Cool News
Those Images From The DRAGONBALL Movie?? The Ones That Disappeared??
04/10/08
Merrick again...
The site hosting the pics has asked us to remove our link to them due to traffic load.
Merrick here...
Some pictures from the DRAGONBALL movie recently appeared on The Net, and were then disappeared from the Net. If I recall correctly (apologies if I'm wrong about this), they originated at JoBLo.
Said images have resurfaced now, this time over at infotaku. See 'em while they last by clicking...
[[[[nowhere - see above addendum]]]]
I didn't expect great things from this movie, but nor did I envisage something that looked so...cheap.
-
+ Expand All
-
looks pretty lame and I'm a fan of DBZ.
-
japanime sucks first? balls
-
If nothing, these pics just serve as proof that they're actually making this thing. They look better than those SPIRIT pics...
-
Porco Rosso, Akira, Mononoke...pure crap!
Just joking. -
Because this shit looks awful.
-
...places or events. A CG anime film may be better off than a real life translation. Otherwise, people will be prone to bitching about everything under the sun that is "wrong" with the film.
-
I didn't think they would of tried translating everything so literally from the cartoon. Whatever, always hated it anyways.
-
sucks
-
Can you not tell that these pics are not what the movie will actually look like? These are terrible pics of sets that look very interesting to me. Live action with proper lighting and effects this will look great.
-
Apr 09, 2008 9:39:49 AM CDT
"Japanime" isn't even a proper phrase, the word "anime" purely d
by dps7
Also - the group of aliens a few photos down look like extraterrestrial whores...
-
Best. Anime. Ever. Along with Robotech, they are the only anime stories that might catch a mass audience at the Box Office.
-
I WILL finish my point!
-
Apr 09, 2008 9:45:44 AM CDT
I agree this looks as bad as Batman Begins did.
by batman begins sucks ass
Is Christopher Nolan directing this piece.....of shit?
-
Apr 09, 2008 9:47:36 AM CDT
Makes Power Rangers look like they were produced by Spielberg
by grampageezer
Not a DBZ fan, but I did sit down and watch a few ep's with my son.
But I've got to say that if the movie looks anything like these pics, you fans are better off popping in your old Power Rangers' VHS tapes. I think they had a bigger budget and higher production values. -
what´s your opinion about Batman Begins?
-
The pics are also at www.demandsatisfaction.net
-
Well, No sir.....I didn't like it.
-
Pics can be found at
www.demandsatisfaction.net -
That's what this shit looks like.
-
Apr 09, 2008 9:52:38 AM CDT
It looks like one of the SciFi Channels straight-to-cable flicks
by banallfirstposters
ugh.
-
"What does Batman Begins have to do with anything"? That's what I've been asking. *giggles to self*
-
Anyone got a mirror?
-
Although this movie is probably a piece of shit (the anime ruled however), I want to how badly they mangled it.
-
This isn't like Transformers where you have to satisfy 30 year olds who want their childhood love taken "seriously." This show was created in the 90s, and still being run today - the kids going to see this are . . . well, KIDS, and are expecting to see faithful translations of the costumes, not some "serious" take on the mythos. With a good DP these costumes and sets will look great.
-
I really love how people on this site take all of this SO seriously. It makes my studies alot easier and fun. I am however never surprised by the reactions that I get. This is a social study of how people really want to express themselves from deep within but know their limits in society when face to face with a real person. How cool is it to call people sick names and threaten their live because of an opinion while wearing a cloak of digital anonimity. Sad but real. BTW...I do NOT condone the "threaten someone's life" part. Beleive me I have already had that just because of my talkback handle. Very sad indeed, but expected.
-
http://www.legroom.fr/cinema/des-photos-de-dragonball-le-film/
It's damn ugly. -
really, REALLY bad.
