Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-8284722-20141202185718/@comment-17623-20141208015525

In casual use of the word in regards to media, something that is schizophrenic is when the tone, topic, mood, scenario, what have you jumps from one thing to another without giving the audience a chance to understand or care.

In terms of your film ideas, they become disorienting when one tries to do the mental gymnastics in how this movie will actually flow. The movie starts and Naruto is home then all of a sudden there's a crisis in Suna and they need to go there, then everything shifts completely to introducing Sai and Sasuke arc, but just as we are starting to care about that, that issue gets resolved and now we have to care about Team Asuma vs Hidan and Kakuzu, then all of a sudden Sasuke is gather Taka and I could go on but really. Unless you planned to make this movie 5 hours long, there are just far to many plot points in it to make any kind of sense.

You'd literally be better off making the entire film a build up to Akatsuki attacking Konoha with Deidara and Sasori appearing early, spend the middle of the film actually getting us to care about the rest of the Konoha 11, end the film with the actual invasion and figuring out a fun way to get all the characters involved, and then end the film with Danzo becoming Hokage. The B Plot could be Sasuke's building of Taka.

I also didn't get into your characterizations and for that I apologize.

Tobi: I would say this is a terrible idea. The fun thing about Tobi was the whole "Not knowing he's evil until all of a sudden 'Wow he's pretty evil'". But the surprise is long dead. But still, seems like an awesome way to make a interesting character boring as holy hell.

Konan: Not much of a change there actually. Unless you want to make her more boring.

Zetsu: So you mean absolutely no change then?

Sai: That would be fine for a visual medium such as a film.

Yamato: Yamato is already a boring character, mainly because he's so underused. Your idea of fixing this is to make him even more boring. (Part of the fun of Yamato's character is that he was sort of out there, not above using fear and intimidation, can be quite easily provoked by things and the like. Turning him into another Sai, when you already have Sai will just make the character boring.

Mirai: Before we knew her name, Asuna would have been fine, if very assholish to do (No need for an SAO reference in Naruto. The two series have far to little in common). However now that we know her name, changing would just be weird and unnecessary.

Taka: Not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, actually developing them to be more than Sasuke's second team is good. On the other hand, changing their characters to just be mirrors of Team Kakashi is almost pointless, when Team Kakashi already exists. Except for the Karin one, I'm pretty sure it was intended but that just screams "Hilarious Fanboyism". I could just be reading the post wrong but I'm TheUltimate3 so I highly doubt that.

Ma and Pa: They were both pretty Yoda-ish, but I'm not sure why you would make Ma cranky. She was such a nice old toad in the series, making her the one the audience will not like just seems to be poor taste.

Minato's Voice: I'm pretty sure you're just being silly with that one.

Overall, like I said, just from this post your biggest problem would be the schizophrenic nature of your plot. It's going way to many places with very very little to actually link them, making the whole thing as a whole look like a jumbled mess. The character changes, while I find many of them questionable, can 'work' but if the film is a mess then the efforts are wasted.

And I'm criticizing you about the fanwank because your audience will also criticize you over the fanwank. When a work is made into a separate media film, that is already a major red flag to people. Wholesale changing plot points, characters, and whatnot because you would prefer them to act or be this way leaves you looking like Uwe Boll. And nobody wants to go Uwe Boll.

EDIT: Touched a nerve with Sea of Monsters I see? The amusing thing is, Sea of Monsters was liberties with the source material that went far enough that it actually worked. That being the key thing. They kept the aforementioned "Sea of Monsters", and the plot token of Grover being lost there, but they made the right amounts of edits to it to 1) Somewhat redeem the disaster that was The Lightning Thief without rectonning it out of existence, and 2) making a film that on it's own was a pretty good film and distinctly set itself apart from the source material in a way that would allow them to function on their own.

In the flipside, based on this brief summary, your films plan to do no such thing. As I stated earlier, this one will try and remain as faithful to the manga as it possibly could, but in doing so would leave the plot in such a mess that I cannot see how it will work in any fashion other than just making a super long as hell movie. Which is also bad because nobody wants to sit and watch a 3+ hour movie.