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Re: DragonBall Z Abridged

Post by Insertclevername » Tue Nov 06, 2012 2:24 am

I didn't mind Chilled's voice that much the second time through. I think the over the top nature of his voice kind of supplements the lack of any real material to joke about. Sure it can be kind of hard to understand at times, but didn't quite annoy me too much where I would need to mute it.
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Re: DragonBall Z Abridged

Post by MisguidedGhost » Tue Nov 06, 2012 2:25 am

I laughed so hard when they started singing "Welcome Christmas" from How the Grinch Stole Christmas. That was priceless. TFS never fails to impress me.

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Post by DragonBoxZTheMovies » Tue Nov 06, 2012 2:59 am

Insertclevername wrote:I can't seem to remember where the Gohan and Gokuu footage originated from.
I believe it's from the episode with Gohan and the tutor, right before Freeza arrives.

Anyway, what can I say that hasn't already been said? I loved it, huge step up from the Cooler Movie which I didn't particularly enjoy.

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Re: DragonBall Z Abridged

Post by Saiga » Tue Nov 06, 2012 3:34 am

Well, that ending was creepy as hell. :shock:

I loved it, though. Was hilarious. Spikey spiders... spikers. :lol:
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Re: DragonBall Z Abridged

Post by DBZGTKOSDH » Tue Nov 06, 2012 3:56 am

Great special!
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Superman is, and always has been, a symbol for truth, justice, and upstanding moral fortitude–a role model and leader as much as a fighter. The more down-to-earth Goku has no illusions about being responsible for maintaining social order, or for setting some kind of moral example for the entire world. Goku is simply a martial artist who’s devoted his life toward perfecting his fighting skills and other abilities. Though never shy about risking his life to save either one person or the entire world, he just doesn’t believe that the balance of the world rests in any way on his shoulders, and he has no need to shape any part of it in his image. Goku is an idealist, and believes that there is some good in everyone, but he is unconcerned with the big picture of the world…unless it has to do with some kind of fight. Politics, society, law and order don’t have much bearing on his life, but he’s a man who knows right from wrong.

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Re: DragonBall Z Abridged

Post by kemuri07 » Tue Nov 06, 2012 7:07 am

If there's anything to take away from this abridged special, it's that episode of Bardock was fucking dumb as shit. Mostly because you had to buy that not only did Freeza's death ball manage to "not kill" Bardock, yet somehow annihilate everything else, but that Bardock becomes Super Saiyan because he feels compassionate for some....purple dough thing. Gohan pretty much encapsulate the entirety of that special with a single sentence: none of this makes any sense.

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Re: DragonBall Z Abridged

Post by Strongbad456 » Tue Nov 06, 2012 8:13 am

I loved it! Especially the parts with the "Saiyans" and when they started to sing, I laughed really hard. I'm still laughing at the line "We're all Super Saiyans!"

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Re: DragonBall Z Abridged

Post by DBZGTKOSDH » Tue Nov 06, 2012 8:28 am

Hey, look what I found:

Season 1
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Superman is, and always has been, a symbol for truth, justice, and upstanding moral fortitude–a role model and leader as much as a fighter. The more down-to-earth Goku has no illusions about being responsible for maintaining social order, or for setting some kind of moral example for the entire world. Goku is simply a martial artist who’s devoted his life toward perfecting his fighting skills and other abilities. Though never shy about risking his life to save either one person or the entire world, he just doesn’t believe that the balance of the world rests in any way on his shoulders, and he has no need to shape any part of it in his image. Goku is an idealist, and believes that there is some good in everyone, but he is unconcerned with the big picture of the world…unless it has to do with some kind of fight. Politics, society, law and order don’t have much bearing on his life, but he’s a man who knows right from wrong.

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Re: DragonBall Z Abridged

Post by worldmonsters » Tue Nov 06, 2012 10:48 am

I loved that Bardock thought that him going back in time was such a stupid shark-jumping idea that he transformed to Super Saiyan because of that XD Best reason EVER :p

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Post by rereboy » Tue Nov 06, 2012 12:18 pm

TheDevilsCorpse wrote: I agree with everything but Chilled's voice. Disregarding the fact that it wasn't what I was expecting, most of the time it literally made my ears hurt to the point of wanting to hit mute while he was on screen...except for the fact that I'd be missing half the special. >_> As much as I loved everything else, I'll probably never watch it again because of that. :/
I agree with this. I liked the special, it gave me a few laughs, but I didn't like Chilled's voice. It was irritating and I actually had a hard time understanding what he was saying most of the time.

