Dragonball Z, Dragonball GT, Dragonball
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Dragon Ball Live Action Movie
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Sometime in November of 2007, there came a great news announcement from 20th Century Fox about a Live Action Dragonball movie. No speculations or rumours like there was in the past about Live Action Dragonball, just pure fact that one will be made. This was one of the biggest news announcements that the Dragonball/Z/GT fanbase had in a long while, but it got an extremely mixed—and mostly negative—reaction from fans. Over the past nine months, the more details and pictures that have been released, the more upset Dragonball purists have gotten. Now that the movie has finally entered into post production and MFG is here to present you with all the facts you need to know! Release Date: April 3rd 2009 Director: James Wong (Notable previous works: The One, Final Destination) Written by: Ben Ramsey (Notable previous works Love and a Bullet, the Big Hit) Plot: The story begins with a young humanoid boy named Goku, who discovers that he was sent to Earth to blend in and destroy our population but instead elects to protect it from an oncoming alien onslaught bent on dominating the universe and controlling the mystical objects. He seeks out upon his adoptive grandfather Grandpa Gohan's dying request to find the great Master Roshi and gather all seven Dragon Balls. Of which he has one, in order to prevent the evil Lord Piccolo from succeeding in his desire to use the Dragon Balls to take over the world. And Goku's quest is to obtain the mystical Dragonballs before Piccolo does – IMDB Canon Cast: (Click Thumbnails for larger view)         Non-Canon Cast[INDENT]Texas Battle as Carey Fuller (A highschool bully) Shavon Kirksey as Emi (Classmate of Goku) Luis Arrietta as Weaver (Classmate and rumored friend of Goku) Richard Blake as Agundas Julian Sedgwick as Mr. Kingery [/INDENT]There has been hopeful speculation that other canon characters will have cameos in the film, but there have been no announcements of confirmation. In fact, James Marsters, who plays Piccolo in the film and has been the most talkative about it, states that a lot of characters and details were left out of the film due to time restraints. At a glance, the movie may not seem so bad, other than the obvious annoyances like the non-canon characters, an African American Master Mutaito, the lack of a blue haired Bulma, and a blond haired punk of a Yamcha. While the Yamcha may not be the one we know and love, the blond-haired biker style that is oh-so-popular among Asian youth seems like a good fit for the bandit. Also, it seems that originally Bulma was to wear a blue wig, but they trashed that and just put a single strand of blue in her hair. They did that most likely to keep this from being too much of a fantasy, you know, because having a green alien and magical dragonballs isn’t as extravagant as a blue haired woman. Okay, well, that ended up being a rather long list of obvious annoyances and that’s not even counting the plot deviations we don’t even know about yet. There is good news to this though, while we’ve seen pictures of almost all the canon cast, there’s no hint of a picture of Piccolo yet. It can be assumed that this is a bad omen, since maybe he looks so horrible that they are afraid it might completely put of some movie goers. Marsters; however, has admitted himself to be a fan of the series and states that Piccolo will be keeping true to his anime appearance. Then again, do they consider Goku true to his appearance? Since he obviously has some noticeable changes, but still is semi-true to his canon form. Will they change Piccolo like that too and still call him true to his anime appearance? While the general consensus about the movie is bordering dismal now, one can only hope they pushed back the release date to put in some really, really cool special effects that may lessen the pain of old school fans. Good or bad, either way the movie will most likely have a big release in April from hordes of curious anime fans. It’s one of those ‘You’ll see it just to see if it’s horrible’ sort of films. For more information and and pictures there's already a lengthy discussion here on our forums! Sources: IMDB, ANN, Filmonic Article Care of: Amerowolf comments: 11 |
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The Monday Screenshot Update! Weeks 117 to 118
