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Sandra Roberts3 said:Dragon Ball is easily the greatest animated series ever made. 🙏 Honestly, I had no clue they were actually making a movie out of it. I guess I'll have to check it out and see if it's any good. 😍

Another colleague who’s into Dragon Ball. 🙂
impressive 🙂
I'm just waiting on the trailer...
By the way, I'm with Diact on this one; the English dubbing feels so watered down it's almost painful. You really need to grab the Japanese version with English subtitles. The original audio makes the fights hit much harder. I don't need some generic rock track playing over the action when I'm trying to watch a fight.

dustysailor15 said:Honestly, I'm hoping
maybe it looks like this while it's still "old"
once it gets its youth and strength back, maybe it'll turn green 😁

Haha, good one.🙂

Is this Piccolo supposed to be green?
Am I losing my mind, or is that more of a yellowish tint?
Unbelievable. I was actually hoping Piccolo would look decent, but they completely botched it. OMFG.

This is what I was expecting:
http://m.blog.hu/fi/filmkeltes/image/ptcr_piccolo.jpg

Instead, we get this absolute garbage.

Word on the street is the movie won't follow the anime's plot, but it should be spectacular given they dropped $100 million on it.
The film is essentially finished, and now they're just polishing the special effects. Apparently, FOX caught a glimpse of the first few shots, and the buzz is that it looks incredible. I’m dying to see the trailer, though I highly doubt it'll recoup that full $100 million.
Maybe it pulls in around $80 million.
Or perhaps more; it really depends on the fans. A lot of people are worried it'll be a total disaster since bringing Goku to life in a live-action setting is a massive gamble.😁
Still, as an HC fan, I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out.😁

Was the movie canceled????
http://www.themovieblog.com/2008/08/...o-be-cancelled
edit: turns out it isn't. 🙂
A new link dropped today claiming the one above was fake. If it actually happens, the film should be pretty impressive. 😁

ironstag72 said:It really shouldn't have ended with Freeze.
I mean, if they did, we wouldn't even get that whole intense moment where Gohan is absolutely losing his mind against Cell and finally snaps into SS2.

What does Gohan have to do with this?
I'm saying Toriyama envisioned DBZ more like this...
Raditz shows up and wrecks them, Goku dies, then Vegeta and Nappa show up and wreck them, so they head to Namek for the Dragon Balls because Piccolo died, hear about Frieza, meet him, Vegeta gets killed by him, Goku goes SS, everyone flees, those two fight, Frieza dies, and Goku dies at the end of Dragon Ball Z. But fans started looking for extra drama and making things up—Androids, Cell, all that, Buu, and every enemy Goku almost wipes out with a Genki Dama. It feels pointless.
The whole thing is fine to watch, but it drags on afterward. Half a planet gets blown up, or take the transformations—why doesn't he just go SS2 immediately and finish anyone off with a single punch or a massive blast instead of fighting for two days straight?
Or like when Goku throws the Genki Dama at Buu, and the guy just stands there screaming; why didn't he just move out of the way?
Goku was fast enough, and Frieza was too.
Honestly, it's nonsense. Everything after Frieza feels filler-heavy.

Anyway... I don't expect the movie to be a masterpiece, though I might be surprised. I'll leave that to them. 🙂
I'm just hoping for a solid fight without excessive dialogue.

Edit: forgot to add...
These English dub episodes are terrible.
There are 26 of them, whereas the original Japanese version has 291 episodes, and it sounds ten times better in the original Japanese than this weird English dub. That’s all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ0v2hUVcqo
Best AMV I've seen. 🙂
By the way, I've always found Vegeta to be superior to Goku in every way. 🙂
Goku is just too naive and, frankly, dim-witted.

Anyway, I was thinking that DBZ really should have wrapped things up right after Freeze
Once Goku made it back home. Or, if I recall correctly, Toriyam intended for him to die there, which would have been a perfect end to the series. But fans kept demanding more, so they started making up episodes on the fly. 😁
Ending it at Freeze would have been a masterpiece. Amen to that.

briskbison41 said:I'm with you on the fact that GT isn't any good. That said, it actually holds the best plotlines within the Z era, though that’s only because it's so condensed—it's only about 60 episodes, whereas Z drags on for 261.

First you've got Raditz showing up, who happens to be Goku's brother. Then, about a year later in the series, we get hit with the two heavy hitters: Nappa and Vegeta.
Honestly, if you look at the facts, Vegeta was actually the strongest one among them.

I agree, Vegeta is easily my favorite character in all of Dragon Ball🙂
but keep in mind...
the original Japanese version has 291 episodes, while GT only has 64.🙂

swiftcrane96 said:Honestly, I think it could have actually worked as a decent movie if they had just focused on Goku and the rest of the gang taking on Boo. If they’d leaned into a darker, more gritty atmosphere, it might have been something special.

