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EricJ2
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Actually: A) the robot spiders ended up in WWW because Barry Sonnenfeld wanted to use them in the pre-Returns Superman movie he didn't get to do. And they didn't make much sense there, either. B) Funny you should bring Peter Jackson's Tolkien into a discussion on DB: Evolution, since Fox's original announcement was to do a live-action version of DBZ--having only seen the first two seasons on syndie/CN and thinking it only went up through the Namek arc--and promoting it as the Warner competition of "An epic fighting saga in the tradition of LOTR!" (Meaning, they wanted to get a serial trilogy out of it.)
There was an earlier leaked script that kept the "Nobody believes in ancient Piccolo" premise, but was filled with classic character-callback cameos: Emperor Pilaf (looking pale/vampiric, with Shuu as a big dumb Patrick Warburton ninja) would have had a scene at the beginning sending Mai out after the balls, Krillin would have shown up briefly as an unexplained best-bud, and Goku at one point would have ended up north in Sunow's village, and gotten help from a certain wisecracking sitcom-kid girl. What we got looks like they took the existing script, and had to film it very quickly before the rights expired, so most of the frills, like explanation, became expendable. Last edited by EricJ2 on Sat Dec 27, 2014 2:32 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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Waffitti
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Nickelodeon did air one anime series in the 2000s/bubble years...in Latin America. It was Yu-Gi-Oh!! (4Kids' other anime offerings were picked up by Cartoon Network), they shuffled it between the afternoon/late night blocks, but they showed all 8 or so seasons, as well as Capsule Monsters and the first 3 seasons of GX (which also got shuffled to the last leg of its run). And I was the dorky kid who watched all the episodes.
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leafy sea dragon
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Wow, a serial trilogy based on the Dragon Ball story, with Emperor Pilaf in it and everything. That would definitely have been interesting. How did it get screwed up so bad? Time restraints alone couldn't have done so; otherwise, we wouldn't have stuff like Goku going to high school with Bulma.
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EricJ2
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No, the serial trilogy would have been the DBZ series, starting with Raditz saying "You didn't know you're an alien??", going through Namek, and probably ending up at one of the tournaments (probably the Androids with or without Cell.) Then--right around the 00's time the Buu saga was airing on CN--they found the series was a little longer than they thought. 
And, that that wasn't the only series. (Going back to the studio-exec "Shows We've Heard Of" explanation.) |
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leafy sea dragon
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Still pretty neat anyway. Would the first movie in the trilogy be about Vegeta landing on Earth and the second one about Frieza on Namek?
Considering the series was ongoing at that time, it'd be weird to think that it would end with Cell, considering there were already at least two other points in the series that looked like an ending but kept going anyway (albeit with many dangling plot threads if you were paying attention). |
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veemonjosh
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That's extremely debatable these days... By the way, no one mentioned it, but Nickelodeon did make one attempt during the bubble era to get into the anime craze. They aired DiC's dub of Speed Racer X on their SLAM action block in 2002 (which was their way of cashing in on Toonami's popularity, though the rest of the block wasn't anime). Ultimately it failed, and Nickelodeon ditched the show just before DiC found themselves caught up in a lawsuit with Speed Racer Enterprises. |
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leafy sea dragon
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Well, most of CN Real and Out of Jimmy's Head died rather quick deaths. The majority of Cartoon Network's programming is once again animated.
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ReNellGlover
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Yeah, I don't think Disney X D will ever air K-ON!, and I don't see Nicktoons airing I.M., either. Also, Disney X D has been airing Doraemon every morning, but (since earlier this week) only at 6am; all of its other slots (Mon.-Thurs. 3p; weeknights 12:30a) have been removed. Last edited by ReNellGlover on Sat Dec 27, 2014 4:14 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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ReNellGlover
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And THEN SRE got sued themselves by Tatsunoko years later. |
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PurpleWarrior13
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Dragonball Evolution IS a terrible film, but it's something of a guilty pleasure for me. It LOOKS gorgeous with good production values and fight choreography, as well as decent special effects. Justin Chatwin was really the only actor in the film that I hated, and Emmy Rossum is easy on the eyes.
I'd love to see Hollywood take another crack at Dragon Ball. I think Dragon Ball Z could be easily adapted as a 4-film series.
Oh there was no hiding Pokemon's Japanese origins. The very name of the franchise gives it away (along with names like "Pikachu")! Last edited by PurpleWarrior13 on Sat Dec 27, 2014 10:51 pm; edited 3 times in total |
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Antonio Bravo
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Themaster20000
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For me it was just a forgettable bad film.It wasn't hilariously bad compared too something like the live action Street Fighter film. I do think a live action Dragon Ball film could be done well if you give it to someone like Stephen Chow who could make it work. |
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silentjay
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Actually, Jon Peters had the giant spider thing, not Sonnenfeld. |
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EyeOfPain
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Only if you're already wise to the Japanese language, which, guess what, most American kids aren't. |
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BadNewsBlues
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And people bitching about it for one reason or the next showing how all the asshurt over CN Real was silly to start with. "Young Justice? Where's "superhero X" that's not on the show this show sucks. "Why is Beware The Batman CG?" "My Generation had Powerpuff Girls, today's generation has terrible stuff like Clarence". Whine Whine Whine. |
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is treating Doraemon good and I think disney would let K-ON! On the lineup like the japanese version. All they need is some light editing and there you go. Nicktoons May air Ika Masume since it's on the kids section on Netflix and TV-Y7 Enough to air. So do you think these are great choices? Yes or no?  |
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