Netflix's Cowboy Bebop wouldn't be bad, but the main problem that it had is that it's not Cowboy Bebop. Mustafa Shakir and John Cho nailed Jet and Spike, respectively, but Daniella Pineda wasn't Faye Valentine. She's someone who vaguely resembled Faye, which is less Pineda's fault and more a writing problem. Any TV show can have a subpar performance from one of the actors and still be good, but poor writing or direction will sink a show every single time.
I agree that the key is good writing, but I wasn't that invested in Faye Valentine's character, so that didn't bother me. And she might have gotten more nuanced in season 2, if that had happened. But Cho and Shakir were perfect, along with a lot of the minor characters (Vicious was good). Above all the tone and style of the whole thing really caught what made the anime so good - the way the heroes keep losing, and squabbling, and forging on. The fight choreography was brilliant, and the humor was pitch-perfect. And they kept the Yoko Kanno score. I was really looking forward to what they would do with Ein.
Remakes, like adaptations of books, require that you let go of some things and stick hard to others. It's tricky to identify which things are non-negotiable, and which things can easily be shifted around.
Regarding Scott Pilgrim: It's very unique and 100% made to appeal to a certain demographic -- video game / anime / manga nerds. Especially video game nerds. It tells the story in the same way a video game tells a story, and understanding a lot of the humor involved requires a certain baseline knowledge of video games. The movie is chock full of references to The Legend of Zelda series, including directly ripping off the music, but I also see a lot of shout-outs to fighting games and rhythm games in it, too.
If you've never seen it before, the movie actually starts off like a pretty typical rom-com, albeit one with a unique comic book visual style, but then goes off the rails hard. There is plenty of foreshadowing that this will happen, but it will leave a lot of viewers with whiplash.
In short, I enjoy the movie a lot, to the point where it's my favorite, but I'm also the target audience for it and would understand why others wouldn't enjoy it as much.
Any other AG in the country with Paxton's history would have been removed from office a long time ago. As it stands, he's probably going to be reelected. Felony indictments at all. Sad to say, he isn't even the worst Republican in office in Texas.
There's a couple of Mexican state Attorney Generals (Procurador or Fiscal General) being investigated, and some in court, and at least one in prison down here now. What's one more, even if he is a gringo?
Netflix's Cowboy Bebop wouldn't be bad, but the main problem that it had is that it's not Cowboy Bebop. Mustafa Shakir and John Cho nailed Jet and Spike, respectively, but Daniella Pineda wasn't Faye Valentine. She's someone who vaguely resembled Faye, which is less Pineda's fault and more a writing problem. Any TV show can have a subpar performance from one of the actors and still be good, but poor writing or direction will sink a show every single time.
This assumes the existence of honest repugs in TX, the existence of which is by no means empirically proven.
Sadly. :(
I agree that the key is good writing, but I wasn't that invested in Faye Valentine's character, so that didn't bother me. And she might have gotten more nuanced in season 2, if that had happened. But Cho and Shakir were perfect, along with a lot of the minor characters (Vicious was good). Above all the tone and style of the whole thing really caught what made the anime so good - the way the heroes keep losing, and squabbling, and forging on. The fight choreography was brilliant, and the humor was pitch-perfect. And they kept the Yoko Kanno score. I was really looking forward to what they would do with Ein.
Remakes, like adaptations of books, require that you let go of some things and stick hard to others. It's tricky to identify which things are non-negotiable, and which things can easily be shifted around.
He can hide out in Cancun with Cruz.
Regarding Scott Pilgrim: It's very unique and 100% made to appeal to a certain demographic -- video game / anime / manga nerds. Especially video game nerds. It tells the story in the same way a video game tells a story, and understanding a lot of the humor involved requires a certain baseline knowledge of video games. The movie is chock full of references to The Legend of Zelda series, including directly ripping off the music, but I also see a lot of shout-outs to fighting games and rhythm games in it, too.
If you've never seen it before, the movie actually starts off like a pretty typical rom-com, albeit one with a unique comic book visual style, but then goes off the rails hard. There is plenty of foreshadowing that this will happen, but it will leave a lot of viewers with whiplash.
In short, I enjoy the movie a lot, to the point where it's my favorite, but I'm also the target audience for it and would understand why others wouldn't enjoy it as much.
Honest Republicans are rarer than unicorns.
Any other AG in the country with Paxton's history would have been removed from office a long time ago. As it stands, he's probably going to be reelected. Felony indictments at all. Sad to say, he isn't even the worst Republican in office in Texas.
There's a couple of Mexican state Attorney Generals (Procurador or Fiscal General) being investigated, and some in court, and at least one in prison down here now. What's one more, even if he is a gringo?
I would event let someone someone like that use the stall next to me.
I'm willing to meet a girl in texass and try to set a presitent.
Hey. I'm very respectful of women....oh that is right I am a pig. BUT NOT THAT KINDA pig.
Die.
Paxton's lawyers lied to Pittman, which means little.
Don't hate it. It is strange.
Paxton's lawyers lied to Pittman. It's right there in the article.