My point exactly. That doesn't stop a Google search from showing something else. Hence the fallacy.
You may bet on that, I do not. The movie shows mere friendship, nothing past that.
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My point exactly. That doesn't stop a Google search from showing something else. Hence the fallacy.
You may bet on that, I do not. The movie shows mere friendship, nothing past that.
What is the "Broly story"? I think the story of the movie is not just about the character of Broly, but also a story about the Saiyan race. Hence why Toriyama took the opportunity to explore their backstory a bit through Vegeta, Broly and Goku and the characters related to them. In that sense, they are important, simply not enough to remain in the movie and compromise its running time (at least to Toei).Shaddy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2019 7:23 pmSo that's the first we've heard about some of the cut content (can't wait for the inevitable post about how the movie "isn't a real story" without that stuff now), but if that's the most important distinction of what was cut it sounds like we really weren't missing much after all. I mean, does seeing Raditz and Nappa fight really add anything to the Broly story? Not really. It'd be interesting to learn what else was cut, but this does slightly satiate my worries that they took out something important.
Do we know if the Blu-Ray will have an extended cut of the film?Baggie_Saiyan wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2019 7:46 pm This does explain why the past stuff especially Nappa and Raditz got more marketing & commercialisation then their actual screen time deserved so I am less pissed about that but even then those are two characters I don't give a shit about so stuff being cut from them I am okay with.
BoG extended cut shows more content can make a film worse (or in BoG case even worse).
Of course they contain something new. Literally everything is new. That you happen to not find it interesting is subjective and beside the point. They are the surviving Saiyans that Broly is to face later, so it's perfectly natural to see the circumstances and what happened to them in contrast to Broly. Specially in the context of the series, of which Goku is the protagonist. Likewise, Freeza is another link that ties the past with the present.Shaddy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2019 5:16 pmThey really aren't though. Goku and Vegeta's function in the film is to fight Broly, they have no connection to the scenes at the start, and said scenes concerning their parents contain really nothing new about saiyans or interesting in the context of the series.
The relevance is, again, the circumstances and fate of the protagonist of the series. Jarring (or a complete waste) would be to ignore how Goku got away because Broly is not part of it, when the movie was going to have part of the story set in the past. A past common between all the main characters of the movie: Goku, Vegeta, Broly, Paragus and Freeza.Shaddy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2019 5:16 pmWhat relevance does seeing Bardock and Gine have to Goku's role in the film? Well, it's "the thing that happened to him", but other than that you could cut it out as well and it wouldn't matter (especially given how much Bardock sucks in everything outside his own TV special).
That's not the point. The point was to show where he was and how he survived.
I can describe a lot of things that ended up in the movie to be pointless and meaningless, as I've pointed out in the previous post. I can understand why they were deleted (that's not the point), but between having something new character interactions of known characters that we would not see otherwise (not all stories are related to the Saiyan past) and 15 minutes of mindless fighting, I'll take the former any day. Of course, most people want the latter, they want spetacle, and at the end of the day that's why the choice was made.Shaddy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2019 5:16 pmSeeing Raditz and Nappa fight, characters that are both less developed than saiyan-arc Vegeta and less related to the movie as a whole (basically just being obstacles for the heroes to move past rather than fleshed-out people in their own right) would only pad out the runtime with something even more meaningless.
It's completely insane to say that the Minus Material doesn't hold relevance thematically, but you already described it perfectly. I definitely think it could have been done better, and I certainly wish the Minus part was longer, but it still served it's purpose at bare minimum in a serviceable way.Marlowe89 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 12:54 pm The point of Goku's past - and by extension, his relationship with Bardock and Gine - was definitely to parallel and contrast with Broly's.
Both Saiyans are castaways from Planet Vegeta, but their circumstances are almost polar opposites: Bardock's reason for sending Kakarot away was an act of love that elicited his son's freedom, while Broly's situation was fueled by an act of jealousy (on behalf of King Vegeta) and, later, revenge (on behalf of Paragus) that resulted in Paragus inhibiting his son's freedom. This works because it contrasts both of them in a way that plays to Broly's misfortune as a character without overdoing their similarities to the extent of feeling hamfisted. The point is that it's tragic, and Broly's tragedy is partially strengthened by his background mirroring Goku's; without it, a lot of that nuance is lost. Foils exist to help emphasize the qualities of other characters more central to the plot, and they're particularly necessary for Broly because he's not outwardly expressive enough as a person to convey those attributes on his own.
