Dragon Ball Movie to Film This Year for 2008 Release

Postby **Lilac#18** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:18 pm

Etoh*the*Greato (post: 1206304) wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQoky6Q_dw8

I've just found an incredible live action adaptation by fans. If amateurs can do it this good, there is no reason the studios can't. If they don't I'll be supremely disappointed.

When I first saw that video I did think it was funny,but it is pretty good fanmade video.

Postby **Kanerou** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:31 pm

LadyRushia (post: 1211869) wrote:As others have said before, this will either be epic or fail so hard that it'll become epic.

Postby **Saj** » Mon May 12, 2008 10:01 am

http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/3023/hqsc9.jpg

scan from some magazine that shows Justin Chatwin as Goku with an energy ball

Postby **Nate** » Mon May 12, 2008 11:15 am

Wow. That looks pretty terrible, I've gotta admit.

Postby **Etoh*the*Greato** » Mon May 12, 2008 11:56 am

Nah. I'm pretty excited. Nothing can quench my excitement for this movie! Nothing!

Postby **LadyRushia** » Mon May 12, 2008 1:25 pm

He looks bored. Honestly, if I had an energy ball in my hand, I'd have some sort of facial expression.

Postby **Roy Mustang** » Thu May 22, 2008 11:45 am

More scans from the movie.

More scans from the movie

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Postby **LadyRushia** » Thu May 22, 2008 2:06 pm

Uhh, wow, XDDD. They don't really look like they're starring in an anime based movie.

Postby **Saj** » Fri May 23, 2008 10:25 am

more pics from the movie!

http://dbthemovie.com/

im losing hope

Postby **Kkun** » Fri May 23, 2008 10:29 am

You had hope?

This is going to destroy my childhood. Well, the later part of it. Early middle school. The more I read, the worse it gets. Every piece of information released is another shovelful of dirt on its coffin and another loogie spit on its grave.

Postby **Radical Dreamer** » Fri May 23, 2008 10:55 am

This looks horrible.

Like, seriously horrible.

I'll probably go see it anyways out of morbid curiosity. XD But my gosh it looks bad. XD

Postby **Roy Mustang** » Fri May 23, 2008 11:01 am

Kkun wrote:You had hope?

Being the optimist that I am, I had hope. My hope was, this was going to be a crappy movie! :lol:

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Postby **Doubleshadow** » Fri May 23, 2008 11:18 am

I'm an not least bit shocked by any of that. I saw all of this coming.

Man, I hate being right all the time.

Postby **Nate** » Fri May 23, 2008 12:41 pm

Nate (post: 1225635) wrote:Wow. That looks pretty terrible, I've gotta admit.

My earlier post still stands.

Postby **CAAOutkast** » Sat May 24, 2008 4:47 am

I hate to say this,but I agree with Nate 100%.

Postby **Azier the Swordsman** » Sat May 24, 2008 8:20 pm

It's getting more and more likely with each passing day that I will never see this movie.

Ever.

Postby **Tommy** » Sun May 25, 2008 10:36 am

Nate (post: 1225635) wrote:Wow. That looks pretty terrible, I've gotta admit.

Beat me to it.

Postby **Scarecrow** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 3:11 am

Ya I know I'm grave digging a bit but I just saw the trailer. Kinda surprised noone commented on it yet but anyway.

This look amazingly bad. Watching this, the first thing that came to my mind was Super Mario Brothers The Movie >.< Ya it looks that bad.

Trailer link for anyone who hasn't seen it yet... couldn't find a better quality one but anyway

http://www.joblo.com/video/player.php?video=dragonballtrl1

Postby **Radical Dreamer** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 7:03 am

...

There...are no words.

Holy CRAP that looks terrible. XD MASTER ROSHI. WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOU.

Postby **Peanut** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 7:45 am

...Piccolo isn't green...nough said...

Postby **Sheenar** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 9:09 am

Radical Dreamer (post: 1262133) wrote:...

There...are no words.

