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Hey folks, Harry here - I've heard nothing good about this film so far. Behind the scenes - I've heard nothing but trouble - Then the earliest images just looked... meh. Well here's more... meh. Check it out if you care - but this looks like another ball of shit from the house of Rothman...
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I live in the UK so I'm rarely awake when these headlines are posted...
Anyway, everything about this film looks wrong. -
Sep 03, 2008 12:17:58 AM CDT
Ya' know, I really wanted to hate these pics at first....
by the eskimo
....but I'm on the fence. i got into the cartoon late (like five years ago) and have been pretty sure this would be a bomb but....man! I just don't know. They are REALLY REALLY gonna have to ramp up the action and CGI for this to be successful though. Could be a real sleeper of a great film.
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....this would have actually been a good film for Bay to direct. Take that MCXMLL or whatever.
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Seriously, how good couple a live-action DBZ really look? I'd wager this is the best we're gonna get from a property like this. I'm just glad I wasn't a fan in the first place... though I do know plenty of DBZ fans that are just glad they're getting a movie out of it.
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Dragon Ball Z is a touching story about five displaced children who live in a box car and learn that the most important thing in life is the love of family. Get with it man!
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Everyone... and I mean EVERY one... on that show looks like they're having a bad hair day, or are horribly constipated, or both.
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C'mon folks, surely the studios and execs involved know this looks about as good as the first street fighter movie with Jean Claude. They must just be hoping it makes money and looking for a cheap cash cow.
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What's his magical power? I don't know but he creeps me right the fuck out!
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That is the word the kids are using these days for this kinda stuff.
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holy shit does this look bad. does anyone remember korea made a dbz movie back in the day? im betting the house it was better than this. this looks almost as bad as the first fantastic four film, that was never officially released. this sucks ass. this looks fucking retarded.
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...for the clearly Japanese-ish Charlie. I hated but moved on. But when Metal Gear 2 tried to force Rayden, or Raiden, or whatever Japanese guy into the franchise at the cost of the best thing in the franchise, Solid Snake, I gave up on most Japanese entertainment. It's funny to see some white people in such a Jspanese franchise.
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It looks like someone ate the film for Street Fighter and threw it back up. The result: this mess.
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Sep 03, 2008 12:34:33 AM CDT
It's always nice when someone forms an opion without actually wa
by the eskimo
....eh Harry?
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the good news is toriyama is back to do a new OVA. at least we get some new dragonball. but this movie is going to suck ass. still amazed at how fucking stupid it looks.
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can they get anything right?
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Was there ever any question that this would be horrible?
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oh shut up, you wish you'd thought of it first...honestly though, she's ugly and mean and is possibly a dude...
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PINO!
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Sep 03, 2008 12:54:57 AM CDT
Wow...its shitty....what a fucking surprise. This is news?
by davidduchovneys_wandering_cock
NEXT.
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The source material is gay, therefore the fucking live action version of the source material will be waaaaaaay gayer. I mean, like, super gay. Not that there is anything wrong with that. If you like gay films, hey its cool man. I dig it. Put its still a piece of shit. Fuck dragon ball, fuck dragon ball fans and fuck anime. Well, most anime. Some of its good.
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I kinda want a live action InuYasha
movie.
But then I come to my senses. Realize it would look stupid and the voices would be all wrong.
I really wish they'd continue the series. Really hate how the anime ended.Mp>
I've seen the movies that followed and know that the manga continued up into this year.
To a real conclusion (I think). -
By being in films like this, Bulletproof Monk and The Replacement Killers???He's completely draining the goodwill and coolness he built up from The Killers and Hard-Boiled. PLEASE Chow Yun-Fat... Go back to making badass films again!!! We PROMISE to watch! Just spare us the PAIN of seeing you demean yourself by starring in Grade-X Americanized, comedic "action" films... :(I cry for YOU, Yun-Fat... not for myself. *sniff* ...I cry for YOU...:`(
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dude, these pics look like they were taken in the Hotel Hyatt on a Saturday costume contest -- thanks for the shitty film 20th Century Fox =0p
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A movie based on a crappy cartoon will be.... crappy. No. Fucking. Way.
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somehow the managed to make it into a bad episode of Power Rangers.
You can make Dragonball good. Give me a shot at it plz. -
That this movie is going to suck donkey balls, i mean seriously...who were didnt think it was going to not suck?
