Dragonball Evolution - SPOILERS Thread

Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:49 am

Olivier Hague wrote:
Pain wrote:And does anyone know how much DBE is making in Japan?
I know it makes people say "Devilman" a lot on 2 Channel.
In other words, probably not much.

Devilman? What?

I'm never on 2 Channel, but does that mean they are insulting the movie? Or the filmmakers?

Bussani · Post by **Bussani** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 2:00 am

Chuquita wrote:
Olivier Hague wrote:
Pain wrote:And does anyone know how much DBE is making in Japan?
I know it makes people say "Devilman" a lot on 2 Channel.
In other words, probably not much.

Devilman? What?

I'm never on 2 Channel, but does that mean they are insulting the movie? Or the filmmakers?

Devilman is an old Go Nagai manga/anime. It had a live action movie based on it. They're probably comparing DBE to the Devilman LAM, which probably isn't a compliment.

Olivier Hague · Post by **Olivier Hague** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 2:26 am

Bussani wrote:They're probably comparing DBE to the Devilman LAM, which probably isn't a compliment.

Indeed, and definitely.

Dogasu · Post by **Dogasu** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:37 am

We probably won't know any box office figures until tomorrow morning.

Speaking of fan comments...the comments over on the Japanese Yahoo! site are all pretty damning. Here are my translations of some of their comments:

Stephen Chow's "Shaolin Soccer" has just been outdone (1/5)

That's the kind of feeling this movie gave off. It *really* did. It wasn't interesting at all. It's a C-grade movie. The cast was very strange, and the action scenes were plain. The plot was pretty thin, and the big battle against Piccolo at the end was over too easily. After finding the Dragon Balls way too quickly, Piccolo's weird, cookie-cutter alien subordinates appear.

Anyway, it was too boring. They disregarded the source material without any empathy.

If Akira Toriyama really did sign off on this, then it's a shame. It's a shame that they didn't create a "Lord of the Rings"-quality film set in the Dragon Ball world with Piccolo and the others because if they had, it would have been amazing.

It was the worst (1/5)

I went and saw it.

This movie is a well-made E-grade kung-fu movie with the "Dragon Ball" title and characters tacked on.

It looks like Hollywood mixed miso and shit together to make this movie.

It seems like they were OK with mixing soy sauce and India ink together to make this movie.

I want to be thrilled with a movie named "Dragon Ball" keeping the contents the same.

But this was a really dumb movie.

Kingdom Heartless · Post by **Kingdom Heartless** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:37 am

Stephen Chow's "Shaolin Soccer" has just been outdone (1/5)

What's Shaolin Soccer got to do with anything?

Because they think it's the worst movie ever (but second now), or the worst Stephen Chow related movie (which would be silly).

Maybe it's because Shaolin Soccer had plenty of over the top scenes and stuff.... but that was the whole point!

Saiyan-Professor · Post by **Saiyan-Professor** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:01 pm

Dogasu wrote:We probably won't know any box office figures until tomorrow morning.

Speaking of fan comments...the comments over on the Japanese Yahoo! site are all pretty damning. Here are my translations of some of their comments:

Stephen Chow's "Shaolin Soccer" has just been outdone (1/5)

That's the kind of feeling this movie gave off. It *really* did. It wasn't interesting at all. It's a C-grade movie. The cast was very strange, and the action scenes were plain. The plot was pretty thin, and the big battle against Piccolo at the end was over too easily. After finding the Dragon Balls way too quickly, Piccolo's weird, cookie-cutter alien subordinates appear.

Anyway, it was too boring. They disregarded the source material without any empathy.

If Akira Toriyama really did sign off on this, then it's a shame. It's a shame that they didn't create a "Lord of the Rings"-quality film set in the Dragon Ball world with Piccolo and the others because if they had, it would have been amazing.

It was the worst (1/5)

I went and saw it.

