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Pokemon live action movie

nowadays? I've heard stories form my aunts and uncles grandfathers and so on on how they almost killed each other several times. As a matter of fact, we fight less and injuries are less severe today.
 
TTYO said:
No.. I meant gore is still needed but keep it to a minimum. Kids nowadays fight often. I am one such victim.
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Where did you grow up? O_o The kids where I'm from only rarely fought. And even then, they were really boring fights that only at most got into hair pulling or shoving. (Then again, I'm also from a middle class neighborhood, but that still doesn't mean you can generalize about the entirety of youth today.)

Anyway... but then if they follow Ash's adventures so closely the manga wouldn't exist..
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Which manga? Toshihiro Ono's (Electric Tales of Pikachu), maybe, but Toshihiro Ono's manga is merely an adaptation, almost the way most anime is an adaptation of some form of manga. It's a portable form that the Japanese can take with them and read during times when they can't watch the anime.

If you mean Adventures, that's a completely different subject, as Adventures is based on the games, not the anime. There's absolutely no resemblance between the two universes except for what is accepted in general Pokemon canon (e.g. trainers needing to earn badges, evolutions, that sort of thing -- the really basic stuff to Pokemon). What you're asking with a live-action film, however, is a Pokemon story that takes elements from the anime universe (characters especially). Therefore, you're a bit bound by what the anime has to offer.
 
Well....A pokemon cgi movie would look the same as pokemon battle revolution..And it takes alot of work and alot of time to make a cgi movie...So all the pokemon fans would have to wait for along time it happens...
 
But what characters would be unique to Pokemon so as not to let the movie fic which I am writing become something like the US Godzilla movie.

And also maybe the movie might be able to answer some frequently asked questions about the Pokemon anime.

Like what I did with my concept of Pokemon being GM creatures by humans and then in my alternative universe might have links to the anime or be the prequel to it! Ash may not exist or been born yet! The main character can be Samuel Oak when he was young and handsome rather than the old tofu eating Prof? And he was the one who got the idea that Pokemon can be tamed and trained? Pokeball Kurt was probably a young genius who invented the Pokeball?

The possibilities are endless!
 
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Transformers was successful in part because of Steven Spielberg being the executive producer, and his movies are generally successful to begin with.

Also, I don't know why everyone brings up that rubbish argument "Transformers has a live action movie so why shouldn't Pokemon?"

Look how well the Super Mario Bros. movie did. :I

Live action movies based on games is kind of a no-no.
 
Ro-ohs said:
Live action movies based on games is kind of a no-no.
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That's another part about it, but on the other hand:

1. What if the live-action movie was based on the anime, not the games? Live-action anything based on anime generally tend to turn out well. (That is, even if it's not a mainstream hit, it tends to be a cult hit.)

2. It usually depends on who does it. Americans handling the production of an anime movie, yes, I wouldn't be surprised if it sucks (given what American writers have done with the live-action concept already -- *motions to the aforementioned Pokemon musical*). The Japanese doing it, however, is a different story. Maybe it has something to do with Japanese cinema in general (because I have yet to see a Japanese movie that didn't outright bite), but when the Japanese take an anime series and decide, "Hey! Let's make a live-action series/movie out of this!," it generally gathers a nice-sized fan following for a good reason. (Take Super Mario Bros and compare it to, as mentioned before, PGSM. Of course, what failed with SMB was that it deviated so much from the actual franchise to the point where even Mario was only vaguely recognizable, but that's Hollywood "experimenting" for you.)
 
Jax Malcolm said:
That's another part about it, but on the other hand:

1. What if the live-action movie was based on the anime, not the games? Live-action anything based on anime generally tend to turn out well. (That is, even if it's not a mainstream hit, it tends to be a cult hit.)

