Someone smite these people...

Alright, so it's that time again. Time for me to complain. This segment is called "The Live Action De-Evolution". Why? Because Hollywood won't leave my fandom alone.
First, I'd like to start by blaming this whole thing on the damn Transformers movie and the people who hyped it way more then it deserved. You all fail and it's your fault. With that out of the way I shall now complain about what it really bothering me.
Akira. DiCaprio, get your damn hands off! This movie already sounds ridiculous and it's only in the planning stages. Not to mention I already have 3 strikes against it.
1- DiCaprio is involved. 'Nough Said. Damn bastard.
2- New Manhattan? Don't fuck with the setting. Setting fucking just leads to character fucking. (And not in a good way).
3 - The announced cast already pisses me off. DiCaprio is getting all his friends in but the thing is most of them have a defined character to their name already and when you think of said character you immediately think they should be killed by Akira rather then star in a film with him.
Oh and now, according to the newest announcements, it's going to be a two parter. That's right, they're going to make it into two movies. Three volumes of the manga for each movie. Ridiculous.
Next on the list is Speed Racer. What the fuck. The CGI is just pathetic. Another classic butchered by Hollywood and their money grubbing hands. Not to mention that the cast looks just ridiculous. Sure there's only so much you can do to make people look like cartoon counterparts but damn they didn't even try to find a balance between Real and Cartoon. They killed it. They really did.
Then there's the Robotech rumor. Apparently Tobey Maguire was going to get his grubby paws on the project but because there was no way to use Macross material the plot was a flop so they quit the project. If they quit, great! Good for you Tobey. Let the idea die. Thank you. If they didn't quit and are still working on a way to make it work, shame on you all. You fail.
As always I'm still unimpressed with the idea of a Dragonball live action but the cast isn't horrible, the crew seems alright, but the story just seems stale. They'll probably try and make it flashy and exciting which will just over shadow and semblance of plot and make the whole move one big mess. Still, it's better then the abomination that is the Akira movies.
And now the newest live-actions in the mill: Seven Samurai and Battle Angel.
With Ra as my witness I swear I'll use my Death Note to beat anyone involved with this if they mess up Seven Samurai. It's a very new project with almost no information availible at this time but the original was a classic live action from 1954. It's also already had one make over (The Magnificent Seven) so it's no shock that they'd want to try again. However if they try to "spice it up" for a new generation someone is getting severly beat.
As for Battle Angel I don't really know anything about it to begin with but apparently it's violent and futuristic. Which leads me to thing Akira with a girl. Again it's so new that there's little availible to make a judgement call but the idea is out there so it's part of my annoyance. We'll see what happens with it.

Thus concludes my rant. But I'm sure it won't be my last.