Dragonball: Evolution

[SurfD]

And now, for your viewing displeasure, I give you Dragonball: Evolution. The only movie almost guaranteed to make the Spirit look REALLY damn good in comparison.

[stu]

Wonder if the movie will end as a cliffhanger.

[schild]

Is it 600 hours long?

[FatuousTwat]

Is it 600 hours long?

Is 300 hours of it powering up (screaming)?

[Margalis]

One thing I will never understand about the movie business is why people pay for properties then make movies that are in no way related.

[DraconianOne]

One thing I will never understand about the movie business is why people pay for properties then make movies that are in no way related.

Key word is "business".

[ahoythematey]

Oh wow.  This looks so bad I think I'm going to drop some caps and see this day one.

[stray]

Wtf you guys talking about? This looks kickass! 

James Marsters is gonna be cool, I bet.

[Lakov_Sanite]

I don't like dbz(did like dragonball) but i can at least understand the appeal. It's crazy super-hero fighters fighting crazy super-villain monsters and all the special effects, reidiculous powering up and japanese cliches that entails.

Even if this movie was nothing like the anime in every other way it still would have succeeded if it was crazy over the top. As it is though this seems anything but a terribly mundane kung-fu flick with bad special effects and set in the real world...wtf? 

This movie could have been an hour and a half goku/piccalo crazy over the top fight and made a ton of money if they just appealed to what dragonball fans want.

[stray]

Those effects don't look bad to me. There's one scene in that trailer where it looks like Piccolo laid waste to some landmass too, so I don't think it's merely kung-fu with effects going on.

That said, I don't want to sound too enthused. Speed Racer looked cool too, but apparently, that didn't pan out (still haven't seen it myself though).

[edit] As for the "real world", do you mean you didn't know a live action movie was coming? Or are you commenting on it taking place on earth? Because most of it does take place on Earth in the cartoon.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Those effects don't look bad to me. There's one scene in that trailer where it looks like Piccolo laid waste to some landmass too, so I don't think it's merely kung-fu with effects going on.

That said, I don't want to sound too enthused. Speed Racer looked cool too, but apparently, that didn't pan out (still haven't seen it myself though).

[edit] As for the "real world", do you mean you didn't know a live action movie was coming? Or are you commenting on it taking place on earth? Because most of it does take place on Earth in the cartoon.

Yes but the earth in the anime is a sort of alternate reality fantastical place. This seems well...like they shot it in vancouver.  The effects don't look horrible but it doesn't look like it's gonna go over the top which is what people are going to want/expect. what makes dragonball popular is the "oh dude you gotta check this shit out it's crazy" reaction. This is going to be an ok forgetteble live action when if marketed and made well could have tapped into a very large fan base.

[HaemishM]

Goddamnit, why the fuck is Chow Yun Fat relegated to this shit?

[Merusk]

Is it 600 hours long?

No, but I'll wager it's over nine thousand seconds.

[Ingmar]

I can't believe it took until post 12.

[LK]

I'm ashamed to say that some parts of that movie looked "alright." The rest though... ugh.

[tazelbain]

Bulma should have blue hair.

[Evildrider]

It can't be worse then the Spirit. 

I'll see it because of Chow Yun Fat.  Plus I don't know enough about Dragonball to even worry about them being faithful to the source material.

[Merusk]

I can't believe it took until post 12.

Yeah I couldn't either, which is why I did it.

Bulma should have blue hair.

She should have a bigger chest too, and CYF should be lecherously trying to sneak a peek up her skirt or down her blouse whenever he can.. but that won't be in either.  As if these were major reasons not to watch. 

[stray]

They got a super cute girl to play her though (Emmy Rossum). Although.. she looks younger here than she already does.

[Murgos]

I can't believe it took until post 12.

<ob>Are they still on Namek?</ob>

[Hoax]

The fighting looked awful, video didn't seem choppy but the action seemed fucking horribly choreographed.

[NiX]

I'd pay to see Kamehameha. That's it. The rest would just ruin that moment.

