They should have gone with more of a Chris Pratt type.

The reason the fight choreography is so slow is because John Cho is 49 years old and blew his knee out on the first move. This was supposed to come out a year ago. Faye and Jet are fine though.

ed didn't come for a while in the original I think?
maybe they're doing a thing?

Ein is also missing from the trailer even though the dog was cast and they made a big deal about it.

It's probably a thing.

Ein was in the other trailer, the one that replicates the anime intro.

But Ed was not.

American productions can’t figure out how to put kids into an “adult” story other than mindless drama set pieces.

Ein is in this trailer...

Though now that I thought about it, Ed isn’t much of a person in the anime either.

Turns out the Kanno score wasn't very good.

GG No RE

Top ten bad anime adaption betrayals

C- cosplay troupe is the best description. They tried too hard to match it exactly and it just looks weird and uncanny valley as live action.

Like, just have spike wear a rumpled suit; having his lapels up like that in live action makes him look like a weird clown. You can't translate anime hair/clothing to live action literally without it looking absurd. This is not that hard.

Five for bad.

Their cartoon clothes look even weirder because the people around them don't seem to be that way.

It just looks so cheap and nasty, very rushed, and the "jokes", along with their timing and delivery, are almost perfectly emulating a ChannelAwesome sketch.

I half-expected it to end with Doug Walker popping up to say he hopes we enjoyed their Cowboy Bebop parody sketch, and to tune in for more wacky remake hijinks in the next episode of Demo Reel.

They got old and desperate for media..

As I said I’m just waiting for the soundtrack. Will pirate the show if reviews say it’s actually good.

ditto there's no way i'm watching this

From beyond the graAaAaave!

What are you even talking about all these are encoded with Dolby vision and meant to be displayed on television with OLED and HDR

Just get a nice TV

Do you drive a Mazda?

no

Yeah it's pretty obvious that this was made by people who had no clue what made the show so appealing. It's just below average cosplayers (along with the "quirky" manic pixie member who insisted on reimagining Faye as steampunk) rotely trying to recreate shots from the show.

I've seen amateur Youtube fan videos that do a better job. This just has an FX budget and that terrible Zack Snyder dark color filter. It's like they had such a poor understanding of film, that they think "noir" = dark = dark color filter.

In addition to making the protagonists stiff, they made the villains all wacky. Did anyone watch the show? It was the polar opposite. A big part of the appeal was seeing typical serious anime villains and how atypical, laid back yet light hearted heroes dealt with them.

This looks as awful as Netflix's Deathnote movie. It looks so bad, I had to go check if it was directed by Adam Wingard, the king of missing the entire point for adaptations and remakes (Deathnote, The Blair Witch).