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Pokemon Live-Action Movie would be sweet

Well....no. It might be ok if they did a really good job on it, but even then I don't like the idea. It's much better animated.
 
yossarian said:
It really isn't. The technology is out there to make a really good live action movie.

Just watch James Cameron's new movie Avatar when it comes out, where you live. You'll be blown away by the visual experience of that and the CGI. The same technology used there can be used to make a really good pokemon live action movie; the point is it won't though.
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The problem is that the budget won't be high and neither will the patience of the film studio and so it will be rushed and done sloppily and will result in a movie that looks absolute crap.
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But why though? :/

I keep thinking of that live-action Transformers movie. I probably shouldn't compare the two, but if they could come up with a great movie from cars that turn into robots, why not one based after creatures you catch in a portable sphere?
 
Trap-Eds said:
I keep thinking of that live-action Transformers movie. I probably shouldn't compare the two, but if they could come up with a great movie from cars that turn into robots, why not one based after creatures you catch in a portable sphere?
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You're right, you shouldn't compare them. Transformers was successful because it's an easy concept for the general public to understand: it's about alien robots who turn into vehicles, and that's about as complicated as it gets.

Pokemon, on the other hand, is stupidly complicated: it's set in an entirely different world with entirely different rules, where children are allowed to venture out into the world and catch seemingly magical creatures inside seemingly magical balls, which they then use to battle other seemingly magical creatures, and to compete in a massive competition. There's no way any writer would be able to sell that concept to a general movie-going audience - it's just too outlandish.
 
Cool idea, but like every one said:

it would suck, hard
all the others are forever better
 
Trap-Eds said:
But why though? :/

I keep thinking of that live-action Transformers movie. I probably shouldn't compare the two, but if they could come up with a great movie from cars that turn into robots, why not one based after creatures you catch in a portable sphere?
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Basically what Jolene says.

Transformers was an easy idea to sell and an almost guranteed hit, big fancy robots fighting, clear good vs evil, hot girl to stare at for the male audience (vice versa for the female), expolsions and action etc etc. There was a big enough market to guarantee a large enough budget being given to it and so visually at least it was decent (plot and acting was crap. What do you expect from a Michael Bay movie?).

Pokemon just isn't as popular universally to warrent a big enough budget. Besides theres a lot more CGI needed for Pokemon compared to Transformers. It just wouldn't work. Maybe in a few years where it becomes cheaper and more efficeint to produce current top of the range CGI it could happen but by then the standards of CGI would have also improved and it would look bad in comparison to the best then.
 
It would be too hard to make and I don't think that's possible. It would be too much work to make pokemon and all the battles...
 
A live-action Pokemon movie, huh? This scenario reminds me of when I was younger...My brother, mother, and I were thinking of a l.a. DBZ movie. We thought it would be rated PG-13, at least, mostly because of blood, violence, and the language used in the original Japanese version. Instead we got Dragonball Evolution...a kid-friendly PG rated movie that could only be enjoyed by those who knew nothing of Dragonball, or DBZ. It was terrible.

That's what happened...I hoped for something that promising and got...disappointed.
Even if there was a Pokemon movie in production, I wouldn't get excited until I saw the end result. BUT I STILL HOPE FOR ONE!!!!!
 
I think a live action movie could go either way...a terrible bomb or instant success!
However...I DO like the idea of a RPG for a main console...sure we've had Colosseum and XD....but we need something that feels like an actual pokemon game....but on a main console :P
 
I would like to see a live action film of pokemon, it will most likely not happen though. What would be the plot? They would have to squeeze a lot of pokemon episodes into one movie to make a real pokemon movie.
 
Oh no... not another movie like that dragonball z movie *shivers*
 
Trouble is, Pokemon aren't actually 3D. A lot of the drawing styles just don't transfer well. If you look at the 3D pokemon games that do exist, many pokemon just don't look "right". The designs are intended to be solid colour too, putting texture or fur on Pikachu would look really bad, and leaving him blank would look unrealistic in the real world.
 
Seeing that they made Avatar, which i believe was like 20 years in delay for inaddaquete technology, it could happen.
 
MastaMind said:
Seeing that they made Avatar, which i believe was like 20 years in delay for inaddaquete technology, it could happen.
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That movie had a $300 million budget. No intelligent person would invest that in a Pokémon live-action movie even in the late-90's and early-2000's.
 
The only way it could potentially work is as a Tokusatsu. Japanese-made, of course. It would be a series, probably around 50 or so episodes. Maybe that could be the spinoff that was mentioned in several other threads.

If they could pull off a Sailor Moon adaptation, they can adapt anything to live action.
 
GlitchCity said:
anything is possible, but that doesnt mean that its going to be good -cough- dragonball evolution -cough-
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Theoretically anything is possible but not this. This is like Nickelodeon letting Cartoon Network air SpongeBob SquarePants next week. This is like there not being a 5th Generation of games coming out. Impossible. It's not thinking negative or anything like that; it's thinking what everyone knows. Or should know but it seems people don't.
 
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