Dragon Ball: Evolution- Speculation and Discussion

Pain · Post by **Pain** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 9:41 pm

Kid Trunks wrote:
Saiyavenger2941 wrote:
Kid Trunks wrote:Can anyone tell me what the was situation when Goku said the "I'm not ready for this" line? For the life of me, I can't remember him saying it in the movie.
Can't say I remember it myself. Seems to have been one of those "commercial only" scenes that have become so popular these days.
Weird. And after all the controversy that one particular line caused.

Also, was it ever said that Piccolo's 'Makankosappo' would be in the movie? I'm sure I heard that somewhere. And I'm pretty sure it wasn't in the movie.

It was in that fake movie review.

ShinRogafuken · Post by **ShinRogafuken** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:18 pm

My Dragon Ball Evolution Review.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdyxAauwxCA

Kunzait_83 · Post by **Kunzait_83** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:21 pm

MisterFlashdude · Post by **MisterFlashdude** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:33 pm

DBE has maintained it's 17% on Rotten Tomatoes.

As for it's performance opening night, it came in eighth with about 2 million dollars. That's got to sting a bit.

Box Office Mojo wrote:The other new nationwide release, Dragonball Evolution, disappointed out of the gate with an estimated $2.1 million at 2,181 sites. That points to a first weekend of around $5 million, or about the same as Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li and a far cry from The Forbidden Kingdom, TMNT, Mortal Kombat and even Bulletproof Monk among comparable titles.

Kaiser Gogeta · Post by **Kaiser Gogeta** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:35 pm

ShinRogafuken wrote:My Dragon Ball Evolution Review.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdyxAauwxCA

That was a pretty good review, it gave me a good idea of what to expect when I go see the movie.

Tsukento · Post by **Tsukento** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:36 pm

TMNT? Ouch. That was an actual good movie.

Rod · Post by **Rod** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:46 pm

I watched it again with a different group of friends, one of them is an otaku and she's completely obsessed with anything related to Japan, she just lost it when Goku entered his room and noticed a soccer poster on the wall, she started screaming "what the hell is that? what is wrong with the filmmakers?" and stuff, everyone just started laughing and we pretty much agreed that was the best part of the movie

Also, curiously unlike what other people said happened to them, my cinema didn't kick us out during the credits, they didn't turn on the lights or even opened the door until after the scene with the weird lady

Kunzait_83 · Post by **Kunzait_83** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:04 pm

Post by **Herms** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:09 pm

Kunzait_83 wrote:Well guess what? I don't have to. Because this one image I happen to have on hand about sums up all of my feelings (as well as that of my friends') on this movie far, far better than any words or any such post could ever hope to convey. And it works on numerous levels to boot.

[snipers]

Where the heck is that from?

DBZGokuSaiyan · Post by **DBZGokuSaiyan** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:15 pm

Herms wrote:
Kunzait_83 wrote:Well guess what? I don't have to. Because this one image I happen to have on hand about sums up all of my feelings (as well as that of my friends') on this movie far, far better than any words or any such post could ever hope to convey. And it works on numerous levels to boot.

[snipers]
Where the heck is that from?

I'd rather not know, Hermie.

ShinRogafuken · Post by **ShinRogafuken** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:43 pm

Kaiser Gogeta wrote:
ShinRogafuken wrote:My Dragon Ball Evolution Review.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdyxAauwxCA
That was a pretty good review, it gave me a good idea of what to expect when I go see the movie.

Thanks man. And haha DBZGokuSaiyan, didn't expect to find you here.

Taku128 · Post by **Taku128** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:49 pm

DBZGokuSaiyan wrote:
Herms wrote:
Kunzait_83 wrote:Well guess what? I don't have to. Because this one image I happen to have on hand about sums up all of my feelings (as well as that of my friends') on this movie far, far better than any words or any such post could ever hope to convey. And it works on numerous levels to boot.

[snipers]
Where the heck is that from?
I'd rather not know, Hermie.

You guys have never seen Double Dragon? You're better off then I am then.

Tsukento · Post by **Tsukento** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:58 pm

Herms wrote:Where the heck is that from?