-
Blade 1, American Splendor, Conan The Barbarian, Supes 1 & 2, 300, Batman 89 (Burton created a world within a world. Cartoony and fun no doubt), The Crow, Dick Tracy (for the same reasons I stated about Batman 89), The League of Extrordinary Men (because it did not take itself too seriously), Sin City (because it showed you COULD immulate the comics on screen. Does that help? These are no doubt films to worship by or hold others to but enjoyable none the less. You?
-
this crap instead of Robotech? ARGGHH!
-
..would be cool as hell if done right.
-
until they find an Asian actor to play Goku.
-
Ah yes: SHITE!
-
at least, my cynical side. My inner DBZ fan is still appalled by this project. Fuck Fox.
-
It was and is horrible film.
-
expect good live action from a piece of shit anime? Are you stupid? Well if you're anime fans I just answered my own question. I woulda removed those pics too if my movie looked like a giant turd.
-
hahhahahah....THat's awesome!!! Spread the word Reverend!
-
Does anybody remember that live- action low-budget Dragonball movie they made once before? I still have a VHS tape of it that I bought for my kids back in the'90s. It was silly and very Power Ranger-ish.
Guys riding on clouds and an old guy wearing a turtle shell.
This new movie looks just as bad. -
For such supposedly crappy, they sure disappear fast.
-
I'm with you, 'Batman Begins Sucks Ass'.
THERE's a compelling story, evolving characters, action, drama, your dosis of American Idol, all nicely wraped up in an epic story allready developed with a couple of kind of spin offs.
In fact, here's the chance to fix the contradictions that emerged from trying to blend the three unrelated stories.
But I think with Robotech they could make an even better TV series, a la Battlestar Galactica... a Similar dynamic, with older characters with gravitas, and younger steamy ones. A lot of room for action, deep meaning and stuff.
It's only a matter of 'when'. Now that almost all the superheroes have their movie sagas, I think they'll turn to anime for inspiration, with their quota of hits and misses.
There's Battle Angel Alita down the pipe line, there's also that Dragon Ball (awfull series, by the way) in production, there's allways been rumours of Akira, and Ghost in the Shell, and Evangelion... And well, Kimba was also done some years ago by 'The Lion King' name.
-
make a fun movie. My question: What is the point of making Anime into live action. Part of the beauty and craft of Cowboy Bebop and kira were that they were animated, and the way they were. These weren't animated in the by accident. It was choice. An artistic choice and should be recognized as such. I don't want a live action Bebop. I would, however, love another Animated Bebop movie.
-
You can watch it on YouTube. It shows up on AZN every now and then, as well.
http://www.you tube.com/watch?v=xrjTokKH5-U
Real link -- not a rickroll! -
Very cool. It doesnt matter if I like it. You dig it, that's cool. Thanks for sharing dude. Peace
-
You're right. As a kid I thought the Macross Saga was the best of the Robotech series. Obviously given to the right people RMS could be a compelling story movie.
-
um, ya... i thought this was dragonball? what the hell is all that crap? the movie version is going to be unrecognizable...
-
"Página supendida temporalmente. Contacte con Hosting LMI"
Which I think is Japanese for 'SORRY THE PICTURES ARE GONE, LOL' -
Apr 09, 2008 11:46:35 AM CDT
That dude in all black looks like a cartoon character
by mr slippy fist
Seriously, the dude must work his chest all day because his arms are tiny and his chest is huge. His body is completely disproportionate. I will say that the chicks look hot as hell though, which is enough to get me to the movie.
-
I'm not low enough to trash a movie based on some crappy pictures taken via cellphone.
-
Now wait a minute, I'm not one to usually come down on what someone else is into, but anyone who bashes Transformers' story, then compares it to DBZ is insane. Transformers may have had a DUMB story, but at least it had one. Whereas DBZ is just a repeating series of fight/powerup/new character/fight... repeat, repeat, repeat. Oh, and several hours worth of grunting. I know, cause I used to watch it.
-
Pendejo!
-
Unfortunately this movie doesn't even start with a kid Goku but a weenie teen Goku. :( At least as far as I've seen.
