No Right Answer: Worst Transition from Animation to Live-Action

[rekabdarb]

With TLA they atleist tried to bring the cartoon to life... The idgits who made DBE didn't give ANY thought to source material or the fan base; They just didn't care.

I STILL think that "Viva Rock Vegas" was the worse...

Since when is Barney taller than Fred!?

Out of all the things to be angry at with this movie, that is what you are angry with.

Really?

REALLY?

 

[ThePS1Fan]

I own DB: Evolution on DVD.
[HEADING=3]Worst. Purchase. Ever.[/HEADING]

 

[UsefulPlayer 1]

The worst thing about the Avatar movie was that it marred public's view of an animated masterpiece. Avatar: The Last Airbender, as far as I'm concerned, is like a modern day epic akin to the Odyssey or The Journey to the West, but in kid cartoon form.

Avatar was one of the greatest stories ever told to a kid while the movie shat on the source material and probably turned most people off from it.

 

[Yeager942]

I love Avatar: TLA with a fiery passion, especially after watching watching the entire series with my siblings over it's entire tv run (This was back in middle school when all I thought the internet could do was play runescape). With that said, I've never seen the movie, and I'm eternally glad that my experience with the show has never been soured by the "M. Night Shyamalan Incident."

 

[Elvis Starburst]

Edit for forgetting the topic XD But still, can Super Mario Brothers count? It had a show at a time

 

[Stalydan]

Chris, you're totally right. That flying Kamehameha part totally baffles the mind. But seriously, how can they mess up the origin story that badly? Goku never went to high school and he ended up killing his grandpa. It's not that hard to get right, even if you've only watched the first few episodes.

Hell, they could have done a more in-depth trilogy using three of the major story arcs of the original Dragon Ball. The first movie could have been Goku and friends fighting against Emperor Pilaf, the second movie could have shifted the focus to the Red Ribbon Army, and the third movie could focus on Goku facing off against Piccolo. And, if done right, it could have made them much more money than Evolution did.

I think the bigger concerns here are "Why is Goku a teenager?" and "Why did the costume make-up think that wearing lots of eye-liner makes him look Asian?".

But yeah, it's not a origin story that would be too hard to adapt. First part would be the group meeting up, second part training with Master Roshi and Pilaf showing up, third part in his castle and defeating him.

Not hard, right?

 

[ischmalud]

ok really HOW drunk was chris for that epiosode??? awesome u guys should have more arguments when BOTH of u are 100% sloshed
got team mumble and sutff

 

[AstylahAthrys]

I knew well enough to stay away from Avatar since I knew it would be a huge turd. Curiosity got the best of me with Dragonball and WOW was it bad.

I own DB: Evolution on DVD.
[HEADING=3]Worst. Purchase. Ever.[/HEADING]

... WHY?

 

[Kliss88]

Did I miss the part where the words "Winner" on chris's side meant he lost?

 

[bootz]

i think yogi bear is much much worse. Its so bad no one thinks about it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1302067/

 

[saviorindeath]

I personaly always hated the fact that they made a live action death note.....I...Im going to go cry in a corner now..

 

[Cain_Zeros]

hopefully the sequel to avatar will be better since the same people made it. staying hopeful until 14th April.

They posted the first couple episodes online and they're floating around. Amazing! Not only a great expansion of the world etc, but a great show (so far) on its own merits. Unlike the movie that fails as an adaptation and on its own merits.

 

[Aureliano]

I think the lesson we should learn from these two movies is the following. Throw a middling amount of money to a director, like in the tens of millions, and even if your film flops it can still be fun to watch. Throw a shitton of money into a movie and if it doesn't rule (see: if it's directed by a moron) then it's a complete waste of time.

 

[Korskarn]

Sorry Kyle but I got to ask, did you honestly expect the Last Airbender film top contain ALL THREE SEASONS. I mean from what I read the film itself was a very rush version of the first season so it's impossible to fit in the other two seasons into it!
Either way I don't care the outcome since they were both equally bad in their own right, well I guess the lesser or two awfulness.

You missed the part where Kyle said that they were going to make 3 movies, one for each season... except no-one turned up to the first one.

They did exactly what you said, and that's also what Kyle said.

 

[Adam Stapleton]

There's one bad argument for DBE that hasn't been mentioned yet.....

Master Roshi's 'Khame-Hame-CPR' to bring Goku back! WTF?

 

[ExileNZ]

OK, honestly? Last Airbender wasn't that bad a movie. I mean I get that people complain about all kinds of stuff (spontaneous fire-bending, white-washing, etc) but that movie was still NOT a disappointment on so many levels. Hell, that movie is the whole reason I got interested in the TV series in the first place.

People can hate on it all they like, but in the end its only crime was to fail to live up to peoples' expectations (and nowhere near as badly as, say, Phantom Menace).

(EDIT: Also, look at Aang - he was everything that young Anikin wasn't - collected, convincing and something resembling respectful of the source material)

 

[ExileNZ]

I personaly always hated the fact that they made a live action death note.....I...Im going to go cry in a corner now..

The movies were good, far from the manga and anime quality, but still good.

The thing the movies had going for them was that they're short enough to watch a second time. I'll never watch the series ever again, even though it was great - too much of the interest rides on the constant tension over who will win. Once you lose that there's nothing holding you there.

The movies at least are short enough to bring out from time to time (say, to show to a friend) and with the added bonus that the played around with the ending enough that there are still some surprises.

Also, I've still never seen anything more terrifying and evocative than live-action L eating a potato chip.