Dragonball: Evolution

[NowhereMan]

While I'm sure the casting guy thought he'd convey the right level of emotional detachment for Spike I feel I need to be one of the first to say that cool and withdraw |= wooden stoner.

[stray]

Yeah Spike's detached in a different way than Keanu.

Although, and I'm not ashamed to say it, but Keanu never fucks anything up as far as I'm concerned. He's so perfectly wooden that he simply does not get in the way. Neither here or there. And when the writing is smart-assy, his wooden delivery comes off as clever cynicism.

[Xerapis]

Wow. That video looked shittastic.

And I have fond memories of Dragonball too.

I mean, the show wasn't that great, but while watching it this cute MP started hitting on me and then we went back to his room to fuck.

Oh, well. Looks like it needs more skin. And while I'm not expecting superior acting quality from a Dball movie, it seemed to be...lacking passion.

Also.....BALLS. hehe

(i'm drunk)

[schild]

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

I am actually OK with that.

[Hindenburg]

He'd make a perfect Ein.

[Megrim]

Haha that's witty. Wait. No.

[stray]

You've gotta admit, physically, there aren't many actors who resemble him as well (not in the western hemisphere at least).




Ein, not so much.

[schild]

If Christian Bale can pull off an acceptable Batman, Keanu can pull off an acceptable Spike.

[Hindenburg]

Every time Christian Bale opened his mouth and tried to make a deep voice, he failed miserably. You're saying that Keanu will be great in the role as long as he doesn't deliver a single line, then?

[stray]

I don't think he failed miserably. Maybe a couple of times it sounded funny, but you're a being a bit dramatic.

[schild]

I don't think he failed miserably. Maybe a couple of times it sounded funny, but you're a being a bit dramatic.

This.

Spike never spoke that much anyway and Keanu looks the part.

If he plays it halfway between Constantine and Klattu, he'll be fine.

[stray]

It's actually pretty funny just how many movies Keanu has made and how different most of them are from each other, and how many of them are generally considered at least decent, even while he himself is generally looked down on as an actor. I don't think there's anyone else like that.

[LK]

I respect Keanu's career. People give him shit but I like it when he's in a movie.

[schild]

Stray and Lorekeep:

I put him and Mark Wahlberg in the same category: Worthy of popcorn.

I could watch almost any of either of their movies any (and every) day of the week.

[stray]

I think they're almost opposites actually. Keanu's a not so good actor who picks decent scripts, especially of the popcorn variety. The Matrix alone puts him somewhere else. In my mind at least, there's only like 2 or 3 sci-fi movies as good as it. The rest of his action stuff is entertaining, even Point Break. While Wahlberg is a good actor who doesn't always know a good script - and I've yet to like his popcorn movies. I can barely make it through them. He shines in stuff like Boogie Nights, Departed, or Basketball Diaries, and I wouldn't be surprised if won a bunch of awards one day.

[Broughden]

[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.

As an aside....Phoebe runs a boutique in Manhattan. First time my wife and I walked in, while living in NY, and I realized who it was, then thought of her in the fantasy scene, then stopped breathing...my wife thought it was "cute." 

[WindupAtheist]

Shitty anime becomes shitty movie. Doomed from the word go.

[stray]

I can understand not liking it, believe me, but it's not really a shitty anime. Doomed is hardly the word. It's popular across the world, and generates more cash than most things, from Japan or otherwise. Since you like paying attention to numbers a lot, it's a multi billion dollar franchise. The entire lineup of "Shonen Jump" stuff makes an assload of money (Naruto, Bleach, Yu-Gi-Oh, Dragonball, One Piece, Death Note, etc), and Dragonball is just one thing that's made something like $4 billion. Things like Star Wars, Disney, and Pokemon top it, but not much else.

[Hindenburg]

Stray, don't be silly.

Obvious troll is obvious. I abjure thee and all thy works, demon.

[stray]

Ah. Sometimes it's hard to tell. Because I can understand how 500 episodes of bigheaded kids fighting in deserted fields for hours upon hours can be grating... but they do have their charm in certain doses. With children, the tolerance level is even higher. Therefore, the shows are not doomed.

[raydeen]

I may have to rip my own head off just so I don't have to see the horror that this will be. I know DBZ gets a lot of bad rep and it is cheesy but this....This is going to make the Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat movies look like Oscar material. It won't even be bad in a good way. Hell, I think I'd even want to watch the Bloodrayne movies before this. This should have been done by whoever did 'Fung Wan' (Stormriders). That was about as close to DBZ as I've ever seen anything get effects and battle-wise.

[RhyssaFireheart]

I must be one of the few people in the world who's never seen Dragonball (in any incarnation) nor do I particularly want to.  There's a thread about this on the IGN Anime General Board with a link for a review from ANN.

An excerpt:

In the end, it all boils down to one thing: this movie appeals to nobody. It was made for no one. People who aren't familiar with the Dragon Ball story at all will be so flabbergasted by what's happening that they will likely tell everyone they know that it's one of the worst movies they've ever seen. Fans who do know what the general story is will be furious at just how unbelievably badly they screwed this entire thing up. Kids are used to better writing than this in their weekday afternoon cartoons (although you may run into a kid who has never actually seen a movie before, and they might dig it until you show them another movie). It's a clunky, tiresome, badly executed, horribly written pile of shame that deserves no quarter.

In short, it's as bad as the fans said it would be.

I was actually considering see the movie for camp value until I read the review.  Now I guess I'll just wait until it hits cable, if then.

[rk47]

It's terrible. There's just no redeeming it.

here lemme spoil it for you to save your cash.

[Xurtan]

Was anyone else incredibly disturbed to learn that James Marsters plays Piccolo?   

[LK]

Along with a shit movie comes a shit shit shit shit game tie-in:
http://www.dragonballevolutiongame.com/

[SurfD]

It's terrible. There's just no redeeming it.

here lemme spoil it for you to save your cash.

I would just like to add on top of this, having now seen most of the movie while at work:

HOLY FUCKING TERRIBLE ACTING.   I mean, what the hell.  I was expecting this to be bad, but Jesus Christ, they probably could have trained a chimp on coke to deliver its lines better then that kid they chose to play Goku.   I had to resist the urge to to jam my fists into my skull through my ear-canals during the entire sequence where Goku is explaining his grandfather's dying remarks to Roshi.  The delivery was just that bad......