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I'll see the film - thus far I've heard nothing good on the film and the advance images look like shit. That said, I have liked the director's work before - and I said the same sort of thing about GALAXY QUEST in advance - and the movie killed me.
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There were plenty of ways that this could have been done well. And they chose to do none of them. Goku's a white guy with a bad douchebag gel job? Are you serious. Goku could have been played by Jason Scott Lee. You do a split narrative between the world tournament and Vegita coming to earth. Oh well, perhaps it'll get a redo like Hulk did.
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Sep 03, 2008 1:36:35 AM CDT
Well, Galaxy Quest was funny because it was original
by davidduchovneys_wandering_cock
Also because if was a spoof of a dead genre and the people who keep it going long after it died. It was a terrific send up of Star Trek and its fans. Much better spoof than say...Space Balls was for Star Wars.
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this won't transition to live-action well.
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Mid-air battles, teleporting, smashing guys thousands of feet down into rock floors leaving gigantic craters, giant spirit bombs and kamehamehas, staring into each other's eyes and saying stuff like "HAHAHA I'm using only 1% of my total power!" If they do all of that then this movie will rule.
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He looks like a burn victim...
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Was never a die hard fan, but if it was ever on CN when I was younger I'd catch it. Weird worlds/characters tied together with season long fights. These pictures though...Seems to take itself waaaaay too seriously. Piccolo was a midget and didn't look like a vampire from Buffy (and he was the brunt of a lot of jokes). Looks like they've gone for some fairly standard fantasy shit...*grumbles "money-grabbers".
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did anyone actually expect a live action DBZ to work? I'm sure it sounds like a cool idea at first, but what exactly do you think you're going to get?
Watch the cartoons. Thats what you love. A live action movie is superfluous at best; a cynical grab at your fanboy dollar. -
Sep 03, 2008 4:34:28 AM CDT
DragonBall has always been a crap retelling of my story...
by monkey_king
Imitation doesn't flatter this Monkey! Dragonball, Goku, Gohan and everything else it spawned should go away and stop cluttering DVD shelves and game stores.
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...and I don't mean it in a good way. I used to enjoy the show as a kid and was looking forward to the movie. But images make me feel exactly the way I did when I saw the live action SF movie. Thankfully there was a much better animate SF movie out there to erase memories of the live action one. Only thing still keeping memories of that alive is the fact it was Raul Julia's last movie.
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The same could be said about Batman: "Gosh, that'll never work as a movie. A d00d flying around dressed up as a bat." But I saw The Dark Knight and it turned out pretty darn great. It's called interpretation. In the right hands, Dragonball could be brilliant. In the wrong hands, it becomes Power Rangers.
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DBZ live action can't work with this Forbidden Kingdom look. It needs the Speed Racer treatment, but with Speed Racer crashing the way it did, that ain't gonna happen for next FIVE years [unless TINTIN changes the game]
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The anime was definitely fun to watch, especially in the first 3 or 4 seasons. Season 5 went to shit...like the movie apparently. Just another example of a franchise that really could have been badass if they had stuck with more asian martial artists and tried to take the damn thing seriously. Justin Chatwin is NOT gokou. I agree with onezeroone, it should have gotten the stylized aniime treatment. The Wachowski's would have been better off adapting this than speed racer, since they stole so much of the style of the series to put in their Matrix flicks (EXAMPLE: When Smith slams Neo in part 3 into the ground, that's pretty much a scene by scene recreation of Recoom slamming Vegeta in the SAIYAN SAGA..no shit!!!!!) Too bad this will never be fully realized.
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that should have been NAMEK saga.
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Ughh, it looks horribly teen-american. You know, those terrible Disney channel films. Im not surprised but...ugh
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looks like Elija Wood with bed hair!
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It looks like one of those direct to video Power Ranger flicks (better than the show in production but still crap), which is all I could have expected from a live-action Dragonball movie.
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THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!
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I don't know what kind of cinematic gold you were looking for in a movie based on Dragonball, but as long as we get kamehamea waves, super saiyan power-ups, and geeky Bulma dialogue, I don't see what the problem is. You were all wet for Speed Racer, which was had essentially the same feel.
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You can hate a movie before you see it.
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Sep 03, 2008 8:16:36 AM CDT
Why the fuck does everyone have to wear black leather?
by mr slippy fist
Fox sucks balls and Rothman can eat dick. Does someone in every super hero movie have to dress like a dominatrix?