-
But who LOVE to have all the characters look fucking identical.
-
Hahaha, that's rough but actually really funny.
-
involved/thought provoking as the most complex 'live-action' television series (the wire excluded). DBZ is *not* a good sample of the general anime population as a whole.
-
"original DB bout a kid wit powers who traveled to find Dragon Balls and befriends people...not a story?"
Yes, that technically IS a story.. just not a very interesting one, and certainly no *better* than Transformers, which I guess was the original point I was defending. -
Apr 09, 2008 3:04:41 PM CDT
They look fine to me. They aren't movie stills, they'e spy photo
by mike_d
I'm still seeing this.
-
Neither Dragonball nor Dragonballs Z exemplified the full story-telling talents of the anime genre. However, I must disagree with those who insist that the story of Goku is not epic when looked at as a whole. The following is the story as I recall it.
Thousands of years ago, Earth was just as technologically savy as it is today. In that day and age, a lone survivor of a long-vanished alien race of gladiators crashed to Earth. He was just a baby with a strange tail, but his strength was amazing. Unfortunately for Earthlings, his appearance there had not been an accident. He had been one of many representatives of the gladiators sent out into the cosmos for the sole purpose of destroying and conquering the worlds they landed on.
The little boy had a violent temper and destroyed everything in sight with his awesome muscles. Worse yet, when his wrathful eyes fell upon the sight of a full moon, he transformed into an enormous ape-like demon able to shoot destructive beams of energy from its mouth. Needless to say, Earth's very survival came into question.
But one day, the boy suffered a nasty hit to the head. He lost his memory and his personality changed completely. He was finally found amid some ruins by an elderly martial arts master named Gohan. Gohan named the boy Goku and adopted him as his own grandson. He raised him to be a noble, honorable boy and taught him everything that he knew about the martial arts.
Those happy days came to a sad end, though, when young Goku happened to catch sight of a full moon. He blacked-out and became an unstopable killing machine once again. When he woke up, his grandfather was dead, and the villagers told him the news that a horrible monster had come in the night and killed him and destroyed their village. Goku never learned the truth. -
After Gohan's death, Goku left the world behind him and decided to live in an uninhabited part of the world filled with dinosaurs and other wild animals. Several years went by and the boy became good at living on his own.
Eventually, Goku ran into Bulma, a slightly older girl searching for the dragonballs, seven golden spheres scattered across the world that, when assembled together, brought forth a gargantuan dragon that would grant a single wish. Over the course of a few adventures together, the two came to see each other as brother and sister. Inevitably, Goku again turned into a giant monkey of destruction. But Bulma was not injured after it was all said and done, but promptly cut off his tail once he became a boy again. (The tail had been the source of his monthly transformations.)
As they journeyed across the planet, they made many new friends, including Chi-Chi, the super-powered daughter of a homely demi-god. (Many years later, Chi-Chi would become Goku's fiery-tempered wife and the mother of his two sons.)
They also made many enemies, including a demon lord who sought the Dragonballs for himself so as to become immortal. This compelled Goku and a few other new friends of his to seek out a magically super-powered (and incredibly perverted) old hermit whom they would come to know as Master Roshi. Master Roshi helped the team become better martial artists. He even taught them how to produce explosive balls of energy from within themselves.
Eventually, all seven dragonballs were located and assembled together. Fortunately, the one who summoned the dragon was not the demon lord, but little Goku. After he had made his wish, the serpentile genie vanished and the seven balls vanished to new hiding spots across the Earth.
After the dragonball fiasco had ended, Goku and Master Roshie's other students decided to enter world martial arts competitions. One of the competitors was an even more powerful demon lord. His name was Picolo. He had been born when the benvolent guardian of the Earth, Kami, had expelled from within himself all of his negative energy, so as to become a perfectly good entity. That negative energy turned into Picolo.