That's why I disagree with the idea that none of the Minus material holds any relevance to the main themes of the film, because it absolutely does. You can argue that its presentation feels subdued, but it's certainly there.
Luso Saiyan wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 10:39 am Of course they contain something new. Literally everything is new.
Luso Saiyan wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 10:39 am They are the surviving Saiyans that Broly is to face later, so it's perfectly natural to see the circumstances and what happened to them in contrast to Broly.
Well, uh, no. They depict things we already knew happened with no details that end up being important. You can tell Goku and Vegeta survived by the fact that they're not dead. Everything else has already been explained. By the same logic, did we need to see a flashback to Vegeta's entire character arc to understand why he's fighting on Goku's side when the flashback shows him as the son of an evil king?Luso Saiyan wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 10:39 am That's not the point. The point was to show where he was and how he survived.
All of this is subjective. Saying only a specific piece of it is is just taking the long way around calling your own opinion objective.Luso Saiyan wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 10:39 amThat you happen to not find it interesting is subjective and beside the point.
That's giving minor characters (ones that idiots would call "fodder" today as if it means anything) a lot more credit than they deserve. "New character interactions" means jack shit for two people whose entire personalities amount to being a bad man that the heroes need to stop. At least I care about what happens to Goku, Vegeta and Broly.Luso Saiyan wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 10:39 ambetween having something new character interactions of known characters that we would not see otherwise (not all stories are related to the Saiyan past) and 15 minutes of mindless fighting, I'll take the former any day. Of course, most people want the latter, they want spetacle, and at the end of the day that's why the choice was made.
"We knew happened"? Who's "we"? And from where did we knew anything? Unless you've read Dragon Ball Minus (and we can't expect the movie audience to have done that) we knew nothing about any of this. And Minus was only part of the events depicted.
We can't tell how and why they survived by the simple fact that they aren't dead.
Where was everything else explained?
No, because this is a continuation of the series. And that's a false equivalence since the events of the past shown in the movie were never depicted anywhere else.
Why the events of the past were depicted in the movie is not subjective. One's appreciation or derision is.
No, it's not giving credit. It's appreciating and being more interested in the exploration and interactions of certain characters than in extended scenes of mindless fighting, which the movie has plenty of. It's simply a matter of taste.Luso Saiyan wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 10:39 amThat's giving minor characters (ones that idiots would call "fodder" today as if it means anything) a lot more credit than they deserve. "New character interactions" means jack shit for two people whose entire personalities amount to being a bad man that the heroes need to stop. At least I care about what happens to Goku, Vegeta and Broly.
It seems to be a very underestimated thing these days. I wonder how long it will take for the people in the production to finally realize how great and important interaction and mainly exploration can be.Luso Saiyan wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 3:59 pm It's appreciating and being more interested in the exploration and interactions of certain characters than in extended scenes of mindless fighting.
Except we knew Goku and Vegeta survived. That's the only relevant thing about either of their backstories. Vegeta appears for just a moment with no new information revealed, and nothing about Bardock or Gine matters or has any effect on Goku.Luso Saiyan wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 3:59 pm "We knew happened"? Who's "we"? And from where did we knew anything? Unless you've read Dragon Ball Minus (and we can't expect the movie audience to have done that) we knew nothing about any of this. And Minus was only part of the events depicted.
We learned Goku was sent to Earth and Vegeta was on a mission at the start of the saiyan saga. Don't give me this "but the general audience" crap, the general audience of a Dragon Ball film is people who watched Dragon Ball.Luso Saiyan wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 3:59 pmWe can't tell how and why they survived by the simple fact that they aren't dead.
Where was everything else explained?
Well, but they didn't need to be, because we already knew what happened. Raditz explains it clear as crystal in like the second chapter he's in. Minus's retcon only really makes the story worse, regardless. Most of the stuff that's actually unseen previously in Dragon Ball is completely bland and irrelevant in the case of Bardock and Gine, or else is good enough to actually tie into the plot of the film with King Vegeta and Paragus.Luso Saiyan wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 3:59 pm No, because this is a continuation of the series. And that's a false equivalence since the events of the past shown in the movie were never depicted anywhere else.
