No Right Answer: Worst Transition from Animation to Live-Action
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See if they'd bought the cocaine first we might have had a good movie.Daystar Clarion said:I never saw Avatar, so I can't really comment.
But DB Evolution was just terrible
It's like they spent 20 quid on the actual film, then the rest of the budget on cocaine.
Debate and title are misleading 
Worst transition from Animation to Live-action.
DE is the worst transition. Not one character in the movie had any semblance of the characters from the animated series. Bulma-black haired girl with a ponytail, Roshi-tall fully haired man living near a city, Piccolo-grey space alien with a ship, Yamcha-blonde haired asshole... Seriously the movie had nothing to do with the animated series other than sharing character names.
The Last Airbender at the very least followed the first season of the show pretty much to a T. Granted it was a mediocre movie (actors being pretty lame, and their insistence that Aang had to be pronounce Oang) at best, it was still faithful to its source material.
Had this been "Worst Live-action movie based on an Animated Series" then a debate could be made between the movies. But if i can be pedantic Dragonball Evolution wins this without question.
DE is the worst transition. Not one character in the movie had any semblance of the characters from the animated series. Bulma-black haired girl with a ponytail, Roshi-tall fully haired man living near a city, Piccolo-grey space alien with a ship, Yamcha-blonde haired asshole... Seriously the movie had nothing to do with the animated series other than sharing character names.
The Last Airbender at the very least followed the first season of the show pretty much to a T. Granted it was a mediocre movie (actors being pretty lame, and their insistence that Aang had to be pronounce Oang) at best, it was still faithful to its source material.
Had this been "Worst Live-action movie based on an Animated Series" then a debate could be made between the movies. But if i can be pedantic Dragonball Evolution wins this without question.
Well, Dragonball Evolution was much worse, I have to admit. Like they said, at least Avatar tried to stay true to the plot. Sure, the script for Avatar looked a little like this:
Aang: I'm alive!
Katara: I HOPE FOR STUFF!
Sokka: The Fire Nation is evil!
Aang: I'm saving the world!
Katara:Good thing we're with the Southern Water Tribe now.
Suko: I HATE THE AVATAR!
Aang: I'm powerful now.
Sokka: I will always love you!
All in the same scene. Really, that's what drove me crazy. it's like they knew they only had so much time to explain the entire plot so they rushed through it...in the same scene! Well, not literally, but you get it.
At any rate, when I first watched it, I thought it was...okay. Yeah, Iroh was mispronounced, Suko looked nothing like Suko...*sigh* Yeah, it was alright, I guess.
Now, Dragonball was something else.
No spiky hair for Goku. When has Goku NOT had spiky hair?
Milk joins them. This never happens. She only tags along at the end of Dragon Ball (With Goku only) and when they're kids.
Roshi, Bulma, Yamcha and the rest don't look nothing like their counterparts. No need to explain that.
Mai. WHO'S MAI?! Why is she a doppelganger?
Roshi never dies. For that matter, neither does Piccolo.
Goku was never a romantic of any sort. He never got the hint. It's a miracle he was able to reproduce.
Where's Krillin? He's like Goku's sidekick. HE should be the one dying.
Resurrecting Kamehameha? What is this? I don't even.
I could go on, but you get it. Dragonball just took the names of the characters, the dragon balls and ran off to make some other plot. Not cool, man. Not cool.
And that kamehameha reminded me of My Little Pony, what with the flying punch and stuff.
Aang: I'm alive!
Katara: I HOPE FOR STUFF!
Sokka: The Fire Nation is evil!
Aang: I'm saving the world!
Katara:Good thing we're with the Southern Water Tribe now.
Suko: I HATE THE AVATAR!
Aang: I'm powerful now.
Sokka: I will always love you!
All in the same scene. Really, that's what drove me crazy. it's like they knew they only had so much time to explain the entire plot so they rushed through it...in the same scene! Well, not literally, but you get it.
