DragonBall Evolution DVD Dissection! (BluRay Now On Page 7)

Eddie · Post by **Eddie** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 5:09 pm

The Wal-Mart I work at still has 4 slots of the DVD, but we had to restock the blu-ray. Oh, and apparently DBE is still the number one rental on PSN.

Teclo · Post by **Teclo** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 6:46 pm

Well I know it did atrociously at the US box office. Films always do dozens of times better (sometimes over a hundred times better) in the US than in the UK - for example the newest Harry Potter movie has made just over $70 million in the UK and $273 million in the US - but DBE's box office results were below a UK sort of level in the US, making only $9 million.

I don't imagine that shops would take in that much stock of this film. Also remember that their being a small amount of a product on the shelves can mean that it's sold out quickly but it can also mean they don't feel the need to restock it. As for the PS3 rental thing; that's probably got a lot to do with the general audience. In the way that doing a survey to establish "average wage" at Mullholland Drive doesn't give a realistic picture of things, nor does going off rentals on a console.

Edit
Just tracked down its box office position back in April in the UK. It was in the top 10 for 1 week, at number 8, and made a total of about $700,000. Oh dear.

johnboy1 · Post by **johnboy1** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:29 pm

Well, it might just make its production cost back on home video. I saw a report that the film actually cost $45 million instead of 100+.* If so, it actually needs to make somewhere around $90 million before it breaks even (it made $58 million total). That's a difficult, but still attainable, goal. However, if that report was wrong, and it DID cost over 100 mil, then the whole project is a total loss and we can kiss any potential sequels goodbye.

...

Stop smiling. That's a bad thing.

*That would explain a LOT about the special effects, now that I think about it. If a movie is going to rely in any way on special effects, 45 mil simply won't cut it.

DragonBalllKaiHD · Post by **DragonBalllKaiHD** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:40 pm

I'm pretty certain the film was semi-low budget. I guess they got some profit and they have potential to make another sequel, which I'm certain it will happen. Hopefully better than the original.

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:31 pm

I'm pretty glad to hear the discs are selling so well. If they turn enough of a profit, we may get that potentially-better sequel after all.

Big Momma · Post by **Big Momma** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 2:52 pm

Here's a Japanese trailer featuring some of the dub voices.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQXASk_hg2M

Dunno if it's old or not, just thought I'd share it.

Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 4:58 pm

Big Momma wrote:Here's a Japanese trailer featuring some of the dub voices.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQXASk_hg2M

Dunno if it's old or not, just thought I'd share it.

WOW was that totally Ussop.

No Haruhi!Bulma in the promo though.

Oh well.

Conan the SSJ · Post by **Conan the SSJ** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 5:34 pm

johnboy1 wrote:*That would explain a LOT about the special effects, now that I think about it. If a movie is going to rely in any way on special effects, 45 mil simply won't cut it.

Dude, apparently you haven't seen Serenity. That was made on $39 mill and Joss Whedon managed to make it look like a big budget, sci-fi masterpiece. DBE sucks because its writers, director, and practically all involved in the production had zero spirit in making this film anymore than the garbage it became. Seriously, check Serenity out (though not without watching Firefly first), it shows how much a special effects reliant film can pull off on such a low budget compared to various other flicks at $100 mill or more.

Chuquita wrote:WOW was that totally Ussop.

No Haruhi!Bulma in the promo though. Oh well.

Chu, if you can swallow watching this movie once more, do see if ya' can check out the Spanish dub, which uses the same Mexican-Spanish voices for Goku and Piccolo. I think you've mentioned a like for this particular dub of the anime? Most interesting in the ways it makes the movie somewhat more watchable (without alcohol involved), which I never thought was possible. Chatku/Goku's VA voices him very similar to how he did in the anime material I've seen (eps 1-27, movie 5), thus more in-character sounding even with the ridiculous dialogue and oh yeah, they also leave "Geeko" out entirely.

(Another fun tibit, the calling of Chichi "Milk", I love that!)

johnboy1 · Post by **johnboy1** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:15 pm

Conan the SSJ wrote:DBE sucks because its writers, director, and practically all involved in the production had zero spirit in making this film anymore than the garbage it became.

...Cool. But that has nothing to do with what I was talking about. I was simply saying that the $45 mil budget helps explain why the special effects weren't exactly Star Wars quality. I don't really think Serenity is a valid example, though, as it was mostly a fluke. Yes, someone with gobs of talent like Whedon can pull it off. But when you're talking about a film's visual performance in matters like these, you need to compare it to the run-of-the-mill film made for a similar amount of money, not the absolute pinnacle of artistic expression. And it's simply a fact that a special-effect heavy film made for $45 million is much, MUCH more likely to end up looking like DBE instead of Serenity.

omegacwa · Post by **omegacwa** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:11 pm

I just watched DBE on DVD last night, and I have to say the only special effects that stand out as being bad are the Ozaru effects. You can tell that that whole scene was rushed because of the negative response from the "Demon Ozaru" pictures.

