AlmightyHans 2008-06-10 11:27:57 (Updated 2008-06-10 15:21:28)

see what happened to the dragon ball movie is the result of fucking idiots always demanding things to be "MORE REALISTIC". I have no problem with realism, in fact i adore it when it's done right and and the approach is used for the right things, but things like Batman, James Bond, and now Dragonball... people just don't understand the difference between something believable and realistic. you can have fantastical situations, but if what is going on is executed well, the story is believable, therefore makes you more attached to the characters. making things "realistic" is a cheap way of trying to get people to feel more attached to the movie. to me one movie that makes a situation believable in a fantastical setting is Speed racer. As much as you might know he's going to win, the movie makes you still feel enough for the character to cheer him on. A movie that makes it so fantastical you just don't care about what happens to the character anymore is Indiana Jones 4. if the guy at the beginning of the movie survived a nuclear explosion by crawling into a kitchen fridge, of course he's going to survive any other perils he gets himself into.

Now we've hit both extremes, and the pendulum of extremes in movie will now start swinging back and forth from one extreme to another. like everything else humans do.

p.s. and on a side note, just because batman DOESN'T have super powers doesn't mean a more realistic approach is the thing to do. In fact, BECAUSE he doesn't have super powers makes it more ridiculous to give him a realistic approach. Because a powerless man couldn't solve 90% of the problems he solves. basically you're giving a human the power to solve superhuman problems. that's more unrealistic than a super human solving super problems. Also, the lack of powers in the batman comics was added up for the incredibly colorful characters it had, if you're going to dumb them down (eg. making scare crow some dude with a potato sack over his face, or making the joker just paint his face instead of being disfigured in a way that makes him look like a clown) it takes the magic away from batman. you're changing the essence of batman instead of making a new perspective, there's a difference between changing batman and a new perspective. a new perspective still needs to feel like batman.

anyways, enough geek talk. these are just my opinions.