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Dragonball Evolution flops?; It seems the movie is about to flop
Topic Started: Apr 14 2009, 07:09 AM (408 Views)
Reptile	Apr 14 2009, 07:09 AM Post #1
Battle Angel Posts: 164 Group: Members Member #93 Joined: May 13, 2006	http://dbthemovie.com/2009/04/13/dragonball-evolution-flops-domestically/ It seems the movie flopped...check out the link What do yu guys/girls think of it? A shame or a....(frickin) blessing... cough...any comment welcome
	It's all part of the great circle...good is connected with evil...strength with weakness...understand this matter and prevail(Kami San)


End_Game	Apr 14 2009, 09:09 AM Post #2
Battle Angel Posts: 282 Group: Members Member #2,476 Joined: November 15, 2008	A blessing. This movie did not deserve to be a hit because it was just an attempt to cash in on a big name by making the movie with as little money as possible in order to maximize profit.



Otaku_Kawaii86	Apr 14 2009, 09:44 AM Post #3
Heather, what's a rubber? Posts: 3,058 Group: Global Moderator Member #22 Joined: April 16, 2006	A blessing. Fox didn't respect the series enough that they admitted to having low expectations. I don't believe they deserve to make this movie if they don't give a rat's a$$ about it. They also didn't give Stephen Chow any respect for his opinions as a producer. The whole movie was hard to watch, script had WAY too many plot holes, the acting wasn't the best, and this "adaption" had too many useless scenes and characters. waste of time in my opinion. I want a reboot in the future and NOT by Fox, James Wong, and Ben Ramsey. Go screw a cactus, Fox. -_-;



youkaisama	Apr 14 2009, 10:20 AM Post #4
Lillim Posts: 57 Group: Members Member #1,033 Joined: October 5, 2007	A god damn blessing. Anything that is done only to take advantage of other people is not worthy of any attention.



Superraizen	Apr 14 2009, 10:30 AM Post #5
Autobot Posts: 943 Group: Members Member #85 Joined: May 12, 2006	A blessing, because sh*t movies don't deserve to succeed.



Tenshinhan	Apr 14 2009, 11:21 AM Post #6
Battle Angel Posts: 243 Group: Members Member #875 Joined: September 5, 2007	Definitely a blessing. What an excuse of a movie this was, let alone DragonBall LAM. Please god, let some other company reboot this in the future. I've read somewhere FOX' rights to DB expire this year. If it's true, who knows...



BIGBMH	Apr 14 2009, 01:46 PM Post #7
Super Saiyan Posts: 1,343 Group: Members Member #545 Joined: May 17, 2007	A shame. Screw Fox, Ramsey and to an extent Wong for making it so bad, but there were people who put a lot of effort into it. All the training Marsters and Chatwin did. All that time spent getting into that green make-up. I really don't blame either for the poor interpretaion of their character. For Chatwin the script pretty much forced him to play his Goku as a depressed, horny, teenager with low self-esteem. It's hard to put much Goku into that. but at times he did show a glimmer of the guy we love. And some of Piccolo's lines were delivered quite well. I say it's a shame because there are some people who will get undeserved flack and disrespect. So did it deserve to be a success? Not really. But I do believe some of the actors deserved a chance to be in a good movie. I think if it were a modest success with universally terrible reviews, the studio might have made some changes to make it respectable. It's also a shame because of the way this will be perceived. This won't be seen as a poorly written, directed, funded, and promoted movie that had the potential to be something spectacular. People will just look back and say "See. Making a live action version of Dragonball was a bad idea." For years people talked about how it could never be done and was so stupid. I wanted it to be good not only for us fans, but to prove all the nay-sayers wrong. Now I don't know if we'll ever get another chance. Let's think about other rebooted franchises. Batman and Robin made $338.21 million. The Hulk made $245.36 million. Those movies made money even if people hated them. I kind of wish Dragonball turned out like The Hulk. Edited by BIGBMH, Apr 14 2009, 02:05 PM.
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Frankie	Apr 14 2009, 02:39 PM Post #8
Autobot Posts: 820 Group: Global Moderator Member #573 Joined: June 12, 2007	it's a shame tough. i liked Marsters as Piccolo. but yeah, it deserves to flop
	Omnia enim stolidi magis admirantur amantque, inversis quae sub verbis latitantia cernunt, veraque constituunt quae belle tangere possunt auris et lepido quae sunt fucata sonore. Indeed, the stupid most admire and love all that is scarcely discernible, hidden by abstruse words, and accept as true all things that sweetly caress the ear, and that are masked by a pleasant sound. --Titus Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, circa 80 B.C.--


Reptile	Apr 14 2009, 04:11 PM Post #9
Battle Angel Posts: 164 Group: Members Member #93 Joined: May 13, 2006	http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?no=385060&rel_no=1 http://holding-on-still.blogspot.com/2009/04/dragonball-evolution-flops-and-bombs-at.html http://chadfuller.deviantart.com/journal/24205684/ It seems DBE flops really hard...it's their own (FOX's) fault anyway and I don't feel pitty for the comlpany, they ruined it for everyone...how many years have we all participated on messageboards giving idea's and tips to make this a better movie? For about 6 years they could look on many messageboards about Db LAM or at least do some fieldwork what the fans expected...it's like they did the opposite of it deliberatly... I do feel a little bad for the actors, I don't think this will have a good impact on their career, especially the younger ones(Chatwin and Rossum). But that's life, sometimes you don't know where you end up...
	It's all part of the great circle...good is connected with evil...strength with weakness...understand this matter and prevail(Kami San)


