My name is Red. My humble gaming beginning consisted of watching my cousins play games on the nintendo famicom from 9 in the morning til 3. Then I had to go away to the land of sand where I was trained to be a ninja of the sand to fight terrorism. My training consisted of the Sega Mega Drive 2 which came prepackaged with AlienStorm, which was once dubbed as "Showgirls of video games" by the Concelmo. Later on I moved on to the Playstation. Due to my limited funding and due to game publishers in the US not caring about Ninjas training in the sand like me, I resorted to black market alternatives. My great gaming memories consisted of pirated games which I had plentiful of due to the lack of giving a damn by the local authorities. All those games kept me sane in the desert wasteland. I was a prisoner in my own ninja fortress. Then all my training was for naught when the US military beat me to my ultimate mission: CAPTURE SADDAM HUSSEIN. But then they discovered that he was an impostor. Intelligence reports point out that he is where I am stationed now: TEXAS. My mission continues on.
You have read this, you shall be exterminated.
Hollywood, you sly devil. In this war for box office profit with movie adaptations you wage, the fanboys are often the first casualties, but now there's something different. What's this I see? Piccolo is green? GREEN?! You've changed something in your movie into something that is actually similar to it's source material?
Fresh from the internets in this dreary Wednesday morning, DBthemovie.com serves us up a new trailer of the newly-renamed, highly doubted film adaptation Dragonball: Evolution. Judging from this trailer, stuff we've seen in the anime are present such as planet destruction and balls of dragons. I can't help but feel weird with aspects of the movie shown in the trailer, such as the fights being done in over-wrought wire-fu glory while the CG effects have little to no use in the fight sequences.
Everybody knows that the fights in Dragon Ball are very much like the final fight between Neo and Agent Smith in the last Matrix movie. Also, please don't tell me that sorry-ass fireball is a Kamehameha.
Oh wow... this trailer actually wasn't that bad. MUCH better than the last one. FUCK, hollywood. Why'd you give me a glimmer of hope for this movie when I just KNOW it's going to be bad!? Well, at least they made Piccolo GREEN, AGAIN.
Also, Dragon Ball was actually more about just normal fights without heavy use of Ki blasts (except close to the end when Goku is older). People didn't zip around or anything. It was in Dragon Ball Z that Ki blasts and zipping around was how fights went down. So since this is supposed to be from the Dragon Ball timeline and not the Z timeline, a lack of Ki blasts is expected.
Wow. Could they change the source material any more? How hard would it be to shave Chow Yun Fat's head? Can't I ask for that?!
I recently bought Dragon Ball Origins for the DS. It's great. The levels are a bit repetitive but touch control is alright. Anyways what they really nailed was the presentation and summation of the series. I really couldn't get over the humour and it looks like this movie totally bypasses what makes this series charming and memorable. The Hollywood effect.
I would recommend getting the game instead of seeing this movie. If your a big DB fan [not Z]
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I feel drawn to this movie the way I'm drawn to people falling down stairs.
Even this kept the characters closer to what they should really look like...
It's like they were trying to make a april fools joke.
I remember watching when I was kid. I even liked that.
'cause all this cheese is making me sick.
Also, Dragon Ball was actually more about just normal fights without heavy use of Ki blasts (except close to the end when Goku is older). People didn't zip around or anything. It was in Dragon Ball Z that Ki blasts and zipping around was how fights went down. So since this is supposed to be from the Dragon Ball timeline and not the Z timeline, a lack of Ki blasts is expected.
I recently bought Dragon Ball Origins for the DS. It's great. The levels are a bit repetitive but touch control is alright. Anyways what they really nailed was the presentation and summation of the series. I really couldn't get over the humour and it looks like this movie totally bypasses what makes this series charming and memorable. The Hollywood effect.
I would recommend getting the game instead of seeing this movie. If your a big DB fan [not Z]
I'm going to go out on a limb though and say that I'm still interested...