I know I said number five was my final one but there is still some scum out on the streets, this is one of the ones that has surface, well it's about to feel the wrath of my merchette called a rant. This is part six of my pushed too far series. This isn't so much a rant by more of my two cents on this new matter that has came up. On a sidenote I want to state I'm not a fan of the franchise (or at least a hardcore one) though I do really like the first Dragon Ball, second one Z is good not a great sequel in my opinon as people keep making it out to be, GT sucks though.

Yeah, I and tons of other people have heard about the new animation live action adaption comeing out called "Dragon Ball" . And like lots of people I feel both optimism and sceptism over it mostly the second thing. And they have a right to fear due to certain photoshots I saw of the film which seem to be more of a modern setting then a fantasy setting. The fact that it's in a modern setting disapoints me a bit, I thought this film would of been made like "Sin City" where they would use green screen background animation to create that fantasy world I know of. And that some characters don't look right, I'm not so much worried about looks but more on performance and content of the script if they will stay true to the spirit. Though on the plus side the actresses playing Bulma (Emily Roseum) and Chi-Chi (Jamie Chung) actually look like both the characters in the anime/manga in my opinion anyway, hope their performance matches.

But my feelings about anime/animation being made into live action are always a mixed feeling it really a matter of the final result which can either be good or bad. Adapting something weither it's a comic book, video game, anime/animation I feel is always a difficult process because it has to abide by two principles 1. Be accurate sylewise in creating the fantasy world and the effects with it. 2. But true in it's spirt from the source it is derived from in both content and characterization. But there are a lot of bad ones because they don't abide by both of these things, and I wouldn't even call them movies more like crimes against not just to the source material but movies in general.

One example of a bad adaption would be "House of the Dead" based on one of my favorate video game franshises from SEGA. Oh how I hate hate this movie, I can't tell you how bad it is, anyone that has told you it's bad is not kidding it's BAD! The effects, cinamatography, direction, screenplay, acting, fight choigraphy. It felt like the person that made that film didn't know how to make a movie, I mean even low budget amachure films I've seen or purchased online were better than this. I remember watching thinking I'd rather be playing one of the games in the franchise right now then watch this crap, which is what I should of done in the first place. Uwe Boll don't you dare think about adapting a " Mega Man" or "Pritty Soilder Sailor Moon" film you leave those franshises alone.

There is such a thing as good live action movie adaptions because they abided by two of the principles I've stated and the results are supprising good because it was all thanks to good direction, script writing, acting as well as the FX and budget to support it. And it just all felt right. "Transformers" and "Speed Racer" are good animation/anime to movie adaption because they have everything I said, just watch them and you will find out; I'm a fan of both these franchises and I'll just say I wasn't disapointed, I waited most of my live for silver screen adaption and my wait paid off.

I can only hope I can say the same with many more to come (Ghost in the Shell, Macross, Blood, Akira etc.). as I said it's all depends on the final result. Well I've said enough, will the Dragon Ball film be awdsome or suck well we'll just have to wait and see, personally I'm looking forward more to the new "Transformers" Sequel coming up, really liked the first film hope the sequel is even better and meet my expectations. But then again isn't that what we all hope in every anime/animation/comic book to live action adaption.

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Ok, I'll make this short and sweet as possible, this is part five of my "Pushed too far" rant series. You know there are a lot of different kinds of people I have a problem with in this world, and Graphic Sell Outs are one of them; uggh these guys are worse than fanboys.

Nothing is every good enough for them their just so spoiled to the point where it's not even funny, what these guys do is take a bunch of cheepshots at either games that are old or current. Their always saying the grass doesn't look real enough, or the pikels on the water are too blocky, or this characters elbow looks like a block. Just a lot of pointless useless complaints it can be as annoying as listening to some bully make some ridiculous judgements that you look bad in some way.

Now I'm ranting on this topic because these guys have targeted the recent "Mega Man 9" game saying that it sucks because it's old or the graphics look terrible now, or it's too hard. Good grief, how dare these guys pick on my favorate video game franchise of them all which has gone on as long as the James Bond movie franchise. Their arguements aren't even valid they can't back up their claim that the game is bad, no soild proof no nothing.

