is the budget good enough to make an epic DB

[WhatA.Tool]

with the budget of a 100 million you'd expect thats good enough to make a good movie....do you think so ?

not to taking into consideration the acting of the actors, direction of the director and so on.
I personally think this movie has the potential to be one of the best of 2009 (im serious)

 

[chosen1]

with the budget of a 100 million you'd expect thats good enough to make a good movie....do you think so ?

not to taking into consideration the acting of the actors, direction of the director and so on.
I personally think this movie has the potential to be one of the best of 2009 (im serious)

To make a good movie? Yes they have all the money they need plus more. To make a visually amazing moving that 'Looks' good to fool people into thinking it was a good movie... probably not.

 

[DorkyFresh]

Hellboy 2 is being made for less than what's being put into this movie (around $100 mil). there's definitely enough money to make an epic DB. as for this movie being one of the best in 2009??? i'd be VERY surprised if it's in the top 5. they've got quite a few promising movies coming out next year. Street Fighter, Monsters vs Aliens, Wolverine, Star Trek, Terminator Salvation, Transfromers 2, G.I. Joe, and James Cameron's Avatar are all almost guaranteed hits and i haven't even listed the non-action titles that look to be good.

 

[scarface078]

well i saw a trailer whit the giant monster but it looks ridiculous fake
i dont have a picture of it
but i think hellboy II aint gona be like Hellboy I

 

[DorkyFresh]

i think "ridiculously fake" is an exaggeration. to me, it doesn't look all that fake, it just looks weird. the way it's textured gives off a visual that no one has really seen before...which makes people automatically think that it looks fake. however, it's rendered well enough to look like it's in the environment it's in. the only reason it sticks out so much is because of it's unusual design.....not because of bad CGI.

either way, if they can do all the things that they're doing in Hellboy 2 with the limited budget that they have, then there's no reason DB can't be epic.

 

[DBZ2cool]

Hellboy 2 is being made for less than what's being put into this movie (around $100 mil). there's definitely enough money to make an epic DB. as for this movie being one of the best in 2009??? i'd be VERY surprised if it's in the top 5. they've got quite a few promising movies coming out next year. Street Fighter, Monsters vs Aliens, Wolverine, Star Trek, Terminator Salvation, Transfromers 2, G.I. Joe, and James Cameron's Avatar are all almost guaranteed hits and i haven't even listed the non-action titles that look to be good.

Hellboy 2 is being directed by a visionary director and on top of that it is a sequel.

James Wong isn't even 30% of Guillermo and this is an origin movie so it will focus more on characters than action just like F4. So ya the budget to me seems a bit less but franky speaking a budget more than 100 million is a risk because even though dragonball is popular it still is a concept that works well as a cartoon but not in a live action film hence they are making the necessary changes.

 

[DorkyFresh]

Hellboy 2 is being directed by a visionary director and on top of that it is a sequel.

true on both accounts, but it still shows what can be done on a limited budget. it all depends on how resourceful the director is.

James Wong isn't even 30% of Guillermo and this is an origin movie so it will focus more on characters than action just like F4. So ya the budget to me seems a bit less but franky speaking a budget more than 100 million is a risk because even though dragonball is popular it still is a concept that works well as a cartoon but not in a live action film hence they are making the necessary changes.

i don't buy that they're making the changes because some think that the ideas in the cartoons can't work in live action. if you look at the movies coming out today, most of the summer blockbusters have gone from the typical action flick based in the real world to sci fi, fantasy. there are so many movies that demonstrate how most of the elements of the cartoon can be kept in a live action movie that there really is no reason that they couldn't make a more faithful Dragon Ball movie other than lack of imagination and/or time restrictions. when you take into consideration that a movie like Hellboy 2, that has tons of odd looking characters that co-exist in a world that's supposed to be ours, is made with less than $100 mil...then looking at what's being done to the DB movie now just seems like we're only getting half of what we fell in love with.

imo, the reason they're making the changes is simply because they didn't have enough time to prepare. if they had known the CURRENT release date all along they could have had at least 3 months of pre-production, which would have given them more time to asses the situation and see how much they can get out of $100 mil instead of just being thrown into the situation and having to deal with what they've been handed. the changes aren't creative changes, they're limitation changes.

 

[xwolverine2]

the budget is big enough for thm to expect a profit lol...

