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post #1 of 90
12/10/08 at 3:38pm
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http://chud.com/articles/articles/17...NAL/Page1.html
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post #2 of 90
12/10/08 at 3:39pm
It's incredibly bad. What was the budget for this? It looks like a Power Rangers film.
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post #3 of 90
12/10/08 at 3:41pm
Is it mean that I hope you get to see this Devin so I can read your review....
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post #4 of 90
12/10/08 at 3:47pm
It is based on one of the worst and most popular Japanese cartoons of all time... why shouldn't it look like a Power Rangers movie?
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post #5 of 90
12/10/08 at 3:47pm
Oh dear.
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post #6 of 90
12/10/08 at 3:50pm
Chow yun-fat in this is like seeing Ben Kingsley in a Uwe Boll flick. Oh wait
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post #7 of 90
12/10/08 at 3:51pm
I'm far more interested in the context of someone being influenced by Home Alone. Because I'm guessing the guy who said that is probably in my age bracket and so I'm wanting to know what criteria he brought to this inspiration.
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post #8 of 90
12/10/08 at 3:51pm
Doesn't look awful. I was the kid who liked Dragon Ball Z, Home Alone, AND Ninja Turtles. If my ten year old self was still alive he would be totally amped to see some crazy kung fu.
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post #9 of 90
12/10/08 at 3:51pm
And yeah, Devin. I read that 4 tons of retarded that was Alex Billington's DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL review. I still don't know how I don't have press creds and that waste of space does.
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post #10 of 90
12/10/08 at 3:53pm
it just seems like FOX does not care anymore... I have watched a few episodes before, I just can't do it. it reminds me of a good joke I heard a long time ago..

"How many DBZ characters does it take to screw in a light bulb?

One, but it takes them 5 episodes to do it."
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post #11 of 90
12/10/08 at 3:55pm
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Originally Posted by Tati View Post
It's incredibly bad. What was the budget for this? It looks like a Power Rangers film.
I hear it was shot thanks to PayPal donations.

One question though. Amidst the atrocious Chow Yun Fat line delivery; the unintentional "we have to find the Dragonballs", uh, humor; and the so-called money shots that wouldn't be even if we still were in 1998, I noticed one thing that piqued my curiosity: at the scene of someone getting kicked in the face, the image freeze framed for like 3 seconds. Was that some sort of "stylistic choice" or just... my browser?

Nah, forget it, you don't even have to answer.
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post #12 of 90
12/10/08 at 3:58pm
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Originally Posted by Alan "Nordling" Cerny View Post
And yeah, Devin. I read that 4 tons of retarded that was Alex Billington's DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL review. I still don't know how I don't have press creds and that waste of space does.
I can't take any website seriously that ranks Twilight over Punisher: War Zone.
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post #13 of 90
12/10/08 at 3:59pm
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Originally Posted by PsycheOut00 View Post
I noticed one thing that piqued my curiosity: at the scene of someone getting kicked in the face, the image freeze framed for like 3 seconds. Was that some sort of "stylistic choice" or just... my browser?

I would like to say that it was your browser, but it was not...it was STYLE baby!!
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post #14 of 90
12/10/08 at 4:00pm
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Originally Posted by Blueharvester View Post
Chow yun-fat in this is like seeing Ben Kingsley in a Uwe Boll flick. Oh wait
BULLETPROOF MONK says that ship already sailed.
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post #15 of 90
12/10/08 at 4:04pm
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I noticed one thing that piqued my curiosity: at the scene of someone getting kicked in the face, the image freeze framed for like 3 seconds. Was that some sort of "stylistic choice" or just... my browser?
It was a stylistic choice, as was the decision to cast people who can't do martial arts as the leads in a martial arts movie.
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post #16 of 90
12/10/08 at 4:05pm
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Originally Posted by Alex Billington
Maybe I just grew up loving the spectacle of movies more than the story; Home Alone and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were the films that defined me and my generation when I was a kid. That doesn’t discredit me, that just means I have an opinion that may differ from everyone. And I tried to sit back and enjoy the original, I tried to appreciate it for what it was and compare it fairly to the remake. But they just did so many things better this time around…
I see what he's trying to say, he's making a point about the way that popular culture of your youth colours your viewing experience, but it's such a defensive way of doing it that it's actually terrible.
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post #17 of 90
12/10/08 at 4:08pm
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He's saying he doesn't care about story.
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post #18 of 90
12/10/08 at 4:09pm
Just read his thoughts. How the hell did he get a job reviewing and writing about movies?
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post #19 of 90
12/10/08 at 4:13pm
Home Alone and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles defining a generation?

