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I'm going to try and give this the benefit of the doubt. We haven't really seen much from this, and the fact that there's no sound means we miss half the trailer already. I hear it'll be released in the previews on Max Payne, so I anxiously await.
I want to think that this director must have a grand plan for this. If he wants to start out tamer and really show the building of Goku's powers, then ommitting certain abilities in the first film and making it a tad more reasonable is okay with me. After all, everyone knows DBZ was never good at visually demonstrating how strong someone really was after we got to see Vegeta blow up Arlia. The fighting from then on never really changed, and we had to guage strength by taking a character's word for it, or just seeing just how badly someone got their ass kicked.
If this director wants to tweak that, then it's alright. After all, Saiyan or not, Goku's probably starting out in this film with no fighting ability at all, so to be able to take on Piccolo and beat him by the end, Piccolo will need to be toned down a bit.
I just hope this director is smart enough to realize to fulfill his master plan that he has to get people to like Dragonball enough to get the green light for the sequels. Hopefully, the box office will be decent enough simply for the series' notoriety and popularity. I think that it will. Even after years since completion the fanbase is going strong, buying the games and propogating the old hype. Even if the critics hate it, that's not going to stop people from seeing it purely out of wanting to see what it is. And in the end, the what the box office nets is going to be the deciding factor.
And once it GETS a sequel, as long as whoever plays Vegeta doesn't ruin the character, it'll just coast on through.
Call me a hopeful and an optimist, because I am. I've just been waiting for this for a long time, and I'm seeing it however it turns out. I want to believe it will turn out alright.
I want to think that this director must have a grand plan for this. If he wants to start out tamer and really show the building of Goku's powers, then ommitting certain abilities in the first film and making it a tad more reasonable is okay with me. After all, everyone knows DBZ was never good at visually demonstrating how strong someone really was after we got to see Vegeta blow up Arlia. The fighting from then on never really changed, and we had to guage strength by taking a character's word for it, or just seeing just how badly someone got their ass kicked.
If this director wants to tweak that, then it's alright. After all, Saiyan or not, Goku's probably starting out in this film with no fighting ability at all, so to be able to take on Piccolo and beat him by the end, Piccolo will need to be toned down a bit.
I just hope this director is smart enough to realize to fulfill his master plan that he has to get people to like Dragonball enough to get the green light for the sequels. Hopefully, the box office will be decent enough simply for the series' notoriety and popularity. I think that it will. Even after years since completion the fanbase is going strong, buying the games and propogating the old hype. Even if the critics hate it, that's not going to stop people from seeing it purely out of wanting to see what it is. And in the end, the what the box office nets is going to be the deciding factor.
And once it GETS a sequel, as long as whoever plays Vegeta doesn't ruin the character, it'll just coast on through.
Call me a hopeful and an optimist, because I am. I've just been waiting for this for a long time, and I'm seeing it however it turns out. I want to believe it will turn out alright.
