Cowboy Bebop (Netflix)

looks garbage. not sure what that panel border pulling is supposed to be about, are they supposed to be in a comic or what? if you're leaving me wondering WTF is going on you've already lost me.
 
oh no.... the anime series was amazing... i don't think any live action adaptation could ever top it. It's just not gonna work

Well at least they got Ein the corgi right
 
I hope episode 5 ends with Spike getting a hip replacement, because at the age they've made him, he's gonna need it to reach the end of the season.
 
Thank goodness for that new trailer. I was really not loving the previous one, but from this new trailer it looks like they might have got the tone and style right. I hope!
 
The moves on the wooden man seemed a bit weaksauce - But I'll let it slide. Faye looks right on though!
 
Much better than the first trailer. Still not sure some of it translates very well but we will see. Love the anime so fingers crossed this is decent.
 
I just finished it. Overall I thought it was pretty good and captured the atmosphere of the anime pretty well.

I've not looked around for any reviews but I did listen to this one Youtube vid hating on it, and if someone is hating on for a legimite gripe then fair enough but this YT vid critized Faye for not looking like Faye and made NO mention of Jet being race swapped so.. I can't take it seriously.

The whole thing about Fayes costume change I get, it's not a practical outfit for real life let's be real. So I don't care very much that it's changed. And Ed not being in the show, good, what a tedious character for an otherwise straight anime. She's like an Excel Saga or Puni Puni Poemy character.

Except Ed is in the show, she comes in at the end for the lulz and holy christ it's as bad as you can imagine, just.. omfg. If any of the pre-release haters still have a problem with Fayes clothes after seeing Ed then Daniella was correct in her Twitter outburst, they are trolls.
 
I might have mentioned elsewhere but there are a number of things about the live action that do not work at all as they tried ot make it be too much like the anime when instead they should have gone their own direction as it could have been so much better.

1:
Spike's Kung Fu felt choreographed and pretend as opposed to the kind of quick stance to action moves the anime has. This is something that is possible in live action as it's been done before in TV and film. The actors just aren't cut out to do these sorts of scenes that only a certain calibre of actor can do effectively, think Ip Man, The Raid, hell even Kung Pow.

The anime does this seamlessly, you feel the fight scenes both visually and audibly.

2:
The late introduction to Ed was cringe. If the other aspects of the acting or choreography felt forced then Ed's acting dials it up to 11. Again trying way to hard to be like the anime but it's impossible because Ed in the anime is drawn a certain way, has a certain vibe that this actor in the live action does not have, yet is trying to act and speak like the anime version. Imagine if Netflix greenlight a season 2, we have a whole season of Ed to look forward to....

3:
English language. Bebop's characters, world and overall aesthetic lends itself supremely to the native language. there are language pitch, tones etc. Phrases that feel just right in native. something that doesn't feel the same here. It felt like a translated script rather than its own unique script. Like watching dubbed vs subbed, even though the live action is English...

Overall I think the low scores on RT and IMDB are valid. It doesn't hold a candle to the anime, but it tried too hard to be the anime and the actors did not undergo any decent fight choreography which is one big aspect that made the anime so good. The action was just totally cool whereas it feels low rate here.
 
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