Fuck this guy.

Nothing this guy ever says again has any relevance or credibility.

Once again. Fuck this guy
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post #20 of 90
12/10/08 at 4:15pm
I can't tell what's worse, the trailer, or the Billington quote Spike provided. Jesus Christ.
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post #21 of 90
12/10/08 at 4:29pm
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Originally Posted by EdHocken View Post
Home Alone and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles defining a generation?

Fuck this guy.

Nothing this guy ever says again has any relevance or credibility.

Once again. Fuck this guy
About 10 years ago, I worked in a video store with a kid who said pretty much the same thing about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a response to a conversation my buddy and I were having about Star Wars. Of course, this was a guy who could have served as a poster child for the damaging effects of heavy metal during the MPAA hearings, and he dropped out of high school to work as an auto mechanic. He's also the same guy who recommended that a customer rent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II when we discovered that the movie the customer wanted to rent (that being The English Patient) was out.
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post #22 of 90
12/10/08 at 4:32pm
Other Billington articles include "I Don't Go To The Movies To Read!" and "Black and White Films: I Know I Shouldn't, But I Hate Them"
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post #23 of 90
12/10/08 at 4:35pm
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Of course, this was a guy who could have served as a poster child for the damaging effects of heavy metal during the MPAA hearings, and he dropped out of high school to work as an auto mechanic. He's also the same guy who recommended that a customer rent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II when we discovered that the movie the customer wanted to rent (that being The English Patient) was out.
And thus... duke fleed was born.
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post #24 of 90
12/10/08 at 4:38pm
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Originally Posted by EdHocken View Post
Home Alone and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles defining a generation?

Fuck this guy.

Nothing this guy ever says again has any relevance or credibility.

Once again. Fuck this guy
Agreed. Both he and his opinions suck one mile of cock.
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post #25 of 90
12/10/08 at 4:39pm
I'm of the Home Alone and TMNT generation. Home Alone is crap, but I still quote it out of nostalgia with my friend. For anyone who has any nostalgia for the cartoon characters, TMNT holds up surprisingly well. A good movie? No. But as competent as a TMNT movie can be. I wouldn't say it defines me though.

This Dragonball trailer though... I make no secret of being a fan of the manga series, but this just looks too embarrassing to even be funny. These FX remind me of that Dungeons & Dragons movie that came out years ago. And Chow Yun Fat reminds me of Jeremys Iron in that movie.

Even a friend who suggested that we go see this purely for camp value is now reconsidering.

EDIT: I also thought that freeze frame was my browser screwing up.

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Originally Posted by Alex Billington
That doesn't discredit me, that just means I have an opinion that may differ from everyone.
That assumes that he ever had any credibility to begin with... I hate that "it's my opinion" dodge.
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post #26 of 90
12/10/08 at 4:47pm
That's fine but you sure as shit can't say they "defined" a generation. That's about as a fucked up as a statement can get.
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post #27 of 90
12/10/08 at 5:31pm
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Originally Posted by EdHocken View Post
That's fine but you sure as shit can't say they "defined" a generation. That's about as a fucked up as a statement can get.
Power Rangers was my shit!

And this film looks unbelievable. I really can't believe that a studio saw dailies of this debacle and allowed it to continue.
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post #28 of 90
12/10/08 at 5:38pm
I'm of the Ghostbuster/Transformer generation. now that is one hell of a generation!
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post #29 of 90
12/10/08 at 5:56pm
Awful, and i once owned the entire run of DBZ as a kid, which then went away to the nephews.
At least there's kinda some nice asian jailbait candy in it...i think.
In an ironic twist, i watched "Curse of the golden flower" for the third time last night....stick to golden armor, Fat.
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post #30 of 90
12/10/08 at 5:57pm
Or John Woo.
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post #31 of 90
12/10/08 at 5:57pm
And to think that Wong was once responsible for the X Files' finest hours.
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post #32 of 90
12/10/08 at 5:58pm
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Originally Posted by HarleyQuinn22 View Post
Power Rangers was my shit!
You and I would be in the area. Of course I was an Animanics man myself.
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post #33 of 90
12/10/08 at 5:59pm
I don't give a shit about this movie, but I love that there is a white kid named Goku.
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post #34 of 90
12/10/08 at 6:05pm
Did my childish interests bleed into other age brackets?

