Live Action Movie Thread

Chrono Trigger · Post by **Chrono Trigger** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:42 am

I'd still like to wait until I see this thing in motion before I condemn it to hell. All we've seen are pictures. Oh and in one of them it looks like Roshi is dead on the ground. The one where Chatwinku looks like he is landing.

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:42 am

Captain Awesome wrote:Sorry if I sound like an ass, but where exactly do you get the Piccolo "vibe" from, if we didn't know James Marsters was cast in the role, is there any way you would actually look at that picture and think "Oh, that's Piccolo."

The face of an old, decrepit, slug-like alien badguy. Pointy ears, antennae-like protrusions, etc. He's a more light, yellowish shade of green, but that's the only major difference.

rackhami · Post by **rackhami** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:42 am

SSj Kaboom wrote:I know Piccolo's not spot-on, but there's still a lot of similarities in the details.

I'd definitely prefer it if his physical design were closer to Piccolo than Spike (edit: by which I mean, more immediately identifiable as Piccolo) - but I do like the detail around his scalp, the ridges that almost resemble antennae. And to be fair, though I'm sure Marsters could pull off green make-up and antennae, I can't imagine it would have been an easy sell.

But I still think he looks hilarious. *g*

SSJ2bardock · Post by **SSJ2bardock** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:43 am

Well at least we have a silver lining in all this turmoil

Marsters is going to own this role!

Captain Awesome · Post by **Captain Awesome** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:46 am

rackhami wrote: I'd definitely prefer it if his physical design were closer to Piccolo than Spike

That is exactly my problem with it, if I wasn't a Buffy fan, it probably wouldn't bother me half as much, but every time I look at him I think "Vampire" not "Piccolo"

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:46 am

SSJ2bardock wrote:Well at least we have a silver lining in all this turmoil

Marsters is going to own this role!

You kidding me? As if you even have to tell me!

SSJ2bardock · Post by **SSJ2bardock** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:49 am

James Marsters is a fantastic actor when it comes to roles like this and he's probably the single reason I'm even going to see this movie. That and I'm pretty much obligated to.

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:50 am

SSJ2bardock wrote:James Marsters is a fantastic actor when it comes to roles like this and he's probably the single reason I'm even going to see this movie.

Chatwin's looking pretty good too. We know he knows the character very well, and look how much emotion he's got in the screencaps.

SSJ2bardock · Post by **SSJ2bardock** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:56 am

Agreed, I pretty much missed how good the Chatwin screen caps were in all of my Dracculo induced anger.

Feel free to take "Dracculo" and run with it guys...

Kid Trunks · Post by **Kid Trunks** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:01 am

Wow. Don't you guys think your maybe blowing this Marsters thing out of proportion a little? I'm not saying hes not a great actor, I don't really know tbh, I never watched Buffy. And he may well be phenomenal in the role. I hope so. But you seem to be setting yourselves up for serious disappointment if he doesn't deliver a mind blowing performance...

Chrono Trigger · Post by **Chrono Trigger** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:04 am

Mmm. Naw he is gonna own this role.

Kunzait_83 · Post by **Kunzait_83** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:32 am

Kid Trunks wrote:Wow. Don't you guys think your maybe blowing this Marsters thing out of proportion a little? I'm not saying hes not a great actor, I don't really know tbh, I never watched Buffy. And he may well be phenomenal in the role. I hope so. But you seem to be setting yourselves up for serious disappointment if he doesn't deliver a mind blowing performance...

Well, really he HAS basically played more or less a very similar variation on Piccolo’s character on Buffy for years… if Piccolo were more surly, foul mouthed, and British, he’d basically be Spike. I don’t see any reason why Marsters wouldn’t be able to own this part in his sleep by now. All he has to do is ditch the British accent (which wasn’t even his to begin with, so no problems there) as well as the sarcastic “Joss Whedon” humor, and he’s pretty much already there.

Raki · Post by **Raki** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:33 am

I can't wait for this train wreck come 2009.

SSJ2bardock · Post by **SSJ2bardock** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:41 am

Wow, this thread exploded for a minute there that I didn't even notice I became an "OMG CRAZY REG".

Anyways, what's everyone think of Chatwin's gi in the action screen caps? I'm not sure if it's cool or cheesy looking yet, so sway my opinion!

JAPPO · Post by **JAPPO** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:42 am

Chatwin looks perfect.
Marsters looks just okay sadly.
Chow Yun-Fat looks perfect.
Emmy Rossum (from the poster I posted) looks beyond perfect.

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:43 am

Raki wrote:I can't wait for this train wreck come 2009.

Are all the repeated comments like this really necessary?

SSJ2bardock wrote:Anyways, what's everyone think of Chatwin's gi in the action screen caps? I'm not sure if it's cool or cheesy looking yet, so sway my opinion!

If I didn't think it looked awesome, I wouldn't have cosplayed it.

It's very nice-looking, and a good version that looks better on real people.

Kid Trunks · Post by **Kid Trunks** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:50 am

JAPPO wrote: Emmy Rossum (from the poster I posted) looks beyond perfect.

I agree. But I think I only looked at the picture to see how hot Rossum looked, rather than how much she looked like Bulma.

SSJ2bardock · Post by **SSJ2bardock** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:54 am

Kid Trunks wrote:
JAPPO wrote: Emmy Rossum (from the poster I posted) looks beyond perfect.
I agree. But I think I only looked at the picture to see how hot Rossum looked, rather than how much she looked like Bulma.

Dude we're guys, does anything else really matter?

The Time Traveller · Post by **The Time Traveller** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:56 am

SSJ2bardock wrote:
Kid Trunks wrote:
JAPPO wrote: Emmy Rossum (from the poster I posted) looks beyond perfect.
I agree. But I think I only looked at the picture to see how hot Rossum looked, rather than how much she looked like Bulma.
Dude we're guys, does anything else really matter?

Consider the clothing, it has to be skimpy!
And then bulky, and then skimpy, and she should have the various early hairstyles from the first part of the manga.

Raki · Post by **Raki** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:09 am

SSj Kaboom wrote:
Raki wrote:I can't wait for this train wreck come 2009.
Are all the repeated comments like this really necessary?

Yes they are, because I fucking love train wrecks. I'm really excited for this movie and can't wait to see how it's done, good or bad.