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I'd be really PO'ed if they released it cropped over here. Considering we haven't even gotten the Jump special in the states yet though I'm not expecting Kai for a very long time.

Where can I learn more about movie budgets and profits? Where did these facts come from?

Go to filmschool.

You guys want to see a source?


Skeptical of the current popularity of an action franchise that has been absent for close to two decades, naysayers underestimated the nostalgic allure ...

The general rule of thumb is that a film has to gross three times it's budget to turn a profit. That's the rule of thumb for an above expectations movie, not a profit turning movie. To turn a profit, it just needs to make more money than the budget.

Even if you completely eliminated the marketing ...

Yeah because Dragon Ball Evolution had an enormous marketing strategy.

The bigger the budget of the film, the more money they put into the marketing. Hence why a 50 million dollar movie like DBE didn't get the same kind of push as a 150 million dollar film like Wolverine. It's safe to assume ...

I'm not reading through 7 pages to see if it's already been said, but after reading the first page a lot of people seem to think a film turns a profit if it makes more than the budget, or breaks even if it makes as much as the budget. This couldn't be further from the truth. What isn't included in ...

It's interesting that Saban didn't care to edit them it in the anime

I find it interesting that a big stink was never made over it. I can understand it not causing problems in Japan seeing as I don't imagine many black people live over there, but when the series started airing here in America you ...

As long as you know it's a different take we're cool then. And with Disturbed, I may never understand it, but you're perfectly welcomed to like them too.

I used to give my brother shit about liking DBZ. It seemed really dumb to me as an outsider. Then he informed me that Disturbed as well as ...

Anyone else think it's kind of racist that all the black characters have these big donut looking lips? I'm white and it has always bugged me, so I can't imagine what black folks think of this.

I'd start the first film with the Bardock stuff, then follow Goku on earth as we meet the characters and learn about the Dragonballs. The Red Ribbon Army would end up becoming the villain threat for Goku to conquer in the end. This approach would set up both Frieza and Gero's androids for future ...

Really hoping Funi releases this on Blu-Ray as a double feature with "Plan To Eradicate the Saiyans". Not holding my breath though.

The music bothers me more than Goku's voice. I just can't get into the show with that soundtrack.

Things played out differently in future Trunks world than the one we know of, everyone was dead except Son Gohan, Bulma and perhaps a few minor characters.

I don't see how that would prevent anyone from knowing where New Namek was. It would be downright moronic for Goku to not make it known ...

... the one thing I'm not crazy about is the cropping. Why are people so scared of not using their entire screen?

It's been reformatted for widescreen TVs.

Which I don't agree with. I own a widescreen TV, but if the original aspect ratio is 4:3 then I want to see it in 4:3! Black bars aren't ...

Chances are that Bulma did not know the location of New Namek. Also there was the year time limit but then again Murri could have upgraded the Namek Dragonballs but then there was still of the problem of locating the new planet.

Seems like kind of weak reasoning. Goku knew where New Namek was ...

Weren't they able to use the Namek Dragon to wish back a lot of people at once? For instance wish back everyone killed by the Androids.

In Trunks' future, was it ever addressed why they never went to New Namek to use those Dragonballs and wish back the Z fighters? One would think it'd be easier to build a spaceship to travel to Namek to do so rather than building a time machine.

Hm, pretty true. They are rare nowadays. Wish I would've been able to get them back when I was a youngster, but I had no clue that they would just disappear out of the blue. :cry: I guess the best thing to do is just buy the season sets. But as a dub fan, I think I'll still look... since I'm in ...

The new animation in the opening and such kind of makes me wish they just reanimated everything. But then again if they were going to go through the trouble of reanimating the entire series I'd feel like that effort was wasted and they could have just made a brand new series instead.

Either way I ...

I don't think it'll be easy. My brother gave up on trying to find the box sets and settled on just buying all the singles. Only place you're probably likely to find any these days is ebay.

I was wondering if anyone had any comparison stills of the latest Funi double features to that of Toei's Dragon Box releases? I recently bought the Android 13/Bojack Blu-Ray, and I figured I'd start to collect these, but there were some scenes that looked questionable to me.

I know these movies ...