I know I said number five was my final one but there is still some scum out on the streets, this is one of the ones that has surface, well it's about to feel the wrath of my merchette called a rant. This is part six of my pushed too far series. This isn't so much a rant by more of my two cents on this new matter that has came up. On a sidenote I want to state I'm not a fan of the franchise (or at least a hardcore one) though I do really like the first Dragon Ball, second one Z is good not a great sequel in my opinon as people keep making it out to be, GT sucks though.

Yeah, I and tons of other people have heard about the new animation live action adaption comeing out called "Dragon Ball" . And like lots of people I feel both optimism and sceptism over it mostly the second thing. And they have a right to fear due to certain photoshots I saw of the film which seem to be more of a modern setting then a fantasy setting. The fact that it's in a modern setting disapoints me a bit, I thought this film would of been made like "Sin City" where they would use green screen background animation to create that fantasy world I know of. And that some characters don't look right, I'm not so much worried about looks but more on performance and content of the script if they will stay true to the spirit. Though on the plus side the actresses playing Bulma (Emily Roseum) and Chi-Chi (Jamie Chung) actually look like both the characters in the anime/manga in my opinion anyway, hope their performance matches.

But my feelings about anime/animation being made into live action are always a mixed feeling it really a matter of the final result which can either be good or bad. Adapting something weither it's a comic book, video game, anime/animation I feel is always a difficult process because it has to abide by two principles 1. Be accurate sylewise in creating the fantasy world and the effects with it. 2. But true in it's spirt from the source it is derived from in both content and characterization. But there are a lot of bad ones because they don't abide by both of these things, and I wouldn't even call them movies more like crimes against not just to the source material but movies in general.

One example of a bad adaption would be "House of the Dead" based on one of my favorate video game franshises from SEGA. Oh how I hate hate this movie, I can't tell you how bad it is, anyone that has told you it's bad is not kidding it's BAD! The effects, cinamatography, direction, screenplay, acting, fight choigraphy. It felt like the person that made that film didn't know how to make a movie, I mean even low budget amachure films I've seen or purchased online were better than this. I remember watching thinking I'd rather be playing one of the games in the franchise right now then watch this crap, which is what I should of done in the first place. Uwe Boll don't you dare think about adapting a " Mega Man" or "Pritty Soilder Sailor Moon" film you leave those franshises alone.

There is such a thing as good live action movie adaptions because they abided by two of the principles I've stated and the results are supprising good because it was all thanks to good direction, script writing, acting as well as the FX and budget to support it. And it just all felt right. "Transformers" and "Speed Racer" are good animation/anime to movie adaption because they have everything I said, just watch them and you will find out; I'm a fan of both these franchises and I'll just say I wasn't disapointed, I waited most of my live for silver screen adaption and my wait paid off.

I can only hope I can say the same with many more to come (Ghost in the Shell, Macross, Blood, Akira etc.). as I said it's all depends on the final result. Well I've said enough, will the Dragon Ball film be awdsome or suck well we'll just have to wait and see, personally I'm looking forward more to the new "Transformers" Sequel coming up, really liked the first film hope the sequel is even better and meet my expectations. But then again isn't that what we all hope in every anime/animation/comic book to live action adaption.

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