Picolo was determined to destroy the Earth, but Goku eventually stopped him. Defeated, he withdrew to the same wild lands that Goku had spent so long in, and trained to become better than Goku.
Meanwhile, several years were passing. Goku and Chi-Chi married and had a son, whom Goku named after his adopted grandfather, Gohan. -
That's a weird thing to say, and I have no idea how to respond to that. Umm, I don't care for Law and Order, but I love Lost, so...eh...take fro mthat what you will.
-
For one thing, AnakinsDiapers, this is not going to be the first western-translated live action anime movie. Ever heard of Speed Racer? Dumb fuck. Also... to those of you who are talking shit on this movie because you've seen, what, 15 or so spy shots of it, you need to shut the fuck up and quit being little sheep. Whenever someone posts something like these pics, the first jackass who says something bad about it creates a god damn ripple effect of assholes and it's as if he has like 2,000 clones of himself jump onto the TB and start posting random retarded shit trying to say the movie looks bad. How about you guys think for yourselves for a change, and not only that, use your fucking brains. These are SPY shots. There is no CGI. The lighting is horrible. They are taken using a digicam and not a professional industry HD anamorphic steadicam. We don't know the entire context of the movie yet. etc etc etc. There are several reasons to chill the fuck out with regard to these pics. Can you people please at least wait until we get a fucking teaser trailer with some actual footage before you start tearing the movie down? Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this movie will be total crap. But at least I'm going to be patient and decide when we can see it the way the director/producer wants us to see it.
-
When Gohan was barely five or six, more space pods landed. One of them was Goku's brother, Raditz. He was surprised to find Earth in-tact and Goku a defender of the weak. Goku was surprised to find out that he had been an alien all along, and refused to let him destroy the world he loved, but he was no match for his older brother. So Goku and Picolo teamed up reluctantly to defeat him. Still, Raditz was almost too strong, and beat the crap out of both of them before finally being defeated by... little Gohan!
Seeing a wealth of potential in the little kid and remembering Raditz's having said that more alien gladiators even stronger than him were on the way, he kidnapped Gohan and began training him in the badlands. Like his father, Gohan turned into quite the outdoorsman. In fact, he regularly killed and ate huge dinosaurs that should have been eating him!
It wasn't too many months before the other alien gladiators (called Saiyins) landed. One was a hulking thug. The other was the Saiyin prince himself, a short and angry warrior named Vegeta. Naturally, they began destroying everything in sight, starting with Goku, the only one present to stand up to them. -
It was announced back when Transformers came out. I'm pretty sure that it is bad news, as he is the last person I want to see in the Rick Hunter role (ok, maybe he's better than Freddy Prinze Jr or Casper Van Dien, but...)
-
Many battles followed. Piccolo became an official good guy after Gohan taught him to care about others. Goku and his son reuinited. The invading Saijins were defeated, though Vegeta was allowed to live. Actually, Vegeta became arguably the most 3-dimensional character as he struggled with his new-found conscience. Stranded on Earth, he fell in love and married Bulma.
Many, many, many stories followed as new threats to the Earth came at Goku and his friends one-after-another. They spanned this world and the next, and various other planets, realms of existence, etc. Goku eventually evolved into a mythical Super-Saiyin capable of blowing up entire worlds and teleporting across the Universe. Vegeta did the same, as did Gohan and his eventual other little brother. Vegeta and Bulma bore a son who twenty or so years later travelled back in time to them to finally meet his father and warn of an apocalyptic future.
So, you see, the Dragonball story really can be seen as epic. -
Some people really DO take it that seriously.
-
Sin City-like backgrounds and ROTS-like special effects to make this movie look ANYTHING like the creators intended.Once again I ask, WHY THE FUCK IS GOKU WHITE!?!?!?!?!?!?!/!? the ONLY saving grace is Emmy Rossum's hot ass, but even her eye candy ways won't be able to save this fucking catastrophe.WHY NOT JUST DO A PIXAR-STYLE ANIMATED FILM????Stephen Chow, I expected SOOOOOOOOO much more from than this pathetic tripe.