"I must go further beyond"

Exactly. ^^ 🙂
The English dub is rough, though. The original Japanese version is far superior. ^^ 🙂

Chris Palmer3 said:This isn't actually a movie based on Dragonball Z. You can see that just by watching a single episode from each story arc. According to this excerpt from the manga article on Wikipedia:

Does one truly understand the progression of this saga? Dragon Ball chronicles Goku's formative adventures from his childhood through his eventual marriage—an era defined largely by its heavy infusion of fantasy and humor. Then, we have the Dragon Ball Z plot summary, which picks up the narrative five years after the conclusion of the original series, introducing us to Goku's young son and a much more formidable adversary. Finally, there is the Dragon Ball GT plot summary; while it serves as the sequel to Dragon Ball Z, one must remember it isn't actually based on the original manga by Toriyama.

What is the most significant distinction? In Dragon Ball Z, Goku has a son, and we follow the majority of his adventures.

Of course he doesn't look the part; if he were actually a Japanese man, wouldn't he? 😛

I can recite most of the episodes from memory. 😬 Before they even made their way onto our local networks—though if I recall correctly, we only ever caught Dragonball—I had already binged everything on the German RTL2. 😁

Wanna marry me? :-p :-p

But seriously...
The movie feels like it's just Piccolo vs. Goku to me. Then there's the next one (I heard they're planning three), likely Vegeta and Goku, and finally some god knows what—probably Frieza, because anything after that gets ridiculous, like the whole universe just blowing up, especially in GT.

By the way... they only made GT because fans wanted a "sequel," and then they just messed it up. Even the ending was pathetic; Goku merges with the Dragon Balls and leaves with the dragon? Like, wtf...
>.>

Anyway, I admire this girl. 🙂
Can I ask you something? Do you still watch any other anime? 🙂

Chris Palmer3 said:Well, I have watched every single installment of Dragon Ball live as well. But then again, not everyone is quite so dedicated.

Hmm... Still, the boy playing Goku possesses a certain level of naivety regarding... well, everything. Much like the actual Goku. 😁

justin chatwin XD
He doesn't quite look the part to me, but whatever. I’ll probably end up liking Vegeta better anyway. At least I get to meet a girl who actually grew up watching Dragon Ball. 🙂

Look, I’ll admit I'm a fanatic. Goku was honestly hilarious back in the day. I remember when he first met Bulma; he just started slapping at her underwear because he didn't get it. Then he pulls them off and just screams "noooooo baaaaallllllllsssss" LOL LOL LOL
🙏🙏🙏

All right...
here it is...
The plot takes place here on Earth during the final tournament. Goku has to stop the villainous Piccolo from seizing control of the world. Naturally, he can pull it off if he wins the tournament and becomes the strongest man alive. To make things interesting, he isn't human; he's an Alien from another planet. Our protagonist, Goku, is also from out of this world. He originally arrived as an infant with orders to destroy the planet on behalf of the notorious Frieza—who doesn't actually show up in this film—but after falling on his head one day, he turned good. As he grew up, he met various people, fought in tournaments, and realized just how much power he truly possessed. By age 18, he's back for the final showdown against Piccolo, an Alien with superhuman strength who intends to wipe us all out. The movie focuses on that struggle. And since this is Transformers, we have those legendary items called the Dragon Balls; collect all seven and summon a dragon to grant you one wish...
The story picks up after the tournament when warriors like Goku arrive from space to see why Earth hasn't been destroyed yet. Goku has to train intensely to keep up with their massive power levels. Eventually, he dies alongside his brother following a targeted attack from Piccolo. However, Piccolo decides not to destroy the world because he didn't win the fight fairly—everyone was busy saving lives. Then, Vegeta and Nappa show up, possessing ten times the strength of Goku's brother, whom they couldn't even touch...

http://www.hormiga.org/fondosescrito...onBallZ-74.jpg

http://www.freeonlineepisodes.net/wp...ll_gt_logo.jpg

http://www.vagoneta.net/wp-content/u...10/piccolo.jpg

http://trylobyte.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/goku.jpg

http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resou...atwin_goku.jpg

http://www.reelmovienews.com/images/...ma_277x358.jpg - Bulma

http://gokujr.free.fr/images/film2004/goku_movie.jpeg - Vegeta (likely in the second film, maybe even the first)

http://darkdiamond.net/wp-content/up...milk-thumb.jpg

I've put some stuff together for you. 😁

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8PE9...eature=related

There isn't an official trailer yet, though plenty of footage has leaked online. People tend to make videos like this, but you have to watch out for the fakes...
What are your expectations for the movie?

I’m actually hoping it turns out well, even if I'm about 90% sure it won't.🙂

I’ve sat through Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, Bleach, Naruto, Fate/stay night, Akira, Evangelion, X, Ghost in the Shell—which was a bit of a letdown, honestly—Rurouni Kenshin, Death Note, D.Gray-man, Cowboy Bebop, Hellsing, and Berserk... I might have missed a few, like Sailor Moon, Pokémon, Digimon, or Beyblade. 🙂
I wouldn't call myself an obsessive viewer, just someone who picks things up occasionally. Though, I did manage to catch
.sign, Gaogaigar 😁