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This week we've updated our gallery with images from: Dragonball, Naruto Shippuuden, and Naruto Shippuuden Extras. New Images This Week: 2243 Total Images Online: 278591 And as requested by Dbgohan08 and Broly, both Naruto Shippuuden episode 44, and Dragonball episode 8 have been included in this week's update: Click here to view all 497 screenshots of Dragonball Episode 008 Click here to view all 406 screenshots of Naruto Shippuuden Episode 44 Click here to view all 409 screenshots of Naruto Shippuuden Episode 39 Click here to view all 309 screenshots of Naruto Shippuuden Episode 40 Click here to view all 516 screenshots of Naruto Shippuuden Episode 41 Click here to view all 106 new screenshots of Naruto Shippuuden Extras * This gallery uses screenshots from bonus scenes shown in various episodes * This gallery is a work in progress with 981 images total Requests: To assist us in providing everyone with the images they want to see, we'll be accepting 2 requests for any two of the following movies/episodes listed on the page linked below. Be one of the first two people to post a request this week, and we'll have screenshots from your requested movie/episode available next monday for viewing. Make sure to request something ON the list! We can't take screenshots from material we don't own. If you'd like to suggest a show or episode to be added to this list (but isn't), go ahead and we'll see what we can do. Click here for the list Enjoy! comments: 7 |
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The Monday Screenshot Update! Weeks 115 to 116
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This week we've updated our gallery with images from: Dragonball, Dragonball GT, Naruto Shippuuden, Naruto Shippuuden The Movie, and Naruto Shippuuden Extras. New Images This Week: 2115 Total Images Online: 276348 And as requested by Dbgohan08 and Broly, both Dragonball episode 122, and Dragonball GT episode 41 have been included in this week's update: Click here to view all 498 screenshots of Dragonball Episode 122 Click here to view all 477 screenshots of Dragonball GT Episode 41 Click here to view all 466 screenshots of Naruto Shippuuden Episode 37 Click here to view all 407 screenshots of Naruto Shippuuden Episode 38 Click here to view all 86 new screenshots of Naruto Shippuuden Extras * This gallery uses screenshots from bonus scenes shown in various episodes * This gallery is a work in progress with 875 images total Click here to view all 181 screenshots of Shippuuden Movie 1 Extras * This gallery uses screenshots from bonus scenes no included in the movie * This gallery is complete Requests: To assist us in providing everyone with the images they want to see, we'll be accepting 2 requests for any two of the following movies/episodes listed on the page linked below. Be one of the first two people to post a request this week, and we'll have screenshots from your requested movie/episode available next monday for viewing. Make sure to request something ON the list! We can't take screenshots from material we don't own. If you'd like to suggest a show or episode to be added to this list (but isn't), go ahead and we'll see what we can do. Click here for the list Enjoy! comments: 4 |
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The Monday Screenshot Update! Weeks 111, 112, 113, and 114
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This week we've updated our gallery with images from: Dragonball GT, Naruto Shippuuden The Movie, Naruto Shippuuden Extras, Naruto, Death Note. New Images This Week: 6484 Total Images Online: 274233 And as requested by Dbgohan08 and Dbzman26, both Naruto episode 185, and Death Note episode 23 have been included in this week's update: Click here to view all 601 screenshots of Naruto Episode 185 Click here to view all 452 screenshots of Death Note Episode 23 Click here to view all 497 screenshots of Naruto Episode 184 Click here to view all 509 screenshots of Naruto Episode 186 Click here to view all 517 screenshots of Naruto Episode 187 Click here to view all 601 screenshots of Dragonball GT Episode 42 Click here to view all 92 new screenshots of Naruto Shippuuden Extras * This gallery uses screenshots from bonus scenes shown in various episodes * This gallery is a work in progress with ====== images total Click here to view all 3215 screenshots of Naruto Shippuuden Movie 1 Requests: To assist us in providing everyone with the images they want to see, we'll be accepting 2 requests for any two of the following movies/episodes listed on the page linked below. Be one of the first two people to post a request this week, and we'll have screenshots from your requested movie/episode available next monday for viewing. Make sure to request something ON the list! We can't take screenshots from material we don't own. If you'd like to suggest a show or episode to be added to this list (but isn't), go ahead and we'll see what we can do. Click here for the list Enjoy! comments: 8 |
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