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Unit 03.5-ish
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Geez, dude. I'm not expecting Empire Strikes Back from most sci-fi films, which is probably why I enjoy some of them more than I should. I try to turn my brain off with science fiction, because well, the technobabble is a bunch of fake crap someone pulled out of their ass, so I shouldn't have to overthink that stuff, either.
I mean granted, there's some standards of quality here, but Dragonball looks only marginally better than that...what was the name of that unlicensed ripoff that looked like they filmed it around the same area they do Power Rangers shows? Seriously, this movie does not look much better than that. For a flick to be released in 2009, after FX extravaganzas of more recent times like that movie with the car-changin' alien robot thingies you apparently loathe, Iron Man, hell even The Matrix films, it's shameful. |
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Cliffjxn
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You don't have license to make something bad/worse just because the original was cheesy. 
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Unit 03.5-ish
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Can we please drop the Transformers discussion? Because we're topic drifting here, and this thing will be locked if we don't get back on track.
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Cliffjxn
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It could have, but, it didn't. Production start in earnest in Nov. 2007, principal photography started in Dec. or Jan. and ended in March. Fox was planning to hold the "better" movie(s) it was going to release August for a later date to compensate for the hole left by the strike, but as it turned out, they didn't need to. |
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Cliffjxn
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I don't think it's OT to talk about TF since a lot of people seem to think that it's the standard DBE should have shot for. |
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Unit 03.5-ish
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Well, I am getting a bit sick of you railing against TF, to be frank. I hate to be rude or blunt, but...
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Cliffjxn
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If you had to think hard to enjoy/understand Empire or any Star Wars movie I pity you.  I mean if you think of Star Wars as being high concept Sci-Fi that's full of "technobabble" then you might be a fan of the wrong genre.
:Sarcasm off: It always gets me when people talk about "Technobabble". It's not all B.S., but, it's not all real or accurate either. It depends on the writer and the tone of the material. Technical explanations are just there to make the magic lights that blow things up more plausible. It's exposition, that's all. You might poo poo it, but, you need it to tell a story. It explains limits and helps keep the writer from running afoul of the law of unintended consequences. Last edited by Cliffjxn on Tue Dec 16, 2008 11:05 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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Cliffjxn
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Hey someone else brought it up first and you kept it going. But, I'm sorry if you're hurt by what I've said. I wasn't aiming to be mean I'm just a little tired of people over the age of 12 telling me what a great movie it is. I know you didn't say that, but, still. . . Maybe I'm taking it out on you? Again, sorry. . . 
It really is a bad movie though. 
On Topic: I, for one, hate movies that people don't put any thought into or that expect you to swallow horse pills. The DBE trailer makes the movie look like just another creative cop-out to me. A quick cash grab, Bullet Proof Monk/Karate Kid ripoff instead of a fun action, science-fantasy movie. Once again we seem to be dealing with a movie that's a patch work of cool stuff from other movies, a few key elements from the show/book with a bit of original crap thrown in to make it "interesting". It's irritating. |
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tygerchickchibi
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Actually, it is...and a mod has had to come in through other threads to come back to stop the discussion. This would probably be the 3rd or 4th thread I've seen going to this point. It's gone far past the DB movie and now into toys and such?? Seriously? And "bad" movie or "good" movie is based on opinion. No need to argue that out, I've already seen 2 BS posts of this. So please stop. x.x |
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Cliffjxn
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I apologized. I stopped hours ago. This thread been up for several days and has pretty much run it's course. It was mostly just, "DBE is gonna suck", anyway. I mentioned in one of my posts that I was judging films in a mostly subjective way. Although, you can judge a film objectively. After all there are such things as bad writing, bad editing, bad cinematography, etc. I can quite fairly say that a movie is bad or at least heavily flawed, if it has any or all of the things I just mentioned. I have just as much right to hate something as you do to love it. Taste may be subjective, but, that doesn't excuse a story that doesn't make sense. Side note: DBE might turn out to be a good movie, but, it won't be a good Dragon Ball movie, subjectively. 
Like I said before, it's fine to like or even love a bad movie. It's like an ugly pet; everyone else may be repulsed, but, you wouldn't change it for the world. |
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dtm42
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We haven't even watched it yet. No-one has, probably not even James Wong (the director). Yes, the trailer doesn't look too good. Yes, the casting raised quite a few eyebrows. Yes, the budget doesn't promise too much. Yes, Piccolo looks funny at best and ridiculous at worst. We know all that.
Until the critics and wider public get their teeth into this, we don't know for sure whether or not it will be a bad movie. I mean, we can say that the probability is going to be strongly in favour of it being downright embarrassingly awful, but until then we can't say with 100% certainty. I hope this thread dies. Not because I believe we should not talk about Dragonball Evolution anymore - I don't - but so that we can all have a break. It's Christmas, so why are we fighting? We have four months to that once the festivities are over. We should save our collective breath until the new year, or when a new scrap of information becomes available, whatever comes first. |
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Unit 03.5-ish
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12 pages is drawing it out a bit. Can we take a break, not to mention getting a lock?
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Hon'ya-chan
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So lemme get this straight: DB fans want Lambchops. FOX offers up Beef masquerading as Lambchops. So the DB fans are expected to take it in the @$$ and not complain?? |
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dtm42
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Sigh. I was trying to say that we should stop this thread because it has descended so far into lunacy. We might as well just make a new thread, and start anew. I was trying to say that being angry over the holiday period is bad Karma. I was trying to say that we should temporarily stop, if only to stop us getting RSI and/or high blood pressure. I was trying to say that we have four months to complain, and that complaining for that entire period is a waste of time. I could be outside enjoying summer, but oh no, I am on the computer arguing over a stupid movie. That's a poor use of my one and only life, don't you think? I tried to say all those things, but obviously I failed. I guess I cannot use flowery writing while still keeping the language nice and simple. |
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mimosa_usagi
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I can see what you are saying. But the problem is that some people love to complain. 
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