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TheVok
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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Location: North York, Ontario, Canada
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Megiddo
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
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Location: TX
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 1:04 pm |
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| I don't think you have the right gross for Observe and Report, as it's just the same number you have listed for DB:E |
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DrizzlingEnthalpy
Joined: 13 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 1:16 pm |
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| I knew it'd flop! =D Now watch as practically all the other anime film adaptations are gradually unceremoniously canceled. An adaptation of Full Metal Panic when not even Dragon Ball could earn a decent amount on its opening day? Ha! |
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JackCox
Joined: 22 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 1:20 pm |
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| This proves, Never f*** with the source material. |
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Emma Iveli
Joined: 19 Jun 2005
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Location: San Francisco CA
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 1:35 pm |
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(tosses fake arm at a movie screen showing Dragon Ball: Evlolution)
And that's why you don't put Goku in high school...
But serosully, I'm not a fan of Dragon Ball, but I resepct it as the forerunner of today's shoenen series. That movie looks like a pile of steaming crap... if you make an anime movie, try to keep it true to the oringal... otherwise you aliante people. |
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Isamu*
Joined: 11 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 1:36 pm |
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| Dragonball is bad but I hope the live action movie of Cowboy bebop does well because I need new martial based on the Cowboy bebop manga and anime. Well so far the live action movie of Cowboy Bebop is looking good to me. |
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TatsuGero23
Joined: 18 Nov 2008
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Location: Sniper Island, USA (It's in your heart!)
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 1:48 pm |
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Has anyone else notice how Anime Fans are becoming more and more like angry Star Wars fans; not happy with anything Star Wars past the 70's?
I fear for the Ghostbusters 3 movie. |
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LagannImpact
Joined: 03 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 1:49 pm |
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Ok, so a Graphic Novel adaptation CAN be successful; just look at "300" and "The Watchmen"! But this is an example of how NOT to make a live-action anime adaptation! Now don't get me wrong, a live-action DBZ even this badly made probably WOULD have been uber-successful cerca 2005, but since no one shows the anime anymore, it's basically forgotten.  Here's hoping the Cowboy Bebop movie will be successful, at least as long as [adult swim] keeps faithfully rerunning it. |
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Hexon.Arq
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 1:56 pm |
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| TatsuGero23 wrote: | | Has anyone else notice how Anime Fans are becoming more and more like angry Star Wars fans; not happy with anything that sucks really hard? |
Fix'd.
To the credit of the anime adaptation in general, however, this can barely be called a Dragonball movie at all. On the one hand we have the director of the fairly lamentable The O.N.E. and a couple of films about kids who die real good trying to adapt a cartoon that his own cynicism and that of those above him can barely allow to exist, and helming the other bomb were two brothers who delivered something that Warner Bros. forgot how to sell: a kids' movie. (Speed Racer goes really nice with movies like Dennis the Menace, Free Willy, and all those other WB Family Entertainment titles from the early-to-mid-90's that I know I watched but have since forgotten the names of.)
Trial and error, kids. Trial and lots of stanky errors. |
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britannicamoore
Joined: 05 Dec 2005
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Location: Out.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 2:05 pm |
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I'm glad we decided to wait for the dollar showing after all; it seems it didn't do well. All my thoughts of it being major fail aside, did anyone see commercials for this? I only saw one on cartoon network, and I watch the network a lot.
Was there any real promotion for this movie? |
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Kiriska
Joined: 01 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 2:08 pm |
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Serves them right. That movie was terrible. I agree wholeheartedly with ANN's review of it. To summarize: This movie appeals to NO ONE. Not fans. Not anyone else. There is more sophisticated writing in your little brother's Saturday morning cartoons.
I hope this puts to death their sequel plans. |
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Mikuru
Joined: 08 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 2:09 pm |
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| Did anyone even see any ads on tv for this? I didn't. |
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zanarkand princess
Joined: 27 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 2:17 pm |
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| I did but they all started like last week. Well while we mourn the butchering of a series many of us enjoyed when we were younger we can at least know we were right about it flopping. |
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D Dubbs
Joined: 08 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 2:17 pm |
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| Mikuru wrote: | | Did anyone even see any ads on tv for this? I didn't. |
All the advertisements were on kids networks. They weren't going for the adult demographic. |
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FanFicGuru
Joined: 11 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 2:26 pm |
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| If they stuck to the original Dragonball when Goku and Krillin (who's Krillin? Oh yeah, how about one of the BIGGEST characters in the show? Nice job there producers...) started their training with Roshi and had their first tournament it could have been awesome. Not many special effects necessary, a lot of solid martial arts and it would be staying true to the story thus drawing in the main source of profit for a movie based on an anime series: the anime fans. |
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