Fist of the North Star LIVE ACTION

[DistantJ]

So there's a review of the awesome manga film on the site, but have any of you seen the live action movie? What a JOKE! It really is extremely bad. The fights are unintentional comedy genius and the dialogue is even better.

Got it was... Just really, really stupid!

[IzzyDedjet]

  :hatred:The fact that anything but enshrinement was done to this movie is a travesty, blasphemy and bordering on treason.
C'mon, as an anime, FOTN was perfection.  To make it real is actually a worse idea that The Guyver.  And we all know how bad THAT was

[daveblackeye15]

I like the Guyver since it was 'so bad it's good'. Plus I saw it first before the anime and so I go easy on it. But yes the life action FotNS is terrible. Though I liked the guy they got for Shin and the first action scene with Kenshiro was very much like the original souce in spirit. But after that they made it like a crappy kung fu movie.

[DistantJ]

http://www.hooplanet.co.uk/article.php?subaction=showfull&id=1176395101&archive=&start_from=&ucat=8&;

[Neville]

Saw it on DVD. My God, what a waste of B-movie talent.

[Dr. Whom]

I just caught this on DVD. What a riot! Thank God for the fast forward button, that's all I can say.

Just some random remarks

If ever there is an 'evil smirking competition', the guy playing Shin is sure to make the finals

Fighting techniques that look cool in animation, are plain silly in live action. The movie contains some of the least convincing fight scenes since Adam West hung up his costume

The comic relief is so irritating that even the director can take no more and kills him off after an hour

Malcolm MacDowell has been playing the same character since 1997

[WyreWizard]

I have only seen the anime rendition of Fist of the North Star.  I have seen very little of the live action flick.  The pic I have displayed shows a scene from the anime.  The animators of FOTNS really overdid it with this scene.  Something like this is not possible.  I mean, a Nuclear explosion impaling a building with a cargo ship?  That is beyond unrealistic.  Why?  For one, the ship would be shattered by the explosion before being propelled such a great distance.  For another, can you imagine the weight of that ship?  The building wasn't designed to support such weight.  So even if a ship by some unlikely chance were thrown into that building, it would collapse from the sheer weight of the ship and the compromise to its structure.  It would fall like a deck of cards.

[Torgo]

The god awful but so bad it's great live action Fist of the North Star makes a fantastic double bill with The Story of Ricky BTW.    

[DistantJ]

The pic I have displayed shows a scene from the anime.  The animators of FOTNS really overdid it with this scene.  Something like this is not possible.  I mean, a Nuclear explosion impaling a building with a cargo ship?  That is beyond unrealistic.  Why?  For one, the ship would be shattered by the explosion before being propelled such a great distance.  For another, can you imagine the weight of that ship?  The building wasn't designed to support such weight.  So even if a ship by some unlikely chance were thrown into that building, it would collapse from the sheer weight of the ship and the compromise to its structure.  It would fall like a deck of cards.

But a man punching people WOULD make their heads explode.

[KYGOTC]

I wonder if I can find a copy of this on Amazon or Netflix....

[Dr. Whom]

The pic I have displayed shows a scene from the anime.  The animators of FOTNS really overdid it with this scene.  Something like this is not possible.  I mean, a Nuclear explosion impaling a building with a cargo ship?  That is beyond unrealistic.  Why?  For one, the ship would be shattered by the explosion before being propelled such a great distance.  For another, can you imagine the weight of that ship?  The building wasn't designed to support such weight.  So even if a ship by some unlikely chance were thrown into that building, it would collapse from the sheer weight of the ship and the compromise to its structure.  It would fall like a deck of cards.

But a man punching people WOULD make their heads explode.

Not to mention blows with delayed action!

I'll have to check the DVD (but I am reluctant to ever take it out of the box again), but I think that somewhere in the opening scenes of devastation in the live action, there is a ship stuck in an improbable position.

[Bonehead-XL]

I think to call the original "Fist of the North Star" anime perfection might be a bit of an overstatement. I mean, its fun but also sort of, you know... Stupid.

As for the live action verison, I haven't seen it yet, but know I think I have to.

[MST3KFan]

What's really funny is how they have American/Cauasian actors in the live action movie playing Asian characters and even still have their ASIAN names. LOL Anime is one of those things that should not be made into live action. It's scary how Hollywood has thought of doing some in the past that have thankfully been stopped in development hell, yet there are others like this movie we're discussing that have been made. Ugh.

[Neville]

Well, I heard there's a "Dragon Ball" live action film in WIP. I wonder if yhe people who greenlit it knew about this one.

[Bonehead-XL]

Well, I heard there's a "Dragon Ball" live action film in WIP. I wonder if yhe people who greenlit it knew about this one.

Yep, James Wong, who also directed "The One" and co-wrote the "Final Destination" movies, is directing. James Marster, Spike from "Buffy," is starring.