Official On-Going DBZ 2013 Movie Thread: "Battle of Gods"

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Re: Official On-Going DBZ 2013 Movie Thread: "Battle of Gods

Post by Gyt Kaliba » Wed Feb 12, 2014 7:13 pm

penguintruth wrote:One of the things I really liked in the movie is Trunks' need to brag to Goten, who is naïve. Immediately upon meeting Mai, he has a need to impress his friend by claiming that Mai is his girlfriend.
It's even funnier when you consider that Goten is the one that grows up into a date-crazy guy. Apparently it still stings even after all that time passes. :lol:
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Re: Official On-Going DBZ 2013 Movie Thread: "Battle of Gods

Post by Duo » Wed Feb 12, 2014 7:21 pm

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penguintruth wrote:One of the things I really liked in the movie is Trunks' need to brag to Goten, who is naïve. Immediately upon meeting Mai, he has a need to impress his friend by claiming that Mai is his girlfriend.
It's even funnier when you consider that Goten is the one that grows up into a date-crazy guy. Apparently it still stings even after all that time passes. :lol:
Was that incorporated into the character for the 28th Tenka'ichi Budokai? I do seem to remember either Trunks of Goten having to cancel a date for the tournament, but I've never paid much attention to that little segment of the story, to be honest.

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Re: Official On-Going DBZ 2013 Movie Thread: "Battle of Gods

Post by DBZGTKOSDH » Wed Feb 12, 2014 7:22 pm

Sanity's_Theif wrote:So he is stronger than Goku? That's what I get from it, and I'm talking about Goku in SSJ God form + SSJ added on or whatever I heard about, and from what you described, it definitely sounds like Goku and Vegeta are the strongest now, it seems pretty clear, they hurt Beerus and the rest couldn't so it obviously means they have the power to hurt him while the rest don't, I don't believe Dragonball ever incorporated complicated runarounds for power, it's a simple kids show
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Post by TheGmGoken » Thu Feb 13, 2014 12:55 pm

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penguintruth wrote:One of the things I really liked in the movie is Trunks' need to brag to Goten, who is naïve. Immediately upon meeting Mai, he has a need to impress his friend by claiming that Mai is his girlfriend.
It's even funnier when you consider that Goten is the one that grows up into a date-crazy guy. Apparently it still stings even after all that time passes. :lol:
Was that incorporated into the character for the 28th Tenka'ichi Budokai? I do seem to remember either Trunks of Goten having to cancel a date for the tournament, but I've never paid much attention to that little segment of the story, to be honest.
My man Goten had to cancel the date.

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Post by Gyt Kaliba » Thu Feb 13, 2014 1:10 pm

Duo wrote:Was that incorporated into the character for the 28th Tenka'ichi Budokai? I do seem to remember either Trunks of Goten having to cancel a date for the tournament, but I've never paid much attention to that little segment of the story, to be honest.
Yeah, it's definitely still there in the manga and anime at that end portion of Z. A lot of people tend to attribute it to GT since it dealt with it more (and may have flanderdized that aspect too), since that's really just a tiny portion of Z. Kind of the same way a lot of fans think of Pan and Oob as GT characters more than Z ones.
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Post by Saiga » Thu Feb 13, 2014 8:28 pm

Doesn't make him date crazy at all. All we know is that he had a date already planned, and was made to go to something else without any consideration for his current plans. His reaction is pretty much any normal person's, and having a date at that age doesn't seem to be anything special.
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Post by Gyt Kaliba » Fri Feb 14, 2014 1:22 pm

His having that date in particular doesn't make him date crazy, no, but I seem to recall there being an implication that it was just one of many dates that he had all the time. I could be misremembering though, or that could even be a dub only thing.
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Post by Gonstead » Fri Feb 14, 2014 6:31 pm

All I really remember is that he had a date planned. I don't remember any implied meanings to multiple dating.
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Post by MrKaytos » Sat Feb 15, 2014 8:28 pm

Dragon Ball Z Battle of Gods earns 923.000€ on its first weekend in Italy: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

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Post by sangofe » Sun Feb 16, 2014 7:21 am

MrKaytos wrote:Dragon Ball Z Battle of Gods earns 923.000€ on its first weekend in Italy: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater
I wonder how many watched it?

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Post by MrKaytos » Sun Feb 16, 2014 8:09 am

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MrKaytos wrote:Dragon Ball Z Battle of Gods earns 923.000€ on its first weekend in Italy: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater
I wonder how many watched it?

