Dragonball Evolution Tops Asian Box Offices

Shaharu you have absolutely no taste of what is good or not, so i suggest stop talking before embarrassing your self even more. I bet you find Uwe Bowl movies masterpieces.
That movie is shit even if her name wasn't Dragonball.
It's a Martial arts b-movie in all it's glory.
Not all anime fans are so maniacs to blame every detail like you say and yes we are old enough to have seen the original Transformers. Well at least some of us.

If you want to know what a good movie is go watch "Memoirs of a Geisha" or "House of Flying Daggers". Now that's how you make good movies.

I'm glad I choose to watch Watchmen instead of Dragonball, but I got to say both movies weren't really that good either way..... *sigh*
So do I still regret not watching Dragonball? I hope not....

Tchi.....

I wont even try to download this.

on the pic.. there's some snake biting bulma's head...

is a torrent out yet? Jesus christ do you guys realize that they signed on for two more? WHY GOD WHY?

Japan needs to rectify this sin against them!!....

Lolz... waste of my time lol again for wasting people's money...
I would rather spend the length of time that the movie consist for browsing through this site.
lolz...
I think i wont bother even torrent it or buying fake one.
The heck! I am just borrow from frens, watch it then discuss how bad it is with those who seen it...

Then again i would rather watch dragon ball anime all over again instead. Even better if it is in full HD, that at least is more worthy than this crappy movie.

lots of people were drawn towards strange or abnormal stuffs...
cause of excitement~

How nice to be young...

But still...the movie failed.

Oh great all this excitment makes me want to watch the movie...NOT!

I'm sure it'll do fairly well in the US and Europe as well?
Why? Well even though the vast majority of people are slating this movie, there's still that part of them that wants to watch it, either out of curiosity or deep down they think it looks enjoyable, even though it only remotely stays true to the original source material.

I think ive lost the will to live D:

This is one movie im not gonna support, torrentz ftw.

Seriously, what are you all? 13 year olds?

This is not the first nor the last anime/game to game adaptation. Get over it. Get USED to it.

I'll be so very happy when you guys grow up and know the difference between a bad ADAPTATION work, and a bad MOVIE.

I guess you all hated the Transformers movie, didn't you? OH WAIT, YOU DIDN'T BECAUSE YOU'RE ALL KIDS WHO NEVER EVEN WATCHED A FUCKING TRANSFORMERS EPISODE EXCEPT THE NEW ANIMATED SERIES.

Do you know why people don't make PERFECT adaptations? Because it won't get to the mass market. It'll be aimed at you so-called "fans" who will probably torrent it and take the movie to the ground EVEN if it's perfect, since you guys can't get happy with anything. Even if they did a perfect, I dunno, Evangelion movie, you would be bawwing because "MAN, IN THE BATTLE AGAINST THE FIRST ANGEL SOME OF THE BUILDINGS WERE DIFFERENT, THIS MOVIE SUCKS".

I really hope this movie gets a decent success, just to see you crying while fucking your dakimakura.

Goku (justin chatwin) has a youtube channel!

http://www.youtube.com/user/justinchatwin

RAID!!!!!!!!!!

Welp, who is my personal army anyway...forget it.

“Memoirs of a Geisha” or “House of Flying Daggers”?

those suck.

dark knight. or mebbe pirates. not THE pirates,the OTHER pirates.

which is worse, this or chun li movie? at least kreuk is purty.

Name me 1-3 episodes where piccolo did NOT have antennas and used a sword!

From this, i know that asian people watch movie based on title...stupid asians...

the same thing is probably going to happen here, thanks to the large amount of mentally-blind fanboy kids (one of the easiest markets to get money from in the world).

I'm wondering how did a 100 million dollar movie turn out to be worse then a 10 thousand dollar movie.

Nappa: "Vegeta, what does the scouter say about this movie's absurdity level?"

Vegeta: "It's over 9---"

::scouter explodes from overload::

Vegeta: "Never mind."

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This just makes me want to bang my head on the wall so hard...

I mean seriously, you f'n gotta be f'n kidding me! A movie that barely has anything to do with the main Dragon Ball franchise and it scores one of the highest of Asian theaters?!

::sigh:: If people like to eat s**t, let them eat s**t.

Just so you all know, $10 million for 8 countries is not good. Not even in Asia. Hell, this movie should have done $15 million in Japan alone. Considering how popular it is there it should have broken records. It came in a number 3 there, behind 2 movies that had been out for 2 weeks. Plus, both those movies were on 200 fewer screens. As for China DBE was the only movie released that week. So, it being #1 isn't a surprise. Even so, it only made #1 by the skin of it's teeth. It only made about 290,000 more than Valkyrie and that had been out 3 weeks at the time. In any case it's been out for 2 weeks now and DBE has gone from #3 in Japan to #8. It's weekend take is down 59% and it's already being pulled from screens. So, yeah, it's actually bombing.

Saw it, was shit.

no fucking way. firs feminists now this? twisted.

The damnedest thing you ever saw! ,

movie was so crap

Jennifer Salt learns the truth about the Siamese twins in Sisters. ,

Hollywood could have done worse with this movie. They could have hired Van Damme.

I need to get me a group of nerd-boys and watch this, even just because it has Dragonball in the name...

after DB live action, its time for blood the last vampire and akira

I'm not fucking going to watch it. "There is no climax" comment from my friends who watch everything. >..< LOL

huweksss i never never see it

It seems most of us just watch the movie to laugh at how they messed it up SO bad

watch this for teh lulz of the year!