BladeRunner	Apr 14 2009, 06:43 PM Post #10
Autobot Posts: 642 Group: Members Member #1,996 Joined: March 23, 2008	Reptile Apr 14 2009, 04:11 PM http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?no=385060&rel_no=1 http://holding-on-still.blogspot.com/2009/04/dragonball-evolution-flops-and-bombs-at.html http://chadfuller.deviantart.com/journal/24205684/ It seems DBE flops really hard...it's their own (FOX's) fault anyway and I don't feel pitty for the comlpany, they ruined it for everyone...how many years have we all participated on messageboards giving idea's and tips to make this a better movie? For about 6 years they could look on many messageboards about Db LAM or at least do some fieldwork what the fans expected...it's like they did the opposite of it deliberatly... I do feel a little bad for the actors, I don't think this will have a good impact on their career, especially the younger ones(Chatwin and Rossum). But that's life, sometimes you don't know where you end up... Dude, surprisingly, Fox execs don't read these message boards to get ideas, and neither to the writers. They never do and they never will. This is just a built in audience that strengthens the value of the rights that they own, that's it and that's all they see this board as. As far as what they said about having low expectations... Don't be surprised that they said that, really! They made a film that they knew was looking pretty bad during production, but good enough to be distributed to theatres. The result, they slacked on the promoting side of it...a big mistake on someone's/people's part at Fox. And they know that! So, the result didn't surprise them and it didn't surprise me either. DBE must be one of the least advertised films that fox has ever produced, ever. The good news, for all those who want a sequel, this means they might green light it (I think). The bad news, they might green light it lol, for all those who want them to shut up about it. But this is a losing battle for us, Fox will never sell those rights unless someone talks to them offers millions of dollars for it. Anyone filthy rich here with millions of dollars to spend on the fly?



Vegeta	Apr 17 2009, 08:27 PM Post #11
Kneel Before Your Prince! Posts: 4,309 Group: Admin Member #19 Joined: April 16, 2006	Dragonball: Evolution go down the hoooooole.
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BladeRunner	Apr 17 2009, 10:19 PM Post #12
Autobot Posts: 642 Group: Members Member #1,996 Joined: March 23, 2008	Vegeta Apr 17 2009, 08:27 PM Dragonball: Evolution go down the hoooooole. Now why on earth would you say something like that?...and don't say because its happening... Edited by BladeRunner, Apr 17 2009, 10:19 PM.



Vegeta	May 30 2009, 03:48 PM Post #13
Kneel Before Your Prince! Posts: 4,309 Group: Admin Member #19 Joined: April 16, 2006	Because it's happened.
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superdedon	May 31 2009, 03:44 AM Post #14
Autobot Posts: 619 Group: Members Member #1,139 Joined: November 6, 2007	A shame and a blessing. A shame because the one chance I'll probably ever get to see a Live Action Vegeta on the big screen goes right down the crapper, and a blessing because at least they didn't get that far for FOX to SHlT on an iconic masterpeice and leave them waste for us to smell.



SuperSaiyan3Goku	Jun 25 2009, 10:43 PM Post #15
The Saiyan of hope Posts: 6,416 Group: Members Member #16 Joined: April 15, 2006	Five years of waiting for the greatest movie ever made, and we get a horrible pile of dig sht, Dragonball: Evolution. I just saw the movie on the Internet, and I have to say, this isn't even Dragonball. It's a fighting movie. Just your normal run-of-the-mill fighting story. 5,000 years ago, an evil power is imprisoned and is released in our time, so a young boy and his friends must stop him before he takes over the world - snore* The characters didn't look anything like the original characters from Akira Toriyama's epic tale. I liked that the characters mentioned stuff like Shenlong, Muten Roshi, Oozaru, who for some reason, was under the control of Piccolo, which makes no sense whatsoever. I may post spoilers, so read at your own risk. Spoiler: click to toggle Here's some stuff that erked me about this pile of crap. Goku was in High School. In the Anime, Goku is as dumb as a bag of Rocks. Although a brilliant fighter, I don't think his minuscule brain could handle school, much less, High School! Gohan's name is mispronounced as Go-han. What the hell? The rest of the cast got their right names, hell, even the dragon is called "Shenlong", his Japanese name!! I did like that the 4-star ball has it's Chinese name, so that was cool. Pouzu is a city. A freakin' city. It's called Mount Pouzu for a reason. It's a mountain! Piccolo has no Antennae. He does have veins on his head that look like Antennae, but they're not. For some reason, the energy blasts in the movie were known as "Air bending". When the hell did this movie become Avatar? At least they call the "energy" or as I have called it, "Air" Ki. Oh yes, the Oozaru. OK, there's a full eclipse, and that's supposed to "awaken" Oozaru, but the Oozaru is actually Goku. In the Anime, the Oozaru was big enough to hold an Adult body in it's fist, (As indicated in the Saiyan Saga when Oozaru Vegeta tried to squeeze Goku to death), but he's human size in the movie. Sure, it looks like Goku gets hair on his Body when he becomes Oozaru, but he doesn't even have a tail, so his transformation to Oozaru should be impossible. Oh yeah, he strangles Roshi to death. When Shenlong eventually is summoned, he's Gold, he wasn't nearly as long as he is in the Anime, he doesn't say a word, Goku just makes his wish for Roshi to be brought back to life, Shenlong breathes on Roshi with his magical healing breath, and then the Dragonballs separate. Alright, who would like this movie? Definitely not fans of the Anime and Manga. If you like fighting Movies, characters that have no emotion, and you have the IQ of a turtle, then you would probably like this movie. 1/5 stars for this horrible pile of dog sh!t. Edited by SuperSaiyan3Goku, Jun 25 2009, 11:01 PM.
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