Dave felt sick. Physically sick.
Having a spare moment after work, and with nothing interesting on TV, Dave decided to watch a movie online and headed over to TVLinks to see what was available.
Dragon Ball Evolution. A new live action film of the popular Dragon Ball cartoon series. Having seen the trailer he was far from hopeful, but with nothing else to watch he decided to have a gander. Afterall, if it was Dragon Ball how bad could it be.
After 12 min 26 sec he hit the pause button and headed over to his blog to hurl.
'Oh dear lord no.'
True, he hadn't yet gave it a fair try, it could get better, but my word it sucks. It had gone so very far wrong in such a short amount of time, it seemed beyond any chance of repair.
1. Goku is a whiny teenager instead of an ultra innocent child.
2. Goku is complaining about not being able to use his powers to beat up school bullies?!?!?!
Goku doesn't even go to school! And he's the good guy!
3. Goku says to his grandad "Teach me something I can use. Teach me how to pick up girls"!!!!
No. No. No. Goku doesn't even know what a girl IS in the cartoons, he's never seen a girl, but even ignoring how completely different it is from the cartoons, who would ever ask their grandad to teach them to get chicks?
At this point ur less than 5 min into the film. The list just never seems to end.
Goku is in love with Chi Chi, who he goes to school with, but she's always surrounded by the cool kids, who Goku wants to beat up, but knows he shouldn't, so walks away. He sees her alone struggling to open her locker, so he uses his magic powers to open it, she's suddenly interested and not even slightly shocked. He gets invited to a party at "her house" and instantly says he'll be there, despite not being told where her house is and seemingly talking for the first time. At the party the bullies attack him, but he decides to be "cool" and just moves out of the way of each hit making them all beat each other up.
NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO.
Why must movies like this go deliberately out of their way to try and destroy a person's childhood memories?
So wrong.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Watchmen
Watchmen is a Comic Book created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, originally published as a twelve-month series from 1986 to 1987 and was later republished in graphic novel format.
As a stand alone story, not an ongoing plot such as the likes of Superman, Batman and Spiderman, it is arguably the most famous graphic novel of all time.
It was therefore pretty much guaranteed at least some success. But is it any good?
That depends on what you really like to see in a film. Which of the following is your cup of tea?
a) Comic book films
b) Unnessary gruesome violence
c) Softcore nudity
d) Dark humour
e) Unusual plot
f) All of the above
g) Other.
If you picked option g, give this one a miss. If, however, you chose option f, then by George you might just be in luck.
The comic book is about a bunch of guys who decide to dress up and fight bad-guys. Mostly they have no real super powers, they're just ordinary folk with a few screws lose trying to make the world a better place. Its the kind of thing that makes you pause for a moment and wonder why no one has ever REALLY tried that kind of thing. Oh sure, you're not going to, the idea is nuts and will end in almost certain death, but with all the billions of people in the world, why hasn't anyone?
Back to the book, there is one guy who does has some actual super powers due to the typical experiment one wrong senerio. Dr Manhattan. And boy does he have some powers. He can basically do ANYTHING. He does have some limitations, but these are few and far between. Teleport, blow stuff up, see through time, copy himself, alter matter... the list is a VERY long one.
The story is set in 1985. The world is on the brink of all out nuclear war. All the heroes, other than Dr Manhattan, have been outlawed. Dr Manhattan is legal because a) he has the ability to basically catch any missiles, chew them up and spit them out and is thus used by America as a deterant and b) how the hell u gonna outlaw a guy who can spit out nuclear missiles?
Out of the normal heroes, only one guy is really refusing the ban and staying active. Mr Hard-as-effin-nails-take-no-sh*t-seriously-damn-cool-messed-up-in-the-head Rorschach. So when a former hero ends up dead, its up to Rorschach to figure out why. And he aint gonna let nothing stand in his way.
Thats the book. How about the film?
It's more or less exactly the same. Sure there are parts missing, it was a pretty long comic, and the ending was altered, it was originally pretty weird, but don't worry it still is. But if your looking for a film of the book, you've come to the right place.
Rumours have it that it could have been very different. Apparently the original director wanted to bring the story up to date, replacing nuclear war with the "war on terror". Their are also rumours that Simon Pegg was due to be Rorschach.
Nothing wrong with Simon Pegg, funny guy, but Rorshcach?
No.
Thankfully that didn't happen. If you liked the book go watch it. If you didn't read the book, perhaps have a gander at it first, the film may be a little odd to a newbie.
As a stand alone story, not an ongoing plot such as the likes of Superman, Batman and Spiderman, it is arguably the most famous graphic novel of all time.
It was therefore pretty much guaranteed at least some success. But is it any good?
That depends on what you really like to see in a film. Which of the following is your cup of tea?
a) Comic book films
b) Unnessary gruesome violence
c) Softcore nudity
d) Dark humour
e) Unusual plot
f) All of the above
g) Other.
If you picked option g, give this one a miss. If, however, you chose option f, then by George you might just be in luck.
The comic book is about a bunch of guys who decide to dress up and fight bad-guys. Mostly they have no real super powers, they're just ordinary folk with a few screws lose trying to make the world a better place. Its the kind of thing that makes you pause for a moment and wonder why no one has ever REALLY tried that kind of thing. Oh sure, you're not going to, the idea is nuts and will end in almost certain death, but with all the billions of people in the world, why hasn't anyone?
Back to the book, there is one guy who does has some actual super powers due to the typical experiment one wrong senerio. Dr Manhattan. And boy does he have some powers. He can basically do ANYTHING. He does have some limitations, but these are few and far between. Teleport, blow stuff up, see through time, copy himself, alter matter... the list is a VERY long one.
The story is set in 1985. The world is on the brink of all out nuclear war. All the heroes, other than Dr Manhattan, have been outlawed. Dr Manhattan is legal because a) he has the ability to basically catch any missiles, chew them up and spit them out and is thus used by America as a deterant and b) how the hell u gonna outlaw a guy who can spit out nuclear missiles?
Out of the normal heroes, only one guy is really refusing the ban and staying active. Mr Hard-as-effin-nails-take-no-sh*t-seriously-damn-cool-messed-up-in-the-head Rorschach. So when a former hero ends up dead, its up to Rorschach to figure out why. And he aint gonna let nothing stand in his way.
Thats the book. How about the film?
It's more or less exactly the same. Sure there are parts missing, it was a pretty long comic, and the ending was altered, it was originally pretty weird, but don't worry it still is. But if your looking for a film of the book, you've come to the right place.
Rumours have it that it could have been very different. Apparently the original director wanted to bring the story up to date, replacing nuclear war with the "war on terror". Their are also rumours that Simon Pegg was due to be Rorschach.
Nothing wrong with Simon Pegg, funny guy, but Rorshcach?
No.
Thankfully that didn't happen. If you liked the book go watch it. If you didn't read the book, perhaps have a gander at it first, the film may be a little odd to a newbie.
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