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Dragonball Z Thesis

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When I was little up until 9th grade, I was obsessed with Dragonball Z. I had a whole themed birthday party for Dragonball Z, and I didn't give a crap what anyone thought. Around the time I was wasting time in school drawing the characters in various art books, I heard that a live-action film was in the works. A young boy who is obsessed with Dragonball Z could only freak out hearing this news back in 1999.

Every week I would go online and look for news of anything happening. Weeks, months and then years went by, and there was only rumors. By the time 2009 came around, Fox finally had a movie in the bag called Dragonball Evolution. The 'Evolution' part of the title seemed a bit off. There's no real need for that title of a film that is meant to start an entire franchise, but whatever. I waited 10 years for a movie that is based on a franchise I was done with, but will still see it regardless. …show more content…

The closest thing I could compare this movie to is Die Hard 5. That movie seemed like someone heard about Die Hard, the one-liners, and then was made with little idea of the characters. You sit there and watch, then wonder if the filmmakers have actually viewed the original. It's the same with Dragonball Evolution. Everything about the movie is wrong on so many levels that it was definitely made for the studio to keep the rights to the movie. It was also greenlit because of the writer's strike.

Let's get into the specifics of how bad this

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