OH JAMES WONG NO

[yendi]

Here's the trailer for next year's Dragonball: Evolution (the live-action Dragonball movie). On the one hand, it's got James Marsters, Emmy Rossum, Chow Yun-Fat, and Ernie Hudson, and is directed by the guy who gave us the guilty pleasures of the first and third Final Destination movies. On the other hand, holy shit does this look awful:

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Comments

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

Eh, D-ball is an awful cartoon, so I'm not sure how a live-r would be any good.

[yendi]

The cartoon was wretched -- I certainly don't look at this as ruining anything good -- but the movie looks wretched in completely new and different ways.

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

Given my contempt for the source material, I feel no temptation to see this regardless of who is in the cast.

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

On one level, these endless Hollywood remakes are trying to play on your nostalgia for the originals. If you never cared about the originals, there's less of a draw for the remake.

It may not be a great movie, but...

[fmi-agent.livejournal.com]

Dude looks like Billie Joe Armstrong!

[tablesaw]

I've been told that the original manga was better, but I can't say firsthand, nor can I know to what extent the film may have drawn from the manga or anime.

[ultra-lilac.livejournal.com]

Eh.
I'm sad they didn't stick with Toriyama's charming character design from the original comics.
I was never a fan of the anime either.
A live action film could actually have been pretty good, but this looks lame.

[catystorm.livejournal.com]

Oh god, train-wreck syndrome, it is tingling....

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I dunno.

See, The Spirit horrifies me, because it's something sucky based on something good.

Making something sucky out of something good is sucky.

But making something sucky out of something sucky? I don't see any net change in the universe.

[digriz.livejournal.com]

Bulma looks she might be done right. The rest of it.... *twitch*

[kaine-maxwell.livejournal.com]

Ya know, if they want to do an exact version of the show, these movies will have to be a trilogy:

Movie 1; they meet, train, etc.
Movie 2: powering-up. Yes, 120 min of screaming, groaning and flashy-special effects as they powerful and flashback.
Movie 3: all-out battle.

[mister-wolf.livejournal.com]

Looks like a huge improvement over any existing Dragonball Z materials.

Still looks pretty terrible, though.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

hmm.. not bad sfx, but those aren't hard to do nowadays. I've never seen the manga or cartoon, so I'll reserve judgement. I'll probably catch it on the d/l.

[allroads.livejournal.com]

This is going to be the best rifftrax ever.

[jasmine-koran.livejournal.com]

...my brain hurts....

(seriously, it barely works as a cartoon. What brain-dead paint-drinker thought it would make a good live-action flick?!)

[thegreatjohnzo.livejournal.com]

i liked this better when i saw it as a ten year old and it was called mortal kombat, and only mostly sucked. this looks like frank miller bad.