I have to say though, The special features are pretty bad. Goku's work out is incredibly embarrassing. Seriously, I have only a background in boxing wrestling and gymnastics, no Martial Arts at all and I could have made a better feature than that.

I think the Chi Chi vs Chi Chi fight feature is interesting as I had no idea that both sides are Jaime Chung and that she had to film both sides of the fight.

The Justin Chatwin thing was ok, but I got bored 18 minutes in and stopped wtaching it. Gag reel was ok but was really short.

Speaking of short, Jesus, the movie minus credits is only 75 minutes...

Over all I still like the movie, and think it had potential, but something went really wrong on the way.

A bunch of people I know said it was better than Wolverine and GI Joe, which I feel I have to agree. Wolverine sucked, and GI Joe was just no stop action which got tiring. I even liked DBE better than Transformers 2, which if it didn't have the fight in the forest, I would have completely disliked.

Honestly, I think DBE would have been a great deal better if it was closer to 2 hours long. Extend the fight scenes, especially the one with Piccolo. Also hold a shot for more then 1 second. Have the characters look more accurate too. I am really starting to dislike Goku's movie Gi. I think they over did it, and it would have been better as a simple orange gi with blue accessories.

Innagadadavida · Post by **Innagadadavida** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:33 pm

omegacwa wrote:I have to say though, The special features are pretty bad. Goku's work out is incredibly embarrassing. Seriously, I have only a background in boxing wrestling and gymnastics, no Martial Arts at all and I could have made a better feature than that.

I thought boxing and wrestling are forms of martial arts.

Conan the SSJ · Post by **Conan the SSJ** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:37 pm

omegacwa wrote:A bunch of people I know said it was better than Wolverine and GI Joe, which I feel I have to agree. Wolverine sucked, and GI Joe was just no stop action which got tiring. I even liked DBE better than Transformers 2, which if it didn't have the fight in the forest, I would have completely disliked.

I strongly disagree with you about Origins: Wolverine. A couple odd retcons and weird crap (adamantium bullets causing the amnesia...!?) aside, I find it a worthy prequel to the first two X-Men movies and a kickass addition to the franchise. Suckiest things about the film IMO are 1) we all know Logan will never get his memories back & 2) he's destined to be Dark Phoenix's hardon-bitch. Sorry for the language. But yeah, I overall like how it turned out, was one of the few genuinly good movies this year, and the cameo by a certain X-Men at film's end just put the biggest smile on my face than any film in a couple years.

omegacwa · Post by **omegacwa** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:47 pm

Innagadadavida wrote:
omegacwa wrote:I have to say though, The special features are pretty bad. Goku's work out is incredibly embarrassing. Seriously, I have only a background in boxing wrestling and gymnastics, no Martial Arts at all and I could have made a better feature than that.
I thought boxing and wrestling are forms of martial arts.

Well, I know that, but I didn't want to list every form of Karate and Kung Fu and what not. Hmm, I guess I have no experience in Asian Martial Arts Forms.

sangofe · Post by **sangofe** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 4:30 am

Has anyone watched Dragonball Evolution dubbed in Japanese? I am really curious about that dub... But I don't want to buy the Blu Ray for it either :p

Kroni_Hunter · Post by **Kroni_Hunter** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 4:50 pm

As for what's on the actual disc. The menu's show various scenes of the movie with the menu options on the bottom...

Looks like Spike.

SSJSteve · Post by **SSJSteve** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 9:44 pm

Anybody seen this yet? I found it pretty Intresting.

http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2009/DRGNB-DVD.php
That's a website for the total sales (so far) for Dragon ball Evolution (DVD).

Dragon ball Evolution - DVD Sales

DVD Sales Performance

Released on DVD: July 28, 2009
DVD Units Sold: 85,497
Consumer Spending: $1,281,600

Chrono Trigger · Post by **Chrono Trigger** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 9:49 pm

Are those considered good?

SSJSteve · Post by **SSJSteve** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 9:50 pm

Chrono Trigger wrote:Are those considered good?

I have no idea.

MisterFlashdude · Post by **MisterFlashdude** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:50 pm

Chrono Trigger wrote:Are those considered good?

You could do a bit of comparing.

SparkyPantsMcGee · Post by **SparkyPantsMcGee** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:41 pm

MisterFlashdude wrote:
Chrono Trigger wrote:Are those considered good?
You could do a bit of comparing.

It ranked 6th of that week!

I was going to be impressed if it made top 30, let alone top 10!

how is it doing this well? I would have flopped harder than it did in theaters. I kind of liked the movie(in a bad funny sort of way) but I wasn't thinking about buying it.

Dont forget...this doesn't include downloads, last I checked it is still number 1 on PSN.

Kanzenshuu

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