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One of many poor scenes or scenarios. The reason Sonny didn't chop his head off is b/c if he had they wouldn't have had the scene where Sonny watches the two of them die. The writers on this show are hacks.
At least some of the fight choreography is good, although there have been a bunch this season that were undeniably terrible (all of the Bajie fight scenes).
I wouldn't put it past the people making this show, but I'd be mildly surprised if he wasn't finally dead.
My biggest issue with his coming back to life via Vail's magical rescue is she was willing to help kill the widow via poison for reasons that aren't completely clear, yet she can't just allow the guy who killed her parents to die, and actively helps heal him. I can't stand that kind of crap in a show. Either she's willing to kill people or she's not. Don't make it up just b/c plot needs some help.
I couldn't agree more. It was excellent. My only complaint is the PG-13 rating, but I understand why the director/studio decided to make it a bit less violent/sexual to garner it (bigger audience).
That's unrealistic. Name me a well known Japanese actress with caucasian features that could justify the budget given to this movie. I can't even think of a single example let alone a well known one.
The people who come off racist in this particular debate are the ones clamoring for an Asian/Japanese actress to play the major when the creator of the anime made that character non-Asian looking, and gave his blessing to the SJ casting. It's especially patronizing when those people claiming "whitewashing" ignore or dismiss the creators view b/c he's being paid or he's been compromised by the money from the studio.
I'm done with this debate. It's beyond stupid. There are plenty of real incidents of racism or "whitewashing" to get upset about. The extremists claiming it in this instance give ammunition to the extremists on the other side, and just hurt the people trying to combat real racism or actual cases of "whitewashing".
Also, do you realize the irony of your statement?
In the movie SJ doesn't look Asian, but the movie shows that she has a Japanese mother, thus she is Asian.
So the anime has a main character who doesn't look Asian in any way but is, and the movie has a main character who doesn't look Asian in any way but is also still Asian.
I agree, many characters in anime have physical traits (hair color, eye color, eye shape) that would suggest they are something other than Asian. Where is the outrage for that?
Anime have english dubs b/c they want to reach a bigger audience. This movie is the same on a much bigger scale. I've never heard of a controversy over an english dub for an anime unless it's b/c the dub changes the tone with their translation. This movie did not do that.
Not according to the creator of the character, but what does he know.
Most tv shows have ratings that are higher than they should be (even when taking into account the subjective nature of ratings). I think people just give tv shows more benefit of the doubt and/or they only rate them at the beginning of a run.
This show has a rating that follows the above trend, although it's less pronounced than many.
The writers of this show should all be banished to US network tv where their idiocy would be celebrated or easily ignored. Also, Nesbitt is terrible.
Israeli is not a race it's a nationality.
I thought it was really good, although I went in with low expectations. Things were simplified but I still thought it captured the essence of the anime.
I don't recall there being condemnation of the dub version (save for the morons who think all dubbed anime suck) of any of the GITS anime, and those casts were all western.
Judaism is typically the way the religion that many Jews practice is described. Jews can also be a race or nationality.
That has nothing to do with this movie since it employed more Asian American actors than virtually every other Hollywood blockbuster.
The Major did not look like a Japanese women in the anime.
This movie needed a huge budget to get the look right, and to get that huge budget it needed to have someone of SJ status as the lead. So many of the Japanese live action adaptations of anime end up mediocre at best b/c they don't have anywhere near the budget needed.
Nope it definitely was not whitewashed. There's a rather good explanation for it in the movie that I don't recall being present in the anime (which also featured The Major as something other than a Japanese women).
Claiming whitewashing where there is none or where it's at the very least dubious is counterproductive in many ways.
He's probably my 2nd favorite next to Amos of the main cast. Their characters don't change with the slightest breeze from episode to episode.