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You're one of those people who takes themselves too seriously.
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Where is Recoombe? He was mentally retarded.
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I haven't seen much of the show, but the Wachowski's pretty much already re-made it as the end of Revolutions. Therefore, it could work as live action, but with a main character as dorky looking as that I doubt anybody but fanboys or little kids will care.
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At dragon con last weekend he said he just got back from shooting dragon ball in mexico. looks like that might be him under all that makeup.
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I disagree with people judging movies before their release, or at least before someone sees it but... for real, how can anyone expect a masterpiece from Dragonball?
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It's not so much a direct to home video OVA as it an original short produced for the Jump Super Anime Tour
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Seriously.
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Though I have my doubts about this, I'll give it a chance like I do everything else. It doesn't suck 'til it's out and it sucks. Is it just me, or is DB one of the few franchises that doesn't really translate to live action? A huge part of it's appeal is the animation and all the goofy shit conveyed thru it.
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is like putting flames on optimus prime.lol.Oh and I had a slight hope that maybe this would look decent enough to take my kids too but that looks like shit.Poor James Marsters.
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Is the antithesis of "meh."
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Her eyes always kinda freaked me out because it looks like she's staring right into your soul, but she's a cutie, no doubt...dumb as a post, but cute.
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...for being a stupid-ass and bringing this up in a DB talkback of all places.
Huge DBZ fan...casual DB fan...so I'm gonna watch the movie no matter what.
Good or bad, I hope it makes a shitload of cash so that they can get to the DBZ movie(s).
Why is Piccolo not green? I can understand if the antennae might make a live-action Piccolo look silly...but, why isn't he green? -
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Sep 03, 2008 11:02:29 AM CDT
Stop moaning because it's rare to get a 100% true to comic movie
by damien chowder
Or better than the original source so just sit back, switch off your brain and relax. With Hollycrud constraints and boardroom brainstorms.. You can't expect a DB film for fans. If you were a meathead, chav, jock, joe public, sheeple, general drooling idiot then you will have a good time. They out number us and so most movies are catered for them.
I know it's hard to do but turn off your brain and you'll have a good time. Transformers and Wanted come to mind, good films and that's that. Nothing more nothing less. -
That gets translated to film have to have the hero characteres wearing black leather or rubber suits? I've seen all of 4 or 5 episodes of the anime and never cared for it, but I remember that Piccolo wore colorful clothes. Xmen....G I Joe....why do they all have to wear black matrixey quasi-swat team gear?
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Dragonball, Dragonball Z, Dragonball GT.....its all together the dumbest shit out there, its the same crap over and over and over. Goku fights really tough guy and gets his ass kicked, his friends join in and they get their asses kicked, THEN Goku comes back and fights the SAME asshole over the span of like 3 episodes THEN he kicks their ass FINALLY.....rinse and repeat, and stupid Dragonball fans line up to spend their candy money on this shit. sorry, i have friends that REALLY like this shit....and i just cant see why
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For reals. How can you fuck up Piccolo's look?? It's so simple!
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... Fucker's gonna get a whole ball of free money from WB to get Watchmen back on track. "FOX: Why make movies when extortion is so much easier?"
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Why doesn't it click that this is a Dragonball movie not a Dragonball Z movie. Dragonball was a lot more kiddy and kid friendly than DBZ and this is most likely going to be a movie geared towards kids not fans of of Akira Toriyama, the manga or anime. This won't even be geared for the cartoon network/FUNimation crowd. The studio saw a sucessfull and marketable franchise that they want to use to sell toys. This isn't being made for otaku fans of DB, DBZ, or DBGT. Realize this movie for what it is and quit crying because Vegita, Cell, Buu Trunks, ect aren't in it. They were never in Dragonball in the first place. Realize this is a kids movie and move on.
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Truly an awful cartoon with rinse and repeat stories and overlong, poorly animated fights. Oh, and dialogue that is supposed to sound so serious and earnest...it's fucking shit!!
And as to why some shitty character isn't green, Hollywood doesn't respect GOOD source material...why would they respect this garbage? Just because it's Japanese doesn't make it good - it's pretentious and utterly worthless.
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Now that I've grown up wow I can't believe I was into that garbage. What a shallow repetitive piece of shit. The character design was awesome..thats it.
