Dragonball Z (Not a joke)

[Z.Z.]

I really want to meet the guy who pitched goku in high school you know just to laugh at how much he fails.

 

[Bajaratt]

That's not a good argument, since they did call it Dragonball. They did decide to try to make a film adaptation of the series. They did market it as such. But they didn't do a good job. At worst, it's a shitty attempt at cashing in on the popularity. At best, it's a very loose adaptation. Neither are what people wanted to see, so it's a bad film. Dismissing complaints because "It would've been better if it wasn't called Dragonball" is a null argument. Super Mario Bros. could've been a good movie if it wasn't called Super Mario bros. Street Fighter could've been a good movie if it wasn't called Street Fighter. Alone in the Dark could've been a good movie if it wasn't called Alone in the Dark(unlikely, but you get the point.) But they weren't, and aren't.

When you market something towards fans of a series television or book series, it needs to be faithful. You're already taking a hit on ticket sales from people who already aren't interested in the source material. Just because the names "Goku," or "Mario," or "Guile" are being used doesn't boost a script to gold ink on gold paper status.

So, it's okay to go on and on about how the movie is horrible(when you've never even seen it) and it's "raping your childhood" when it's only a loose adaptation(which it is) of a series? There's nothing wrong with that and their reactions are completely justified?

Those morons are acting like the movie has absolutely no redeeming factors; that there isn't a single frame of good content. Saying "it'd be a good movie if it didn't have the name" isn't a bad argument, it's a simple counter to wildly over exaggerated responses to something that they'd never like even if it was perfectly duplicated. The movie has redeeming qualities, it's not bad. It's just not a perfect duplicate of the series; which honestly only a retard would actually expect a perfect recreation from ANY other medium to a movie at this point.

 

[Novolo]

I want to see it to bad i have better things to do with my money :| and on top of that im to lazy to be a pirate... ARGHH!!!!!! don't wana put on my eye patch and peg leg, and pull my parrot out of the closet...... >.>;

 

[Z.Z.]

So, it's okay to go on and on about how the movie is horrible(when you've never even seen it) and it's "raping your childhood" when it's only a loose adaptation(which it is) of a series? There's nothing wrong with that and their reactions are completely justified?

Those morons are acting like the movie has absolutely no redeeming factors; that there isn't a single frame of good content. Saying "it'd be a good movie if it didn't have the name" isn't a bad argument, it's a simple counter to wildly over exaggerated responses to something that they'd never like even if it was perfectly duplicated. The movie has redeeming qualities, it's not bad. It's just not a perfect duplicate of the series; which honestly only a retard would actually expect a perfect recreation from ANY other medium to a movie at this point.

It's also not retarted to ask for their not to be any "Help me get the girl" comments from Goku or that Goku not be in high school.

On that note was it too much to ask that the writers actually TRY not to slap the fans in the face. This a "We watched 2 or 3 episodes then wrote a script on what we saw." kinda thing. It's not difficult to ask that when you make a movie like this even if it's only a loose adaption that the stuff you do take from the source material is accurate. The kamehameha was not a leaping motion, and it didn't heal people. Goku never cared about things like getting girls in fact thourghout the series he was rather confused about the entire process.

 

[Hitaru]

I watched it recently, and I honestly think it wasn't that bad a movie that everyone made it out to be...sure some comments and things could have been removed like the help me get the girl comment, but it's all in good fun...and they're trying to make him as human and teenagerish as possible in my opinion.

Roshi healed him with a kamehameha but he also said "pain is good", so I thought that the adrenaline rush would get his heart pumping again since the bullet from that bitch almost killed him etc.

when he did the Kamehameha, yeah I guess jumping was a bit uncalled for but I'm not really a fan of the original series so I don't know about moving while doing that specific move, but it didn't look bad to me.

for a martial arts/action movie based on an anime/manga that deals with that kind of stuff I think it did ok, not well not shit but ok, sure they changed some stuff around but who doesn't...look at any comic book/anime remake where stuff hasn't been changed...just give it some leeway...or I'm just to carefree to give a shit and actually enjoy it.

 

[Pasquale]

Necro, I know, but the movie came in from Netflix today and I finally watched it.

What a pile of crap. I don't know how anyone can sit there and say this movie was good or even just passable. Fucking terrible.

 

[Koenigstiger]

I enjoyed it. Not the plot or anything, but the facial expressions of Chatwin(especially how goofy he looked during the part when he was riding a bike, looks like a total doofus).

 

[Anglis]

Oh man. I just netflixed this movie with a couple buddies of mine. Easily makes my top 10 worst movies ever.

Is this not 2009? Those special effects were like watching a tv to made movie on the WB.

The acting? Did the actors read every line off a teleprompter? Wow is all I can say. The characterization was one of the worst, if not the worst I've ever seen and that includes the awful "House of the Dead". At least at that move I could laugh.

The only time I laughed at this movie was the horrible blue screening special effects in the back ground.

Oh yeah...they utterly raped the manga. RAPED. I mean seriously, who comes up with this stuff? Couple of guys sitting around a table saying "Lets make a Dragonball movie, but not for fans!" Second guy "But why make a Dragonball movie in the first place if it's not for the fans? It's not like it's gonna get a big drawing" The Director "I hate manga's and American's who read them, lets rape this shit, take their money, then laugh later" So yeah, this movie gets a big fat 0.