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Re: DragonBall Z Abridged

Post by CaBrPi » Tue Nov 06, 2012 1:49 pm

DBZGTKOSDH wrote:Hey, look what I found:

Season 1
Season 2
There's one out there that has the entire series.

But yeah, EoB was great stuff. It was brilliantly done, with Gohan's mannerisms penetrating into the actual episode. When it was revealed that it was Goku telling the story, inside Gohan's dream, I absolutely died laughing.

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Re: DragonBall Z Abridged

Post by Michsi » Tue Nov 06, 2012 6:35 pm

It was fun and I enjoyed it for the most part but yeah, Chilled voice seemed a bit too much. I don't know about others, but I had a hard time understanding a lot of his lines.

Also, I'm not sure I got the ending.....


Nevertheless, great work!

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Re: DragonBall Z Abridged

Post by Rukura » Tue Nov 06, 2012 6:44 pm

Episode of Bardock abridged was awesome!
Chilled took a bit of getting used to (even more so when the whole point of the final fight for Bardock was "looks like Freeza, talks like Freeza"), but oh well. Bardock actually acting nothing like a hero was spot-on to how it should've been. The chatter with Freeza, Zarbon and Dodoria was priceless. That extra bit at the end cracked me up like crazy! XD
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Re: DragonBall Z Abridged

Post by chaosakita » Tue Nov 06, 2012 10:21 pm

kemuri07 wrote:If there's anything to take away from this abridged special, it's that episode of Bardock was fucking dumb as shit. Mostly because you had to buy that not only did Freeza's death ball manage to "not kill" Bardock, yet somehow annihilate everything else, but that Bardock becomes Super Saiyan because he feels compassionate for some....purple dough thing. Gohan pretty much encapsulate the entirety of that special with a single sentence: none of this makes any sense.
Yeah I really don't understand people who like it either.

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Re: DragonBall Z Abridged

Post by dbzfan7 » Tue Nov 06, 2012 10:26 pm

chaosakita wrote:
kemuri07 wrote:If there's anything to take away from this abridged special, it's that episode of Bardock was fucking dumb as shit. Mostly because you had to buy that not only did Freeza's death ball manage to "not kill" Bardock, yet somehow annihilate everything else, but that Bardock becomes Super Saiyan because he feels compassionate for some....purple dough thing. Gohan pretty much encapsulate the entirety of that special with a single sentence: none of this makes any sense.
Yeah I really don't understand people who like it either.
I like the original special. What's wrong with that. It's just a fun fan service movie is how I treat it. It's like the bayformers, they are just for fun, but writing wise are pretty bad.
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Re: DragonBall Z Abridged

Post by Puto » Tue Nov 06, 2012 10:40 pm

That voice for Chilled... have you been watching too much Portuguese Freeza? :lol:
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Re: DragonBall Z Abridged

Post by BlazingFiddlesticks » Wed Nov 07, 2012 1:47 am

I noticed how the special seemed to have no flow whatsoever, just charging forward spontaneously with only a couple running gags holding it together.

Then I remember that that's exactly what Episode of Bardock is. You even made the special's pacing turn in on itself! Artfully done.

And will reiterate too, the cause of Bardock's transformation is probably the finest GOLD I've seen from you guys in a while. And I lost it at the plantian voices.
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Re: DragonBall Z Abridged

Post by Zephyr » Wed Nov 07, 2012 3:06 am

I loved the fact that the "Saiyan" names were all rappers' names.

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Re: DragonBall Z Abridged

Post by Akumaito Beam » Wed Nov 07, 2012 10:36 pm

Ha ha oh God when Bardock realized he was in the past....I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. Thank you TFS. Jesus do I hate this dumb special.

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Re: DragonBall Z Abridged

Post by Jackal puFF » Thu Nov 08, 2012 4:21 am

I liked how Chilled called everyone on his ship fruits. And the whole nonsense story made so much sense at the end when we see Goku telling Gohan the story.

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