Dragonball – The Movie
For those who don’t know it yet, some lunatics are making a movie based on Dragonball manga from Akira Toriyama (not to be mistaken with Dragonball Z). Yeah.
UPDATE: Latest information about the movie on Dragonball – The Movie (update) post!
Well, if you decided to proceed reading, it’s because you are curious to know more about this epic failure (at least to me).
So, allow me to torture you a little bit more, please.
Here, have some steaming pile of fresh new pics from the movie cast!
Master Roshi
Chi Chi
Bulma and Yamcha
Goku and Bulma
Goku, Bulma and Master Roshi
Worth mentioning that Piccolo will be played by James Marsters, vampire Spike from Buffy, the Vampire Slayer:
Some still have hope… since it’s being directed by James Wong (X-files, Millenium, Final Destination) and produced by Stephen Chow (Kung-fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer).
My personal opinion is that the only chance this movie has to be reasonable is… being completely unrelated to the manga, or the original story.
Why?
1. Goku is an american teen with emo-punk hair?
2. Master Roshi… Chow Yun-Fat, nice. But too young, no beard…
3. The actress that plays Bulma is cute… but this doesn’t make her a good Bulma.
4. Comedy with super-deformed characters and gags that are common on animes and cartoons don’t work well with real actors.
5. The original story begins with Goku and Chi Chi still as kids… Bulma was a young pre-teen. I have no idea how they’ll make the adaptation, but the funniest part in the story (at least on my opinion), is exactly when they were still kids.
6. It seems that with the information we have so far (you can see it by the pictures), that the movie is not a comedy (there goes the advantage of having Stephen Chow as director), but a action-drama-sci-fi story with Goku searching the Dragon Balls to save the world.
7. I’m kinda picky on this one, but I couldn’t watch even Dragonball anime with english dubs (only laughed with original dubs and english subs)…
Well, I could give OVER NINE-THOUSAND reasons for this movie not to work, but deep down I’m hoping for it to be at least a tiny but fun… since I’m gonna watch it anyways.
You know, this human tendency of wanting to watch major catastrophes…
Source: Kotaku – thanks Bash!
EDIT: Adding to the optimistic side, here’s an example of how the movie could end up being watchable: Dragonball Z Live Action
EDIT2: A new poster from the movie… believe it or not, the movie will be out in March 2009, on a Friday 13th. The “Heart Attack” is actually the name of the news source…. but it could as well be the reaction from the people watching the movie. 
Dragonball Movie
Source: DannyChoo.com
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that movie sucked harder than a goat on ur mom's tit
Schuyler – LOL
Let’s face it, from your comment alone, you also love to complain!
What’s the Internetz for anyways?
I think people are so passionate about this movie because:
1- It’s based (or was supposed to be) on a classic anime, which is part of several people’s childhood, thus being kinda “sacred”.
2- It’s one of the first movies trying to reproduce “modern” japanese animation (Speed Racer apart). Which could be the start of a long stream of Hollywoodian attempts on it. A tendency most anime fans don’t really like. Or at least would like to be made in a way that doesn’t completely ruin the original work.
3- It’s a movie, like you said. And as a movie, criticism is to be expected. This is exactly what moves the movie industry. I mean, really, if you think it’s just a movie and people shouldn’t be judging it, why did you even comment about it?
Think something you really liked when you was a kid being “remade” by a modern studio. Think something that doesn’t quite fit a live action movie. Now think that the studio released some teasers and trailers that were completely disapointing to you. Wouldn’t you like to express how disappointing that was? Well, that’s the case here.
And I’d like to disagree about complaining won’t change a thing. It’s already been announced that a sequel to this movie is on the works. Complaining might make the studio think twice on the elements for the second movie. Or if it’ll even be released. So that the money spent on the project could be redirectioned for another movie.
If opinions are to be considered just “griping, bitching, moaning, complaining, whining, tantrum throwing”, we might as well just lock ourselves up in a dark room and let things roll, watching movies we don’t like, consuming products we don’t want, and going back to the dark ages I guess…
Your comment alone just makes it seems that you are trying to defend the movie without real arguments…
Oh, and adding to the flames, this is the exact same strategy the studio producing the movie is using to avoid the movie being a complete failure: They are not screening the movie in advance for movie critics.
All big title movies do that, unless they know in advance that the critics will probably have only bad reviews to write about it.
So yep, GET OVER IT, and just accept that people are entitled to criticize a movie they don’t have great expectations for. Also, pictures like the ones posted, trailers, and other stuff released BY the movie studio are exactly for that. If they didn’t want criticism, they wouldn’t release stuff like that in the first place.
