DragonBall Z Live-Action Movie

[Nightfall]

Tak,

To each his own. But I have serious doubts it's a fan hoax. Funanimation has a link for it on ALL their DB products.

 

[Villano]

How can you dumb down or oversimplify Dragon Ball Z?

Tell me about it. I've heard about this other movie about a midget who finds a ring and has to get rid of it. It's called Road To The Ring, or some such nonsense. And, get this, they're planning a trilogy on this crap! And each movie is, like, 3 hrs long! Nine hours about a barefoot midget?! What's Hollywood smoking?

And don't even get me started about this old movie I once saw. It's all about this old, dead guy's sled.

 

[Nightfall]

Cute V, very cute! But I think they can simplify a few aspects of the series, such as maybe skipping over the parts where Vegita blows stuff up before getting to Earth. Just maybe me.

 

[Villano]

Cute V, very cute! But I think they can simplify a few aspects of the series, such as maybe skipping over the parts where Vegita blows stuff up before getting to Earth. Just maybe me.

"Cute V"? LOL. That makes me sound like an anime character! Now I've got to grow my hair long so I can put it in pigtails and find a sailor suit my size. Look out for Super Pretty Sailor Soldier Cute V!

There's actually a lot of ground to cover during the Saiyan Saga and it is pretty complex.

We've got a hero discoving his heritage, a long-lost brother, and a destiny he rejects (destoying the Earth). His son kidnapped. Teaming with an enemy. Dying. The afterlife. His friends preparing to fight off an alien menace.

The afterlife stuff will take up half the movie.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed on this. I wish Jackman was still attached to this. He'd be a great Goku.

Personally, I'm looking forward to how their giant monkey forms will look.

 

[Darth Shoju]

I think that my last post on a DBZ thread, in which I painstakingly analyzed all the homoerotic, artistically insipid, and often just bad elements of the show, probably clued people in to the fact that I'm not a fan.

I'm a little confused why anyone would painstakingly analyze anything to do with DBZ, particularily some of the elements you've mentioned. But to each his own I guess.

I'm a little concerned about the director's resume. There are some fairly crappy movies in there. I'm also not a fan of Ray Park as Vegeta. Yeah, he can do martial arts, but with all the special effects that would go into this movie I doubt that is really necessary. I'd rather have someone who can act in that role (maybe Christian Bale [sp?]). To be honest, DBZ was born to be a cartoon. Once you put it in the realm of live action it loses a lot of that corn-ball charm that it has in the cartoon series (yes, it's "bad", but it's at least entertaining bad, and I rather enjoy the cartoon overall). I think making this into a decent live action flick is quite the uphill climb, and attaching a director like Emmerich, actors like Park and tossing Akira Toriyama don't bold well at all.

All IMO, of course.

 

[s/LaSH]

How can you dumb down or oversimplify Dragon Ball Z?

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As you can see I am big fan DBZ. Sorry for the sarcastic broadsides. I agree with Takyris 10000000000%

Simple me bucko, you sell it as 'Like The Matrix but everyone can fly, oh and they've got these weird hairstyles'. At which point it becomes a tidal wave of suck.

To be fair, it deserves your sarcastic broadsides. When it takes 90-odd episodes to scuttle the season boss, you know something's gone a little awry. I'd not see a movie with an 1800-minute running time (that be 15 hours for you mathematically challenged lubbers, the approximate running time of one season).

But we'll see... if they can do a movie while keeping the spiritual perspective and dramatic vistas of destruction, I'll be happy.

Or if it's a hoax I'll shrug and watch something else.

 

[Nightfall]

slash,

I'm reasonable sure this is not a hoax. Funanimation isn't in to be silly.

Darth,

I agree with most of your points...which is why if I was doing a live action movie based on anime, I'd use Inuyasha. (More depth so to speak.)

Villano,

You are not an anime character. You are an En World poster! But yeah am curious how they will handle that whole morphing into a monkey effect.

 

[takyris]

I'd say that my deconstruction came from the fact that I was being forced to watch the show with a loud-mouthed idiot who was also a raging homophobe.

So I just charted chiming in with things like, "Oh, so they concentrate and their faces get all tense and they grunt and heave and then they spray these enormous bubbling streams of energy? Thank goodness there's nothing sexual in that." Or, "Yes, thank you, dubbing-master. They're taking off their clothes before the fight because they use weighted clothes to practice. That's all it is."

He got incredibly defensive and turned the darn thing off after a few minutes.

My work was done.

 

[Nightfall]

Gee...I'd hate to think how he might react then to some of stuff in Inuyasha then..

 

[Pants]

It could be good I guess. When I first heard about it, I was stoked, but the more I think on it, the worse it sounds.

And if this what Piccolo will end up looking like, then I'd rather not see it
http://armada.ave-clan.com/sigs/dragonball.jpg

Note: I'm not sure if this is real or fanmade, but it's still scary.