The live-action Attack on Titan movie has a 47% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, as well as a 34% audience rating — and this is a far cry from the response to the anime. Attack on Titan‘s anime is a critical success, receiving numerous awards for its four-season run and even becoming the first anime to receive an Astra Award. Isayama’s story is considered a masterpiece, but the live-action movie doesn’t reflect that. Surprisingly, it does do one thing better than the Attack on Titan anime.
Attack On Titan Live-Action’s Titans Were Even Scarier Than The Anime’s
The Movie Really Drove Home The Horror Of The Titans
Although the live-action Attack on Titan movie doesn’t do the anime justice, it does surpass the original series in one big way: how it portrays the Titans. Bringing such creatures to live-action couldn’t have been easy, but the end result is much scarier than it is in the anime. The movie’s Titans look grotesque, which helps drive home the terror they elicit in the characters. Titans should be horrifying, and the live-action Attack on Titan succeeds at portraying them as such.
The animated Titans look far less disturbing, which takes away from the terror.
By contrast, the animated Titans look far less disturbing, which takes away from the terror. Attack on Titan fans often make jokes about the more comical-looking background Titans, as their grotesque features don’t come across as scary in the anime. And the Titans with major roles in the story, like the Colossal and Armored Titan, have features similar to the characters who turn into them. This humanizes them more than it should, and it makes viewers see them as less threatening — even if that’s not the case.
What Went Wrong With The Live-Action Attack On Titan Movies
The live-action Attack on Titan movies may get the horror of the Titans right, but their criticisms are otherwise earned. A lot went wrong with the live-action adaptations, starting with the fact that they watered down the amazing cast of characters from the anime. With the characters leaving no impression on the viewers, their deaths didn’t hit as hard in the live-action Attack on Titan. The films also made odd changes to the source material, like removing Levi Ackerman’s character for a similar leader named Shikishima.
All in all, the live-action Attack on Titan seemed more committed to giving audiences a spectacle rather than adapting the original story. This is baffling, as the manga and anime are among the most popular additions to their mediums. Combining the heart of the source material with the horror of the live-action films would undoubtedly have been a success. Unfortunately, the 2015 adaptation didn’t capture the former.
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