At any rate, when I first watched it, I thought it was...okay. Yeah, Iroh was mispronounced, Suko looked nothing like Suko...*sigh* Yeah, it was alright, I guess.
Now, Dragonball was something else.
No spiky hair for Goku. When has Goku NOT had spiky hair?
Milk joins them. This never happens. She only tags along at the end of Dragon Ball (With Goku only) and when they're kids.
Roshi, Bulma, Yamcha and the rest don't look nothing like their counterparts. No need to explain that.
Mai. WHO'S MAI?! Why is she a doppelganger?
Roshi never dies. For that matter, neither does Piccolo.
Goku was never a romantic of any sort. He never got the hint. It's a miracle he was able to reproduce.
Where's Krillin? He's like Goku's sidekick. HE should be the one dying.
Resurrecting Kamehameha? What is this? I don't even.
I could go on, but you get it. Dragonball just took the names of the characters, the dragon balls and ran off to make some other plot. Not cool, man. Not cool.
And that kamehameha reminded me of My Little Pony, what with the flying punch and stuff.
Mai was meant to be: http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/MaiBeautiful End said:
Who was emperor pilaf's flunky in the show. As with every character in DBE she's different to what she was in the series...
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I actually disagree with the people saying DBE should have been about the start of dragonball, and that the red ribbon army and piccolo should have been part of two sequals.
I think the king piccolo saga was a good place to start, they just did it fairly terribly thats all.
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And i actually think all in all the avatar movie wasn't as bad as people make out. It was fairly awful in some respects, but it's biggest problem lay more in it trying to cover too much. The story was just to big to fit well into the movie.
I however thought the change they made to fire benders was actually pretty good (them not being able to create fire, only manipulate it), cause that then explained really well why the commet was so important. (and cause i always thought fire benders being able to generate their own fire was kinda hax. all the other benders need to have access to their element, why do fire benders get a free pass? XD)
Ohhhh...THAT Mai.Some_weirdGuy said:
...It still doesn't make sense that she's a doppelganger. I guess its because movies. :l
Someone's probably already pointed this out (in fact I think I did in a different thread), but the Death Note live-action films weren't bad. Death Note held your interest with the tension over who would win and who would die. Once you know, the series just isn't that interesting to watch, past the first episode or two.saviorindeath said:
They played around with the ending a little so it manages to keep a few surprises, plus they gave Light a girlfriend to play the more humane side which comes out more rarely in the series. Other than that, it's really not a bad conversion.
Also, if you thought Light eating a potato chip was scary, L doing it is just plain creepy.
EDIT Oh God, not only did I already reply, but I replied to a quote of your quote...
"What a twist!"
Damn it, Dan. Stop trying to make the episode reach critical funny levels. Bad things happen when critical funny is reached. Like hospitalization for split sides, and short-circuited keyboards from pop spray.
Damn it, Dan. Stop trying to make the episode reach critical funny levels. Bad things happen when critical funny is reached. Like hospitalization for split sides, and short-circuited keyboards from pop spray.
M. Night Shmymoviessuck has been a joke since Signs, and there was no way he was ever going to succeed. Could anyone compress 20 half hour long adventures into one coherent 2 hour long movie? The answer is no. But MNS was such an arrogant ass that he even said you just don't get it after the movie flopped. A classic your watching it wrong.
It would not have been hard to make a Dragon Ball movie. I could see a giant Harry Potter styled epic, one film to every arc being created with tons of character development along the way. The sad thing is they went in such a different direction they failed without trying.
My vote is for Dragon Ball being the disappointment, it at least had a chance.
It would not have been hard to make a Dragon Ball movie. I could see a giant Harry Potter styled epic, one film to every arc being created with tons of character development along the way. The sad thing is they went in such a different direction they failed without trying.
My vote is for Dragon Ball being the disappointment, it at least had a chance.
dragonball evelution is cack,maybe its not that bad if you never heard of it before doh, I mean I didnt hate the last airbender but I hadnt heard of it. Maybe thats why I wasnt gone on Avatar, I saw Poccahontis