LogFAQs > #958120125

First off....

Theres really terrible tier like Dragon Ball Evolution which Im sorry has all of 5 good shots in the whole movie, and missed its mark by about 15 years. Not all anime-to-live-action movies are all that bad at all.

Stuff like Ghost in the Shell & Guyver 2 are divisive but not lets be real.... they arent the same kind blasphemously awful, under-budgeted, throws away the essentials in favor of Made-For-TV quality filmmaking kind of bad like Dragon Ball is.

Well, Guyver 2 does that a little bit, but hey.... its considerably better than the first one and actually makes for a super interesting premise, IMO, because they set it up a lot like a horror movie in the middle of nowhere. I like Guyver 2, but its got a lot of camp & cliche for sure.

And, then you get stuff like Oldboy which is an absolute classic. Uzumaki is another good one. Battle Royale. The Ring. (Although the last two are based off novels as opposed to manga or animation) ~ the list goes on. There are enough strong titles that come out of the genre to warrant making more. But yea, I mean, I see where youre coming from with this thread because outdoing a classic cartoon is like one of the great hallmarks of movie-making. Many of the great adaptions have started out as cartoons first, including Lord of the Rings and Batman.

Then, someone came along and picked the pieces up, putting them together into a live-action ensemble.

On the flip side, theres tons of great anime out there that was actually based on a movie sort of inverting the popular formula where material first has to spend time as manga, then gets made into anime, and finally finds its place as a live movie. Some anime just gets made as anime to begin with, like a lot of Hayao Miyazakis films. When it comes to these sorts of things tho, honestly just having one good adaptation is worth ten failures for each time it actually does succeed.

The bad movies are the ones we end of forgetting. Usually, they dont matter. Its the good ones though that stick with us for the rest of our lives, and thats worth everything.