UGH! Kristen stewart offered "Akira"

[Harvey]

I liked her in Adventureland. I don't see where the outrage is coming from (at least, over her particular casting).

 

[Talosian]

The problem is that she's not a good or bad actor. She's simply not an actor at all.

But then, it's just as well that a non-actor from young adult dramatizations should be considered for an anime movie.

 

[Nerys Myk]

What is an "actor"? She's in films playing people other than herself and speaking words from a screenplay. Seems to me thats being an actor. "Young adult dramatizations"???? You mean a book adapted as a film? Yeah, then I guess LOTR is a "dramatization" too.

 

[Lapis Exilis]

She no longer has any range, and whatever talent she had is simply ... gone. Quite sad, really.

Plainly you've never seen The Yellow Handkerchief, in which she holds her own against acting lightweights like, oh, William Hurt.

... which came out nearly a year (10 months) before Twilight. Which is what I said, if you'll recall. Pre-Twilight = good. Post-Twilight = teh suck.

Ah, I see your logic now - that in 10 months she randomly went from a promising young actress to an awful hack. A much more reasonable conclusion than her performances being limited by the material. You know William Hurt's portrayal in Yellow Handkerchief was fantastic and his portrayal in The Incredible Hulk was sucky - the same thing must have happened to him! Maybe there's a virus going around Hollywood sets, stealing people's ability to act!

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I saw that article yesterday and thought about posting it, but since I don't actually care about Akira, I thought it might be an overly bitchy thing to do, just to get everyone riled up. Kristen Stewart brings in that all-important Twi-hard audience, dontchaknow.

It makes sense business wise in terms of presenting it to a North American market

I'm sure they're hoping for the usual global box office success, which is considered standard nowadays. But this movie can perform strongly globally without being all-Asian or even without having any Asian actors (tho I wouldn't be surprised if there were a couple nonwhite actors in the extended cast, just for form's sake.)

I don't know why people expect a Hollywood blockbuster with an all-Asian, or necessarily even any-Asian cast. Hollywood blockbusters make money just fine with a buncha whiteys, and they make money in Asia, too. Just look at the figures for that honkies-vs-robots extravaganza, Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon:

China - $145M
South Korea - $69M
Japan - $54M
Taiwan - $38M
Malaysia - $11M
Hong Kong - $11M
Philippines - $10M
Singapore - $9M
Indonesia - $7M

That's a total of $354M for the Asia-Pacific region, which is about the same as the domestic US box office figure. Maybe that was Ken Jeong's influence.

 

[OmahaStar]

Plainly you've never seen The Yellow Handkerchief, in which she holds her own against acting lightweights like, oh, William Hurt.

... which came out nearly a year (10 months) before Twilight. Which is what I said, if you'll recall. Pre-Twilight = good. Post-Twilight = teh suck.

Ah, I see your logic now - that in 10 months she randomly went from a promising young actress to an awful hack. A much more reasonable conclusion than her performances being limited by the material. You know William Hurt's portrayal in Yellow Handkerchief was fantastic and his portrayal in The Incredible Hulk was sucky - the same thing must have happened to him! Maybe there's a virus going around Hollywood sets, stealing people's ability to act!

Naw. Billy got better again. Krissy didn't.

 

[The Realist]

I don't really have a dog in this fight, but I'm just fascinated by the amount of vitriol Twilight inspires. I mean, most vampire movies/ books are trash and many have been wildly popular before this one. What is it about Twilight that gets people foaming at the mouth?

Because its primary fanbase is young girls, whose interests and enthusiasms are easy targets for scorn -- though I would question whether members of any genre fandom have much business casting stones.

Personally, I figure the Akira movie for crap, like every other Hollywood adaptation of manga/anime properties. But I also figure Stewart will be one of the better things about it.

And if nothing else, she's purty.

 

[davejames]

I liked her in Adventureland. I don't see where the outrage is coming from (at least, over her particular casting).

Agreed. The sweet and vulnerable girl she played in that movie couldn't have been further from the character she plays in Twilight. People can scoff all they want, but I suspect she'll be making movies for quite awhile.

 

[Davros]

What exactly has she been in other than Twilight?

Zathura

 

[Set Harth]

Well, there's a good chance she'll be crushed to death by an expanding Tetsuo, so there's that.

That's a gutsy role.

* rim shot *

 

[Sindatur]

I don't really have a dog in this fight, but I'm just fascinated by the amount of vitriol Twilight inspires. I mean, most vampire movies/ books are trash and many have been wildly popular before this one. What is it about Twilight that gets people foaming at the mouth?

Because its primary fanbase is young girls, whose interests and enthusiasms are easy targets for scorn -- though I would question whether members of any genre fandom have much business casting stones.

Hmmm....This could also describe My Little Pony, which many of our esteemed board members are fans of, judging by the number of Brony Avatars that pop up.

 

[Distorted Humor]

Stewart can act, Her in the twilight movies is like Tom Hanks in "The Da vinci code" the charicter has zero range, and a actor can only take it so far. She can act if she given any meat the role. She just pining for the fjords, ok, mr. sparkles in this movie.

 

[Guartho]

I've got nothing against her. Poor woman has to star in Twilight to pay the pills?

Are you insinuating that she accepted the Twilight role in order to finance a drug addiction?

 

[Whofan]

To answer Dennis's question, Akira is a late 80's Japanese "anime" movie based on a manga (Japanese comic). It's also very "Cyberpunk" (Which a lot of anime from this period was). It was one of the main 'gateway' animes for fans in the 80s/90s. So it's kind of a cult classic.
It's a lot better animated than a great deal of anime, even theatrical productions like Studio Ghibli. That's mainly because they lip-synched the dialogue to the animation, something usually skipped in anime.
The Star Trek Akira-class starships first seen in First Contact are apparentally named after the movie; either that or Japanese director Kurosawa. Akira has also influenced stuff like music videos, video games, movies like The Matrix and of course other anime. Despite the failures of other anime adaptations such as Speed Racer and Dragonball, an Akira live-action movie has been developed for a while now.