Dragon Ball Garbage!!!
OK I'm not sure if you guys have seen this yet, I came across this trailer and all I have to say is WTF have they done to dragon ball? seriously!! this movie looks like its going be so bad, piccolo in a leather jacket with a samurai sword???
just wondering what you guys thought about this
just wondering what you guys thought about this
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TO BE CONTINUED IN DRAGONBALL 2
Somewhere in that amazing plot, Krillin should throw those 2 discs and miss, only to destroy a mountain behind his target.
Will someone please think of the children?! seriously, THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
definitely gona check it out regardless of how bad it seems.
Now when looking at the trailer for this movie, just ask one question. Is Piccolo green?
If the answer is no, then the studio in charge of this film deserves to be fired. If you can't manage to get a detail as obvious as that, then you automatically fail.
-- Pause to watch the trailer myself --
Hmmmm...they are making him green! I was really worried there. It's going to be bad, that is quite clear. But I'm not sure it will be quite as bad as Mario Bros. Mario Bros. was REALLY bad. We've got Piccolo, and he's green. We've got Dragonballs, although we have yet to see whether they are going to be collected, and whether or not a summoned dragon will be involved. It looks like there is going to be a shape-shifter of sorts, which will probably be a bastardization of Puar or Oolong. Bulma and Goku are both disappointing, but not unexpected. Typical marketing-department handling of the characters. The effects at least look like they will be decent.
It's pretty sad when I'm just hoping that it doesn't descend to the same depths as Mario Bros.
Super muscled,squat, oversized heads and more oversized hair. Fugliest anime ever seen.
/back to lurking
in summation - hot garbage, but not as bad as people are crying
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0938283/
WTF is Goku a white highschool boy? Ugh...
Seriously, they can't find one young Asian actor in Hollywood that can learn fake martial arts for a B rate anime movie?
*refrains from rant on "Americanizing" anime for the lowest common denominator*
I think Piccolo will actually be pretty good in this movie. Probably the one redeeming factor.
Listen to this man. Get yourself a good supply of alcohol, a couple of good mates and put the original Dragonball movie on. So bad that it's very, very good.
My biggest surprise was that there's still interest in the franchise, I thought the Dragonball craze died a couple of years ago.
However I think it's funny to hear so much DBZ hate, since this is Dragon Ball (no Z!!) we are talking about here! Vig, try to catch a few episodes of the original series, when goku is a kid. Really good stuff. Just caught an OAV of it on TV this morning, that was hilarious!
Yeah, and then in dragonball 2, you need to spend 45 minutes reviewing what happened in dragon ball 1.
Though I think the lack of commercial breaks ruins this wonderful dramatic recap... especially when you need to review what happened before the commercial break for that 30 seconds of new stuff that happens before the next break.
Ah yes...that's true. Dragonball was much more lighthearted and humorous in its tone. From the word go it was obvious that the Dragonball series didn't take itself seriously, and didn't expect you to either. Way less angst, way less "drama." Lots and lots of crude, lowbrow comedy. Good times.
It's unfortunate how the liscencing for Dragonball turned out. Due to some sort of screw-up, one company liscenced the first 13 episodes of Dragonball, and Funimation liscenced all the rest. As a result, no complete set of Dragonball episodes has ever been released on DVD or VHS from the same company. I suppose its just another casualty of early anime liscencing. (when there were no established norms)
Z got weird due to production issues. ... as in the animation studio was getting ahead of the writer's licensed content.
DBZ is already for the lowest common denominator. It's entire premise is guys with big spiky hair running around all hyper while and causing nonstop explosions. There is no possible way to dumb it down any further.
That sounds like an awesome movie... I'll watch that!
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I said nothing to the effect of it being Shakespeare. I meant simply that American film studios (and other ventures) change things for no good reason or on the premise that American audiences can't relate to Asian themes/characters. OH NOES WE CAN'T UNDERSTAND FOREIGN!
For me the lowest common denominator is the studio executives that just want to fill their pockets with cash.
Take for example the cinematic masterpiece of Akira and setting it in Manhattan instead of Neo-Tokyo and changing the names of the characters, thus negating one of the most recognized quotes from the movie (TESUOOOOOOOO! KENAAAADAAAAA!) or the 'in production hell' Evangelion movie having it's EVA units made by the US rather than Japan and American pilots. Often times Japanese names for characters have specific meanings, showing you up front if the character is good or evil or even alluding to an established literary hero/villian.
See also the changing of entire story arcs/dialogue or just flat out slashing out anything Japanese because Americans can't understand it or they bring it over to be marketed to children (maintaining the stupid belief that 'cartoons' are only for children), see One Piece (as seen being released in uncut form by Funimation rather than the 4Kids butchery), Cardcaptor Sakura (edited to the point of incoherence before they gave up), Sailor Moon (they are not cousins!! Which also the last season was never aired in the US on account the Sailor Starlights were male singers that changed to female Scouts, when they were alwasy female but took the male singer disguise to better track down their princess, all girls listen to boybands
It is a very egotistical and naive view. It frankly does not give their audiences any credit at all. It shows a lack of respect for the source material or the culture that produces it. There are many anime out there that are based around help to enforce Japanese culture, themes and history.
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Anime-Explosion-What-Japanese-Animation/dp/1880656728/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230113954&sr=8-1"]Who, What and WOW! of Japanese Anime[/ame] is an extremely good book on the subject. Yeah, there are reasons for effimenate boys and big eyes.
As a matter of fact, I think DBZ is a poor example of anime, but still better than a ton of shite that American studios have pumped out...excuse me, contracted Asian studios to pump out.
The story of Dragonball Z is alright, nothing spectacular. Some of the characters are actually interesting and grow, such as Vegeta. There is some pretty decent drama in there (such as when Goku finally goes Super Saiajin when Krllian, his friend from childhood is killed at a whim by Freiza) but overall the entire series could use an editor to cut out 200 episodes worth of recaps and charging sequences.
And yes, were they not just cranking this off in the bathroom for some quick cash, it could indeed make for an interesting movie. I ask of you, how many comic book/video game movies have been changed in major ways and fallen flat on their faces?
I'm not saying do a 1/1 transfer to film, you can change things and still make them interesting and with respect as to the source, Lord of the Rings and Iron Man for example.
When these type of movies come out, it always feels like another Batman and Robin or Catwoman when with a little bit of effort and care it could come out like Batman Begins, and if we are super lucky with the material landing the right hands, we could end up with The Dark Knight.
I know DBZ is a poor excuse of anime, for reasons I already listed. It's a silly cartoon, and it;s getting a silly movie. The internet nerd outrage is slightly entertaining.
You don't see the target audience of the movie up in arms.
Just this guy:
Come on Snemmy, you are ranting about Sailor Moon!
Saiyan that avatar!