If Evolution wasn't called Dragonball

Eddie · Post by **Eddie** » Fri Sep 04, 2009 4:06 am

Jurik wrote:I have never saw it, but it still the worst movie of 20th Century FOX

To be fair, you can't really say that something you never saw is the worst movie put out by a studio that has been making movies for years. IMO DBE wasn't good, but it was a far better movie & adaption than Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li or Elektra. Street Fighter was just bad , and it didn't keep the spirit of the games at all. It was more violent than the Mortal Kombat movies. In Elektra, the ONLY moment of that piece of garbage that amused me was Shang Tsung playing a guy named Roshi. Thinking the movie is bad is perfectly fine, of course, but it isn't fair to do so when your only going off the opinions of others.

MCDaveG · Post by **MCDaveG** » Fri Sep 04, 2009 5:29 am

I won't like it even if they call it Mortal Kombat: Legacy

Commander_Red · Post by **Commander_Red** » Fri Sep 04, 2009 7:20 am

SparkyPantsMcGee wrote:(and the movie looks even better if it follows a 1970's kung-fu movie).

Hmmm, I don't think it can beat Master of the Flying Guillotine. Though I am now all the more curious to watch it again to compare...

Big Momma · Post by **Big Momma** » Fri Sep 04, 2009 9:50 am

Jurik wrote:I have never saw it, but it still the worst movie of 20th Century FOX

Rod · Post by **Rod** » Fri Sep 04, 2009 6:12 pm

I'm a little biased, bt I don't think I would have liked it, maybe it would have been a decent "watch it once in your whole life because you're really bored" movie

laserkid · Post by **laserkid** » Fri Sep 04, 2009 7:03 pm

On a CONCEPT level, being divorced from Dragon Ball would have actually made me more excited to see it up front.

However, the execution of the film still would have left me feeling hollow.

The only real difference would be that my roomate and I wouldn't have MST3K'ed it the entire movie (we had the theatre to ourselves). Also, I probably inevitibly would have made "Poor Man's DBZ" comments due to how much the "Goku wannabe" ate stuff.

Kunzait_83 · Post by **Kunzait_83** » Fri Sep 04, 2009 7:07 pm

Shoryuken · Post by **Shoryuken** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 4:09 am

JAPPO wrote:The budget was $30 million, so it looked about average for that money. Sure everyone likes to point to District 9 as an example, but the sad fact is that's such a rare movie to come across, not to mention Peter Jackson was the producer.

If it didn't have Dragonball in its name, I probably would have never heard of it. This movie didn't have a marketing budget.

The first Star Wars movies had budgets ranging from 11 million to 32 million and they fared very well.

Dayspring · Post by **Dayspring** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 11:24 am

Shoryuken wrote:
JAPPO wrote:The budget was $30 million, so it looked about average for that money. Sure everyone likes to point to District 9 as an example, but the sad fact is that's such a rare movie to come across, not to mention Peter Jackson was the producer.

If it didn't have Dragonball in its name, I probably would have never heard of it. This movie didn't have a marketing budget.
The first Star Wars movies had budgets ranging from 11 million to 32 million and they fared very well.

That doesn't factor inflation into the equation, as well as the fact that Star Wars were revolutionary films for their time.

Side-note: For as much as Lucas wants to claim he always invisioned it as the 6 movies all about Vader and that "Star Wars" was never the name of "A New Hope," I find it interesting that HIS version of the novel adaptation of episode 4 is called "The Adventures of Luke Starkiller Part I: Star Wars"

Olivier Hague · Post by **Olivier Hague** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 12:50 pm

Dayspring wrote:For as much as Lucas wants to claim he always invisioned it as the 6 movies all about Vader and that "Star Wars" was never the name of "A New Hope,"

But... we know it was, for the latter? The 1977 prints were just titled "Star Wars".

I find it interesting that HIS version of the novel adaptation of episode 4 is called "The Adventures of Luke Starkiller Part I: Star Wars"

Whah? Wasn't that just how some early synopsis were titled? The published novel wasn't about a "Starkiller"...

Velasa · Post by **Velasa** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 1:09 pm

Starkiller was a very early name that ended up going away when Luke's father and the man who was suppose to kill him formed into one figure who just kept Skywalker. It didn't end up being used in the final stuff.

It's called revisions people o_O Plots and ideas change as you go along. And I'm pretty sure you just brought that up to start talking about Star Wars again <_< I can't say I blame you, because the alternative is DBE. But I do see it getting this topic locked in the foreseeable future.

Senzu_Bean · Post by **Senzu_Bean** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 11:22 am

BUFF Trunks wrote:Um, has anyone heard of this?

Dragon BATTLE Evolution!

http://blog.ningin.com/2009/09/01/drago ... evolution/

Right now DBE looks like a great movie.

Shoryuken · Post by **Shoryuken** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 12:07 pm

BUFF Trunks wrote:Um, has anyone heard of this?

Dragon BATTLE Evolution!

http://blog.ningin.com/2009/09/01/drago ... evolution/

Matrix + Mortal Kombat = Dragon Battle Evolution
Matrix was bad enough, take Mortal Kombat that's even worse and add them together what do ya get, a film that's even crappier than DB Evolution.
Now that's a miracle.

JAPPO · Post by **JAPPO** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 4:08 pm

Shoryuken wrote: Matrix was bad enough.

Uh, no.

Senzu_Bean · Post by **Senzu_Bean** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 4:10 pm

JAPPO wrote:
Shoryuken wrote: Matrix was bad enough.
Uh, no.

Matrix is awesome, specially the second movie. For those who love fight and that stuff the first sequel is the best.

Cartman Blues · Post by **Cartman Blues** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 6:38 pm

BUFF Trunks wrote:Um, has anyone heard of this?

Dragon BATTLE Evolution!

http://blog.ningin.com/2009/09/01/drago ... evolution/

LOLWUT

Commander_Red · Post by **Commander_Red** » Mon Sep 07, 2009 3:55 am

Olivier Hague wrote:
Dayspring wrote:For as much as Lucas wants to claim he always invisioned it as the 6 movies all about Vader and that "Star Wars" was never the name of "A New Hope,"
But... we know it was, for the latter? The 1977 prints were just titled "Star Wars".

I find it interesting that HIS version of the novel adaptation of episode 4 is called "The Adventures of Luke Starkiller Part I: Star Wars"
Whah? Wasn't that just how some early synopsis were titled? The published novel wasn't about a "Starkiller"...

Even then the actual writer wasn't Lucas, it was just credited to him.

Evolution could have been a really revolutionary martial arts sci-fi film. Pity it just sucks though.