Comments on: Dragonball loses it’s balls at the box office – opens Friday at $2.1 million

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Dragonball loses it balls at the box office opens Friday at | Shed Kits — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:02:45 +0000

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By: voyance

voyance — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:25:27 +0000

“Because the Dragonball movie is roughly only 1/3rd as good as the Speed Racer movie. I see no inconsistencies.”

it’s ok

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Rotten Tomatoes for Dragonball Evolution!es | Cartoon Leap Anime Blog — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:54:10 +0000

[...] are not lying. Sources told that during the opening day on Friday, the movie only got $2,075,000 while Hannah Montana got [...]

By: Inuhanyou

Inuhanyou — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:02:31 +0000

True, but in the end they didnt even do that, but ended up with a mess that was not appealing to outside fans who had never seen it, and unrecognizable to fans as well, because they hardly explained anything, in its own little world there.

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:43:31 +0000

I actually liked the Speed Racer movie too, though I understand why it bombed as well. But yeah, it’s very hard to say that a movie has no chance of being good, but we’ve heard nothing but bad things (from start to finish) for Dragonball.

Maybe fans of the anime will kill me for this, but I think in the case like Dragonball, one should just forget trying to pander to the fans, because frankly they aren’t going to be enough to make a movie fly (unlike, say, Star Trek). Sure, they should still stick to the basic story line, but all this “OMGWTFBBQ IT HAS GOKU IN IT!” stuff and the like was dumb and counterproductive. Besides I actually think fans of the manga would probably like it better if it were a straight up adaptation that tried to be a real movie instead of a “appeal to everyone” mess that it is which, of course, appeals to no one in the end.