Saw the live action version of GTO last night. Yawn! Quite a disappointment, at least to me anyway. For starters, the setting was in some hick town in the sticks instead of in Tokyo, and the whole atmosphere was more slapstick than edgy like the manga or the anime as it was played up as a dopey comedy. The only saving grace was Takashi Sorimachi as Onizuka who was every bit as thuggish and cartoonish and deceptively caring towards his students as the animation version. Otherwise, the movie wasn't all that great. It just didn't have that rough hewn spark that the manga or anime did. In the end, that was disappointed me most.