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Dragonball was always like playing "sword fight" in your back yard with your best friend. You would make up goofy stories to act out and would always try to top each others special "skills" by always coming up with some more outrageous. That is exactly what DB/DBZ is all about just good FUN. And I for one am excited about going to see this with my nephew.
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i remember sitting with a friend while he was in "geek-mode" watching DBZ, anyway....i sat with him, gritted my teeth and decided to put up with what i was watching. anyway, the episode starts off while hes in the middle of a fight....and i shit you not, seemingly the WHOLE episode was him charging a "Spirit Bomb" er whatever....and when he FINALLY did it i believe (if i remember correctly) that it did almost nothing to his opponent, and he continued to fight him in the next episode er some shit.
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...my apologies sir.
The images have now been removed at the request of the studio.
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Sep 03, 2008 1:18:36 PM CDT
Tom Rothman Obviously Cut The Green Paint Budget...
by troutmaskreplicant
The only Green Rothman likes is the contents of his wallet.
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The only male heroes that can pull of big hair and still look cool are either A) Han Solo or B) Cloud Strife. I don't know Dragonball Z aside from it was an anime, and I don't know what the hubbub is aboot anyway.
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I have a passing memory of watching a few episodes of this while babysitting in the 90s, but I don't remember seeing anyone that looked like a mashup of Gollum and The Master from Buffy. That looks terrible.
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question ...what exactly was wrong with "replacement killers" and "bulletproof monk" ?? they were great movies...how does that damage his "reputation" ?? cuz its not a lame martial arts movie.. ?? even jet li knew when it was time to stop making the same movie over and over and over and over...
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now anyone can look like goku just by fixing your hair!
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...I was really taking jab at Weiner for dissing this without any knowledge of the show, and was referring back to a previous talkback when someone janked on you for dismissing the Sarah Conner Chronicles without watching more than a few episodes...but there have been a million posts since me previous one, so you probably won't even see this. Oh well, I come off like a douche-bag yet again.
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People like Damien that say, "just sit back, switch off your brain and relax" should be banned. YOU'RE what's wrong with movies today.
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The original Dragonball was great. I'll still defend it. It was funny. Unfortunately, people seem to be the least familiar with it. "Don'T got eNuff X-treem fightin'", I guess.
Dragonball Z I can't really defend. It started taking itself too seriously and the dragged-out fight scenes were annoying. Most of us know that Toriyama wanted to end Z early on, but Bandai forced him to continue making it.
Toriyama finally had enough and quit, and then we got that GT garbage (which Toriyama had very little to do with).
And yes, this live-action movie looks like crap. It will be ridiculed in Asia just like Godzilla 1998 was. -
Such a strange show to try to adapt to live action. We could have 8 different dragon ball adaptations by different people and they would probably all look like completely different films.
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i don't care what ANYONE says....out of all the movies they like, several would be considered by others to be a "turn off your brain" movie....so get over it already ya little bitchy bitches, bad movies aren't going ANYWHERE....EVER!!!....so stop this pointless quest-for-nothing garbage in trying to stop movies like this from happening, all of you combined dont have the power to change it. besides.....without "turn off your brain" movies.....Killer Klowns From Outer Space would have never come to be.....and who would want that???....oh yeah, a overly serious douche
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....i don't necessarily push for bad movies to get made, i just know its gonna happen no matter what i say and do....and you can either enjoy them for what they are (which is usually unintentionally FUNNY garbage)....OR.....be a prick about it.
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There dosn't look to be anything remotely like Dragonball Z in this movie at all!!! Why the fuck is Piccollo white??? Why? Why??? This is bullshit!!! How could you fuck that up??? How??? I simply fail to understand...
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Its funny when people completly accept bullshit. You know why Hollywood keeps making shit BECAUSE YOU'LL KEEP WATCHING IT. Demand better and you'll get better. Until then you'll get what you deserve and accept. Since when did using my ability to call bullshit, bullshit become "being a prick" maybe people have lowered there standards so much they have know Idea how dumb and moronic they appear to be. I you honestly think that If you think you are watching is engaging and entertaining to you I have no beef with that, but If accept off the bat that what you are watching is dumb, loud, and nonsensical but you indulge anyway, what does that say about you? That you'll spend money on any POS hollywood doles out because i.e. your not smart enough to care, you dont have anything better to do with your time, Then what does that realy say about yourself.
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DBZ is as rich in story definately moreso then Transformers I think It should have been handled alot like a crosss between Kungfu Hustle and the Matrix with more asians less white people and if it looked more like the show and they should have started with the last season of Dragon ball.
