Saiyan-Professor wrote:That is the whole point they are attempting to reach a new younger audience who most of them are ignorant of the original series. This will be their first introduction to Dragonball so all those details are not relevant. Yeah, some may seek the original series and learn all of those things later but the majority will be satisfied with that story. A girl I once dated saw the Transformers movie and then later I introduced her to the Transformers Generation 1 cartoon series. She preferred the movie’s story to the original because she felt that it was contemporary and that she had more things to do than follow the details of a comic or cartoon. If she started with the film’s history and details, she was current in her mind.Tsukento wrote:...Now I know what some people are gonna say. Some are gonna use that "Well, it's a kids' movie response." Allow me to point out how there are Disney, Don Bluth and other kinds of children's movies that don't treat kids like total morons and have a competently written script that not only has scenes that build character, but also have some form of relevance with the rest of the movie.
It was not meant in the manner that you are taking it, you will always have the younger generation feeling that the older one is out of touch. The young ones are more willing to let go of their money because their taste is not that less discriminating. When you look at the moviegoers and fans of anime and manga, you will find that there are more of them (the younger crowd), than of us, so naturally the movie studios etc. would cater to those that will spend more money.Chuquita wrote:...You may not mind being referred to as a "dinosaur", but I find it insulting.(Oooh, how DARE I like a series from the 1980's. What a terrible person I must be. I guess that means everyone who likes Shakespeare and Sherlock Holmes and Gone with the Wind must be a dinosaur too. Because if it wasn't made in the past 10 years it isn't cool to like it, right?) I don't think a depressed, picked-on, overly-horny Goku is relevant to the plot of this movie at all.
Relevant....you don't need to have an angsty, tormented main character to be "relevant". Especially when in actuality he's as far from that in the first place. He's a clueless, optimistic, mountain man who doesn't care what other people think about him and stands up for his friends and himself if anyone tries to cause them harm.
I think the 15 minute pacing rumor thing is just that, a rumor. If Hollywood wants to prove me wrong on the extra minutes being removed, so be it.
And who are you to speak for "the younger generation"? And who the hell are you to call ME old!! Making assumptions on someone's age because of what shows they like...ridiculous!
Congratulations, I'm really pissed off right now. And that's something very difficult to do.
You're saying because someone's young they have no taste? That because they're "young" that they don't care what type of quality or if any hard work if any is put into the movies and television shows aimed at them?! What a terrible world this would be if all movie studios threw out low quality work and half-assed performances when it came to children's movies. People in general can tell the difference between a movie that's patronizing them and one that genuinely wants to entertain.
