Nooo! Why Did They Make This Movie?

[Leggy]

Detective Pikachu? Live action Pokemon?

Ohhhh Nooo, say it ain't so!

Why did they make this movie?

 

[Keitaro Urashima]

Sword Art Online release on Netflix. I don't know when? Its a live-action TV series.

 

[Gaul342]

What did i just watch there???

A talking pikachu!

Jokes aside, i`m not sure about this about this.

SOA as live-action fits still a bit better i think.

 

[dnmnbg1]

that pikachu movie just didnt xcite me why i didnt go see it

 

[saithan]

they've run out of ideas to make money, but it's typical hollywood to try to press good things for more money. dishney and hollywood are passé.

 

[orgas]

Wait what's so bad about it? It's not even Pokemon but an alternative take on it.

 

[sim123321]

Live action movies from comics and anime never work. They are always cringe worthy or horrible, most of the time they are both. Don't believe me, watch the trailer for prison school after watching the series. The only one I can think of that was not super bad was You lie in April, ok that was bad also.
Hollywood has been destroying comics and books for as long as I can remember.

 

[Leggy]

Finally watched this movie on HBO.

Well... that's 2 hours of my life I'll never get back again...

 

[Bleu Moebius]

Pokémon is content that can make a lot of money. However, live-action movies are not popular in most cases. Sonic live-action movie had a good first week, but we've reworked it before its release, so we don't know the final revenue yet.

 

[sim123321]

Well you never know what will be popular. I have never been a fan of live action after the comic/anime. In the states they have ruined almost everything they touch comic wise. That being said sometimes, something goes against the grain and is really good. I started watching Chihayafuru and can't get enough for some reason, even searched to find the 3 movies they made about it and loved them also. Maybe it was the actress, I loved her in You Lie also. But they seemed like real stories being told and not some rip off trying to make money with bad acting and everything else.

 

[Bleu Moebius]

As you say, "Chihayafuru" had a very good and realistic description. I think that's because the original content is drawn in such a way, and if such a content is made into a live-action movie, it is unlikely that there will be a divergence between making it with the audience. I also feel that the degree to which actresses and actors (or managers such as producers) understand the content that they are involved in has a significant effect. "Chihayafuru" seems to satisfy one or both of these.
On the other hand, non-realistic content, such as Pokémon, is likely to deviate from the characters held by the user when it is made into a live-action movie.

 

[sim123321]

The Walking Dead is probably the western version of what you are talking about. If done right it can be awesome and disappointing at the same time. The comic was great story wise and pretty hardcore; rape, murder, betrayal and so on. Not a kids comic by any means, they went off the rails following the story as it was written when they made it into a tv series. I can't blame them though, since half of the stuff in the comic would never be allowed on western tv.
But done right it can be a huge money maker like they did, while not sucking the air out of the fans who loved the original comic in the first place. I can't compare anything anime wise, since I can speak very little Japanese and can read nothing in Japanese.