Schuyler – LOL
Let’s face it, from your comment alone, you also love to complain!
What’s the Internetz for anyways?
I think people are so passionate about this movie because:
1- It’s based (or was supposed to be) on a classic anime, which is part of several people’s childhood, thus being kinda “sacred”.
2- It’s one of the first movies trying to reproduce “modern” japanese animation (Speed Racer apart). Which could be the start of a long stream of Hollywoodian attempts on it. A tendency most anime fans don’t really like. Or at least would like to be made in a way that doesn’t completely ruin the original work.
3- It’s a movie, like you said. And as a movie, criticism is to be expected. This is exactly what moves the movie industry. I mean, really, if you think it’s just a movie and people shouldn’t be judging it, why did you even comment about it?
Think something you really liked when you was a kid being “remade” by a modern studio. Think something that doesn’t quite fit a live action movie. Now think that the studio released some teasers and trailers that were completely disapointing to you. Wouldn’t you like to express how disappointing that was? Well, that’s the case here.
And I’d like to disagree about complaining won’t change a thing. It’s already been announced that a sequel to this movie is on the works. Complaining might make the studio think twice on the elements for the second movie. Or if it’ll even be released. So that the money spent on the project could be redirectioned for another movie.
If opinions are to be considered just “griping, bitching, moaning, complaining, whining, tantrum throwing”, we might as well just lock ourselves up in a dark room and let things roll, watching movies we don’t like, consuming products we don’t want, and going back to the dark ages I guess…
Your comment alone just makes it seems that you are trying to defend the movie without real arguments…
Oh, and adding to the flames, this is the exact same strategy the studio producing the movie is using to avoid the movie being a complete failure: They are not screening the movie in advance for movie critics.
All big title movies do that, unless they know in advance that the critics will probably have only bad reviews to write about it.
So yep, GET OVER IT, and just accept that people are entitled to criticize a movie they don’t have great expectations for. Also, pictures like the ones posted, trailers, and other stuff released BY the movie studio are exactly for that. If they didn’t want criticism, they wouldn’t release stuff like that in the first place.
Schuyler – LOL
Let’s face it, from your comment alone, you also love to complain!
What’s the Internetz for anyways?
I think people are so passionate about this movie because:
1- It’s based (or was supposed to be) on a classic anime, which is part of several people’s childhood, thus being kinda “sacred”.
2- It’s one of the first movies trying to reproduce “modern” japanese animation (Speed Racer apart). Which could be the start of a long stream of Hollywoodian attempts on it. A tendency most anime fans don’t really like. Or at least would like to be made in a way that doesn’t completely ruin the original work.
3- It’s a movie, like you said. And as a movie, criticism is to be expected. This is exactly what moves the movie industry. I mean, really, if you think it’s just a movie and people shouldn’t be judging it, why did you even comment about it?
Think something you really liked when you was a kid being “remade” by a modern studio. Think something that doesn’t quite fit a live action movie. Now think that the studio released some teasers and trailers that were completely disapointing to you. Wouldn’t you like to express how disappointing that was? Well, that’s the case here.
And I’d like to disagree about complaining won’t change a thing. It’s already been announced that a sequel to this movie is on the works. Complaining might make the studio think twice on the elements for the second movie. Or if it’ll even be released. So that the money spent on the project could be redirectioned for another movie.
If opinions are to be considered just “griping, bitching, moaning, complaining, whining, tantrum throwing”, we might as well just lock ourselves up in a dark room and let things roll, watching movies we don’t like, consuming products we don’t want, and going back to the dark ages I guess…
Your comment alone just makes it seems that you are trying to defend the movie without real arguments…
Oh, and adding to the flames, this is the exact same strategy the studio producing the movie is using to avoid the movie being a complete failure: They are not screening the movie in advance for movie critics.
All big title movies do that, unless they know in advance that the critics will probably have only bad reviews to write about it.
So yep, GET OVER IT, and just accept that people are entitled to criticize a movie they don’t have great expectations for. Also, pictures like the ones posted, trailers, and other stuff released BY the movie studio are exactly for that. If they didn’t want criticism, they wouldn’t release stuff like that in the first place.
*sigh* I am going to state this very simply so all the drama lamas here can grasp it.
IT’S JUST A MOVIE!
there I said it. Get over it. they cast who they cast for the roles they wanted to. No amount of griping, bitching, moaning, complaining, whining, tantrum throwing, is going to change that so just STOP.
