Astro Boy Director Speaks 82
An anonymous reader writes 'The director of Flushed Away, David Bowers, discusses his new Japanese manga adaptation, shares his science fiction influences and relates Astro Boy's thematic relationship to Star Wars.' I recently was reading Astro Boy manga, and I'm very hopeful that the movie won't disappoint. It looks really fantastic, but visuals in trailers certainly can lie.
hmmm (Score:2, Insightful)
Transformers was ruined (Score:3, Insightful)
Can't wait to see AstroBoy (I grew up watching the cartoon), but color me surprise if it doesn't get butchered, too.
This is a travesty (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Transformers was ruined (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm normally pretty liberal and all, but WHY was a movie that was marketed so heavily towards children (tons of toys, promotional burger king kids meals, etc.) filled with so much sex and profanity?
Re:Transformers was ruined (Score:3, Insightful)
... and, um, violence?
Re:This is a travesty (Score:3, Insightful)
Personally, I think this is a healthy and normal reaction to maturity. Adult eyes are far less able to detect magic than juvenile ones. Were this movie to be shown to our ten-year-old selves, we'd probably love it. But since it fails to recreate that wonderment and imagination potential that the previous material did when we were younger, we lay blame.
On the one hand, this seems to become our prerogative as we age. On the other, we could really stop being surprised when those in control of the media demonstrate that they don't really care.
Nor should they. It isn't their fault that we grew up and now hold them to a much higher standard...
Re:Transformers was ruined (Score:2, Insightful)
Did you just equate a cat grooming himself to auto-fellatio? I think that one may be your issue rather than Shrek being porn.
Anyone else... (Score:3, Insightful)