Fucking Hollywood.

[LK]

The Kamehameha in the trailer seemed like ass.

Also, white guy who'd be better cast in Twilight playing a character with a Japanese name? Yeah. 

[Threash]

Wow i just saw the trailer for this and it looks so bad it just might be funny enough to watch.

Also, white guy who'd be better cast in Twilight playing a character with a Japanese name? Yeah. 

Aren't the huge round eyes and spiky hair meant to make them look american though? Goku doesn't look japanese, the only guy who looks japanese in the cartoon is being played by chow yun fat.  Hes not even from this planet actually.

[stray]

Not necessarily. Many Japanese do have big round (rather, almond) eyes, compared to other Asians.




In other ways, some Japanese look mixed with Caucasian, especially those who trace more roots to the Jomon Japanese, but they've been there forever. They are, more or less, native.



tl;dr : Asians don't all look the same.

[schild]

I SEE ABE HIROSHI.

[stray]

Fucking badass hair on him too 

[schild]

He's done some great stuff lately. Just thought I'd point that out.

I'm gonna have to acquire what is very obviously the live action version of the manga Aoi Tori which he seems to be headlining. But he also did a great slice of life movie recently called Aruitemo Aruitemo (Still Walking). In America I think it somehow got turned into Even if You Walk and Walk.

[Threash]

I didn't say asians look the same i said anime characters are meant to look americanised.

[stray]

I know you didn't say that. I'm just accusing you of it.  No really, I just think you're running under the assumption that Japanese = Asian and Asian = squinty eyed people or something. Not trying to make a big deal or anything, just pointing out that just in case you think that, then it's not really the case. Many Japanese have big eyes.

On the aesthetic end of things, I just think it's exagerrated maybe because it represents youthfulness or excitement. If you look at old people in Anime, they're always squinty.



Characters that are mostly stern never have the big eyes.




Anyways, whatever. I think for the most part, Japanese women actually resemble the artwork more than anyone from America.

[Hindenburg]

That nose is godawful.

[stray]

You're crazy.


Then again, an old girlfriend of mine had a broken nose. I've always gravitated towards a little difference there. Hell, my nose isn't all that flattering either. 

[schild]

People with an unflattering nose have lower standards of noses. He's not crazy, she's just in dire need of a nose job. Just because you don't think so doesn't distort reality.

As for Abe, yes, I would pay real money to age as well as he is.

[Xurtan]

I'm seeing some half-decent special effects with god-awful acting; and what in the name of Nyx was up with those fight scenes? I'm not sure I've seen a movie preview that bad in a long time.

I'm going to have to see it just for how bad it is going to be. 

I don't see the problem with the nose personally, it looks like it fits her face well.

[stray]

People with an unflattering nose have lower standards of noses. He's not crazy, she's just in dire need of a nose job. Just because you don't think so doesn't distort reality.

As for Abe, yes, I would pay real money to age as well as he is.

Well this will be boring, but it's just a Dragonball thread, so as an aside.. Most Asians age well, until they get 60 or 70, and then they age 400 years.  It's the lack of epiphanic folds (no fold in the eyelid), and just general fat/soft tissue in the face (which in turn, means less signs of wrinkling, which would show up on thinner skin). As for money, I think botox follows the principle of injecting a fatty look to one's face, but that seems to just lead to disastrous results. On the flipside, without the fold, the eyelid of a typical Asian person sags over as they get older, and that's where they get the "beady" looking eyes.. which, despite less wrinkling, makes them look a bit ancient.

If you're mixed Asian, you have the folded eyelids of a Caucasian, and less wrinkling of an Asian. Jennifer Tilly and Keanu Reeves are roughly Abe's age, but look younger than he does (Jennifer Tilly is like 5 yrs older actually.. at 50 ). [edit] Phoebe Cates is older than Abe too. Still beautiful. Kevin Kline is a lucky bastard. Whoever is shagging Tilly is a lucky bastard too.



On an anime note, I read that Keanu is going to do a live action Bebop adaptation.