DBZ live action movie

Nestorath69 · Post by **Nestorath69** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 2:11 pm

DBZ, duh! Eva will be meh. I bought director's cut Evangelion 24-26 and they had a TON of stuff on the live action eva movie. I was like, meh. But DBZ- let's have that diesel guy play tien. They're both gay, right?

LittleKefalos · Post by **LittleKefalos** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 12:26 am

Actually they already made a crappy Asian version of the Dragon Balls into a movie... I saw it like two years ago, a friend who's a Dragon Balls everything fanatic got the tape.

It was pretty ridiculous.

Excalibur00 · Post by **Excalibur00** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 9:31 am

and how crappy is this verison? I can assume really terrible because asian films are never as good as western ones/

Nestorath69 · Post by **Nestorath69** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 9:46 am

Actually, I believe that Fox did a Live action DBZ movie, it was called... ummm... secret of the dragon? the magic within? something like that. it was done in '83, long before most of you were born.

Daio Kaji · Post by **Daio Kaji** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:56 pm

Nestorath69 wrote:Actually, I believe that Fox did a Live action DBZ movie, it was called... ummm... secret of the dragon? the magic within? something like that. it was done in '83, long before most of you were born.

no, actually, that '83 movie is the same one that LittleKefalos is talking about, Dragonball: Let The Magic Begin
YES it's crappy, YES it's old, NO it's not americn and has no basis on how good/bad this movie will be IF made

Excalibur00 wrote:and how crappy is this verison? I can assume really terrible because asian films are never as good as western ones/

are you just openly racist or just like to speak the first things to come out of your mind

Something being Asian or American has no merit as to whether it will be "good", the only way that american films are always better than asian films would be if good=american, so unless that's ur view, than NO asian films are NOT inherently inferior to american ones, they're just of a different background and are influenced in different ways

hell, look at Brotherhood of the Wolf and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, both are great films and both are NOT american. Where as the american film Killer Clowns from Mars is not on the same level as the 2 other movies i mentioned, also There are always different genres of movie and films, so you could also say that currently, American Martial Arts movies are not as good as Asian Martial Arts movies, but with research, THAT could change, so making any kind of statement like that is just stupid no matter what side your argueing

hopefully you will never make another statement liket that again

LittleKefalos · Post by **LittleKefalos** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 3:44 pm

I know Daio Kaji wasn't talking about me when he said it, but just to make sure... I wasn't suggesting this crappy version had any basis on how good the new movie would be.

Not to put words in anyone's mouth, but I don't think Excalibur00 was talking about all Asian films are worse than western films, I think he was talking about the B-nature of many Kung-Fu and Horror Asian flicks that make it over here (it's a style--maybe more of genre which you may or may not appreciate). Americans make cheesy horror flicks and cheesy B movies too, but they're marketed differently than cheesy Asian flicks which may explain the discrepency.

In my opinion foreign films are often better, because only the best foreign films (or at least decent in some way) are translated into English and distributed here... we get the best anime and most of the crappy anime is left in Japan unless of course the market begins to get flooded--hopefully it this won't happen because the burst may screw things over (we can hope).

Obviously directors like Kurosawa and Ozu (can't think of any contemporary names off the top of my head, but that film Eels was pretty good although I really didn't like Suicide Club) are not only great Japanese directors but great world directors... Kurosawa influenced Spielberg, Lucas, and Copola (is that how you spell it?) among others.

Nestorath69 · Post by **Nestorath69** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 5:58 pm

Still doesn't change the fact that it was made before most of you were born...

Daio Kaji · Post by **Daio Kaji** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 6:26 pm

LittleKefalos wrote:I know Daio Kaji wasn't talking about me when he said it, but just to make sure... I wasn't suggesting this crappy version had any basis on how good the new movie would be.

yeah i know, i'm just saying that the movie you're talking about is the same one that Nestorath69 was remembering, just to make sure that rumors don't spread of there being TWO old DB live-action movies

Nestorath69 wrote:Still doesn't change the fact that it was made before most of you were born...

yeah

you're still right alright... wait.. when were YOU born?

sorry for that rant... well, not really, hope it didn't sound to harsh, just was stuff that I had to say, i was about to pop for a sec

LittleKefalos · Post by **LittleKefalos** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 7:06 pm

I was born in 82... so there

Nestorath69 · Post by **Nestorath69** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 9:58 am

I hit 25 in... 6 months? That's right, 25. It's scarier to me than you guys.