2. It usually depends on who does it. Americans handling the production of an anime movie, yes, I wouldn't be surprised if it sucks (given what American writers have done with the live-action concept already -- *motions to the aforementioned Pokemon musical*). The Japanese doing it, however, is a different story. Maybe it has something to do with Japanese cinema in general (because I have yet to see a Japanese movie that didn't outright bite), but when the Japanese take an anime series and decide, "Hey! Let's make a live-action series/movie out of this!," it generally gathers a nice-sized fan following for a good reason. (Take Super Mario Bros and compare it to, as mentioned before, PGSM. Of course, what failed with SMB was that it deviated so much from the actual franchise to the point where even Mario was only vaguely recognizable, but that's Hollywood "experimenting" for you.)
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The Japanese aren't exactly Hollywood cinema/live-action masters. Although America has, in my opinion, created some of the greatest films I've ever watched in my life, there are a lot of crappy ones out and about.

Keep in mind that Transformers was a Japanese property, and the Americans successfully created a live-action rendition of it. So we can create good adaptations of them. But this probably won't hold true all the time.

I did not like the looks of the live-action BSSM (Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon), because the characters looked forced and tacky.

It'd be very difficult to make a live-action Pokemon due to a lot of the characters looking very animated as it is. But some of them, like Cubone (You can find realistic-looking pictures of him on the internets), can look real enough to pass.

But I think I'd rather have a join effort between the Japanese and Americans than the Japanese alone, given some of their past live-action projects. >_>
 
Ro-ohs said:
The Japanese aren't exactly Hollywood cinema/live-action masters. Although America has, in my opinion, created some of the greatest films I've ever watched in my life, there are a lot of crappy ones out and about.

Keep in mind that Transformers was a Japanese property, and the Americans successfully created a live-action rendition of it. So we can create good adaptations of them. But this probably won't hold true all the time.

I did not like the looks of the live-action BSSM (Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon), because the characters looked forced and tacky.

It'd be very difficult to make a live-action Pokemon due to a lot of the characters looking very animated as it is. But some of them, like Cubone (You can find realistic-looking pictures of him on the internets), can look real enough to pass.

But I think I'd rather have a join effort between the Japanese and Americans than the Japanese alone, given some of their past live-action projects. >_>
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You could use CGI, but that in itself would be difficult.

Plus, would the character be American or Japanese?

They are dubbed English in the Anime, but are really japanese.
 
Then we have to learn some aspects and techniques from some movies.... which have photoreal creatures in them

Dragon Wars: well just paint our antagonist, a 200 meter serpent, with the color purple and mixed some good textures and anatomy. You get an nice Arbok.

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Well they managed to have realism but retain the cuteness

Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children: Those guys learnt their lessons in Spirited Within and managed to find the rite look for the humans.

Transformers: Well in story well they managed to fuse real life stuff like with fantasy. It would be fun to see how the military fires their shells into an Onix. Only to find that it doesn't affect him too much. And also the bad guys like Team Rocket should be as sinister as a Decepticon should.

The Golden Compass: The daemons that walk along side the character actually can be like what some yellow electric creature is doing to Ash.
 
I wonder why the pessimism about the subject. And what's more ever since some idiot in the company fired the artist who designed the 1st to 2nd gen Pokemon, the franchise has already been going down hill.

I am pessimistic about the future of Ash's adventures. Even the movies are getting boring.I would expect one day the last episode of the Sinnoh or whatever league for the first time in a decade shows... THE END instead of the usual TO BE CONTINUED.

Then the Pokemon universe slipped into quietness, leaving only the fans or ex-fans to remember the days.

About maybe years later like what Transformers the movie did, someone got the guts to revive the franchise and the world especially fans like us who would probably having kids of our own by that time would go and see it.

And one way to revive the franchise, would be the action movie if done well.
 
Godzilla had got one revival before Final Wars in 1998. After his battle against Destroyah the company wanted to retire Godzilla for a decade until a Crappy americanised version came and Godzilla had to return again until Final Wars in 2004 when it will slumber for a long time.

So it's good either way, if the movie sucks big time, Pokemon Franchise will return again with better quality. If it is blockbusting good, well Pokemon will return too! Either it's either lose win or win Win situation.
 
If someone, wether it be a professional movie company or just a fanfic, made a live action Pokemon movie I'd pay to see it. Hell, I payed to the see the live action Thomas The Tank Engine movie...
 
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