OT: My movie for next year.

[shinigami]

Pretty much the only place to find anime, as of late, is Cartoon Network. It's been in the rumor mill for years that CN was going to start an all anime channel but nothing has come of it.

I can see two major obstacles to making live-action anime movies (assuming English language.) First, anime tends to get dumbed-down when it is dubbed into English, imagine how bad that would be in order to sell to a more mainstream audience. Second, anime stories tend to be very long, you're going to lose a lot of content in a two hour movie.

Having said all that, there is a Japanese language Prince of Tennis live-action movie which was actually pretty good!

[Randallw]

On the topic of Starblazers. I saw the first 2 series when I was really young, maybe 10 or so, and liked it. Years later they brought it back and I started watching it, but for some reason they had the first epiosde and then stopped again. Last year I found the DVD sets and watched it again but as I had grown up I could see it didn't fit my childlike fascination with it. The animation was much worse than I had idealistically thought, and it had been dumbed down somewhat for the western market, a facet I hadn't realised the first time. Characters get killed but the dubbing merely says "oh he was hurt but he'll make a full recovery" and then you never see him again. The Gamellon soldiers get reduced to Robots just so no "real" people are being killed.