I saw this a week or so ago. It was way worse than I ever though possible. I was sincerely blown away at how awful it turned out.
The acting alone made it beyond cringe to a level I didn't even think was possible.
It's a real shame, too. Cowboy Bebop has a cherished place in my heart and ranks among my favorite animes of all time. As much as I knew it would be shit, I was still hoping maybe it would be tolerable and renew interest in the anime for a new generation — or even gain such popularity as to inspire a new prequel or spin-off anime. Upon seeing this, it exponentially exceeded my expectations for how shitty I thought it would be — by a lot.
The casting and costumes are damn terrible, the sets, look like shit, the dialogue is cringe as hell — literally everything is just really, really, bad.
I don't really bother expressing these sentiments publicly at other places, because why bother? People are just going to assume that I wanted it to fail to begin with. While I certainly never wanted it made — I would have settled for a full animated aesthetic update with no real changes because it was already near perfect — I'm not so myopic that I would hope something I love would fail. But I immediately knew shit was going to turn bad when they began the usual struggle session marxist bullshit with casting and what not. The whole "eVeRytHiNg hAs tO bE diVerSe aNd nOn-oFfeNsiVe tO aCtiVist GrOuPs!" immediately told me pretty much everything I needed to know.
All of their casting decisions were pure trash as well. Spike is in his late 20's and yet they cast an asian dude who's almost 50? Black Jet lulll, and an ugly feminist Faye?
Yeah, no thanks.
Anyway, I could rant about this shit forever because it seriously pisses me off. But I'll just go about my life and pretend that like most shit that gets completely butchered when Hollywood touches it, I'll simply pretend it doesn't exist.