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Astro Boy Director Speaks

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it-looks-so-pretty dept.

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.

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  1. hmmm by nomadic · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The trailer looks pretty bad. But then again, the original show was pretty bad, too.

  2. Transformers was ruined by elnyka · · Score: 3, Insightful
    When the movies came out, I was hoping to get the DVDs and show them to my 6 and 7 year old nephews. Instead, movie makers took a perfectly kid's cartoon and made it into a drool-over-Megan-Fox-with-doggie-humping kaplooza for male teens.

    Can't wait to see AstroBoy (I grew up watching the cartoon), but color me surprise if it doesn't get butchered, too.

    1. Re:Transformers was ruined by Donniedarkness · · Score: 3, Insightful
      I was actually a little angry over the second Transformers film.

      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?

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    2. Re:Transformers was ruined by beanyk · · Score: 2, Insightful

      ... and, um, violence?

    3. Re:Transformers was ruined by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  3. This is a travesty by KnownIssues · · Score: 5, Insightful

    *Movie X* was such an influential part of my childhood. You can't just take *X* hours of a series and cram it into a movie without losing everything magical about it. There's just too much compromise moving from *medium X* to the movies. And changing *minor element X* to *minor element Y* just proves that point. This is one movie I will definitely claim not to see. The graphics look pretty good though.

    1. Re:This is a travesty by BobMcD · · Score: 2, 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...

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  5. Anyone else... by Thelasko · · Score: 2, Insightful

    see the trailer and think it was for a Mega Man movie?

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