Dragonball movie

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That old live action DragonBall movie looked pretty weird; that idea for Lord Piccolo's skin seems like a good reason why. I still can't wait to see the movie!

So are they trying to work into saying that piccolo is one of Friezas henchmen. Too bad they couldnt work in the whole Kami thing at all. Kami ended up on earth and for him to become the leader of earth he had to slpit himself into two sides a good and an evil and piccolo was the evil side. And another thing is that the nameks are the ones that brought the Dragonballs to earth right. Guess the problem with a movie is that they can not bring in a lot of information and have to cut corners, and having Piccilo break the news would ruin the whole Raditz meeting.

Thought I might put in a few trailers I have found, I think the first may not be entirely real, but shows a good look at shenron, but the seond looks like th real deal.
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=XRwZnQcoRAs&feature=related[/youtube]
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=5QknNoOn3c8[/youtube]
Ok discuss.

This movie (or its making) is starting to seriously puzzle me. On one hand, they're obviously making quite an effort to replicate some of the manga's characteristics, from Shenron itself to Gokuh's weird hairdo, and even some clearly unimportat secondary characters, such as Mai; but these are all relatively minor things. On the other hand, and precisely with some of the key components of the story (from Gokuh's personality and background story, to Piccolo itself), it's as if they're purposefully deviating from the original. What exactly was the point in making Gokuh a high-school dork student? His original folksiness and naïveté worked well enough for the intended story. What's the deal with Piccolo's look? I may be biased in this, but I thought the original worked perfectly, either for its initial demonic persona and his later role as an alien warrior; he was elegant. Now this Marsters version looks right out of his Buffy years. Honestly, was it that hard to achieve this?

It's one thing to try and add some personal flavour to the original story, but jeez... this looks even worse than Will Smith's “I, Robot” (or for that matter, pretty much everything that's even been done related to Asimov's novels)


P.D.: For all its cheesiness, that low-cost movie Hbomb89 youtubed for us seemingly had far more respect towards the original manga than this one

Wow; the trailers were really cool! I can't wait to see the movie!

Too bad they changed the date to April 10th. Which is the same time as.............................Hannah Montana The Movie! It's like their trying to make this movie bomb at the box office!

Hmmm... I'll watch it.

Hopefully this won't be as bad as Speed Racer!

About Avatar, the guy directed it is none other than
Mr. Crap himself, M. Night Shymalan!
It won't be in theaters until Summer 2011.