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DRAGONBALL Won't Roll Into Theaters This Year!!
Merrick here...
Given the negativity swirling around this project, it's a safe bet most of you won't be too upset to hear that release of the live-action DRAGONBALL feature film has postponed.
Originally set to hit screens this August, it seems the film won't make it to theaters 'till April of next year.
So says THIS REPORT at Coming Soon.
The film is written & directed by James Wong, a writer and/or producer and/or director of projects like SPACE: ABOVE AND BEYOND, THE X-FILES, MILLENNIUM, THE ONE, and two of the FINAL DESTINATIONs.
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this is just a stupid stupid idea for a dumb movie based on a stupid cartoon. let the hate begin
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Why? Who even cares about it other than Anime nerds? It's pretty much outlived it's cultural relevance (in this country) by almost a decade. -
if you like Dragonball and you are over the age of 14 something is dreadfully wrong with you. I remember my friends who liked it trying to explain why it was cool and from what I've seen of the show it is absolutly retarded
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I am uber-excited for this! I love Dragonball! Why is there negativity about this project? Does the script suck or something?
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Unless it was direct to Sci-Fi Saturday. Then bring it on!
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to find an asian guy to play Goku.
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Spinoff. Kamehamehaaa
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Real dragonballs are very intelligent and speaks english.
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Well, it's not so much of a bad news, as I actually didn't expect it for this year.
I only hope, that they're translating Dragonball good enough into a Live-Action-Movie.
And, please, guys don't expect too much, like some did with Transformers in case of Story. -
Dragonball is gay. This movie will be gay. If you like it you're gay. Not everything is gay though. Some things are stupid. And some things are both stupid AND gay. This is one of them.
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Straight to DVD baby!
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Shouldn't they be saving this up for fifteen or twenty years from now, so they can cash in on the nostalgia factor with a live action film that doesn't even have to be good or make sense or have relatable human characters or believable effects or comprehensible action scenes (ie: the model recently used to great success by Transformers)?Also, you all know that coming to a theatre near you in summer 2018 is a live action Pokemon film. Vern is going to HATE it.
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I've never followed the realm of Dragonball, Dragonball Z, or any other Dragonball 'somethings' that have come out, but if we know anything about movies, it's that a postponement in production is better than a rushed product.
This way, not EVERYBODY will think it's lame. I still don't know how they are going to translate this into a movie.
From what I remember, it was always some spikey hair dude fighting another spikey hair dude. Someone loses, move on to the next dude.
We'll see if this is just a special effects movie, or with the postponement, they'll actually implement a good story(or translate the original into a well made movie form). -
Fox has a problem with these films. They rush them out, make too many mistakes, and underpromote them. I hope this one will make them take their time.
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Mar 05, 2008 9:57:31 AM CST
The world needs another John Woo/Chow Yun Fat modern day shooter
by gibsonusa
ASAP.
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I'll be happy when I hear the project has been buried. This whole thing is merely another example of the business side of Hollywood having WAAAAAY too much influence.
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IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!!!1
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I wonder if the looming actor strike has any part to do with this.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23479412/
I am getting really pissed at this years strikes cancelling and delaying shows that I injected my time into watching. Some of the shows that got cancelled were good and would still be around if the writers never went on strike.
Now the actors of TV and movies want to strike???!!
I guess we're destined to not be entertained too much this year. At least we have some blockbusters coming out for the Summer, right? But it could be a really lame holiday season and more. -
I haven't had a good laugh in a while.
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And they put it in April? Tell me the last time a movie did well in April?
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That would be good. And leave AKIRA alone why your at it!
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For a project this big, only four months to do the special effects and CGI was moronic. And it had to face STAR WARS for God's sake; it would've been suicide. April 3rd is a better spot and its second weekend is Easter Weekend, so it'll have that going for it. Call it stubbornness (I was a DBZ otaku, but not one of the psychotic ones), but I'm looking forward to this. If only because of Chow's influence.
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I don't expect it to be very good, but theres a chance that it can be decent if they give it some breathing room.
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They probably just need more time to perfect the flying fx or something. well at least it's not cancelled. And suck my dick if you're not excited for this movie. it's going to rape our imaginations and change the way we view life.
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That show is like watching a slow motion car crash. I want those hours of my life back!
