{"id":1984,"date":"2015-08-06T16:59:59","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T21:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2015-08-06T16:59:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T21:59:59","slug":"dragon-ball-z-resurrection-f-and-the-transitive-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2015\/08\/dragon-ball-z-resurrection-f-and-the-transitive-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection &#8216;F&#8217; (And The Transitive Property)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I saw Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection &#8216;F&#8217; &#8211; and I wasn&#8217;t the only one since the movie <a title=\"The Dragon is being rocked!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2015-08-05\/dragon-ball-z-resurrection-f-earns-1.97-million-to-rank-no.6-on-u.s-opening-night\/.91335\" target=\"_blank\">is killing it<\/a> during it&#8217;s limited release in the theaters. In fact, I tried to see the 7pm show, but it was sold out. Instead, I had to wait around for the 8pm show, which also had a good sized crowd. The takeaway lesson from this is to buy tickets online&#8230; particularly for the Iron Giant super-limited-theatical-release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ResurrectionF.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1986 size-medium\" title=\"I just figured out what the 'F' stands for.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ResurrectionF-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ResurrectionF-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ResurrectionF.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As for Resurrection, it was solid. I liked it more than its predecessor, Battle Of Gods; However, ultimately it was still a DBZ movie, and I find that the franchise shines in episodic format because it is given adequate time to create the world and properly define the characters&#8217; hierarchy of power.<\/p>\n<p>In order for the movies to move the plot along (and keep things entertaining), the story has to employ &#8216;DBZ-math&#8217; &#8211; which entails forgetting the Transitive Property. For example, Fighter A is stronger than Fighter B; and Fighter B is stronger than Fighter C. According to &#8216;DBZ-math&#8217;, Fighter C can easily go toe to toe with Fighter A.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Resurrection was fun; and I don&#8217;t want to give away anything, so below is my spoiler-free, bullet-point takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>As expected, the action scenes were great, which was the reason I went to see the movie; and they did not disappoint.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>In addition to many backgrounds being done in 3D (often during fight scenes), a lot of the background characters were CGI. I don&#8217;t remember the latter being the case with Battle Of Gods.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>There were some truly funny moments in the movie. By this, I mean clever writing versus awkward, anime comedy (like Vegeta performing a dance).\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Several characters were not in the movie. Some of this was for the better, and some of it for worse.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The writers need to work on subtle foreshadowing.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the end of the day, Resurrection &#8216;F&#8217; was worth it.\u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m still not sure how the new series will turn out,\u00c2\u00a0but the movie does hint at the general direction it will take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I saw Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection &#8216;F&#8217; &#8211; and I wasn&#8217;t the only one since the movie is killing it during it&#8217;s limited release in the theaters. In fact, I tried to see the 7pm show, but it was sold out. Instead, I had to wait around for the 8pm show, which also [&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-1984","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\/1984","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=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}