Dragon Ball fans, particularly of the kind like those who frequent Daizex, have EVERY right to expect the worst from this movie.
*Sigh*
How did I know I would get responses like this? It's depressing really.
we now know that at least for now they plan on completely butchering the main goddamn character of this thing.
Last I saw, the only thing we knew they were doing with Goku was putting him in highschool and, possibly, giving him a crush on Chi-Chi (which by the time he's 18 is no where near a stretch of the imagination even in the series). I fail to see any butchering with this.
I haven't seen a character's fundamentals screwed with this badly since most of the cast of the live action Street Fighter movie. And I think we all remember how that one turned out.
Someone missed an earlier comment I made I see.
And one last time for the cheap seats; EVIL. NAMEKIAN. NINJAS.
Which could be a 'best example' description for Piccolo's underlings. We. Don't. Know.
No one here is "whining", we're giving valid and legitimate reasons and points on why we think this adaptation is being treated horribly.
Oh? Hmmm. Let's look through the rest of your post.
because the personalities and core concepts of the characters are being completely screwed into the ground.
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Goku is Kung-Fucking-Fu Clark Kent whom gets sexual desires in sparring with Chichi and has lived a normal life (evidently no trace of country naiveness or even goofiness), Bulma wants to make the world a better place like Einstein did rather than stay true to her character and want for a boyfriend, Piccolo (whom, for all intents and purposes, is being implied to look more humanoid than a Namekian should) has lost all bad-ass concepts - becomes the one to reveal Goku's heritage and tell him it's his "Destiny" (Destiny cliche once again) to join him - hello Emperor Palpatine!
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we're being brutally honest that the characters in this project are being ruined to such an insane extent that they shouldn't even be given the character names.
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If you have problems with the way pretty much all of us think, then don't read our posts on this subject.
So the personalities are completely and utterly different than the show? What, you've seen clips of the movie? We've got
paragraph sized blurbs about them. That's it. I need at least
10 damned pages worth of character personality work before I know what an original character
I created is like. You can't tell jack shit from a
paragraph outside of the vaguest possible directions which tell you abslutely
zip about the final product without liberal ammounts of luck.
Goku - We know 2 things. Highschool and Chi-Chi. That's it. And
where the hell do you see anything about sexual desires. Again, don't read into crap to find something to complain about. You can read between the lines when you have the entire script in front of your face and want to find hidden meanings. All Goku complaints fail.
Bulma - So we know she wants to improve the world with her wish. We also know she's
an older and more mature Bulma than the one that wanted to wish for a boyfriend in Dragonball. Answer me this. Would you
expect a
20 something Bulma to want to wish for a
boyfriend? Isn't that more out of character than, oh, I don't know, Goku going to highschool?
Piccolo - Ok. WHERE does it say that Piccolo looks more human in the movie than the series?
Where? I don't see it. I see
humanoid and that's it. You can't draw
shit from that. Because, guess what, Piccolo
is humanoid. Also
why do you insist on reading that destiny line as some sort of fate mumbo jumbo and not the far more obvious "you're from a race of conquers so it is in your blood to conquer" implication it gives off? And really, Piccolo knowing he's an alien/Goku's an alien and telling Goku so isn't
that big of a fucking deal.
Ruined characters.... gee, I still don't see it. Maybe because we
don't know what the characters will be like beyond a vague blurb. And aside from Mai sounding like she's actually
useful in the movie for more than comedic relief those blurbs don't really give us much personality indications other than "this is a good-guy" and "this is a bad-guy".
I don't have problems with someone having doubts about if they'll like the movie. I don't have problems with someone saying they don't think the movie will turn out good. I
do have problems with people acting like they know everything about everything and stating their opinion as a fact because they can't see how what they believe could possibly be wrong. And let's face it, that's
exactly what a
lot of you sound like. Intenionally? I doubt it. But that doesn't change the way it comes across.
I think it's pathetic when people like you bitch because the majority of us don't like something and we all feel like venting about it.
*sigh*
I'm not bitching about that. I'm bitching about the fact that people are bitching about things
they don't even know about yet as though it's concrete fact. Is it
so bad to want people to wait until they actually
see something of the movie in action before the claim it sucks completely? I don't deny that the movie could come out as bad (or worse) than those here think it could/might/will. My issue is with the fact that everyone's
already decided that the movie is the worst thing ever and filming hasn't even started yet.
It's especially pathetic when someone calls it "fanboy whining" when we've been keeping our ears to the ground on this subject for several years and all we get in return is a bunch of crap where a cosplayer can make a better Namekian than a $100,000,000 budget.
I would love to see the picture $100 million Namekian they're using in the movie that you've apparently gotten your hands on in order to make this comment. THIS is what I'm talking about. Don't expect a good movie? Fine. You can think what you want, I don't care, but don't fucking
act like your opinion is fact. Thank-you very much.
And that about covers it. Emphasis added in places to try to get my point across since, apparently, it hasn't been getting through yet.
I don't care if you have issues with the movie and want to say as such. Go right ahead. You're allowed to have and express your opinion. Just remember that it
is your OPINION.
