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sailorspazz
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If they were trying to be accurate to "Journey to the West", then Gokuu should be neither white nor Asian....he should be a monkey
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subaru
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Calm down~ all you die hard DBZ fans~
Bear in mind, they are not producing this film for you fans only. Altenation to costumes and settings are necessary to attract general public to buy a ticket and watch the movie. (Just like how they changed Wolfverine's cartoony yellow costume to black) Can you imagine a real person with the EXACT hair style of Goku, wearing martial art clothing walking around on the street? How ridiculous will that look?! I am not a die hard DBZ fan. I have only seen the picture of Chatwin as Goku. To me...... yes, he might not be the perfect Goku...... but the costume does capture the essence of Goku's appearance. I don't have any problem with it. As for the high school-ish clothings............ I think it's just a move to attarct more audience from the movie's major demographic group......... high school students. I can't garantee that it's gonna be a great movie. But, hey, why not just take a deep breath and wait and see.......... its not like the movie company will stop shooting this movie because of the fans complains~......... Please make your judgement after seeing the movie |
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GATSU
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sailor:
Key word is mimic.
A monkey indigenous to Asia. 
subaru:
The problem is there are no costumes.
Not really, since his spiked hair is generally only pointy when he's aggressive.
I think it's gonna be Fox's Batman & Robin myself... Anyway, as I've said before, if y'all want a DB movie that badly, check out Forbidden Kingdom. |
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tygerchickchibi
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o_o and so the ugliness continues.
I have to admit, I think Chatwin's hair does look kind of odd at first, but I don't mind it, really. |
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Roy 747
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Okay, Yamcha looks pretty fail. His hair looks... eugh. Like noodles or something. And Bulma looks like she's out of "The Grinch who stole Christmas". Chi Chi is spot on, and the other characters are meh.
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Jaice
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hahaha this movie is going to be so bad. hope you people enjoy turds.
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enurtsol
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Until Toriyama combined Goku's origin with Superman, of which Toriyama is a big fan. And Superman is a real American hero, even though he is an alien. So...... uh....... what are we talking about again?.................... Oh yeah, creator's intentions, who knows? 
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UltimaShadowfax
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Race has nothing to do with it in this case. All that matters is how Goku is portrayed.
And so far it doesn't look good. |
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barashin
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Wow at least someone here is mature about this, but it's hopeless dude, all these people are hopelessly blind. There hatred towards this movie is to strong...
Wow it sounds as if you actually saw how justin portrayed his character? Amuse me please, how's his movie character like? and please don't tell me your judging it by his looks. It'll only make yourself look stupid!!! and no one wants that... |
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ANN_Bamboo
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[quote="GATSU"]
Just because you haven't seen any, doesn't mean there aren't any. Your thought process continues to baffle me. In a shocking turn of events, hardcore DBZ fans are upset about a movie. Woah! I think Chatwin's hair is cute. I still plan on seeing the movie. |
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tygerchickchibi
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o_o many people will go see this movie, complain about it all the way to the theaters.
obsessive dbz fans are already signing petitions to have the movie canceled (which I think isn't really going to go far), even with Stephen Chow directing it isn't really good enough for the fans. Then they say, the "true" fans would boycott this move until this release. The stupidity of people certainly do baffle me sometimes. Is it a bad thing that a lot of dbz fans are excited about the release? Does it make it a person any less of a fan? Not at all. I'm constantly reminded of how elementary school-ish it seems, but... Meh, I'm not really going to complain much. It's not ruining the series at all. |
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UltimaShadowfax
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So far I haven't seen him smiling or grinning like Goku does!!! Plus the fact that he compared the character to Luke Skywalker and that Goku is in high school is just stupid!!! His costumes look like he's supposed to be an Abercrombie poster boy!!! Exclamation points help me make my point better!!! |
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barashin
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Him not smiling in this film shouldn't be a concern, neither does his comparison to Luke, that was his opinion. You watch the movie first than make your own comparison, or are you really that gullible? I understand how you feel, goku being in school does rubbs me the wrong way, but you've got to understand that hardcore fans such as yourself ain't the only audience this movie is targeting.   You can cry, whine and be stubborn about this like a little kid, but changes are supposed to be made in order for this live-action adaptation to work.
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BrothersElric
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Well after thinking a lot about it, even though I'm still uncomfortable with Goku as a high school student, I gotta say that as long as everything that makes Goku such a special hero is captured in his character in this then I won't complain. And so far, other than having himself school bullies, I see no reason to believe he won't be. And even then, they might just be there for a brief moment anyways, and maybe even for the soul purpose of further showing how awesome Goku is, nothing more.
But the point is that everything UltimaShadowfax is claiming already automatically makes Chatwin's portrayal of Goku a failure I kind of find to be ridiculous. I mean, just because we haven't seen him smile yet? I do agree with you that a good friendly, fun loving smile or grin is a big part of his character, but this may come as a shocker to you, so get ready...... there indeed have been times throughout Dragonball where Goku hasn't smiled!!!  *gasp* His clothes so far look just fine to me as well. I mean really, I've said it time and again, as have others: I really don't think the actual clothes would work well in a live action adaptation anyways. So what do they do? Come up with other clothes that are still Dragonball-esque and yet look like they could work in real life. Easy. As for the comparison to Luke Skywalker, well really, would you mind giving us an example of how he isn't like Luke in any way? Even though yeah, I'd say he isn't exactly like Luke or anything, but I could see a few reasons as to why one could compare him to him.
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GATSU
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Sakechan: I've seen the set photos they took down, and those are more like work-out suits than costumes. Seriously, it looks like we're gonna get Jumper instead of X Men with this one. And I'm not a hardcore DBZ fan. I just want an adaptation which looks as good as what we get from Stephen Chow's parodies, not worse than that HK live-action DB...
tygerchick: He's not directing; he's producing. And if it looks awful enough, it doesn't matter how many fans it could have, since they won't even bother to see it. Look at the Van Damme SF movie. barashin: It doesn't have to appeal to hardcore fans, just casual fans. |
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