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Mattonymy Mr. Dr. from The Evils of Free Will Since: Jul, 2010
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#1: Nov 5th 2010 at 10:00:37 AM

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.

edited 5th Nov '10 12:23:01 PM by Mattonymy

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ManwiththePlan Since: Dec, 2009
#2: Nov 5th 2010 at 11:37:03 AM

IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes critics words aren't law, y'know. tongue

Mattonymy Mr. Dr. from The Evils of Free Will Since: Jul, 2010
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#3: Nov 5th 2010 at 12:09:15 PM

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).

edited 5th Nov '10 12:26:37 PM by Mattonymy

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Roundy210 Since: Apr, 2009
#4: Nov 5th 2010 at 2:37:17 PM

I'm pretty sure those occupy the same space as a good Seltzberg movie. As in, NOWHERE.

Nightwire Since: Feb, 2010
#5: Nov 5th 2010 at 5:38:04 PM

Hey, I like the Live-Action Adaptation of George of the Jungle.

Mattonymy Mr. Dr. from The Evils of Free Will Since: Jul, 2010
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#6: Nov 5th 2010 at 6:54:17 PM

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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EddieValiant,Jr. Not Quite Batman from under your bed. Since: Jan, 2010
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#7: Nov 5th 2010 at 7:00:27 PM

Seconding Rocky & Bullwinkle. I thought The Flintstones live-action film was pretty fun, too.

edited 5th Nov '10 7:00:38 PM by EddieValiant,Jr.

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#8: Nov 5th 2010 at 7:02:15 PM

The first Live-Action Scooby Doo movie was pretty good, the rest sucked though.

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EddieValiant,Jr. Not Quite Batman from under your bed. Since: Jan, 2010
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#9: Nov 5th 2010 at 7:07:13 PM

If it weren't for the disgusting burping contest scene, I'd have liked it, methinks.

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ManwiththePlan Since: Dec, 2009
#10: Nov 5th 2010 at 7:09:41 PM

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.

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.

Mattonymy Mr. Dr. from The Evils of Free Will Since: Jul, 2010
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#11: Nov 5th 2010 at 7:23:18 PM

Japan inherently makes things better than the United States, that's all I can say.

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NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
#12: Nov 5th 2010 at 7:26:30 PM

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.

EddieValiant,Jr. Not Quite Batman from under your bed. Since: Jan, 2010
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#13: Nov 5th 2010 at 7:39:02 PM

[up][up] 'Cept that's not necessarily true.

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Mattonymy Mr. Dr. from The Evils of Free Will Since: Jul, 2010
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#14: Nov 5th 2010 at 7:56:37 PM

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.

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#15: Nov 5th 2010 at 8:01:21 PM

I like the first two live action Scooby Doo movies.

ManwiththePlan Since: Dec, 2009
#16: Nov 5th 2010 at 8:03:17 PM

[up] I really liked the first Scooby Doo movie (the pointless burping/farting scene aside). The second one I didn't care for as much. Maybe it due to a lack of Rowan Atkinson....

edited 5th Nov '10 8:03:27 PM by ManwiththePlan

Surenity Since: Aug, 2009
#17: Nov 5th 2010 at 9:04:24 PM

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.

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#18: Nov 6th 2010 at 7:31:29 AM

Speed 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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Buscemi I Am The Walrus from a log cabin Since: Jul, 2010
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#19: Nov 6th 2010 at 9:00:52 PM

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).

edited 6th Nov '10 9:01:16 PM by Buscemi

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ACDrawings YOSH! from MY PERSONAL REALITY Since: Jan, 2001
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#20: Nov 6th 2010 at 9:08:52 PM

@ 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.

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Mattonymy Mr. Dr. from The Evils of Free Will Since: Jul, 2010
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#21: Nov 6th 2010 at 10:03:32 PM

^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.

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ACDrawings YOSH! from MY PERSONAL REALITY Since: Jan, 2001
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#22: Nov 6th 2010 at 10:14:48 PM

I didn't think anyone did their own animation anymore.

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ozaiangels Since: Nov, 2009
#23: Nov 6th 2010 at 10:18:35 PM

^I thought most countries outsource their animation to Korea...

harkko Since: Apr, 2010
#24: Nov 7th 2010 at 3:26:18 AM

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.

MiyuHimegami Since: Dec, 1969
#25: Nov 7th 2010 at 4:29:20 AM

I nth George of the Jungle.


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