First Live-action 'Dragon Ball' Movie Images Produce Confusion, Sadness
Posted at 11:12 AM Jan 08, 2008
The live-action Dragon Ball movie is well on the path to infuriate everyone who's a fan of the anime, and please no one who's not. The HoyCinema blog has a few pics from the Mexico shoot with Justin Chatwin as Goku, and apparently the filmmakers have traded the mid-air, energy-blasting martial arts of the anime for mild vehicular assault, as Goku appears to be getting bumped by a yellow mustang.
In the beloved anime and manga, Goku usually saved the world from transforming, martial artist aliens with fights lasting hours of footage; he rarely had difficulties looking both ways before crossing the street. Given this discrepancy, it seems that the Dragon Ball movie is on track to be a debacle of the original Street Fighter movie proportions. Here's hoping that unlike Street Fighter's Raul Julia, Chow Yun-Fat (who plays lecher-sensei Master Roshi in the flick) won't die of shame immediately after filming. (Via Kotaku) • Rob
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I'm not really sure they could have done to make this movie NOT a debacle. Can you imagine what it would look like if they tried to be faithful? It'd just be a debacle of a different kind.
Posted 01/08/2008 at 09:12:52 AMConsidering the casting-- James Marsters as Piccolo? Chow Yun-Fat as Master Roshi? --I can only suspect that "debacle" is what they're going for.
Maybe it's kind of like The Producers, where they hope it will just fail horrifically. Hmm...
Posted 01/08/2008 at 02:20:39 PMMy bet is that the Mustang is actually some kind of robot in disguise and that Goku has to defeat it with an energy blast, or something.
Epic fail is still epic. I can only hope they make it bad enough that I won't be able to stop laughing throughout the entire movie.
Posted 01/08/2008 at 03:07:47 PMGoku is not really the interlectual type, so how possible be in highschool?????
Posted 01/10/2008 at 02:09:26 PMthat pic looks fake. why the hell would they try to update dbz from the story. please stick with the original story!!!
Posted 04/18/2008 at 02:45:15 PMthat pic looks fake. why the hell would they try to update dbz from the story. please stick with the original story!!!
Posted 04/18/2008 at 02:45:28 PMGiven the final fight from Matrix Revolutions - it's possible to do it right. CGI has come a long way since then. It'll be a shame if they push out a crapper. :(
Posted 04/28/2008 at 12:52:34 PMI think if they would have taken a matrix like approach to it and kept it along what the characters are supposed to look like it could be good. the fact that it is dragon ball and they are using a teenager to play goku is messed up. going from cartoon to movie would be hard but if they would have go kung fu hustle+ crouching tiger hidden dragon+ matrix= possibly a good. it look like it is going to suck. i think that any person that grew up watching dragon ball anime fan or not it going to hate it.
Posted 05/15/2008 at 09:44:04 AMfirst of all, that is not a mustang, it is a charger, second, this movie will become great because they will not wear those silly outfits.. such as"x-men" which everyone would agree turned out great. Im sure evveryone thought it would suck cus wolverine wasnt going to wear that yellow outfit, but everyone was wrong,.....p.s..... your gay
Posted 05/29/2008 at 03:20:20 PMwell we knew it would happen and so it has. They have taken our beloved DBZ plot and twisted it to accomidate for all audiences. Meaning Goku and Gohan will be dressed in Name brand cloths as oppose to those fitting the intensive training they under go to battle those strange and powerful intergalatic villians. I wonder if they even took the time to insure Goku goes Kaiokin before Super Sayan as he did in the series. Over all I antisapate a well over antisepated sci-fi hack job.
Posted 06/07/2008 at 11:14:51 PM