DBZ Movie: Here We Go Again

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by Raph's Girl

Some new piccies have come in:

Master Roshi has a mustache now...and a shirt with a semi-nude girl on it to um I guess prove that he's still perverted? Chow....your mustache is too thin for Roshi....

He looks like Chow Yun Fat. He DOESN'T look like Roshi one bit.

Why is this film being made? no one's gonna want to see it. They've alienated all the DB fans into never seeing it at all.

Once again, they should have made a deal with Funimation to distribute the actual DBZ movie dubs. It would be cheaper and more people would want to see it.

Unless Lion's Gate drops its asinine ownership of the first saga of Dragon Ball, and gives it to Funimation to release uncut, there's nothing good coming out of this.

[Mecha Cow]

Why is this film being made? no one's gonna want to see it.

I want to see it.

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by Mecha Cow

I want to see it.

As do I. Sure I'll be just watching it to have some Chow Yun Fat and James Marsters drool time....but I'll be watching it all the same. Why? Im a DB fan. Sure I hated the original film, who didn't? But Im still holding my judgement till I see more footage than I've already seen. Altho what I've seen (which is mostly the ChiChi/Mai fight at the Martial Arts Tournament) I actually like...even tho it's grainy (cell phone footage...wee!).

Course I also wanna see a full on image of Piccolo. Darnit...why do they have to be so secretive about what he looks like?! I know he's green at least cuz James Marsters insisted on it.

[Drtooth]

Morbid curiosity makes me want to see it. And if the trailers look good. I might just go to a crappy theater and sneak in after seeing something else. But it seems that they got everything wrong but the characters names.

Something tells me Japan isn't going to like this one. not one bit. I still wonder what they think of Speed Racer (Mach Go Go Go), but at least the cast LOOKED right, adn it looked like an anime. This looks like a television film, if anything.

Out of couriosity, is that Hong Kong Dragon ball film available on DVD? I saw it on VHS at a convention 2 years ago, but didn't feel like paying 10 bucks for it.

[gobo]

It was. I think it's out of print now.

EDIT: Or not...

[poiuytre]

This is going to be hilarious and cool in the Mario Brothers movie kinda way. That flick was bad in so many ways and other than a few names, it wasn't anything like Mario, but that made it fun. I expect this to be the same deal.

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by gobo

It was. I think it's out of print now.

EDIT: Or not...

When Lord Horn threatens to conquer the universe by stealing all seven dragon balls, it's up to Son Goku, Bulma, Master Roshi, Sea Turtle, and Chi Chi to take back the dragon balls and save the world!

WTF?! Turtle isn't even IN that movie! That's false advertising! Plus the fact that the characters all have different names. Turtle Man (Roshi), Jade (Chi Chi), Monkey Boy (Goku), SeeToe (Bulma), Westwood (Yamcha), Piggy (Oolong), Snow White (Puar, this time she's a Cockatoo), Sparkle (Grandpa Gohan).

[Ninjinister]

Chow Yun-Fat actually looked more like Kamesennin in At World's End than he does here... he didn't have the full on white beard, but at least he was bald and had more facial hair than a thirteen year old's mustache.

[Raph's Girl]

Well looks like Goku's got a rival of sorts. Texas Battle (that's the guy's real name!) plays a new character called Carey Fuller, who in the movie is... ChiChi's BF!! Can you say love triangle??? Oy!

http://dbthemovie.com/2008/07/06/cas...alkdragonball/

[poiuytre]

Originally Posted by Raph's Girl

Well looks like Goku's got a rival of sorts. Texas Battle (that's the guy's real name!) plays a new character called Carey Fuller, who in the movie is... ChiChi's BF!! Can you say love triangle??? Oy!

http://dbthemovie.com/2008/07/06/cas...alkdragonball/

That is the best name in the entire world.

I don't really mind how they sucked this side story out of their thumbs, eventho Goku was supposed to be Chichi's first boyfriend, but how the heck are love triangles supposed to bring a "romantic" note to a plot anyway? It's always about one person either cheating on their parter or at the very least dumping them hard to hop right to the next person. There's nothing good or romantic about that at all. It just illustrates how little commitment means to such a person.

[ZariusTwo]

New DBZ anime special on it's way

This movie can give up any minute now.

[Raph's Girl]

All those complaining that Goku has the wrong Gi on....well looky here! A news station in Japan did a report that included images of Justin Chatwin in the Orange Gi... Looks good!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIwBL1a4BJk

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by Raph's Girl

All those complaining that Goku has the wrong Gi on....well looky here! A news station in Japan did a report that included images of Justin Chatwin in the Orange Gi... Looks good!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIwBL1a4BJk

Something tells me Justin Chatwin could be wearing a chicken suit, and it still wouldn't effect the faithfulness to the show in the movie's direction.

What scares the crap out of me is that in the DB universe (even in parts of DBZ... at least in the anime) anthromorphic animals co-exist with humans. I can't wait to see how they'd screw that up.

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by Drtooth

What scares the crap out of me is that in the DB universe (even in parts of DBZ... at least in the anime) anthromorphic animals co-exist with humans. I can't wait to see how they'd screw that up.

I don't think there's any anthro's in this movie. Oolong, Puar, and Turtle aren't even mentioned in any of the previews.

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by Raph's Girl

I don't think there's any anthro's in this movie. Oolong, Puar, and Turtle aren't even mentioned in any of the previews.

Either they're going to avoid them completely or do one of 2 things...

Garfield/Alvin and the Chipmunks... make the characters look like hideous half breeds of cartoon animals and realistic ones... or

Underdog/Inspector Gadget... use real animals and saddle them with character names.

Everything about this movie screams, "We don't care about Dragon Ball, why are we even making it a movie?"

[Mecha Cow]

From what I read of the script, they used 'Oolong' as the name of an alien race or something. I don't know if that script was real or not, but that sounds ridiculous enough to be true.

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by Mecha Cow

From what I read of the script, they used 'Oolong' as the name of an alien race or something. I don't know if that script was real or not, but that sounds ridiculous enough to be true.

An alien race named after tea?!

The thing with Oolong is that he was in the original story, Journey to the West/Monkey King, to begin with as Pigsy. Every other live action Dragonball movie has him (there's apperantly another one other than Magic Begins that includes Vegeta....his hair is wrong tho...looks more like Wolverine's hair. I saw the pics of it on YouTube.)

If anybody wants to see images from the live action film that apperantly includes Vegeta and Puar and is worse than Magic begins (WTF? A Nintendo DS being used as Dragon Radar?) Check it out. They're at the end (this is a youtube site that has all the latest news and stuff on Dragonball). Why is it that the live action Dragonball films done in Asia actually have old men playing Master Roshi but we get Chow Yun Fat?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzLJ7oiUhGA

[Raph's Girl]

[Raph's Girl]

A couple new pics are up:

Mai:


Chichi:

[Spitfire]

Anyone else find it funny Goku is the lone white guy? Like seriously what sense does that make? This movies going to be a huge joke. I might have to rent it just to laugh at it.