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I meant to say that "if you honestly are enjoying a movie based on your perception of its quality i have no beef with that but if accept that a movie is shit and still indulge what does that say about you."
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Sep 03, 2008 7:57:23 PM CDT
The problem is that this is LIVE ACTION, not that it would be a
by halberd
I've been one of the hardcoriest, nerdiest, long-time fans of the DB/DBZ/DBGT Universe(s), and you're telling me that a live action endeavor could fill in the gigantic shoes of Akira's apex creations? After hearing of the casting and crew behind this effort [namely James Wong qualifying to direct this with such high-caliber action titles under his belt as... The One and Final Destination?] half of my face went numb because I thought I underwent a mild heart attack. With $100 million riding on this, I would say add maybe 50% of that to the net budget, call up Jimbob Cameron/Michael Bay and utilize some of that new tech they're dropping on Avatar with interactive CG characters. Or ILM can have their hand at it if you can flow that into the budget with success. It'll be like the Hulk/Iron Man mixing real characters with digital ones, except a thousand more explosions and a serious amount of eye candy to go with all the action involved. Because we ARE dealing with arguably the greatest action cartoon/manga series of all time here. I will be damned if I can ever see Justin Chatwin pulling off a Kamehameha or Spirit Bomb without either cringing or completely shitting my pants on my way out of the theater. Prove me wrong Wong, and I doubt you will.
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The only thing better than those magical golden dragon balls are a few magical golden showers.
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will they ever learn.
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and what a crapfest that was!
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It will probably be bad but who cares, it's Dragonball! I love all the long fights in the toon. No way that can happen in a movie but I hope they attempt to fight right in the movie. I hate quick cuts and extreme zoom shots. I want a pull back to see all the action whether it looks right or not.
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dude.....coming from someone who thinks such works as "The Relic" and "End of Days" don't fall into the SHIT MOVIES category simply tells me you dont know what the fuck you are talking about. You call crap on so many movies but you never stopped to realize YOU LIKE SHIT TOO!!!....get over yourself ya putz, step outside that little world of yours where everything must be PERFECT. retard. your logic is SHIT.
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excuse me Phategod2.....be a "whiney prick" about it, sorry...that whiney part makes ALL the difference dosen't it???....is that better than being a regular prick???
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sorry but bitching about bad movies is like bitching over spilled milk or cumming too early....SHIT HAPPENS, get over it
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Sep 04, 2008 3:52:04 PM CDT
Chief Joseph and co... Just switch off your brain and relax.
by damien chowder
You should be banned for your own safety. People like you who complain about a movie that hasn't come out, seeking negativity and visiting a thread that pisses them off! You are the dictionary term for idiot and should really switch off your brain. If a knife is in front of you, stop walking into it.
Some people have a weird way of interpreting english....
If I know a a movie is shit I won't indulge in it! You fecking tards! I'm saying there are movies that need no thought and are still enjoyable.
I'm just facing reality that Hollycrud will never cater for the real fans. So I'm just watch it with a fresh mind.
I bloody grew up with DBZ way before it came to the West so fuck you Chief Joseph and friends.
Here is my knife, you are welcome to walk into it.
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KAMEHAMEHA! Lame man...lame
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Ok, I’m not a big fan of Dragon Ball but I enjoyed it enough to NOT hate it. It was ok, but to those DBZ fans; I am truly sorry for what they are going to get. This is going to suck more that 10 hookers on a senator’s dick. Holy fucking shit! Picollo looks more like a fucking albino demon than a green alien. But the entire look of the cast seems just so wrong, and the vibe that is coming out really isn’t helping much either. Might as well rename this movie DISASTER MOVIE 2: DRAGONBALL. This looks like just another movie that Hollywood has gotten its greedy hands on and just Americanized the shit out of it. DAMN YOU HOLLYWOOD! I was actually looking curious to see it but then as soon as some of the images started popping up online, every bit of inclination of watching it went to Hell. Its like meeting a do-able chick at the club, hooking up, going to her place and finding out the she is a he. Just plain awful. Serious, if you can’t do justice to the source material or improve it, then don’t do it at all. This movie is gonna blow chunks. -
From a career making performance on Buffy and Angel to the lead in a freakin' DragonBall Z movie. I just hope he doesn't get stuck in B-Movie Hell like Lance Henricksen.
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