Why does this movie have an opening theme? I haven’t seen any anime movies that choose to make this decision. Didn’t like it at all because it was telling me themes and cues to look out for in the movie. It was an unavoidable trailer to a movie I already decided to watch.
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We can’t speak to the English dub.
[/quote]I haven’t seen it myself yet, but apparently it’s pretty quality. Even two of my mates who are real sub-only snobs admitted that it was well done, and praised the effort they put into it.
Christ are we going to whitewash this shit too? I can’t even fathom how they’d even attempt it, the plot is so steeped in Japanese cultural touchstones I just fucking can’t even. If they do it it will be a train wreck to make Ghost in the Shell look like a culturally sensitive faithful adaptation.
Because it’s easier (or at least cheaper and faster) to try and adapt something that’s already out there than come up with something new and creative? It’s the same with all the reboots that have been happening in movies and TV.
You know what’s even cheaper? Just fucking license and distribute the original movie. Just don’t put it in 5 theaters for one week with no marketing, like they did. Give it the full marketing budget of an actually big time movie with the TV ads and billboards and whatnot. Save your production budget for something else that is actually original.
Also, unless it’s Pixar, Disney, or whatever the Shrek, Ice Age, etc (Dreamworks?) movies are, people will disregard an animated movie, especially a foreign one, especially with subtitles, and especially if the target audience is adults and not kids.
Yes, “Hollywood” believes that, but it proved itself wrong in the year 2000. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, a decent, but not anything special, Chinese action movie, that played with subtitles only, grossed $128,067,808 at the US boxoffice.
Has there been anything since then that even comes close? There are basically “free” movies out there in all these other countries. You just license them, which costs way less than making a new movie, and you can reap a profit by only spending on marketing and distribution.
The problem is that the companies that do this now, like GKids, funimation, aren’t big enough to put on the big marketing. They got Ghibli movies in theaters all the time, but you won’t know about it from TV commercials, billboards, trailers before other movies, or any of the other mass media places.