Holy CRAP that looks terrible. XD MASTER ROSHI. WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOU.

My reaction exactly. Corrie, you read my mind. XD

Postby **LadyRushia** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:24 am

I. . .I haven't even read or seen the series (I plan on it, though) and just--wow.

Postby **Lochaber Axe** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:27 am

Radical Dreamer (post: 1262133) wrote:...

There...are no words.

Holy CRAP that looks terrible. XD MASTER ROSHI. WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOU.

Hey all we got right now is some action scenes. Maybe Roshi is still a perverted older (as in past middle-aged) man... he's still wearing a Hawaiian shirt.

Oh, and I really hope that's Chichi that Goku's kissing. By the way, I really hope that "Goku" is just some name the guy is given instead of his actual name actually. A white guy named Goku just sounds silly.

Postby **minakichan** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:47 am

So I'm guessing that I'm probably the only one who saw this trailer and thought "AW YEAAAH!!"?

Seriously, talking about not being faithful to the original? How faithful was Dragonball to Journey of the West? While it's true that Dragonball never meant to follow the novel, I think the equivalent would be something like using the gods of the Greek pantheon as characters in an original story, then throwing in shapeships and aliens and power levels.

I am pretty psyched. It'll be like Forbidden Kingdom-- who cares if the main character's white, the plot blows, the dialogue stinks, and it makes no flippin' sense? JET LI AND JACKIE CHAN FIGHT EACH OTHER, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.

Postby **Radical Dreamer** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:31 am

minakichan (post: 1262153) wrote:I am pretty psyched. It'll be like Forbidden Kingdom-- who cares if the main character's white, the plot blows, the dialogue stinks, and it makes no flippin' sense? JET LI AND JACKIE CHAN FIGHT EACH OTHER, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.

PICCOLO IS NOT GREEN. D8 AND KRILLIN IS IN NO WAY INVOLVED IN THIS MOVIE.

I just can't support it. XDD

Postby **uc pseudonym** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 1:03 pm

minakichan wrote:So I'm guessing that I'm probably the only one who saw this trailer and thought "AW YEAAAH!!"?

It was better than the trailer for "Sex Drive" that played before without announcing it was an advertisement.

In any case, this looks somewhat like a generic action movie attempting to capitalize upon the DB name. Which would be fine, except for that the average action movie is fairly pathetic. I may actually not see this, depending on what reviews say.

Postby **Nate** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 3:22 pm

Lochaber Axe wrote:By the way, I really hope that "Goku" is just some name the guy is given instead of his actual name actually. A white guy named Goku just sounds silly.

His real name is Kakarot. Gohan (not Goku's son named Gohan) was the one who found him, and named him Son Goku. It's a play on the Chinese novel Journey to the West, one of the characters in that being a monkey named Sun Wukong. Goku has a monkey tail, an extending staff, and a flying cloud like Sun Wukong did, and the name Son Goku is the Japanese pronunciation of the kanji for Sun Wukong. In short, it's a tribute to the character in the novel.

Best to know the background about the series before you make comments, eh? :p

Postby **minakichan** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:20 am

His real name is Kakarot. Master Roshi was the one who found him, and named him Son Goku.

I THOUGHT THIS WAS GRANDPA GOHAN D:

Postby **Nate** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:06 am

YOU'RE RIGHT. Sorry. Brain fart.

HO HO HO I GUESS I SHOULD KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT BEFORE I BERATE PEOPLE FOR THE SAME THING. I could go back and edit it so it's right but...nah, you know what? I'll go back and edit it so it's right. XD

Postby **Tommy** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:27 pm

Being a former hardcore DB fan (when I was little), I'm still going to honestly admit that movie looks sort of interesting.

Granted, it looks like the typical "kung fu flick meant for Americans", but that's because they molded and shaped it to appear so.

Sure it's not "true to the original", but there's no way a live action adaption of DBZ staying true to the original would work.

The solution?

Don't make live adaptions of DB.

Dragon Ball Movie to Film This Year for 2008 Release

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