I tried to resist. I tried to avoid. Really, I did. But, you know ... train wreck, rubberneck, it's that sort of thing. It's the two teasers for the Dragonball movie, a movie that Fox reportedly considered shutting down in mid-production and simply eating the financial loss on because they had so little faith in it. Remember when Chow Yun Fat made good movies? I miss those days.
Check two versions of the trailer - if you dare - at the link below.
That would be helpful, yes.
The movie just raped the DB anime completely. Picollo is not green? wtf (O_o)!! Ah I'm not even gonna bother complaining more. That aside I really hope Max Payne does the game justice
I'll give it a chance since Forbidden Kingdom wasn't as terrible as I thought. Since I'm not a huge fan of DB[Z] I'll survive the psychological damage but I doubt some of my friends could handle it...
I wasn't expecting anything great but this just looks horrible. It looks worse than the Fist of the North Star movie with Gary Daniels. At least Gary is a real martial artist with some decent b-movies under his belt. The actors in this movie all look like a bunch of cosplayers running around play fighting. Ugh.
There's a slight problem with your link. Instead of a Dragonball trailer, I got what looks like a Double Dragon remake. Can ANYONE fix this?
Oi. *shakes head*
I think Chow should adopt the Erkel's catch phrase, "Did I do that?". It would be very fitting after the string of horrible movies he's made. Lord, has he got the same agent as Jet Li in the west?
Max Payne will be sweet, I promise. John Moore will deliver.
Aside tfrom that and on the topic of this hunk of shit "adaptation"
this will bomb and I hope all their careers are ruined for producing this.
That said I'll stick with the 1993 live action version that actually does the anime justice!
A few months ago I attended a Q&A;with Stephen Chow and I found his reaction a little odd when asked about his part in the new Dragon Ball movie. He quickly set the question straight, telling the audience he only gave the writers ideas and had no part in the movie beyond that.
This is bad.
looks like and EPIC FAIL of a film but thats what I expected. I dont understand how an actor of CYF's caliber gets stuck with BS roles like this in every Hollywood movie he does. He should just go back and work in Asia. Much rather see him in Curse of Golden Flower then THIS.
I'm no fan of Dragonball, but that... monstrosity... made me want to kill things.
See it this way people, you are going to have the chance to have a MST3K experience in it's full glory on cinemas when this crap comes out. In some 10 years, when the movie is being re-runned on afternoon tvs, and all the actors, director and everyone involved in these is forgotten you will be able to say that you were part of history, that you went to see the biggest cinematic disaster in recent history.....and survived.
Seriously, i'm expecting people watching this to explode in laughter trough the whole movie. Throwing pop corn at the screen and so on.
Chow Yun who?
"A few months ago I attended a Q&A;with Stephen Chow and I found his reaction a little odd when asked about his part in the new Dragon Ball movie. He quickly set the question straight, telling the audience he only gave the writers ideas and had no part in the movie beyond that.
This is bad."
It would have been awesome if instead of answering the question, he'd pointed out the window, said "Hey! A UFO!" and quickly run from the room when nobody was looking.
It wasn't because it didn't look perfect that the negative views arose but because everything looked like shit. Everything that has been released from this flick evokes memories of Double Dragon and Street Fighter.
The film should have been done in CGI like TMNT or highly stylized to match the craziness of the animation. This looks like it takes itself far too seriously and the look of the whole thing is embarrassing. It looks like they didn't know if they should go their own way or be faithful to the source material and made something in the middle that is not as good as either.
Like I've said when I saw the first picture, this will be a massive fail.
This film shouldn't have been done in the first place. Some things just don't work on live action.
Good call Chevy-Aguila Chase. Probably the most logical, simple argument I've heard towards the anti-dragonball movie so far.
At this point I have more hope for the Chun-Li movie then this piece of work.
I grew up with DBZ.
This movie makes me want to be an hero. There should be an international law that prohibit studios from turning a classic into shit that can be traded for money from people who don't mind paying for them.
Japan is destroying their national treasures by granting license to these studios.