DragonBall: The Live Action Movie

mystyc writes "scifi wire has a disturbing piece on how Twentieth Century Fox acguired the movie rights to the Dragon Ball franchise. What is disturbing is that they plan to do a live action dragon ball movie! You'd think hollywood would have learned their lessons from such notable live action anime failures as The Guyver, Fist of the North Star, and others who's names must not be spoken. Then again, hollywood doesn't work that way."

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Re:a movie is not long enough

[JabberWokky]

I dunno - Dragonball: the Magic Begins, is a live action movie of the Dragonball saga (with some of the names reverting to the original Monkey King fables). They had plenty of nifty battle scenes, both two powerful and/or crafty people doing battle and large nameless army guys against a small number of people. Plus it's got a *really* hot 80s chick (in a Missing Persons, big hair, loads of makeup way).

It's well worth watching just for seeing the damncool actor that plays Master Roshi. It's still for children, a la DB animated and DBZ (both of which I never really could stand to watch), but it's a really good movie to put on with a bunch of friends over, preferably after everybody has had a few. The opening battle scenes are some of the most fun in HK Cinema style battles. Burrowing underground, bouncing from tree to tree and visual gags. Fun, stupid stuff.

If you like it, try out Lion Man Maru and Master of the Flying Guillotine (both of which I didn't bother to look up the spelling of). More stupid live action battle fun, only a slim notch above an average Ultraman episode.

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Evan