Comments on: New Dragonball Evolution Trailer Online

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:16:11 +0000

Regardless to what anyone says l.o.l I believe this movie will be pretty good.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:52:17 +0000

And a lot of trailers that make a movie look good are easy to make… because… brace yourself for this….

The movie might look good??

By: Rodney

Rodney — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:51:39 +0000

I have an idea? How about instead of hoping the loony ass zany crap in the cartoon might look like anything BUT PeeWee’s playhouse on crack.

They have to adapt this to make it a broader appeal. The very limited fanbase, as big as it is, are NOT the ones they are hoping to drag to this movie. Instead they hope to drag EVERYONE to this movie.

It is a movie, and by definition it means “changed for a different environment” but instead of just accepting that and trying to enjoy it you are worried how badguys inspired by a salad bar are supposed to be introduced?

You just proved my point.

By: akirajinn

akirajinn — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:31:09 +0000

in the trailer they say seven wise men made the dragonballs to fight monsters.
in the cartoon it was a nameless namekian who came to earth and became its guardian.
to become the guardian the namekian had to seperate his good side from his dark side, the good side becoming kami and the evil side king piccillo.
if at any time kami or piccillo are killed they both die and the dragonballs turn to stone.
in the trailer goku looks like some everyday joe that discovers latent powers.
in the cartoon he is an alien sent to earth to clear it of life but after a violent crash landing his natural instinct to destroy is forgotten and he is found by a wandering kung fu master (grandpa gohan) and is raised as his own.
tragicly gohan died and 10 year old goku is left to fend for himself. it is the that he meet bulma and joins her quest to find the dragonballs.

how will they ever introduce characters like vegeta or freiza (by making them shit, thats how).

By: akirajinn

akirajinn — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:08:55 +0000

dragonball was originally based on the story “journey to the west” or “monkey” if you saw it on tv.
whats the point of re-imagining a re-imagining.
film studios are stealing my money churning out half hearted knock offs of tried and true source material.
at least have the decency to call it something else
“goku’s magic balls” or “american monkey man fights monsters with magic stick” but i guess no one would watch that.
this looks as good and faithful to the source material as jean claude van damms “streetfighter”.
the longer they go with this story the less it will be dragonball.
but if you can turn a c-grade movie into an box office smash by milking a name they will just keep comming.
stop the madness don’t fall for the hype, spend your money on a “monkey” box set or try “saiyuki”
(another re-imagining of “monkey”).
make the studios start working for you money instead of defrauding from you.

By: asdasdasd

asdasdasd — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:01:04 +0000

haters will always be haters no matter how good the movie is haters is haters like ANDYS hes a prophet and he knows what gonna happend next. I will laugh at your a** cause Im sure your gonna watch it and spend some bucks in the movie that you dont like PS.

By: RDB

RDB — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:49:36 +0000

History lesson

Remember that classic story “Journey to the west” originally published anonymously in the 1590s(thanks wikipedia) which a crazy little campy tv series “Monkey Magic!” or simply “Monkey” was adapted from. Well the dragonball franchise is very much based on that. From the manga to the cartoon series dragonball,dragonball z and dragon ball gt. (Oh and somewhere along the line there were was a live action movie) and now there making the first big budget live action movie….

So where am i going with this. well it seems its going along a little like the batman franchise. which started out as a somewhat serious comic book. then to a kid friendly crazy campy tv show. then batman got a little darker and a little more serious again. then we had the first big budget batman movie BATMAN (1989).

So the dragonball series is now where batman was back in 1989. (Hopefully it will skip the whole batman forever and batman and robin stages though.)

By: Rodney

Rodney — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:01:26 +0000

All you have read is more assuming.

NO ONE you have read has read the script or seen the movie. There is very little dialogue or writing in the trailer, so even though it is what the studio put forward to promote the film was nothing but some visual effects shots and about 6 seconds of premise.

Just how much of this critical information is it that you seem privy to that will predict the outcome of this film?

Drooling fanboys are dying to hate this film because it is not a direct translation of the cartoon. It is an adpatation. People fear change. And that is all you have so far is fear.

Myself, and others look at this trailer and see an action packed summer popcorn flick with some great looking special effects, some martial arts, some sci-fi tech and what promises to be a fun film.

Dragonball zealots see that a white guy is playing a character they have managed to blindly convince themselves is Asian and want to focus on how this adaptation is different from their beloved cartoon (which cannot directly translate to live action… ever) and rage that they know better.

Andy. You assume. Its ok that you choose to dislike this film. That’s what anticipation is all about. But you hopped on the fanboy bandwagon and cannot even justify why you hate it, and you haven’t seen it yet. I am just saying that you are denying yourself the chance at a decent summer action flick.

It might bomb. But it will have nothing to do with the changes required to adapt this movie to live action.

By: AndyS

AndyS — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:51:49 +0000

Rodney those 60 seconds you speak of are 60 seconds the studio decided to release to generate buzz and show the masses what to expect from their movie. Your correct I’m doing a lot of assuming but I don’t see it as blind assuming since from all that I’ve read, all that I’ve been shown and a little common sense has added up to know this movie will fail.

To the person suggesting that I’m psychic and should be able to predict the next Batman Villain; it’s pretty clear that the amount of information given to successfully predict the outcome of the DBE movie has been provided far more than anything related to Batman’s next Villain.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:52:25 +0000

But it would take a psychic.

Your “highly probable” assumption just repeats the same thing I have always challenged you on.

You act like you already know everything about this and you don’t. That you feel you have to defend and explain it is because you ASSUME with no grounds for your assumption short of just guessing.

You cant defend it. Because you have nothing but your guesses to try and defend. You assume it will be bad. You assume the writing will be poor. You assume the effects will be bad.

All you are doing is assuming. Guessing based on 60 seconds of footage.

You are allowed to assume. But don’t expect everyone to jump to the same conclusion as you are.