Here is a truth about my feelings about graphics, to me graphics are like FXs in a movie their a reenforcement device to support the gameplay as FXs support the content of a movie. Sometimes I've played video games that have good if not spectacualar graphics but were great due to game play and level design. I"m glad that Mega Man 9 went back to basics, when I played that game again it felt really good because it just had the noltalgic feel to me of a decade long gone, I played Mega Man when I was about 8, so everything about that game felt right for me. Even the difficulty which I don't mind if you complain the game is too hard all I can say to you is tough, I grew up playing games like this I love a chalange and just like in sports there is such a thing as practice, it was my skill that was going to win and thats a great feeling I don't get often. On a sidenote I could actually get though the Mega Man games without dieing once (or a least not many times like before) so for any rookies that can't handle the Mega Man games I give this old saying to you, if you can't stand the heat stay out of the kicten.

Sometimes games with the best graphics don't always equal a great game, they can have great graphics but lousy gameplay. It's like with movies that might have a big budget and some of the best speical effects in the world, just because they have these two essentials backing them up doesn't equal a good or great movie if you don't have good/great direction, acting, and screenplay. A prime example of bad movies that have this fundemental problem would be those reprehenable Uwe Boll movies, may the good lord forbid that he ever makes a "Metal Gear Solid", "Splaterhouse", or "Cowboy Bebop" film.

So any thoughts please contrubute, other than that this is my final rant hopefully but if any other matter pops up that pushes me too far beware of me, I'll hunt you down like Jason Vohees. Well that's all I have to say, so just say no to Graphic Sell Outs, and when I play a video game I want to have fun I don't play it to just look at pritty colors.

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This is part four of my pushed to far series, now this isn't exactly a rant but just a more or less friendly opinion on the matter. Well this was an issue that came up from a couple of comentators I sometimes listen to on Youtube "Lotusama" and "Big Al" my personal favorates and I'm going to have to disagree on their subject on Anime Declining. I don't feel it's declining but it just might be going a little on the wrong track is all, I do and understand some of their critisms they are vaild points. The reason I feel the anime genere might be on the wrong track right now are three things.

1. Lack of Varity and Diversity: Cartoon Network is a guilty culprit of this, don't get me wrong I like this channel but not as much as I use to, because one of the reason is the fact that they show too much anime based on Shonnen manga Naruto, Bleach, and DBZ and that Inuasha. Shonnen I think is good form but it's not great sure there is a few I like and some you can guess I don't like Bleach and Naruto like Inuasha I find them overlong and overrated. Plus they show them about two to five episodes of one or the other show on a Saturday, while for two of the only new and unique show's like Code Geass and Deathnote there is only one. Man that doesn't sound fair, I don't want to see Shonnen all the time at least not Naruto all the time, I mean this is called Cartoon Network not Naruto network, these guys just aren't trying anymore nor are they attempting ATEMPTING to give us varity. I would love to see more new/current animes I never seen or seen much of like "One Piece" I know what I said about it in an early blog I wrote but that's because I say that awful 4 Kids version, but I'm taking it back cause I saw the uncut version is awsome and isn't kids stuff, CN bring it back now and better yet show "Planetes", "Moonlight Mile" and "Princess Tutu" okay that one's a long shot but you get where I'm going with this. Or some oldies (all uncut) like "Armored Trooper Votoms", "Macross", "Sailor Moon", "Ronin Warriors", "Massion Ikkoku" and others out there waiting to be discovered or discovered again.

2. Cleches done to death: There are too many animes that seem to utilzes certain eliments one time too many like fanservice, mecha, super powered fights, card battles, you name it. When will they learn we need something new, don't get me wrong I don't mind these things but their getting old.

3. Fanbase or even anti-anime critisizers: This is where I have my biggest problem, there are so many of these guys that take there love or hate for the genere just way way too far. This can be said for fanboys of not just anime but anything else in general like concle systems or may'be a certain movie. Fanboys or anti-anime critisizers try to make one opinon of something their whole world it's not even funny their just so narrow minded. It also causes anti social behavor, I know when someone keeps saying I'm stupid or any other dispickable word for loving Sailor Moon or Macross and not some other show that puts me off (that actually happened to me a few times). It's ridiculous and offensive it's almost worse than racism. I think off anime, movies, video games and concles or any other form of entertainment like food there is more than one kind that I like or love to eat as long as their good all the same.

Despite these things, I have faith in anime like with any genere these things I sincerely hope will pass and get on good graces again. Before I close I would like to say that there truly are plenty of good/great anime out there but you have to look, it's out their seek it out but remember to be vigilant and open minded in your search.

So if you have something to say to this comment please post or even to the sources I was inspired to make this go to Youtube and comment to them. Stay tuned for a couple of possitive articles I'll make. End of Line.