OH GOD the live action was no.... i went in with an open mind cuz i knew changes would have to happen since they are cramming so much in one movie
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the character mikasa was DESTROYED and it didn't make sense how she survived
and then the added on characters....i'm like whaaa??? like the "captain that should have been levi but wasn't"
and they were pushing armin x sasha and i'm like WHAAAAA????
Hanji was the best man
there was too many changes and things they added on were not explained
Thank you, now I don't feel so bad about my comment.
Plus, you spared me the nightmare of seeing the movie.
Probably others as well.
In that sense you've done humanity a service.
Still would like to see someone make a good version of the story.
From technic filming like CGI, setting, etc maybe you are right,
but from the essence of manga? No, big NO!
Have you watch Dragon Ball & Avatar the Legend of Aang?
It was disaster (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
like the cgi was pretty good i really liked the titans and i get why they want to make some changes.....but can we have the additions make sense?
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for instance one....they added in that apparently eren had an older brother....it was never explained and they didnt go anywhere with it. they lalso never said who it was but i think it was the captain that will never be as awesome as levi
mom dies beforehand so the one that got "eaten" by the titan in front of eren was actually mikasa...and you're like what? but eren actually didn't SEE her get eaten but it was heavily implied. but SURPRISE BITCH SHE'S ACTUALLY STILL ALIVE. BUT ALL SHE GOT WAS A SCAR OF A BIT MARK ON HER TORSO AND ME AND MY FRIEND WERE LIKE ARE YOU GOING TO EXPLAIN THIS????????? according to movie mikasa she got out of it on her own
like some of these changes they don't make sense and the additions they added in...they left it unexplained
i think they were hoping to have a 2nd movie or something...
Yes, I know bad movies ruin great stories. And I don't think the series could be encapsulated in a single movie, but I do believe special effects have reached the point that this manga has the potential to be an amazing series of films.
Based on the other reply I received, it sound like Japan already made one bad movie with good CGI based on this series, so now I'd like to see a Hollywood version that had good special effects, but did a better job at sticking to the original storyline. Even a really well done live action series on a cable channel would be cool.
You know, I actually read this manga 'cause of the live action. I never came in contact with this story before, so I didn't have anything to compare the movie with at the time, still it left a bad taste. I found the entire 100 mins long intro over sexualized -Blue gender comes to mind, but that anime was better or at least i liked-
and the portrayal of "Levi" ?!?!, it's kind of hard to like a guy who whips it out every time to put his 'rival' in his place and mark his territory (aka. Mikasa). After reading the manga turns out everything i hated about the movie is actually not even part of the original story, i was ecstatic.
Wow, it's amazing to hear you describe the movie as sexualized because that is pretty much the polar opposite of the original manga. Yes, there are many, many doujinshi mangas based on this story that include incredibly adult content, but romance/sex is a pretty common theme in that type of independent, fan driven manga.
The idea that they tried to make the movie really sexual seems like further proof that the filmmakers didn't care about preserving the original story, but were instead interested in simply making a buck. For someone who really loves the original, that's kind of sad because it seems to me as though they are almost misleading anyone who sees the film without having read the source material.
Really glad you took the time to read the original since it's a truly unique and engaging series. Also glad you shared your insights into the film. I'm learning a lot about the movie from people on this site. It's been eye opening!
Alas, I still can't decide if I should go through with seeing the movie or stick to the vision I have of this story based on the mangas and the anime...
I'm probably going to get in trouble for saying this, but I hope Hollywood makes a movie out of this. I read an article and saw some of the publicity photos for the Japanese movie version of this manga and it looked like it was going to be simply awful. The filmmakers ignored the background on the characters and cast them all as Japanese, instead of just Mikasa. Then they changed the entire setting so it would be more affordable to film. Even the costumes they used looked cheap and cheesy.
Someone like Spielberg should decide this story needs to be brought to the big screen so it gets turned into a totally righteous movie or series of movies with kick butt special effects.