Honestly people really need to calm down. Here is just a small guide to dealing with this film.
-Look it over and find out if it’s something that interests you.
-if it does interest you, than go see the movie.
-if it doesn’t interest you, than for the love of god, shut the hell up. PLEASE.!what you are saying isn’t new, its been said over and over and over and over throughout the vastness of the internet.
Think the movie is going to be shit? Then don’t see it.
I don’t understand a majority of fans. they will bitch and moan about the movies to their series sucking, or the characters not being cast correctly, and say how the movie is just going to be a pile of shit.
and what do they do?
THEY STILL GO AND SEE IT!
it totally baffles me as to why people will just spend hours bitching about a movie they aren’t going to see. or worse, bitch about a movie that they know full well they are going to see anyway. people just love to bitch about shit. plain and simple.
Why not wait until the movie is released to make your judgments?
I know why, YOU LOVE TO COMPLAIN!
now if you will excuse me i have to bandage the vein that burst in my temple before I die.
thank you.
*sigh* I am going to state this very simply so all the drama lamas here can grasp it.
IT’S JUST A MOVIE!
there I said it. Get over it. they cast who they cast for the roles they wanted to. No amount of griping, bitching, moaning, complaining, whining, tantrum throwing, is going to change that so just STOP.
Honestly people really need to calm down. Here is just a small guide to dealing with this film.
-Look it over and find out if it’s something that interests you.
-if it does interest you, than go see the movie.
-if it doesn’t interest you, than for the love of god, shut the hell up. PLEASE.!what you are saying isn’t new, its been said over and over and over and over throughout the vastness of the internet.
Think the movie is going to be shit? Then don’t see it.
I don’t understand a majority of fans. they will bitch and moan about the movies to their series sucking, or the characters not being cast correctly, and say how the movie is just going to be a pile of shit.
and what do they do?
THEY STILL GO AND SEE IT!
it totally baffles me as to why people will just spend hours bitching about a movie they aren’t going to see. or worse, bitch about a movie that they know full well they are going to see anyway. people just love to bitch about shit. plain and simple.
Why not wait until the movie is released to make your judgments?
I know why, YOU LOVE TO COMPLAIN!
now if you will excuse me i have to bandage the vein that burst in my temple before I die.
thank you.
*sigh* I am going to state this very simply so all the drama lamas here can grasp it.
IT’S JUST A MOVIE!
there I said it. Get over it. they cast who they cast for the roles they wanted to. No amount of griping, bitching, moaning, complaining, whining, tantrum throwing, is going to change that so just STOP.
Honestly people really need to calm down. Here is just a small guide to dealing with this film.
-Look it over and find out if it’s something that interests you.
-if it does interest you, than go see the movie.
-if it doesn’t interest you, than for the love of god, shut the hell up. PLEASE.!what you are saying isn’t new, its been said over and over and over and over throughout the vastness of the internet.
Think the movie is going to be shit? Then don’t see it.
I don’t understand a majority of fans. they will bitch and moan about the movies to their series sucking, or the characters not being cast correctly, and say how the movie is just going to be a pile of shit.
and what do they do?
THEY STILL GO AND SEE IT!
it totally baffles me as to why people will just spend hours bitching about a movie they aren’t going to see. or worse, bitch about a movie that they know full well they are going to see anyway. people just love to bitch about shit. plain and simple.
Why not wait until the movie is released to make your judgments?
I know why, YOU LOVE TO COMPLAIN!
now if you will excuse me i have to bandage the vein that burst in my temple before I die.
thank you.
Not yet, my friend, not yet… the crisis didn’t reach it’s peak yet. xD
Here, release date:
http://xspblog.com/2008/11/14/dragonball-movie-release-date-and-a-pic/
And the trailer:
http://xspblog.com/2008/12/10/dragonball-evolution-trailer/
Not yet, my friend, not yet… the crisis didn’t reach it’s peak yet. xD
Here, release date:
http://xspblog.com/2008/11/14/dragonball-movie-release-date-and-a-pic/
And the trailer:
http://xspblog.com/2008/12/10/dragonball-evolution-trailer/
Not yet, my friend, not yet… the crisis didn’t reach it’s peak yet. xD
Here, release date:
http://xspblog.com/2008/11/14/dragonball-movie-release-date-and-a-pic/
And the trailer:
http://xspblog.com/2008/12/10/dragonball-evolution-trailer/
Is it out yet?
Is it out yet?
Is it out yet?
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at least Chichi is hot…