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So growing up I was relatively a fan of the Dragonball series. I didn’t have toonami or anything but I was aware of it and by later years of elementary I got to watch it more. I mostly had access to wb kids so I was busy drooling over Yugioh and Pokémon. My brother is um like a humongous fan of the whole series lol. Like I’m not even kidding. I took him a couple years back to meet Christopher Sabot who gave him an autograph & voices a majority of the characters mainly Vegeta and Piccolo. That was the happiest I’ve even seen him and I cherish that memory to this day. You got to understand we…

Wow... Just wow...

I just Ka-me-ha-me-ha'ed in my pants after watching this masterful adaptation. The source material was something I lost interest in after a few seasons when I realized I could waste my time in more entertaining ways than watching protracted fights and characters powering up.

In this tour de force, James Wong and Ben Killa Ramsey translate Akira Toriyama's larger than life Dragon Ball universe into a more grounded cinematic vision. This is akin to what Christopher Nolan did with Batman and The Dark Knight Trilogy or what Rod Amateau did with Garbage Pail Kids and The Garbage Pail Kids Movie. This Goku, is a white high school kid with an asian grandfather which ignites all those weeb…

The vast majority of animated movies and television shows do not need to be 'remade' as live action films. It does nothing for them. It does nothing for the live action film. It does nothing for the concept. Stylistically it's often terrible. Transformers did not need it. Mulan did not need it. Beauty and the Beast did not need it. Ghost in the Shell did not need it. Akira sure as hell does not need it. And Dragonball Z did not need it.

Dragonball Z is a really interesting curiosity. People think it would be a fun show to adapt to film because it has a straight forward formula.

It's just fight scenes.

Simple.

And everybody knows simplicity is the…

March 2017: Flounder’s Scavenger Hunt #3
TASK #3: A film adaptation that’s a complete betrayal of the source material!

0/10 film.

I love Dragon Ball. I know Dragon Ball. I grew up with Dragon Ball. This film is anything but Dragon Ball. Dragonball: Evolution was originally supposed to have Stephen Chow attached to direct, but he decided to be a producer instead. Ben Ramsey, director of the Michael Jai White DTV action film Blood & Bone, was hired to write a script, despite Ramsey admitting that he’s not a Dragonball fan. Sure, FOX, get a guy who doesn’t know the source material that much to write your adaptation. Ramsey’s script was deemed too expensive to shoot, so FOX ordered studio-mandated rewrites,…

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Oh, Dragonball Evolution. My dear, Dragonball evolution. The film that was, the film that wanted and the film that never could.

Oh, Dragonball Evolution. A product of its time, that did everything it could to capture the slapstick sensibilities of its animated counterpart, but feel miserably, because you see honey, you are a nihilistic stuff of Hollywood who hoped to capture some bucks by exploiting a popular (trademark if you are from Latin America) 90s TV show. And differently to, say, Death Note or Ghost In The Shell, at least you try to bring some representation in many of the roles, except the most important ones like... you know... the lead?

Oh, Dragonball…