PRODUCTION PREMIERE!

NOT MOVIE PREMIERE!

I hope goku dies in the second movie, then maybe he can train with king kai!!

Justin Chatwin is not the only big name actor doing this movie. They also have Chow Yun-Fat (Master Roshi/Turtle Hermit), Emmy Rossum (Bulma), Randall Duk Kim (Grandpa Gohan), as well as Ernie Hudson(Master Mutaito(Roshi’s Sensei)). This film has a pretty big budget approx. $100,000,000 and from production pictures I’ve seen they plan on using CGI for a lot more things than you might think. As for Wesley Snipes as Piccolo I personally don’t see that working at all he doesn’t have the right look, mind you I believe they might have found someone better than James Masters (From Buffy The Vampire Slayer).

As for the release date it’s clearly labeled on many websites(including highly credible ones) as April 8th, 2009. My thoughts on the “summer or October” release is for Dragonball Z. Also about the whole protagonist dying off it’s Goku if you have ever seen the series you would know that he dies in Episode 4 while pinning Raditz so Piccolo can get a clear shot with his ‘Special Beam Cannon’. That would not be a dissapointment to me in any way as there would be no other way for him to learn both Kaoken and Spirit Bomb techniques he learns from King Kai. Both of which are very much essential to keep true to the anime story line(Saiya-jin Saga, Frieza Saga, and Buu Sagas). I also hope just to do justice to the series that they will do more than 3 movies because in 3 movies theres only so much that can be covered (e.g. King Piccolo Saga, Saiya-jin Saga, and Frieza Saga) which wouldn’t even cover HALF the series. Figure 291 Episodes (276 released in US other 15 supposedly coming out in Uncut Season Boxsets) and the Frieza Saga ends with Episode 91 – Namek’s Explosion – Goku’s End. My only irk with this movie is that it would seem Krillin is not included he may seem like a needless character to some but he’s essential to the story who else would Goku train with at Master Roshi’s? How else would he get off the Spirit Bomb that annihilates Vegeta? And How else would he become enraged enough to become a Super Saiya-jin? They even included Yamcha who’s only role really was as the desert bandit which to my knowledge they skip completely over that part of the series.

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He dies because Piccolo kills him and Raditz, which would be the beggining of the saiyan saga.

Less CGI more latex, blood, and fist:

I’m kind of sad this movie isn’t more of a really gory sort of cartoony b- movie like Nightmare on Elm Street meets Howard the Duck meets Terminator brought to life in a beautifull 2010 neo 80s 50s ultra heavy metal rubber action way.

In the recent set pictures from Durango, I was happy to see Bulma’s costume and especially her hair. The leather and the spandex in the photos so far kind of make me excited in 2 ways. The first it kind of reminds me of karate kid mixed with of course dragonball. The second I just like to see women in leather and spandex.

On the more realistic side the photos also kind of look like high school musical mixed with final destination. I KNOW this movie WILL become like a mix of the two with the sort of lets make CGI emotional with the video game morality zietgiest leftover from LOTR, Spiderman, Star Wars 1-3 and the recent foray of superhero films like superman. All of these aforementioned movies hugely iconic bearing a lot of hopes for moviegoers and all were, for the exception of a few scenes of crazy CGI action, exceptional let downs.

It would be awesome if they relied as heavily on live action stuff as they could and then just tinged it with CGI where they hadto to make it just realistic enough.

AN IMAGE:

Lastly, the movie would start with an anthropomorphic dog in a trenchcoat. (Mcgrough? thief futuristic Mcrough P.I. from Dragonball) He would be examining a dragonball he found in sort of a first scene never happened James Bond type thing. He would be in a bar then King piccolo finds him and punches a gory ditch into his animatronic face then he’d fly wire fu style breaking glass across the futuristic bar in Satan city.

King Piccolo wouldn’t kill CGI people in sloppy mass production but a carefully coreographed mess of individual humans and antrhopomorphic animals one after another with hugely cartoony gory results with super flashy beams and punches resulting in nauseating latex flesh, and red syrup. Dragonball was more about the lowflying, gunslinging, spaceship running across the walls basic wire fu dynamics wich is why I think this movie would be so good if it were all just low tech with some CGI exhaggerations here and there.

WHAT IF?:

That’s the dragonball that would certainly become a wierd cult movie but also engraving itself into atleast a niche, however small it may be. But the dragonball movie could be huge with a certain take achieving the likes of a sort of freaky mix between Batman karate kid and the wierd cartoony massive Hindu vedic like foray that is dragonball. This movie if done the right way could be as big as the Karate Kid series or dare I say the batman series. Our cultural DNA is too important to be throwing it away on CGI dollars for quick fixes.

But if all goes according to plan I would equate the viewing experienc of the new Dragonball movie to eating a bowl of ice cream.