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My Opinion About Dragonball: Evolution

Tue Mar 31, 2009, 8:31 PM

Mood: Tired

Hello, everyone.

I know that I don't update my journals often, but I would like to express my opinion about the new Dragon Ball live-action movie. I think that Dragonball: Evolution will be successful, but not as successful as the Dragon Ball anime/manga series. I have been researching Dragonball: Evolution and discovered two previous attempts of a Dragon Ball live-action movie.

One of them was titled Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins (also known as New Dragon Ball: The Legend of Shenlong) was an unofficial Chinese live-action remake of the first Dragon Ball feature film Dragon Ball: The Curse of the Blood Rubies (also known as Dragon Ball: The Legend of Shenlong), made in 1989.

Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins was only released in China and Taiwan, but probably can be found on Youtube or any other video sharing website in existence. I actually got to watch the movie on Youtube once, but I don't know if it's still there or not. The other Dragon Ball live-action movie was from South Korea, but it was also unofficial as well.

I never got to watch the Dragon Ball live-action movie from South Korea, but judging from its poster, I think it failed, big time. My opinion on Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins is that it also failed, but worse than the South Korean one did. In any case, I can't judge Dragon Ball: Evolution since it hasn't came out to theaters yet, but I think it will be successful.

Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins poster ----> [link]

South Korean Dragon Ball poster -----> [link]

Note: I absolutely don't like these posters, they're horrible and they needed a whole lot more work done to them.

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*EVERAWAKE-Lady-Doom Apr 2, 2009, 8:45:14 AM

omg Dragonball: The Magic Begins looks funny

master roshi even has the shell

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~cell2800 Apr 2, 2009, 11:39:57 AM

At least Master Roshi had the shell, the movie doesn't call him or any other character by their official names. It dubbed Goku as "Monkey Boy", Grandpa Gohan was dubbed as "Sparkle", and Bulma was dubbed "Seetoe". (I do think the names are funny, though weird. XD)

That's not all of them, but I'm to lazy to list them all.

P.S.
The reason why Dragonball: The Magic Begins looks funny is because it's unofficial and possibly a low-budget film. I almost forgot, the Dragon Balls were dubbed "Dragon Pearls" in the movie. (At least it got "Dragon" right.)

*EVERAWAKE-Lady-Doom Apr 2, 2009, 1:41:38 PM

Sparkle? O.O;

lol i thought something was funny the dragon didnt even look like the real one
i guess they couldnt get Akira Toriyama to back it up so they ripped it off as much as humanly possable

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~cell2800 Apr 2, 2009, 2:32:06 PM

I don't think China asked Akira Toriyama anthing, they just "stole" Dragonball and made it as shitty as possible.

*EVERAWAKE-Lady-Doom Apr 2, 2009, 3:39:20 PM

kinda like korean wonder woman

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~cell2800 Apr 2, 2009, 5:39:21 PM

Yes, kinda like Korean Wonder Woman.

*EVERAWAKE-Lady-Doom Apr 2, 2009, 6:42:01 PM

she looks too much like the norm wonder woman

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~cell2800 Apr 2, 2009, 7:24:35 PM

If she was supposed to be the Korean Wonder Woman, wouldn't one think she was supposed to be Korean and not look exactly like the normal Wonder Woman? I would think so.