{"id":130,"date":"2008-12-14T16:53:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T22:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=130"},"modified":"2015-08-06T13:37:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T18:37:59","slug":"rock-the-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2008\/12\/rock-the-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock The Dragon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the trailer for the upcoming <a title=\"It's About Frickin' Time\" href=\"http:\/\/movies.ign.com\/dor\/objects\/479331\/dragonball-evolution\/videos\/dragonball_int_trlrc_121108.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dragonball Movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After years of rumors, it looks like the DBZ series will finally create a live action movie.\u00c2\u00a0 The flick, scheduled to come out in April of next year, occurs\u00c2\u00a0during the Dragonball portion of the time line.\u00c2\u00a0 This means that Goku is pretty young (in high school, which is slightly older than what he was in the anime\/ manga) and Piccolo is the antagonist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"If there's a Spirit Bomb, so help me...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dbz.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dbz.jpg\" alt=\"If there's a Spirit Bomb, so help me...\" width=\"264\" height=\"409\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a huge fan of DBZ, I can say I am definitely interested in the movie &#8211; and optimistic that it will be worth watching.\u00c2\u00a0 After all, Stephen Chow of <a title=\"Hustle Up!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2008\/10\/hustle-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kung Fu Hustle fame<\/a> is producing it.\u00c2\u00a0 In addition to that, Chow Yun-Fat stars as Master Roshi and the stunt\u00c2\u00a0 performance company that worked on the Matrix is working on the film.\u00c2\u00a0 They even have Winston from Ghostbusters (Ernie Hudson) in it!<\/p>\n<p>My only concern is that the movie will deviate too far from the anime\/ manga.\u00c2\u00a0 While this has positives (the movie opted to cut out certain crappy characters like Turtle, Puar, and Oolong), it could lose it&#8217;s authenticity that made DBZ so awesome.\u00c2\u00a0 At which point, this could upset a lot of hardcore fans and result in an overall lousy product.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the success of the first movie will dictate if future ones\u00c2\u00a0get made.\u00c2\u00a0 Hopefully the movie will be worth the wait and live up to the franchise&#8217;s reputation.\u00c2\u00a0 Even though I was a hoping a Dragonball movie would eventually come to fruition, I am really waiting to see a live action <a title=\"Best...Character...Ever!\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vegeta\" target=\"_blank\">Vegeta<\/a> on the big screen &#8211; that will truly be awesome.\u00c2\u00a0 And sadly, that requires a sequel or two&#8230;which means more waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the trailer for the upcoming Dragonball Movie. After years of rumors, it looks like the DBZ series will finally create a live action movie.\u00c2\u00a0 The flick, scheduled to come out in April of next year, occurs\u00c2\u00a0during the Dragonball portion of the time line.\u00c2\u00a0 This means that Goku is pretty young (in high school, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,33],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dbz","tag-dragonball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}