-
This is an extremely gay question but I'll go for it. Does anyone know if Piccolo will be green or not? I believe he is the villain in this one. I didn't know if they're making him a green dude or if he'll be some other race or color. I'm not bitching about being "true to the cartoon." I'm a huge DBZ fan, but I could care less if he's green or not. I'm just curious.
-
haha.. he's awesome if he is..
-
Transformers was Episodic and DBZ was serialized giving a foundation to build characters, but with TF you still got a sense of the characters and what they're about. At the same time you definately knew about the DBZ characters after 3 season the problem with DBZ was the asain sense of humor and all the damn filler episodes. but there tons of moments with Gravitas My favorite Episode will always be when Vegita Blows Himself up, after knocking out his son and Gokus kid.
-
That was a great moment, indeed.
-
Well it does, doesn't it? I didn't like it when I was 12 years old and I don't like it now.
-
Well, the old Dragonball-Live-Action-Movie was pretty lame in most terms.
But the MutenRoshi-Actor was playing it like he was watching the Series over a dozen times, I mean it was, at least in my opinion, ingeniously translated.
I mean, he was actually impersonating that Anime-Character, that I'm doubting that the new Killer-like-Guy can handle the pervertness and grumpiness tagged together with the usual comedy that well.
In most episodes, he was showing off like he was a brilliant Sensei, but as soon as cute Girls passes him, he starts instantly going horny, ans most times endng up getting hit by those girls.
And we know, that there isn't much new to tell, storywise, so I think, we're going to see something like the other Anime-Movies of DBZ, with it's own Story.
If else, they're making it really easy for themselves, as they won't have to spend that much money on the Writers.
Well, and I've read at a german Newspage, that they already ended the Normal filming of DBZ, and were now in Post-Production.
But w8 a minute, do i see "A Team" at the Foxmovies-Page? whoah, that brings back memories about how i liked it, when they were building their Weapons&Vehicles, always made my day. -
DBGT was abosolute crap. SS4 C,mon thats just lazy but I know The creator of DB abd DBZ (not to mention the character design on Dragon quest) had nothing to do with DBGT.
-
I have no emotional stake in this film, but what is this, High School Musical? Who besides fans of the cartoon are going to see this movie, and who among those would mind an Asian lead?The pics are inconclusive. It can succeed if it spends very, very little time in any world resembling ours (think of the Masters of The Universe film for an example of how to get that horribly wrong) and goes over-the-top with the action.
-
Sadly Piccolo won't be green, There was a preview pic up on some blog and he looks to be black. Not a black man but the actual color black, but I haven't seen a pic of his face yet.
-
That was a shit ball if ever there was one the cut out 3/4 the story and leftout almost all the fight scenes. BUT IT DID HAVE RUFFFFFIOOOO.
-
to pass. Sounds like I made the right call. The anime movie was awesome. After seeing that I don't see how live action could compare, so I passed.
-
Aww, c'mon! He's named after a pickel, for goodness' sake! Dude's gotta be green! *gasp* They'd better not lay a HAND on his antennae!
-
casadesign.free.fr/ images/ ptcr_piccolo.j pg
-
casadesign.free.fr/ images/ ptcr_piccolo.j pg
-
without Ray that was one of coolest Mofo's in Anime history
-
I could be wrong, but I think that's their idea of Master Roshi...
-
Thanks for the info. A black Piccolo? I'm kinda interested in what he'll look like. Whether this movie sucks or not doesn't matter to me. I'm really looking forward to seeing it.
-
Man, what a wonderfully, hilariously, awesomely terrible movie that is. As for the new movie... the only way they could do something close to the manga would be to either spend 200+ million bucks, or fork over 90 million to Stephen Chow and the studios in Asia. Fox, being Fox of course, chose the path that would be least troublesome and make an investment instead of a movie: Give it to a low-rent director, shoot it on the cheap, dump it into theaters knowing international, tv, and DVD sales will guarantee profit.