 

[Rikxiepoo]

100 million, though only an approximation, is plenty considering 3 things:

They are not shooting in the USA (way cheaper to shoot outside of USA)
They are using actors that do not demand a high salary (except maybe for Chow Yun-Fat).
It is an origin movie which basically means less action and less special effects than in a sequel.

 

[WhatA.Tool]

100 million, though only an approximation, is plenty considering 3 things:

They are not shooting in the USA (way cheaper to shoot outside of USA)
They are using actors that do not demand a high salary (except maybe for Chow Yun-Fat).
It is an origin movie which basically means less action and less special effects than in a sequel.

thats whaat ive been thinking

 

[JP]

The budget is fine. We've come to a point in movies where directors pretty much throw away the budgets of a film. Movies of late have been costing upwards of 200 mil. and I think it's ridiculous.

 

[WhatA.Tool]

The budget is fine. We've come to a point in movies where directors pretty much throw away the budgets of a film. Movies of late have been costing upwards of 200 mil. and I think it's ridiculous.

you dont know how right you are JP...Superman Returns FAIL. Spiderman 3 FAIL. jeez. I think Transformers was superior to Sp3 at least they knew theyre plot was dumb...put dammit it, it was a fun flick

 

[scarface078]

spiderman 3 didnt fail it just didnt reeched the point that was ment to be
besides that the movie was good
superman returns failed ok but dragonball wont be like superman
everywhone expected that transformers failed but it turned out big

 

[MoPlaYa]

X-men 1 had a budget of about 75 million if I remember right and X-Men was pretty epic (maybe not as epic as it could have been) DB has 25million more to play with and longer post production...I think it will be an epic movie

 

[WhatA.Tool]

EPIC

 

[Adam]

I just gotta say the fight scenes in "The One" were pretty great. With double the budget and a better story I would not be too disappointed if Dragonball was sort of similar.



Watch that.

 

[DBZ2cool]

I just gotta say the fight scenes in "The One" were pretty great. With double the budget and a better story I would not be too disappointed if Dragonball was sort of similar.



Watch that.

Hmm didn't find that exciting.

Hopefully he can up the ante with a bigger budget.

 

[The Kid]

Depends on how epic they want to make it. If they want to have flying and bodies crashing through mountains and ****, I'd suspect it'd cost more than it does. As it is however, looks like they're sticking to a more location stuff and relying less on cgi, though they are using blue screen for whatever stuff it is. In any case, I don't expect it to be as huge and epic as it will be later on granted we get sequels.

 

[Fantastic-Boy]

Let's wait a trailer...

 

[JoseMP]

true on both accounts, but it still shows what can be done on a limited budget. it all depends on how resourceful the director is.


i don't buy that they're making the changes because some think that the ideas in the cartoons can't work in live action. if you look at the movies coming out today, most of the summer blockbusters have gone from the typical action flick based in the real world to sci fi, fantasy. there are so many movies that demonstrate how most of the elements of the cartoon can be kept in a live action movie that there really is no reason that they couldn't make a more faithful Dragon Ball movie other than lack of imagination and/or time restrictions. when you take into consideration that a movie like Hellboy 2, that has tons of odd looking characters that co-exist in a world that's supposed to be ours, is made with less than $100 mil...then looking at what's being done to the DB movie now just seems like we're only getting half of what we fell in love with.

imo, the reason they're making the changes is simply because they didn't have enough time to prepare. if they had known the CURRENT release date all along they could have had at least 3 months of pre-production, which would have given them more time to asses the situation and see how much they can get out of $100 mil instead of just being thrown into the situation and having to deal with what they've been handed. the changes aren't creative changes, they're limitation changes.

Yeah, but you forgot to mention that Hellboy sucked ass. It was a ridiculous movie that didnt appeal to non fans. I fell asleep half way in the movie. Im not kidding.

 

[JP]

WHAT?

Hellboy = One of the best comic book movies ever.

 

[JoseMP]

I just gotta say the fight scenes in "The One" were pretty great. With double the budget and a better story I would not be too disappointed if Dragonball was sort of similar.



Watch that.

Awesome fight scenes!

I agree that with a better budget, we will have better fight scenes for DB.

WHAT?

Hellboy = One of the best comic book movies ever.

Probably for the fans, but not for non-fans. I still havent met a "non-hellboy fan" who liked that movie.

 

[JP]

I wasn't a Hellboy fan before the movie. . .

 

[JoseMP]

Maybe you are one of the few non-fans who liked that movie.

 

[JP]

I know lots..