LAWL!~

Concerning Justin Chatwin in the role of Goku... not to even get started on everyone else in taking their roles... (especially Chou Yun-Fat... like he NEEDED the money?!?!?!?)

"I suppose some people are willing to destroy a legend to make some money. I thought you were alright in The Invisible, but now this, destroys any respect I once had"

That is what I want to leave it at, but rarely are things that simple. I realize that most fan boys/girls had wet dreams when they heard of the movie and I am truly glad for them and hope they enjoy it as much as they expected. However for those of us that feel it is better to do something proper than do something horrible to make the same, if not more, amount of money... you see my point? I believe in forgiveness and loving your neighbor, but if someone asked me to play the part of Jesus in a blaintant mockery of God, type comedy movie, no matter how much they offered, I would turn it down, period.

My issue is that the part was taken. Was there any research done? "Gee Mr. Rellium, this script doesn't seem to be anything like the Dragonball story..." Nope. Instead. "To hell if this kicks every fan in the genitals with an iron mace, it's money and I like money"

I know someone is thinking it. "What if he had immediate expenses, like caring for his sickly mother or friend whom needs a surgery and he doesn't have enough... then surely you can't blame him for doing what he must"

True enough, I don't know the full story, so you can all laugh at me if you want for being a narrow minded hypocrite in this specific scenario. All I ask is, why not tell the people, the fans for over 20 years, WHY he took the role. If it's anything to do with a selfless nature, then I am wrong in my assumption and you may ball tap me now. If not, then I ask, how he feel if someone sodomized a comic book or old story legend from his childhood in a movie?

As far as the movie goes... if you don't relate it to Dragonball at all and take an unbiased approach towards the movie by itself, then it wasn't that bad. Some decent fight scenes, cheesy comedy, and barely half decent special effects.

Haha, Im'ma laugh when they take their profits from this movie to make a high budget sequel, and then nobody wants to see it.

This Fu**** up adaptation was beaten by another anime to movie adaptation.

yes brother Yatterman Live Action Movie first rank in japanese box office,
it is like they saying "we like adaptation that stay true to the original work"

Piccolo looks like a burn victim... But I admit I'm also drawn to wanting to see it, just see how horrid it really is

lol i'm so excited to see this >.<

yeah the japanese voice acting probably saved it from being a really bad movie. That can only explain.

WTF??
Piccollo Holding a sword!???

they are all watching it so that they can have sex in the theater for once.

wanna bet that the majority of the sales are from people who don't even know what Dragonball is (or atleast based on a manga series) and only watched it because it looked like another "fun filled family friendly CGI action show their kids will love"?

For its second weekend it will disappear of the charts, they would be lucky to reach $8M total for both Asia and Japan together, that's like the max they could make there.

I hope they don't have anything special prepared for the DVD/BD release in a few months. so nobody will buy them either.

So in the end, we can hope that the global box office won't reach 25M, so any sequel plans will be scrapped right away.

Although many low-budget movies end up with sequesl direct-to-video just by doing something like 20-30M, so we might still have to suffer through the other 2 sequels.

I think I'm going to affectionately(?) refer to this as "Snakes on a Plane Syndrome."

Can't believe Fox's (somewhat) reverse psychology marketing strategy worked...0_o

They went to see it just so they can laugh at it. And perhaps burn down the theatre too... hehehe.

what O.o

funny topic is funny

Wishing not to waste money on this shit.
SnooSnoo goes on a journey in search of a torrent of the movie.
At the end of his journey, what awaits him.
Stay tuned to the next episode of Dragon Ball Z.

..this movie suck .. D :

there;s no epic fighting moment at all

wtf is mafuba technic AOA
and wth with ozzaru

..tch tch

oh well at least bulma is okay u_u

chow yun fat look ghey *hardmode*

So, how many of you went to watch it just for the lulz and laugh at it?

I could've sworn more than half of the fans went just to laugh at it/for the lulz.

I think a lot of the draw is probably just to see how awful it could be. I know my friends and I will be going to see this movie when it comes out for that reason.

Can I have just the Japanese dub?

i want to see how horrible it is, but i dont want to give them money cus then they will want to make more, so ill prob just torrent it

Copied pasted my impressions from my blog after watching it last weekend:

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- Justin Chatwin’s acting was actually okay, especially in the beginning. But later on, he starts to sound very monotone when he talks about finding the Dragon Balls with Chow Yuen Fatt, like he’s reading someone’s cue card offscreen.

- Yumcha has the worst American hick accent I’ve ever heard. It’s like a bastard child of an Australian and a redneck.

- I could hardly make out Piccolo’s “clones” when they fought Goku underground. No wait, scratch that - I couldn’t see jack shit. I guess they ran out of budget rendering their faces.

- Really, really crappy, amateur editing near the end of the movie, showing the transition of Oozaru to Goku. I guess they again ran out of budget here too.

- The World Martial Arts Tournament scene got only 2 minutes of screentime, lol. They might as well not include it at all.

So in the end, what has the Dragon Ball: Evolution movie taught me? It taught me that years of fighting experience and training can be skipped as long as there is the allure of a hot girl promising to snog you at the end of your training. Sex is the greatest motivator!