Missing: Chow Yun Fat’s Soul.  If Found, Please Return.

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1. PC 10/05/2008 @ 6:04am

   Todd - content not linked in, it seems… was hoping to cringe in horror!

2. Todd Brown 10/05/2008 @ 6:07am

   That would be helpful, yes.

3. Papigiulio 10/05/2008 @ 6:09am

   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

4. PC 10/05/2008 @ 6:33am

   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…

5. Swarez 10/05/2008 @ 7:28am

   When sites used to post negative views on this flick a few months ago, DB lovers used to flock to them to tell them how they are wrong and stupid to post such nonsense and that the film was going to be great and a huge box office success. Now not so much.

6. brbro4 10/05/2008 @ 7:47am

   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.

7. Mike Rea 10/05/2008 @ 8:54am

   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?

8. LT Roberts 10/05/2008 @ 9:12am

   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?

9. ForgottenFilms 10/05/2008 @ 9:13am

   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!

10. BlackIrishBastard 10/05/2008 @ 11:51am

    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.

11. cpa314 10/05/2008 @ 2:45pm

    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.

12. Agent Wax 10/05/2008 @ 7:00pm

    I’m no fan of Dragonball, but that… monstrosity… made me want to kill things.

13. ChevalierAguila 10/05/2008 @ 10:54pm

    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.

14. sarkoffagus 10/06/2008 @ 12:32pm

    Chow Yun who?

15. Rhythm-X 10/06/2008 @ 3:53pm

    “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.

16. lamp-shade 10/06/2008 @ 6:16pm

    I’ve always been a huge dragonball fan. and honestly I have to say, despite the weak costumes, the movie could be sweet. The special effects and martial arts seem to be on par. At this point there isn’t enough info to say it wont be good. I think the skepticism arises from all of our hopes that the movie was gonna be perfect. The fact that it doesn’t look perfect pisses everyone off. Of course they couldn’t adapt this movie 100% true to the anime! Atleast not without making it look reaaally shity. Could you imagine a computer animated oolong, or Krillin (unless you want him played by a midget)? it would be ggaayy. you’re not gonna find a makeup artist in this world that can make a lot of those characters convincing enough to impress people. they had to leave out certain aspects, and had to do what they did for the sake of creating a full length, credible, motion picture. Also piccolo will be green I read, he’s just yellowish cause he’d been in a cave for a thousand years or something. Either way, stop complaining about it and at least wait for more stuff to come out. The trailers that leaked were taken off not cause they were released too soon, but because they were released before they were finished. Think of all the movies you thought were gonna suck and surprised you. Maybe this could be one of em if Fox doesn’t cancel it first due to everyone being babies. -out

17. Swarez 10/06/2008 @ 8:01pm

    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.

18. ChevalierAguila 10/06/2008 @ 9:19pm

    This film shouldn’t have been done in the first place. Some things just don’t work on live action.

19. lamp-shade 10/06/2008 @ 10:51pm

    Good call Chevy-Aguila Chase. Probably the most logical, simple argument I’ve heard towards the anti-dragonball movie so far.

20. BlackIrishBastard 10/07/2008 @ 9:37am

    At this point I have more hope for the Chun-Li movie then this piece of work.

21. Rocket Punch 10/07/2008 @ 11:18am

    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.

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