Goku's origin was changed, where he lived yes, but beyond that very little was changed.
Do you know who Goku is? The kid who is always eager for a fight, thought marriage was a type of food, didn't seem to get it when Chi Chi was coming on to him, and whenever he met a bully he would usually just be like "whats his problem?" and walk past? He never cared about fitting in and he was happy with who he was? Saying "oh, very little is changed" doesn't make it true. They changed everything about his character to make him more like the generic high school hero.
And from your post I would say go watch DB again, because Bulma is exactly what you described.
Same as before: Do you even know who Bulma is? In DB she was a teenage girl who was pretty whiney and rather air-headed. She wasn't cool or collected and she exploded on most of the cast. I'm really wondering what show you watched where Bulma had a low voice and acted like a tough guy. Show me some clips of it, I would really like to see it. The version of Dragonball I watched didn't have a character like that named Bulma at all.
And those were not DBZ style fights. I don't have to face anything, those were way more in line with DB fights.
Dragonball fights were mostly hand to hand. There were very little actual blows in any of the fights. In the final fight, around 6 blows are traded.
Dragonball Z shows had a lot of ki blasts and the like. This movie had that. Goku and Piccolo throw around several flashy blasts during the final battle.
Yamcha started out as a thief who could fight somewhat. Making him not start out as a fighter is not a big deal.
In the World Tournament Saga, it is shown Yamcha has always been a extremely serious fighter. In the show he goes off in the woods and trains for weeks (or was it months?) on end and isolated himself from everyone. He grows a bear and goes without food in order to make sure he becomes the greatest fighter in the world.
Yeah, thats a sign of a character where the whole fighter aspect is "not a big deal".
I said it was a great representation, you obviously wanted it to be a scene for scene interpritation.
Wrong.
Some things have to change to transition it to film.
Yes. I don't see why Goku being a kid living alone in the mountains wouldn't translate to films. These are pointless changes. I wouldn't even be complaining about these changes if I thought they worked.
Are you also one of the people mad that "ZOMG! Goku did not fight Piccolo first! Epic fail!" Some things are different, but when things are all wrapped up, Goku is still a saiyen trained by an old chinese man who found him when he was a baby, piccolo is still a namek who came to earth many many years ago, Bulm is still the daughter of Dr. Brief's owner of Capsule corp, yamch is still a bandit in the desert who joins up with the gang after trying to rip them off, and Roshi is still an old perverted martial arts master.
No, I am one of those people that was trying to be optimistic about this film because I didn't mind changes but I thought the changes they were adding were pointless and stupid. And saying those brief descriptions as proof that they got the basics right is really weak. Its like saying making Superman a Kryptonian raised by farmers since he was a baby is enough to make him faithful or making Batman the son of Thomas Wayne and the owner of Wayne Enterprises is enough to make him faithful.
They even set it up so that Chi Chi's father could be some incarnation of Ox King (he is super rich, and obviously a fighter), AND they never said who made the Dragonballs, so it could still be Kami.
Chi Chi's father isn't going to be the Ox King I guarentee you that. Unless the Ox King is like the owner of a commercial breed of oxes and makes commercials saying "THATS WHY THE CALL ME THE OX KING! WOOHOO!"
They didn't explain who made the Dragonballs because they didn't explain anything in the plot.
Goku was stills sent to destroy the earth, and they even had him kill Piccolo almost exactly like he did in the manga/anime, channeling the power of his oozaru side and all. What more di you want?
A plot that makes sense. Is Goku 2000 years old? If he's not the Oozaru sent with Piccolo, then how is Piccolo is aware Goku exists or that Goku is an Oozaru? He was imprisoned for 2000 years.
The only differences are that Goku was raised in civilization wants ChiChi, and that ChiChi has a different personality.
And Goku has a different personality. And so does everyone else.