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This is what Aicn i once knew has come to? Shoveling shit on the best action anime ever while getting into petty bullshit arguments over which star wars prequel sucked less? i can't understand where this high horse attitude came from... but dragonball especially under James Wong, a decent director, someone not worthy of so much disdain and with a good cast, real geek icons like marsters, hudson, and the key maker from the matrix, oh and fuck's sake chow yun fat too... shit, you assholes need to be quiet and just save your money because you'll be there... why am i bothering to arugue...
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was made in Japan in the early 1990's and despite have the actual Dragonball writers...its was completely shit...not thats not fair, it was craptacular.
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There's no reason for Goku to be Asian...after all he's not even from Earth.
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Mar 05, 2008 12:34:56 PM CST
4Chan Nerds don't get to bag on ANYTHING
by this_talkback_is_on_crazypills
"That show is like watching a slow motion car crash"
Maybe if you're a hummingbird, it is. -
I second that modern day shooter flick with John Woo & Chow Yun-Fat!
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or Sunny Side Up
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The way people are talking about this like it was an actual movie or something just cracks me up! Dragonball!? Give me a fucking break! Yeah, they're going back to finesse the script a little...trying to do justice to the source material...blah blah blah! Fuck this soul-crushingly generic, factory produced tripe. Most anime (of course there are exceptions such as Studio Ghibli and stuff like Paprika) is bland, lowest-common-denominator garbage aimed at imagination deficient robot-people with no sense of individuality. Oh, but it's got Chow-Yun Fat in it! You know, the guy from Anna and the King? Everything that guy does is good! How far off can Kool-Aid: The Movie be? Or Power Soaker: Deadly When Wet.
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Mar 05, 2008 4:01:45 PM CST
I didnt even know there was "Negativity surrounding this film"
by mike_d
thats news to me.
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DBINO!
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Asians are banging their heads on the wall
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I tuned in just to see Goku beat the shit out of everyone. The show delivered! As long as this movie gives me that I'm satisfied... but I would like them to try harder...
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This is DBZ. But what we CAN hope to expect is a live action movie with intensity seldom before seen. What people fail to realize about DBZ is that it chronicles the evolution of THE MOST POWERFUL BEINGS IN THE UNIVERSE, and it does it without going to a dark place. The show was goofy, the show was funny, and the battle scenes were intesnse beyond belief. I just hope they pick the right villian to use. Piccolo became a bad-ass good guy, and I hope they don't make him the villian. Maybe Cell would be good.
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Wow, considering some the horrible movies I have seen released in theaters this movie must have real problems.
Is it two hours of Goku and whatever bad guy he is facing standing there talking shit and slowing powering up, until they finally have a 30 second fight? -
Who gives a shit? Does anyone really want to see this?
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...On my video shelves at the moment. I didn't even bother picking it up. Is this some American version or whatever the fuck? Why would anyone give a shit if this was canned, let alone postponed?
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...I have ever read on this site. I like to imagine that the quote eminates from a fat boy with messy hair and giant framed brown coke bottle glasses. With fast food stains on his thighs from wiping his grubby, sweaty hands off on his pants as he excitedly awaits the next episode of his favourite, poorly produced, lazily slapped together cartoon aimed at 6 year old boys; "What people fail to realize about DBZ is that it chronicles the evolution of THE MOST POWERFUL BEINGS IN THE UNIVERSE!"
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about as bad as the casting on the WOLVERINE film.
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He'd explain every twist and nuance, completely oblivious to the fact no one was listening. I'd be reading something or watching television just clearly not giving a crap, but he'd just keep going and going. Huh. Now that I think about it that's a pretty good metaphor for the show, an endless, dry story that keeps going and going even though most people don't give a crap and aren't listening.
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First, I think the cartoon show, which I never liked very much, will translate to film about as easily as Super Mario Brothers...but is the negativity all from purist (ie, crazy) fans or from people just sick of the DBZ concept? Or both?
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I thought this was being directed by the Final Destination 2 guy. Its the guy who directed the first one, he sucks. His name doesn't even touch the credits on Final Destination 2. I was going to try to say something good, but Wong sucks. Had this been David R. Ellis there may have been some mother fucker snakes in this mother fucking 100 plus earth gravity training spaceship!
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