I was into Transformers, Ninja Turtles, Thundercats, Voltron, Tiny Toons, Batman: TAS (which is great no matter how old you are), Darkwing Duck, DuckTales...

It's weird when someone says they were into Transformers but not Ninja Turtles. But I guess I never really got into Power Rangers, though I did watch it for man-in-suit robot action. I liked Animaniacs, but never really liked it nearly as much as Tiny Toons.
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post #35 of 90
12/10/08 at 6:17pm
I also read that Ayumi Hamasaki is doing the theme song for the movie which is cool that a J-pop artist will be given some more United States exposure... for a probably awful movie.
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post #36 of 90
12/10/08 at 6:27pm
probably awful? Come on, you're being modest.
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post #37 of 90
12/10/08 at 6:31pm
You know when Goku starts saying 'Kamehame' I got goosebumps. Either as a Pavlovian response to Dragonball, or shuddering from disgust.

I'm confused! But not about the movie's quality. This will most certainly be awful. It's got everything going against it.
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post #38 of 90
12/10/08 at 6:33pm
That was gay. Not gay as in homosexual, gay as in fucking retarded.
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post #39 of 90
12/10/08 at 6:42pm
Glad to see you made that distinction.

Now someone get Nathan Rabin on this ASAP.
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post #40 of 90
12/10/08 at 6:43pm
I'm amazed that of all the details of the series they left out, they kept the capsule vehicles.
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post #41 of 90
12/10/08 at 6:46pm
Could someone tell me how Emily Rossum got involved in this shit?
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post #42 of 90
12/10/08 at 6:47pm
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Originally Posted by James May View Post
I'm amazed that of all the details of the series they left out, they kept the capsule vehicles.
NERD!!!

... actually, I took note of that too. Would've been fun if they tried to retain the look of the technology in the series at all, but no. It just comes across as generic sci-fi.

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Originally Posted by felix natalya View Post
Could someone tell me how Emily Rossum got involved in this shit?
Bad agent? Anyway, as Devin already pointed out, this is technically not much worse than what studios usually put out. We know more than the general audience does and I'm assuming that Rossum sees this as nothing more than a paycheck gig to keep her profile up. At most, she'd probably been told how huge this series was around the world. That would be enough in this case. How was she to know how cheap it would end up looking?
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post #43 of 90
12/10/08 at 6:47pm
Well, the fights look better than the ones in JCVD's STREET FIGHTER and I ironically love/hate that POS.
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post #44 of 90
12/10/08 at 6:53pm
I laughed at the GOKU title card when I saw Chatwin's silly pose.
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post #45 of 90
12/10/08 at 6:55pm
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Originally Posted by felix natalya View Post
Could someone tell me how Emily Rossum got involved in this shit?
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post #46 of 90
12/10/08 at 6:57pm
Point taken. Wasn't she in that POSEIDEN remake?
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post #47 of 90
12/10/08 at 7:05pm
Wasn't everyone?

EDIT: She's been in Phantom of the Opera, The Day After Tomorrow, and this. I've probably missed something else she's done (doesn't she have an album out too?), but I don't get the impression that she's particularly 'above' a Dragonball movie.
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post #48 of 90
12/10/08 at 8:05pm
I just realized that I forgot that Stephen Chow was on as the producer. The trailer was so bad I forgot his involvement.
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post #49 of 90
12/10/08 at 8:29pm
There's a movie coming out called DRAGONBALL. Nevermind who's in it or what it's about, it's called DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTION.

And Chow Yun-Fat's wearing a hawaiian shirt while he tells ancient stories in what's sure to be one of the movie's big dramatic scenes. Goddamn any of you who take your kids to this.
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post #50 of 90
12/10/08 at 8:33pm
Home Alone and TMNT?!?!? Jesus, I've never been so glad to be older in my life.
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