We didn't make the movie, so it actually is up to subjective interpretation. By the logic of the people who allowed the film to exist (aka the people in control of the series' money), most of the reason Bardock was in the movie at all is because Bardock is a popular character they can market. You're asserting that it's to inform of something the audience already knows or add weight to a character that remembers literally none of it, but you can't objectively prove that.Luso Saiyan wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 3:59 pm Why the events of the past were depicted in the movie is not subjective.
Except the "interaction" is literally A FIGHT. Between two dead antagonists that were never very interesting in their own right and I guarantee would not become as such just by seeing them punch each other for a while.Luso Saiyan wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 3:59 pm No, it's not giving credit. It's appreciating and being more interested in the exploration and interactions of certain characters than in extended scenes of mindless fighting, which the movie has plenty of. It's simply a matter of taste.
This is like skipping past every time Goku uses the spirit bomb or kaio-ken and then complaining that he didn't learn anything in the year he was dead and how you're so much smarter than the writers and other fans for saying "he should have gotten new moves". The entire fucking second quarter of the film, a full half-hour, is dedicated to interaction between both new and returning characters. Being intentionally ignorant and smarmy does nothing for you, especially as the guy who's biased to a fault toward Dragon Ball Fucking Heroes, the literal epitome of soulless mindless fight scenes with minimal to non-existent character interactions.
I've always loved that Z episode where Vegeta has a flashback that shows him with Raditz and Nappa while serving Freeza. It's filler, it wasn't in the manga (and what their talk about ends up contradicting what Raditz said). But I liked it because it gives us more about their characters, and it explores the relationship between the three of them, and between them, Freeza and his men.Grimlock wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 4:40 pmIt seems to be a very underestimated thing these days. I wonder how long it will take for the people in the production to finally realize how great and important interaction and mainly exploration can be.Luso Saiyan wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 3:59 pm It's appreciating and being more interested in the exploration and interactions of certain characters than in extended scenes of mindless fighting.
No, the relevant thing (and what was shown in the movie) is the how and why. Just like we ended up knowing how and why Broly survived, as opposed to simply being presented to him and simply accept the fact that he survived.
The revealed information is that they ignored the order that was given by Freeza.
And in the movie we learned how and why Goku was sent to Earth, and how and why Vegeta, Raditz, Nappa and the other Saiyans survived.
People who watched Dragon Ball didn't see what the movie showed because it was never portrayed in the series nor in the manga of which it is based on.
Raditz explains his version of events. His version, turns out, is not what actually happened. There was more to it than that. More that the general audience was not aware of.
Again, I don't really care that you subjectively find it to be worse or bland. That's your opinion. The story is what it is and there is a reason for why it was included. That's not something debatable.Shaddy wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 5:10 pmMinus's retcon only really makes the story worse, regardless. Most of the stuff that's actually unseen previously in Dragon Ball is completely bland and irrelevant in the case of Bardock and Gine, or else is good enough to actually tie into the plot of the film with King Vegeta and Paragus.
It's precisely because we didn't make the movie that is not up to our subjective interpretation. Bardock is in the movie because he's part of story and time period the movie explores, per Toriyama. He's part of Goku's origin, part of the reason for being sent away and part of the events of the demise of planet Vegeta. The story of the movie shows all of that, therefore Bardock is in it. Just like King Vegeta, Freeza, Paragus, Broly, etc...Shaddy wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 5:10 pmWe didn't make the movie, so it actually is up to subjective interpretation. By the logic of the people who allowed the film to exist (aka the people in control of the series' money), most of the reason Bardock was in the movie at all is because Bardock is a popular character they can market. You're asserting that it's to inform of something the audience already knows or add weight to a character that remembers literally none of it, but you can't objectively prove that.
We literally don't know anything about the interaction other than the cut content includes a fight. It's obviously not solely a fight. The fight obviously has a context.
They weren't interesting to you. They are interesting to me, therefore I'm interested in it.
zarmack wrote:The whole "Dragonball is only supposed to be light and funny" mentality that exist in a lot of the fandom is in many ways even dumber than the "edgeload" side of the fandom. You know, the contrarians who think DB should be a Slice-of-Life series, the folks who worship Pre-Raditz Dragonball uncritically, the folks who downplay and often flat-out deny that Dragonball is an action series, the folks who try to push that false argument that none of the serious moments in the series were mean't to be taken seriously, etc.
Dragonball doesn't have a single tone. It has both silly and serious moments, both humor and drama, just like real life. The idea that a work of fiction should be only all-comedy or all-serious is unnatural and frankly, retarded.