Dragon Ball: Evolution- Speculation and Discussion

Daijuken · Post by **Daijuken** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:46 pm

ssjcj wrote:Chatwin makes Hayden Christensen seem worthy of an oscar.

Damn, that bad? It just seems a bit extreme to make that sort of an accusation...

omegacwa · Post by **omegacwa** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:54 pm

I think people need to see an actually terrible movie with terrible acting before they make such claims. From what I have seen so far the movie appears to be mediocre or just ok. It doesn't appear to be terrible. I haven't seen the movie so I can't say for sure, but that's how it looks to me so far.

ssjcj · Post by **ssjcj** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:58 pm

omegacwa wrote:I think people need to see an actually terrible movie with terrible acting before they make such claims. From what I have seen so far the movie appears to be mediocre or just ok. It doesn't appear to be terrible. I haven't seen the movie so I can't say for sure, but that's how it looks to me so far.

I'm going on what I have seen. I will watch the film and make a final decision. I am just saying from what I have seen, his performance doesn't look anywhere near as good as I would have liked.

omegacwa · Post by **omegacwa** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:05 pm

Well, after listening to the Musical Score again, it is really very enjoyable, definitely above par for an action flick. I actually like it more than the 300 and Dark Knight Scores.

JAPPO · Post by **JAPPO** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:55 pm

omegacwa wrote:Well, after listening to the Musical Score again, it is really very enjoyable, definitely above par for an action flick. I actually like it more than the 300 and Dark Knight Scores.

I agree.

Kirbopher · Post by **Kirbopher** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:43 pm

The soundtrack is fine and well done and all but, it doesn't really feel like it's appropriate. Like, the ongoing "theme" that plays is the only thing that's close to being memorable and I can't even ACTUALLY remember how it goes. The Iron Man main theme tune I would never forget, the one they used for the movie though just feels a bit too simplistic.

As for it being not so appropriate...I don't know, would there be anything wrong with doing some of the BGM tunes from the series using a movie orchestra? Mystical Adventure being done in that style would be amazing.

JAPPO · Post by **JAPPO** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 4:11 pm

I think there was copyright issues.

Anyway I love the soundtrack, and Brian Tyler is a huge fan of the show... he said he called the director for the job before they even filmed it because he was such a huge fan of the show in the 80's and 90's...

Soundtrack is definitely not in the list of my issues with the movie.

Ex-Dubbie369 · Post by **Ex-Dubbie369** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 4:23 pm

I'm listening to the soundtrack, and it's ok, but as Kirbopher mentioned, there's the ongoing theme, and that's really the only memorable thing. And, is it just me, or does that theme sound a lot like the Danny Elfman Batman theme?

Tsukento · Post by **Tsukento** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 4:25 pm

omegacwa wrote:I think people need to see an actually terrible movie with terrible acting before they make such claims. From what I have seen so far the movie appears to be mediocre or just ok. It doesn't appear to be terrible. I haven't seen the movie so I can't say for sure, but that's how it looks to me so far.

Certainly no where among the lines of Garbage Pail Kids or Troll 2 bad, but for a movie that's been pushed as some "big blockbuster" just because of the license it's using, it's pretty bad.

I'd say among the lines of Double Dragon and Super Mario Bros. bad, with the acting of Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat Annihilation.

omegacwa · Post by **omegacwa** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 4:59 pm

Ex-Dubbie369 wrote:I'm listening to the soundtrack, and it's ok, but as Kirbopher mentioned, there's the ongoing theme, and that's really the only memorable thing. And, is it just me, or does that theme sound a lot like the Danny Elfman Batman theme?

Well, it's probably just you, the soundtrack reminds me a lot more of the spiderman soundtracks, I personally don't hear anything like batman.

DominatorLost · Post by **DominatorLost** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:01 pm

Oh Jesus.

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/6844/olawd.jpg

omegacwa · Post by **omegacwa** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:06 pm

Wow, clearly IMDB has no one doing any type of quality control.

Tsukento · Post by **Tsukento** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:26 pm

IMDB: The new Wikipedia

B · Post by B » Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:28 pm

omegacwa wrote:I think people need to see an actually terrible movie with terrible acting before they make such claims. From what I have seen so far the movie appears to be mediocre or just ok. It doesn't appear to be terrible. I haven't seen the movie so I can't say for sure, but that's how it looks to me so far.

No one(in America) has seen this movie yet.

I wonder if someone will sub the Japanese dub before April rolls around.

Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:33 pm

B wrote:
omegacwa wrote:I think people need to see an actually terrible movie with terrible acting before they make such claims. From what I have seen so far the movie appears to be mediocre or just ok. It doesn't appear to be terrible. I haven't seen the movie so I can't say for sure, but that's how it looks to me so far.
No one(in America) has seen this movie yet.

I wonder if someone will sub the Japanese dub before April rolls around.

I'd be curious to hear what Ussop!Goku and Haruhi!Bulma sound like in the Japanese dub, but aren't they also running the movie in English with subtitles in Japan as well? The leaked in-theater clips from yesterday were in English.

B · Post by B » Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:35 pm

That may be a possiblity as I haven't seen any clips.

Super Sayian Prime · Post by **Super Sayian Prime** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:36 pm

I've read Greg's review. And as he said, watch the film and form your own opinion. That's what I'll do.

Lord knows I like things many hate.

mrkaizoku wrote: I've said it once and I'll say it again this movie is
exactly the same as Super Mario Brothers the movie and Street Fighter the movie, an abysmal attempt at adapting a cool concept and failing miserably every step of the way.

You thought the idea of a movie based on a game where a silent hero saves a princess from a crazy mutant turtle was a cool concept? Really? REALLY?

omegacwa · Post by **omegacwa** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:58 pm

Well, we can all blame Capcom for the failings of the new Street Fighter movie because apparently they had a huge hand in it and it was there decision to make Chun Li the main character and not have Ryu and Ken. Also they are the ones that decided the the characters shouldn't look at all like there game counterparts, because well all know, that's what made the JCVD Street Fighter bad

snaku · Post by **snaku** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:59 pm

Going to try and restrain myself watching too many spoilerific videos, despite having read the junior novel and basically knowing how it goes down. I'll save actually watching it for the theater.

JAPPO wrote: Soundtrack is definitely not in the list of my issues with the movie.

You have a list?

omegacwa · Post by **omegacwa** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:02 pm

Well, just from the clips I have seen, my main issue now appears to be the movie feels rushed through. Like they had to get everything in 1 or 2 takes and that the movie had to be less than an hour and 45 minutes. It appears that they don't linger on anything, which is fine, but fight scenes should be more than a minute, and emotional scenes should be drawn out a bit to build tension. From what I have seen it's like:

Hey Gohan is dead, hey your bulma, hey it's master roshi, find the dragonballs, hey piccolo, end of movie.