This movie is a well-made E-grade kung-fu movie with the "Dragon Ball" title and characters tacked on.

It looks like Hollywood mixed miso and shit together to make this movie.

It seems like they were OK with mixing soy sauce and India ink together to make this movie.

I want to be thrilled with a movie named "Dragon Ball" keeping the contents the same.

But this was a really dumb movie.

I guess anal-retentive Dragonball fans are the same the world over. They wanted a fantasy movie with little CGI cats, pigs and dogs running around and a woman with a bad blue wig not to mention a green alien with dangly things sticking out of his forehead.

snaku · Post by **snaku** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:08 pm

Saiyan-Professor wrote:
I guess anal-retentive Dragonball fans are the same the world over. They wanted a fantasy movie with little CGI cats, pigs and dogs running around and a woman with a bad blue wig not to mention a green alien with dangly things sticking out of his forehead.

Yeah, how unreasonable....

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:08 pm

Was anyone really expecting something on the same scale of Lord of the Rings out of DragonBall? Really?

JAPPO · Post by **JAPPO** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:09 pm

Opened at #1 in Korea. Not surprising.

jjgp1112 · Post by **jjgp1112** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:23 pm

Really, I would have been fine with the movie if it wasn't a 100% accurate movie. I could understand changing a few things around, but what they did with this is just ridiculous.

Basically, I would have liked the movie to be Path To Power: the Piccolo Daimao edition

NeptuneKai · Post by **NeptuneKai** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:27 pm

jjgp1112 wrote:Really, I would have been fine with the movie if it wasn't a 100% accurate movie. I could understand changing a few things around, but what they did with this is just ridiculous.

Basically, I would have liked the movie to be Path To Power: the Piccolo Daimao edition

We're on the same page. I honestly wouldn't have given a shit if they got rid of Oolong or Puar but there was no reason for them to just ignore so much of the story.

Pain · Post by **Pain** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 2:51 pm

Wait a sec...what if Toei made an anime special out of this movie, in Path To Power style??? It would be the awesomeness DBZ pwnage EVAR! ROFLCOPTER

JAPPO wrote:Opened at #1 in Korea. Not surprising.

Any word on what type of money it made?

JAPPO · Post by **JAPPO** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 3:45 pm

$10,106,000 over the weekend in Asia.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?pa ... onball.htm

That's not counting Europe, North America etc.

Pain · Post by **Pain** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:00 pm

JAPPO wrote:$10,106,000 over the weekend in Asia.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?pa ... onball.htm

That's not counting Europe, North America etc.

10 million in two days, hm? Sounds good to me, seeing as it hasn't even been out for two weeks and isn't in North America, yet.

JulieYBM · Post by **JulieYBM** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:27 pm

Most major comic films make more than that, but then again that's in America.

Innagadadavida · Post by **Innagadadavida** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:28 pm

Pain wrote:
JAPPO wrote:$10,106,000 over the weekend in Asia.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?pa ... onball.htm

That's not counting Europe, North America etc.
10 million in two days, hm? Sounds good to me, seeing as it hasn't even been out for two weeks and isn't in North America, yet.

There's also a big difference in advertising over there compared to the US.

Olivier Hague · Post by **Olivier Hague** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:55 pm

Kingdom Heartless wrote:What's Shaolin Soccer got to do with anything?

Actually, the title of the review is more about how Shaolin Soccer's Stephen Chow left during the production of the movie.

Pain · Post by **Pain** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:59 pm

Olivier Hague wrote:
Kingdom Heartless wrote:What's Shaolin Soccer got to do with anything?
Actually, the title of the review is more about how Shaolin Soccer's Stephen Chow left during the production of the movie.

He doesn't seem to be the most reliable guy around, now does he?

Olivier Hague · Post by **Olivier Hague** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 5:22 pm

Er... Basically, he left because they weren't listening to him.

Pain · Post by **Pain** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 5:28 pm

Why didn't you say that before?