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Of Cowboys and Bebops
4 years ago
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Once again, nice title XD Happy After-Thanksgiving BTW ^^
SPOILERS AHEAD
As some of y'all know I'm a big anime fan, but not a lot of the most huge titles out there, apart from 'One Piece', aren't my most absolute favorites. Never have been. That doesn't mean I don't like them, don't get me wrong. (Tho I can pinpoint in 'Bleach' and 'Naruto' where it took a downward turn into mediocre) And 'Cowboy Bebop' was one of them.
Now I watched it over 15 years ago when it was on 'Adult Swim', and I liked it... Mad Pierrot episode aside (and I was praying he wasn't in the live-action show as well), but its movie is still a really big favorite and I watch it every Halloween. ^^
Sooooooooo, when Netflix announced a live-action Cowboy Bebop, and John Cho was playing Spike, I was intrigued.
"LIVE-ACTION MOVIES BASED ON ANIME ARE NEVER GOOD!" a voice only I can hear is ranting. And that's not absolute, there have been ups and downs when it comes to that. Me, my dad, and my brother still very much enjoy Scarlet Johansen in 'Ghost in the Shell'. I thought the live-action 'Full Metal Alchemist' movie was just... OK. And I really wish there's a sequel to the live-action 'Bleach' movie. Now I wasn't expecting a full-blown frame-by-frame reboot of this live-action 'Cowboy Bebop', but I gotta tell y'all, after seeing it... I dug it ^^
It has some issues, but it's more nitpicking than anything, and not really much I can pinpoint right away other than a 'live-action vs anime' kinda crap. John Cho was awesome as Spike, right down to the suit. Mustafa Shakir who played Jet was just a delight from start to finish, and he sounded just like his dubbed voice ^^ Faye wasn't sexualized like she was in the anime, but she was still hot in this, and I really liked Daniella Pineda as her. (And JUST learned at the time of this journal's entry that there was backlash over her, cuz of course there was) I really liked Vicious and Julia in this, since I can't remember squat about them in the anime. I liked that Julia became a player in her own right in this show.
Of course it has its detractors, and calling it 'a crime against anime', or whatever kinda crap the nerds wanna spew in their verbal diarrhea baby-rantings about 'MY CHILDHOOD IS RUINED!'
Sure it's not wholly deep in characterization exactly like in the anime, but we still get characterization. I doesn't have to delve in SO deep. Just get the point across. And that's what they did here, and I still loved the characters. But, I say give this a looksee. And me personally, I can't wait for a season 2 ^^ Still kinda on the fence on who they got to play Radical Ed, if I'm being honest.
So, that's my two cents, or two Woolongs ^^
Thanks for your time. ^^
SPOILERS AHEAD
As some of y'all know I'm a big anime fan, but not a lot of the most huge titles out there, apart from 'One Piece', aren't my most absolute favorites. Never have been. That doesn't mean I don't like them, don't get me wrong. (Tho I can pinpoint in 'Bleach' and 'Naruto' where it took a downward turn into mediocre) And 'Cowboy Bebop' was one of them.
Now I watched it over 15 years ago when it was on 'Adult Swim', and I liked it... Mad Pierrot episode aside (and I was praying he wasn't in the live-action show as well), but its movie is still a really big favorite and I watch it every Halloween. ^^
Sooooooooo, when Netflix announced a live-action Cowboy Bebop, and John Cho was playing Spike, I was intrigued.
"LIVE-ACTION MOVIES BASED ON ANIME ARE NEVER GOOD!" a voice only I can hear is ranting. And that's not absolute, there have been ups and downs when it comes to that. Me, my dad, and my brother still very much enjoy Scarlet Johansen in 'Ghost in the Shell'. I thought the live-action 'Full Metal Alchemist' movie was just... OK. And I really wish there's a sequel to the live-action 'Bleach' movie. Now I wasn't expecting a full-blown frame-by-frame reboot of this live-action 'Cowboy Bebop', but I gotta tell y'all, after seeing it... I dug it ^^
It has some issues, but it's more nitpicking than anything, and not really much I can pinpoint right away other than a 'live-action vs anime' kinda crap. John Cho was awesome as Spike, right down to the suit. Mustafa Shakir who played Jet was just a delight from start to finish, and he sounded just like his dubbed voice ^^ Faye wasn't sexualized like she was in the anime, but she was still hot in this, and I really liked Daniella Pineda as her. (And JUST learned at the time of this journal's entry that there was backlash over her, cuz of course there was) I really liked Vicious and Julia in this, since I can't remember squat about them in the anime. I liked that Julia became a player in her own right in this show.
Of course it has its detractors, and calling it 'a crime against anime', or whatever kinda crap the nerds wanna spew in their verbal diarrhea baby-rantings about 'MY CHILDHOOD IS RUINED!'
Sure it's not wholly deep in characterization exactly like in the anime, but we still get characterization. I doesn't have to delve in SO deep. Just get the point across. And that's what they did here, and I still loved the characters. But, I say give this a looksee. And me personally, I can't wait for a season 2 ^^ Still kinda on the fence on who they got to play Radical Ed, if I'm being honest.
So, that's my two cents, or two Woolongs ^^
Thanks for your time. ^^
The last episode was my big beef with it. It ended on a huge bummer, and I wasn't a fan of Julias payoff, but meh. Also Ed seems...problematic. Like, Ed was a weird girl but that was because she was eccentric, and MAYBE a bit autistic. They gave her a bad stereotypical accent, and her voice was off.
Either way, I'm stoked for season 2