Dragonball Evolution Bash Fest!

DRAGONBALL  EVOLUTION BASH FEST!

So we all remember the well loved Dragon Ball Manga series, well someone had a great idea to make a movie called Dragonball Evolution this idiots name is James Wong (Director) I'm giving him all the credit because he gave the ok for this atrocity. First of all the dragonball series was about a young man (alien) named Goku who as a baby was given a mission to destroy Earth, well he hit his head and became the loving and naive Goku we've all come to love. He is found by Gohan and taken in as his grandson, unfortunately years later he turns in a Oozaru (Great Ape) and accidentally kills Grandpa Gohan.
After that Goku meets Bulma by we'll a accident and she sees how strong he is and that he has what she's been looking for one of the Dragon balls so she invites him to help her find them. Along the way Goku helps a turtle and receives the gift of the Flying Nimbus, after that he meets Master Roshi, then Oolong the piggy, then Yamcha, then Ox King Lord who was close friends with Grandpa Gohan, the he meets Bull Demon Lord (Chi Chi's dad) and that is when he meets Chi Chi. All this happens when he is still very young and as for Piccolo he and Goku meet in a fighting tournament and Goku defeats him and later they join forces to defeat Raditz ( Goku's Brother) but enough about that.
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•  In the Movie Goku wants to fit in with his peers and win the respect and love for Chi Chi by improving his fighting skills to impress her, in the animated original series he doesn't even love Chi Chi until after they're married!!!
•   In the movie Goku is about 18, in the A.O.S. he was like 11 and didn't go to high school, his lack of education was often a pun throughout the series!!!
•   In the movie Piccolo looks like a goblin, in the A.O.S. he is a rather handsome  humanoid looking Namic WITH antennas.
•   In the movie they made the great ape Oozaru an actual character that Goku turns into instead of the transformation that Saiyans who still have their tails have during a full moon, instead of the full moon in the movie they used an solar eclipse. He's depicted as a God and much smaller than the original Oozarus the Saiyans turn into.

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Here are some more major key points for the reason of this movie bashing, they are as follows:

Goku as I have already told you meets Bulma first and while he was a kid and she was a teenager.

Apparently the writters of this movie have forgotten that simple fact.

Goku from dragonball, hmm looks to be about 11 wouldn't you say?

Evolution's Goku in regular clothes** and about 18. 

Little Chi Chi around the time when she met Goku.

Chi Chi From Evolution...high school age about 18 as well.

King Piccolo from the dragon ball series.

King Piccolo from Evolution (with no antennas -_-)

Good ole' Master Roshi the Perv you gotta love ^_^

Evolution's Master Roshi shares none of the mannerisms of the DB series Roshi  (and he has hair)

Goku transformed as a Oozaru in the DBAS

And this atrocity is the Oozaru from Evolution need I say anything?!

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These are just some very small mistakes they made in the movie, there are are so many more I couldn't possibly list all of them with the time I have for this review.  I'm giving Dragon ball Evolution a 1.4 out of 1-10, yea it's that bad.

  
  

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)Starring: Ziyi Zhang Directed by: Rob Marshall

Ok, let me start by saying I'm not a big fan of Movies based from books. Often too many times the main essence of the story gets lost. With that said I read the book before actually watching the movie, which was an awesome read by the way, and of course you can't expect everything that was written to be in the movie. I think this director and the writers did a superb job in integrating the story with enough detail and symbolic meaning that made sense in the movie and to the people who've read the book.


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The Amazing Cast

Ziyi Zhang as Chiyo/Sayuri
 
Gong Li as the devilish Hatsumomo

Michelle Yeoh as Mameha

Ken Watanabe as The Chairman

Koji Yakusho as Nobu


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 This story deals with the harsh reality of the life of a geisha in the 1930's. A girl (Chiyo) from a poverty stricken family near a poor fishing village, with ailing parents sell her and her older sister to a Geisha house. When she arrives she's chosen because of her uncommon blue eyes and her age, her sister on the other hand is sold to the Pleasure district. Chiyo is then given chores and starts her geisha training school, while dealing with the antagonism of the head geisha of the house, Hatsumomo. One night Hatsumomo uses Chiyo as a scape goat, forcing her to ruin a kimono that belongs to a very revered geisha named Mameha. Other strings of unfortunate events take that opportunity to become a geisha away from her. Chiyo is now forced to live her life as a servant to repay her debt to the geisha house. One day by a twist of fate she meets a kind stranger who buys her sweet ice and she prays to the god to let her become a geisha, to meet that kind stranger again. Years pass and one day a strange visitor comes to the house. In walks Mameha(Michelle Yeoh) to offer to take Chiyo under her wing as her protege and to pay off her debt to the house and for her training, and so the slow transition of clumsy little Chiyo to elegant geisha Sayuri ( given name by Mameha) begins. At a chance meeting at a Sumo event she sees the kind stranger The Chairman and his business partner Nobu.  She trys to steal the opportunity to catch the attention of the Chairman, but is forced to be company to Nobu instead. Nobu never had a fondness for geisha, but she possessed a wit about her that causes him develop a liking to her.  Nobu the decides he wants her to keep him as one of her primary clients. The Chairman seeing this, cannot take the one thing Nobu is beginning to cherish away. The Chairman owes a great debt to Nobu, even though he was the one who insisted upon Mameha taking Sayuri in. One night out of jealous rage and the discovery of Sayuri's feelings for the Chair man, Hatsumomo and Sayuri begin to fight. It results in a violent outburst from Hatsumomo that catches the geisha house on fire, after which Hatsumomo is cast out from the house and her life as a geisha. Later the war comes and changes the foundation of the geisha tradition and way of life. Everyone, Sayuri included, are scattered throughout the region until the worst of the war is over. Upon her return she has new struggles to deal with Americans and attempting to lose the love of Nobu, after which times goes by and her real destiny begins. Sayuri rises above her own circumstances from her humble beginnings into one of the most famous geisha in her era.
 It's a heart breaking and endearing story I would rate it a 9 out of 10.