Then let's expand it to, at the very least, Critically Acclaimed and it has to be a majority.
Is it even possible to make a good one like this? I mean the best animated—> Live Action Adaptation I can think of is Death Note and that's because Japan not only spends time and money into these project but also Anime is slightly less exaggerated then Wester Animation (however, I admit that FLCL would still be impossible to do in LA).
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You are displaying abnormally high compulsions to over-analyze works of fiction and media. Diagnosis: TV Tropes Addiction.And I happened to like the Live-Action Adaptation of Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that doesn't make it a good movie though.
I guess what I'm wondering is, it seems that throughout history there's never been a singularly great Live-Action Adaptation of a cartoon, and yet everyone seems to Follow the Leader with these films. It's one of the great Hollywood paradoxes why any studio would want to spend billions of dollars to intentionally make a bad movie.
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Seconding Rocky & Bullwinkle. I thought The Flintstones live-action film was pretty fun, too.
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If it weren't for the disgusting burping contest scene, I'd have liked it, methinks.
"Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse." —Mycroft NextI mean the best animated—> Live Action Adaptation I can think of is Death Note and that's because Japan not only spends time and money into these project but also Anime is slightly less exaggerated then Wester Animation.
I'm actually of the train of thought that the Death Note live action movies are, for the most part, better than the manga and anime.
I actually didn't think the Avatar live action movie was that bad. It wasn't great, but it was decent enough IMHO.
So that would get my vote.
Although, in terms of faithfulness to the original's spirit, Speed Racer is up there too. Granted, it's awful, but so it was the original anime. But it's the good kind of awful, the lame over the top funny camp.
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'Cept that's not necessarily true.
Not necessarily, true, but I would definitely say they've beaten us in terms of cars, quality of animation, scientific achievements, robots and video games. The only thing I can say that might be better in the United States' favor is film and that's largely PIXAR's doing.
You are displaying abnormally high compulsions to over-analyze works of fiction and media. Diagnosis: TV Tropes Addiction.Japan only had America beat in the animation quality department once Limited Animation caught on. =P I'll agree that nowadays they have better animation.
Anyway, I second the George of the Jungle movie, that movie was a lot of fun, though I don't remember offhand how critics received it.
My tropes launched: https://surenity2.blogspot.com/2021/02/my-tropes-on-tv-tropes.htmlSpeed Racer, so much. Oh my god. Napoleon completely hit the nail on the head—it is so faithful to the original series' tone and feel. The plot is silly, the characters are over the top, the fights and race are utterly absurd and over-the-top, and oh my god it is awesome.
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SPACE? LASERS? ROBOTS?I liked The Flintstones (childhood favorite), The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right and George of the Jungle.
Scooby-Doo was good when I was 11 but when I saw what was cut, it became a What Could Have Been thing (James Gunn came up with a fun tribute to the original Scooby-Doo and its fans but the studio had to interfere and take out all of the homages and references to longtime rumors and questions to appeal to little kids).
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More Buscemi at http://forum.reelsociety.com/@ Matotnymy: Please they hardly have us beat in terms of quality of animation. Content and story of animated features, most certainly they do, but the flow of the animation of say Avatar The Last Airbender over say, most other action/shounen anime is much better.
When All Else Fails, you have fun and flirt wit da ladies, dats da Drawings way!^I do agree with you on ATLA, which has beautiful animation, but wasn't that really done from an animation crew in Korea? What I meant was that since Japan really does a lot of their animated work within their own country they've beaten us in that aspect.
You are displaying abnormally high compulsions to over-analyze works of fiction and media. Diagnosis: TV Tropes Addiction.Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann for example was fully animated in Japan. Even nowadays the animation except for the in-between frames is animated by the Japanese in anime. From what I remember, The Simpsons has always been animated in South Korea, except for the first season or so, and I don't mean just the inbetweens.

And I don't mean Good as in "I liked it" or "I actually enjoyed watching—-" because honestly anyone can like anything really. No, I mean good as in the objective ie critically acclaimed, 76% or higher on IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes of Live-Action Adaptation s of Western Animation. Are there any even of them out there? Because, truthfully, I can't ever think of a time a Live Action Adaptation was ever good at all.
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