Who saw DBE in Theaters?

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Who saw DBE in Theaters?

Post by Hellspawn28 » Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:16 pm

I was not sure if this thread already been made but who saw Dragon Ball Evolution in theaters when it was released in 2009? I saw it with my little sister on the first week on a Friday night at AMC Towson Commons 8 (Now closed :cry: ) in Towson, MD. It was playing in a small theater and we where the only people in theater along with three other people. I remember one guy was like "I already saw the movie like three times already on the Internet!". We both had a good time since we laugh on how cheesy the movie was.
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Re: Who saw DBE in Theaters?

Post by Gonstead » Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:18 pm

Nope and I'm glad I didn't pay to see it.
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Re: Who saw DBE in Theaters?

Post by Hellspawn28 » Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:24 pm

I knew the movie was going to suck, so I wasn't piss off like I was when I saw The Spirit or Vantage Point in theaters. Besides, I sat through movies a lot worst in theaters like Battlefield Earth for example.
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Re: Who saw DBE in Theaters?

Post by Fin » Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:26 pm

I saw it at my sister's place, with her boyfriend and another mutual friend. Much better atmosphere than a cinema. You don't get kicked out for MSTing the film, so we got exactly what we wanted out of it. =D

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Post by Super Sonic » Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:38 pm

Me and some friends saw a Midnight Thursday showing, as we couldn't go during the weekend due to anime convention. Had it kept with the Wednesday premiere, Thursday night would've had guys in costume there, myself included.

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Post by The Time Traveller » Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:39 pm

I kinda regret not going to see it. Though I rarely go to the cinema, last time I went was Howl's Moving Castle and Cloverfield... I'm definitely gonna see the Hobbit.

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Post by SparkyPantsMcGee » Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:16 pm

I saw it in thearters with my girlfriend for our two year anniversary. We knew it was going to be bad so we weren't going in expecting much. We ended up having a BLAST...though I don't think it was in the way Fox intended. :lol:
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Re: Who saw DBE in Theaters?

Post by dbboxkaifan » Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:19 pm

Did they have Dragon Ball Evolution 3D in film theatres?

Responding: Nope. I watched via a different way.
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Re: Who saw DBE in Theaters?

Post by TheBlackPaladin » Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:19 pm

SparkyPantsMcGee wrote:I saw it in thearters with my girlfriend for our two year anniversary. We knew it was going to be bad so we weren't going in expecting much. We ended up having a BLAST...though I don't think it was in the way Fox intended. :lol:
Simmilar situation here. I went to it with a group of friends, and it was a blast because we just heckled the movie from start to finish. The best part was that nobody in the theater minded, and more of them started joining in on the heckling as time went on.
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Re: Who saw DBE in Theaters?

Post by Bussani » Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:20 pm

I saw it at the cinema and dragged my friend along. He's an anime fan, and knows a decent bit about Dragon Ball, but isn't specifically a Dragon Ball fan or anything. To be honest, I didn't even find the film fun in a riffably bad way--it was just bad bad to me. But I had fun watching my friend get all angry about how bad it was, which was the whole point of bringing him along!

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Post by Gyt Kaliba » Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:45 pm

I meant to go see it, as for some reason I thought there would be something, somewhere, MAYBE worth seeing in the film (other than the riff value), but I ended up not getting to. I did see a poster for it when me and my girlfriend went to see something else though, and after we got out of the theater and were waiting around, we saw two other guys looking at the poster.

'Whoa, they're doing a Dragon Ball movie! Sweet!'
'Hell yeah! ...Wait...Goku looks kinda weird...'
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Re: Who saw DBE in Theaters?

Post by Hellspawn28 » Sun Jun 03, 2012 11:02 pm

I remember the theater had the movie listed down as "Dragon Ball Z" outside the building. They would have the movie titles that where playing and I always found it funny that it was listed down as "Dragon Ball Z" then "Dragon Ball Evolution" :lol: .
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Post by Jackal puFF » Mon Jun 04, 2012 12:27 am

What makes me mad is I was in Asia for vacation and wasted my time with this movie..

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Re: Who saw DBE in Theaters?

Post by Raithos » Mon Jun 04, 2012 12:35 am

Thankfully no, I didn't waste my money on that steaming pile of garbage.
I did however watch it online; not one soul should pay to see that movie.
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Re: Who saw DBE in Theaters?

Post by Super Sayian Prime » Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:00 am

I saw it more than once in the theaters, but I'm not someone who thinks the movie was some spawn of Satan worthy of having every copy in existence nuked from orbit.
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Re: Who saw DBE in Theaters?

Post by Hellspawn28 » Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:17 am

Yeah I'm not the person who really hates DBE and wants every copy of DBE to be burn in hell. I personally watch 24 hour marathon of DBE over something like Battlefield Earth or The Lizzie Mcquire Movie (Which both where hard to sit through in theaters. I can't believe I drag to see those two films!).
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Post by TripleRach » Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:51 am

I went with my boyfriend to see it on Saturday afternoon of opening weekend. Including us, there were probably less than 10 people in the theater.

The movie wasn't even funny bad, and had no positive traits whatsoever. It just felt like James Wong was punching my soul for 90 minutes.

I had low expectations anyway, but I still had to see it for myself, so I don't regret going. It would've been nice if it was a better movie, though.
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Re: Who saw DBE in Theaters?

Post by DragonBoxZTheMovies » Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:34 am

Nope, stayed at home and sat through DBZ Movie 13 instead. Best decision ever!

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Re: Who saw DBE in Theaters?

Post by SSJ YUSUKE » Mon Jun 04, 2012 3:43 am

I watched it with my younger brothers, it was actually quite hilariously bad, I actually remember people laughing in the cinema and when the credits started rolling some guy shouted SHIT! I'm dead serous.

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Re: Who saw DBE in Theaters?

Post by DBZGTKOSDH » Mon Jun 04, 2012 5:02 am

I was planning to go, but it never came to theaters in the place I live, and it came into DVD/Blu-ray way later. So, I chose the "other" way.
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