SyDemon said:
That seriously made me burst out laughing!
I never knew there was a Wing Commander movie, probably never made it here.
However, from your review of it, I suppose I didn't miss much. 😀
I always thought that for those game series that span multiple chapters, a movie about them would have to do the same.
Now that game movies are all the rage (Doom, Halo, Tomb Raider, Blood Rayne), I'm hoping they'll make Homeworld into a movie too! The story is too powerful not to! 🙂
Glad I could give you a laugh. Nice to see you.
🙂
Yeah, you didn't miss much if you know (and you apparently do) what to expect from the Wing Commander series. It just wasn't done justice. They took the label, the brand, the series and just rewrote it and pandered it out.
I hope they don't do this with Doom, and they SURE AS HELL had better not do this to Neon Genesis Evangelion when it finally arrives. They're alreading screwing around with it. Asuka Langley's new name (at least for now) is Kate Rose, and Rei (in the concept sketches) looks like an albino girl with black hair.
Peter Jackson and Weta were/are handling this, and rumors say he will not personally direct the movie, and I should hope not if this kind of thing is done to bastardize this great, award winning anime series.
See, this is the problem with Jackson doing it-
He is a european. And while his ethnicity has nothing to do with it, his mentality, experience, and pop culture does. Evangelion speaks volumes, but it often does it in very subtle and philosophical ways, ways that Peter Jackson may not understand or catch or use.
My worry is him taking an all-action approach to the project, and focusing more on the evas themselves and pandering them as some giant robot (which they certainly are not). Evangelion is a very unique mix of eastern, western and other philosophies, religions, and ideals, and for him to take any single approach and rewrite what Evangelion is based on that or what he thinks will sell will lead to a failure in the eyes of fans.
Actually, I have the solution- Get Mr. Ano himself to direct this. He created the series, he knows the plot, characters, and nuances, and everything else better than anyone. He directed the Eva movies, so theres no reason why he couldn't direct the live action movie.
The only good thing about this live action movie that I've seen is the faithfulness to the Eva unit designs. They're pretty cool, but so much rides on the right director telling the story the right way. I don't expect it to be perfect, and I know no other otaku of the show does either, but this anime is perhaps the epitome, the apex of anime as it is in this age. It has won the most awards for an anime, and it would be a horrible bastardization if the very essential parts of the series are not done justice. Even something as delicate as who they choose to play these roles is very important.
I would like to believe these people viewed the anime itself and watched it as part of their learning about it and took/are taking, every opportunity to do it right. This is just as important for the actors (though they haven't been selected yet). Part of preparing for a role is knowing your character. They have tons of footage to look at, and plenty of time to become the character.
Damn, I just hope they do this right. Evangelion is bigger in the anime world than Halo or Doom is in the video game world, quite frankily, and as one of the leading representives of japanese animation, its important they do everything they can to give it the homage, respect, and success it deserves.
