A big star has already played a live action Doraemon <https://youtu.be/fRX10oZzDUs>.
On Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 9:08:55 AM UTC-5, Luke Jaconetti wrote: > > Oh, I understand and I agree with you completely. The hype around Stand > By Me Doraemon has been crazy -- it's a major international release of a > massive multimedia property, no doubt. It is especially egregious when one > considers that the film itself is a reworking of some previous short > stories, so we KNOW that Doraemon won't be gone for good. > > It just made me laugh to imagine George Clooney -- Big, Important, > Hollywood Guy Who Really Cares And Is Actually Sort Of A Genius -- being > out drawn by cute little Doraemon. Just picturing the two of them together > brings a smile to my face. I can't explain it. > > It gets more bizarre if you consider the theme of Tomorrowland -- > technology and innovation to make a better future -- compared to one of the > themes of Doraemon -- that technology can't solve all of your problems for > you. > > Coming Soon: George Clooney as Nobita and Larry The Cable Guy as Doraemon! > *shudder* > > On Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 9:48:27 AM UTC-4, Scott D Hamilton wrote: >> >> Yeah, but that says a lot more about Doraemon than Tomorrowland in China. >> The hysteria over that Doraemon movie has been insane. It was basically >> promoted as the "end" of Doraemon, which seems a little unlikely for a >> multi-media character like that. In Japan the trailers promised that >> everyone who saw the movie would cry, and from what I can tell people >> generally felt like it lived up to the hype. And yet, from what I've read >> of the plot, the whole "end of Doraemon" is (spoilers!) a blatant fake-out. >> >> I wonder if the success of Doraemon in the last couple weeks in China is >> what moved the Chinese government to ban a bunch of manga and anime on >> Monday. The timing is probably not coincidental. >> >> On Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 12:12:23 PM UTC-5, Luke Jaconetti wrote: >>> >>> >>> http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-could-lose-140-million-801244 >>> >>> This part amuses me greatly for some reason: >>> >>> "China, ravenous for American event movies, has been a particularly >>> harsh blow. *Tomorrowland*bowed to $13.8 million there in early June, >>> getting trounced by the $38.3 million opening of the Japanese animated >>> title *Stand by Me Doraemon*." >>> >>> I don't know why, but the idea of Doraemon, Gadget Cat From The Future, >>> tripling up George Clooney had me grinning from ear to ear. >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
