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Originally Posted by Mr. Marshmallow
But for anyone who is skeptical about a live DBZ movie I suggest you do as I do, wait until you see it before you knock it.
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Thing is, there's already been a live action DB movie that was done years before. And it was utter trash. Even though it was low budget, I don't think it could have been helped having been trash even if it had a humongous budget.
Here's the thing: I adore Dragon Ball Z. I grew up watching this series. But I don't want a live action movie, because no matter who they cast (and, incidentally, no American actor can hope to correctly portray any character in that series realistically well) and no matter what the expense, it just won't go over well.
For one thing, I feel putting it in live action takes away part of the magic of the series that was made through Toriyama's artwork. In my mind, it NEEDS to be animated, otherwise it simply won't work, as I feel many of the combat sequences would seem extremely awkward in live action. I just don't feel it can be done very well, let alone by an American studio and by American actors. This is a complaint I also have with the Neon Genesis Evangelion movie that keeps popping up, and again this is something I have an argument against: having a primarily American cast portraying primarily Japanese characters simply doesn't work in my mind. I'm sorry, but it just doesn't. And the list of voted on actors, though unlikely they'd get/go for the roles, are simply terrible. None of them would truly work very well, and I couldn't imagine any of them in those roles.
Really, there are only two anime/manga franchises I can think of that could work if a movie was made by an American company:
Cowboy Bebop and
Hellsing (and even then, preferably a movie based on the OVAs and manga and not the godawful TV version with Incognito). There are a few other animes I could see being made by an American studio with American actors, but very, very few.
So I love DBZ, but I hope this project gets scrapped.