Seriously, What the Hell is the Dragonball Film Doing?
I’ll be the first to admit that Dragonball and Dragonball Z is not holy scripture, and could stand to be tweaked to become more broadly appealing to mass audiences. But what the hell is this green pit of goo, snapped by someone calling himself Troy Mustang (*sigh*) and shown on Slashfilm? “Not sure what the set involves”? Me either, pal, and I’ve read all 42 volumes of the manga, which has a total of zero goo pits in it, green or otherwise. Why even call the movie Dragonball if the only similarity to the original is that it has a main character named Goku? Why not just re-release No Country For Old Men with the title of Dragonball instead? It just can’t be more ridiculous.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.