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GATSU
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fighter: As I said before, those franchises do make money, but, at some point, it's no longer the big money.
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fighterholic
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True, but you're portraying it like it shouldn't even be making any money, outside of North America or Japan, and even then you're making such a big stink about sales in those parts of the world anyway. |
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GATSU
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fighter:
Well, hopefully the dollar will still be worth something by the time it gets a U.S. release, but we're still technically the biggest market for this stuff right now. |
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fighterholic
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Well, until then, I strongly recommend you save your bashing strength for things more deserving of it when the time comes, and not on something such as trivial as this.
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GATSU
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Well the reason I'm bringing up DBZ's current relevance is I still think that, if FOX really wanted to make the adaptation, it should have done so as soon as it got X-Men off the ground. Now it's coming out after another Hollywood Monkey King movie, and after a bunch of recent wuxia movies, and it just looks average as a result. Hell, the studio even hires the guy who could make it work on a budget, and it just gives him a producer's job, while the guy who was only known for some writing gigs on X-Files and that crappy Jet Li clone flick[not to mention some Scream wannabes...] directs. It's like the studio wants it to fail. And it'll be the second easy adaptation Hollywood screws up-the first being Speed Racer, of course.
I guess the reason this whole thing bugs me so much is that I just don't understand the logic behind these decisions. These execs can't be out of touch with what would sell, either, since they've only been adapting comics for nearly a decade now. So the only thing I can conclude is that they've gotten cocky, and think they can apply the PG-13 Marvel style of movies to DBZ, even though the audience is slowly moving on to more mature approaches like 300 and TDK. |
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LordPrometheus
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Hey, I loved Speed Racer, thank you very much. I grew up on the anime, and thought the Wachowskis did a fantastic job of adapting it for film. What were you expecting, Shakespeare?? 
Oh wait, I forgot I'm talking to the guy who bashes all things American. My bad. |
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Hon'ya-chan
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Howabout something akin that isn't a visual representation of an Acid Trip? |
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GATSU
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Prometheus: I was expecting an actual car race, not a debate on big business vs. the little guy.
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fighterholic
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And 95% of what he says doesn't make any sense either. |
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tygerchickchibi
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Geezuz CRRRIST.
Enough already with the Speed Racer thing. Everyone has opinions about it, it doesn't make you right or wrong. How many threads has this been in now? >_> so can we just get over it already and move on? |
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GATSU
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Edit: I'll just leave this for the anti-Rossum rants.
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Keonyn
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I highly suggest we do just that |
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Hon'ya-chan
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Last time I checked, Dragon Ball was not about fast cars, black leather clothes, sexploitation and petty romances and just overall ricer shit. They've seriously fucked it up big time. I liked this movie better when it was called Ecks Vs. Sever.
And you know what the funny thing is? The funny thing is it sounds like Dragon Ball's plot coming from the synopsis on Wikipedia and other sites, they're just not executing it right. God help me I actually wish Michael Bay was directing this. It's probably the only franchise he could do justice to. |
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tygerchickchibi
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Wiki? C'mon. That's the site where ANYONE is capable of editing it...you know? o_o to be honest, I can't wait until this hell fest ranting is over. We'll all be able to get on with our lives. PG-13 is a safe rating, because even though we're hardcore fans (17+), then the younger kids...well.... Sexplotation? Heh, didn't Roshi read those perverted magazines? And hit on young women and such? Er, yay Fanservice. I see no sexplotation, but meh, exaggeration, it never fails. Oh, don't worry, I know. I'm all over the place with this post. |
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Hon'ya-chan
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Nothing on Bay? You fail royally. |
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