This may be out of the blue for sure (as that this is for myself venting out my frustrations since I can't do that elsewhere; I don't have Twitter (or at least used to), YouTube, Facebook, or any social media), but I need to call out the bullsh*t found in these two videos. Here's the links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sNX1wRlubQ" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sNX1wRlubQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSesmgmxErk" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSesmgmxErk
Just so you know, I'm a fan of this guy's work from the get-go, but I got to note the hypocrisy as I see it. In the first video, he states how people reacting negatively way too early towards the GitS film based on the information given, especially in regards to the supposed "white-washing." However, he proceeds to do JUST THAT in the second video, although it's mainly pointed towards JoJo (and just not really discussing much on FMA as the titles misleads one to believe). Personally, I tend to have my bias over the second video because I feel like ALL of these movies will probably suck mainly due to how they're butchering the source material (which happens on both sides of the Pacific (AoT for Japan and DB Evolution for the U.S.)) in whatever ways possible. Granted, the "white-washing" for the former is not doing that, but I feel like everything will go downhill from there. Plus, I like how people were complaining over the people who complained about GitS when that was going on with the Ghostbusters reboot but in reverse (with how the cast are all female and yadda-yadda, basically "gender-washing" if you want to go there). The trailer apparently "confirmed" their stance for them (although I would disagree with that, as it would probably look like sh*t regardless of the cast's gender) in the long run, so I will NOT be surprised in the slightest if ALL or ANY of these movies will go through the same goddamn thing, but for similar reasons...I think. It's f**king hypocritical how this guy could tell the GitS fans (among others I bet LOL) to "shut the f**k up" and wait until more details are out including the trailers, and yet go bananas over how JoJo and (I guess in a way) FMA are getting live-action adaptations (done by Japanese film companies mind you) without much more of these details than GitS (done by Hollywood, who despite how well-respected they are CAN and PROBABLY WILL release some utter pieces of sh*t just as much as Japan...although I heard the latter tend to do that in a much larger scale in a shorter span of time. With the sh*t with JoJo going on (and even as I heard AoT which got criticized with the mainly Japanese cast playing Germans in Japan, though take that with a grain of salt), it's no wonder why these companies and the Japanese public are okey-dokey with Johansson playing Motoko, with mainly the former for being desperate as they are and the latter with some of them on the inside being a part of the JoJo fanbase getting ready to go apesh*t on those companies for those JoJo live-action plans. It's unfortunate he has to go the inconsistency route here, unless apparently something missing and vital regarding this sh*t.
TL;DR The guy shows inconsistency, all of these adaptations are going to suck, GitS will probably head for the reverse Ghostbusters route, and weird irony in this whole fanbase situation for these adaptations (which I justify being against).
So, now I finally got that off my chest, is there any thoughts on this subject? Do you actually give a sh*t about any of this (which I of course highly doubt, but hey I couldn't care less about that either)? Let me know if there's anything you'd like to add regarding to this. I may sound like I'm "obsessed" with this issue, but that's the problem of me not being able to actually voice my opinion out loud and not communicate with the other on the matter. And I apologize if I wasted much of your time reading this sh*t yet again LOL.
------------- Progrockdude
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