoil it, but that image is definitely going to haunt you. ' Coz it's just one thing if its grotesque special effect... ). For me, it was, at least.
Oh, and ' joe mcbadass ' ? Thankies. Not used into this ' html ' bussiness myself. Not sure how I even passed the damn course for that in high school. Hell, I didn't even know how the hell I graduated, so.  |
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Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:52 pm |
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Ah, well, yes it wasn't an actual spoiler, given the premise of the movie, but that was a damn depressing description (ooh alliterative) you gave there, that it doesn't feel as fulfilling without the build-up.
Okay so I didn't really finish reading your post, but okay I'm sold, I'll probably see this in an actual theater. |
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Ladies and Gentlemen, have your movie-version Spike.
WHOA
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That is so totally not how i want to see spike...
But it works. 
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It looks utterly stupid.
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| Sir Pepoy Josepito wrote: | | It looks utterly stupid. |
Which is the point.
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<<<<<<gullible
please do not abuse this fact. please?
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You know, "gullible" is not in the dictionary.
Look it up.
oh look, I made the joke anyway. sucks to be you
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Damn you, I can't unsee it now!
And guys, try "transparent" and WHY AM I REVEALING MY SECRETS |
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