The Big Picture: Americana

[brazuca]

And that shows culture does not belong to anyone. Yet remake is not the same thing as loosely based. All of them (remakes) to be named as such must respect the core idea that was the original. Hollywood gladly toss that with a load sum of cash will be avaible to do that. Hollywood is not pro or against any political side in the US (even thou they are more liberal then conservative), what they want is pure simple cash.

 

[Someonetookmyname]

Damn you Bob! Damn you and your japanese turtles!

Also.. it's the only giant robot ape thingy i've seen..

 

[AngryMongoose]

I think the obvious remake you're thinking of is Powerpuff Girls Z.

 

[littlerudi08107]

Oh Bob, you tease!

 

[-Dragmire-]

I watched a bit of that japanese spiderman(no subs, had only a vague idea of what was going on) and could not stop laughing. Spiderman deserves a giant robot, the closest he got to that from the show was that weird nanobot suit arc thing where the animal people were.

 

[TheSchaef]

We do good Americanizations as well, e.g. Insomnia.

When you cover the TMNT anime, I'd be interested to hear five seconds on how you found the 2007 CGI film done by Imagi. I found it to be sorely underrated for what it was, and had some outstanding visual design, but maybe your super-cinema eyeballs know something I don't.

And I guess Power Rangers is okay for the kiddies today, but I liked it better the first time when it was called Voltron.

Anyway, all this plus: great episode, plus: SAMURAI PIZZA CATS!

 

[TheLastTatlFan]

Bob, you missed a golden opportunity to use the Ninja Turtles theme as the closing credits there. I am disappoint.

On a more serious note, if anyone out there is intrigued by the notion that Spiderman inspired Sentai which inspired Power Rangers, I think it'd .be worth your time to give Sentai a shot. From what I've seen, it's more serious than Power Rangers, at least to the degree that the characters know to keep their mouths shut during the fight sequences.

Although be warned: you're going to have to settle for English-subtitled Japanese footage, not every series is going to be as good as the others (I've watched all of Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, for example, and loved nearly every second of it, but I've seen two episodes of it's successor Tensou Sentai Goseiger, and I don't really care to watch any more of that. I will when I get the chance just because there'll be a team-up movie with Shinkenger waiting for me near the end, but if I didn't know that I'd probably give up on it. Although I'm told the Sentai that comes after that, Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, is fantastic, even if you weren't a big Sentai fan.), and you might find yourself going to a lot of trouble to actually find the series' short of learning Japanese and ordering the DVDs and a player of the appropriate region from Japan.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

The most insane adaption of an American Icon?

Spoiler: Palestinian Mickey Mouse

I doesn't seam real to me either.

 

[LobsterFeng]

Wow, I feel bad because I didn't even know that most of this stuff existed.

 

[-Dragmire-]

THERE DOING A TIN TIN MOVIE?
my life as a six year old was all about tin tin.
and lady terminator sounds like a fun movie!

I remember tin-tin as well from the books that were like hard cover comics.

I think it had a cartoon show as well.

Has there been a reboot of Asterix & Obelix yet?

 

[Sylocat]

Why does Bob have to talk so fast in this one? Does The Escapist suddenly have huge time constraints on their videos?

 

[TheLastTatlFan]

Why does Bob have to talk so fast in this one? Does The Escapist suddenly have huge time constraints on their videos?

Maybe he's just enthusiastic about the subject matter?

 

[LadyRhian]

And don't forget the American Movie remake of the Puppet series by British marionette makers... "Thunderbirds".

 

[Furrama]

I... didn't hear marvelous things about the TMNT anime. But I get all my info from Marzgurl, so I'd love to hear Bob's take on the subject.

Here it is for those who are interested: http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/ir/marzgurl/reviews/12186-tnmt01

 

[dex-dex]

THERE DOING A TIN TIN MOVIE?
my life as a six year old was all about tin tin.
and lady terminator sounds like a fun movie!

I remember tin-tin as well from the books that were like hard cover comics.

I think it had a cartoon show as well.

Has there been a reboot of Asterix & Obelix yet?

I never watched Asterix&Obleix as a kid but there was a movie done in 2002 other than that no.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

THERE DOING A TIN TIN MOVIE?
my life as a six year old was all about tin tin.
and lady terminator sounds like a fun movie!

I remember tin-tin as well from the books that were like hard cover comics.

I think it had a cartoon show as well.

Has there been a reboot of Asterix & Obelix yet?

There were some pretty bad live-action movies...

 

[skullduggery]

You could toss in how 'The Departed' is a remake of the Hong Kong movie 'Infernal Affairs.' 'Edge of Darkness' as well. Or how 'Seven Samurai' has been redone a couple of times.

I've heard during my adventures in the bowels of the internet that they're doing a movie adaptation of the French comic Asterix.

And of course the American remake of the classic British drama "Room with a view and a staircase and a pond," which Americans call "Room with a view of hell!:Staircase of Satan, pond of Death!"

 

[Avistew]

Fun fact: the place the Smurfs live in is called "Le Pays Maudit" (the Cursed Country/Land), and is incredibly hard to get to by foot (Johan and Pirlouit do in one album because they have no choice, but when the Smurfs are first introduced, they (Johan and Pirlouit) teleport there magically).

It's interesting to think that I never really thought of it as 'nationally neutral', although I guess it is. Considering Johan and Pirlouit live in middle-age Pays d'Oïl, which is now Northern France as well as, for instance, Belgium, and that they go to the Cursed Land without crossing an ocean, one could think it's located in Europe. This being said, since they go through, in order, a forest, a marsh, a desert and a snowy mountain range, one could think it's not geographically accurate. On top of that, there is reason to believe that the desert they crossed became an ocean/sea. So I don't know, I guess you're right, it's never been located very specifically.

Er, anyways. It was an interesting video. I seem to remember a "Little Women" anime too from when I was a kid, as well as a Tom Sawyer one. And as for foreign stuff being remade in the US, while it seems stupid when the original is already in English, it does make stuff better-known internationally. Hell, I know people who think of Les Misérables as a musical, not a novel, and I'd think Hugo would be one of the more famous authors internationally to begin with.

EDIT:

Has there been a reboot of Asterix & Obelix yet?

The books are still being published, but I like to pretend they died when Goscinny did. Other than that, there has been a bunch of movies, animated ones and more recently live action, but they were all French as far as I know.
The Tintin movie isn't the first one either, by the way, although it seems to be the first one that isn't an original story.