According to Box Office Mojo, Battle of Gods earned 939.351€ on its first and only weekend and it was screened in 299 theaters.These figures vary regarding the information posted on MyMovies.it. Here you can see the exact numbers:

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Post by Flame Dragon » Sun Feb 16, 2014 8:49 am

Well it would have done better with a better dub.
The voice acting was pretty... crappy.
The voices were too generic, the only voice i really liked was King Kai, the rest was just forgettable.

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Post by Gyt Kaliba » Sun Feb 16, 2014 11:44 am

While #5 is a great spot for it to get to, I'm somewhat depressed to see it falling behind something like Walking with Dinosaurs, ack.
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Post by Flame Dragon » Mon Feb 17, 2014 9:40 am

Gyt Kaliba wrote:While #5 is a great spot for it to get to, I'm somewhat depressed to see it falling behind something like Walking with Dinosaurs, ack.
A lot of people didn't go see it because of the voice acting. People missed the old cast, and while Goku & Freeza were dead... a lot of the old cast was still avaiable.
People just didn't felt it was necessary to change EVERYONE.

It didn't help that the voice actor for Vegeta was rejected for the movie!
He even made a funny video about it because he felt betrayed and didn't want to leave his beloved character.
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Which fucking sucks, Vegeta had the best voice acting in the series, and now in the new movie his voice is IDENTICAL to Goku.
It sucks, like i said, i have never seen more generic voices for a dub ever.

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Post by RocktheDragon » Mon Feb 17, 2014 10:15 am

Flame Dragon wrote:Well it would have done better with a better dub.
The voice acting was pretty... crappy.
The voices were too generic, the only voice i really liked was King Kai, the rest was just forgettable.
Wow that's a shame that it had to all transpire like that. Sorry that I have not been keeping up with the Italian release but have there been any explanations of why they went with such a generic and vocally poor cast? What were the politics behind such a decision?
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Post by Flame Dragon » Mon Feb 17, 2014 12:16 pm

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Flame Dragon wrote:Well it would have done better with a better dub.
The voice acting was pretty... crappy.
The voices were too generic, the only voice i really liked was King Kai, the rest was just forgettable.
Wow that's a shame that it had to all transpire like that. Sorry that I have not been keeping up with the Italian release but have there been any explanations of why they went with such a generic and vocally poor cast? What were the politics behind such a decision?
They used the cast from the first DBZ Movies Italian Dub. That's because Rai got the movies first in Italy from Lucky Red, but the anime series was then bought later by Mediaset, who used their own cast. Now that a lot of Mediaset VAs are dead, i guess they didn't bother buying any of the new stuff.

And i gotta say the Mediaset cast was far superior, while the direction and script was kinda bad, and there was a lot of censoring, at least every character felt really unique and had an appropriate voice.

You could feel Goku's naivety and you could feel Vegeta's pride just from the delivery. Even minor characters sounded really good.
Now the new voices are not horrible, they are just... boring. Everyone sounds the same. I especially can't find the difference between Goku and Vegeta, they sound almost like the same person! The only memorable voice was King Kai i feel, the rest was extremely forgettable.

The old Vegeta voice actor even tried to get in the movie and was rejected.
Then he made a video to say how disappointed he was.

I think it would have been better to get the old anime cast with replacements for the dead, but whatever, i don't know if there is a rivalry between Mediaset and Lucky Red or something...

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Post by tinlunlau » Tue Feb 18, 2014 9:55 pm

So has anyone managed to rewatch BoG dubbed in Spanish or Portugese through netflix (via hola app) yet?
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tinlunlau wrote:So has anyone managed to rewatch BoG dubbed in Spanish or Portugese through netflix (via hola app) yet?
Nope, but you just reminded me that it's something I should do sometime very soon. Would be good Spanish practice for the wife. :lol:
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Post by xmysticgohanx » Tue Feb 18, 2014 10:55 pm

Is the spanish dub any good? I'd imagine I would enjoy it more than japanese with english subtitles. It would be even better with english subtitles even though I'm pretty sure there isn't one with it.
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Post by tinlunlau » Wed Feb 19, 2014 10:49 am

xmysticgohanx wrote:Is the spanish dub any good? I'd imagine I would enjoy it more than japanese with english subtitles. It would be even better with english subtitles even though I'm pretty sure there isn't one with it.
Spanish dub was okay from what I can tell. I'm not exactly fluent...at all..
So I am judging from what I hear. The Spanish Kaioh sounds incredibly close to the Japanese counterpart.

I rewatch my English subtitled bluray disc every once in a while. Though I switch on the Chinese subs more than I do with English.
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