This shit is so annoying to me. Not because of the film, but because so many fucking retards thought this one might be different. We've had literal fucking decades of TERRIBLE adaptations when it comes to nerd culture, with the only one ever cracking it being generic as fuck capeshit, and that has plenty of objective failures in there as well.
Seriously, how many live-action anime adaptations are worth watching? Ghost in the Shell? Nope. Fullmetal Alchemist? Nope. DragonBall Evolution? Nope. Bleach? Nope. Cowboy Bebop? Shocker, it's again nope.
For fucks sake, what in the everloving fuck was anyone thinking about this being decent, let alone good? Has nothing been learnt about the shit tier-quality that is adaptations? Even the supposed good adaptations are either lousy as an adaptation and take creative liberties to create a compelling movie (Alita for example), or they're simply mediocre as far as films go and you're better off just watching the anime instead.
This was set to be a failure from day one. Anyone who held any hope to the contrary (other than to be proven wrong by assuming it would be trash) should be checked for severe mental deficiencies.
Edge of Tomorrow was better than the Light Novel it was based on, to the point most people don't even know it was an adaptation of a Jap IP.
Also, anyone who is a One Piece fan probably doesn't have enough time to have watched another show AND its shitty adaptation to know better. They have to shotgun rewatch all 1000 episodes for the 3rd time.
I had forgotten about Edge of Tomorrow, but I am personally unaware of the adaptation quality. Yes, it's a really good movie, but was it accurate? Because if not, refer back to what I said regarding Alita and creative liberties. If it is accurate, then I guess there's an exception to the rule of thumb. It's not like an adaptation can't be good, just that there's nowhere near enough evidence to not reasonably assume it will be shit until proven otherwise.
Far as I remember, it was as accurate as you can get with the type of story and only adapting a small fraction to a single "finished" product.
Though considering they were adapting a barely known IP, changed the name entirely and barely mentioned the original, its almost not even an adaptation and more like "bought the screenplay then reworked it" of a product.
I only bring it up because its an "exception" that proves its possible but they choose not to put in even the most basic effort.
Sure, I don't disagree. Was just curious if it was an actual adaptation (like most anime is of the manga they're based off), or if it was an "adaptation" like Blade Runner is an "adaptation", in that it's wildly off from the original and just takes some key elements between the two, while still telling a good and compelling story.
Interesting that it seems to be a rather accurate adaption then, considering how rare that is for the west to do.
This shit is so annoying to me. Not because of the film, but because so many fucking retards thought this one might be different. We've had literal fucking decades of TERRIBLE adaptations when it comes to nerd culture, with the only one ever cracking it being generic as fuck capeshit, and that has plenty of objective failures in there as well.
Seriously, how many live-action anime adaptations are worth watching? Ghost in the Shell? Nope. Fullmetal Alchemist? Nope. DragonBall Evolution? Nope. Bleach? Nope. Cowboy Bebop? Shocker, it's again nope.
For fucks sake, what in the everloving fuck was anyone thinking about this being decent, let alone good? Has nothing been learnt about the shit tier-quality that is adaptations? Even the supposed good adaptations are either lousy as an adaptation and take creative liberties to create a compelling movie (Alita for example), or they're simply mediocre as far as films go and you're better off just watching the anime instead.
This was set to be a failure from day one. Anyone who held any hope to the contrary (other than to be proven wrong by assuming it would be trash) should be checked for severe mental deficiencies.
Edge of Tomorrow was better than the Light Novel it was based on, to the point most people don't even know it was an adaptation of a Jap IP.
Also, anyone who is a One Piece fan probably doesn't have enough time to have watched another show AND its shitty adaptation to know better. They have to shotgun rewatch all 1000 episodes for the 3rd time.
I had forgotten about Edge of Tomorrow, but I am personally unaware of the adaptation quality. Yes, it's a really good movie, but was it accurate? Because if not, refer back to what I said regarding Alita and creative liberties. If it is accurate, then I guess there's an exception to the rule of thumb. It's not like an adaptation can't be good, just that there's nowhere near enough evidence to not reasonably assume it will be shit until proven otherwise.
Far as I remember, it was as accurate as you can get with the type of story and only adapting a small fraction to a single "finished" product.
Though considering they were adapting a barely known IP, changed the name entirely and barely mentioned the original, its almost not even an adaptation and more like "bought the screenplay then reworked it" of a product.
I only bring it up because its an "exception" that proves its possible but they choose not to put in even the most basic effort.
Sure, I don't disagree. Was just curious if it was an actual adaptation (like most anime is of the manga they're based off), or if it was an "adaptation" like Blade Runner is an "adaptation", in that it's wildly off from the original and just takes some key elements between the two, while still telling a good and compelling story.
Interesting that it seems to be a rather accurate adaption then, considering how rare that is for the west to do.