-
You're... really young, aren't you?
-
And we all know how that one turned out. "I'm going to keeek Bison's ass! WHO'S WITH ME?!?!!"
-
OMG...was that first pic of that boy really meant to be Goku? wow...i mean WOW. Is it just me or will this end up like a cross between Street Fighter and Power Rangers.
-
is it just me, or do these photos show a totally different cast than the one listed on imdb? Justin Chatwin, Emmy Rossum, James Marsters, Chow Yun-Fat...All at least recognizable, if not A-list. Who are these people? Is this even the same project?
-
This reminds me of Mario Bros, Double Dragon and Street Fighter, a FUBAR adaption of the source materials
-
I would rather see a finished product.
-
but worse. It will be like a half dead dog took a shit on the MK movie. That's what DBZ will be like.
-
www.legroom.fr /cinema/ des-photos-de-dragonball- le-film/
-
pretty sure that picture (casadesign.free.fr/ images/ ptcr_piccolo.j pg)has been confirmed as fake
-
There is NO WAY they can adequately portray Goku's story in a 2-hour film. Well, at least Evangelion is safe... for now...
-
And the ironic thing is that this SAME character spouts off the SAME thing day after day no matter how wrong he is. He's a walking overdone cliche all on his own!
-
Um do any of you realize that there is no real or official cast memebers in these pictures? It looks pretty shitty but i'm hoping it's because they arent real...seems that way.
-
at this website at least anyway... http://www.demandsatisfaction.net/?p=93
-
I remember in high school when people were watching this. I tried to watch it....it was the most boring-drawn out slowest thing i've ever watched. There was no mythos...it was like watching old-people fuck. It was THAT SLOW. The fact that a shitty show is getting a shitty movie really shouldnt be a surprise. Then theres the anime aspect. I think the only reason people dig-anime is because they secretly want to see anime porn. Where else can sad-pathetic guys feel like real men in their lives by watching cartoon dick-monsters rapping cartoon girls who look like little kids? Just wrong.
-
ROFL @ GenreBoy
god that was the funniest thing I've read all day :P if you don't like anime, just say so
but yeah, I hold little hope for this movie. It'll take quite something to convert DragonBall to a movie that will appease the many fans out there.
Well, it'll be fun watching how they balls it up lol -
http://www.beyondhollywood.com/dragonball-set-pictures/dragonball-set-pics-11/
Readers Talkback
User Login
Top Talkbacks
- UPDATED!!! A Six-Pack Of New Character Posters For THE DARK KNIGHT RISES Forecast A Lot Of Gotham Rain And Snow!! -- 199 total posts 199 posts
- Tom Cruise Saddles Up For A Remake Of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN!! -- 133 total posts 131 posts
- Baz's THE GREAT GATSBY explodes with one helluva dazzling trailer! -- 142 total posts 128 posts
- Mark Millar Offers Some Interesting Insight Into The KICK-ASS Movie Sequel!! -- 108 total posts 108 posts
- Quint sees some DJANGO UNCHAINED footage at CANNES!!! -- 327 total posts 88 posts
- A Fire Definitely Rises In The New DARK KNIGHT RISES One Sheet!! -- 215 total posts 87 posts
- When there’s no more room in Hell The Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day will walk the earth. -- 70 total posts 70 posts
- SPOILER ALERT! AICN COMICS/POPTARDS PODCAST: JUSTICE LEAGUE! DANCER! INCREDIBLE HULK! HARDCORE! NEW CRUSADERS! INVINCIBLE IRON MAN! DANGER CLUB! -- 69 total posts 69 posts
- Stay Away From The Creepy Girl Alone In The Parking Lot For THE POSSESSION's Poster!! -- 43 total posts 41 posts
- Zach Galifianakis Is Ignatius J. Reilly? -- 41 total posts 41 posts