IIRC, Double Dragon

Kid Trunks · Post by **Kid Trunks** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 12:23 am

MisterFlashdude wrote:DBE has maintained it's 17% on Rotten Tomatoes.

As for it's performance opening night, it came in eighth with about 2 million dollars. That's got to sting a bit.

I really hope Evolution will improve it's revenue enough to warrant a sequel. I'd love to see it.

On a side note...fuck Rotten Tomatoes and their ratings, I hate that site.

MajinVejitaXV · Post by **MajinVejitaXV** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 12:27 am

Kid Trunks wrote:I really hope Evolution will improve it's revenue enough to warrant a sequel. I'd love to see it.

On a side note...fuck Rotten Tomatoes and their ratings, I hate that site.

Err, that'd be more like "fuck all the published reviews," since they're just an aggregate site.

-Corey

Velasa · Post by **Velasa** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 12:39 am

Alright, feedback to posts I missed while at work-

Travis Touchdown wrote:On the Piccolo Daimaou over Piccolo Ma Junnia thing, if I remember right, James Marsters said that this Piccolo was neither Daimaou or Ma Junnia, but rather, they were going to combine the two into the same character for the movies into Lord Piccolo.

What were all those interviews he did where he was talking about the two of them very separately then? Like when he was addressing the fact that Pic and Daimaou were -not- the same person, so that’s why the movie Daimaou was so different from the Pic we know and love?

And just leaving Grandpa Gohan dead without even having a “no, it was my time to go and I had a good life” scene was very awkward., even for this movie.

Was it just me or did the time jump around really weird? One minute they’re saying the eclipse was in two weeks, then suddenly it was in one?

I’ve always believed you could transfer raw chi in desperate situations just to keep someone alive- it’d wreck up your body a bit but it would keep you breathing. The fact that he went through all of his motions and used the named blast though...... o_O no sense.

DB_Fan1991 wrote:I just saw Dragon Ball Evolution today and you know what I liked it.

Ok. See my rant to VenonSymboite (bottom of page 174) for everything that’s wrong about what you just said about Son vs Chatku. He doesn’t begin to resemble him, in any possibly way. And Yamcha sounding like effing Sabat (since he seems to have been written off the same script after all) is a bad thing just to let you know. And I seem to remember the original Pikkoro Daimaou being.... crazy. Just a little. Crazy and actively nasty as shit, not just standing back casually devoid of all emotion watching his peekaboobs minion doing everything. And speaking of Mai, one spoken line doesn’t mean she was written or developed well <_<

Chrono Trigger wrote: If it was longer and added some stuff like:

A scene totally focused on Mai explaining who she was: 8 to 10 minutes.

A scene showing her freeing Piccolo: 5 to 8 minutes.

Absolutely. Shit, the scene introducing Mai could be two minutes of her ninjaing around and segway into her freeing Daimaou and that would have massively improved the movie.

Rod · Post by **Rod** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 1:05 am

lol Peekaboobs.

but yeah, I agree 100% on your page 174, IMO Goku was really a tipical teen movie kid, who wants to have friends and be popular, that was the movie biggest failure, character wise

DBZGokuSaiyan · Post by **DBZGokuSaiyan** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 1:49 am

ShinRogafuken wrote:
Kaiser Gogeta wrote:
ShinRogafuken wrote:My Dragon Ball Evolution Review.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdyxAauwxCA
That was a pretty good review, it gave me a good idea of what to expect when I go see the movie.
Thanks man. And haha DBZGokuSaiyan, didn't expect to find you here.

Well, we all know that Daizenshuu EX is the best place for DB fans everywhere!

Rod wrote:lol Peekaboobs.

Indeed.

Thanos · Post by **Thanos** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 1:51 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQXrbWMK2xs

Ahh! Piccolo does Supernova!

"I... am Oozaru."

DBZGokuSaiyan · Post by **DBZGokuSaiyan** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 2:02 am

Thanos wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQXrbWMK2xs

Ahh! Piccolo does Supernova!

"I... am Oozaru."

That scene was so damn kick-ass... well, at least to me it was.